[PDF] Top 20 Retinal Structural Changes in Patients with Mild Cognitive Impairment

... peripapillary Retinal Nerve Fiber Layer (RNFL) thickness loss, volume and thickness loss in all nine EDTRS (early treatment diabetic retinopathy study) macular areas, and macular Ganglion Cell Complex (inner ... See full document

... of cognitive rehabilitation on improving selective attention in patients with mild cognitive ...40 patients with mild cognitive impairment who were evaluated with ... See full document

... by cognitive deficits including progressive memory disturbances, aphasia, apraxia and ag- ...AD patients also have visual problems affecting vis- ual acuity [1], stereopsis, colour vision, spatial contrast ... See full document

... of cognitive im- ...language impairment in this ...stroke patients, associations between infrequent infarct location and cog- nitive impairment may be difficult to detect if compari- sons are ... See full document

... The homework materials had varying levels of dif fi - culty; the instructor chose the dif fi culty level based on baseline ability. When participants were assigned to a training group, they performed 1 day of homework in ... See full document

... of cognitive plasticity based upon the nervous system’s inherent ability to adapt its structural organization under environmental stress such as cellular damage (Greenwood & Parasuraman, ...the ... See full document

... screened patients was higher than the sample size needed as assessed with SPSS to minimize α and β errors, and taking into account the frequency of both MCI and arterial hypertension in the Caucasian ... See full document

... 2]. Cognitive impairment is an import- ant non-motor symptom and common in a substantial proportion of PD patients, even in early stages of the disease, and cognitive deficits typically worsen ... See full document

... This study has shown that the addition of such TMS markers to clinical work-up, such as SAI and SICI-ICF measures, significantly increased the diagnostic confi- dence of MCI patients compared to clinical work-up ... See full document

... Studies report that the damage caused by falls reaches about 30% to 50% of cases, with 6% to 44% of these patients suffering serious damage such as fractures, subdural hematomas, and bleeding that can lead to ... See full document

... with cognitive impairments, as well as their caregivers, from their ...among patients suffering from cognitive impairment and their ...train patients, families, and health care ... See full document

... MICU patients and to establish a relationship between incidence of delirium in an MICU and the patient outcome (cognitive function) after ...the cognitive function status during the admission and ... See full document

... many patients converted from aMCI to AD in a short space of time in this study perhaps helps explain why there were so few statistical differences between patients with aMCI compared to AD on the ... See full document

... in cognitive perfor- mance level because performance was the same in these 2 ...in patients with aMCI who did not progress to AD after an average of 12–24 ... See full document

... Statistical analysis was performed in SPSS Statistics V.19.0 (IBM Corporation, Armonk, NY, USA). Demographic and behavioral differences between groups were tested by ANOVA. In VBM analysis, ANOVA was used to calculate ... See full document

... with impairment of visual acuity or color vision. Twenty-three patients had a history of ON in at least one ...non-affected patients, these had a lower inferior (109 vs 113 µm, ...temporal ... See full document

... diagnosis of MCI states that MCI individuals may preserve independence in functional activities but exhibit very subtle difficulties in function (Albert et al., 2011), we question the appropriateness of using basic IADL ... See full document

... the cognitive profile of individuals with MCI and co- morbid vascular disease has been compared with that of individuals with MCI and no vascular disease, group differences have been reported in some [58,59], but ... See full document

... The brain tissue has a low degree of absorption of la- ser energy of the visible spectrum, and therefore the dep- th of its penetration is several centimeters [48]. As a re- sult, laser action has an impact not only on ... See full document

... improved cognitive functioning and decreased risk of cognitive decline (Muscari et ...and cognitive functioning in older ...have cognitive benefits, although it is not clear which type of ... See full document