Could Artificial Intelligence Predict Who Will Develop Alzheimer's? - Being Patient

Dr. Chakravarty: Even before that happens, many people who believe they are at risk will go to their family doctor or a memory specialist to let them know that they've noticed changes in their cognition. For example, they can't remember appointments or how to do simple tasks. Oftentimes, in elderly populations, this is diagnosed first and foremost as geriatric depression because these early signs share a lot of features with this disorder. Certainly what we see in the studies that we've done and when we do patient and subject recruitment is a lot of their general practitioners think they have geriatric depression. Slowly, after years have gone by, they realize that they may have memory impairment.