Quality of life of patients with Alzheimer's disease: differential perceptions between spouse and adult child caregivers.

abstract：:The gene for apolipoprotein E (APOE) is polymorphic, and its variant APOE4 is a major risk factor for the development of Alzheimer-type dementia (AD). Another risk factor for AD appears to be negative cobalamin balance, which is very common in elderly people. Cobalamin and folate are interdependent and essential compo...

journal_title：Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders

authors： Regland B,Blennow K,Germgård T,Koch-Schmidt AC,Gottfries CG

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Most studies examining episodic memory in Alzheimer disease (AD) have focused on patients' impaired ability to remember information. This approach provides only a partial picture of memory deficits since other factors involved are not considered. OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the recognition memory performance by u...

journal_title：Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders

authors： Russo MJ,Cohen G,Campos J,Martin ME,Clarens MF,Sabe L,Barcelo E,Allegri RF

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Both personality changes and behavioural and psychological symptoms (BPS) may be associated with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) in later life and help identify incipient dementia. We wished to investigate the links between personality and BPS in MCI. METHOD:We studied premorbid personality traits ...

journal_title：Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders

authors： Mendez Rubio M,Antonietti JP,Donati A,Rossier J,von Gunten A

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Metrifonate, through its pharmacologically active metabolite 2,2-dichlorovinyl dimethylphosphate (DDVP), is a long-acting cholinesterase inhibitor for the symptomatic treatment of mild-to-moderate Alzheimer's disease. Clinical studies with Alzheimer patients have demonstrated the favourable safety and tolerability pro...

journal_title：Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders

authors： Schmidt BH,Heinig R

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In epidemiological, cross-sectional studies, treatment with 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl coenzyme A reductase inhibitors (statins) prevented to a large extent the development of Alzheimer's disease (AD), but the results of randomized, placebo-controlled studies, focused on statin therapy in patients with ischemic heart ...

journal_title：Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders

authors： Algotsson A,Winblad B

更新日期：2004-01-01 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/AIMS:Verbal fluency patterns can assist in differential diagnosis during neuropsychological assessment and identify individuals at risk for developing Alzheimer's disease (AD). While evidence suggests that subjects with AD perform worse on category fluency than letter fluency tasks, the pattern in mild cogni...

journal_title：Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders

authors： Rinehardt E,Eichstaedt K,Schinka JA,Loewenstein DA,Mattingly M,Fils J,Duara R,Schoenberg MR

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:(1) To investigate the prevalence and characteristics of agitation in patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) and other forms of dementia; (2) to explore the association between agitation and other clinical variables, including disease severity, functional impairment and other neuropsychiatric symptoms, and (...

journal_title：Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders

authors： Senanarong V,Cummings JL,Fairbanks L,Mega M,Masterman DM,O'Connor SM,Strickland TL

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present investigation reports the application of regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF; (133)Xe method) to prognostic purposes in a consecutive series of 76 patients (mean age 68.4 +/- 8.7 years) with probable Alzheimer's disease (AD; NINCDS-ADRDA criteria). The likelihood that rCBF from a posterior temporal-inferior...

journal_title：Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders

authors： Nobili F,Copello F,Buffoni F,Vitali P,Girtler N,Bordoni C,Safaie-Semnani E,Mariani G,Rodriguez G

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND/AIMS:Catechol-O-methyltransferase, encoded by the COMT gene, is one of the enzymes that degrade dopamine. The aim of this study was to investigate whether polymorphisms in the COMT gene were associated with delirium. METHODS:Patients aged 65 years and older, acutely admitted to the medical department or to ...

journal_title：Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders

authors： van Munster BC,Baas F,Tanck MW,de Rooij SE

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Previously, key studies of the risk profile for post-surgical delirium have focused on general medical and non-elective patients, few have examined elective cohorts. Accurate prediction is imperative for clinical trials and prevention strategies. AIMS/HYPOTHESIS:Our hypothesis was that subtle pre-operative ...

journal_title：Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders

authors： Lowery DP,Wesnes K,Ballard CG

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Different studies have proven the effectiveness of cognitive stimulation (CS) for people with mild to moderate dementia, but further research is needed to gain insight into how CS interventions should be designed and developed. OBJECTIVES:The objective of this study was to gather and analyze data about th...

journal_title：Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders

authors： Tato-Colín S,Hurtado-Aznar LA,García-Rodríguez I,Benavides-Cuéllar C,Sánchez-Valdeón L

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Data were derived from the Cochrane Collaboration meta-analyses of the efficacies of ginkgo, donepezil, rivastigmine and galantamine on changes in cognitive function in patients with dementia and, where necessary, were transformed to standardized mean differences. The proportion of patients discontinuing trials was us...

journal_title：Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders

authors： Kurz A,Van Baelen B

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND/AIMS:We have previously reported the results of an extended genome-wide scan of Swedish Alzheimer disease (AD)-affected families; in this paper, we analyzed a subset of these families with autopsy-confirmed AD. METHODS:We report the fine-mapping, using both microsatellite markers and single-nucleotide polym...

journal_title：Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders

authors： Sillén A,Brohede J,Forsell C,Lilius L,Andrade J,Odeberg J,Kimura T,Winblad B,Graff C

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD) patients show prefrontal cortex dysfunction and atrophy. METHODS:We investigated whether executive function in conjunction with prefrontal cortex atrophy discriminates bvFTD and Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients efficiently at presentation. RESULTS:AD and ...

journal_title：Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders

authors： Hornberger M,Savage S,Hsieh S,Mioshi E,Piguet O,Hodges JR

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the cognitive performance of institutionalized elderly in the city of Natal, state of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil. METHODS:A descriptive, longitudinal study of 85 aged individuals via an interview conducted following the application of a classification form and the Mini-Mental State Examination (...

journal_title：Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders

authors： Medeiros de A Nunes V,Alchieri JC,Azevedo LM,Varela de Oliveira KM,Pereira DA

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To evaluate whether magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of white matter changes in Alzheimer's disease either under- or overestimates the findings on neuropathology. Postmortem MRI and neuropathological examination were performed on 6 brains from elderly individuals with a postmortem diagnosis of AD. Using a specially de...

journal_title：Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders

authors： Bronge L,Bogdanovic N,Wahlund LO

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND/AIMS:Current findings suggest the existence of a category of fast cognitive decliners with a poorer prognosis but better treatment response. Our study aimed at confirming the concept of fast decliners at the time of Alzheimer's disease (AD) diagnosis which best predicts mortality, in an unselected sample. M...

journal_title：Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders

authors： Carcaillon L,Pérès K,Péré JJ,Helmer C,Orgogozo JM,Dartigues JF

更新日期：2007-01-01 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：: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：:Alzheimer's disease (AD) is generally understood as primarily affecting cognition while sparing motor function, at least until the later stages of the disease. Studies reported over the past 10 years, however, have documented a prevalence of falls in AD patients significantly higher than in age-matched normal elders; ...

journal_title：Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders

authors： Sheridan PL,Hausdorff JM

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The study of the cerebral white matter (WM) in experimental models of hypoxia and ischemia has been for a long time neglected, the interest of investigators being focused on the response of the neuronal population. The increasing frequency with which modern neuroimaging techniques disclose alterations of the WM of pos...

journal_title：Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders

authors： Pantoni L

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate the relationships between cognitive impairment and apathy in patients with early Huntington's disease (HD) and to further explore the influence of depression on the outcome of cognitive changes associated with apathy. METHODS:We included 36 early HD patients, among them 20 were apathetic (HDA)...

journal_title：Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders

authors： Baudic S,Maison P,Dolbeau G,Boissé MF,Bartolomeo P,Dalla Barba G,Traykov L,Bachoud-Lévi AC

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Currently used criteria for the diagnosis of probable Alzheimer's disease requires the presence of cognitive deficit in addition to loss of episodic memory. The recent developments in drug treatments for Alzheimer's disease have highlighted the importance of early diagnosis and the need to characterise the cognitive p...

journal_title：Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders

authors： Perry RJ,Hodges JR

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND/AIMS:The aim of the study was to investigate the association of postoperative delirium with the outcomes of cognitive impairment, functional disability and death. METHODS:Hip surgery patients aged 60 years or over (n = 200) underwent preoperative and daily postoperative assessment of their cognitive status ...

journal_title：Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders

authors： Bickel H,Gradinger R,Kochs E,Förstl H

更新日期：2008-01-01 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

abstract：:We investigated regional cerebral glucose metabolic rates (rCMRgluc) with positron emission tomography using 2-[18F]fluoro-2-deoxy-D-glucose (FDG) in 7 monozygotic twin pairs discordant for Alzheimer's disease (AD). Ten healthy volunteers with comparable mean age and educational level served as controls. In the hippoc...

journal_title：Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders

authors： Järvenpää T,Räihä I,Kaprio J,Koskenvuo M,Laine M,Kurki T,Vahlberg T,Viljanen T,Ahonen K,Rinne JO

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

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：:We have previously localized a locus causing familial nonspecific dementia to the centromeric region of chromosome 3 in a pedigree from the Jutland area of Denmark. This pedigree shows anticipation. Here we present further analysis of these anticipation data which are suggestive of trinucleotide repeat expansion invol...

journal_title：Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders

authors： Ashworth A,Lloyd S,Brown J,Gydesen S,Sorensen SA,Brun A,Englund E,Humphreys C,Housman D,Badura M,Stanton V Jr,Taylor K,Cameron J,Munroe D,Johansson J,Rossor M,Fisher EM,Collinge J

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND/AIMS:Existing cognitive measures for moderate-to-severe dementia have shown floor effects and an inability to assess the remaining cognitive function, especially for profound dementia. METHODS:We constructed the Cognitive Test for Severe Dementia (CTSD), which consists of 13 items covering 7 cognitive domai...

journal_title：Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders

authors： Tanaka H,Nagata Y,Uematsu M,Takebayashi T,Hanada K,Inokawa M,Fukuhara K,Ogawa Y,Haga D,Kakegawa Y,Nishikawa T

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00