Like the rest of the body, the brain changes as we age. Scientists are starting to shed light on some of the processes behind these changes and to discover the differences between…

Alzheimer’s, the degenerative brain disorder that disrupts memory, thought and behavior, is devastating to both patients and loved ones. According to the Alzheimer’s Association, one in eight Americans over the age of…

Krishnan (2007), in a discussion of the concept of disease in geriatric psychiatry, made the case for uniting descriptive syndromal (nominal) diagnosis with essential diagnosis (i.e., diagnosis of the related and presumably causative biological processes).…

Dementia is an umbrella term, covering a number of conditions that manifest themselves in similar ways. The most common type of dementia is Alzheimer’s disease, which accounts for about 69 per cent of all cases.

Attempts made in the United States to develop a standardized nomenclature of diseases began in 1927 and culminated in the publication of the Standard Classified Nomenclature of Disease in 1933 (Logie 1933). Long before…

Dementia is, and always has been, a substantial social issue. Because it is a cluster of cognitive and behavioral symptoms, the dementia syndrome was technically a mental disorder and was long the purview of…

The story of Alzheimer disease began with a series of clinical observations that were linked to a type of brain pathology. These clinical and pathological…