criteria for possible Alzheimer's disease

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Diagnostic criteria

NINCDS-ADRDA criteria:

  • atypical onset, presentation, or progression of a dementia without known etiology
  • presence of a systemic disease or other brain disease capable of producing dementia, but not thought to be the cause
  • progressive deterioration of a single cognitive domain in absence of any other cause

More general terms

References

  1. Kristi Wagner Steh, West Los Angeles VA, GRECC, Dec 2003
  2. Cummings JL, The Neuropsychiatry of Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias, Martine Dunitz LTD, Taylor & Francis Group, London (2003)
  3. Mendez MF & Cummings JL, Dementia: A Clinical Approach, Butterworth & Heinemann, Philadelphia (2003)
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 Geriatric Review Syllabus, 8th edition (GRS8) Durso SC and Sullivan GN (eds) American Geriatrics Society, 2013