Comparisons of clinical symptoms in biomarker‐confirmed Alzheimer's disease, dementia with Lewy bodies, and frontotemporal dementia patients in a local memory clinic

ConclusionMemory impairment and apathy are not useful discriminative symptoms in diagnosing AD, DLB, and FTD. Apraxia favours AD. Hallucinations, particularly well‐formed visual hallucinations, favour DLB. Overall, behavioural and neuropsychiatric symptoms of dementia symptoms are common among the three groups of dementia patients.

Source: Psychogeriatrics - December 1, 2014 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Yat Fung Shea, Joyce Ha, Leung‐Wing Chu Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research