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Diagnosing Alzheimer's Disease
- 100% certainty requires post-mortem exam of the brain
- History from family members
- Assessing cognitive function with neuropsychological tests
- Brain imaging
- Tests of cerebral spinal fluid
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Solomon Carter Fuller
An 80-year-old individual has been experiencing increasing difficulty over the past few years. Initially, they would forget recent conversations. Now, they frequently get lost in their own neighborhood, struggle to manage their finances, and have trouble with basic tasks like dressing themselves. Their family notes this decline is steady and getting worse. Based on this pattern of progressive and severe cognitive decline that interferes with daily life, which statement best characterizes the underlying issue?