Through the eyes of others - The social experiences of people with dementia: A systematic literature review and synthesis [PDF]
Psychosocial models suggest that the lived experience of dementia is affected by interpersonal factors such as the ways in which others view, talk about, and behave toward the person with dementia.
Clarke, Chris +7 more
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Physiological phenotyping of dementias using emotional sounds
Introduction Emotional behavioral disturbances are hallmarks of many dementias but their pathophysiology is poorly understood. Here we addressed this issue using the paradigm of emotionally salient sounds.
Phillip D. Fletcher +10 more
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Background The Lothian Birth Cohort 1936 (LBC1936) is a longitudinal study of ageing with well-characterised assessments, but until now, it has relied on self-report or proxies for dementia such as cognitive tests. Our aims were twofold: a) to describe a
Donncha S. Mullin +15 more
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A critical literature review exploring the challenges of delivering effective palliative care to older people with dementia in the acute hospital setting [PDF]
Aim. This paper considers the challenges of delivering effective palliative care to older people with dementia and the possible strategies to overcome barriers to endof-life care in these patients. Background.
Birch, Deborah, Draper, Janet
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Neurodegenerative disorders: Spread of misfolded protein aggregates Further research is needed to determine how an aggregate-forming protein common to several neurodegenerative disorders propagates throughout the brain.
Myungjin Jo +5 more
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Activation of NMDA receptors in brain endothelial cells increases transcellular permeability
Neurovascular coupling is a precise mechanism that induces increased blood flow to activated brain regions, thereby providing oxygen and glucose.
Kyu-Sung Kim +4 more
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A systematic review and meta-analysis on the prevalence of dementia in europe. estimates from the highest-quality studies adopting the dsm iv diagnostic criteria [PDF]
BACKGROUND: Dementia, including Alzheimer's disease (AD), is one of the most burdensome medical conditions. Usually, the reviews that aim at calculating the prevalence of dementia include estimates from studies without assessing their methodological ...
Bacigalupo, I +7 more
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Dementias show differential physiological responses to salient sounds
Abnormal responsiveness to salient sensory signals is often a prominent feature of dementia diseases, particularly the frontotemporal lobar degenerations, but has been little studied. Here we assessed processing of one important class of salient signals,
Phillip David Fletcher +10 more
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Socioeconomic status as a risk factor for dementia death:individual participant meta-analysis of 86 508 men and women from the UK [PDF]
Background Life-course socioeconomic factors may have a role in dementia aetiology but there is a current paucity of studies. Meta-analyses of individual participant data would considerably strengthen this evidence base.
Cox +12 more
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Diagnosis and management of dementia with Lewy bodies
The Dementia with Lewy Bodies (DLB) Consortium has refined its recommendations about the clinical and pathologic diagnosis of DLB, updating the previous report, which has been in widespread use for the last decade.
I. McKeith +62 more
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