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2026
Springer Nature Switzerland
Cham
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Please use a persistent id in citations: doi:10.1007/978-3-032-13040-2_6
Abstract: With aging societies, the incidence and prevalence of dementia are increasing rapidly and will continue to do so worldwide in the next years and decades. It is now possible to diagnose dementia at an early stage using neuropsychological tests and biomarker studies, including imaging (MRI, PET), cerebrospinal fluid analysis, and genetic testing. For Alzheimer’s disease in particular, recent diagnostic advances allow a reliable diagnosis to be made already during a patient’s lifetime. This paves the way for earlier (medical) interventions. In recent years, the first drugs have been approved that intervene causally in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer’s disease rather than just treating its symptoms. As the pathological processes of neurodegenerative brain diseases generally begin years, sometimes decades before the actual clinical onset, a timely treatment with disease-modifying drugs is necessary.With aging societies, the incidence and prevalence of dementia are increasing rapidly and will continue to do so worldwide in the next years and decades. It is now possible to diagnose dementia at an early stage using neuropsychological tests and biomarker studies, including imaging (MRI, PET) cerebrospinal fluid analysis and genetic testing. For Alzheimer’s disease in particular, recent diagnostic advances allow a reliable diagnosis to be made already during a patient’s lifetime. This paves the way for earlier (medical) interventions. In recent years, the first drugs have been approved that intervene causally in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer’s disease rather than just treating its symptoms. As the pathological processes of neurodegenerative brain diseases generally begin years, sometimes decades before the actual clinical onset, a timely treatment with disease-modifying drugs is necessary.
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