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Current Alzheimer Research - Volume 15, Issue 1, 2018
Volume 15, Issue 1, 2018
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Systematic Review Investigating Multi-disciplinary Team Approaches to Screening and Early Diagnosis of Dementia in Primary Care – What are the Positive and Negative Effects and Who Should Deliver It?
Authors: Toby Smith, Jane Cross, Fiona Poland, Felix Clay, Abbey Brookes, Ian Maidment, Bridget Penhale, Ken Laidlaw and Chris FoxBackground: Primary care services frequently provide the initial contact between people with dementia and health service providers. Early diagnosis and screening programmes have been suggested as a possible strategy to improve the identification of such individuals and treatment and planning health and social care support. Objective: To determine what early diagnostic and screening programmes have been adopt Read More
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Potential Role of Neuroimaging Markers for Early Diagnosis of Dementia in Primary Care
Authors: Stefan Teipel, Ingo Kilimann, Jochen R. Thyrian, Stefan Kloppel and Wolfgang HoffmannBackground: The use of imaging markers for the diagnosis of predementia and early dementia stages of Alzheimer's disease (AD) has widely been explored in research settings and specialized care. The use of these markers in primary care has yet to be established. Objective: Summarize current evidence for the usefulness of imaging markers for AD in primary compared to specialized care settings. Method: Selective over Read More
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The Ambivalence of Early Diagnosis - Returning Results in Current Alzheimer Research
Authors: Pia Erdmann and Martin LangankeObjectives: Based on an analysis of the potential consequences of disclosing AD suspicions from respective research and using the research ethical principle of non-maleficence, the authors of this paper argue for the thesis that the benefits of early AD detection in research outweigh the risk of potential adverse effects only in cases where studies are conducted with symptomatic people actively seeking for support, e.g. as they u Read More
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The Clock Drawing Test: A Reasonable Instrument to Assess Probable Dementia in Primary Care?
Authors: Katinka Reiner, Tilly Eichler, Johannes Hertel, Wolfgang Hoffmann and Jochen R. ThyrianObjective: The primary aim of the study was to determine accuracy, sensitivity and specificity of the Clock Drawing Test (CDT) in detecting probable dementia as compared to the multi-domain dementia screening test DemTect. Methods: The sample was derived from the general practitioner (GP)-based, cluster-randomized controlled intervention trial DelpHi-MV (Dementia: life- and person-centered help in Mecklenburg-Wester Read More
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Patient Variables Associated with the Assignment of a Formal Dementia Diagnosis to Positively Screened Primary Care Patients
Background: Main objective was to analyze the associations of patient variables (depression, quality of life, anti-dementia drug treatment, knowledge about dementia) with the assignment of a formal diagnosis of dementia to community-dwelling primary care patients who have screened positive for dementia. Methods: DelpHi-MV (Dementia: life- and person-centered help in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania) is a Read More
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Acceptability and Results of Dementia Screening Among Older Adults in the United States
Objectives: To measure older adults acceptability of dementia screening and assess screening test results of a racially diverse sample of older primary care patients in the United States. Design: Cross-sectional study of primary care patients aged 65 and older. Setting: Urban and suburban primary care clinics in Indianapolis, Indiana, in 2008 to 2009. Participants: Nine hundred fifty-four primary care patients without a docum Read More
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Alzheimer's Disease and NQO1: Is there a Link?
Authors: Jamuna Chhetri, Anna E. King and Nuri GuevenBackground: Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disease characterised by a progressive decline in cognitive function and represents a major healthcare challenge worldwide. Increasing evidence indicates that mitochondrial dysfunction mediated oxidative stress plays a significant role in the pathophysiological process of AD. Therefore, the physiological activation of antioxidant enzymes that respond to increased ox Read More
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Discriminative Sparse Features for Alzheimer's Disease Diagnosis Using Multimodal Image Data
Background: Feature extraction in medical image processing still remains a challenge, especially in high-dimensionality datasets, where the expected number of available samples is considerably lower than the dimension of the feature space. This is a common problem in real-world data, and, specifically, in medical image pro- cessing as, while images are composed of hundreds of thousands voxels, only a reduced numbe Read More
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Heart Rate Variability Indexes in Dementia: A Systematic Review with a Quantitative Analysis
Background: Decreased heart rate variability (HRV) indexes indicate low vagal activity and may be associated with development of dementia. The neurodegenerative process is associated with the cardiovascular autonomic control. Objective: The aim of this systematic review was to investigate the effect size (ES) magnitude of the HRV indexes in the evaluation of autonomic dysfunction in older persons with dementia. Methods: P Read More
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Ginkgo biloba Extract EGb761 Attenuates Hyperhomocysteinemia-induced AD Like Tau Hyperphosphorylation and Cognitive Impairment in Rats
Authors: Kuan Zeng, Mengzhu Li, Jichang Hu, Yacoubou A. R. Mahaman, Jian Bao, Fang Huang, Yiyuan Xia, Xinghua Liu, Qun Wang, Jian-Zhi Wang, Yang Yang, Rong Liu and Xiaochuan WangBackground: Ginkgo biloba extract EGb761 has shown the neuroprotective effects on Alzheimer's disease (AD) through the protection against the Aβ-induced neurotoxicity. However, it is not completedly clear whether EGb761 attenuates tau hyperphosphorylation, another of the most prominent mechanisms underlying the pathology of AD. Methods: we employed hyperhomocysteinemia (HHcy) to mimic AD like patholo Read More
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Volume 21 (2024)
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Volume 20 (2023)
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Volume 19 (2022)
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Volume 18 (2021)
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Volume 17 (2020)
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Volume 16 (2019)
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Volume 15 (2018)
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Volume 14 (2017)
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Volume 13 (2016)
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Volume 12 (2015)
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Volume 11 (2014)
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Volume 10 (2013)
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Volume 9 (2012)
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Volume 8 (2011)
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Volume 7 (2010)
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Volume 6 (2009)
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Volume 5 (2008)
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Volume 4 (2007)
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Volume 3 (2006)
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Volume 2 (2005)
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