A tauopathy that is characterized by memory lapses, confusion, emotional instability and progressive loss of mental ability and results in progressive memory loss, impaired thinking, disorientation, and changes in personality and mood starting and leads in advanced cases to a profound decline in cognitive and physical functioning and is marked histologically by the degeneration of brain neurons especially in the cerebral cortex and by the presence of neurofibrillary tangles and plaques containing beta-amyloid.
Synonyms: Alzheimer disease Alzheimers dementia
Term information
- NCI:C2866
- SNOMEDCT_US_2020_09_01:73768007
- MESH:D000544
- EFO:0000249
- SNOMEDCT_US_2020_03_01:73768007
- ICD10CM:G30
- ICD9CM:331.0
- KEGG:05010
- GARD:10254
- UMLS_CUI:C0002395
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KEGG:05010
EFO:0000249
ICD10CM:G30
NCI:C2866
SNOMEDCT_US_2020_03_01:73768007
SNOMEDCT_US_2020_09_01:73768007
GARD:10254
UMLS_CUI:C0002395
MESH:D000544
ICD9CM:331.0
Term relations
- DemTect screening test
- Brief Alzheimer Screen test
- Cambridge Neuropsychological Test Automated Battery for Alzheimer disease
- amyloid-beta 42/amyloid-beta 40 ratio
- Short Portable Mental Status Questionnaire (SPMSQ)
- Memory Orientation Screening Test
- Neurobehavioral Cognitive Status Examination
- Global Deterioration Scale
- Free and Cued Selective Reminding Test
- Boston Naming Test
- category and letter verbal fluency test
- informal cognitive testing
- longitudinal cognitive evaluation
- amyloid positivity
- Clinical Dementia Rating Questionnaire
- Wide Range Achievement Test, 3rd Edition
- Computed Tomography
- Beck Depression Inventory
- measurement method
- physical examination
- Disability Assessment for Dementia Questionnaire
- Alzheimer's Disease Cooperative Study Activities of Daily Living Inventory Questionnaire
- Alzheimer's Disease Cooperative Study-Activities of Daily Living Inventory Mild Cognitive Impairment Questionnaire
- Mini-Mental Status Exam
- NINCDS-ADRDA Criteria for Alzheimer's Disease
- Past medical history
- Rey Auditory Verbal Learning Functional Test
- Montreal Cognitive Assessment Functional Test
- blood measurement
- Cognition Clock Test
- Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale
- California Verbal Learning Test - Second Edition
- cerebrospinal fluid measurement
- Alzheimer's Disease Assessment Scale-Cognitive CDISC Version Questionnaire
- FDG-Positron Emission Tomography
- Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging