Alzheimer's Disease - Dementia

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Alzheimer's Disease - Dementia

Diagnosis, Imaging, and Screening

NEWS:

Alzheimer's cuts life expectancy in half

Early Alzheimer's Detection

For Older People With High IQ's, More Sensitive Test Norms Better Predict Who Might Develop Alzheimer's Disease

Study Identifies Predictors of Alzheimer's Disease Longevity

ARTICLES:

Screening for Dementia: Recommendation and Rationale

Should Older Adults Be Screened for Cognitive Impairment?

JOURNAL ARTICLES:

1H MR spectroscopy in common dementias. (Neurology)

A voxel based morphometry study on mild cognitive impairment. (J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 2005)

AD lesions and infarcts in demented and non-demented Japanese-American men. (Ann Neurol)

Altered PET functional brain responses in cognitively intact elderly persons at risk for Alzheimer disease (carriers of the epsilon4 allele). (Am J Geriatr Psychiatry)

Alzheimer Disease: Operating Characteristics of PET- A Meta-Analysis (Radiology)

Amyloid-beta and tau proteins as biochemical markers of Alzheimer's disease. (Acta Neurobiol Exp (Wars))

Brain 18F-FDG PET in the Diagnosis of Neurodegenerative Dementias: Comparison with Perfusion SPECT and with Clinical Evaluations Lacking Nuclear Imaging (Journal of Nuclear Medicine)

Cerebral volume loss, cognitive deficit and neuropsychological performance: comparative measures of brain atrophy: I. Dementia. (J Int Neuropsychol Soc)

Clinical utility of computed tomography in the assessment of dementia: a memory clinic study (International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry)

Clinical, genetic, and neuropathologic characteristics of posterior cortical atrophy. (Neurology)

Clock Drawing, Clock Reading, Clock Setting, and Judgment of Clock Faces in Elderly People with Dementia and Depression (Journal of the American Geriatrics Society)

"Closing-in" phenomenon in Alzheimer's disease and subcortical vascular dementia. (BMC Neurol)

Cognitive dysfunction in patients with cerebral microbleeds on T2*-weighted gradient-echo MRI. (Brain.)

Comparison of different MRI brain atrophy rate measures with clinical disease progression in AD (Neurology)

CT Brain Findings in Clinical Dementia Investigation - Underestimation of Mixed Dementia. (Dement Geriatr Cogn Disord)

[Dementia assessment in the Memory Clinic St. Gallen: do further diagnostic work up or therapy lead to a change of diagnosis?] (Schweiz Rundsch Med Prax)

[Diagnose in the mild cognitive impairment stage of Alzheimer's disease] (Seishin Shinkeigaku Zasshi)

Diagnosis of suspected Alzheimer's disease is improved by automated analysis of regional cerebral blood flow. (Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging)

Differential Diagnosis Between Alzheimer's and Frontotemporal Disease by the Posterior Cingulate Sign (Journal of Nuclear Medicine)

Distinctive cognitive profiles in Alzheimer's disease and subcortical vascular dementia (Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery and Psychiatry)

Distribution of cerebral atrophy assessed by magnetic resonance imaging reflects patterns of neuropsychological deficits in Alzheimer's dementia. (Neurosci Lett)

Do White Matter Changes Have Clinical Significance in Alzheimer's Disease? (Gerontology)

[Does magnetization transfer ratio (MTR) contribute to the diagnosis and differential diagnosis of the dementias?] (Rofo. 2004)

Executive Function: The Core Feature of Dementia? (Dement Geriatr Cogn Disord)

Focal Decline of Cortical Thickness in Alzheimer's Disease Identified by Computational Neuroanatomy. (Cereb Cortex)

Functional brain abnormalities in young adults at genetic risk for late-onset Alzheimer's dementia. (Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A)

Functional interactions of the entorhinal cortex: an 18F-FDG PET study on normal aging and Alzheimer's disease. (J Nucl Med)

Genetic testing has no place as a routine diagnostic test in sporadic and familial cases of Alzheimer's disease. (J Am Geriatr Soc)

Global and local gray matter loss in mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease. (Neuroimage)

Hippocampal MRI volumetry in cognitively discordant monozygotic twin pairs. (J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry)

Hippocampus and entorhinal cortex in mild cognitive impairment and early AD (Neurobiology of Aging)

Imaging cerebral atrophy: normal ageing to Alzheimer's disease (Lancet)

Imaging is superior to cognitive testing for early diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease. (Neurobiol Aging)

[In vivo imaging of amyloid plaques in the brain] (Nippon Ronen Igakkai Zasshi)

In vivo proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy of the temporal lobe in Alzheimer's disease. (Prog Neuropsychopharmacol Biol Psychiatry)

Incidence, Manifestations, and Predictors of Worsening White Matter on Serial Cranial Magnetic Resonance Imaging in the Elderly: The Cardiovascular Health Study. (Stroke. 2005)

Intracranial volume in mild cognitive impairment, Alzheimer's disease and vascular dementia: evidence for brain reserve? (Int J Geriatr Psychiatry)

Links between the pathology of Alzheimer's disease and vascular dementia. (Neurochem Res)

[Magnetic resonance studies in Alzheimer's dementia. What routine scanning shows] (Rev Neurol (Paris))

Measurement of phosphorylated tau epitopes in the differential diagnosis of Alzheimer disease: a comparative cerebrospinal fluid study. (Arch Gen Psychiatry)

Mental calculation impairment in Alzheimer's disease: a functional magnetic resonance imaging study. (Neurosci Lett)

Mild cognitive impairment can be distinguished from Alzheimer disease and normal aging for clinical trials. (Arch Neurol)

Mild cognitive impairment: focus on diagnosis. (J Mol Neurosci)

Motor signs during the course of Alzheimer disease (NEUROLOGY)

MRI-derived entorhinal volume is a good predictor of conversion from MCI to AD. (Neurobiol Aging)

Neurofibrillary tangles mediate the association of amyloid load with clinical Alzheimer disease and level of cognitive function. (Arch Neurol)

Neuropathologic criteria for diagnosing Alzheimer disease in persons with pure dementia of Alzheimer type. (J Neuropathol Exp Neurol)

[Neuropsychiatric symptoms in patients with Alzheimer disease] (Vertex)

[Neuropsychological correlates of cerebral atrophy in Alzheimer's dementia] (Fortschr Neurol Psychiatr)

[Pathologic diagnosis of non-Alzheimer type dementia.] (Zhonghua Bing Li Xue Za Zhi)

Pentagon drawing and neuropsychological performance in Dementia with Lewy Bodies, Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease and Parkinson's disease with dementia. (Int J Geriatr Psychiatry)

Posterior cingulate hypoperfusion in Alzheimer's disease, senile dementia of Alzheimer type, and other dementias evaluated by three-dimensional stereotactic surface projections using Tc-99m HMPAO SPECT. (Clin Nucl Med)

Regional Distribution of White Matter Hyperintensities in Vascular Dementia, Alzheimer's Disease and Healthy Aging (Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders)

Relationship between hippocampal volume and CA1 neuron loss in brains of humans with and without Alzheimer's disease. (Neurosci Lett)

[Relationship between the data from MR-diffusion tensor imaging and the clinical cognitive evaluation in Alzheimer's disease] (Zhongguo Yi Xue Ke Xue Yuan Xue Bao)

Reversible dementia: A case of cryptococcal meningitis masquerading as Alzheimer's disease. (J Alzheimers Dis)

Silent and Symptomatic Infarcts on Cranial Computerized Tomography in Relation to Dementia and Mortality (Stroke)

Smell identification test as an indicator for cognitive impairment in Alzheimer's disease (International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry)

Subjective memory deterioration and future dementia in people aged 65 and older. (J Am Geriatr Soc)

Syndromes of behavioural and psychological symptoms in mild Alzheimer's disease. (Int J Geriatr Psychiatry)

Systematic Review of the Diagnostic Accuracy of 99mTc-HMPAO-SPECT in Dementia (Am J Geriatr Psychiatry)

The application of serial MRI analysis techniques to the study of cerebral atrophy in late-onset dementia. (Med Image Anal)

The Clock Drawing Test as a Valid Screening Method for Mild Cognitive Impairment (Dement Geriatr Cogn Disord)

The influence of sex on limbic volume and perfusion in AD. (Neurobiol Aging)

The seven minute screen: a neurocognitive screening test highly sensitive to various types of dementia (Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery and Psychiatry)

Ultrastructural Hippocampal and White Matter Alterations in Mild Cognitive Impairment: A Diffusion Tensor Imaging Study. (Dement Geriatr Cogn Disord)

Usefulness of a cube-copying test in outpatients with dementia (Brain Injury)

What's in a name: voxel-based morphometric analyses of MRI and naming difficulty in Alzheimer's disease, frontotemporal dementia and corticobasal degeneration (Brain)

White matter hyperintensities are significantly associated with cortical atrophy in Alzheimer's disease. (J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry)

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