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Diagnostic profile of young and middle-aged memory clinic patients
Tina Vraamark Elberling1, Jette Stokholm, Peter Høgh
1Memory Disorders Research Unit, The Neuroscience Center, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen University Hospital, Denmark.
Neurology
|October 23, 2002
Abstract:
With the objective of characterizing the underlying conditions in younger patients with cognitive symptoms, 314 consecutive patients were studied, aged <60 years, referred to a multidisciplinary memory clinic over a period of 54 months. Fifteen percent of the patients fulfilled Diagnostic and Statistical Manual IV criteria for dementia, 17% had selective cognitive deficits, and 55% had no cognitive deficits. Cognitive symptoms in younger patients rarely reflect dementia but more often other medical and psychiatric conditions.