BACKGROUND Presenile dementia of alzheimer type is a rare condition, and a report drawn from a large population may be useful to general practitioners. AIM A study was undertaken in the Northern Regional Health Authority area to investigate general practitioner referral practice, hospital investigations and diagnosis in cases of presenile alzheimers disease. METHOD Reviews of 186 sets of ca...

Alzheimers disease is the most common form of dementia in adults aged 65 or older. While many neuro-imaging based biomarkers have been proposed over the years for detection of AD, these have mostly been hand-crafted and utilized domain-specific clinical knowledge. In this project, we are interested in automatically discovering such biomarkers (hidden cues) by using deep learning methods to clas...

cognize this dilemma might encourage them to develop functional teams. Individual neurologists and geriatricians could continue to diagnose routine neurological problems referred to them. In addition, they could subspecialize so that each might have a specific input in a multidisciplinary team which focused, for example, on the diagnosis and continuing care of the big three: stroke, the epileps...