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From:Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry (Vol. 74, Issue 8) Peer-ReviewedObjective: The authors conducted a prospective study of neurodegenerative and vascular dementia in Belgium. Strict diagnostic inclusion criteria were used to include well defined patients and controls. The results of...
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From:BMC Medicine (Vol. 14, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground Long before Alzheimer's disease was established as the leading cause of dementia in old age, cerebrovascular lesions were known to cause cognitive deterioration and associated disability. Since the middle...
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From:Science (Vol. 248, Issue 4953) Peer-ReviewedDementia is a common complication of AIDS; as many as two thirds of AIDS patients may suffer from dementia or other neurological disorders. The reason for this is still unclear. Although HIV, the AIDS virus, has been...
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From:The Journal of Chinese Medicine (Issue 98)This paper assesses the effect of Chinese herbal medicine, acupuncture and rehabilitation therapy on 134 elderly patients diagnosed with vascular dementia. The patients were randomly divided into four groups: Chinese...
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From:Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry (Vol. 74, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedObjective: To estimate the prevalence of dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) according to the consensus criteria in a general population aged 75 years or older. Methods: The "Kuopio 75+ study" is a population based...
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From:Formulary (Vol. 38, Issue 8) Peer-ReviewedAlzheimer's disease treatment donepezil (Aricept, Eisai) was turned down by FDA for an expanded indication to include vascular dementia....
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From:Southern Medical Journal (Vol. 96, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThe relationship between vascular disease of the brain and cognitive impairment is unclear. It is known that extensive vascular lesions in the brain, large or small, can cause dementia. What is not known is how often...
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From:Science (Vol. 246, Issue 4926) Peer-ReviewedAZT can reverse the dementia caused by AIDS in children, and possibly in adults as well. Dementia is a loss of intellectual function. Children with AIDS dementia may forget familiar words such as "mommy" and "daddy",...
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From:Science (Vol. 237) Peer-ReviewedPanel Urges Dementia Be Diagnosed with Care National Institutes of Health consensus panel that met to consider ways of diagnosing dementias* concluded that all older persons who have any indication of declining mental...
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From:Medical World News (Vol. 29, Issue 7)Clues to AIDS Dementia Recovery Bethesda, Md.--Scientists now believe that in AIDS dementia the virus preferentially attacks the subcortical regions of the brain--a finding that may mean neurologic injury is reversible....
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From:Clinical Psychiatry News (Vol. 31, Issue 2)Splete, Heidi Among people aged 80 years and older, diabetics are almost three times more likely to develop vascular dementia than non-diabetics, said Linda B. Hassing, Ph.D., of Goteburg (Sweden) University and her...
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From:Acta Neuropathologica Communications (Vol. 1, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground Multiple neurodegenerative diseases are characterized by the abnormal accumulation of FUS protein including various subtypes of frontotemporal lobar degeneration with FUS inclusions (FTLD-FUS). These...
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From:Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry (Vol. 74, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedObjectives: To determine whether patients presenting with a first transient ischaemic attack (TIA) subsequently show increased rates of brain atrophy compared with age matched controls; and to assess potential risk...
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From:Journal of the American Dietetic Association (Vol. 89, Issue 12) Peer-ReviewedThe nutritional consequences of dementia and the role of diet in the etiology, treatment, and prevention of dementia are the subjects of this review. The major cause of dementia is Alzheimer's disease. Although it has...
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From:Phytomedicine: International Journal of Phytotherapy & Phytopharmacology (Vol. 10, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedSummary Dementia of Alzheimer's type (DAT), together with vascular dementia, is the most important indication for Ginkgo biloba extract (EGb). The therapeutic efficacy of this extract is founded on neuroprotective,...
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From:Nurse Practitioners' Prescribing Reference (Vol. 23, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedARICEPT Eisai Rx Reversible acetylcholinesterase inhibitor (piperidine deriv). Donepezil HCl 5mg, 10mg, 23mg; tabs. Also: ARICEPT ODT 5 Donepezil HCl 5mg, 10mg; orally-disintegrating tablets. Indications:...
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From:Planning (UK)A recognised need for a 35-bedroom dementia care facility in Essex does not outweigh concerns about its potentially adverse impact on local residents, an inspector has ruled. Illustrative plans showed 19 on-site...
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From:Psychiatric Times (Vol. 30, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedHere's a poem from 1899: Here's another: These "poems" are actually the recorded statements of persons in whom Emil Kraepelin (1856-1926) had diagnosed (respectively) the paranoid, catatonic, and hebephrenic forms...
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From:Assisted Living (Vol. 11, Issue 5)Breakthroughs in medicine and genetics could lead to a cure for dementia within a decade, according to Britain's Health Secretary. Jeremy Hunt noted that "incredible advances" are bringing us nearer to a treatment...
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From:Nature (Vol. 513, Issue 7516) Peer-ReviewedThe loss of cells in the retina might predict a common type of dementia years before behavioural changes set in. A team led by Li Gan and Ari Green at the University of California, San Francisco, imaged the retinas...