Expert Answers Questions From The Alzheimer's Community
Alzheimer's skilful Dr. P. Murali Doraiswamy, a psychiatry professor at Duke University Medical Center, as well as writer of The Alzheimer’s Action Plan is answering questions virtually Alzheimer's on the New York Times website.
By Bob DeMarco
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I promise you lot volition become over as well as direct maintain the fourth dimension to peruse some of the questions.
The answers to the questions are informative as well as educational. The questions are fantabulous as well as sometimes fascinating.
Many of the enquiry beingness answered are questions I oftentimes have via email. In this case, the answers to medical, diagnostic, treatment, genetic, as well as questions virtually Alzheimer's as well as heredity are beingness answered yesteryear 1 of the hap experts inwards the country.
You volition too discovery of import advice inwards some of the answers.
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Pretty much everything you lot tin imagine is beingness covered inwards the questions as well as answers. Here is 1 that caught my attention.
Q. My hubby is newly diagnosed every bit “mildly cognitively impaired.” Should his neuropsychiatrist lodge an M.R.I.? Other tests? The solely objective exam as well as hence far has been a 30-question screening test. — Leslie Learman, Buffalo, N.Y.
A. At most centers, a diagnosis of mild cognitive terms (MCI) is made later a serial of lab as well as retentivity tests, non later a unmarried test. It is possible your doc did those simply you lot were non aware of it. The 30-question exam is called the MMSE as well as it’s commonly non adequate yesteryear itself to diagnose M.C.I.
M.C.I., similar dementia, tin endure caused yesteryear many weather condition some of which (e.g. depression, medication toxicity, vitamin deficiency, thyroid problems) tin endure reversible.
More than a dozen mutual medications (e.g. sleeping pills, anxiety medications, statins, older antidepressants, antihistamines) have been linked to memory problems that are reversible.
Most specialized retentivity clinics produce lodge an M.R.I. if a stroke or hydrocephalus or encephalon lesion is suspected every bit the cause. Lab tests such every bit thyroid as well as vitamin levels every bit good every bit low screens may too endure ordered.
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