memory clinic
Cognitive assessment facility
A memory clinic is a medical facility specializing in the diagnosis and treatment of memory disorders, particularly dementia and Alzheimer's disease.
These clinics typically offer comprehensive assessments combining neurological exams, cognitive testing, and brain imaging: Her doctor referred her to a memory clinic after she started forgetting appointments.
The term emphasizes the symptom patients notice—memory loss—rather than the underlying conditions.
- dementiaChronic cognitive impairment
- Alzheimer'sDegenerative brain disease
- early onsetBeginning before typical age
- diagnosisIdentification of illness
- assessmentFormal evaluation of worth
neurologist · brain · brain scan · forgetting · senior moment · getting lost · elderly · cognitive · cognitive decline · mental sharpness · testing · evaluation · caregiver · care home · screening · MRI · confusion · geriatric
- clinicsurgent care, health center
- memory testsword recall, name recall, face recognition
- neurologybrain, neuron, neurons, synapse, synapses
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