The Global Deterioration Scale for Assessment of Primary Degenerative Dementia

Overview

Journal Am J Psychiatry

Specialty Psychiatry

Date 1982 Sep 1

PMID 7114305

Citations 1067

Authors

B Reisberg

S H Ferris

M J de Leon

T Crook

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Abstract

Cognitive decline associated with old age and consistent with the diagnosis of primary degenerative dementia is a unique clinical syndrome with characteristic phenomena and progression. The authors describe a Global Deterioration Scale for the assessment of primary degenerative dementia and delineation of its stages. The authors have used the Global Deterioration Scale successfully for more than 5 years and have validated it against behavioral, neuroanatomic, and neurophysiologic measures in patients with primary degenerative dementia.

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