Description: A neurodegenerative disease resulting in the insidious onset of dementia. Impairment of memory, judgement, attention span, and problem solving skills are followed by severe APRAXIAS and a global loss of cognitive abilities. The condition primarily occurs after age 60, and is marked pathologically by severe cortical atrophy and the triad of SENILE PLAQUES; NEUROFIBRILLARY TANGLES; and NEUROPIL THREADS. (adapted from MSH)
Preferred ID: ILX:0100524 Type: term ID# ILX:0100524 Score: 23795.809
Description: A progressive, neurodegenerative disease characterized by loss of function and death of nerve cells in several areas of the brain leading to loss of cognitive function such as memory and language.
Preferred ID: MONDO:0004975 Type: term ID# ILX:0751626 Score: 161.64766
Description: A non-Alzheimers dementia characterized by focal atrophy of the frontal and anterior temporal regions of the brain. It usually occurs in an age range of 35-75 and it is more common in individuals with a positive family history of dementia.
Preferred ID: ILX:0108876 Type: term ID# ILX:0108876 Score: 153.46678
Description: Charlson Comorbidity: have Alzheimers Disease/other dementia
Preferred ID: NDA.CDE:2216300 Type: cde ID# CDE:0112578 Score: 17.551
Description: Clinical diagnosis of Dementia of the Alzheimers Type (DSM-IV) or NINCDS/ ADRDA criteria for possible or probable Alzheimers disease (McKhann et al., 1984).
Preferred ID: NDA.CDE:2123257 Type: cde ID# CDE:0257613 Score: 15.229027
Description: The results of laboratory screening studies (see below) are not inconsistent with a psychosis of Alzheimers disease or agitation not due to a medical cause.
Preferred ID: NDA.CDE:2123267 Type: cde ID# CDE:0257460 Score: 10.529259
Description:
Preferred ID: ILX:0381360 Type: annotation ID# ILX:0381360 Score: 0.94534886