Module C - Memory Loss: A Practical Guide for Clinicians

Objectives

• Know how to evaluate the patient with memory loss
• Recognize the differential diagnosis of memory loss including Alzheimer's disease, mild cognitive impairment, dementia with Lewy Bodies (including Parkinson's Disease dementia), vascular dementia and vascular cognitive impairment, frontotemporal dementia, progressive supranuclear palsy, corticobasal degeneration, normal pressure hydrocephalus, Cretzfeldt-Jakob Disease and other disorders
• Know the behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia
• Learn medications that are disease-modifying treatments for memory loss