Dementia Types by Dr Manjula Caldera
Channel: ASN Neurology
Date: 2021-08-06

Webinar 25 - 10 Pearls Series

Webinar series conducted by the Association of Sri Lankan Neurologists targeted at the Medical Officers, Medical Registrars, General Physicians, Family Physicians and Medical Students. A journey of 32 neurology topics, each with 10 pearls.

The twenty-fifth lecture in the series, Dementia Types is delivered by Dr Manjula Caldera. He is a current Joint-Secretary of the Association of Sri Lankan Neurologists.  He is a Consultant Neurologist currently attached to the Teaching Hospital, Anuradhapura.

10 Pearls of this lecture
1. All memory complaints are not dementias (Worries well, MCI and dementia)
2. Neurodegenerative dementias are proteinopathies 
3. Cognitive assessment is helpful to phenotype the syndromes
4. Lat onset Alzheimer Disease : Predominantly amnestic syndromes
5. Early onset Alzheimer Disease : Predominantly non amnestic spectrum
6. bvFTD is the commonest FTD variant
7. SD is the commonest PPA
8. Primary nonfluent agrammatic PPA and primary progressive apraxia of speech
9.Logopenic variant PPA is Alzheimer Disease pathology
10. DLB is the commonest Lewy Body Dementia

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