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| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #DCDCDC; font-weight: bold" |[[Alzheimer's disease]] | | style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #DCDCDC; font-weight: bold" |[[Alzheimer's disease]] | ||
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* Slow cognitive and functional decline with early loss of awareness | |||
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|Has the following clinical stages: | |||
* Pre-clinical | |||
* Mild cognitive impairment | |||
* Advanced dementia (full blown dementia) | |||
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| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #DCDCDC; font-weight: bold" |[[Lewy body dementia]] | | style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #DCDCDC; font-weight: bold" |[[Lewy body dementia]] | ||
| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #F5F5F5;" |Spectrum of disorders with movement, cognitive, | | style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #F5F5F5;" |Spectrum of disorders with movement, cognitive, . Includes dementia with Lewy bodies and Parkinson's disease dementia. | ||
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* Early visual hallucinations | |||
* Muscle rigidity | |||
* Sleep disturbance | |||
* Autonomic changes | |||
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* α-synuclein deposits present in neurons | |||
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| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #DCDCDC;font-weight: bold" |[[Frontotemporal lobar degeneration]] | | style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #DCDCDC;font-weight: bold" |[[Frontotemporal lobar degeneration]] | ||
| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #F5F5F5;" |Focal atrophy of frontal and temporal lobes | | style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #F5F5F5;" | | ||
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* Onset in young age | |||
* Strong familial association | |||
* Focal atrophy of frontal and temporal lobes | |||
* Knife-edge atrophy noted on MRI | |||
* Personality and behavioral changes | |||
* Language impairment | |||
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| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #DCDCDC;font-weight: bold" |[[Vascular dementia]] | | style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #DCDCDC;font-weight: bold" |[[Vascular dementia]] | ||
| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #F5F5F5;" | | | style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #F5F5F5;" |Dysexecutive syndrome, slowed processing speed, retrieval difficulties, depression, mild motor signs in subcortical vascular dementia. Symptoms overlap with alzheimer's disease. | ||
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* Stepwise progression and focal neurologic signs (also known as multi-infarct dementia or poststroke dementia) | |||
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==References== | ==References== |
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Overview
Alzheimer's disease may be differentiated from other causes of dementia based on characteristic clinical and cognitive features.
Differentiating Alzheimer's disease from other Diseases
- Alzheimer's disease may be differentiated from other causes of dementia based on characteristic clinical and cognitive features:
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Recall | Recollection | Cue requirement for recall | Infirngement of thoughts | Semantic memory | Procedural memory | Working memory | Awareness | Attention | Executive functioning issues | Visuo-spatial skills | ||||
Alzheimer's disease |
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Lewy body dementia | Spectrum of disorders with movement, cognitive, . Includes dementia with Lewy bodies and Parkinson's disease dementia. |
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Frontotemporal lobar degeneration |
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Vascular dementia | Dysexecutive syndrome, slowed processing speed, retrieval difficulties, depression, mild motor signs in subcortical vascular dementia. Symptoms overlap with alzheimer's disease. |
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