Decreasing Alzheimer's disease through functional brain imaging: the early diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease would result in significant benefits to patients and society.(GUEST EDITORIAL)

From: Imaging Economics | Date: April 1, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

In the United States, approximately two thirds of the cases of dementia now diagnosed are Alzheimer's disease. There is tremendous overlap, however, between Alzheimer's disease and vascular dementia. Additional overlap occurs between Alzheimer's disease and the Lewy body and Parkinson types of dementia. Although separate diagnoses of these forms of dementia are obviously being made based on the signs and symptoms of living patients, even the pathology noted at autopsy shows considerable blurring of the lines separating these disease entities. Differential diagnosis for dementia, ...

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