If Alzheimer's is diagnosed too late, this can be very fatal. Doctors know that can be significantly influenced by early treatment of disease progression.
For a long time it was about doctors difficult to distinguish the symptoms of depression from those of Alzheimer's disease. Scientists at the University of Edinburgh have now found that suffering people who suffer from Alzheimer's, also on an impairment of logical thinking and memory.By the so-called multi-tasking, which is to be tested in a test procedure, the insidious disease are more easily detected. The danger that these symptoms be diagnosed as depression is so much smaller. To distinguish the two diseases, those concerned should try to solve two different tasks simultaneously. If this is not possible, then most likely infected with Alzheimer's disease behind the symptoms.
responsible for the inconclusive results is the study in which there were three different groups. In all, the ability to multitask has been verified. The first group consisted of Alzheimer's patients, the second set from chronic depression together and in the third group were healthy older people who had no memory impairment. According cut result in such a test, people with Alzheimer's much worse than the subjects of the other two groups.
Susanne Sorensen, the scientific director of the Alzheimer's Society, believes that early diagnosis of the disease is crucial to how people work around the rest of their lives. Access to the necessary and essential medicines is easier for them if they understand their disease better. They also have the opportunity to plan the next steps better.
