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https://read.qxmd.com/read/26085043/pharmacological-management-of-lewy-body-dementia-a-systematic-review-and-meta-analysis
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REVIEW
Chris Stinton, Ian McKeith, John-Paul Taylor, Louise Lafortune, Eneida Mioshi, Elijah Mak, Victoria Cambridge, James Mason, Alan Thomas, John T O'Brien
OBJECTIVE: The authors examined research on effects, costs, and patient and caregiver views of pharmacological management strategies for Lewy body dementia. METHOD: Studies were identified through bibliographic databases, trials registers, gray literature, reference lists, and experts. The authors used the search terms "Lewy or parkinson" and "dementia" through March 2015 and used the following inclusion criteria: participants with diagnoses of Lewy body dementia, dementia with Lewy bodies, or Parkinson's disease dementia (or participants' caregivers); investigation of pharmacological management strategies; outcome measures and test scores reported...
August 1, 2015: American Journal of Psychiatry
https://read.qxmd.com/read/25958088/psychiatric-symptoms-in-frontotemporal-dementia-epidemiology-phenotypes-and-differential-diagnosis
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REVIEW
Daniela Galimberti, Bernardo Dell'Osso, A Carlo Altamura, Elio Scarpini
Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) is the most frequently occurring dementia in the presenile population. Despite epidemiologic data showing that patients with FTD may have experienced previous psychiatric disorders and that patients with psychotic disorders may develop dementia more often than expected in the nonaffected population, the overlap between these two conditions has been underestimated. Nevertheless, the identification in recent years of several genetic causes of FTD associated with heterogeneous and atypical presentations, including pure psychiatric symptoms, has shifted scientific interest back to obtaining a better understanding of common mechanisms between FTD and psychotic disorders...
November 15, 2015: Biological Psychiatry
https://read.qxmd.com/read/25875310/effect-of-depression-and-diabetes-mellitus-on-the-risk-for-dementia-a-national-population-based-cohort-study
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Wayne Katon, Henrik Sondergaard Pedersen, Anette Riisgaard Ribe, Morten Fenger-Grøn, Dimitry Davydow, Frans Boch Waldorff, Mogens Vestergaard
IMPORTANCE: Although depression and type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM) may independently increase the risk for dementia, no studies have examined whether the risk for dementia among people with comorbid depression and DM is higher than the sum of each exposure individually. OBJECTIVE: To examine the risk for all-cause dementia among persons with depression, DM, or both compared with persons with neither exposure. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS: We performed a national population-based cohort study of 2 454 532 adults, including 477 133 (19...
June 2015: JAMA Psychiatry
https://read.qxmd.com/read/25786075/antipsychotics-other-psychotropics-and-the-risk-of-death-in-patients-with-dementia-number-needed-to-harm
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COMPARATIVE STUDY
Donovan T Maust, Hyungjin Myra Kim, Lisa S Seyfried, Claire Chiang, Janet Kavanagh, Lon S Schneider, Helen C Kales
IMPORTANCE: Antipsychotic medications are associated with increased mortality in older adults with dementia, yet their absolute effect on risk relative to no treatment or an alternative psychotropic is unclear. OBJECTIVE: To determine the absolute mortality risk increase and number needed to harm (NNH) (ie, number of patients who receive treatment that would be associated with 1 death) of antipsychotic, valproic acid and its derivatives, and antidepressant use in patients with dementia relative to either no treatment or antidepressant treatment...
May 2015: JAMA Psychiatry
https://read.qxmd.com/read/25686760/white-matter-hyperintensities-cognitive-impairment-and-dementia-an-update
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Niels D Prins, Philip Scheltens
White matter hyperintensities (WMHs) in the brain are the consequence of cerebral small vessel disease, and can easily be detected on MRI. Over the past three decades, research has shown that the presence and extent of white matter hyperintense signals on MRI are important for clinical outcome, in terms of cognitive and functional impairment. Large, longitudinal population-based and hospital-based studies have confirmed a dose-dependent relationship between WMHs and clinical outcome, and have demonstrated a causal link between large confluent WMHs and dementia and disability...
March 2015: Nature Reviews. Neurology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/25698435/modifiable-predictors-of-dementia-in-mild-cognitive-impairment-a-systematic-review-and-meta-analysis
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Claudia Cooper, Andrew Sommerlad, Constantine G Lyketsos, Gill Livingston
OBJECTIVE: Public health campaigns encouraging early help seeking have increased rates of mild cognitive impairment (MCI) diagnosis in Western countries, but we know little about how to treat or predict dementia outcomes in persons with the condition. METHOD: The authors searched electronic databases and references for longitudinal studies reporting potentially modifiable risk factors for incident dementia after MCI. Two authors independently evaluated study quality using a checklist...
April 2015: American Journal of Psychiatry
https://read.qxmd.com/read/25698766/cognitive-behavioural-therapy-for-anxiety-in-dementia-pilot-randomised-controlled-trial
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RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL
Aimee Spector, Georgina Charlesworth, Michael King, Miles Lattimer, Susan Sadek, Louise Marston, Amritpal Rehill, Juanita Hoe, Afifa Qazi, Martin Knapp, Martin Orrell
BACKGROUND: Anxiety is common and problematic in dementia, yet there is a lack of effective treatments. AIMS: To develop a cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT) manual for anxiety in dementia and determine its feasibility through a randomised controlled trial. METHOD: A ten-session CBT manual was developed. Participants with dementia and anxiety (and their carers) were randomly allocated to CBT plus treatment as usual (TAU) (n = 25) or TAU (n = 25)...
June 2015: British Journal of Psychiatry
https://read.qxmd.com/read/25177209/neuropsychological-tests-for-the-diagnosis-of-alzheimer-s-disease-dementia-and-other-dementias-a-generic-protocol-for-cross-sectional-and-delayed-verification-studies
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Daniel Hj Davis, Sam T Creavin, Anna Noel-Storr, Terry J Quinn, Nadja Smailagic, Chris Hyde, Carol Brayne, Rupert McShane, Sarah Cullum
This is the protocol for a review and there is no abstract. The objectives are as follows: To determine the cross-sectional diagnostic accuracy of [index test] at various thresholds for ADD and other dementias [target condition] in [target population].ORTo determine the accuracy of [index test] at various thresholds for diagnosing ADD and other dementias [target condition] in [target population] after a follow-up period (delayed-verification studies).To investigate the heterogeneity of test accuracy in the included studies...
March 28, 2013: Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
https://read.qxmd.com/read/25084549/is-alzheimer-s-disease-related-to-metabolic-syndrome-a-wnt-signaling-conundrum
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REVIEW
Juvenal A Ríos, Pedro Cisternas, Marco Arrese, Salesa Barja, Nibaldo C Inestrosa
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common cause of dementia, affecting more than 36 million people worldwide. AD is characterized by a progressive loss of cognitive functions. For years, it has been thought that age is the main risk factor for AD. Recent studies suggest that life style factors, including nutritional behaviors, play a critical role in the onset of dementia. Evidence about the relationship between nutritional behavior and AD includes the role of conditions such as obesity, hypertension, dyslipidemia and elevated glucose levels...
October 2014: Progress in Neurobiology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/23900411/parkinson-s-disease-dementia-convergence-of-%C3%AE-synuclein-tau-and-amyloid-%C3%AE-pathologies
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REVIEW
David J Irwin, Virginia M-Y Lee, John Q Trojanowski
Dementia is increasingly being recognized in cases of Parkinson's disease (PD); such cases are termed PD dementia (PDD). The spread of fibrillar α-synuclein (α-syn) pathology from the brainstem to limbic and neocortical structures seems to be the strongest neuropathological correlate of emerging dementia in PD. In addition, up to 50% of patients with PDD also develop sufficient numbers of amyloid-β plaques and tau-containing neurofibrillary tangles for a secondary diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease, and these pathologies may act synergistically with α-syn pathology to confer a worse prognosis...
September 2013: Nature Reviews. Neuroscience
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