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The Alzheimer’s Disease Clinical Spectrum
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Alzheimer's disease (AD) care requires timely diagnosis and multidisciplinary management. Evaluation involves structured patient and caregiver history and symptom-function reviews, examination, and testing (laboratory and neuroimaging) to delineate impairment level, determine the cognitive-behavioral syndrome, and diagnose cause. Clinical biomarkers are available to aid high confidence in etiologic diagnosis. Management uses psychoeducation, shared goal setting, and patient-caregiver dyad decision making. When combined, pharmacologic and nonpharmacologic therapies mitigate symptoms and reduce clinical progression and care burden. AD biopathologic processes develop over decades before symptoms manifest; this period is increasingly targeted in research as an opportunity to best delay or prevent AD dementia.
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This review summarizes the clinical spectrum, diagnostic evaluation, and multifactorial management of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and AD-related dementias. It emphasizes structured history, multidomain assessment, tiered testing, and modest but meaningful benefits from FDA-approved cholinesterase inhibitors and memantine alongside nonpharmacologic care.
Key findings
- AD is the most common cause of cognitive impairment/dementia in people older than 65 years; dementia prevalence approximately doubles every 5 years from age 65 to 85, rising from about 1%–2% at 65 years to more than 30%–50% by 85 years. Among Americans older than 60 years, 16% have MCI, equating to 11.6 million individuals.
- Amnestic MCI is greater than 90% associated with underlying AD pathology; MCI increases annual progression to dementia (relative risk 6–8), and MCI with positive AD pathology biomarkers versus negative biomarkers has a 2–3 relative risk of progression (8% vs 17%–22% per year).
- Diagnosis remains clinical, using a 3-step formulation: identify level of impairment, define the cognitive-behavioral syndrome, and establish likely cause(s) with multitiered laboratory and neuroimaging tests. CSF and amyloid PET biomarkers are clinically available but not indicated in most symptomatic individuals; they are reserved for atypical, rapidly progressive, early-onset, or inconclusive cases.
- Management is multifactorial: nonpharmacologic/behavioral approaches are first-line for neuropsychiatric symptoms; FDA-approved anti-AD drugs (donepezil, galantamine, rivastigmine, memantine) provide modest benefits. During initial 6–12 months, cognition/ADL/behavior/global change may improve in 10%–30%, plateau in 30%–50%, or continue to deteriorate in 20%–40%; discontinuation of cholinesterase inhibitors is on aggregate harmful.
Methods
- Review article synthesizing clinical criteria, guidelines, and evidence for AD diagnosis and management; no primary study sample or new data collection is reported.
- Draws on major criteria (2011 NIA-AA, International Working Group, DSM-5, 2018 NIA-AA research framework), randomized controlled trials, meta-analyses, open-label extensions, and prospective observational cohort studies.
- Main analysis is narrative synthesis with clinical recommendations, including tables for risk factors, history/symptom-function review, tiered testing, differential diagnosis, and FDA-approved medication dosing.
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- The paper does not include a stated limitations section.
- Evident from the text: it is a narrative clinical review without a described systematic search strategy or formal evidence-quality appraisal; recommendations rely on cited guidelines, trials, meta-analyses, and observational cohort studies.
- Evident from the text: the author discloses honoraria for consulting, educational lectures/programs/materials, or advisory boards from multiple pharmaceutical companies and institutional investigational study/trial funding.
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“MCI and dementia due to AD can be accurately diagnosed by a comprehensive evaluation that integrates pathologic AD biomarkers (cerebrospinal fluid [CSF] and amyloid PET).”
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“However, clinical use of AD CSF and PET biomarkers are not currently indicated in most symptomatic individuals to include or exclude AD pathology.”
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- Not checked yetcites [10] Johnson, 2013, Appropriate use criteria for amyloid PET: a report of the amyloid imaging task force, the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, and the Alzheimer's Association, Alzheimers Dement source
- Not checked yetcites [11] Simonsen, 2017, Recommendations for CSF AD biomarkers in the diagnostic evaluation of dementia, Alzheimers Dement source
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“AD-related pathological changes often coexist with 1 or more other pathologies, particularly vascular-ischemic cerebral injury and diffuse Lewy body (DLB) disease.1,[6][7][8][9]”
§ The Alzheimer's Disease Clinical Spectrum Diagnosis and Management > INTRODUCTION
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- Not checked yetcites [1] Livingston, 2017, Dementia prevention, intervention, and care, Lancet source
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“These tests are reserved for atypical, rapidly progressive, or early-onset syndromes, or when comprehensive evaluation is inconclusive.10,11”
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- Not checked yetcites [10] Johnson, 2013, Appropriate use criteria for amyloid PET: a report of the amyloid imaging task force, the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, and the Alzheimer's Association, Alzheimers Dement source
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“The 2011 National Institute on Aging and Alzheimer's Association (NIA-AA) criteria for AD recognizes nonamnestic AD presentations that include language, visuospatial, and executive dysfunction features.32”
§ The Alzheimer's Disease Clinical Spectrum Diagnosis and Management > Clinical Features
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- Not checked yetcites [32] McKhann, 2011, The diagnosis of dementia due to Alzheimer's disease: recommendations from the National Institute on Aging-Alzheimer's Association workgroups on diagnostic guidelines for Alzheimer's disease, Alzheimers Dement source
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“The new AD biological framework and the model of pathologic AD biomarkers from Jack and colleagues 18 conceptualize a progressive sequence of measurable biochemical, neurophysiological, and neuroanatomical alterations that can be detected years before psychometrically and clinically noticeable deterioration in cognition, behavior, and function.”
§ The Alzheimer's Disease Clinical Spectrum Diagnosis and Management > Epidemiology, Risk Factors, Genetics, and Neuropathology
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- Not checked yetcites [18] Jack, 2010, Hypothetical model of dynamic biomarkers of the Alzheimer's pathological cascade, Lancet source
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“No single biomarker, test, or score can provide the clinical diagnosis; this requires characterization of symptoms and level of impairment into a profile via a clinical evaluation.”
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- Rests on an assumption: AD clinical syndromes, Cognitive-Behavioral Syndromes (CBS) presumed to be due to AD, are heterogeneous, particularly in younger individuals (65 years of age or younger).
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“In relatively typical cases, an individualized approach to history, examination, and selected laboratory tests and neuroimaging (see later discussion) can provide a high-confidence diagnosis.”
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“MCI with negative biomarkers versus 1 or more AD pathology biomarkers (ie, AD pattern in CSF, high amyloid load in amyloid PET) or biomarkers of neurodegeneration (eg, AD pattern on structural MRI or fluorodeoxyglucose [FDG]-PET; high CSF tau and phospho-tau levels) has a 2 to 3 relative risk of progression to dementia (8% vs 17%-22% per year 33 ).”
§ The Alzheimer's Disease Clinical Spectrum Diagnosis and Management > Clinical Features
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- Not checked yetcites [33] Petersen, 2013, Criteria for mild cognitive impairment due to Alzheimer's disease in the community, Ann Neurol source
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“With age, accumulation of greater experience and knowledge can allow for better performance on measures of crystallized intelligence.”
§ The Alzheimer's Disease Clinical Spectrum Diagnosis and Management > According to recent preliminarily announced multidisciplinary US national guidelines, the Alzheimer's Association Best Clinical Practice Guidelines for the
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- Not checked yetcites [134] Salthouse, 2009, When does age-related cognitive decline begin?, Neurobiol Aging source
- Not checked yetcites [135] Weintraub, 2013, Cognition assessment using the NIH Toolbox, Neurology
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“Co-existent AD and vascular-ischemic pathology (causing the clinical spectrum of VCI, which includes dementia), and AD with DLB pathology (causing AD-DLB The Alzheimer's Clinical Spectrum variants), are prevalent in older individuals.9,49,50”
§ The Alzheimer's Disease Clinical Spectrum Diagnosis and Management > DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS
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- Supportedcites [9] Kapasi, 2017, Impact of multiple pathologies on the threshold for clinically overt dementia, Acta Neuropathol source
The Introduction says that many older people harbor multiple brain pathologies and that additional vascular and neurodegenerative pathologies are found in most cases of AD dementia. The “Mixed Vascular and AD Pathologies” and “Mixed Lewy Body and AD Pathologies” sections specifically describe both combinations as common in aging. Page numbers were not supplied. (LLM, conf=0.92)
- Not checked yetcites [49] Jellinger, 2008, Prevalence and impact of vascular and Alzheimer pathologies in Lewy body disease, Acta Neuropathol source
- Not checked yetcites [50] Schneider, 2007, Mixed brain pathologies account for most dementia cases in community-dwelling older persons, Neurology source
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“AD is the sixth leading cause of death in the United States and the only top-10 cause still significantly increasing.4”
§ The Alzheimer's Disease Clinical Spectrum Diagnosis and Management > INTRODUCTION
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- Not checked yetcites [4] Alzheimer’s Association, 2018, 2018 Alzheimer's disease facts and figures, Alzheimers Dement source
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“Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common cause of cognitive impairment or dementia in individuals older than 65 years”
§ The Alzheimer's Disease Clinical Spectrum Diagnosis and Management > INTRODUCTION
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- Not checked yetcites [1][2][3][4][5]
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“with rising longevity, a worldwide pandemic of mild cognitive impairment (MCI), AD, and AD-related dementia (ADRD) is anticipated.[1][2][3][4][5]”
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“Symptoms too often go undiagnosed, misattributed, or dismissed and ignored, which causes distressing, costly, and potentially harmful delays in receiving appropriate care.1,4,5”
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“The new 2018 NIA-AA research framework dissociates AD symptoms or phenotypes from the pathologic process.”
§ The Alzheimer's Disease Clinical Spectrum Diagnosis and Management > DIAGNOSIS
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- Not checked yetcites [2] Deschaintre, 2009, Treatment of vascular risk factors is associated with slower decline in Alzheimer's disease, Neurology source
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“It defines AD, for research purposes, purely in terms of a biopathologic construct with the AD biomarkers of amyloid, tau, and neurodegeneration (ATN) criteria, which aids in defining the disease stages. 2”
§ The Alzheimer's Disease Clinical Spectrum Diagnosis and Management > DIAGNOSIS
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- Not checked yetcites [2] Deschaintre, 2009, Treatment of vascular risk factors is associated with slower decline in Alzheimer's disease, Neurology source
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“In the dementia stages of AD, many patients have cortical or cortico-subcortical microhemorrhages due to cerebral amyloid angiopathy-related vasculopathy and leakage 19 ; hemosiderin microdeposition from microhemorrhages are seen on gradient-echo or susceptibility-weighted MRI sequences in 15% to 20% of patients.20”
§ The Alzheimer's Disease Clinical Spectrum Diagnosis and Management > Epidemiology, Risk Factors, Genetics, and Neuropathology
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“Prevailing models posit a central role of accumulation of synaptic neurotoxic forms of Aß to induce inflammatory and microglial cascades, broad ionic and neurotransmitter abnormalities, mitochondrial dysfunction, oxidative stress, and hyperphosphorylation of the microtubule stabilizing protein tau and formation of tangles.[26][27][28][29][30][31]”
§ The Alzheimer's Disease Clinical Spectrum Diagnosis and Management > Epidemiology, Risk Factors, Genetics, and Neuropathology
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- Not checked yetcites [26][27][28][29][30][31]
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“APOE-ε4 alleles are associated with accelerated Aß-deposition and earlier onset and higher risk of developing AD symptoms.21,23”
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“Patterns of change may overlap but are not part of normal cognitive aging, as manifested by differential aging and AD effects on cognitive networks.34”
§ The Alzheimer's Disease Clinical Spectrum Diagnosis and Management > Clinical Characteristics of Alzheimer's Disease: Symptoms and Signs
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- Not checked yetcites [34] Chhatwal, 2018, Preferential degradation of cognitive networks differentiates Alzheimer's disease from ageing, Brain source
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“The 3 major clinical criteria for the AD spectrum are the revised 2011 NIA-AA criteria, 32,39 the International Working Group (Dubois and colleagues 39,40 ) 2010 revised new lexicon criteria, and the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th edition criteria.41”
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- Not checked yetcites [32] McKhann, 2011, The diagnosis of dementia due to Alzheimer's disease: recommendations from the National Institute on Aging-Alzheimer's Association workgroups on diagnostic guidelines for Alzheimer's disease, Alzheimers Dement source
- Not checked yetcites [39] Dubois, 2010, Revising the definition of Alzheimer's disease: a new lexicon, Lancet Neurol source
- Not checked yetcites [40] Dubois, 2007, Research criteria for the diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease: revising the NINCDS-ADRDA criteria, Lancet Neurol source
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“Performance on measures of fluid intelligence, such as speed of mental processing; working memory; recall and retention of verbal and visual information (learning and memory), in particular visuospatial memory; and reasoning begin to decline in many individuals from age 20 to 30 years.134,135”
§ The Alzheimer's Disease Clinical Spectrum Diagnosis and Management > DIAGNOSIS
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- Not checked yetcites [134] Salthouse, 2009, When does age-related cognitive decline begin?, Neurobiol Aging source
- Not checked yetcites [135] Weintraub, 2013, Cognition assessment using the NIH Toolbox, Neurology
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“In the most common form of AD, sporadic late-onset AD, many genetic variations contribute to increase or lower risk; greater than 20 have been identified (AlzGene Database; www.alzgene.org).22”
§ The Alzheimer's Disease Clinical Spectrum Diagnosis and Management > Epidemiology, Risk Factors, Genetics, and Neuropathology
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- Not checked yetcites [22] Bertram, 2007, Systematic meta-analyses of Alzheimer disease genetic association studies: the AlzGene database, Nat Genet source
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“dementia-level impairment requires cognitive or behavioral symptoms”
§ The Alzheimer's Disease Clinical Spectrum Diagnosis and Management > DIAGNOSIS
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- Not checked yetcites [32] McKhann, 2011, The diagnosis of dementia due to Alzheimer's disease: recommendations from the National Institute on Aging-Alzheimer's Association workgroups on diagnostic guidelines for Alzheimer's disease, Alzheimers Dement source
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“AD is a dual proteinopathy disease defined by a widespread but regionally specific pattern of intraparenchymal diffuse and neuritic ß-amyloid (Aß) plaques and intracytoplasmic (initially), then extracellular, neurofibrillary tangles with synaptic and neuronal loss and gliosis.[14][15][16][17]”
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“Familial autosomal dominant AD is rare (<1%), usually manifests in early-onset AD (onset age <65 years; <4% of AD), and is caused by mutations in presenilin 1, amyloid precursor protein, or presenilin 2. 21”
§ The Alzheimer's Disease Clinical Spectrum Diagnosis and Management > Epidemiology, Risk Factors, Genetics, and Neuropathology
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- Not checked yetcites [21] Loy, 2014, Genetics of dementia, Lancet source
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“MCI diagnosis is a matter of”
§ The Alzheimer's Disease Clinical Spectrum Diagnosis and Management > DIAGNOSIS
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- Not checked yetcites [32] McKhann, 2011, The diagnosis of dementia due to Alzheimer's disease: recommendations from the National Institute on Aging-Alzheimer's Association workgroups on diagnostic guidelines for Alzheimer's disease, Alzheimers Dement source
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“which are associated with more rapid decline, earlier institutionalization, higher distress, worse quality of life, and greater health care utilization and costs.53,54”
§ The Alzheimer's Disease Clinical Spectrum Diagnosis and Management > Nonpharmacologic Management: Behavioral Interventions and Coping Strategies
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- Not checked yetcites [53] Okura, 2012, Neuropsychiatric symptoms and the risk of institutionalization and death: the aging, demographics, and memory study, J Am Geriatr Soc source
- Not checked yetcites [54] Kales, 2005, Rates of clinical depression diagnosis, functional impairment, and nursing home placement in coexisting dementia and depression, Am J Geriatr Psychiatry source
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“The AD-8 screening instrument provides a practical symptoms questionnaire for changes in thinking and memory that can be a red flag for ADc syndromes.43”
§ The Alzheimer's Disease Clinical Spectrum Diagnosis and Management > The Alzheimer's Clinical Spectrum
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- Not checked yetcites [43] Galvin, 2005, The AD8: a brief informant interview to detect dementia, Neurology source
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“Presence of pathologic AD does not exclude other pathologies causing or contributing to the patient's CBS; for example, 70% to 80% of individuals with DLB are also amyloid-positive on PET.46”
§ The Alzheimer's Disease Clinical Spectrum Diagnosis and Management > Approach to Multitiered Testing: Laboratory Studies
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- Not checked yetcites [46] Gomperts, 2008, Imaging amyloid deposition in Lewy body diseases, Neurology source
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“Short-term and long-term antipsychotic use is associated with substantial risk of cognitive decline, morbidity (eg, parkinsonism, falls, pneumonia, or cardiovascular and cerebrovascular events), and mortality.”
§ The Alzheimer's Disease Clinical Spectrum Diagnosis and Management > Antipsychotics: use with extreme caution under strict specific circumstances
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“A recent systematic review and meta-analysis by Tricco and colleagues 64 included 110 studies and 23,432 subjects supports efficacy, effectiveness, and safety.”
§ The Alzheimer's Disease Clinical Spectrum Diagnosis and Management > Approved anti-Alzheimer disease medications: cholinesterase inhibitors and memantine
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- Not checked yetcites [64] Tricco, 2018, Comparative effectiveness and safety of cognitive enhancers for treating alzheimer's disease: systematic review and network metaanalysis, J Am Geriatr Soc source
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“ChEIs and memantine also have complementary mechanisms of action, potentially additive effects, and demonstrate acceptable tolerability and safety profiles.63”
§ The Alzheimer's Disease Clinical Spectrum Diagnosis and Management > Approved anti-Alzheimer disease medications: cholinesterase inhibitors and memantine
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- Not checked yetcites [63] Atri, 2013, Memantine in patients with Alzheimer's disease receiving donepezil: new analyses of efficacy and safety for combination therapy, Alzheimers Res Ther source
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“Cholinesterase inhibitors (ChEIs) (donepezil, galantamine, rivastigmine) and the N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA)-antagonist, memantine, are the only FDA-approved treatments for AD dementia and are recommended broadly in consensus guidelines and practice parameters.1,52,61,62”
§ The Alzheimer's Disease Clinical Spectrum Diagnosis and Management > Approved anti-Alzheimer disease medications: cholinesterase inhibitors and memantine
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- Not checked yetcites [1] Livingston, 2017, Dementia prevention, intervention, and care, Lancet source
- Not checked yetcites [52] National Institute for Health and Care Excellence. Dementia: assessment, management and support for people living with dementia and their carers (NG97). NICE, UK, June 20, 2018.
- Not checked yetcites [61] Schmidt, 2015, EFNS-ENS/EAN guideline on concomitant use of cholinesterase inhibitors and memantine in moderate to severe Alzheimer's disease, Eur J Neurol source
- Not checked yetcites [62] Gauthier, 2012, Recommendations of the 4th Canadian Consensus Conference on the Diagnosis and Treatment of Dementia (CCCDTD4), Can Geriatr J source
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“and to delay nursing home placement without prolongation of time to death.64,65”
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- Not checked yetcites [64] Tricco, 2018, Comparative effectiveness and safety of cognitive enhancers for treating alzheimer's disease: systematic review and network metaanalysis, J Am Geriatr Soc source
- Not checked yetcites [65] Rountree, 2013, Effectiveness of antidementia drugs in delaying Alzheimer disease progression, Alzheimers Dement source
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“Sustained treatments provide a modest expectation of short-term stabilization or improvement, and longer-term slowing of clinical decline.”
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“In the long run, current treatments of AD dementia mitigate decline but do not prevent it.”
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“In more than 40 short-term randomized controlled trials (RCTs) using placebos over 24 to 52 weeks investigating efficacy, and in meta-analyses of RCTs, all 3 ChEIs have demonstrated small to medium effect size treatment benefits at the sibject-group level in terms of improving, stabilizing, or delaying decline in cognition, ADL, and global status, and in ameliorating BPSD and caregiver burden.35,”
§ The Alzheimer's Disease Clinical Spectrum Diagnosis and Management > ChEIs efficacy and effectiveness
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- Not checked yetcites [35] Farlow, 2007, Effective pharmacologic management of Alzheimer's disease, Am J Med source
- Not checked yetcites [65] Rountree, 2013, Effectiveness of antidementia drugs in delaying Alzheimer disease progression, Alzheimers Dement source
- Not checked yetcites [70] Farlow, 2000, A 52-week study of the efficacy of rivastigmine in patients with mild to moderately severe Alzheimer's disease, Eur Neurol source
- Not checked yetcites [71] Howard, 2012, Donepezil and memantine for moderate-to-severe Alzheimer's disease, N Engl J Med source
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“Level II or equivocal level I evidence suggest donepezil treatment may be beneficial in very mild stage AD or for subgroups with MCI due to AD (ie, carriers of APOE-ε4 allele, 96 those with depression or depressive symptoms 97 ).”
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“Even temporary discontinuation is associated with irreversible declines and greater risk of nursing home placement.[67][68][69][70][71][72]”
§ The Alzheimer's Disease Clinical Spectrum Diagnosis and Management > Approved anti-Alzheimer disease medications: cholinesterase inhibitors and memantine
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- Not checked yetcites [67] Raskind, 2000, Galantamine in AD: a 6-month randomized, placebo-controlled trial with a 6-month extension. The Galantamine USA-1 study group, Neurology source
- Not checked yetcites [68] Courtney, 2004, Long-term donepezil treatment in 565 patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD2000): randomised double-blind trial, Lancet source
- Not checked yetcites [69] Doody, 2001, Open-label, multicenter, phase 3 extension study of the safety and efficacy of donepezil in patients with Alzheimer disease, Arch Neurol source
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“Treatment benefits include improvement, stabilization, or reduced decline in the domains of cognition, function (ADLs), and global status; and by amelioration of BPSD and caregiver burden.63,71,73,[98][99][100][101][102][103][104][105][106][107][108][109][110][111]”
§ The Alzheimer's Disease Clinical Spectrum Diagnosis and Management > N-methyl-D-aspartate antagonists (memantine)
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- Not checked yetcites [63] Atri, 2013, Memantine in patients with Alzheimer's disease receiving donepezil: new analyses of efficacy and safety for combination therapy, Alzheimers Res Ther source
- Not checked yetcites [71] Howard, 2012, Donepezil and memantine for moderate-to-severe Alzheimer's disease, N Engl J Med source
- Not checked yetcites [73] Weycker, 2007, Cost-effectiveness of memantine in moderate-to-severe Alzheimer's disease patients receiving donepezil, Curr Med Res Opin source
- Not checked yetcites [98] McShane, 2006, Memantine for dementia, Cochrane database Syst Rev
- Not checked yetcites [99] Winblad, 1999, Memantine in severe dementia: results of the 9M-Best Study (Benefit and efficacy in severely demented patients during treatment with memantine), Int J Geriatr Psychiatry source
- Not checked yetcites [100] Reisberg, 2003, Memantine in moderate-to-severe Alzheimer's disease, N Engl J Med source
- Not checked yetcites [101] Bullock, 2006, Efficacy and safety of memantine in moderate-to-severe Alzheimer disease: the evidence to date, Alzheimer Dis Assoc Disord source
- Not checked yetcites [102] Doody, 2004, Specific functional effects of memantine treatment in patients with moderate to severe Alzheimer's disease, Demenr Geriatr Cogn Disord source
- Not checked yetcites [103] Grossberg, 2009, Memantine therapy of behavioral symptoms in community-dwelling patients with moderate to severe Alzheimer's disease, Dement Geriatr Cogn Disord source
- Not checked yetcites [104] Schmitt, 2006, Cognitive response to memantine in moderate to severe Alzheimer disease patients already receiving donepezil: an exploratory reanalysis, Alzheimer Dis Assoc Disord source
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“Short-term (6 months or less) memantine treatment effect sizes are small to medium in size and clinically significant at the moderate to severe stages of AD. 109,110,112,113”
§ The Alzheimer's Disease Clinical Spectrum Diagnosis and Management > N-methyl-D-aspartate antagonists (memantine)
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- Not checked yetcites [109] Winblad, 2007, Memantine in moderate to severe Alzheimer's disease: a meta-analysis of randomised clinical trials, Dement Geriatr Cogn Disord source
- Not checked yetcites [110] Livingston, 2004, The place of memantine in the treatment of Alzheimer's disease: a number needed to treat analysis, Int J Geriatr Psychiatry source
- Not checked yetcites [112] Abbott, 2009, All-sky LIGO search for periodic gravitational waves in the early fifth-science-run data, Phys Rev Lett source
- Not checked yetcites [113] Wilkinson, 2009, Effectiveness of donepezil in reducing clinical worsening in patients with mild-to-moderate Alzheimer's disease, Dement Geriatr Cogn Disord source
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“The benefits may also extend to reducing antipsychotic use.”
§ The Alzheimer's Disease Clinical Spectrum Diagnosis and Management > The Alzheimer's Clinical Spectrum
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“Persistence, higher dosage (in later dementia stages), and duration of treatment are associated with better outcomes, even in those with advanced dementia.92,95,114,115,130”
§ The Alzheimer's Disease Clinical Spectrum Diagnosis and Management > Practical recommendations for implementation of pharmacotherapy
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- Not checked yetcites [92] Wattmo, 2011, Long-term outcome and prediction models of activities of daily living in Alzheimer disease with cholinesterase inhibitor treatment, Alzheimer Dis Assoc Disord source
- Not checked yetcites [95] Wallin, 2011, Galantamine treatment in Alzheimer's disease: response and long-term outcome in a routine clinical setting, Neuropsychiatr Dis Treat source
- Not checked yetcites [114] Atri, 2008, Long-term course and effectiveness of combination therapy in Alzheimer disease, Alzheimer Dis Assoc Disord source
- Not checked yetcites [115] Rountree, 2009, Persistent treatment with cholinesterase inhibitors and/or memantine slows clinical progression of Alzheimer disease, Alzheimers Res Ther source
- Not checked yetcites [130] Wattmo, 2011, Predictors of long-term cognitive outcome in Alzheimer's disease, Alzheimers Res Ther source
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“The FDA-approved anti-AD pharmacotherapies; the ChEIs donepezil, galantamine, and rivastigmine; and the NMDA antagonist memantine can reduce progression of clinical symptoms and disability.”
§ The Alzheimer's Disease Clinical Spectrum Diagnosis and Management > SUMMARY OR FUTURE CONSIDERATIONS
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“Unfortunately, large RCTs have failed to support benefits from ginkgo biloba, high-dose vitamin B 12 or folic acid combinations, omega-3 fatty acid or fish oil components or preparations, nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, and statin medications at the dementia stage of AD. 76,81”
§ The Alzheimer's Disease Clinical Spectrum Diagnosis and Management > Add-on dual combination therapy with acetylcholinesterase inhibitors and memantine
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“The rates of discontinuation due to adverse events for ChEIs and memantine combination treatment are low, between 5% to 10%, and not generally significantly different from placebo.100,120,121,125,126”
§ The Alzheimer's Disease Clinical Spectrum Diagnosis and Management > Add-on dual combination therapy with acetylcholinesterase inhibitors and memantine
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- Not checked yetcites [100] Reisberg, 2003, Memantine in moderate-to-severe Alzheimer's disease, N Engl J Med source
- Not checked yetcites [120] Tariot, 2004, Memantine treatment in patients with moderate to severe Alzheimer disease already receiving donepezil: a randomized controlled trial, JAMA source
- Not checked yetcites [121] Porsteinsson, 2008, Memantine treatment in patients with mild to moderate Alzheimer's disease already receiving a cholinesterase inhibitor: a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial, Curr Alzheimer Res source
- Not checked yetcites [125] Choi, 2011, Tolerability and efficacy of memantine add-on therapy to rivastigmine transdermal patches in mild to moderate Alzheimer's disease: a multicenter, randomized, open-label, parallel-group study, Curr Med Res Opin source
- Not checked yetcites [126] Grossberg, 2013, The safety, tolerability, and efficacy of once-daily memantine (28 mg): a multinational, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial in patients with moderate-to-severe Alzheimer's disease taking cholinesterase inhibitors, CNS Drugs source
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“there were no concerning safely signals or increased mortality with high-dose vitamin E. 127,128”
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- Not checked yetcites [127] Sano, 1997, A controlled trial of selegiline, alpha-tocopherol, or both as treatment for Alzheimer's disease. The Alzheimer's Disease Cooperative Study, N Engl J Med source
- Not checked yetcites [128] Dysken, 2014, Effect of vitamin E and memantine on functional decline in Alzheimer disease: the TEAM-AD VA cooperative randomized trial, JAMA source
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“Anti-AD medications can be maintained in late-stages to support basic psychomotor processes, praxis, functional communication, the behavioral responses required to assist caregivers to deliver basic ADL care, and the elementary processes of movement and eating.”
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AD clinical syndromes, Cognitive-Behavioral Syndromes (CBS) presumed to be due to AD, are heterogeneous, particularly in younger individuals (65 years of age or younger).
“AD clinical (ADc) syndromes, Cognitive-Behavioral Syndromes (CBS) presumed to be due to AD, are heterogeneous, particularly in younger individuals (65 years of age or younger).”
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Amnestic-MCI is greater than 90% associated with underlying AD pathology.
“Amnestic-MCI is greater than 90% associated with underlying AD pathology.”
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MCI significantly increases risk of annual progression to dementia (relative risk 6-8).
“MCI significantly increases risk of annual progression to dementia (relative risk [RR] 6-8).”
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Pathologic tangle findings correlate best with symptoms.
“Pathologic tangle findings correlate best with symptoms.”
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The MoCA is a good initial choice for detection; it takes approximately 8 to 12 minutes to administer, has good psychometric properties, acceptable sensitivity to detection of mild impairment, and is available in several forms and languages.
“The MoCA is a good initial choice for detection; it takes approximately 8 to 12 minutes to administer, has good psychometric properties, acceptable sensitivity to detection of mild impairment, and is available in several forms and languages.”
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Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease is on the differential diagnosis of atypical Alzheimer disease clinical spectrum syndromes when there is rapid onset and progression of symptoms over weeks to months.
“Prion diseases are very rare but Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease is on the DDx of atypical ADc syndromes when there is rapid onset and progression of symptoms (over weeks to months).”
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Overall poor and problem behaviors by the demented individual are not intentional but are due to disease, brain injury or damage, and diminished capacities.
“It is important for caregivers to appreciate that overall poor and problem behaviors by the demented individual are not intentional (eg, to be mean, ornery, or vindictive) but are due to disease, brain injury or damage, and diminished capacities.”
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Without accurate diagnosis and appropriate disclosure no care can be provided.
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“Low levels of cognitive, social, and physical activity may be linked to a greater risk of developing neurodegenerative diseases [3,83].”
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“Despite the diverse additional mechanism of action, no high-quality data evidenced significant differences in their efficacy [27].”
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§ The Alzheimer's Disease Clinical Spectrum Diagnosis and Management > N-methyl-D-aspartate antagonists (memantine)
“Short-term (6 months or less) memantine treatment effect sizes are small to medium in size and clinically significant at the moderate to severe stages of AD. 109,110,112,113”
§ The Alzheimer's Disease Clinical Spectrum Diagnosis and Management > References
“112. Abbott BP, Abbott R, Adhikari R, et al. All-sky LIGO search for periodic gravita- tional waves in the early fifth-science-run data. Phys Rev Lett 2009;102(11): 111102.”
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§ The Alzheimer's Disease Clinical Spectrum Diagnosis and Management > DIAGNOSIS
“The new 2018 NIA-AA research framework dissociates AD symptoms or phenotypes from the pathologic process.It defines AD, for research purposes, purely in terms of a biopathologic construct with the AD biomarkers of amyloid, tau, and neurodegeneration (ATN) criteria, which aids in defining the disease stages. 2”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Atri, A.
- Affiliations
- Brigham and Women's Hospital (US)
- Corresponding author
- Atri, Alireza
- ORCID
- Atri, Alireza
- Venue
- Medical Clinics of North America
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2019-03
- Volume
- 103
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 263-293
- ISSN
- 0025-7125 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2912556930
- Semantic Scholar
- 14850f3937650b950a4f0acf73d3f53c6a2e1147
- Cited by
- 623
- References
- 143
- Citations by year
- 2026: 61 · 2025: 111 · 2024: 131 · 2023: 122 · 2022: 90 · 2021: 65 · 2020: 34 · 2019: 7
- FWCI
- 8.28
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Medical Clinics of North America (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- Novartis
- The American College of Radiology
- AbbVie
- Avid
- Biogen
- Lilly
- Lundbeck
- Merck
- vTV
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience › Alzheimer's disease research and treatments
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Oncology › Cancer-related cognitive impairment studies
- Keywords
- Alzheimer's disease, clinical spectrum, dementia diagnosis, clinical biomarkers, patient-caregiver dyads, shared decision-making, psychoeducation, pharmacotherapy, non-pharmacological treatment, disease progression, preclinical Alzheimer's disease, dementia prevention
- MeSH terms
- Alzheimer Disease, Diagnosis, Differential, Humans, Parkinson Disease, Biomarkers, Disease Progression, Neuroimaging
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