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Assessing the Content of Goals of Care Documentation for Hospitalized Patients With Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias

open access: yesJournal of the American Geriatrics Society, EarlyView.
Documented Patient Values and Preferences and Attendance at Goals of Care Conversations. AD/ADRD—Alzheimer's disease and related dementias. ABSTRACT Background Goals of care (GOC) conversations are an evidence‐based practice that help clarify and align patient values and preferences for medical care with treatment options.
Gina Piscitello   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Two cases of Alzheimer's disease showing deterioration of behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia induced by switching from rivastigmine to donepezil

open access: yesNeuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment, 2012
Takemi Kimura, Junichi TakamatsuDivision of Clinical Research, National Hospital Organization Kikuchi Hospital, Koshi, Kumamoto, JapanAbstract: Rivastigmine, galantamine, and memantine, in addition to donepezil, which has been on the market over 10 years,
Kimura T, Takamatsu J
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Enteric neuropathy and the vagus nerve: Therapeutic implications

open access: yesNeurogastroenterology &Motility, EarlyView.
Abstract Enteric neuropathies are characterized by abnormalities of gut innervation, which includes the enteric nervous system, inducing severe gut dysmotility among other dysfunctions. Most of the gastrointestinal tract is innervated by the vagus nerve, the efferent branches of which have close interconnections with the enteric nervous system and ...
Bruno Bonaz
wiley   +1 more source

The evolution of muscle spindles

open access: yesExperimental Physiology, EarlyView.
Abstract Muscle spindles are stretch‐sensitive mechanoreceptors found in the skeletal muscles of most four‐limbed vertebrates. They are unique amongst sensory receptors in the ability to regulate their sensitivity by contraction of the intrafusal muscle fibres on which the sensory endings lie.
Robert W. Banks, Uwe Proske
wiley   +1 more source

Environmental risks of insecticides cholinesterase inhibitors

open access: yesToxicology International, 2013
This study conducted on 423 inhabitant (372 adults and 51 children) blood samples were collected from patients hosted in the Emergency Hospital of Mansoura University. The clinical diagnosis of such patients was acute insecticides poisoning. The aim of the present study is to study patients with cholinesterase (ChE) inhibitor organophosphorus ...
openaire   +4 more sources

Therapeutic Targeting of the α7 Nicotinic Receptor: Challenges and Prospects for Cognitive Improvement in Alzheimer's and Schizophrenia

open access: yesBasic &Clinical Pharmacology &Toxicology, Volume 137, Issue 1, July 2025.
ABSTRACT The α7 nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (α7 nAChR) has emerged as a key target for treating cognitive dysfunction in neurological disorders such as Alzheimer's disease (AD) and schizophrenia. α7 nAChRs play essential roles in neurotransmission, neuroinflammation and synaptic plasticity, not only in neurons but also in glial cells, where they ...
Janus H. Magnussen
wiley   +1 more source

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