[PDF] Top 20 Dement. neuropsychol. vol.5 número1

... investigated the influence of education on performance in the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) using years of schooling or score on a question- naire of literacy- the short version[r] ... See full document

... Table 5 indicate that MMSE score, GDS score, Verbal Fluency and particularly, school- ing level, were the factors most strongly associated with proverb test ... See full document

... AD and a-MCI patients showed a pattern of brain dis- connection between the PCC and mPFC and the rest of the brain, seen on functional MRI.. There was a regional GM reduction (by voxel[r] ... See full document

... We report a case of hair pulling associated with a white- matter vascular dementia: Binswanger’s disease.. Case report.[r] ... See full document

... Unlike patients with apperceptive prosopagnosia, patients with “associative” prosopagnosia may perform well on face processing tasks that do not require the recognition of facial iden[r] ... See full document

... Objective: To carry out a follow- up evaluation after 18 months in order to detect possible maintenance of gains reported in the first post-test, namely, in measures of self-efficacy a[r] ... See full document

... After this, at least two important randomized placebo-controlled multicenter trials were published examining the effectiveness of atypical APs in Alzheimer’s disease (CATIE-AD) and the[r] ... See full document

... A total of 193 patients had dementia and 37 of these (19.17%) were found to have potentially reversible dementias, distributed as follows: head injury: 15 patients; alcohol-related dem[r] ... See full document

... Stability of scores on the S-TOFHLA must be determined throughout the aging pro- cess, and assessed to confirm whether it is a good measure for predicting performance in cognitively im[r] ... See full document

... Therefore, the aim of this study was to review the basic concepts related to TBI, including mechanisms of injury, severity levels of TBI, the most common findings in moderate and severe[r] ... See full document

... Animal and human evidence demonstrates that glucocorticoids (GCs), the main class of stress hormones, are strongly linked to memory performance whereby elevated GC levels are associate[r] ... See full document

... Results of some previous population-based studies have implied that education is a critical factor determining the other independent psychosocial risk factors for dementia: occupation[r] ... 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

... 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

... Memantine is a non-competitive antagonist with mod- erate affinity for NMDA (N-methyl-d-aspartate) type re- ceptors of glutamate and this promotes a reduction in the pathologic neuronal excitotoxicity induced by this ... 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

... 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 authors concluded that persons deaf from birth who work with computers presented higher levels of atten- tion, sustained attention and resistance to interference when compared to t[r] ... 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

... 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