Anticholinergic drugs and cognitive impairment in the elderly.

Objective: Describe the prevalence of the anticholinergic drugs (AD) used in patients who consult in regard to loss of memory. Assess the cognitive and functional repercussion of these drugs.

Patients And Methods: Retrospective review of the clinic history of the patients who consulted the clinic in 2015 and 2016.

Redefining Amnestic Mild Cognitive Impairment as an Early Form of Alzheimer's Disease Based on Assessment of Memory Systems.

Background: It has been suggested that mild cognitive impairment (MCI) can be used to identify patients at risk of developing clinical stages of Alzheimer's disease (AD).

Objective: The aim of this study was to describe the characteristics of amnesic syndrome of dementia of the Alzheimer's type (DAT) as a continuous degenerative process from normality to amnesic syndrome and provide a classification of the degrees of amnesia.

Methods: Of 3,800 new incidental cases at the Memory Clinic, 747 were classified as non-demented patients.