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THIRD EDITION
Andrew E. Budson, MD
Neurology Service, Section of Cognitive & Behavioral Neurology, Veterans
Affairs Boston Healthcare System, Boston, MA
Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center & Department of Neurology, Boston
University School of Medicine, Boston, MA
Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
The Boston Center for Memory, Newton, MA
Title page
Copyright
Acknowledgments
Disclosures
Saving Money
References
In the Clinic
At the Bedside
History
Review of Systems
Medical History
Allergies to Medications
Social History
Family History
Physical Examination
Laboratory Studies
Summary
References
A Three-Step Approach
Is Dementia Present?
References
Section II: Differential Diagnosis of Memory Loss and
Dementia
4. Alzheimer’s Disease
Alzheimer’s Pathology
Neurochemistry
Diagnostic Criteria
Laboratory Studies
Differential Diagnosis
Treatments
References
Laboratory Studies
Differential Diagnosis
Treatments
References
Clinical Diagnosis
Laboratory Studies
Differential Diagnosis
Treatments
References
Criteria
Laboratory Studies
Differential Diagnosis
References
Differential Diagnosis
References
Criteria
Differential Diagnosis
Treatments
References
Criteria
Laboratory Studies
Differential Diagnosis
Treatments
References
Criteria
Differential Diagnosis
Treatments
References
Terminology
Differential Diagnosis
Treatments
References
Criteria
Laboratory Studies
Differential Diagnosis
Treatments
References
Criteria
Lumbar Puncture
Other Studies
Treatments
References
Criteria
Differential Diagnosis
Treatments
References
Criteria
Clinical Presentation
Differential Diagnosis
Treatments
References
Disrupted Sleep
Hormones?
Metabolic Disorders
Diabetes
Lyme Disease
Seizures
References
18. Goals for the Treatment of Memory Loss, Alzheimer’s Disease, and
Dementia
Talking About Treatments for Alzheimer’s Disease
References
Huperzine A
References
20. Memantine
Mechanism of Action
Efficacy of Memantine
Titrating Memantine
References
Vitamin D
Vitamin E
Ginkgo Biloba
Antiinflammatories
Prevagen
References
22. Nonpharmacological Treatment of Memory Loss, Alzheimer’s
Disease, and Dementia
Helpful Habits
Power of Pictures
Magic of Music
Mediterranean-Style Diets
Aerobic Exercise
References
Disease-Modifying Treatments
References
References
References
References
27. Pharmacological Treatment of the Behavioral and Psychological
Symptoms of Dementia
References
References
29. Legal and Financial Issues in Memory Loss, Alzheimer’s Disease,
and Dementia
Legal Planning
Financial Planning
The Patient Who Does Not Want You to Talk to Their Family
References
Episodic Memory
Semantic Memory
Procedural Memory
Working Memory
Concluding Comment
Index
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Notice
A note on abbreviations
Because we want this book to be accessible to a wide variety of
audiences from diverse fields—each with their own standard jargon—
we have endeavored to eliminate almost all abbreviations. Although
this decision has made many sentences longer, we hope that these
longer sentences will, on the whole, be more easily understood.
Acknowledgments
This book is dedicated first to our patients and their caregivers; we are
indebted for all that they have taught us. We also dedicate this third
edition to those who supported, encouraged, and inspired us in more
ways than we can list: Jessica and Todd Solomon; Danny, Leah,
Sandra, and Richard Budson; and—of course—to Elizabeth Vassey
and Amy Null. We thank you all.
Special thanks go to Thor Stein, MD, PhD and Ann C. McKee, MD,
for providing the neuropathology figures, as well as Ana Vives-
Rodriguez, MD and Chadrick E. Lane, MD for their invaluable
reviews.
Disclosures
Disclosures (current and/or during the past two years):
Dr. Budson receives grant support from the National Institute on
Aging, National Institutes of Health (NIH), and from the Veterans
Affairs Research & Development Service. He also receives or has
received grant support from and/or has consulted for the following
pharmaceutical companies: Acadia, Avanir, Biogen, EPI
pharmaceuticals, Eisai, Eli Lilly, Cognito, and Cortexyme.
Dr. Solomon receives or has received grant support from Abbott,
Acadia, AstraZeneca, Avanir, Biogen, Cognito, Cortexyme, Avid
Radiopharmaceuticals, Eisai, EnVivo EPIX, Eli Lilly, Pfizer, TV
Therapeutics, Sonexa, FORUM Pharmaceuticals, and Hoffmann-La
Roche. He consults or has consulted for Abbott, Astellas, Avid,
Biogen, Cognito, Eisai, EPIX, Pfizer, and Toyoma.
Note: The content of this book has been derived from the patients
that Dr. Budson and Dr. Solomon have seen separately and together in
the Boston Center for Memory, Newton, Massachusetts, and in The
Memory Clinic in Bennington, Vermont, along with literature reviews
conducted solely for the purpose of this book. These reviews and the
writing of this book have been conducted during early mornings, late
nights, weekends, and vacations. Dr. Budson’s contribution to this
book was conducted outside of both his VA tour of duty and his
Boston University/NIH research time.
About the Authors
Dr. Budson received his bachelor’s degree at Haverford College where
he majored in both chemistry and philosophy. After graduating cum
laude from Harvard Medical School, he was an intern in internal
medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He then attended the
Harvard-Longwood Neurology Residency Program, for which he was
chosen to be chief resident in his senior year. He next pursued a
fellowship in behavioral neurology and dementia at Brigham and
Women’s Hospital, after which he joined the neurology department
there. He participated in numerous clinical trials of new drugs to treat
Alzheimer’s disease in his role as the Associate Medical Director of
Clinical Trials for Alzheimer’s Disease at Brigham and Women’s
Hospital. Following his clinical training he spent 3 years studying
memory as a post-doctoral fellow in experimental psychology and
cognitive neuroscience at Harvard University under Professor Daniel
Schacter. While continuing in the Neurology Department at Brigham
and Women’s Hospital, in 2000 he began work as Consultant
Neurologist for The Memory Clinic in Bennington, Vermont. After 5
years as Assistant Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School,
he joined the Boston University Alzheimer’s Disease Center and the
Geriatric Research Education Clinical Center (GRECC) at the Bedford
Veterans Affairs Hospital. During his 5 years at the Bedford GRECC
he served in several roles, including the Director of Outpatient
Services, Associate Clinical Director, and later the overall GRECC
Director. From March 2009 through February 2010 he served as
Bedford’s Acting Chief of Staff. In March 2010 he moved to Boston as
the Deputy Chief of Staff of the Veterans Affairs Boston Healthcare
System, where he is currently the Associate Chief of Staff for
Education, Chief of the Section of Cognitive & Behavioral Neurology,
and Director of the Center for Translational Cognitive Neuroscience.
He is also the Director of Outreach, Recruitment, and Engagement at
the Boston University Alzheimer’s Disease Center, Professor of
Neurology at Boston University School of Medicine, and Lecturer in
Neurology at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Budson has had
government research funding since 1998, receiving a National
Research Service Award, a Career Development Award, a Research
Project (R01) grant, and several VA Merit grants. He has given over
650 local, national, and international grand rounds and other
academic talks, including at the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience,
Queen Square, London, UK; Berlin, Germany; and the University of
Cambridge, England, UK. He has published over 100 papers in peer
reviewed journals, including The New England Journal of Medicine,
Brain, and Cortex, and is a reviewer for more than 50 journals. He was
awarded the Norman Geschwind Prize in Behavioral Neurology in
2008 and the Research Award in Geriatric Neurology in 2009, both
from the American Academy of Neurology. He serves on the medical
scientific advisory board and board of directors for the
Massachusetts/New Hampshire Chapter of the Alzheimer’s
Association. His current research uses the techniques of experimental
psychology and cognitive neuroscience to understand memory and
memory distortions in patients with Alzheimer’s disease and other
neurological disorders. In his Memory Disorders Clinic at the
Veterans Affairs Boston Healthcare System he treats patients while
teaching students, residents, and fellows, in addition to seeing
patients at the Boston Center for Memory in Newton, Massachusetts.
Dr. Solomon received his PhD. in Psychology from the University of
Massachusetts, Amherst. He was a postdoctoral fellow in the
Laboratory of Richard F. Thompson in the Department of
Psychobiology at the University of California at Irvine. He is currently
Professor of Psychology and founding Chairman of the Neuroscience
Program, Williams College. Dr. Solomon teaches in the areas of
neuropsychology and behavioral neuroscience and conducts research
on the neurobiology of memory disorders. He is particularly
interested in the memory deficits associated with Alzheimer’s disease.
He is the author of 10 books, has also contributed chapters to 20 edited
volumes, and has co-authored and presented more than 200 research
papers. His work has been published in Science, Scientific American,
Journal of the American Medical Association, and The Lancet. He has
delivered more than 400 invited colloquia, symposia, grand rounds,
lectures, and presentations. He has been the recipient of research
grants from the National Science Foundation, the National Institute on
Aging, the National Institute of Mental Health, and the United States
Environmental Protection Agency, as well as private foundations and
pharmaceutical research divisions. Dr. Solomon has received
numerous awards, including a Distinguished Teaching Award from
the University of Massachusetts, a National Research Service Award
from the National Institutes of Health, a National Needs Postdoctoral
Fellowship from the National Science Foundation, and a clinical
research award from the American Association of Family Physicians.
He has been elected a Fellow of the American Association for the
Advancement of Science, the American Psychological Association and
the American Psychological Society. He is listed in Who’s Who in
America, American Men and Women of Science, Who’s Who in Education,
and Who’s Who in Frontier Science and Technology. Dr. Solomon has
served on the editorial boards of several journals and serves as an
external reviewer for numerous journals and granting agencies. He
has lectured widely at colleges and universities on age-related
memory disorders and at medical centers and hospitals on the
diagnosis and treatment of Alzheimer’s disease. He has also appeared
frequently to discuss pharmacotherapy for Alzheimer’s disease on
national television, including The Today Show, Good Morning America,
The CBS Morning Show, and CBS, ABC, and NBC Evening News. His
work on screening for Alzheimer’s disease has been featured on
Dateline NBC. In addition to his academic undertakings, Dr. Solomon
is a licensed psychologist in Massachusetts and Vermont. He is also
founder and Clinical Director of the Memory Clinic in Bennington,
Vermont, the Boston Center for Memory, and President of Clinical
Neuroscience Research Associates. He has served as the first Director
of Training for the Southwestern Vermont Psychology Consortium.
He serves on the advisory board of the Massachusetts Alzheimer’s
Association and the Northeastern New York Alzheimer’s Association.
Video Table of Contents
Video 2.1: Neurological exam, example 1 (selected elements) in a
patient with progressive supranuclear palsy, 16
Video 2.2: Neurological exam, example 2 (selected elements) in a
patient with corticobasal degeneration, 16
Video 2.3: Extra-ocular movements, 17
Video 2.4: Mild parkinsonian resting tremor, 17
Video 2.5: Mild action tremor, 17
Video 2.6: Frontal release signs, 18
Video 2.7: Palmomental reflex, 18
Video 2.8: Montreal Cognitive Assessment, patient 1, part 1, 19
Video 2.9: Montreal Cognitive Assessment, patient 1, part 2, 19
Video 2.10: Montreal Cognitive Assessment, patient 1, part 3, 19
Video 2.11: Montreal Cognitive Assessment, patient 2, part 1, 19
Video 2.12: Montreal Cognitive Assessment, patient 2, part 2, 19
Video 2.13: Montreal Cognitive Assessment, patient 2, part 3, 19
Video 2.14: Category fluency test, 20
Video 9.1: Patient with semantic variant primary progressive
aphasia speaks about his problem with names, 118
Video 9.2: Patient with semantic variant primary progressive
aphasia speaks about parts of his body and clothing, 118
Video 9.3: Patient with semantic variant primary progressive
aphasia speaks about Christmas, 118
Video 9.4: Patient with semantic variant primary progressive
aphasia speaks about other words, 118
Video 9.5: Primary progressive aphasia, nonfluent/agrammatic
variant, patient describes his main problem, 120
Video 9.6: Primary progressive aphasia, nonfluent/agrammatic
variant, spontaneous speech part 1, 120
Video 9.7: Primary progressive aphasia, nonfluent/agrammatic
variant, spontaneous speech part 2, 120
Video 9.8: Primary progressive aphasia, nonfluent/agrammatic
variant, Montreal Cognitive Assessment test part 1, 120
Video 9.9: Primary progressive aphasia, nonfluent/agrammatic
variant, Montreal Cognitive Assessment test part 2, 120
Video 9.10: Primary progressive aphasia nonfluent/agrammatic
variant. Additional language testing, 120
Video 9.11: Primary progressive aphasia nonfluent/agrammatic
variant, writing a sentence, 120
Video 9.12: Patient with primary progressive aphasia
nonfluent/agrammatic variant, performing the Boston naming
test, 120
Video 9.13: Patient with primary progressive aphasia
nonfluent/agrammatic variant performing pyramids and palm
trees test, 120
Video 9.14: Primary progressive apraxia of speech, examples
from Montreal Cognitive Assessment testing, 120
Video 9.15: Primary progressive apraxia of speech, spontaneous
speech and speech exam, 120
Video 9.16: Controlled oral word fluency test, 123
Video 9.17: Category fluency test, 123
Video 10.1: Frontal behavior, 129
Video 12.1: Extra-ocular movements in progressive supranuclear
palsy, 150
Video 12.2: Progressive supranuclear palsy with apraxia of
speech, spontaneous speech and speech exam, 151
Video 12.3: Progressive supranuclear palsy gait, 151
Video 12.4: Progressive supranuclear palsy pull-test, 151
Video 12.5: Progressive supranuclear palsy demonstrating
apraxias, 151
Video 12.6: Progressive supranuclear palsy cognitive exam, part
1, 151
Video 12.7: Progressive supranuclear palsy cognitive exam, part
2, 151
Video 12.8: Progressive supranuclear palsy cognitive exam, part
3, 151
Video 13.1: Praxis examination in a patient with corticobasal
syndrome, part 1, 160
Video 13.2: Praxis examination in a patient with corticobasal
syndrome, part 2, 160
Video 13.3: Praxis examination in a patient with corticobasal
syndrome, part 3, 160
Video 13.4: Stereognosis examination in a patient with
corticobasal syndrome, 160
Video 13.5: Graphesthesia examination in a patient with
corticobasal syndrome, 160
Video 13.6: Elements of the neurological examination in a patient
with corticobasal syndrome, 162
Video 13.7: A patient with corticobasal syndrome removing her
sweater, shoes, and socks, 162
Video 15.1: Chronic traumatic encephalopathy, 177
SECTION I
Evaluating the Patient With
Memory Loss or Dementia
OUTLINE
A 72-year-old woman comes into the clinic at the urging of her son.
She has noticed some difficulties finding words for the past 6 months,
but denies problems with memory or other aspects of her thinking.
Her son reports that his mother has had memory problems that began
five years ago, and have been gradually worsening. He notes that his
mother used to have an excellent memory, and would keep her
calendar, grocery, and other lists in her head. Now she needs to write
everything down or she is totally lost. She used to send out birthday
cards to her grandchildren every year, but over the past two years has
either forgotten to do this or sends them out at the wrong time. In
addition to memory problems, he agrees that she also has word-
finding difficulties, and often has trouble finishing sentences. From a
functional standpoint, she is also having difficulty. She is living with
her husband, and he has gradually been taking over household
responsibilities that she used to do, such as going to the grocery store.
She continues to cook, but there are now just a few meals that she
prepares, and these have become much simpler than they used to be.
The first question that needs to be addressed in this book is: What
should be done about this 72-year-old woman? Why is it important to
diagnose and treat memory loss? Although the answer to this
question may seem obvious to some, in the current healthcare climate
it is very reasonable. There are four basic answers to this question: (1)
to help the patient, (2) to help the family and other caregivers, (3) to
save money, and (4) to plan for the future.
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este otro mal es de manera que
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teneys cuenta con uuestro
desseo. Diana entonçes
respondio: Dexa essas razones,
Sireno, que ninguna neçesidad
tienes de querer, ni ser querido. A
trueque de no tenella de querer
(dixo Sireno) me alegro en no
tenella de ser querido. Estraña
libertad es la tuya (dixo Diana).
Mas lo fue tu oluido (respondio
Sireno), si miras bien en las
palabras que a la partida me
dixiste, mas como dizes, dexemos
de hablar en cosas passadas, y
agradezcamos al tiempo y a la
sábia Feliçia las presentes, y tú,
Syluano, toma tu flauta y
templemos mi rabel con ella, y
cantaremos algunos versos:
aunque coraçon tan libre como el
mio, ¿qué podra cantar, que dé
contento a quien no le tiene? Para
esto yo te dare buen remedio,
dixo Syluano. Hagamos cuenta
que estamos los dos de la
manera que esta pastora nos
traya al tiempo que por este prado
esparzimos nuestras quexas. A
todos paresçio bien lo que
Syluano dezia, aunque Seluagia
no estaua muy bien en ello, mas
por no dar a entender çelos
donde tan gran amor amor
conosçia, calló por entonçes y los
pastores començaron a cantar
desta manera:
SYLUANO Y SIRENO
Si lagrimas no pueden
ablandarte,
(cruel pastora) ¿qué hara mi
canto,
pues nunca cosa mia vi
agradarte?
¿Qué coraçon aurá que
suffra tanto,
que vengas a tomar en burla y
risa,
vn mal que al mundo admira y
causa espanto?
¡Ay çiego entendimiento,
que te auisa
amor, el tiempo y tantos
desengaños,
y siempre el pensamiento de
una guisa!
Ah pastora cruel, ¿en tantos
daños,
en tantas cuytas, tantas sin
razones
me quieres ver gastar mis
tristes años?
De vn coraçon que es tuyo,
¿ansi dispones?
vn alma que te di, ¿ansi la
tratas,
que sea el menor mal suffrir
passiones?
SIRENO
Vn ñudo ataste amor, que
no desatas,
es çiego, y çiego tú, y yo más
çiego,
y çiega aquella por quien tú
me matas.
Ni yo me vi perder vida y
sossiego:
ni ella vee que muero a causa
suya,
ni tú, que estó abrasado en
biuo fuego.
¿Qué quieres crudo amor,
que me destruya
Diana con ausençia? pues
concluye
con que la vida y suerte se
concluya.
El alegria tarda, el tiempo
huye,
muere esperança, biue el
pensamiento,
amor lo abreuia, alarga y lo
destruye.
Verguença me es hablar en
un tormento
que aunque me aflija, canse y
duela tanto,
ya no podria sin él biuir
contento.
SYLUANO
O alma, no dexeys el triste
llanto,
y vos cansados ojos,
no os canse derramar
lagrimas tristes:
llorad pues uer supistes
la causa prinçipal de mis
enojos.
SIRENO
La causa prinçipal de mis
enojos,
cruel pastora mia,
algun tiempo lo fue de mi
contento:
ay triste pensamiento,
quan poco tiempo dura vna
alegria.
SYLUANO
Quan poco tiempo dura vna
alegria
y aquella dulce risa,
con que fortuna acaso os ha
mirado:
todo es bien empleado
en quien auisa el tiempo y no
se auisa.
SIRENO
En quien auisa el tiempo y
no se auisa,
haze el amor su hecho,
mas ¿quién podra en sus
casos auisarse,
o quién desengañarse?
ay pastora cruel, ay duro
pecho.
SYLUANO
Ay pastora cruel, ay duro
pecho,
cuya dureza estraña
no es menos que la graçia y
hermosura,
y que mi desuentura,
¡quán a mi costa el mal me
desengaña!
SYLUANO
Pastora mia, más blanca y
colorada
que blancas[1269] rosas por
abril cogidas,
y más resplandesçiente,
que el sol, que de oriente
por la mañana assoma a tu
majada
¿cómo podré biuir si tú me
oluidas?
no seas mi pastora rigurosa,
que no está bien crueldad a
vna hermosa.
SIRENO
Diana mia, más
resplandesçiente,
que esmeralda, y diamante a
la vislumbre,
cuyos hermosos ojos
son fin de mis enojos,
si a dicha los rebuelues
mansamente,
assi con tu ganado llegues a la
cumbre
de mi majada gordo y
mejorado,
que no trates tan mal a vn
desdichado.
SYLUANO
Pastora mia, quando tus
cabellos
a los rayos del sol estás
peynando,
no vees que lo escuresçes,
y a mi me ensoberuesçes
que desde acá me estoy
mirando en ellos,
perdiendo ora esperança, ora
ganando?
assi gozes, pastora, esa
hermosura,
que des vn medio en tanta
desuentura.
SIRENO
Diana cuyo nombre en esta
sierra
los fieros animales trae
domados,
y cuya hermosura,
sojuzga a la ventura,
y al crudo amor no teme y
haze guerra
sin temor de occasiones,
tiempo, hados,
assi gozes tú tu hato y tu
majada,
que de mi mal no biuas
descuydada.
SYLUANO
La fiesta, mi Sireno, es ya
passada,
los pastores se uan a su
manida,
y la cigarra calla de cansada.
No tardará la noche, que
escondida
está, mientra que Phebo en
nuestro cielo
su lumbre acá y allá trae
esparzida.
Pues antes que tendida por
el suelo
veas la escura sombra, y que
cantando
de ençima deste aliso está el
mochuelo,
Nuestro ganado vamos
allegando,
y todo junto alli lo lleuaremos,
a do Diana nos está
esperando.
SIRENO
Syluano mio, vn poco aqui
esperemos,
pues aun del todo el sol no es
acabado
y todo el dia por nuestro le
tenemos.
Tiempo ay para nosotros, y
el ganado
tiempo ay para lleualle al claro
rio,
pues oy ha de dormir por este
prado;
y aqui cesse, pastor, el cantar
mio.
Os tempos se mudarão
a vida se acabará:
mas a fe sempre estara,
onde meus olhos estão.
Os dias, y os momentos,
as horas, con suas mudanças,
inmigas son desperanças,
y amigas de pensamentos:
os pensamentos estão
a esperança acabará,
a fe, me não deixará
por honrra do coraçon.