Discovery Of Neural Stem Cell Differentiation Factor
Neural stem cells represent the cellular backup of our brain. These cells are capable of self-renewal to form new stem cells or differentiate into neurons, astrocytes or oligodendrocytes. Astrocytes have supportive functions in the environment of neurons, while oligodendrocytes form the myelin layer around axons in order to accelerate neuronal signal transmission. (Source: Alzheimer's / Dementia News From Medical News Today)...
POSTED 07/01/2009 at 07:00 AM --
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Behind the headlines - Work keeps dementia 'at bay'
Publication Date: 21 May 2009 'Behind the headlines' is produced by the NHS Knowledge Service and provides an unbiased and evidence-based analysis of health stories that make the news. (Source: Neurological Conditions Specialist Library)...
POSTED 07/01/2009 at 05:33 AM --
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Living well with dementia - the National Dementia Strategy joint commissioning framework for dementia
Aims: The National Dementia Strategy joint commissioning framework provides best practice guidance for commissioning dementia services. It includes a Joint Strategic Needs Assessment template, summary of NICE and SCIE evidence for dementia services, commissioning levers against each of the strategy's objectives and a summary of South East Coastal SHA dementia metrics.
Intended audience: PCT Lead commissioners.
Publication history information: Published June 2009.
Access: Available to the general public. (Source: Neurological Conditions Specialist Library)...
POSTED 07/01/2009 at 05:05 AM --
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UK Dementia Research Funding Must Triple, Say Experts
The UK's leading dementia charities united with eminent scientists to urge the government to commit to a national dementia research strategy and triple annual investment to £96 million in five years. The Alzheimer's Research Trust and Alzheimer's Society revealed that the UK government lags behind France, Germany and the US in dementia research funding and has no plans for the future. (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)...
POSTED 07/01/2009 at 05:00 AM --
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Dementia research funding must triple, say experts
The UK's leading dementia charities united with eminent scientists to urge the government to commit to a national dementia research strategy and triple annual investment to £96 million within 5 years. (Source: Alzheimers Society)...
POSTED 06/30/2009 at 02:33 AM --
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Charities warn dementia funding must triple
Dementia research funding needs to be tripled to prevent the burden of the disease causing a financial crisis, Alzheimer's disease charities have warned. (Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News)...
POSTED 06/29/2009 at 07:12 PM --
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Charities warn dementia funding must triple
Dementia research funding needs to be tripled to prevent the burden of the disease causing a financial crisis, Alzheimer's disease charities have warned. (Source: Healthcare Republic News)...
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Picture cards improve nutrition among dementia patients
Providing older people with visual aids at mealtimes can significantly improve quality of life for people with dementia, suggests an initiative at a specialist day centre for older people in Manchester. (Source: Nursing Times Breaking News)...
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Charities urge government to triple dementia research funding
Dementia charities want to see £96 million per year invested in researchRelated items from OnMedicaGlobal action needed to deal with rise in dementiaExtra dementia training for GPs£80 million wasted on sedating dementia patients Minister orders urgent review of antipsychotic prescribing in dementiaGPs 'failing' dementia patients (Source: OnMedica Latest News)...
POSTED 06/29/2009 at 06:00 PM --
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Relationship between ALS and the degree of cognitive impairment, markers of neurodegeneration and predictors for poor outcome. A prospective study
Conclusion: In our prospective study, age, disease severity and CSF beta-amyloid levels taken together were a risk factor suggesting shorter survival times. Dementia is relatively frequent in ALS and may be a consequence of either FTLD or result from co-existing Alzheimer disease. (Source: European Journal of Neurology)...
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[ORIGINAL RESEARCH REPORTS] Depression in Frontotemporal Dementia
CONCLUSION: A variety of mood disorders are seen in FTD, requiring careful attention to differential diagnosis. FTD should be included in the differential diagnosis during the evaluation of older patients with mood abnormalities. (Source: Psychosomatics)...
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[ORIGINAL RESEARCH REPORTS] Phenomenological Subtypes of Delirium in Older Persons: Patterns, Prevalence, and Prognosis
CONCLUSION: The data suggest that instruments measuring delirium severity and psychomotor features provide important prognostic information and should be integrated into the assessment of delirium. (Source: Psychosomatics)...
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[Book reviews] Frontotemporal Dementia Syndromes
(Source: The British Journal of Psychiatry)...
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Aripiprazole for the Treatment of Agitation in Persons with Dementia?
To the Editor: I was shocked to see in “Journal highlights” of the January 2009 issue of Caring for the Ages the apparent approval of aripiprazole for the “treatment” of agitation in persons with dementia referring to the Journal of the American Medical Directors Association article by Rappaport et al. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a Black Box Warning: “Elderly patients with dementia-related psychosis treated with atypical antipsychotic drugs are at an increased risk of death.” There is additional information from Dr. Sydney Wolfe's Web site: “In March 2005, the FDA revised the product package label of aripiprazole regarding an increased incidence of cerebrovascular side effects (stroke and transient ischemic attacks), including deaths, in aripiprazole-t......
POSTED 06/29/2009 at 11:20 AM --
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Neurological complications of HIV
Abstract: HIV is a treatable condition and the physician should be alert to its varied neurological manifestations at all stages of the disease. Seroconversion can be associated with Guillain–Barré syndrome with characteristic cerebrospinal fluid changes. Tuberculosis can present at any CD4 count. Advanced HIV is associated with a variety of opportunistic infections, including progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy, cerebral toxoplasmosis and cryptococcal meningitis, as well as primary central nervous system lymphoma associated with Epstein–Barr virus. HIV is neurotropic and causes a neurocognitive disorder as well as vacuolar myelopathy. Most neurological complications can respond favourably to highly active antiretroviral therapy. Treatment itself can be associated with neurolog......
POSTED 06/29/2009 at 11:17 AM --
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Carotid Artery Ultrasound and Echocardiography Testing to Lower the Prevalence of Alzheimer's Disease
The use of two clinic office techniques, carotid artery ultrasound and echocardiography (CAUSE), to detect deficient brain blood flow delivery in the healthy, cognitively normal, older individual is proposed. Evidence indicates that persistent heart-to-brain blood flow deficit involving low cardiac output or low ejection fraction and carotid artery narrowing can promote cognitive impairment and that such impairment may lead to Alzheimer's disease (AD) or vascular dementia (VaD). A number of independent epidemiologic studies reported cardiovascular and cerebrovascular disease to be risk factors to AD and VaD. The clinical rationale for CAUSE is to detect and prevent progression of cognitive dysfunction in elderly persons and is based on the general understanding that mild cognitive impairme......
POSTED 06/29/2009 at 10:32 AM --
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The Mysteries of Dementia-Driven Wandering
When Alzheimer's disease leads to dementia, it can also trigger a desire to wander. And that's when the trouble begins. Estimates suggest about 50 percent of dementia patients who wander will suffer serious injury or death if they are not found within 24 hours.» E-Mail This » Add to Del.icio.us (Source: NPR Health and Science)...
POSTED 06/29/2009 at 07:02 AM --
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Alzheimer's Society Puts Best Foot Forward With Dunwoody
This Friday 26 June, Alzheimer's Society representatives and sports personality Micky Quinn will join Richard Dunwoody, in his quest to walk 1,000 miles in 1,000 hours. Turning his half-mile stretch into a 'Memory Walk Catwalk' they will be strutting their wellie-boot chic in Newmarket to raise awareness of Alzheimer's Society's annual fundraiser 'Memory Walk' and boost awareness of the Society's work in the local area. (Source: Alzheimer's / Dementia News From Medical News Today)...
POSTED 06/29/2009 at 05:00 AM --
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Student’s Design Helps Piece Together Parts Of The Alzheimer’s Puzzle
Extensive research in care homes across South East England has prompted a student to design a jigsaw puzzle especially for people with Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia. The puzzle, which features easy-to-handle pieces, features images specially selected to trigger memories in older people affected with the illness. (Source: ScienceDaily Headlines)...
POSTED 06/29/2009 at 01:00 AM --
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Editorial: End of life care in dementia: Building bridges for effective multidisciplinary care
(Source: Dementia)...
POSTED 06/28/2009 at 06:00 PM --
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