Late-onset alcohol abuse can be a presenting symptom of dementia, researchers find - EurekAlert

Clinical awareness of connection between alcohol and dementia is paramount to providing the best patient care management

Patients who start abusing alcohol later in life—after age 40—may be doing so secondary to an underlying neurologic condition, such as frontotemporal dementia, according to findings by a team of rese… [+8357 chars]

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