[PDF] Top 20 Dement. neuropsychol. vol.1 número2

... 1. Consider every manuscript as a candidate for publica- tion – As Dementia & Neuropsychologia is not yet indexed, it is possible that a reasonable proportion of the submitted papers will not yet be of high ... See full document

... In the evaluation of quality of life (WHOQOL-bref), the caregivers who had participated in the GC demonstrat- ed a signifi cant difference (p ≤ 0.05) in the physical, social relations [r] ... See full document

... only patients classifi ed as CDR 1. Exclusion criteria were history of other neurological or psychiatric diseases, head injury with loss of consciousness, use of sedative drugs within 24 hours of the ... 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

... A debated issue is whether the abnormalities in tests of executive function in patients with TLE/HS are due to the fact that the mesial temporal structures anatomically connected to t[r] ... See full document

... Methods: A quasi-experimental study, which compared the effects of nursing interventions on behavior disorders in both patients with moderate to severe dementia and their caregivers, [r] ... See full document

... Comparing EHO´s responses to the controls showed that EHO presented a larger number of mistakes, probably as a consequence of semantic memory disturbance, given half of the mistakes were due to the absence of response. ... See full document

... The ACE-R Brazilian version instrument took its fi nal form after a pilot study test. In this study, 21 healthy indi- viduals were tested, aged 60 years or more, with different educational levels, but no illiterate ... See full document

... Table 1 displays the demographic data of the sample. An index for severity of cognitive defi cit was used (≥3 abnor- mal tests, according to established cutoff). Education is presented as categories for illiteracy ... See full document

... Prion diseases, or transmissible spongiform encepha- lopathies, are neurodegenerative disorders and one of the causes of secondary dementia. These diseases are rare, affecting about one or two people per million per ... See full document

... present work did not observe an association of these vari- ables and WCST performance in AD patients. Even when considering age and educational level variations (62 to 86 years’ old, M=75.8, and 1 to 12 years of ... See full document

... paraterminal gyrus. The plane of section is slightly inclined to the right side; therefore the profi les of the anterior com- missure do not completely match. On both sides, the ante- rior commissure is abutting the ... See full document

... Objectives: The aim of this preliminary study is to verify the performance in executive functions using the Behavioural Assessment of the Dysexecutive Syndrome (BADS) in elder controls[r] ... 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

... in 1 minute: animals=17; fruits=13) and his ability to learn and retrieve new semantic material from memory, without delay and 45 minutes later (Enhanced Cued Recall Test, ECRT: 48/48) (26), were ... See full document

... psychiatric symptoms when no cognitive impairment was perceivable. Their white matter lesions included mainly frontal lobes, were associated with marked delusions (erotic in case 2, paranoid in case 1, 2 and 4, ... 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

... Abstract – The three words-three shapes test is a brief bedside technique for assessment of learning and memory using verbal and non-verbal material. To the best of our knowledge, performance of Brazilian elderly on this ... See full document

... 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 diagnoses for types of dementia along with the most prevalent comorbidities are listed in Figures 1 and 2. The most prevalent comorbidities were arterial hyper- tension, mellitus diabetes and dyslipidemia in ... See full document