Dementias that present with and without posterior cortical features: an important clinical distinction
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Several scales are available to distinguish between dementia with and without posterior cortical features. Alzheimer's disease is a typical dementia that affects the posterior cortex as well as the frontal system. However, other types of dementia affect the frontal system only, and these are often potentially reversible. Thus, it is important to distinguish between the two. Several scales that can do so are discussed.
Publication Name: Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
Subject: Seniors
ISSN: 0002-8614
Year: 1998
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The emperor has no clothes: dementia treatment on the eve of the aging era
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The usage of acetylcholinesterase inhibitors (AChEIs) to treat dementia is discussed. The drugs approved by the U.S. Federal Drug Administration like memantine and multiple AChEIs are discussed. Treatments relating to Alzheimer's disease, comorbid ischemic cerebrovascular disease and Lewy body dementia are also discussed.
Publication Name: Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
Subject: Seniors
ISSN: 0002-8614
Year: 2005
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