Alzheimer's Disease - Dementia

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Alzheimer's Disease - Dementia

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NEWS:

Reduced Calorie And Carbohydrate Diet Slows Progression Of Alzheimer's In Mouse Model

ARTICLES:

Alzheimer's Disease

Alzheimer’s Disease

Dementia

NGC - Dementia. (2005)

NGC - Guidelines for Alzheimer's disease management. (2002)

NGC - Non-pharmacologic management of agitated behaviors in persons with Alzheimer disease and other chronic dementing illnesses. (2004)

JOURNAL ARTICLES:

A 32-year prospective study of change in body weight and incident dementia: the honolulu-Asia aging study. (Arch Neurol. 2005)

Apolipoprotein e genotype and mortality: findings from the cache county study. (J Am Geriatr Soc. 2005)

Alzheimer Disease and Mortality (Arch Neurol. 2005)

[Alzheimer's disease: cardiovascular risk factors must be assessed.] (Rev Med Interne. 2005)

Anosmia is very common in the Lewy body variant of Alzheimer's disease. (J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 2005)

Association between blood pressure, white matter lesions, and atrophy of the medial temporal lobe (NEUROLOGY 2005)

Attention and Executive Control Predict Alzheimer Disease in Late Life (Am J Geriatr Psychiatry 2005)

[Awareness of disease in dementia: preliminary results in patients with mild and moderate Alzheimer's disease] (Arq Neuropsiquiatr. 2005)

Blood pressure levels before dementia. (Arch Neurol. 2005)

Bone Mineral Density and the Risk of Alzheimer Disease (Arch Neurol. 2005)

Brain reserve and dementia: a systematic review. (Psychol Med. 2005)

Caloric restriction attenuates beta-amyloid neuropathology in a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease. (FASEB J. 2005)

Change in body mass index and risk of incident Alzheimer disease (NEUROLOGY 2005)

Daytime sleepiness in mild and moderate Alzheimer's disease and its relationship with cognitive impairment (Journal of Sleep Research 2005)

Delusions and Hallucinations Are Associated With Worse Outcome in Alzheimer Disease (Arch Neurol. 2005)

Dementia subtypes in China: prevalence in Beijing, Xian, Shanghai, and Chengdu. (Arch Neurol. 2005)

Different modes of weight loss in Alzheimer disease: a prospective study of 395 patients. (Am J Clin Nutr. 2005)

Effects of moderate alcohol consumption on cognitive function in women. (N Engl J Med. 2005)

Epicatechin and catechin in cocoa inhibit amyloid beta protein induced apoptosis. (J Agric Food Chem. 2005)

Executive dysfunction in hyperhomocystinemia responds to homocysteine-lowering treatment (NEUROLOGY 2005)

Fast decay of iconic memory in observers with mild cognitive impairments. (Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005)

Fibrinogen Is Associated With an Increased Risk of Alzheimer Disease and Vascular Dementia (Stroke. 2005)

Gait slowing as a predictor of incident dementia: 6-year longitudinal data from the Sydney Older Persons Study. (J Neurol Sci. 2005)

High dietary fat induces NADPH oxidase-associated oxidative stress and inflammation in rat cerebral cortex. (Exp Neurol. 2005)

Homocysteine versus the vitamins folate, B(6), and B(12) as predictors of cognitive function and decline in older high-functioning adults: MacArthur Studies of Successful Aging. (Am J Med. 2005)

Incidence and etiology of dementia in a large elderly Italian population (NEUROLOGY 2005)

Increase of total homocysteine concentration in cerebrospinal fluid in patients with Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease. (Life Sci. 2005)

Influence of education on the pattern of cognitive deterioration in AD patients: the cognitive reserve hypothesis. (Brain Cogn. 2005)

Interactions between Alzheimer's disease and cerebral ischemia-focus on inflammation. (Brain Res Brain Res Rev. 2005)

Mechanisms of cell signaling and inflammation in Alzheimer's disease. (Curr Drug Targets Inflamm Allergy. 2005)

Meta-Analysis of Nonsteroidal Antiinflammatory Drug Use and Risk of Dementia (American Journal of Epidemiology 2005)

Microglia and neuroprotection: implications for Alzheimer's disease. (Brain Res Brain Res Rev. 2005)

Mild cognitive impairment is related to Alzheimer disease pathology and cerebral infarctions. (Neurology. 2005)

[Mild cognitive impairment: A review of the literature] (MMW Fortschr Med. 2005)

Mitochondrial dysfunction, endoplasmic reticulum stress, and apoptosis in Alzheimer's disease. (J Pharmacol Sci. 2005)

Motor signs predict poor outcomes in Alzheimer disease (NEUROLOGY 2005)

Neuropsychology of vitamin B12 deficiency in elderly dementia patients and control subjects. (J Geriatr Psychiatry Neurol. 2005)

Nighttime Insomnia Treatment and Education for Alzheimer's Disease: A Randomized, Controlled Trial (Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2005)

Object naming and semantic fluency among individuals with genetic risk for Alzheimer's disease. (Int J Geriatr Psychiatry. 2005)

Occurrence of Cognitive Impairment and Dementia after the Age of 60: A Population-Based Study from Northern Italy (Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders 2005)

Physical Activity, APOE Genotype, and Dementia Risk: Findings from the Cardiovascular Health Cognition Study (American Journal of Epidemiology 2005)

Plasma C Peptide Level and Cognitive Function Among Older Women Without Diabetes Mellitus (Arch Intern Med. 2005)

Plasma homocysteine levels and cognitive status in long-term stay geriatric patients: a cross-sectional study (Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics)

Plasma total homocysteine and memory in the elderly: The Hordaland Homocysteine study (Annals of Neurology 2005)

Prevalence of dementia in an urban population in Kerala, India. (Br J Psychiatry. 2005)

Relation of the tocopherol forms to incident Alzheimer disease and to cognitive change (American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 2005)

Relationship Between Body Height and Dementia (Am J Geriatr Psychiatry 2005)

Relationship of exercise and other risk factors to depression of Alzheimer's disease: the LASER-AD study (International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry)

Repetitive behaviour in Alzheimer's disease: description, correlates and functions. (Int J Geriatr Psychiatry. 2005)

Serum cholesterol and risk of Alzheimer disease (NEUROLOGY 2005)

Serum inflammatory proteins and cognitive decline in older persons (NEUROLOGY 2005)

Sex Differences in the Clinical Manifestations of Alzheimer Disease Pathology (Arch Gen Psychiatry. 2005)

Sex, apolipoprotein E epsilon 4 status, and hippocampal volume in mild cognitive impairment. (Arch Neurol. 2005)

Sex, hormones, and Alzheimer's disease. (J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci. 2005)

Statin Use and the Risk of Incident Dementia (Arch Neurol. 2005)

Subcortical hyperintensities impact cognitive function among a select subset of healthy elderly. (Arch Clin Neuropsychol. 2005)

Supplemental Use of Antioxidant Vitamins and Subsequent Risk of Cognitive Decline and Dementia (Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders 2005)

Survival following dementia onset: Alzheimer's disease and vascular dementia. (J Neurol Sci. 2005)

The 9 year cognitive decline before dementia of the Alzheimer type: a prospective population-based study. (Brain. 2005)

The age-dependent relation of blood pressure to cognitive function and dementia. (Lancet Neurol. 2005)

The prevalence of dementia in 95 year olds (NEUROLOGY)

Vitamin K deficiency and osteopenia in elderly women with Alzheimer's disease. (Arch Phys Med Rehabil. 2005)

INTERNET SITES:

NIH - Alzheimer's Disease

NIH - Alzheimer's Disease

NIH - Alzheimer's Disease Resources

NIH - Caring for Someone with Alzheimer's

NIH - Dementia

NIH - Medical Encyclopedia Alzheimer's Disease

NIH - National Institute on Aging

NIH - NIA ADEAR

NIH - NINDS Alzheimer's Disease Information Page

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