Apathy Assessment in Neurocognitive Disorders: Revisiting a Supportive Clinical Feature for the Early Recognition of Prodromal Dementia With Lewy Bodies
Hiroshige Fujishiro, Kuniyuki Iwata, Hideki Kanemoto, Madoka Yanagawa, Hajime Baba · 2026
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Fujishiro and co-authors argue that apathy deserves more attention when doctors try to spot Lewy body dementia early. This dementia is the second most common kind, yet at the earliest stage it is often mistaken for Alzheimer's disease. Post-mortem studies show about a third of early Alzheimer's diagnoses actually hide Lewy body disease.
Apathy, a loss of motivation, is a listed supportive feature of the disease but has been little studied as an early sign. The authors review evidence that persistent apathy in older adults predicts later dementia and may appear early in Lewy body disease. They make the case for assessing apathy systematically so the two diseases can be told apart sooner.
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| CREATOR | Hiroshige Fujishiro, Kuniyuki Iwata, Hideki Kanemoto, Madoka Yanagawa, Hajime Baba |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 7 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |