DEMENTIA neurology checklists

Alzheimer's disease (AD)

Alzheimer’s disease is an irreversible neurodegenerative disorder of the brain. It results in impaired brain function. It causes memory and functional decline

• Alzheimer’s disease (AD): risk factors
• Alzheimer’s disease (AD): protective factors
• Alzheimer’s disease (AD): clinical features
• Alzheimer's Disease (AD) v frontotemporal dementia (FTD)
• Alzheimer’s disease (AD): investigations
• Alzheimer’s disease (AD): emerging investigations
• Alzheimer’s disease (AD): preventative measures
• Alzheimer’s disease (AD): non-drug management
• Alzheimer’s disease (AD): conventional drug treatments
• Alzheimer’s disease (AD): lecanemab treatment
• Alzheimer’s disease (AD): investigational treatments
• Alzheimer’s disease: driving and safety issues

Alzheimer's disease variants

• Alzheimer’s disease (AD): variants classification
• Posterior cortical atrophy (PCA)
• Alzheimer’s disease (AD) with spastic paraparesis
• Alzheimer’s disease (AD) with normal pressure hydrocephalus (NPH)
• Suspected non-Alzheimer disease pathophysiology (SNAP)

Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) general

• Frontotemporal dementia (FTD): risk factors
• Frontotemporal dementia (FTD): differential diagnosis
• Frontotemporal dementia (FTD): management

Behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD)

• Behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD): pathology
• Behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD): features

Primary progressive aphasia variant frontotemporal dementia (PPA)

• Primary progressive aphasia (PPA): non-fluent variant (nfvPPA)
• Primary progressive aphasia (PPA): logopenic variant (lvPPA)
• Primary progressive aphasia (PPA): semantic variant (svPPA)
• Primary progressive aphasia (PPA): ALS subtype (PPA-ALS)

Mild cognitive impairment (MCI)

• Mild cognitive impairment (MCI): clinical features
• Mild cognitive impairment (MCI): predictors of progression to Alzheimer’s disease (AD)
• Mild cognitive impairment (MCI): management

Young onset dementia

• Young-onset dementia: causes
• Young-onset dementia: investigations

Pseudobulbar syndromes

• Pseudobulbar affect (PBA)
• Pathological laughter
• Pathological crying

Cerebellar cognitive affective syndrome (CCAS)

• Cerebellar cognitive affective syndrome (CCAS): pathology and causes
• Cerebellar cognitive affective syndrome (CCAS): clinical features

Agyrophilic grain disease (AGD)

• Agyrophilic grain disease (AGD): pathology
• Agyrophilic grain disease (AGD): clinical features

Limbic predominant age related TDP-43 encephalopathy (LATE)

• Limbic predominant age related TDP-43 encephalopathy (LATE): pathology
• Limbic predominant age related TDP-43 encephalopathy (LATE): clinical features
• Limbic predominant age related TDP-43 encephalopathy (LATE): differential diagnosis
• Limbic predominant age related TDP-43 encephalopathy (LATE): diagnostic criteria

Miscellaneous cognitive disorders

• Executive dysfunction
• Reversible dementia
• Rapidly progressive dementia
• Tauopathies: types
• Immunological dementias
• Vascular cognitive impairment (VCI)
• Senile dementia of the neurofibrillary tangle type (SDNFT)
• Urbach-Wiethe disease