Browsing Dementia by Issue Date
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Dementia and delirium: cause for concern
(2016)Delirium prevention should be key to a person-centred approach and central to our work with people with dementia, says Claire Biernacki. She explains it’s causes and predisposing factors. The types of delirium and how it ... -
Screening exons 16 and 17 of the amyloid precursor protein gene in sporadic early-onset Alzheimer's disease
(2016)Early-onset Alzheimer's disease (EOAD) can be familial (FAD) or sporadic EOAD (sEOAD); both have a disease onset <65 years of age. A total of 451 sEOAD samples were screened for known causative mutations in exons 16 and ... -
Psychiatry and the geriatric syndromes: Creating constructive interfaces
(2017)Integrating mental and physical healthcare is difficult to achieve because of professional and organisational barriers. Psychiatrists recognise the problems resulting from fragmentation of services and want continuity of ... -
Peripheral insulin resistance does not correlate with cerebral glucose metabolic rate in non-diabetic alzheimer's patients
(2018)Background: Type 2 diabetes is a risk factor for Alzheimer disease (AD) and several studies have shown that insulin signalling is impaired in AD brain. Progressive brain hypometabolism is a hallmark of AD and can be evaluated ... -
Evaluating the effects of the novel GLP-1 analogue liraglutide in Alzheimer's disease: Study protocol for a randomised controlled trial (ELAD study)
(2019)Background: Liraglutide is a glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) analogue currently approved for type 2 diabetes and obesity. Preclinical evidence in transgenic models of Alzheimer's disease suggests that liraglutide exerts ...
