[PDF] Top 20 Dement. neuropsychol. vol.1 número3

... In this issue of Dementia & Neuropsychologia, the News and Views section includes an article on the physician’s attitude and conduct when a patient reaches the termi- nal phase of a severe and incurable illness. This ... See full document

... The control group (60 subjects; mean age=68.90±7.48; mean schooling=10.72±4.74; 42 women and 18 men) was composed of spouses or consorts of the patients, or vol- unteers from the community, with no memory ... See full document

... visual agnosia, partial or complete Bálint and Gerstmann syndromes, as well as transcortical sensory aphasia. Mem- ory, insight and judgment were relatively preserved up until moderate stages of the disease. No ... See full document

... Subjects were evaluated by the CGA consisting of clinical data, Clinical Dementia Rating, performance-oriented mobility assessment of gait and balance (POMA), Cornell scale for depress[r] ... See full document

... without any type of diet restriction. Another prevalent co- morbidity was Diabetes Mellitus (DM), affecting 43.3% of the sample population, with 47% presenting fast blood sugar with on-site values greater than 110 mg/dl. ... See full document

... following: 1) not all, but most of the caregivers tend to “do for the patient” instead of “doing with the patient”, thus masking the parameters of the response; 2) The examiner involved in the direct evaluation of ... See full document

... Thus, the aims of the present study were to analyze the working memory performance of elderly subjects without cognitive impairment and to verify the infl uence of edu- cational level [r] ... See full document

... group: 1) Are there quantitative differences between the communica- tive performance of RHBD individuals and non-damaged individuals in the four communicative processes evaluated by the Brazilian MAC Battery? 2) ... See full document

... The Brazilian version of the Brief Assessment of Cog- nition in Schizophrenia, or Brazilian-BACS, an easily ad- ministered pen and paper battery of neurocognitive tests, demonstrated hi[r] ... See full document

... 1. Uhlmann RF, Larson EB, Rees TS, Koepsell TD, Duckert LG. Relationship of hearing impairment to dementia and cogni- tive dysfunction in older adults. JAMA 1989; 261:1916-1919. 2. van Boxtel MP, van ... See full document

... Such external parameter can be, for instance, the aver- age frequency of a population or the average frequency of the last exam of the patient. This system also generates two outputs: favorable evidence µ (normalized ... See full document

... However pre- vious reviews have either shown studies with broad diag- noses or specifi c characteristics (such as same region) or have evaluated a single variable. A wide-ranging review[r] ... See full document

... Any discussion on brain death must take into account the fi rst Brazilian law on transplants which clearly stated that the criteria for defi ning brain death were to be deter- mined by the Federal Medical Council (FMC). ... See full document

... have been used to distinguish white matter dementia from subcortical dementia, we do not agree with all of these, since extrapyramidal signs can also appear in white matter dementia in the context of primarily vascular ... See full document

... Ayala´s nucleus was 9.7% bigger than left nucleus. On the other hand, the volume differences between the Ch2 and Ch4am-al subnuclei were far more expressed, ranging from 28.3 to 12.9% (Table 1). These asymmetries ... See full document

... The data reviewed above can be summarized as follows: (1) the human BLP, GRP, and its receptor, GRPR, are ex- pressed in neurons, and particularly high densities of GRP and GRPR occur in brain areas importantly ... See full document

... Case 1 – This 21-year-old boy was brought by his mother at the end of 1999 for evaluation and treatment of suspi- ciousness and odd behaviors, which occurred continu- ously as a response to ill-structured ... See full document

... areas of study, where there is no solid scientifi c tradition. 4. Avoid vague proclamations; cite the appropriate pa- pers – For example, if there are other papers that deserve cita- tion in the text, the reviewer should ... See full document

... The present study has furthered knowledge on the performance of aged Brazilians in semantic memory tests, which has led us to conclude that the aged with a low level of schooling presented reduced performance in semantic ... See full document

... Abstract – Working memory is a system with a limited capacity which enables the temporary storage and manipulation of the information necessary for complex cognitive tasks. Numerous studies have suggested that ... See full document