[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.

[Diagnostic profile of young-onset dementia before 65 years. Experience of a French Memory Referral Center].

Objective: The aim of the study was to compare the profiles of patients with young (age≤65 years) and late (age>65 years) onset of dementia in a memory clinic of a Memory Referral Center in Lyons (France), for the year 2008.

Methods: A total of 746 demented patients were evaluated using clinical, neuropsychological and imaging information. For each patient, diagnoses of the dementing disorder used clinical criteria at the first visit.