Table 3.

Initial symptoms, first diagnostic hypothesis, Mini-Mental State Exam (MMSE) and outcome.

Case	Initial symptoms	First diagnosticHypothesis	Initial MMSE score	Outcome	Highest MMSE score after treatment
1	Persecutory delusions,  auditory hallucinations and epileptic seizures	Psychosis, schizophrenia	23	Unchanged	22
2	"Meningoencephalitis", memory decline, topographical disorientation	Herpetic encephalitis	NA	Unchanged	19
3	Irritability, motor and psychic slowness	"Organic" disorder	11	Partial improvement	29
4	Tremors, seizures, memory decline	Cerebrovascular disease	17	Partial improvement	23
5	Forgetfulness, dysexecutive syndrome, seizures	Dementia not specified	25	Unchanged	25
6	Agressivity, memory decline, collecting behavior	Dementia not specified	0	Partial improvement	25
7	Memory decline, topographical disorientation, social inadequacy	Alzheimer's disease	22	Full recovery	27
8	Irritability, social withdrawal, dysexecutive syndrome	Frontotemporal dementia	29	Unchanged	29
9	Delirium, tremors, memory decline, topographical disorientation	Dementia with Lewy bodies	10	Partial improvement	13