Tracking disease progression in memory clinic patients

Neuropsychological assessment more efficient than MRI for tracking disease progression in memory clinic patients

ScienceDaily, February 18, 2014

Ben Schmand, Anne Rienstra, Hyke Tamminga, Edo Richard, Willem A. van Gool, Matthan W.A. Caan, Charles B. Majoie

Investigators at the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, have shown that progression of disease in memory clinic patients can be tracked efficiently with 45 minutes of neuropsychological testing. MRI measures of brain atrophy were shown to be less reliable to pick up changes in the same patients.

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