Happy holidays everyone! Thanksgiving has now come and gone, as has that great shopping day, the Friday after Thanksgiving and some of us are probably giving thanks that these couple of days are over. Of course if you had a 4-day weekend and it is over, you may or may not be giving thanks, but wishing it would come again! No... Read more
One of the very confusing and commonly misunderstood features of Alzheimer’s disease is how we make the diagnosis. In previous blogs I have discussed this topic from what is typically called the top-down approach. The top-down approach is the typical clinical approach, the typical way health care professionals attempt to make a... Read more
As we have discussed many times, Alzheimer’s disease is a progressive disorder. Over time skills and abilities decline. What someone with Alzheimer’s can do one week is not necessarily what he or she can do the next week. So we all must acknowledge that a time will come when the patient with Alzheimer’s... Read more
I would like to revisit three topics that I covered previously: the issue of depressive “pseudo-dementia,” the diagnosis of mild cognitive impairment and the fact that health care professionals do not always agree on a diagnosis.
Each week I take part in our memory disorders consensus... Read more
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