Late onset bipolar disorder versus alzheimer disease

Abstract

The aging of population is increasing the prevalence of some previously rare neuropathological condition, such as the Late Onset of Bipolar Disorder (LOBD). Bipolar Disorder appears at youth or even earlier in life, so that its appearance at sixty years or later is a rare event that can be confused with degenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s Disease (AD). A study designed inby the Hospital Universitario de Alava devoted to find diagnostic differences between these populations, in order to help improve diagnostic accuracy. In this paper we comment on some of the works that we have been carrying on this data.