Dementia
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

The heritability and genetics of frontotemporal lobar degeneration.

Nov 2009 BACKGROUND: Frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD) is a genetically and pathologically heterogeneous neurodegenerative disorder. METHODS: We collected blood samples from a cohort of 225 patients with a diagnosis within the FTLD spectrum and ... Read more...

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 concentration and persistence of health care expenditures and prescription drug expenditures in Medicare beneficiaries with Alzheimer disease and related dementias.

30 Oct 2009 BACKGROUND: Alzheimer disease and related dementias (ADRD) have become a major concern for Medicare because of the increasing prevalence rate and the associated high cost of care. OBJECTIVES: This study investigated the extent of concentration and ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Dementia'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Postmenopausal hormone therapy and regional brain volumes: the WHIMS-MRI study. Nov 2009
• The heritability and genetics of frontotemporal lobar degeneration. Nov 2009
• Two distinct subtypes of right temporal variant frontotemporal dementia. Nov 2009
• The concentration and persistence of health care expenditures and prescription drug expenditures in Medicare beneficiaries with Alzheimer disease and related dementias. 30 Oct 2009
• Prevalence of dementia and cognitive impairment in Southeastern Spain: the Ariadna study. 30 Oct 2009
• Long-term cognitive decline in older subjects was not attributable to noncardiac surgery or major illness. 30 Oct 2009
• Dying from dementia. 13 Oct 2009
• The clinical course of advanced dementia. 13 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
• Adverse events in patients receiving cholinesterase inhibitors due to dissimilar follow-up periods. 10 Oct 2009
• [Pain assessment in dementia] 6 Oct 2009
• Dealing with the ethical dimension of dementia care. Oct 2009
• Ethical care in dementia. 30 Sep 2009
• Atypical antipsychotics in the elderly: a review of therapeutic trends and clinical outcomes. 29 Sep 2009
• Language preference and development of dementia among bilingual individuals. 29 Sep 2009
• Polyunsaturated fatty acid status in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, depression, and Alzheimer's disease: towards an omega-3 index for mental health? 29 Sep 2009
• Promising strategies for the prevention of dementia. 29 Sep 2009
• A short nocturnal activity scale used by nurses to evaluate hospitalized patients with dementia. 29 Sep 2009
• Case report: combined use of donepezil and galantamine in mixed dementia. 29 Sep 2009
• More advice is needed in dementia care to deal with difficult treatment decisions, say experts. 29 Sep 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)