[WCN23_Scientific Session]

WFN/Aphasia, Dementia and Cognitive Disorders Specialty Group Joint Session

Dementia: Neuropsychiatric and Behavioural Challenges in Dementia

DOES DEPRESSION PREDICT DEMENTIA?
Jennifer Gatchel (United States of America)

DOES A DISTINCT MOTOR PHENOTYPE PREDICT COGNITIVE AND PSYCHIATRIC DYSFUNCTION IN PARKINSON’S DISEASE?
Pramod K. Pal (India)

SOCIAL COGNITION IN NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASE
Andrea Slachevsky (Chile)

Neuropsychiatric and behavioural challenges are frequently associated with aging and neurodegenerative illness. This session outlines a neurobiological framework for neuropsychiatric complications in neurodegenerative diseases with a focus on social cognition and depression in dementia and neuropsychiatric symptoms in Parkinson’s Disease.Does Depression predict dementia?