[PDF] Top 20 Dement. neuropsychol. vol.7 número2

... between dement- ed and non-demented patients regarding the pattern of drug consumption although the mean number of simultaneously used drugs was high in both ... See full document

... ABSTRACT. Life expectancy in Brazil has increased markedly over the last 30 years. Hence, age-related disorders, such as Alzheimer’s disease (AD), warrant special attention due to their high prevalence in the elderly. ... See full document

... FTD is a unique condition which manifests with a range of behavioural symptoms, marked dysfunction in activities of daily living (ADL) and increased levels of carer burden as compared t[r] ... See full document

... he prevalence of brain calcinosis across the diferent age groups is given in Figure 2 which also shows a progressive increase across diferent age groups when pooling together all site[r] ... See full document

... 4. Yaffe K, Blackwell T, Kanaya AM, Davidowitz N, Barrett-Connor E, Krueger K. Diabetes, impaired fasting glucose, and the development of cognitive impairment in older women. Neurology 2004;63:658-663. 5. Yeung SE, ... See full document

... he main inding of this study was a signiicant diference between groups regarding the presence of anosognosia symptoms. Results showed that pAD pa- tients were less accurate in evaluating the level of their awareness of ... See full document

... Proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) of the human brain has proven to be a useful technique in several neurological and psychiatric disorders and benefits from higher field scan[r] ... See full document

... Our irst objective was to determine the association be- tween education and cognitive and functional ability of AD patients, and this study showed that AD patients with higher levels o[r] ... See full document

... best exam to detect brain calciications but neuroimag- ing studies combined with neuropsychological analysis showed that some patients present progressive distur- bances of selective at[r] ... See full document

... RESUMO . Iatrogenias, efeitos colaterais e interações medicamentosas são comuns em idosos e altamente relevantes em dementados, onde corriqueiramente as manifestações decorrentes são confundidas com disfunção cognitiva. ... See full document

... here were 25 caregivers (69.4%) with stress associ- ated with patient delusion, of whom seven (19.4%) had pain grade 5, four (11.1%) grade 4, 11 (30.6%) grade 3 two (5.6%) grade 2 and one (2.7%) grade 1. Prevalence of ... See full document

... and 7), with scores on the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) of between 5 and 15 and followed by the Division of Behavioral Neurology and the Center for Aging Brain of the Federal University of São Paulo - ... See full document

... In general, performance does not seem to vary consistently de- pending on the type of processing (whether automatic or controlled, second research question), since out of the studies [r] ... See full document

... Based on the caregiver’s report concerning the be- havioral disturbances of the patient, the clinician com- pletes the inventory. his scale comprises 29 items with scores ranging from 1 to 7 for each, according to ... See full document

... he sample size was calculated to establish the prev- alence of cognitive impairment with and without de- mentia which ranges from 7% to 20%, and therefore in- cludes the prevalence of depression in the elderly ... See full document

... he aim of the present study was to evaluate the in- luence of neuropsychiatric symptoms on caregiver bur- den in a community-based sample of elderly subjects with Alzheimer’s disease or[r] ... See full document

... he majority of the patients were studied with Brain MRI (1.5 Tesla). After collection of all clinical and neu- roimaging data we discussed the indings in a consensus discussion with the members of our team, including 03 ... See full document

... In this context, we will discuss an approach to man- age patients with cognitive, behavioral, or afective disorders, rather than deine speciic pharmacological treatments, in outpatient[r] ... See full document

... Methods: The sample consisted of 27 subjects with mild Alzheimer’s disease or amnestic mild cognitive impairment, who were submitted to specific apathy evaluation using the Apathy Scal[r] ... See full document

... Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) analysis: comparison of the French version of the Rating Scale for Aggressive Behaviour in the Elderly (F-RAGE) and the Cohen-Mansfield Agitatio[r] ... See full document