However, the STN group declined significantly faster than the GPi group on the Mattis Dementia Rating Scale and on other neurocognitive measures. Overall, quality of life was improved in both ...

Abbreviations 7MS: Seven-minute screen; 99mTc-HMPAO 99 m: Technetium-hexamethyl-propylenamine oxime; Aβ 1–42: 42 aminoacid form of amyloid-β; ACE: Addenbrooke's cognitive examination; ADAS-CoG ...

This booklet, extracted from the third edition of Research Methods in Psychiatry and with a new foreword and introduction, will help guide you through the crucial process of selecting the rating ...

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Cerebral autosomal dominant arteriopathy with subcortical infarcts and leukoencephalopathy (CADASIL) is caused by mutation of the NOTCH3 gene and is considered a model of 'pure' vascular dementia.

US Defence Secretary James Mattis resigned from the Trump administration on Thursday, in a letter highlighting his policy differences with the president. Here is his resignation letter in full.

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Actress Prunella Scales has reprised her lifelong role as Queen Victoria despite an ongoing battle with dementia. Performing ...

There is a lot of evidence that lifestyle choices can affect our risk of developing dementia. Dementia risk is lowest in people who have healthy behaviours in mid-life (aged 40–65). No single ...

All Creatures Great and Small star Samuel West shared a heartfelt update on his mother Prunella Scales on going health ... about his mum's struggle with dementia. The actress, 92, has been ...

There is a relationship between a person having high cholesterol levels and going on to develop dementia. People with high cholesterol levels also often have other health conditions like high blood ...