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Mrs. E, a 72-year-old woman in your practice who has experienced clear and progressive memory decline over the past 3 years, finally agrees to come and see you with her daughter and husband for an assessment. The patient is English speaking and has a bachelor's degree. Her medical history includes hypertension, a 20-pack-year history of smoking and a previous transient ischemic attack. Her family says that she is unable to currently handle her own banking and has become lost when driving. Mrs. E is increasingly anxious when left alone. Her husband is concerned that she might be depressed, but he adds

BPSD contribute significantly to the overall costs of dementia care. Interventions targeted at BPSD may help to reduce the staggering societal costs of this illness.

RBD is rare, but REM sleep without atonia is relatively fre-quent in patients with probable Alzheimer disease, a tauopathy.

Two cancellation tests, Albert's Test and a new test with distractors, the Bells Test, which are both used for the evaluation of unilateral visuospatial neglect, were applied to 40 neurologically normal adults and 47 right CVA patients, 4-12 weeks after stroke. Norms are proposed for both tests. Results show that the Bells Test has greater discrimination power than Albert's Test. In both tasks, a left-to-right gradient of neglect is found in patients who show neglect.