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Exploring the Misunderstanding: The Overlapping Symptoms of Alzheimer’s and Related Cognitive Disorders

by Alexandra Hartman Editor-in-Chief

2023-09-23 16:00:00

We have the feeling that Alzheimer’s has become a portmanteau behind which other diseases and cognitive disorders are hidden. Do you share this feeling?

“It is true that today we speak of “Alzheimer’s and related diseases”. It is a name that we use in clinical practice, to communicate with each other and for the understanding of patients. »

A lot of illnesses look like Alzheimer’s, then?

“In the new international classification, we retain two main types of disorders: so-called “mild” cognitive disorders and so-called “major” neurocognitive disorders. In both groups, people have forgetfulness, but not only memory impairment. They may have impaired judgment, problems with gestures, language… The big difference between these two families is loss…

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