Dementia - Physiopathology
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

[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...

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...

The primary locus of motor neuron death in an ALS-PDC mouse model.

21 Sep 2009 A mouse model of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis-parkinsonism-dementia complex based on the consumption of cycad seed flour was used to determine whether the observed pathology of motor neuron loss begins in the distal axons or the spinal cord. ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Dementia - Physiopathology'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• [Pain assessment in dementia] 6 Oct 2009
• Atypical antipsychotics in the elderly: a review of therapeutic trends and clinical outcomes. 29 Sep 2009
• A short nocturnal activity scale used by nurses to evaluate hospitalized patients with dementia. 29 Sep 2009
• The primary locus of motor neuron death in an ALS-PDC mouse model. 21 Sep 2009
• Declining financial capacity in mild cognitive impairment: A 1-year longitudinal study. 20 Sep 2009
• Leisure activities and the risk of dementia in the elderly: results from the Three-City Study. 13 Sep 2009
• Apathy is not associated with basal ganglia atrophy in frontotemporal dementia. 30 Aug 2009
• Selectivity of executive function deficits in mild cognitive impairment. 30 Aug 2009
• The effect of a high-intensity functional exercise program on activities of daily living: a randomized controlled trial in residential care facilities. 19 Aug 2009
• Functional neural network analysis in frontotemporal dementia and Alzheimer's disease using EEG and graph theory. 19 Aug 2009
• The brain and the kidney connection: A model of accelerated vascular cognitive impairment. 17 Aug 2009
• Revisiting brain reserve hypothesis in frontotemporal dementia: evidence from a brain perfusion study. 16 Aug 2009
• Kidney function is associated with the rate of cognitive decline in the elderly. 3 Aug 2009
• Dementia in SPG4 hereditary spastic paraplegia: clinical, genetic, and neuropathologic evidence. 2 Aug 2009
• Perspective on mild cognitive impairment (MCI). 30 Jul 2009
• Dementia: the bare essentials. 30 Jul 2009
• Blood pressure, dementia and Alzheimer's disease: the OPTIMA longitudinal study. 29 Jul 2009
• Apolipoprotein E genotype is related to progression of white matter lesion load. 28 Jul 2009
• Amyloid deposition is associated with impaired default network function in older persons without dementia. 28 Jul 2009
• The diagnostic utility of multiple-level likelihood ratios. 26 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)