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. 2008 Mar 18;9(3):229–245. doi: 10.1007/s10561-008-9067-2

Table 3.

Neuropathological diagnoses, 1997–2007

Neuropathological diagnosis N %
Normala 119 21
Alzheimer’s disease 316 56
Dementia with Lewy bodies 99 18
Parkinson’s disease 78 14
Vascular dementia 43 8
Progressive supranuclear palsy 41 7
Hippocampal sclerosis 35 6
Dementia lacking distinctive histology 9 2
Multiple system atrophy 5 0.9
Motor neuron disease with dementia 3 0.5
Corticobasal degeneration 2 0.4
Pick’s disease 2 0.4
Huntington’s disease 2 0.4

As more than one condition was often present in a single subject, the sum of the percentages exceeds 100

aNo major clinical neurological diagnosis & age-consistent neuropathology only