"Julie Bove" > wrote in
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> "John Kuthe" > wrote in message
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>> On Thu, 10 Oct 2013 14:48:26 -0700, "Julie Bove"
>> > wrote:
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>>>"sf" > wrote in message
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>>>> It's probably "you", not whatever food it is that you're
>>>> criticizing.
>> Has he been diagnosed with Alzheimer's?
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> No and from what I've been told, they can't diagnose it. They can
> only tell for sure after the person dies. Then they can look at the
> brain. He has been diagnosed with dementia and it is at least in part
> from some strokes.
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>
Actually, Julie, while you're technically correct, there are a number of
methods neurologists use to get pretty close to certain that a patient
has Alzheimer's. And a PET scan that is accurate in diagnosing
Alzheimer's has been developed recently and is in limited use. But in
this case, if there have been strokes involved, it's probably a vascular
dementia.