New Recommendations for Alzheimer's Diagnosis: "July 13, 2010 -- Experts from the National Institute on Aging and the Alzheimer's Association have issued suggestions to update the criteria for the diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease.
The new proposed criteria will be the first update in 26 years.
''The last set of criteria for Alzheimer's disease [diagnosis] were originally developed in 1984,' says William Thies, PhD, chief medical and scientific officer at the Alzheimer's Association. 'We know a lot more now than we did before, so the new criteria are a reaction to that knowledge,' he tells WebMD."
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