Alzheimer's Disease - Diagnosis

and the geriatrician; furthermore, the testimonies of the relatives of the patient are important, as they compensate for the patient's difficulties in exhibiting the symptoms and ailments that concern him.

The diagnosis of Alzheimer's also includes an approach by exclusion: it is the so-called differential diagnosis, which involves examinations and tests aimed at ruling out the possibility that the present manifestations are due to other pathologies with similar symptoms.

It should be noted that some scientific literature sites are keen to clarify, with regard to the "Alzheimer's topic," that only the autopsy post-mortem on the brain of the presumed patient and the detection of amyloid plaques and clusters of tau protein confirm the presence of the pathology.

For further information: Alzheimer's disease: What it is, Causes and Symptoms ;

Brain imaging tests.