Dementia - Psychology
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Two distinct subtypes of right temporal variant frontotemporal dementia.

Nov 2009 BACKGROUND: Right temporal frontotemporal dementia (FTD) is an anatomic variant of FTD associated with relatively distinct behavioral and cognitive symptoms. We aimed to determine whether right temporal FTD is a homogeneous clinical, imaging, and ... Read more...

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...

Latest indexed articles for 'Dementia - Psychology'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Two distinct subtypes of right temporal variant frontotemporal dementia. Nov 2009
• The clinical course of advanced dementia. 13 Oct 2009
• [Pain assessment in dementia] 6 Oct 2009
• Language preference and development of dementia among bilingual individuals. 29 Sep 2009
• Promising strategies for the prevention of dementia. 29 Sep 2009
• What are the mechanisms for post-stroke dementia? 22 Sep 2009
• Prevalence, incidence, and factors associated with pre-stroke and post-stroke dementia: a systematic review and meta-analysis. 22 Sep 2009
• Declining financial capacity in mild cognitive impairment: A 1-year longitudinal study. 20 Sep 2009
• Hope in early-stage dementia: a concept analysis. 30 Aug 2009
• [Psychology and neuropsychiatry of aging] 30 Aug 2009
• Bringing arts-based therapies in from the scientific cold. 30 Aug 2009
• Detecting malingered pain-related disability: classification accuracy of the test of memory malingering. 30 Aug 2009
• Reducing dangerous nighttime events in persons with dementia by using a nighttime monitoring system. 30 Aug 2009
• Apathy is not associated with basal ganglia atrophy in frontotemporal dementia. 30 Aug 2009
• Validation of the revised quick cognitive screening test. 30 Aug 2009
• Insight into dementia care management using social-behavioral theory and mixed methods. 30 Aug 2009
• Persistence of neuropsychological testing deficits in mild cognitive impairment. 24 Aug 2009
• Quality of life as an outcome in Alzheimer's disease and other dementias--obstacles and goals. 23 Aug 2009
• Essential tremor is associated with dementia: prospective population-based study in New York. 23 Aug 2009
• Preventive effects of Chlorella on cognitive decline in age-dependent dementia model mice. 19 Aug 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)