Progressive Dysexecutive Syndrome Discussed

dAD and its specific physical and psychological signs and symptoms as well as characteristics, were recently uncovered by a 20-member panel of neurologists and allied practitioners

- Mariecar Jara-Puyod

There is a new form of Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) identified as “Progressive Dysexecutive Syndrome (dAD), the onset of which is by age 40.

dAD and its specific physical and psychological signs and symptoms as well as characteristics, were recently uncovered by a 20-member panel of neurologists and allied practitioners from the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota (US), baffled for some time by a distinctive set of degenerative mental capabilities of AD patients from age 50.

Mayo Clinic Neurology assistant professor Dr David T Jones shed light on dAD through an email interview. He is among the researchers-authors of the “Progressive Dysexecutive Syndrome due to Alzheimer’s Disease: A Description of 55 Cases and Comparison to Other Phenotypes” published in “Brain Communications on May 27, 2020.

The research was undertaken with the assistance of the 55 willing AD patients–34 women and 21 men; as according to Jones, through the course of the individual collective work of the medical team, “often” have they come across “atypical clinical phenotypes (physical and psychological characteristics) of AD.