memory clinic
Prevalence of abnormal Alzheimer’s disease biomarkers in patients with subjective cognitive decline: cross-sectional comparison of three European memory clinic samples
... Hospital Clinic memory clinic for experience of subjective cognitive ...the Memory Alteration Test (M@T) [14], and on all subtests of a neuropsychological battery tapping cognitive domains of ...
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Direct and indirect risk associated with the use of dietary supplements among persons with dementia in a Norwegian memory clinic
... We conducted a questionnaire-based survey of persons with dementia attending an outpatient memory clinic in North Norway from November 2011 to end of October 2013. We included all consecutive patients who ...
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A Case Study Evaluation Protocol to Assess Processes, Effectiveness and Impact of a Nurse Practitioner Led Memory Clinic
... carers. Memory clinics are a key response to the need for specialist assessment and diagnosis of ...team memory clinics are considered the “gold standard”; however, such resource intensive clinics are ...
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Lobar Distribution of Changes in Gray Matter and White Matter in Memory Clinic Patients: Detected Using Magnetization Transfer Imaging
... outpatient memory clinic participated in this ...for memory complaints but who had no detectable cognitive deficits on neuropsychological testing and 24 volunteers without memory complaints ...
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Progression to dementia in memory clinic patients with mild cognitive impairment and normal β-amyloid
... Among memory clinic patients with MCI and normal CSF Aβ42 levels, all three CSF biomarkers Aβ42, t-tau, and p- tau were key predictors of progression to dementia/AD ...
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Anticholinergic drugs and functional, cognitive impairment and behavioral disturbances in patients from a memory clinic with subjective cognitive decline or neurocognitive disorders
... Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted between January 2012 and June 2014 in a memory clinic among outpatients living at home and with subjective cognitive decline (SCD) or neurocognitive disorders ...
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<p>White matter hyperintensities are related to pain intensity in an outpatient memory clinic population: preliminary findings</p>
... Pain intensity was not associated with known pain gener- ating conditions (ie, diabetes, osteoarthritis, cancerous malignity, rheumatoid arthritis, or cardiovascular disease). In addition, the results have not been in fl ...
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Factors that influence the levels of cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers in memory clinic patients
... Background: The cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) biomarkers amyloid β (A β ), phospho tau (P-tau) and total tau (T-tau) are used increasingly to support a clinical diagnosis of Alzheimer ’ s disease. The diagnostic power of ...
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Cerebrospinal fluid VILIP-1 and YKL-40, candidate biomarkers to diagnose, predict and monitor Alzheimer’s disease in a memory clinic cohort
... of memory clinic patients from the Amsterdam Dementia Cohort diagnosed with AD (n = 65) or MCI (n = 61) and those deemed cognitively normal (n = 37) who had CSF collected at two time points ...subjective ...
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Biomarkers and brains : situating dementia in the laboratory and in the memory clinic
... relationships. Memory clinic consultations were audio recorded and transcribed, fi eldnotes from all sites were written up immediately following periods of ...the memory clinic study, key ...
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Test Retest Reliability, Convergent Validity and Practice Effects of the RBANS in a Memory Clinic Setting: A Pilot Study
... We recruited 30 participants with no objective cognitive impairment determined by a formal neuropsychological battery. Of these, 7 were recruited from a memory clinic at the National University Health ...
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Driving cessation in patients attending a memory clinic
... addition, memory clinic patients were asked to bring an informant who knew them well and this informant was questioned for about 30 minutes to allow completion of an assessment of physical and instrumental ...
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Unbiased estimates of cerebrospinal fluid β-amyloid 1–42 cutoffs in a large memory clinic population
... We selected 2462 subjects from the Amsterdam Demen- tia Cohort (ADC) [12] with subjective cognitive decline (SCD; n = 448), mild cognitive impairment (MCI; n = 490), AD dementia (n = 1031), and dementia other than AD (n ...
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Cost of diagnosing dementia in a German memory clinic
... Society of Neurology (DGN) and the German Society of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Neurology (DGGPN), in- tegrating biomarkers into the diagnostic procedure on a routine basis [26]. Patients with subjective cognitive de- ...
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Cognitive and imaging markers in non-demented subjects attending a memory clinic: study design and baseline findings of the MEMENTO cohort
... a clinic-based study of pa- tients presenting with a large variety of cognitive symp- toms and subjective cognitive complaints (SCCs) that will be followed over a 5-year ...university-based memory clinics ...
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Verbal and non-verbal memory and hippocampal volumes in a memory clinic population
... and memory performance, as the strength of the relationships did not differ as a function of ...the memory tasks used, as the tasks in the current study did not overlap with those in which lateralization ...
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The use of PDSA methodology to evaluate and optimise an inner city memory clinic: a quality improvement project
... This report focuses on the third PDSA cycle (2012) (Figure 1). In the “Plan” phase the first aim was that the time taken from memory service referral to assessment should be shorter compared with 2011. The second ...
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A new diagnostic approach for the identification of patients with neurodegenerative cognitive complaints
... in memory clinics therefore routinely focuses on detecting such ...specialist memory clinic can support the initial distinction between patients presenting with cognitive concerns attributable to ...
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Efficacy of language assessment in Alzheimer's disease: comparing in-person examination and telemedicine
... Eligible participants (n = 15) were identified from the CAVHS Geriatric Memory Clinic and all were male. These 15 were screened using the Mini Mental Status Examination (MMSE) (Folstein et al 1975). Only ...
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Driving and dementia
... • There is no single office-based test that can reliably be used alone to determine whether it is safe for a patient with cognitive impairment to drive. Evidence suggests that the use of composite batteries, rather than ...
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