Behavioral & Cognitive Disorders
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Chronic traumatic encephalopathyMental status examination
Theory of mind
Focal Cognitive Symptoms & Disorders
AcalculiaAlexia
Alexia without agraphia
Alien hand syndrome
Apraxia
Aprosodia
Auditory hallucinations due to central nervous system lesions
Cognitive aspects of central auditory disorders
Cortical blindness
Disorders of consciousness
Executive dysfunction
Extrasylvian aphasias
Foix-Chavany-Marie syndrome
Hyperventilation syndrome
Hyposmia in neurodegenerative disorders
Korsakoff syndrome
Memory loss
Neglect
Neurologic disorders presenting with behavioral signs and symptoms
Perisylvian aphasias
Progressive subcortical gliosis
Right hemisphere language disorders
Rostral brainstem and thalamic infarctions
Transient epileptic amnesia
Transient global amnesia
Visual agnosias
Neurodevelopmental Disorders
Angelman syndromeAttention deficit hyperactivity disorder
Autism spectrum disorder
Cerebral palsy
Developmental language disorder
Down syndrome
Fragile X syndrome
Intellectual disability
PANDAS
Tourette syndrome
Treatable Dementias
Cerebral amyloid angiopathyCerebral vasculitis presenting with dementia
Chronic subdural hematoma
Cryptococcal meningitis
Drug-induced delirium
Drug-induced dementia
Hypothyroidism
Lyme disease
Metal neurotoxicity
Neurosarcoidosis
Neurosyphilis
Normal-pressure hydrocephalus
Pituitary apoplexy
Porphyria
Sleeping sickness
Systemic lupus erythematosus
Thyrotoxicosis
Whipple disease
Degenerative Dementias in Older Adults
ALS-like disorders of the Western PacificAlzheimer disease
Cerebral amyloid angiopathy
Corticobasal degeneration
Dementia associated with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
Dementia in Parkinson disease
Dementia with Lewy bodies
Familial Alzheimer disease
Fatal familial insomnia
Frontotemporal dementia
Huntington disease
Hyposmia in neurodegenerative disorders
Nondominant hereditary ataxias
PART (Primary age-related tauopathy)
Progressive supranuclear palsy: cognitive and behavioral changes
Sleep and cerebral degenerative disorders
Sleep and dementia
Tauopathies with dementia and parkinsonism
Vascular Dementias
Cerebral amyloid angiopathyCerebral vasculitis presenting with dementia
Chronic subdural hematoma
Hypertensive intracerebral hemorrhage
Primary CNS angiitis
Subcortical vascular cognitive impairment
Vascular cognitive impairment
Dementias in Medical Disorders
HIV-associated neurocognitive disordersProgressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy
Dementias in Children & Younger Adults
AdrenoleukodystrophyCerebrotendinous xanthomatosis
Fabry disease
Fucosidosis
Gaucher disease
Globoid cell leukodystrophy
GM2 gangliosidoses
Lafora disease
Leigh syndrome
Leukodystrophies
Mucolipidosis II alpha/beta and mucolipidosis III alpha/beta
Mucopolysaccharidoses
Neuroacanthocytosis
Neurodegeneration with brain iron accumulation
Niemann-Pick disease type C
Niemann-Pick disease types A and B
Porphyria
Wilson disease
Neuropsychiatric & Psychogenic Disorders
Affective disorders in neurologic diseaseAlcohol abuse and its neurologic complications
Bipolar disorder
Comorbid depression in neurologic disorders
Depression after stroke
Functional neurologic disorders and related disorders
Neuroacanthocytosis
Schizophrenia
Related Topics
Alcohol abuse and its neurologic complicationsAnti-LGI1 encephalitis
Antipsychotics
Atomoxetine
Donepezil
Galantamine
Memantine
Methylphenidate
Minor closed head injury
Neurodegenerative disorders: treatment with neurotrophic factors
Neuropsychologic correlates in pediatric sleep apnea
Pemoline
Risperidone
Rivastigmine
Sleep and intellectual disability
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Sep 16, 2019
Drug commonly used to manage symptoms of Alzheimer disease and other dementias associated with a 2-fold higher risk of hospital admission for rhabdomyolysis compared with several other cholinesterase inhibitors.
Brain changes may help track dementia, even before diagnosis
Sep 11, 2019
Results suggest that changes in brain network connections could potentially be used to track early changes in Alzheimer disease and cerebrovascular disease.
High blood pressure treatment may slow cognitive decline
Sep 09, 2019
High blood pressure appears to accelerate cognitive decline among middle-aged and older adults, but treating high blood pressure may slow this down.
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Adrenoleukodystrophy
Afasia (Spanish)
Agenesia del cuerpo calloso
Aicardi-Goutieres syndrome
Polymicrogyria
Primary progressive aphasia
Guidelines
AAN: Dementia
AAN: Diagnostic accuracy of CSF 14-3-3 protein in sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
AAN: Evaluation and management of driving risk in dementia
AAN: Genetic and metabolic testing on children with global developmental delay
AAN: Screening and diagnosis of autism
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AAN: Dementia Management Quality Measures
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