A review in the September issue of the Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry and Neurology by leading authors on the determination of the diagnosis of dementia in preparatation for the next edition of DSM (V).
For instance Barry Reisberg suggests that we no longer consider AD as a diagnosis of exclusion,that we abandon the dichotomy of pre-senile and senile dementia and that there should be more clinical description of the disease.
Modern Diagnostic Approaches in Dementia: On the Cusp of Change
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