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Clinical features of Alzheimer’s disease

Overview of attention for article published in European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience, December 1999
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Title
Clinical features of Alzheimer’s disease
Published in
European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience, December 1999
DOI 10.1007/s004060050101
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Authors

H. Förstl, A. Kurz

Abstract

The preclinical stage of Alzheimer's disease is inconspicuous and there are - almost by definition - no reliable and valid symptoms and signs which would allow a very early diagnosis before the manifestation of irreversible deficits. For a clinical diagnosis of dementia, cognitive impairment has to be severe enough to compromise the activities of daily living. In the mild dementia stage, difficulties with declarative memory are usually prominent; depressive symptoms are not infrequent, but the patient usually manages to live alone. Supervision is needed in the moderate dementia stage, when other cognitive domains are affected in a more obvious manner and non-cognitive disturbances of thought, perception, affect, and behavior put increasing stress on the caregivers. Complete dependence of the patients, who frequently develop neurological disturbances, is typical of the late stage of illness. The life expectancy of patients with a clinical diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease is significantly reduced, but to date there is hope that the period of relative well-being and not of suffering can be prolonged with modern symptomatic treatment interventions.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 3 <1%
Germany 2 <1%
France 1 <1%
Canada 1 <1%
Italy 1 <1%
Namibia 1 <1%
New Zealand 1 <1%
Unknown 640 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 153 24%
Student > Master 122 19%
Student > Ph. D. Student 113 17%
Researcher 39 6%
Student > Doctoral Student 31 5%
Other 61 9%
Unknown 131 20%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 99 15%
Neuroscience 84 13%
Medicine and Dentistry 79 12%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 73 11%
Psychology 42 6%
Other 124 19%
Unknown 149 23%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 8. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 07 September 2023.
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#4,540,603
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#264
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#8,936
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Outputs of similar age from European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience
#3
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