Progressive short-term memory loss and other changes are likely Alzheimer's disease until reversible causes like thyroid issues or B12 deficiency are ruled out.

“long story short when people have progressive short term memory loss and other have changes it's probably Alzheimer's until proven otherwise the key thing is that we want to rule out reversible causes so make sure they don't have thyroid trouble or b12 deficiency things like that”

“generally there will also be some lab tests done to rule out other causes and you know it's I I personally because I'm not a neurologist just haven't got a lot of experience with this but certainly you know have read case studies of patients where you know gosh it looks like they have all of the signs and symptoms of Alzheimer's disease but you come to find out that they're you know profoundly hypothyroid or they have you know B12 and B6 deficiencies or things like that so you want to kind of rule out things like that”