Simultaneous Stimulation of the Globus Pallidus Interna and the Nucleus Basalis of Meynert in the Parkinson-Dementia Syndrome.

abstract：:Alzheimer's disease (AD) represents a heterogeneous disorder, and several factors have been associated with its development. The presence of the apolipoprotein E type (APOE) epsilon 4 allele has been proposed as a risk factor for AD, but how it influences the development of the characteristic hallmarks of the disease ...

journal_title：Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders

authors： Mukaetova-Ladinska EB,Harrington CR,Roth M,Wischik CM

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We compared the intact alpha7 nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (alpha7nAChR) protein levels in the peripheral blood leukocytes in 15 Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients and 13 normal elderly control subjects. Demographic data and Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) scores were obtained. Western blot analysis for alpha7...

journal_title：Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders

authors： Chu LW,Ma ES,Lam KK,Chan MF,Lee DH

更新日期：2005-01-01 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：BACKGROUND:Estimations of life expectancies (LE) in health and ill health are important for planning future health care support. This study aimed at quantifying whether an increased LE is accompanied by an increase in the duration of life with dementia (DemLE) in Hong Kong SAR. METHODS:Two parameters from a logistic m...

journal_title：Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders

authors： Cheung SL,Yip SF,Branch LG,Robine JM

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:White matter injury is an important factor for cognitive impairment in memory clinic patients. We determined the added value of diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) of strategic white matter tracts in explaining variance in cognition in memory clinic patients with vascular brain injury. METHODS:We included 159 pa...

journal_title：Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders

authors： Biesbroek JM,Leemans A,den Bakker H,Duering M,Gesierich B,Koek HL,van den Berg E,Postma A,Biessels GJ

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The identification of the epsilon4 variant of apolipoprotein E as a genetic risk factor for late-onset Alzheimer's disease (AD) suggests that cholesterol may play a direct role in the pathogenesis of the disease. Recent studies have suggested that the ATP-binding cassette (ABC) protein G5 (ABCG5) may be involved in th...

journal_title：Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders

authors： Ohkubo T,Shibata N,Ohnuma T,Higashi S,Usui C,Ueki A,Nagao M,Arai H

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Delirium is one of the most frequent symptoms of disease in the elderly. A large variation of incidence and prevalence data is reported probably due to different patient populations and inconsistent diagnostic criteria. In medical and surgical elderly inpatients recent studies report a prevalence rate of approximately...

journal_title：Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders

authors： Bucht G,Gustafson Y,Sandberg O

更新日期：1999-09-01 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:To evaluate whether dementia patients prescribed antipsychotic drugs have a higher mortality compared to unexposed patients, and to investigate whether there are differences in mortality associated with exposure to conventional versus atypical antipsychotic drugs. METHODS:Retrospective population cohor...

journal_title：Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders

authors： Musicco M,Palmer K,Russo A,Caltagirone C,Adorni F,Pettenati C,Bisanti L

更新日期：2011-01-01 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: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：BACKGROUND/AIM:3-Hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl coenzyme A reductase inhibitors (statins) are thought to reduce the amount of Abeta peptides by reducing cholesterol from blood and/or cerebrospinal fluid. We performed this meta-analysis to evaluate the preventive and treatment effects of statins on dementia and Alzheimer dise...

journal_title：Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders

authors： Zhou B,Teramukai S,Fukushima M

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated whether an index based on clinical features, electroencephalogram and computed tomography is useful to predict survival in early Alzheimer's disease. One hundred and sixty-three consecutively referred patients to an outpatient memory clinic and first diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease (105 'probable' a...

journal_title：Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders

authors： Claus JJ,van Gool WA,Teunisse S,Walstra GJ,Kwa VI,Hijdra A,Verbeeten B Jr,Koelman JH,Bour LJ,Ongerboer De Visser BW

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Midlife hypertension followed by late life hypotension resulting from neurodegeneration increases amyloidogenesis and tauopathy. METHODS:Consecutive outpatients with late-onset Alzheimer's disease (AD) at various stages and their respective caregivers were assessed for score variations in 1 year of tests as...

journal_title：Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders

authors： de Oliveira FF,Chen ES,Smith MC,Bertolucci PH

更新日期：2016-01-01 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：BACKGROUND:The assessment of executive function (EF) and activities of daily living (ADL) are important elements in the diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease. METHODS:Following a comprehensive search in three databases, a random-effects meta-analysis was used to investigate the association between ADL ability and seventeen...

journal_title：Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders

authors： Martyr A,Clare L

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Gait speed (GS) is a predictor of negative outcomes in older adults and in those in risk to develop cognitive impairment; as such, it has been associated with dementia. Studies in Latin-American older adults showing this association are scarce. This study aimed to evaluate the relationship between GS and d...

journal_title：Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders

authors： Garcia-Cifuentes E,Márquez I,Vasquez D,Aguillon D,Borda MG,Lopera F,Cano-Gutierrez C

更新日期：2020-11-18 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：AIMS:Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) usually represents a transitional phase between normal cognitive function and dementia, but not all people with MCI develop dementia because MCI is a clinically and etiologically heterogeneous grouping. The aim of this study was to compare progression rates to Alzheimer's disease (A...

journal_title：Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders

authors： Lee YM,Park JM,Lee BD,Moon E,Chung YI,Kang CJ

更新日期：2012-01-01 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：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：:Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) is often misdiagnosed as Alzheimer's disease (AD). We hypothesized that the first symptoms associated with FTD would be different from those seen in AD and that the first symptoms in FTD would reflect loss of function in the frontal region with the greatest degree of degeneration. The obj...

journal_title：Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders

authors： Lindau M,Almkvist O,Kushi J,Boone K,Johansson SE,Wahlund LO,Cummings JL,Miller BL

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:The aim of this study was standardization and validation of the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) in the general Croatian aging population. METHODS:Three-hundred and forty-four participants underwent the MMSE test, 217 cognitively healthy subjects without neurological and psychiatric disorders and 127 patients ...

journal_title：Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders

authors： Boban M,Malojčić B,Mimica N,Vuković S,Zrilić I,Hof PR,Simić G

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND/AIMS:To compare neuropsychiatric symptoms in patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) and dementia with Lewy bodies(DLB). METHODS:Neuropsychiatric symptoms and caregiver distress were assessed using the Neuropsychiatric Inventory (NPI) in mild DLB (n = 57) and AD (n = 126), and compared across the two groups ...

journal_title：Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders

authors： Bjoerke-Bertheussen J,Ehrt U,Rongve A,Ballard C,Aarsland D

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) is regarded as a precursor to dementia, but not all patients with MCI develop dementia. We followed up 165 elderly outpatients with MCI for a mean of 3 years. The aims were (1) to investigate the risk of conversion to dementia for different MCI subtypes diagnosed according to standardiz...

journal_title：Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders

authors： Ravaglia G,Forti P,Maioli F,Martelli M,Servadei L,Brunetti N,Pantieri G,Mariani E

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND/AIMS:Prior studies have shown that patients with dementia are at risk of receiving insufficient treatment for pain after a hip fracture. We therefore hypothesized that elderly hip fracture patients with dementia received less postoperative pain treatment than those without dementia. METHOD:All patients (age...

journal_title：Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders

authors： Jensen-Dahm C,Palm H,Gasse C,Dahl JB,Waldemar G

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examines the associations between education, cerebral perfusion, and cognitive test performance among 132 patients with Alzheimer's disease. The participants had had between 0 and 19 years of formal schooling, and had either mild or moderate dementia according to the Clinical Dementia Rating Scale. Cerebral...

journal_title：Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders

authors： Liao YC,Liu RS,Teng EL,Lee YC,Wang PN,Lin KN,Chung CP,Liu HC

更新日期：2005-01-01 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: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：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