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Current concept and future research directions of mild cognitive impairment
Author(s) -
ARAI Hiroyuki
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
psychogeriatrics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.647
H-Index - 32
eISSN - 1479-8301
pISSN - 1346-3500
DOI - 10.1111/j.1479-8301.2005.00098.x
Subject(s) - cognitive impairment , dementia , cognition , gray (unit) , disease , psychology , medicine , alzheimer's disease , psychiatry , pathology , radiology
Alzheimer's disease (AD) generally begins with mild memory problems which occur in an insidious manner and progresses to the development of multiple cognitive impairments. There is a ‘gray’ area between what is classified as ‘normal’ and what is classified as ‘dementia’, currently called mild cognitive impairment (MCI). In this article, a case of MCI is described, and the diagnosis, assessment, subclassification (pre‐Alzheimer type and white matter lesion type) and future therapeutic plans for MCI are reviewed.