Test could improve detection of prion disease in humans
...w believe this conversion process leads to several dementing diseases in humans, including CJD. Similar diseases in animals include bovine spongiform encephalopathy ("mad cow" disease) in cattle and scrapie in sheep. Abnormal, misfolded proteins contribute to other age-related neurological diseases such as Alz...UCLA-VA study names India dietary staple as potential Alzheimer's weapon
...en them. The disease is the most common form of dementing illness among middle and older adults, affecting more than 4 million Americans and many millions worldwide. The prevalence of Alzheimer's among adults ages 70-79 in India, however, is 4.4 times less than the rate in the United States. Widely used as...Problematic behaviour of dementing patients exacerbated
...earcher Marjolein de Vugt has found that carers of dementing family members can exacerbate the dementing patient's problematic behaviour. If they cannot accept the behavioural problems and express this irr...Researchers identify novel method of distinguishing Alzheimers disease from other types of dementia
...eously excluded the frontotemporal dementias. "The dementing diseases are becoming a very important socio-econo...ligible for treatment and who has one of the other dementing diseases, for whom these new treatments would be ineffective." In the study, SPECT was used to measu...Damage to the frontal lobes can affect a person's ability to 'stay on the job'
... Performance variability has also been reported in dementing illness, attention deficit disorder and schizophrenia. However, there has been no direct experiment to determine if lesions in 'any' focal region of the frontal lobes are critical for performance variability. Dr. Stuss wanted to investigate whether d......'t decline much with ageunless a person develops a dementing illness such as Alzheimer's disease. "Butwhen cognitive performance begins to decline, it does so only when theinformant-based method has shown change," Morris says. "The informant method canbe more sensitive to the very early stages of dementia than...