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. 2024 Jul 4;30(10):2977–2989. doi: 10.1038/s41591-024-03118-z
Glossary 1
Acronym Description
NC Normal cognition
MCI Mild cognitive impairment
DE Dementia
AD Alzheimer’s disease
LBD Lewy body dementia, including dementia with Lewy bodies and Parkinson’s disease dementia
VD Vascular dementia, vascular brain injury and vascular dementia, including stroke
PRD Prion disease including Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
FTD Frontotemporal lobar degeneration and its variants, including primary progressive aphasia, corticobasal degeneration and progressive supranuclear palsy, and with or without amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
NPH Normal pressure hydrocephalus
SEF Systemic and environmental factors including infectious diseases (HIV included), metabolic, substance abuse / alcohol, medications, systemic disease and delirium
PSY Psychiatric conditions including schizophrenia, depression, bipolar disorder, anxiety and posttraumatic stress disorder
TBI Moderate/severe traumatic brain injury, repetitive head injury and chronic traumatic encephalopathy
ODE Other dementia conditions, including neoplasms, Down syndrome, multiple systems atrophy, Huntington’s disease and seizures