[The specialist-referred patients represent 42% of the activity of an academic memory clinic].

Objectives: Evaluate demographic and aetiological characteristics of patients referred by specialist doctors (neurologists, geriatricians and psychiatrists) to an Academic Memory Clinic in Lyon, for the year 2008. These specialist-referred patients (SRP) constitute a specific mission of the French Academic Memory Clinics.

Methods: The outpatients consecutively referred in 2008 to our memory clinic by any persons (patients, families, general practitioners, specialist doctors) were all evaluated using clinical, neuropsychological and imaging information.