If you or someone you love gets diagnosed with dementia, it means you or they have a brain condition that causes issues with thinking, behavior, and memory. Dementia symptoms are known to get worse over time, but treatments may help slow that decline. Researchers continue to make progress tow...
While the one-time imaging of these 128 research volunteers can't show cause and effect, the strong association between tau, salience network disruption and behavior change is intriguing, the team says. They call for further study of the potential connection in other populations, and for research...
Objectives: To design, implement, and assess the pilot phase of an innovative, remote case-based video-consultation program called ECHO-AGE that links experts in the management of behavior disorders in patients with dementia to nursing home care providers.Catic, Angela G.Mattison, Melissa L. P....
thinking, behavior and the ability to perform everyday activities.” While dementia is associated with a number of symptoms, the most common ones include changes to personality, loss of memory, trouble focusing, and communication problems with listening and speaking. Dementia...
In order to do so, we will firstly address the definition of inappropriate sexual behavior or, more precisely, its multiple definitions. After that, we will deal with other issues such as its prevalence, factors that can cause its appearance, its consequences and some of the available ...
Sexuality in the Nursing Home, Part 2: Managing Abnormal Behavior—Legal and Ethical Issues Everyone, regardless of age, needs love, touch, companionship, and intimacy. The 1.6 million elderly in the 20,000 U.S. nursing homes are not an exception... Hosam,K.,Kamel,... - 《Journal of ...
Treatment depends on which mental disorder you have and how serious it is. Psychiatry is a medical specialty focused on the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of mental health disorders. These disorders encompass a wide range of conditions that affect mood, thinking, and behavior, including ...
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within thesubstantia nigra, which is located in the brainstem. The substantia nigra is a major site of production of theneurotransmitterdopamine, which plays an important role inmemoryformation and learning and in helping regulate attention, behavior,cognition, mood, motivation, movement, and sleep. ...
BPSD dementia is a neurodegenerative disorder that changes the brain's physical and chemical and physical composition. As the brain undergoes severe damage as part of the course of the disorder, it influences the changes in a person’s behavior and perception of the world around them. Psycholog...