Abstract: Alzheimer’s disease (AD) prevention studies use biomarkers to determine risk in asymptomatic study participants. This involves multifaceted implications. Determinants regarding participation in these trials are therefore of particular ...
Abstract: We asked 44 French and 42 Lebanese participants with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) who lived in their own homes to rate their depression and anxiety during the late fall/early winter 2020 lockdown and compared their responses. We also asked ...
Summary: We used the often applied clock-drawing-test to find characteristic signs which differentiate between patients that suffered according to DSM-III-R from Alzheimer's disease (DAT), Major Depression (MD) or no relevant disorder (controls). 205 ...
Summary: The caregivers of a consecutive sample of outpatients suffering from Alzheimer's disease (AD) were asked by mail for their attitudes towards eventual advantages and drawbacks of an early or late diagnosis of dementia or AD. The rate of returned ...
Short-Term Rivastigmine Treatment Effects in Alzheimer Patients: Neuropsychological and Electrophysiological ParametersCholinesterase-inhibiting drugs actually are the treatment of choice for dementia of the Alzheimer type (DAT). However, there is a lack ...
Self-Reported Attention Deficits in Patients with Mild Dementia of the Alzheimer Type. A Preliminary StudyAbstract: Self-reported attention deficits were examined in 14 patients with Alzheimer's disease with very mild dementia (MMSE > 24) and 14 healthy ...
Nutrition is a central factor in today’s observed aging of the population. However, the good prospect of longevity is overshadowed by the high prevalence of mental decline in old age. The most prevalent form of neurodegeneration is Alzheimer‘s disease(AD) ...
Abstract. Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is the most common neurodegenerative disorder to date, with no cure or preventive therapy. Histopathological hallmarks of AD include deposition of β-amyloid plaques and ...
Our Memory Clinic at the Day Hospital has developed from years of existing services offered for the outpatient diagnosis of memory disorders. This article presents how such two- to three-day outpatient diagnostic programs are held. After an initial ...
Abstract: Self-maintenance therapy (SMT) is a (neuro)psychologically-based rehabilitation method for people with dementia, especially those with Alzheimer's disease. The concept of SET was first described in this journal (Romero & Eder, 1992). The overall ...
Deficits in Autobiographical Memory in Alzheimer's DiseaseAbstract: Memory decline in general and autobiographical memory deficits in particular are the core symptoms of Alzheimer's disease (AD). The respective deficits can be observed even in the early ...
What Protects Against Dementia?Abstract: Regarding the increasing number of people with dementia in the next decades and the limited possibilities in the treatment of this disease, prevention of dementia will get an increasing importance for the medicine ...
Inadequate Vocalizations in Dementia: A Review of Treatment OptionsLoud screaming in patients suffering from dementia was described by Alois Alzheimer in his case report of his now famous patient Auguste D. This behaviour typically occurs in moderate to ...
Pain Processing in Patients with Alzheimer's DiseaseAbstract: The finding of less frequent clinical pain reports in patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) has raised the question of how AD affects pain processing. To answer this question experimental ...
Emotion and Memory in Alzheimer's Disease: A ReviewAbstract: Aim of this review is to examine the interactions between emotion and memory in Alzheimer's disease and to discuss resources of these patients. On the basis of neuropathological findings in ...
Psychotherapy with Alzheimer disease patients: A challenge for neuropsychologistsCognitive, emotional and behavioral changes are highly interwoven in Alzheimer’s disease, due to progressive ubiquitous neurodegeneration. This complexity falls in the ...
Abstract. We investigated theory of mind (ToM) deficits in Alzheimer‘s disease (AD) and its possible connection to autobiographical memory (ABM). Patients and matched controls were evaluated and compared using a video-based ToM test, an autobiographical ...
First application study oft he Dementia Test for People with Intellectual Disabilities (DTIM)Abstract. In this study the applicability of a new instrument for the early detection of dementia disorders in people ...
Abstract. This article explores the possibility of differentiating between patients suffering from Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and patients with other kinds of dementia by focusing on false alarms (FAs) on a picture ...
Therapy of the Apathy Syndrome in Alzheimer's DiseaseAbstract: The apathy syndrome can be characterized as a lack of self-initiated behaviour (motor, speech, cognitive, affective). Apathy is the most common neuropsychiatric symptom in Alzheimer's disease ...