Abstract Spatial disorientation has been observed in mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and is associated with a higher risk of progression to Alzheimer's disease (AD). However, there is no gold standard assessment for spatial orientation and paper-and-pencil tests lack ecological validity. Recently, there ...
Pais, Marcos;
Martinez, Luana;
Ribeiro, Octávio;
Loureiro, Júlia;
Fernandez, Romel;
Valiengo, Leandro;
Canineu, Paulo;
Stella, Florindo;
Talib, Leda;
Radanovic, Marcia;
Forlenza, Orestes V..
The prevalence of Alzheimer's disease (AD), a progressive neurodegenerative disorder, is expected to more than double by 2050. Studies on the pathophysiology of AD have been changing our understanding of this disorder and setting a new scenario for drug development and other therapies. Concepts like the ...
OBJECTIVE: Evaluate the accuracy of two semantic categories of the verbal fluency test (supermarket and animal categories) to separate healthy elderly individuals and lower educated Alzheimer’s disease patients. METHODS: We evaluated 69 older adults with less than 5 years of schooling, consisting of 31...
Objective: To translate, establish the diagnostic accuracy, and standardize the Brazilian Portuguese version of the European Cross-Cultural Neuropsychological Test Battery (CNTB) considering schooling level. Methods: We first completed an English-Brazilian Portuguese translation and back-translation of ...
Enfermedad de Alzheimer/diagnóstico,
Brasil,
Estudios de Casos y Controles,
Comparación Transcultural,
Escolaridad,
Función Ejecutiva,
Recuerdo Mental,
Pruebas Neuropsicológicas/normas,
Valores de Referencia,
Reproducibilidad de los Resultados,
Sensibilidad y Especificidad,
Traducciones
Abstract Background: Air contamination happens when unsafe or inordinate amounts of substances including gases, particles, and organic atoms are brought into Earth's climate. Objective: This review article defines air pollution, describes the types of pollutants, enumerates the various causative fact...
OBJECTIVES: To describe elderly performance in the Bender Gestalt Test (BGT) and to discriminate its score by using types of errors as comparison among healthy controls, Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients, and vascular dementia (VD) patients. METHODS: We performed a cross-sectional analysis of 285 elderl...
There is emerging evidence for a dysregulation of insulin signaling in the brains of patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) with overlapping molecular features to Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM). In addition, T2DM is a known risk factor of AD. The goal of this study was to investigate the neurogenic and ...
ABSTRACT Objective To evaluate the epidemiological profile of patients seen at a dementia outpatient clinic. Methods A retrospective study conducted by medical record review searching data on sex, race, age, schooling level, and diagnosis of patients seen from 2008 to 2015. Results A total of 760 p...
Distribución por Edad,
Enfermedad de Alzheimer/diagnóstico,
Enfermedad de Alzheimer/epidemiología,
Brasil/epidemiología,
Disfunción Cognitiva/diagnóstico,
Disfunción Cognitiva/epidemiología,
Demencia/diagnóstico,
Demencia/epidemiología,
Escolaridad,
Hospitales Privados/estadística & datos numéricos,
Registros Médicos,
Persona de Mediana Edad,
Pacientes Ambulatorios/estadística & datos numéricos,
Prevalencia,
Estudios Retrospectivos,
Distribución por Sexo
