Noncognitive behavioral and psychiatric disturbances are common in dementia and help in the clinical differentiation of the various subtypes. We studied the frequency of neuropsychiatric disturbances,...
Personal care homes are becoming an integral part of the gerontological health care environment. This exploratory descriptive study compares the health characteristics of elderly personal care home re...
The clinical entity of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis with Frontotemporal Dementia (ALS-FTD) has only recently been recognized as an important neurodegenerative disease. As in isolated FTD, the behavio...
This study was designed to examine the profiles of cognitive deficits in 11 mildly demented patients with dementia of Alzheimer's type (DAT), five with vascular dementia with multiple subcortical lacu...
Design fluency was assessed in four age and education matched groups 16 medical controls, 17 dementia of the Alzheimer's type (DAT), 15 multi-infarct dementia (MID) and six patients with dementia asso...
Dementia is typically thought of as a disease caused by the process of aging. Few studies have addressed the premorbid neuropsychological alterations in subjects at risk for the disease--an issue of g...