Serum lipids are related to Alzheimer's pathology in nursing home residents.

abstract：BACKGROUND/AIMS:The diagnosis of delirium is not supported by specific biomarkers. In a previous study, high neopterin levels were found in patients with a postoperative delirium. In the present study, we investigated levels of neopterin, interleukin-6 (IL-6) and insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-1) in acutely ill admi...

journal_title：Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders

authors： Egberts A,Wijnbeld EH,Fekkes D,van der Ploeg MA,Ziere G,Hooijkaas H,van der Cammen TJ,Mattace-Raso FU

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Predominant and progressive complex visual disorders are often due to posterior cortical atrophy (PCA), a rare early-onset dementing syndrome presenting with visual complaints. In clinicopathological studies, PCA is most commonly considered a form of Alzheimer's disease (AD); no prior study has evaluated cli...

journal_title：Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders

authors： Mendez MF,Ghajarania M,Perryman KM

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This cross-sectional study aimed at determining the clinical and structural brain magnetic resonance imaging correlates of mild cognitive impairment (MCI). The data presented here are from the first wave of the longitudinal Personality and Total Health through Life 60+ project. 2,551 community-dwelling individuals in ...

journal_title：Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders

authors： Kumar R,Parslow RA,Jorm AF,Rosenman SJ,Maller J,Meslin C,Anstey KJ,Christensen H,Sachdev PS

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:We investigated the relationship between sleep disturbance and cognitive decline or clinical conversion in individuals with normal cognition (CN), as well as those with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and dementia due to Alzheimer disease (AD-dementia). METHODS:Secondary analysis of 1,629 adults between 48 ...

journal_title：Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders

authors： Mecca AP,Michalak HR,McDonald JW,Kemp EC,Pugh EA,Becker ML,Mecca MC,van Dyck CH,The Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI).

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Non-Communicative Patient's Pain Assessment Instrument (NOPPAIN) is a nursing assistant-administered instrument for assessing pain behaviors in patients with dementia. This study investigated the validity of the NOPPAIN. Twenty-one nursing assistants (NAs) with no prior training in using the NOPPAIN watched six vi...

journal_title：Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders

authors： Snow AL,Weber JB,O'Malley KJ,Cody M,Beck C,Bruera E,Ashton C,Kunik ME

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:The objective of this study was to investigate the relation between impaired fine motor skills in Parkinson disease (PD) patients and their cognitive status, and to determine whether fine motor skills are more impaired in PD patients with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) than in non-MCI patients. METHODS:Twenty PD...

journal_title：Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders

authors： Dahdal P,Meyer A,Chaturvedi M,Nowak K,Roesch AD,Fuhr P,Gschwandtner U

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antioxidants prevent oxidative stress that possibly causes neuronal loss in Alzheimer's disease (AD). We examined whether high plasma levels of the antioxidant vitamins A and E were associated with lower prevalence of AD or cognitive decline (CD). We performed a cross-sectional study within the Rotterdam Study. In an ...

journal_title：Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders

authors： Engelhart MJ,Ruitenberg A,Meijer J,Kiliaan A,van Swieten JC,Hofman A,Witteman JC,Breteler MM

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although QOL is an important indicator to assess multiple facets of life, the QOL of Alzheimer's disease (AD) subjects with impaired cognitive ability due to dementia has not yet been fully investigated. In this study, we developed the Japanese version of the Quality of Life-Alzheimer's disease (QOL-AD) scal...

journal_title：Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders

authors： Matsui T,Nakaaki S,Murata Y,Sato J,Shinagawa Y,Tatsumi H,Furukawa TA

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND/AIM:To investigate the influence of established genetic risk factors for Alzheimer's disease on the speed of disease progression. METHODS:Polymorphisms (in ACE, ApoE, BIN1, CLU, CR1, CST3, EXOC3L2, GWA14q32.13, IL8, LDLR, PICALM, TNK1) of 40 Alzheimer's disease patients from a longitudinal study were analyz...

journal_title：Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders

authors： Schmidt C,Wolff M,von Ahsen N,Zerr I

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND/AIMS:This study aimed to investigate whether the serial position effects in memory can differentiate patients with different subtypes of mild cognitive impairment (MCI) from healthy controls and patients with different stages of Alzheimer's disease (AD). METHODS:The serial position effects was tested with t...

journal_title：Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders

authors： Moser B,Deisenhammer EA,Marksteiner J,Papousek I,Fink A,Weiss EM

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate the neural basis for the behavioral symptoms of frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD) that cause the greatest caregiver distress. BACKGROUND:FTLD is a progressive neurodegenerative disease associated with behavioral disturbances. Group studies have related these behaviors to volume loss on ...

journal_title：Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders

authors： Massimo L,Powers C,Moore P,Vesely L,Avants B,Gee J,Libon DJ,Grossman M

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate the relationship between quantitative EEG (qEEG) measurements in frontotemporal dementia (FTD), Alzheimer's disease (AD) and healthy controls and to study to what extent qEEG in FTD and AD or neuropsychological test results of FTD and AD patients or a combination of both contribute to classific...

journal_title：Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders

authors： Lindau M,Jelic V,Johansson SE,Andersen C,Wahlund LO,Almkvist O

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Our aim was to evaluate and compare the diagnostic properties of 5 screening tests for the diagnosis of mild Alzheimer disease (AD). METHODS:We conducted a prospective and cross-sectional study of 92 patients with mild AD and of 68 healthy controls from our Department of Neurology. The diagnostic properties...

journal_title：Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders

authors： Matías-Guiu JA,Valles-Salgado M,Rognoni T,Hamre-Gil F,Moreno-Ramos T,Matías-Guiu J

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We tested the interobserver reliability of visual rating of HMPAO-SPECT imaging in 271 outpatients referred to a memory clinic, and followed over 1 year. The clinical diagnoses were Alzheimer's disease (n = 156), frontotemporal dementia (n = 47); vascular dementia (n = 21), senile dementia of Lewy body type (n = 12), ...

journal_title：Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders

authors： Pasquier F,Lavenu I,Lebert F,Jacob B,Steinling M,Petit H

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Clinical Dementia Rating Scale (CDR) is used to rate dementia severity. Its utility in diagnosing mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and its predictive value remain unknown. AIMS:The aim of this study was to examine the association between CDR scores and expert MCI diagnosis, and to determine whether basel...

journal_title：Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders

authors： Woolf C,Slavin MJ,Draper B,Thomassen F,Kochan NA,Reppermund S,Crawford JD,Trollor JN,Brodaty H,Sachdev PS

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:To describe how dementia assessment could be organized in primary health care and how it works. METHODS:The project had two phases. In phase one 104 elderly patients were assessed by a local authority dementia team that used a standardized examination protocol, which enabled the family doctors to establish ...

journal_title：Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders

authors： Engedal K,Gausdal M,Gjøra L,Haugen PK

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Bright light treatment is a therapeutic intervention mainly used to treat sleep and circadian disturbances in Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients. Recently, a handful of studies also focused on the effect on cognition and behavior. Conflicting findings are reported in the literature, and no definite conclusion...

journal_title：Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders

authors： Mitolo M,Tonon C,La Morgia C,Testa C,Carelli V,Lodi R

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The aim of this study was to explore the relationship between cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers and neuropsychiatric symptoms in people with Alzheimer's disease. Psychosis, agitation, apathy and depression were assessed using standardised measures in 32 patients with mild Alzheimer's disease. METHODS:The level...

journal_title：Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders

authors： Skogseth R,Mulugeta E,Jones E,Ballard C,Rongve A,Nore S,Alves G,Aarsland D

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The following areas are discussed in this review: atherogenesis; cerebrovascular factors; hypoperfusion; beta-amyloid production; beta-amyloid fibril formation; beta-sheets; metal cations; reactive oxygen species/free radicals; chronic inflammatory factors; endogenous plasma heparin; lipoprotein lipase; polyamines; pr...

journal_title：Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders

authors： Engelberg H

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:We aimed to establish the prevalence of depression among recently admitted long-term care patients and to examine associations with diagnostic initiatives and treatment as recorded in patients' medical records. MATERIALS AND METHODS:Eighty-eight long-term care patients were included. Depression was diagnosed acco...

journal_title：Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders

authors： Iden KR,Engedal K,Hjorleifsson S,Ruths S

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There is an association between elevated plasma total homocysteine (tHcy) and vascular disease in elderly patients suffering from organic and non-organic mental disease. The main objective of the present study was to investigate the relationship between plasma tHcy concentration and vascular disease in elder...

journal_title：Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders

authors： Nilsson K,Gustafson L,Hultberg B

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND/AIMS:Elderly patients with dementia have a higher risk of falls and fractures as compared to cognitively intact elderly subjects. To investigate whether psychological distress of the caregiver might predispose older persons with Alzheimer disease (AD) to falls and fractures, we performed a prospective cohort...

journal_title：Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders

authors： Maggio D,Ercolani S,Andreani S,Ruggiero C,Mariani E,Mangialasche F,Palmari N,Mecocci P

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Hypovitaminosis D is associated with executive dysfunction as a whole. The purpose of this cross-sectional study was to determine whether lower vitamin D levels were associated with mental flexibility, information updating, or cognitive and motor inhibition among older adults. METHODS:One hundred Caucasian ...

journal_title：Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders

authors： Annweiler C,Maby E,Meyerber M,Beauchet O

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND/AIM:To estimate the prevalence of Alzheimer's disease (AD) treatment in Aragon (Spain), analyzing differences according to age, gender and health area. METHODS:Retrospective study on AD treatment prevalence of cholinesterase inhibitors and memantine during 2005, using pharmaco-epidemiological data from pres...

journal_title：Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders

authors： Villar-Fernández I,Bjerrum L,Feja C,Rabanaque MJ

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Attention deficits are at the core of the defects in neuropsychological performance which define both dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) and Alzheimer's disease (AD). Most studies have used separate tasks to test different attention abilities in patients with these diagnoses, precluding the assessment of any in...

journal_title：Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders

authors： Fuentes LJ,Fernández PJ,Campoy G,Antequera MM,García-Sevilla J,Antúnez C

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To investigate the effects of rivastigmine capsule 3-12 mg/day over 24 weeks on activities of daily living (ADLs) in patients with dementia associated with Parkinson's disease (PDD). METHODS:Post hocanalysis of a prospective, multicenter, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial in patients with PDD (>o...

journal_title：Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders

authors： Olin JT,Aarsland D,Meng X

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Numerous groups have confirmed that apolipoprotein E allelic variation accounts for a proportion of the genetic risk for late-onset Alzheimer's disease (AD). However, there is a paucity of data on the impact of this locus on the overall risk of dementia (as opposed to AD) in the elderly. Most studies have ascertained ...

journal_title：Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders

authors： Tysoe C,Galinsky D,Robinson D,Brayne C,Huppert FA,Dening T,Paykel ES,Easton DF,Rubinsztein DC

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies have implicated interleukin-6 (IL-6) in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease (AD). Neuro-inflammatory processes surrounding the amyloid plaques contribute to the progression of AD-related neurodegeneration. IL-6 is a multifunctional inflammatory cytokine which possibly acts as a mediator in the local...

journal_title：Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders

authors： Depboylu C,Lohmüller F,Gocke P,Du Y,Zimmer R,Gasser T,Klockgether T,Dodel RC

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Switzerland (7 million inhabitants), the organization of health care is in the hand of the cantons and not of the Confederation. The canton of Vaud (600,000 inhabitants), in the south-west part of the country, counts 4 psychiatric sectors, each with a psychogeriatric service. Otherwise the canton has 146 long-stay ...

journal_title：Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders

authors： Wertheimer J

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To perform an item analysis of the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) versus the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) in the prediction of cognitive impairment, and to examine the characteristics of different MoCA threshold scores. METHODS:135 subjects enrolled in a longitudinal clinicopathologic study were adm...

journal_title：Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders

authors： Damian AM,Jacobson SA,Hentz JG,Belden CM,Shill HA,Sabbagh MN,Caviness JN,Adler CH

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00