Diagnosis - Mental Exam, Tests, Symptoms: Psychological dysfunction and stress-related illness are a significant problem in today’s society. Anxiety and depression represent the two most common mental disorders and are responsible for a high degree of m
Dementia is reversible in a minority of patients, and these should be diagnosed but without subjecting the majority with irreversible disease to an excessive set of investigations. Should a battery of ancillary investigations be performed routinely in dementia? Or can these tests be carried out as ...
doi:10.1111/j.1532-5415.1988.tb01817.xG. S. Rai MDConsultant Physician/Senior LecturerG. WrightLecturer/Honarary Senior Registrar Whittington Hospital Highgate Hill, London N19 5NF Great BritainJohn Wiley & Sons, LtdJournal of the American Geriatrics Society...
Multiple-level studies are needed to assess the true value of diagnostic tests for dementia. Ultimately, a diagnosis serves a pragmatic cause: it should benefit patients. Patients, caregivers, and doctors alike wish that the whole diagnostic proces... WAV Gool - 《Archives of Neurology》 被引量...
It may be useful for confirmation in some patients with dementia when a diagnosis of AD is unclear, although the presence of 1 or 2 copies of the APOE ϵ4 allele still does not make the diagnosis certain and absence of theϵ4 allele does not preclude a diagnosis of AD. APOE ...
Short cognitive tests are widely used in medicine to assess patients with memory problems but their role in the assessment of patients with cognitive problems is often misunderstood. They are a part of the examination of the patient and not tests for dementia or 'case-finding tools'. This misun...
Abstract Importance Neuropsychiatric symptoms, depressive symptoms in particular, are common in patients with dementia but whether depressive symptoms in adulthood increases the risk for dementia remains the subject of debate. Objective To characterize the trajectory of depressive symptoms over 28 years prior...
for dementia. The number needed to harm was 18 patients (95% CI, 17-19 patients) and 10 patients (95% CI, 9.5-11 patients) for Alzheimer disease and dementia, respectively. Conclusions and RelevanceAmong elderly patients with prostate cancer, ADT exposure was associated with subsequent diagnosi...
Verbal memory tests in the differential diagnosis of depression and dementia: discriminative power of seven test variations. Lachner G,Satzger W,Engel RR.Verbal memory tests in the differential diagnosis of depression and dementia: Discriminative power of seven test variations. ... Lachner,Satzger,R...
or a chronic infection such as Lyme disease. Many of these causes can be evaluated through blood tests.Depressionis another potentially reversible cause of dementia. There are other causes of dementia that, once determined, may also lead to improvedcognitionor, at least, can stop its decline. ...