ABSTRACT
This chapter will focus on the neuropathology of Alzheimer’s disease (AD), by far the most
common cause of dementia in adults in our increasingly aging society. Although the
neuropathology of important dementing illnesses is described in chapters in this volume, key
gross and microscopic features considered by the neuropathologist in the differential diagnosis
of dementia, especially neuropathological features of neurodegenerative disorders, will be
highlighted here.
