Sustainable Method for Alzheimer's Prediction

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• frontotemporal dementia;
• behavioural variant of frontotemporal dementia;
• vascular dementia;
• extra-pyramidal syndromes;
• reversible dementias (including pseudodementia of depression);
• Lewy body dementia.
• mild AD, as diagnosed by standard protocols including National Institute on Aging-Alzheimer's Association workgroups (McKhann et al. 2011);
• evidence (including magnetic resonance imaging -MRI procedures) of concomitant dementia such as frontotemporal, vascular and reversible dementias (including pseudo-depressive dementia), marked fluctuations in cognitive performance compatible with Lewy body dementia and/or features of mixed dementias;
• evidence of concomitant extrapyramidal symptoms;
• clinical and indirect evidence of depression as revealed by the Geriatric Depression Scale GDS (Yesavage et al. 1982); scores lower than 14 (no depression);
• other psychiatric diseases, epilepsy, drug addiction, alcohol dependence, use of neuro/psychoactive drugs including acetylcholinesterase inhibitors;
• current or previous uncontrolled or complicated systemic diseases (including diabetes mellitus) or traumatic brain injuries.