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... It is conceivable that depressive symptoms lead to a higher functional and cognitive detriment in Alzheim- er’s disease, but in this study there were no differences in the evolution of[r] ... See full document

... The results of this study showed that food handlers with more than five years in the profession, who work for outsourced catering companies of a public hospital in Re- cife city, prese[r] ... See full document

... 260 Preclinical diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease Nitrini R a relatively advanced stage of disease in the central ner- vous system, as is revealed by structural neuroimaging[r] ... See full document

... 4. Lhermitte J. Syndrome de La calotte du pédoncoule ce- rebral: Les troubles psycho-sensoriels dans lês lésion du mésenchephale. Rev Neurol (Paris) 1922;38:1359-1365 5. Lhermitte J. Les hallucinations . Paris G ... See full document

... patients that had 2 to 4 years of follow-up from diagnoses to end-point of this study (September 2008 to June 2009); use of proper treatment for AD, i.e. inhibitors of acetyl- cholinesterase at an adequate and ... See full document

... Table 3 contains a summary of the initial symptoms, the presumptive or first diagnostic hypothesis, and out- come after treatment with intravenous penicillin from 18 to 24 million IU for 10 to 21 days. Only one case made ... See full document

... medical condition diagnosed during lifetime, i.e. NOK re- ported they had no disease. This subgroup contained 65 individuals (15.7%). Comparison of males and females belonging to this group revealed some differences com- ... See full document

... Methods: Through retrospective analysis of medical files, 174 patients with probable Alzheimer disease were randomly selected, classified and submitted to analysis according to previou[r] ... See full document

... without gap, in the axial plane, scan time=4 min, 40 sec. Post-processing and analysis were performed on an ADW 4.3 workstation running Functool 4.5.3 (GE Medical Sys- tems). The fiber tracts were reconstructed ... See full document

... showed that in patients with moderate- severe AD, treatment with donepezil (vs. placebo) resulted in moderately higher direct medical costs when the cost of donepezil was incorporated [r] ... See full document

... tia: Mild cognitive impairment (an evidence-based review) Report of the Quality Standards Subcommittee of the Ameri- can Academy of Neurology. Neurology 2001;56:1133-1142. 38. Costa AL, Varela JS, Mazetti O, Restelatto ... See full document

... This approach takes into account the influence of task-relevant variables (confounders) related to the patient (e.g., age, education), to the lesion (size, etiology), and to the tests [r] ... See full document

... 32 compared saccadic eye movements during oculo- motor tasks in adult musicians and non-musicians and reported more efficient oculo-motor strategies in the for- mer, which, according t[r] ... See full document

... Naming abilities are relevant in the context of Neuro- linguistic studies as they still represent the gold standard parameter of lexical access. This holds for both formal tests as well as broader tasks such as discourse ... See full document

... Figure 4 shows the Kana results for the dictation task. For the number of Kana characters, a two-way ANOVA disclosed that there was no subjects (Tajiri vs immigrants) difference (F=3.356, p=0.068); however, there ... See full document

... For the analysis of the effectiveness of the training of lexical reacquisition, comparisons between naming of the treated items (pre and post-training) and of non-treated items (BNT) [r] ... See full document

... Two databases were consulted: LILACS (Latin Ameri- can and Caribbean Health Sciences Literature) for national studies, and PubMed for international studies. The terms used were the following: working memory AND ... See full document

... 3. Simioni S, Ruffieux C, Bruggimann L, Annoni JM, Schluep M. Cognition, mood and fatigue in patients in the early stage of multiple sclerosis. Swiss Med Wkly 2007;137(35-36):496-501. 4. Feinstein A, Kartsounis ... See full document

... sists of a 22-item questionnaire which verifies the burden perceived by the caregivers concerning: request for help from patients, lack of personal time, feeling of tiredness, embarrassment, irritation, tension, lack of ... See full document

... Further, when the informant is the caregiver, the NPI evaluates the caregiver distress for each patient symptom selected. The Caregiver Distress Index (CDI) is rated by the informant on a scale from 0-5 points (0=none, ... See full document