[PDF] Top 20 Dement. neuropsychol. vol.3 número3

... The use of novel methods or models of study has been critical for the advance of science. Indeed, it was the ap- plication of the silver impregnation methods, only recently reported by Camilo Golgi at the time, that ... See full document

... Resumo – Estudar a integridade da substância branca hemisférica subcortical, comparando sujeitos normais jovens e idosos, com anisotropia fracionada quantitativa (DTI-FA). Métodos: Foram incluídos sujeitos de dois grupos ... See full document

... Resumo – Fundamento: As ataxias espinocerebelares (AECs) compreendem um grupo heterogêneo de enfermidades neurodegenerativas, que se caracterizam pela presença de ataxia cerebelar progressiva, associada de forma avariada ... See full document

... 15. Opie J, Rosewarne R, O’Connor DW. The efficacy of psychoso- cial approaches to behaviour disorders in dementia: a system- atic literature review. Aust N Z J Psychiatry 1999;33:789-799. 16. Clare L, Wilson BA, Carter ... See full document

... The experimental group participated in the interven- tion on twice weekly basis for three consecutive months, from 9:00AM to 3:30PM. The activities available to AD patients were: cognitive rehabilitation, ... See full document

... The differences in age and educational level detected among the AD patients and control subjects could have influenced the results presented in this preliminary study since it is known that differences between subjects ... See full document

... We report a case of a patient presenting with the “eye sign” on tomography, following an acute subinsular stroke, in the absence of conjugated eyes deviation.. Our hypothesis was that t[r] ... See full document

... The procedures for MEG-language recordings have been described in detail elsewhere (Breier et al., 1998, 2001; Maestú et al., 2002), and will be briefly summarized here. For our purposes it suffices to emphasise that ... See full document

... the MMSE, it is essential to carry out a more in-depth complementary assessment using the Neuropsychological Assessment by applying tests which assess multiple cog- nitive domains incl[r] ... See full document

... Beta amyloid protein deposition in the brain af- ter severe head injury: implications for the pathogenesis of Alzheimer’s disease.. The amyloid cascade hypothesis.[r] ... See full document

... Although many findings regarding the clinical use of quantitative EEG are awaiting validation by independent investigators while confirmatory clinical follow-up studies are also needed,[r] ... See full document

... Although the present review was not systematic, the reports selected from PubMed using “Alzheimer’s disease” and “prevention” as key-words, allow us to affirm that pursuing a healthy l[r] ... See full document

... It is important to note that this study is not subject to the characteristic bias of clinical and outpatient popula- tions. Nevertheless, the sample studied is selective in as far as it only includes active elderly ... See full document

... Dementia & Neuropsychologia has recently been indexed in the Literature on the Health Sciences in Latin America and the Caribbean (LILACS) database, making informa- tion containe[r] ... See full document

... Our aim in this study was: (1) to investigate the impor- tance of the CDT test compared to other commonly used tests, in the diagnosis of dementia in the elderly; (2) to evaluate the r[r] ... See full document

... Resumo – Estudar a validade de critério do Mini-Cog em idosos com baixo nível educacional. Desenho: transversal e de validação. Cenário: Policlínica Piquet Carneiro, uma unidade ambulatorial do Hospital da Universidade ... See full document

... The present study demonstrated a decline in MMSE performance among healthy individuals with age, reinforc- ing the notion that mental and cognitive status changes with aging may be unr[r] ... See full document

... Figure 3. [A] frontal cortex depicting multiple foci of micro-bleeding. HE. 25x. [B] Higher magnification of the boxed area in 3A. Note that the micro-bleeding is surrounding a vessel in which the wall is ... See full document

... Methods: 31 healthy adults (15 young adults and 16 older adults) were evaluated by batteries of auditory stimuli to verify the inter-group differences (age effect) in working memory sp[r] ... See full document

... the preliminary results from a study involving the BADS to verify executive function performance in healthy elderly patients with probable AD at initial phases, and the appli- cability of this ecological assessment in ... See full document