解剖学和形态学
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行为科学
心脏和心血管系统
细胞和组织工程学
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危重症监护医学
牙科,口腔外科和医学
皮肤病学
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血液学
免疫学
传染病
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心理学,临床
abstract:BACKGROUND:Total plasma homocysteine (tHcy) concentration is elevated in elderly patients with mental illness, and patients with vascular disease have higher plasma tHcy concentrations than patients without vascular disease. Increasing evidence indicates that vascular risk factors play a role in the development of cogn...
journal_title:Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1159/000319535
更新日期:2010-01-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND/AIMS:Little research has been conducted into differences in the perceived quality of life of patients (QoL-p) when comparing spouse and adult child caregivers of people with Alzheimer's disease (AD). The aim of this study was to identify the differential variables in perceived QoL-p between patients and care...
journal_title:Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1159/000272423
更新日期:2010-01-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND/AIMS:With an increasing life expectancy, the number of people suffering from dementia globally will rise to about 115.4 million by 2050. It is projected that in the 21st century, the majority of the world's older people will be living in Asia. This paper examines the global issues of family caregiving for ol...
journal_title:Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders
pub_type: 杂志文章,meta分析,评审
doi:10.1159/000322086
更新日期:2010-01-01 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
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1159/000321670
更新日期:2010-01-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:The aim of this study was to identify the brain regions associated with the severity of delusions in individuals with Alzheimer's disease (AD) using single-photon emission computed tomography. METHODS:Thirty-five AD patients participated in this study. Multiple regression analysis was performed to identify ...
journal_title:Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1159/000295115
更新日期:2010-01-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:The Baylor Profound Mental Status Examination (BPMSE) was modeled to provide a brief patient-derived rating scale for staging and tracking patients with severe stages of Alzheimer's disease (AD). METHODS:The BPMSE was administered to 91 patients with probable AD (Korean version of the MMSE less than 16) acc...
journal_title:Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1159/000192585
更新日期:2009-01-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND/AIMS:Because poor lung function may be a risk factor for cognitive decline, we aimed to test the association of respiratory function with cognitive function and dementia later in life, as well as potential effect modification by APOE epsilon4 carrier status. METHODS:In a prospective population-based cohort ...
journal_title:Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1159/000255600
更新日期:2009-01-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND/AIMS:This study aimed to investigate the possible association of regional cerebral perfusion and sleep loss in Alzheimer's disease (AD). METHODS:55 AD patients were characterized as having (SL) or not having (NSL) nocturnal sleep loss based on standard AD scales assessing sleep over the previous 4 weeks. (9...
journal_title:Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1159/000203889
更新日期:2009-01-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:Studies of associations between serum lipids and Alzheimer's disease (AD) or other dementias in the elderly show conflicting results, perhaps due to misclassification of the various dementias. METHODS:For 358 nursing home residents, serum lipids were studied at admission and diagnoses established at autopsy...
journal_title:Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1159/000189268
更新日期:2009-01-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND/AIMS:The frontal assessment battery (FAB) is reported to be a useful tool for screening frontal function. However, the neural substrates involved remain to be elucidated. The aim of the present study was to identify the brain regions responsible for FAB performance in patients with early dementia. We sought ...
journal_title:Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1159/000198687
更新日期:2009-01-01 00:00:00
abstract:AIMS:The aim of this study was to identify physical and mental health and lifestyle predictors of transition from normal cognition to mild cognitive disorder (MCD). METHODS:A total of 2,082 individuals, aged 60-64 years, were assessed at 2 time-points 4 years apart for mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and other MCDs. ...
journal_title:Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1159/000229025
更新日期:2009-01-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND/AIMS:The Frontal Assessment Battery (FAB) and the EXIT-25 have emerged as 2 widely used screening instruments for executive dysfunction, but their screening properties have not been evaluated in a head-to-head comparison. METHODS:Prospective cohort study of 92 individuals presenting for cognitive assessment...
journal_title:Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1159/000212755
更新日期:2009-01-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND/AIMS:Increased cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) tau, decreased CSF amyloid-beta42 (Abeta42) and the apolipoprotein E gene (APOE) epsilon4 allele predict progression from mild cognitive impairment (MCI) to Alzheimer's disease (AD). Here, we investigated these markers to assess their predictive value and influence on...
journal_title:Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1159/000216841
更新日期:2009-01-01 00:00:00
abstract:UNLABELLED:The concept of the cognitive reserve (CR) hypothesizes that premorbid factors such as education enable compensation for the manifestation of brain pathology. Accordingly, pathology should be more prominent in individuals with higher CR before becoming clinically apparent. Previously, we found that patients s...
journal_title:Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1159/000234912
更新日期:2009-01-01 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
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1159/000194658
更新日期:2009-01-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND/AIMS:The relationship between subcortical hyperintensities (SH) on brain MRI and gait parameters in aging and Alzheimer's disease (AD) is unclear. This study compared gait in 42 mild AD patients to 22 normal controls (NC) based on their SH severity and correlated them to SH burden in these groups. METHODS:G...
journal_title:Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1159/000245158
更新日期:2009-01-01 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
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1159/000253845
更新日期:2009-01-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:Possession of one or more apolipoprotein E (APOE) epsilon4 alleles may influence the distribution of atrophy and clinical phenotype. We aimed to assess the influence of APOE genotype on cortical thickness and regional brain volumes in AD (Alzheimer's disease). METHODS:We included 38 patients (9 epsilon4 non...
journal_title:Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1159/000258100
更新日期:2009-01-01 00:00:00
abstract::We assessed the role of the APOE genotype and prion protein polymorphism at codon 129 in predicting the clinical duration of 92 neuropathologically confirmed sporadic Alzheimer's disease patients. Analyses of survival showed that the absence of the APOE epsilon 4 allele in heterozygous codon 129 PRNP carriers is a neg...
journal_title:Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1159/000119730
更新日期:2008-01-01 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
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1159/000140804
更新日期:2008-01-01 00:00:00
abstract::Abnormal tau hyperphosphorylation has been suggested as being one of the central events in the development of neurofibrillary tangles, which are one of the characteristic neuropathological lesions found in Alzheimer's disease (AD) brains. 14-3-3 zeta protein is associated with tau in brain and stimulates tau phosphory...
journal_title:Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1159/000119123
更新日期:2008-01-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND/AIMS:To investigate neuroanatomical substrates of unawareness of memory deficits in patients with early Alzheimer's disease (AD). METHODS:We compared regional perfusion deficits between AD patients with awareness (n = 19) and unawareness (n = 19). SPECT data were analyzed by statistical brain imaging method...
journal_title:Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1159/000119594
更新日期:2008-01-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:Given the poorer prognosis of Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients with rapid cognitive decline (RCD), there is a need for a clinical assessment tool to detect these patients. OBJECTIVE:To investigate if there is a Mini Mental State Examination (MMSE) threshold of decline during 6 months of follow-up which pre...
journal_title:Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders
pub_type: 杂志文章,多中心研究
doi:10.1159/000144073
更新日期:2008-01-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND/AIM:The objective was to examine cohort changes in cognitive function in 2 cohorts of centenarians born 10 years apart. METHODS:The Longitudinal Study of Danish Centenarians comprises all Danes reaching the age of 100 in the period April 1, 1995 through May 31, 1996. A total of 207 out of 276 persons partic...
journal_title:Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1159/000149819
更新日期:2008-01-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND/AIMS:We evaluated the differential patterns of brain atrophy in early- and late-onset Alzheimer's disease (AD) by measuring regional z-scores of voxel-based morphometry and assessed the availability of the method for clinical use. METHODS:The first 50 patients with probable AD were compared to 83 age-matche...
journal_title:Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1159/000151241
更新日期:2008-01-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND/AIMS:Alzheimer's disease patients commonly suffer from behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD); a genetic component to the development of BPSD has been demonstrated. Genetic risk factors for other psychiatric disorders have been implicated in BPSD; however, this is the first known investiga...
journal_title:Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1159/000160958
更新日期:2008-01-01 00:00:00
abstract:AIM:To determine the applicability and psychometric properties of the Italian version of the Disability Assessment of Dementia scale (DAD-I) in a community-residing population with early-stage Alzheimer's disease (AD). METHODS:The DAD-I was administered to the primary caregivers of 159 patients (mean age +/- SD 77.1 +...
journal_title:Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1159/000113415
更新日期:2008-01-01 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
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1159/000137671
更新日期:2008-01-01 00:00:00
abstract:AIM:To analyze the relationship between periventricular (PV) and subcortical (SC) white matter lesions (WML) and cognitive function in patients with memory impairment. METHODS:In total, 253 patients with Global Deterioration Scale scores >or=3 who had been referred to a university-based memory unit due to memory compl...
journal_title:Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1159/000165355
更新日期:2008-01-01 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
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1159/000101453
更新日期:2007-01-01 00:00:00
abstract::Apolipoprotein E (APOE) is the major genetic risk factor for late-onset Alzheimer's disease (AD) and has also been implicated in cardiovascular disease, cognitive decline and cognitive changes in healthy ageing. The aim of this paper is to systematically review and critically assess the association between the APOE ge...
journal_title:Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1159/000109150
更新日期:2007-01-01 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
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1159/000105126
更新日期:2007-01-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:It has been reported that nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs may delay the onset of Alzheimer's disease (AD). Since nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs inhibit cyclooxygenase (COX), COX-2, an inducible form of COX, may be involved in the pathology of AD in association with the arachidonic acid cascade. In...
journal_title:Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1159/000101957
更新日期:2007-01-01 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
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1159/000102017
更新日期:2007-01-01 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
pub_type: 杂志文章,meta分析
doi:10.1159/000099037
更新日期:2007-01-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND/AIMS:Differences in the gross shape of the corpus callosum (CC) and its subregional areas were investigated on brain MRI of patients with probable Alzheimer's disease (AD) and age- and gender-matched healthy normal control subjects. The AD patients differed from the normal control subjects in terms of a more...
journal_title:Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1159/000097371
更新日期:2007-01-01 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the decline in specific neuropsychological functions in nondemented Parkinson's disease (PD) patients with a history of visual hallucinations (VH). METHODS:Twenty PD patients with VH, 20 PD patients without VH and 18 normal controls were followed up over a 1-year period and assessed for cognitive...
journal_title:Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1159/000100850
更新日期:2007-01-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND/AIMS:We purposed to investigate the relationship between cerebral abnormalities detected by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and cognitive performance in nondemented outpatients with heart failure (HF). METHODS:In 58 patients with HF neuropsychological assessment was performed including tests of mental spee...
journal_title:Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1159/000109811
更新日期:2007-01-01 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
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1159/000100927
更新日期:2007-01-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:Memantine is a moderate affinity N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor antagonist approved for treatment of Alzheimer's disease (AD). In AD, tau is abnormally hyperphosphorylated. However, no significant changes of phosphorylated tau levels in CSF are found at follow-up in studies with AD patients. It has been shown...
journal_title:Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1159/000107099
更新日期:2007-01-01 00:00:00