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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1
pubmed:dateCreated
1996-2-9
pubmed:abstractText
In 1946, the differential diagnosis of cognitive failure resided in the hands of psychiatrists. Not until the late 1960s was permanent doubt cast on the arteriosclerotic origins of dementia. Neuro-diagnostic studies 50 years ago were limited to skull x-rays. Many neurologic signs that would now be considered indicative of Parkinson's disease (PD) were thought in 1946 to typify old age. The diagnosis of PD was made on clinical grounds, and in that regard little has changed. For treatment of PD, textbooks then had little to offer, compared with the wide range of drug therapies available today. Unknown in the mid-1940s, the molecular biology of DNA now allows practitioners a glimpse at the highly complex and multifactorial origins of Alzheimer's disease.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
AIM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jan
pubmed:issn
0016-867X
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
51
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
65-70, 72
pubmed:dateRevised
2004-11-17
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1996
pubmed:articleTitle
Parkinson's and Alzheimer's: new tools, new attitudes in patient care.
pubmed:affiliation
Section of Neurology, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article