.... Methods: This double-blind, placebo-controlled randomized clinical trial included twenty-eight individuals over age 65 randomized to the treatment group ( n = 17) or placebo control group ( n = 13). Participants completed a baseline neuropsychological assessment, including questionnaires assessing...

... brain volume changes with age and sex differences are required as a reference standard for future research and clinical use. Methods: We studied a two-center, metropolitan-based, prospective cohort of adults aged 55 years and older who were recruited from community-dwelling settings and outpatient...

... pandemic. Methods: A multicentric first phase cross-sectional observational study was conducted during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. Five thousand two hundred and forty-five Latin American adults over 60 years of age were studied in 10 countries: Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico...

... the elderly with social media and virtual activities will prevent them from suffering loneliness. [email protected] 29 12 2020 29 12 2020 16 2 2021 © 2021 The Author(s) Published by S. Karger AG, Basel 2021 Open Access License / Drug Dosage / Disclaimer This article...

...Takayuki Tabira; Maki Hotta; Miki Murata; Kazuhiro Yoshiura; Gwanghee Han; Tomohisa Ishikawa; Asuka Koyama; Noriyuki Ogawa; Michio Maruta; Yuriko Ikeda; Takaaki Mori; Taku Yoshida; Mamoru Hashimoto; Manabu Ikeda Background/Aims: Age-related changes in impairments in activities of daily living (ADL...

... characteristics and community engagement were found to be related to cognitive function among community-dwelling Chinese elderly adults. [email protected] 11 07 2019 12 07 2019 10 9 2019 © 2019 The Author(s) Published by S. Karger AG, Basel 2019 Open Access License / Drug Dosage...

... to the test protocol in cognitively healthy, amnestic mild cognitive impairment (aMCI), and Alzheimer’s disease dementia subjects to assess the possibility of preventing this. Methods: This is a cross-sectional study in memory outpatient subjects with a mean age of 74.5 years. Primary study outcomes were...

... and studied multiple domains of mental health, lifestyle, and life quality of the community-dwelling people in the northern coastal region of Taiwan. Results: Among 426 valid AD8 questionnaires, a cutoff of score 2 divided subjects into 115 with SCD (SCD+) and 311 without SCD (SCD–). Analysis of age, sex...

...; Angela L. Jefferson Background/Aims: This study evaluated neuroimaging and biological correlates, psychometric properties, and regression-based normative data of the 12-word Philadelphia Verbal Learning Test (PVLT), a list-learning test. Methods: Vanderbilt Memory and Aging Project participants free...

... of dementia subtypes in a North Indian population. [email protected] 30 06 2016 23 06 2017 26 7 2017 © 2017 The Author(s). Published by S. Karger AG, Basel 2017 Open Access License / Drug Dosage / Disclaimer This article is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution...

...Yasuhiro Nagahama; Tomoko Okina; Norio Suzuki Background/Aims: To examine the influence of age on neuropsychological performances in dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) and Alzheimer disease (AD) patients. Methods: We examined memory, executive, and visuo-constructional performances in 202 DLB patients...

... to increase the level of physical fitness. [email protected] 10 9 2016 © 2016 The Author(s) Published by S. Karger AG, Basel 2016 Open Access License / Drug Dosage / Disclaimer This article is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0...

... of contraindications), a stepwise titration strategy for dose escalation, and appropriate monitoring and counseling of patients and caregivers in the management of patients with AD. [email protected] 9 9 2016 © 2016 The Author(s) Published by S. Karger AG, Basel 2016 Open Access...

...Quentin Lenoble; Giovanna Bubbico; Sébastien Szaffarczyk; Florence Pasquier; Muriel Boucart Aims: We investigated the performance in scene categorization of patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) using a saccadic choice task. Method: 24 patients with mild AD, 28 age-matched controls and 26 young...

...Sarah Jane Banks; Rema Raman; Feng He; David P. Salmon; Steven Ferris; Paul Aisen; Jeffrey Cummings Background/Methods: The Alzheimer's Disease Cooperative Study Prevention Instrument Project is a longitudinal study that recruited 644 cognitively healthy older subjects (aged between 75 and 93 years...

... in elderly patients with mild to moderate dementia. Methods: The clinical characteristics of 82 elderly patients (mean age 79.0 ± 5.9 years; 67.1% females) with mild to moderate dementia were obtained at baseline, including years of education, Framingham Coronary Heart Disease Risk score, Hachinski Ischemic...

... were applied for study inclusion: (1) German as first language; (2) no more than one age-, gender-, and education-corrected Z-score ≤-1.96 on any variable on the German version of the CERAD-NAB [ 24 ]; (3) absence of systemic or neurological illnesses according to self-reported medical history; (4...

... 11 2012 © 2012 S. Karger AG, Basel 2012 Open Access License / Drug Dosage / Disclaimer Open Access License: This is an Open Access article licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC) ( www.karger.com/OA-license ), applicable...

...Fabienne Esposito; Lucien Rochat; Anne-Claude Juillerat Van der Linden; Martial Van der Linden Background: Apathy is common in aging, but the processes underlying its different components are still unclear. The aim of this study was to examine the relationships between apathy and prospective memory...

... to systematically review evidence for associations between dementia or aging and cerebrovascular function as measured using transcranial Doppler (TCD) examination. Methods: A total of 1,172 articles were retrieved from PsychInfo and PubMed searches, and 34 relevant articles were identified using a variety of TCD...