Memory loss - when is it Alzheimer disease?
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Many diagnostic approaches can be used to distinguish Alzheimer's disease from normal memory loss due to aging. Alzheimer's disease causes 70% of all dementia and old age is the biggest risk factor. The dementia caused by Alzheimer's disease is slow and progressive and may be hard to detect in its early stages. CT and MRI scans of the head can rule out structural causes of dementia. A psychiatric examination is crucial because depression can mimic the symptoms of dementia. A complete neurologic examination is also useful. Blood tests can rule out metabolic causes of dementia.
Publication Name: JAMA, The Journal of the American Medical Association
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0098-7484
Year: 1998
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Editorial Governance of the Journal of the American Medical Association A Report
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Following the dismissal of George D. Lundberg as the Editor-in-Chief of JAMA, a search committee has drawn up a plan to retain the independence of the editorial staff. The plan calls for a Journal Oversight Committee (JOC), which would have seven members, only one of whom would be an AMA staff member. The members would serve three-year staggered terms. The JOC evaluate the Editor-in-Chief every year and would prepare an annual report for the AMA executive vice president. The JOC would have to approve any dismissal of the Editor-in-Chief by a two-thirds vote.
Publication Name: JAMA, The Journal of the American Medical Association
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0098-7484
Year: 1999
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West Nile virus encephalomyelitis in transplant recipients
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The clinical symptoms, diagnostic studies and outcomes of West Nile virus (WNV) epidemic, which is an arthropod-borne flavivirus in transplant recipients, are analyzed. Naturally acquired WNV encephalitis show diagnostic, clinical, and laboratory features similar to those reported in nonimmunocompromised individuals, but neuroimaging, electroencephalography and autopsy results verify that these patients develop neurological damage at the severe end of spectrum.
Publication Name: JAMA, The Journal of the American Medical Association
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0098-7484
Year: 2004
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