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Date:	April 13, 2009 (Friday)
Time:	10:30 a.m.
Theme:	Neurodegeneration (ALS and Alzheimer's)
Module:	Clinical Demonstration
Session:	Patient interview
Instructor:	Joe Quinn
Description:	Participants will interview and examine a patient with dementia
Study questions:	What were the first symptoms in this patient and to which cortical region would you attribute the symptoms? What additional cortical functions/regions have been affected? How might one make a diagnosis of Alzheimer's prior to the clinical appearance of dementia?

Video:	http://media.ohsu.edu/ramgen/sch/ogi/neus/626-041309.rm