Behavioral symptoms
Neuropsychiatric symptoms in cognitive decline↓
Also searched as Neuropsychiatric symptoms in cognitive decline.
Often the reason care becomes unmanageable before memory does. Measured in people, on instruments built for it.
In depth
Agitation, apathy, anxiety and related symptoms accompanying cognitive decline, scored on standard inventories.
What it drives
It reduces Memory & focus.
The pooled analysis identified neuropsychiatric features including hallucination, agitation and psychosis as predictors of rapid cognitive decline in Alzheimer's disease, each carrying a relative risk above 1. doi 10.3233/JAD-180476 · PMID 30320579
Blends that modulate it
Each blend page names this pathway and carries the study behind its claim.
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