Alzheimer's disease: course and behavioural/psychological symptoms (BPSD)

The four A's of Alzheimer's — Amnesia, Aphasia, Apraxia, AgnosiaThe inability to recognise familiar objects, sounds, or faces despite normal senses.Read more →. Four everyday-length words, one line, and they arrive in that order as the pathology spreads outwards from the medial temporal lobeThe part of the brain by the ears, involved in hearing, language and memory.Read more →. One accuracy point to carry with the cue: the four A's are the cognitive syndrome only, so apathy, depression, delusionsA fixed false belief, held with total conviction, that is not shared by the person's culture and is not changed by evidence against it.Read more →, wandering and agitation are not in it and have to be recalled separately.