Dementia - Diagnosis
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Prevalence of dementia and cognitive impairment in Southeastern Spain: the Ariadna study.

30 Oct 2009 OBJECTIVES: To estimate the prevalence of amnestic mild cognitive impairment (aMCI), cognitive impairment, no dementia (CIND) and dementia in a general elderly population and to examine the associated socio-demographic factors. METHODS: The Ariadna ... Read more...

Practice parameter update: The care of the patient with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: multidisciplinary care, symptom management, and cognitive/behavioral impairment (an evidence-based review): report of the Quality Standards Subcommittee of the American Academy of Neurology.

11 Oct 2009 OBJECTIVE: To systematically review evidence bearing on the management of patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). METHODS: The authors analyzed studies from 1998 to 2007 to update the 1999 practice parameter. Topics covered in this ... Read more...

Language preference and development of dementia among bilingual individuals.

29 Sep 2009 In bilingual individuals, regression to a primary language may be associated with development of cognitive impairment and increased risk for development of dementia. This report describes two bilingual patients who presented with early symptoms of ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Dementia - Diagnosis'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Prevalence of dementia and cognitive impairment in Southeastern Spain: the Ariadna study. 30 Oct 2009
• Practice parameter update: The care of the patient with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: multidisciplinary care, symptom management, and cognitive/behavioral impairment (an evidence-based review): report of the Quality Standards Subcommittee of the American Academy of Neurology. 11 Oct 2009
• Language preference and development of dementia among bilingual individuals. 29 Sep 2009
• Stroke and dementia. 29 Sep 2009
• Association of plasma amyloid beta with risk of dementia: the prospective Three-City Study. 13 Sep 2009
• Detection of cognitive impairment and dementia using the animal fluency test: the DECIDE study. 30 Aug 2009
• Association of C-reactive protein with mild cognitive impairment. 30 Aug 2009
• Progression of mild cognitive impairment to dementia in clinic- vs community-based cohorts. 30 Aug 2009
• Treating dementia: progress and promise. 30 Aug 2009
• Medication for dementia. 30 Aug 2009
• Immunologically mediated dementias. 30 Aug 2009
• Clinical heterogeneity in 3 unrelated families linked to VCP p.Arg159His. 23 Aug 2009
• False recognition helps to distinguish patients with Alzheimer's disease and amnestic MCI from patients with other kinds of dementia. 18 Aug 2009
• Leisure activities in late life in relation to dementia risk: principal component analysis. 16 Aug 2009
• Fluorodeoxyglucose-positron emission tomography in the differential diagnosis of early-onset dementia: a prospective, community-based study. 10 Aug 2009
• JAMA patient page. Dementia. 10 Aug 2009
• Neurochemical dementia diagnostics: a simple algorithm for interpretation of the CSF biomarkers. 2 Aug 2009
• Dementia in SPG4 hereditary spastic paraplegia: clinical, genetic, and neuropathologic evidence. 2 Aug 2009
• Conflict monitoring in early frontotemporal dementia. 2 Aug 2009
• [Oldest-old dementia in a Japanese memory clinic] 30 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)