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At Lund University in Sweden, researchers have found that a new blood test called PrecivityAD2 is about 90% accurate in identifying Alzheimer’s disease in people experiencing cognitive symptoms ...
A combined blood test for cognitive decline has a 90% accuracy rate in determining whether memory loss is due to Alzheimer’s disease, a new study found. In comparison, neurologists and other ...
Dementia currently affects more than 57 million people worldwide, and is projected to affect some 150 million by 2050. And up to 80% of people diagnosed with dementia have Alzheimer’s disease.
In community samples, cutoff scores for likely dementia have ranged from 3.3 and above to 3.6 and above, while in patient samples the cutoff scores have ranged from 3.4 and above to 4.0 and above. To improve the detection of dementia, the IQCODE can be used in combination with the Mini-Mental State Examination.
Dysexecutive syndrome ( DES) consists of a group of symptoms, [1] usually resulting from brain damage, that fall into cognitive, behavioural and emotional categories and tend to occur together. The term was introduced by Alan Baddeley [2] [3] to describe a common pattern of dysfunction in executive functions, such as planning, abstract thinking ...
Vascular dementia is dementia caused by a series of strokes. [2] [4] Restricted blood flow due to strokes reduces oxygen and glucose delivery to the brain, causing cell injury and neurological deficits in the affected region. [6] Subtypes of vascular dementia include subcortical vascular dementia, multi-infarct dementia, stroke-related dementia ...
Dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) is a type of dementia, a group of diseases involving progressive neurodegeneration of the central nervous system. [11] It is one of the two Lewy body dementias, along with Parkinson's disease dementia. [12] Dementia with Lewy bodies can be classified in other ways.
An early Alzheimer’s diagnosis is life-changing, whether it happens to you or someone you live with, such as a spouse or an elderly parent. The condition starts out slowly, with a bit of ...