Identifying susceptible patients and initiating the treatment as early as possible is considered as an essential step towards better chances of cure of dementia. In this context, the concept of mild cognitive impairment (MCI), suspected as prodromal stage of dementia, is crucial. Whereas some MCI patients remain within the range of normal age-related memory loss, other progress into dementia. However, the identification of MCI patients is still based on unsensitive clinical examinations, while the search for specific biomarkers hasn’t been successful so far.
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Identifying susceptible patients and initiating the treatment as early as possible is considered as an essential step towards better chances of cure of dementia. In this context, the concept of mild cognitive impairment (MCI), suspected as prodromal stage of dementia, is crucial. Whereas some MCI patients remain within the range of normal age-related memory loss, other progress into dementia. However, the identification of MCI patients is still based on unsensitive clinical examinations, while t...
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