Other Dementias
Identifying the components of clinical vignettes describing Alzheimer’s disease or other dementias: a scoping review
... or other dementias should be to promote the standardization of the content of ...or other dementias lend themselves to the use of standardized ...
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The Burden on Family Caregivers to the Patients with Alzheimer’s Disease and Other Dementias in Nicosia, Cyprus
... with other dementias, who were hospitalized in an institution or at home and living in the city of Nicosia in Cyprus, were invited to participate in the ...any other form of dementia was established ...
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Diagnostic tools for alzheimer's disease dementia and other dementias: an overview of diagnostic test accuracy (DTA) systematic reviews
... We produced a protocol for the review (available from the authors on request) detailing the proposed review methods. We searched in MEDLINE (1966–2013), EMBASE (1980– 2013), The Cochrane Library (from its inception until ...
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Memantine: a review of studies into its safety and efficacy in treating Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias
... into other dementias including but not exclusively mild AD and vascular ...dementia. Other studies on the efficacy of memantine for other neuropsychiatric diseases are ...
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Quality of Life as an outcome in Alzheimer's disease and other dementias- obstacles and goals
... Prevalence of Alzheimer's disease and other dementias increase in the aging societies of the Western hemisphere. This puts an ever increasing burden on the health care sys- tems. Considering increasing ...
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Differential Diagnosis of Idiopathic Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus from Other Dementias Using Diffusion Tensor Imaging
... were combined, the reported specificity was still 94.0%. 35 From our results, however, FA in the posterior limb of the internal capsule alone could distinguish shunt-responsive INPH from other dementias ...
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The trial to reduce antimicrobial use in nursing home residents with Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias: study protocol for a cluster randomized controlled trial
... and other dementias), a parallel group, cluster RCT evaluating a multicomponent intervention to improve infection management for suspected urinary tract infections (UTIs) and lower respiratory tract ...
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'I Honoured Him Until the End': Storytelling of Indigenous Female Caregivers and Care Providers Focused on Alzheimer's Disease and Other Dementias (ADOD)
... communicating right? Without having to cross what they’re doing. Yeah but that’s the system we work in with 1 service to answer all the questions. So, [there’s] a new referral system called the geriatric ambulatory ...
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Alzheimer’s and other dementias in Canada, 2011 to 2031: a microsimulation Population Health Modeling (POHEM) study of projected prevalence, health burden, health services, and caregiving use
... Without a detailed comparison of studies, it is difficult to identify why we project a more rapid increase in de- mentia. Potential differences in models may relate to underlying demographic changes, dementia-specific ...
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Review: Astrocytes in Alzheimer's disease and other age-associated dementias; a supporting player with a central role.
... So what is the involvement of astrocytes in dementia? In MND there is evidence for a central role of astrocytes in the disease process; the “non-cell autonomous” theory (156, 157). Whether this applies to AD and ...
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White matter capillaries in vascular and neurodegenerative dementias
... several dementias comprising Alzheimer ’ s disease, dementia with Lewy bodies, Parkinson ’ s disease with dementia, vascular dementia, mixed dementias, post- stroke dementia as well as post-stroke no ...
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Neuroimaging of Rapidly Progressive Dementias, Part 1: Neurodegenerative Etiologies
... attributes differentiate it from many other dementias, with a prominence of personality changes and impaired sociability. Im- aging can demonstrate the atrophy for which this condition is named in half of ...
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Antibodies against phosphorylcholine are not altered in plasma of patients with Alzheimer’s disease
... that patients with AD have reduced serum levels of ather- oprotective anti-PC compared to controls and that the likelihood of having dementia or AD was doubled for indi- viduals with anti-PC values in the lowest ...
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Learning Predictive Linguistic Features for Alzheimer’s Disease and related Dementias using Verbal Utterances
... stages. Dementias have been typically diagnosed through extensive neuropsy- chological examinations using a series of cog- nitive tests containing set questions and images (Williams et ...as other forms 1 ...
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Perspectives on ethnic and racial disparities in Alzheimer's disease and related dementias : update and areas of immediate need
... The impact of ethnoracial factors on biofluid-based bio- markers is well documented across numerous disease pro- cesses [76–88]. Despite the extensive literature on biofluid-based biomarkers in other areas, the ...
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Dementias Caused by Persistent Pathogens and the Protective Role of HLA Against them
... AD. Other pharmacological interventions aimed at reducing risk factors such as high cholesterol or hypertension have typically not included cognitive status as a primary outcome, rendering conclusions about ...
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PACIFIC ISLANDS FORUM SECRETARUAT The Pacific Education Development Framework - Monitoring and Evaluation Framework – Proposed Indicators
... Enhanced quality of Skills development education and training through Linkages to labour markets; higher attainment levels at primary & secondary levels; compete[r] ...
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Advocacy, education, and the role of not-for-profit organizations in Lewy body dementias
... LBD organizations can also encourage people affected by LBD to become active advocates to help raise the profile of the disease. Families often become frustrated when they learn that very few people are familiar with ...
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The CSF neurofilament light signature in rapidly progressive neurodegenerative dementias
... Results: In each patient group CSF NfL showed higher levels than in control subjects, reaching the highest values in those with Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD). In the latter, NfL showed a divergent, subtype-specific ...
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Pattern of neurological diseases in adult outpatient neurology clinics in tertiary care hospital
... The burden of neurological diseases in developing countries is rising and it is important to know the disease prevalence and pattern based on geographical, social, cultural, religious, and ethnic factors. A population ...
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