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The diagnosis reflects an attempt to move ‘upstream’ toward identifying and diagnosing Alzheimer’s and other neurocognitive disorders earlier. The articles on this and the facing page are part of a series on the differences between DSM-IV and DSM-5. The series will end later this month, when the manual is published.