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How do you make a definitive diagnosis of neurodegenerative disease?
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Integration of clinical, neuroimaging, and pathologic findings
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Where does Alzheimers localize?
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Temporal lobe, limbic system, and neocortex
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Where does Frontotemporal dementia with or without motor neuron localize?
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Frontal lobe and pyramidal system
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What class of neurons are important in Parkinsonism and Parkinson's Disease?
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Dopaminergic
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What is the common denominator in all these neurodegenerative diseases?
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Loss of neurons and gliosis
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What are the important dementing disorders?
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-Alzheimer disease
-Frontotemporal dementia -Pick disease -Chromosome 17-linked dementia |
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What are the important movement disorders?
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Parkinson Disease
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What percentage of Parkinson patients develop dementia?
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30%
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What are the important movement disorders with dementia?
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-Dementia with Lewy bodies
-Huntington Disease |
