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At present no scientist can say with assurance whether Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a single disease, a complex syndrome, with many subtypes and varieties of patterns in its manifestations, or many different diseases with similar clusters of symptoms. The heterogeneity of the disease is demonstrated in many of its aspects: age of onset, duration, clinical course, types and patterns of neurological and psychiatric symptoms, response to treatment and neuropathological lesions.
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Khachaturian, Z.S. (1992). An Overview of Scientific Issues Associated with the Heterogeneity of Alzheimer’s Disease. In: Boller, F., Forette, F., Khachaturian, Z.S., Poncet, M., Christen, Y. (eds) Heterogeneity of Alzheimer’s Disease. Research and Perspectives in Alzheimer’s Disease. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-46776-9_1
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