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ArticleNeurodegenerative disease management2013

Current guidelines for dementia screening: shortcomings and recommended changes.

Magdalena I Tolea, James E Galvin

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Article in Neurodegenerative disease management, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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9 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Magdalena I ToleaComprehensive Center on Brain Aging, New York University Langone Medical Center, 145 East 32nd Street, New York, NY 10016, USA.
James E GalvinComprehensive Center on Brain Aging, New York University Langone Medical Center, 145 East 32nd Street, New York, NY 10016, USA.

Funding

PSYCHOSOCIAL COREP30AG008051 · NIA · NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE · PI SHAO, YONGZHAO · 1990 to 2019
$36.1M
Multicultural Community Dementia Screening.R01AG040211 · NIA · NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE · PI GALVIN, JAMES E · 2011 to 2018
$3.2M
NIA NIH HHS P30 AG008051NIA NIH HHS R01 AG040211
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The availability of various guidelines regarding the diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease (AD) leaves most primary care providers with the task of having to decide which guidelines to follow. This review will help them navigate these different guidelines and understand how they differ from previous guidelines. Challenges related to the use of these guidelines are discussed, including biomarker testing, the lack of recognition in the community of what constitutes memory impairment and how to best screen for it, and recommendations for easy and early detection and diagnosis in the clinical settings are made. Adoption of biomarkers in clinical practice will give primary care providers the means to establish with certainty the underlying pathology responsible for the observed clinical symptoms and increase their ability to establish the presence of AD pathology before symptoms occur and, therefore, potentially help prevent or slow down the progression to AD.

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PMID25152772
PMCPMC4140653

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