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Thursday, November 01, 2012

Clinical Stages of Alzheimer's


Stages of Alzheimer's

New York University's Dr. Barry Reisberg outlines the seven major clinical stages of Alzheimer's disease. Dr. Reisberg is the Clinical Director of New York University's Aging and Dementia Research Center. As the principal investigator of studies conducted by the National Institutes of Health, Dr. Reisberg's work has been pivotal in the development of two of the three current pharmaceutical treatment modalities for Alzheimer's. He is developed the “Global Deterioration Scale” which is now used in many diagnoses and care settings as the rating scale.
Stage 1: Normal
At any age, persons may potentially be free of objective or subjective symptoms of cognition and functional decline and also free of associated behavioral and mood changes. We call these mentally healthy persons at any age, stage 1, or normal./.../
Stage 1 Figure 1
Normal

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