[PDF] Top 20 Dement. neuropsychol. vol.5 número3

... 4. Sperling RA, Aisen PS, Beckett LA, Bennett DA, Craft S, Fagan AM, et al. Toward defining the preclinical stages of Alzheimer’s disease: recommendations from the National Institute on Aging-Alzheimer’s Association ... See full document

... In this context, individuals that work at night such as air traffic controllers, who often change shifts without a fixed rota, may show disturbed sleep architecture besides symptoms o[r] ... See full document

... e Pesquisa do Envelhecimento de Belo Horizonte; Faculdade de Ciências Médicas de Minas Gerais (FCMMG), Serviço de Medicina Geriátrica do Hospital Mater Dei (MG)]; José Antonio Livrame[r] ... See full document

... Dementia is a common condition which manifests during the course of PD. The Sydney Multicentre Study of PD recruited patients newly diagnosed as having PD from 1984 to 1987. Clinical and neuropsychological assessments ... See full document

... Head of Psychoeducational Intervention Group for Caregivers of Elderly with Alzheimer’s Disease of the Rehabilitation Center and Day-care Hos- pital for the Aged within the Institute of [r] ... See full document

... In order to describe the sample profile according to the several study variables, frequency tables of categorical variables, and descriptive statistics including measures of position and dispersion of continuous ... See full document

... Therefore, the aim of the study was to analyze the association of AD caregivers’ burden with patients’ neuropsychiatric symptoms, cognitive status, severity of dementia, functional ca[r] ... See full document

... The selection of the evidence was performed using the PUBMED database with the terms “memory”, “dementia”, “Brazil”, with the limits “Humans”, “English”, Spanish”,”65+ years”,”80+ years” retrieved 58 articles, of which ... See full document

... 50. Barak Y, Plopski I, Tadger S, Paleacu D. Escitalopram versus risperidone for the treatment of behavioral and psychotic symptoms associated with Alzheimer’s disease: a randomized double-blind pilot study. Int ... See full document

... The studies which led to the approval of AChEI for use in AD typically included individuals with mild to mod- erate AD. In principle, with increased loss of cholinergic neurons, the chances of response are lessened but ... See full document

... Yassuda [Grupo de Neurologia Cognitiva e do Comportamento do Departamento de Neu- rologia da Faculdade de Medicina da USP; Departamento de Gerontolo- gia, Escola de Artes, Ciências e H[r] ... See full document

... Results: Significant differences (p=0.04) were observed in scores on the digit backward test during exercise when young individuals were compared to healthy older adults.. This result[r] ... See full document

... The areas most strongly related to naming and to semantic errors were the medial temporal structures, thalami, superior and inferior temporal gyri, especially their anterior parts, as w[r] ... See full document

... The present study assessed the performance of 119 Brazilian children on three phonemic fluency tasks and three semantic fluency tasks, analyzed the effects of age on performance, and [r] ... See full document

... The sociodemographic data were collected using a questionnaire including the following variables: gender, age, schooling, marital status, family income, occupation (worked and/or retired) and time studying at the UnATI ... See full document

... Table 2 contains data for the cognitive variables, the Bousfield measure, and GDS scores. The analysis revealed a significant difference between the two groups for the GDS (p=0.035), with young participants reporting a ... See full document

... Conclusion: Findings demonstrated that schizophrenia was associated to worse cognitive impairment in long-term institutionalized elderly patients compared with institutionalized patien[r] ... See full document

... SM, Anghinah R; Academia Brasileira de Neurologia. Diag- nosis of Alzheimer’s disease in Brazil: diagnostic criteria and auxiliary tests. Recommendations of the Scientific Depart- ment of Cognitive Neurology and Aging of ... See full document

... Coordinator of the Psychoeducational Intervention Group for Caregivers of Elderly patient with Alzheimer’s Disease from the Rehabilitation Center and Geriatric Day Care Hospital at the [r] ... See full document

... A descriptive survey design study was performed. A questionnaire was designed including data on sociodemo- graphic characteristics such as age, gender and educational level as predictor variables. Eight “yes” or “no” ... See full document