Decline in financial skills suggests Alzheimer's is less than a year away

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	Decline in financial skills suggests Alzheimer's is less than a year away

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9-22-2009 9:07 AM

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"Impairments in financial skills and judgments are often the first functional changes demonstrated by patients with incipient dementia," wrote the authors of the paper, which was published online today in <A href="http://www.neurology.org/"><EM>Neurology</EM></A>.  </DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/60-second-science/post.cfm?id=decline-in-financial-skills-suggest-2009-09-21"><DIV>
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