When a decline in cognitive function impairs our social, occupational, or daily activities compared to our previous baseline, we are said to have dementia. However, these first cognitive abnormalities can first present as mild and have any number of causes, from Alzheimer’s disease, to vascular dementia (damage from strokes), Lewy body dementia, or frontotemporal dementia, to name a few. Read full article here: Early Testing Can Help Physicians Spot and Diagnose Alzheimer’s Long Before Cognitive Failure Sets In
