Prevalence of living alone with dementia and other progressive neurological conditions: findings from primary care data in England [PDF]
Background Living alone with a neurodegenerative condition such as dementia may result in inequalities in access to support and resources. However, estimates of the number of people living alone vary widely in research studies.
Laura D. Gamble +7 more
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Referrals to allied health professionals for people with dementia: an analysis of general practitioner data from two Australian primary health networks [PDF]
Objective To examine general practitioners’ (GPs) referral patterns to allied health services for people with dementia compared with those without dementia across two large Australian Primary Health Networks (PHNs).Design A retrospective cohort study ...
Kate Swaffer +14 more
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APOE and MAPT Are Associated With Dementia in Neuropathologically Confirmed Parkinson's Disease
Introduction: Cognitive decline and dementia are common and debilitating non-motor phenotypic features of Parkinson's disease with a variable severity and time of onset.
Jon-Anders Tunold +8 more
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Sex differences in clinical cognitive impairment with Lewy bodies: a Chinese multicenter study
Highlights There are significant sex differences in Chinese population with cognitive impairment in Lewy body disease. Women were more common in dementia with Lewy bodies and mild cognitive impairment with Lewy bodies cases, had more frequent and severe ...
Jinghuan Gan +15 more
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Background: Lewy body dementia, comprising both dementia with Lewy bodies and Parkinson’s disease dementia, is the second commonest cause of neurodegenerative dementia.
John T O’Brien +17 more
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Neurodegenerative dementias such as the behavioral variant of frontotemporal dementia, Alzheimer’s disease, and Parkinson’s disease dementia are linked to various behavioral and psychological abnormalities.
Souvik Dubey +5 more
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Intravitreal Anti-VEGF Drugs and Signals of Dementia and Parkinson-Like Events: Analysis of the VigiBase Database of Spontaneous Reports [PDF]
Introduction: Since vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) regulates several aspects of the central nervous system, particularly in dopaminergic neurons, VEGF inhibitors may be linked to Parkinson-like events and dementia, or variants of these ...
Avery +30 more
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The substantia nigra is important in neurological disease, particularly movement disorders. Here the authors provide a single cell transcriptomic atlas for the human substantia nigra.
Devika Agarwal +8 more
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Mild Cognitive Impairment in Parkinson's Disease - What Is It? [PDF]
PURPOSE OF REVIEW: Mild cognitive impairment is a common feature of Parkinson’s disease, even at the earliest disease stages, but there is variation in the nature and severity of cognitive involvement and in the risk of conversion to Parkinson’s disease ...
Costantini, A, Schrag, A, Weil, RS
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What Can Quantitative Gait Analysis Tell Us about Dementia and Its Subtypes? A Structured Review [PDF]
Distinguishing dementia subtypes can be difficult due to similarities in clinical presentation. There is increasing interest in discrete gait characteristics as markers to aid diagnostic algorithms in dementia.
Galna, Brook +5 more
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