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The process and requirements for a formal dementia diagnosis, including direct clinical assessment and objective testing.
A positive amyloid PET in an older adult without symptoms means the scan has detected fibrillar amyloid plaques—an AD-related pathology that increases lifetime risk of cognitive decline but does not b...
Public debate has sharply divided over whether Donald Trump “suffers from dementia”: multiple clinicians and commentators point to behaviours they say are consistent with dementia—disinhibition, word-...
Clinicians diagnose dementia through a structured, multi-step clinical process that emphasizes cognitive and functional decline, exclusion of reversible causes, and—when needed—neuropsychological test...