birdspatchrural landscapeforest fragmentationconnectivityNo abstract is available for this article.doi:10.1111/j.1532-5415.1988.tb01817.xMD, G. S. RaiWright, G.John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
To study the diagnostic parameters of a number of instruments for a diagnosis of dementia in general practice and the added diagnostic value of these tests. Cross-sectional diagnostic research in general practice. Participants: 152 persons aged 65 plus. The Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE), th...
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...
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 ...
The NINCD-ADRDA criteria (McKhann etal, 1984) have a high degree of sensitivity but low specificity for the diagnosis of possible Alzheimer's disease (Knopman etal, 2001). This may lead to over diagnosis of some patients without dementia. All this can lead to diagnostic uncertainty and when...
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. ...
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...
Physicians will typically check for related complications while diagnosing a mental health disorder and perform:Physical exams to rule out any physical problems that could be causing the symptoms Lab tests to evaluate body processes or screen for alcohol and drugs Psychological evaluation to assess ...
Verbal memory tests in the differential diagnosis of depression and dementia: Discriminative power of seven test variations 来自 Semantic Scholar 喜欢 0 阅读量: 39 作者:G Lachner,W Satzger,RR Engel 摘要: The many tasks for the assessment of verbal memory differ widely in features of presentation...
Cambridge scientists have shown that it is possible to spot signs of brain impairment in patients as early as nine years before they receive a diagnosis for one of a number of dementia-related diseases. In research published today inAlzheimers & Dementia, the team analyzed data from the UK Bio...