..., find higher cholesterol associated with a lower risk of subsequent cognitive decline or dementia. Prior evidence synthesis based on published results has not allowed us to focus on older adults or to standardize analyses across studies. Given our ageing population, an increased risk of dementia...

...; Edith J.M. Feskens; Francine Grodstein; Lisette C.P.G.M. de Groot Aim: To examine the association between a healthy diet, assessed by the Healthy Diet Indicator (HDI), and cognitive decline in older adults. Methods: Data from 21,837 participants aged ≥55 years from 3 cohorts (Survey in Europe...

...Hanna Lu; Sandra S.M. Chan; Ada W.T. Fung; Linda C.W. Lam Aims: Complex attention, serving as a main diagnostic item of mild neurocognitive disorders (NCD), has been reported to be susceptible to pathological ageing. This study aimed to evaluate the attention network functions in older adults...

... lobes was not significant after correction for age. Conclusion: Our findings suggest that the location of GM correlates of cognitive tests is largely consistent with the conventional understanding of the neuroanatomical basis of cognition. However, the lack of hemispheric predominance in these GM...

... = 300) of people aged 60–86 years. The physiological profile assessment was used to estimate the falls risk. Results: After adjusting for confounders, visual construction (p < 0.01), executive function/attention and memory (both p < 0.05) were independently associated with falls risk...

...Valerie E. Lesk; Thurza E.M. Honey; Celeste A. de Jager We investigated the effect of recent intake of caffeine-containing foodstuffs (CCFS) on a group of elderly participants (age range 67–95 years) on a series of neuropsychological tests. There was no significant effect of CCFS intake...

... tangle (NFT) distribution in primary area 17, and a semi-quantitative analysis in the dorsal lateral geniculate nucleus (LGN), lateral inferior pulvinar (LIP) and superior colliculus (SC) of 21 individuals aged between 93 and 102 years. Among them, 10 cases were considered as non-demented (ND), while 9...

... in a prospective case-controlled survey. Twenty-three patients, aged 60 or over, with features compatible with DSM-IV criteria for primary degenerative dementia of the Alzheimer type were recruited together with 18 cognitively intact age-matched control subjects. Total vitamin B12 (active corrinoids), holo...

...Christian Kronborg Andersen; Jes Søgaard; Elisabeth Hansen; Anne Kragh-Sørensen; Lene Hastrup; Jutta Andersen; Kjeld Andersen; Annette Lolk; Henry Nielsen; Per Kragh-Sørensen In a population-based study of dementia, the cost of care for 245 demented elderly and 490 controls matched by age...

...N.V. Ponomareva; V.F. Fokin; N.D. Selesneva; N.I. Voskresenskaia Visual-evoked potentials (VEP) to a flash were studied in the first-order relatives of patients with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) (mean age 38.2 ± 2.6 years) in comparison with the patients (mean age 61.9 ± 1.4 years) and age-matched...

...Margie Wright; Gina Geffen; Laurie Geffen Age-related changes and the effects of dementia of the Alzheimer type (DAT) were investigated during a visual orienting attention task in which attention was pre-cued to one or other hemifields. Central cues were either valid, neutral, invalid or NoGo...