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Dementia - Drug therapy
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Definition of 'Dementia'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. |
Saturday, November 21, 2009
Atypical antipsychotics in the elderly: a review of therapeutic trends and clinical outcomes.
29 Sep 2009 
Recent emerging data regarding the safety and tolerability of atypical antipsychotics in elderly patients with dementia have called into question common prescribing practices. Although the lifetime risk of developing significant psychopathology in ... Read more...
Rivastigmine in Parkinson's disease dementia.
30 Jul 2009 Parkinson's disease has now evolved beyond what was considered to be a traditional motor disorder. It is being increasingly recognized that non-motor symptoms such as cognitive impairment, frank dementia, psychosis, depression, autonomic dysfunction ... Read more...
[Usage of drugs with potential adverse effects on cognition in a memory-clinic]
28 Jul 2009 Cognitive decline is a frequent clinical symptom in elderly patients. In particular, memory disturbances are an early sign and a risk factor for subsequent development of neurodegenerative dementia. At the same time, elderly patients often receive ... Read more...
Latest indexed articles for 'Dementia - Drug therapy'
These are the very latest articles for this heading:
- Adverse events in patients receiving cholinesterase inhibitors due to dissimilar follow-up periods.
10 Oct 2009 - Atypical antipsychotics in the elderly: a review of therapeutic trends and clinical outcomes. 29 Sep 2009
- Case report: combined use of donepezil and galantamine in mixed dementia. 29 Sep 2009
- Medication for dementia. 30 Aug 2009
- Use of statins and incidence of dementia and cognitive impairment without dementia in a cohort study. 2 Aug 2009
- Rivastigmine in Parkinson's disease 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
- [Usage of drugs with potential adverse effects on cognition in a memory-clinic] 28 Jul 2009
- [Ginkgo biloba extract EGb 761 in the treatment of dementia: evidence of efficacy and tolerability] 18 Jul 2009
- Sociodemographic and lifestyle risk factors for incident dementia and cognitive decline in the HYVET. 22 Jun 2009
- Randomized controlled trial of memantine in dementia associated with Parkinson's disease. 13 Jun 2009
- Behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia and medical treatment. 30 May 2009
- Estrogen therapy: an approach to treatment-resistant aggressive behaviors in patients with dementia. 30 May 2009
- Potential anti-dementia agents in traditional Chinese medicine. 30 May 2009
- Alzheimer disease: Perceived efficacy of antidementia drug treatment. 30 May 2009
- Use of Noben (idebenone) in the treatment of dementia and memory impairments without dementia. 30 May 2009
- [Antidementia drugs] 30 May 2009
- Association of posttraumatic stress disorder with increased prevalence of metabolic syndrome. 30 May 2009
- The promotion of olanzapine in primary care: an examination of internal industry documents. 25 May 2009
- Hyperhomocysteinemia in levodopa-treated patients with Parkinson's disease dementia. 13 May 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)