There is no way of knowing how a dementia patient’s personality and behavior will change as the disease runs its course. To make matters worse, these things can fluctuate from day to day and even moment to moment. With Dementia, Behavior Changes Are Common One of the most troubles...
Mrs. J, age 75, has moderate Alzheimer's dementia and lives at home with her husband. Since her...Carnahan, Ryan M.Dowden Health Media, Inc.Current Psychiatry
If you’ve been a thyroid patient for a while, you’re probably thinking to yourself, “Well, of course, doesn’t everyone know that?”— and I have to warn you… I’ve unfortunately seen physicians who have mistakenly thought that a low TSH meant one had an underactive thyroid, and a...
So how can a physician navigate the shoals of patient demand and responsible use of medical resources? "The biggest mistake physicians make is simply saying 'no,'" says Dr. Brody. "When I was in practice, I'd often begin by saying, 'If after we're finished speaking you still want that...
She was later to occupy the Chair at Edinburgh. I was sent off to nearby Victorian asylums to carry out Hinton and Withers Present State Examinations on chronic schizophrenics as part of an on-going study of ‘dementia in dementia praecox.’ Dementia praecox is the old name for schizophrenia...
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__3__,there’s another sort of parent that’s a bit easier to __4__:a patient parent.Children of every age benefit from patient parenting.Still,__5__ every parent would like to be patient,this is no easy __6__.Sometimes parents get exhausted and frustrated and are unable to mainta...
"Once delivered to the cell, the cell reads the mRNA and makes an antibody." The Florey team used mRNA to instruct cells in cell models to create RNJ1, an antibody Dr. Nisbet developed to target tau, a protein that clumps in thebrain cellsof dementia patients. ...
Stunning advances in gene research and data mining will predict diseases and devise treatments tailored to each of us.
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