Dementia - Complications
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

The clinical course of advanced dementia.

13 Oct 2009 BACKGROUND: Dementia is a leading cause of death in the United States but is underrecognized as a terminal illness. The clinical course of nursing home residents with advanced dementia has not been well described. METHODS: We followed 323 nursing ... Read more...

[Pain assessment in dementia]

6 Oct 2009 BACKGROUND: Patients with dementia are often unable to describe their pain because of memory deficiency and speech problems. This may lead to under-diagnosing and suboptimal pain treatment. The article summarises a thesis on development and testing ... Read more...

Frontotemporal dementia selectively impairs transitive reasoning about familiar spatial environments.

30 Aug 2009 Although patients with frontotemporal dementia (FTD) are known to exhibit a wide range of cognitive and personality difficulties, some evidence suggests that there may be a degree of selectivity in their reasoning impairments. Based on a recent ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Dementia - Complications'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• The clinical course of advanced dementia. 13 Oct 2009
• [Pain assessment in dementia] 6 Oct 2009
• [Psychology and neuropsychiatry of aging] 30 Aug 2009
• Frontotemporal dementia selectively impairs transitive reasoning about familiar spatial environments. 30 Aug 2009
• Insight into dementia care management using social-behavioral theory and mixed methods. 30 Aug 2009
• Essential tremor is associated with dementia: prospective population-based study in New York. 23 Aug 2009
• Neurocognitive contributions to verbal fluency deficits in frontotemporal lobar degeneration. 16 Aug 2009
• Improving the treatment of major osteoporotic fractures. 2 Aug 2009
• Cognitive activities delay onset of memory decline in persons who develop dementia. 2 Aug 2009
• Conflict monitoring in early frontotemporal dementia. 2 Aug 2009
• Enteral tube feeding in older people with advanced dementia: findings from a Cochrane systematic review. 30 Jul 2009
• [Oldest-old dementia in a Japanese memory clinic] 30 Jul 2009
• Leukoaraiosis severity and list-learning in dementia. 30 Jul 2009
• How to manage overactive bladder in elderly individuals with dementia? A combined use of donepezil, a central acetylcholinesterase inhibitor, and propiverine, a peripheral muscarine receptor antagonist. 30 Jul 2009
• REM sleep behavior disorder in patients with DJ-1 mutations and parkinsonism-dementia-ALS complex. 28 Jul 2009
• INECO Frontal Screening (IFS): a brief, sensitive, and specific tool to assess executive functions in dementia. 26 Jul 2009
• The contribution of executive control on verbal-learning impairment in patients with Parkinson's disease with dementia and Alzheimer's disease. 6 Jul 2009
• Valproate preparations for agitation in dementia. 6 Jul 2009
• [Depression and dementia--a multifaceted relation] 4 Jul 2009
• Neuroprotective natural antibodies to assemblies of amyloidogenic peptides decrease with normal aging and advancing Alzheimer's disease. 4 Jul 2009

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Technical information about 'Dementia'

Definition: An acquired organic mental disorder with loss of intellectual abilities of sufficient severity to interfere with social or occupational functioning. The dysfunction is multifaceted and involves memory, behavior, personality, judgment, attention, spatial relations, language, abstract thought, and other executive functions. The intellectual decline is usually progressive, and initially spares the level of consciousness.

Descriptor UI: D003704

Alternative terms: Dementia; Dementias; Amentia; Amentias; Senile Paranoid Dementia; Dementias, Senile Paranoid; Paranoid Dementia, Senile; Paranoid Dementias, Senile; Senile Paranoid Dementias; Semantic Dementia; Dementia, Semantic; Dementias, Semantic; Semantic Dementias; Familial Dementia; Dementia, Familial; Dementias, Familial; Familial Dementias; Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration; Degeneration, Frontotemporal Lobar; Degenerations, Frontotemporal Lobar; Frontotemporal Lobar Degenerations; Lobar Degeneration, Frontotemporal; Lobar Degenerations, Frontotemporal;

Related Mesh Headings: Tauopathies;

Allowable Qualifiers: blood; cerebrospinal fluid; chemically induced; classification; complications; diagnosis; diet therapy; drug therapy; economics; enzymology; ethnology; etiology; genetics; history; immunology; metabolism; microbiology; mortality; nursing; epidemiology; parasitology; pathology; physiopathology; prevention & control; psychology; radiography; radionuclide imaging; rehabilitation; surgery; therapy; urine; ultrasonography; virology;

Tree Number: C10.228.140.380; F03.087.400;

History Note: 1981(1963)