Citation

Masi ML, Price BH. Rev. Neurol. Dis. 2005; 2(2): 91-94.

Affiliation

Department of Neurology, McLean Hospital, Belmont, MA, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2005, MedReviews)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

19813304

Abstract

The case presented highlights the difficult differential diagnosis of memory-sparing cognitive decline in an elderly patient with previously stable bipolar illness. Many disorders can contribute to cognitive and behavioral deterioration in this population, including reversible causes, particularly delirium and psychiatric illness, and irreversible structural or progressive processes including vascular disease, dementia with Lewy bodies, normal-pressure hydrocephalus, and frontotemporal dementia.

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