NEW YORK: More research is essential to improve protocols for diagnosing Alzheimer’s disease in people with Down syndrome, but the ability to identify and care for those patients is enhanced significantly if clinicians are aware of specific circumstances and use a multi-disciplinary treatment strategy.
Those findings are included in a study titled “Challenges faced in managing dementia in Alzheimer’s disease in patients with Down syndrome,” and published in the journal Degenerative Neurological and Neuromuscular Disease…