Michael Fisman

TL;DR: The sensitivity of diagnosis for dementia of the Alzheimer type (DAT) without any other diagnosis was 87%, and the specificity was 78%, but the ischemic scale score did not discriminate well between patients with pure multi-infarct dementia and those with both DAT and multi- infarCT dementia.

TL;DR: Language functioning in Alzheimer's disease is reviewed and the performance of 25 Alzheimer patients on a standard battery is reported, finding that reading, writing, and performance scores except praxis, were lower than oral language scores.

TL;DR: New observations include quantitative morphometric evaluations of the hippocampal formation from a longitudinal study of prospectively tested patients and histological and neurochemical data from patients with a clinical presentation consistent with typical Alzheimer's disease, in whom the only neuropathological abnormality was devastating nerve cell loss and gliosis in the hippocampi.

TL;DR: In a subgroup of patients on whom autopsies were performed, morphometric neuron loss correlated significantly with EEG severity, and a strong correlation between EEG grade and psychometric scores was consistently found over sequential studies.

TL;DR: Findings on a study of anxiety and depression by questionnaire in 50 patients with mild dementia and 134 control subjects using the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale found that rates for the patients were above those in normal populations.