Avaliação do deficit de memória

Last reviewed: 21 Jul 2025
Last updated: 02 Jun 2023

Summary

Differentials

Common

  • Demência de Alzheimer
  • Demência vascular
  • Demência com corpos de Lewy
  • Lesão cerebral traumática
  • Hipotireoidismo
  • Lesão hipóxica após parada cardíaca
  • Acidente vascular cerebral (AVC) isquêmico
  • AVC hemorrágico
  • Convulsões
  • Enxaqueca
  • Deficiência de vitamina B12
  • Comprometimento cognitivo leve
  • Encefalopatia traumática crônica
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Uncommon

  • Demência frontotemporal
  • Demência semântica
  • Doença de Creutzfeldt-Jakob (DCJ)
  • Paralisia supranuclear progressiva
  • Síndrome corticobasal
  • Hidrocefalia de pressão normal
  • Demência associada ao vírus da imunodeficiência humana (HIV)
  • Neurossífilis
  • Encefalopatia límbica
  • Encefalopatia de Hashimoto
  • Tumor cerebral
  • Amnésia global transitória
  • Síndrome de Wernicke-Korsakoff
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Contributors

Authors

Rajesh Tampi, MD, MS, DFAPA

Professor of Psychiatry

Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine

Cleveland

OH

Disclosures

RT declares that he has no competing interests.

Acknowledgements

Dr Rajesh Tampi would like to gratefully acknowledge Dr Michael D. Geschwind, Dr Mee-Ohk Kim, Dr Michael H. Rosenbloom, Dr Steven Z. Chao, and Dr Julie N. Thai, previous contributors to this topic.

Disclosures

MDG is an author of a number of references cited in this topic. He serves on the board of directors for San Francisco Bay Area Physicians for Social Responsibility, on the editorial board of Dementia & Neuropsychologia, and serves or has served as a consultant for Best Doctors, Inc; the Gerson Lehrman Group, Inc; Guidepoint Global, LLC; Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc; Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP; Lundbeck; MEDACorp; NeuroPhage Pharmaceuticals; and Quest Diagnostics. He receives research support from CurePSP, the Michael J. Homer Family Fund, the National Institute on Aging (R01 AGAG031189), Quest Diagnostics, and the Tau Consortium. He receives honorarium from various medical centers for lectures in the field of dementia. M-OK, MHR, SZC, and JNT declare that they have no competing interests.

Peer reviewers

Olakunle Ashaye, MD

Consultant Psychiatrist and Visiting Professor

University of Hertfordshire

Hatfield

UK

Mental Health Unit

Lister Hospital

Stevenage

UK

Disclosures

OA declares that he has no competing interests.

Asif Bhutto, MD

Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine

Division of Geriatric Medicine

St Louis University

St Louis

MO

Disclosures

AB declares that he has no competing interests.

References

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Key articles

Petersen RC, Lopez O, Armstrong MJ, et al. Practice guideline update summary: mild cognitive impairment: report of the Guideline Development, Dissemination, and Implementation Subcommittee of the American Academy of Neurology. Neurology. 2018 Jan 16;90(3):126-35.Full text  Abstract

National Institute for Health and Care Excellence. Dementia: assessment, management and support for people living with dementia and their carers. Jun 2018 [internet publication].Full text

Galvin JE, Sadowsky CH. Practical guidelines for the recognition and diagnosis of dementia. J Am Board Fam Med. 2012 May-Jun;25(3):367-82.Full text  Abstract

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