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Influence of adherence to a systematic care program for caregivers of dementia patients
Spijker, Anouk,
Teerenstra, Steven,
Wollersheim, Hub,
Adang, Eddy,
Verhey, Frans,
Vernooij-Dassen, Myrra
Objective: To evaluate the influence of adherence to the Systematic Care Program for Dementia (SCPD) intervention protocol on patient and caregiver outcomes.; Design: Data were drawn from the SCPD study-a single-blind, multicenter, cluster-randomized, controlled trial. Multivariate regression analyses were used to assess the influence of adherence on patient and caregiver outcomes.; Setting: Six community mental health […]
CSF α-synuclein concentrations do not fluctuate over hours and are not correlated to amyloid β in humans
Spies, Petra E.,
Slats, Diane,
Olde Rikkert, Marcel G. M.,
Tseng, Jack,
Claassen, Jurgen A. H. R.,
Verbeek, Marcel M.
Reports on the value of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) α-synuclein as a biomarker for dementia with Lewy bodies and Parkinson disease are contradicting. This may be explained by fluctuating CSF α-synuclein concentrations over time. Such fluctuations have been suggested for CSF amyloid β concentrations. Furthermore, a physiological relationship between α-synuclein and amyloid β has been suggested […]
Assessment of cognition in mild cognitive impairment: a comparative study
Snyder, Peter J.,
Jackson, Colleen E.,
Petersen, Ronald C.,
Khachaturian, Ara S.,
Kaye, Jeffrey,
Albert, Marilyn S.,
Weintraub, Sandra
The demand for rapidly administered, sensitive, and reliable cognitive assessments that are specifically designed for identifying individuals in the earliest stages of cognitive decline (and to measure subtle change over time) has escalated as the emphasis in Alzheimer’s disease clinical research has shifted from clinical diagnosis and treatment toward the goal of developing presymptomatic neuroprotective […]
The most common type of FTLD-FUS (aFTLD-U) is associated with a distinct clinical form of frontotemporal dementia but is not related to mutations in the FUS gene
Snowden, Julie S.,
Hu, Quan,
Rollinson, Sara,
Halliwell, Nicola,
Robinson, Andrew,
Davidson, Yvonne S.,
Momeni, Parastoo,
Baborie, Atik,
Griffiths, Timothy D.,
Jaros, Evelyn,
Perry, Robert H.,
Richardson, Anna,
Pickering-Brown, Stuart M.,
Neary, David,
Mann, David M. A.
Frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD) is clinically, pathologically and genetically heterogeneous. Recent descriptions of a pathological sub-type that is ubiquitin positive, TDP-43 negative and immunostains positive for the Fused in Sarcoma protein (FUS) raises the question whether it is associated with a distinct clinical phenotype identifiable on clinical grounds, and whether mutations in the Fused in […]
Effects of age, gender, education and race on two tests of language ability in community-based older adults
Snitz, Beth E.,
Unverzagt, Frederick W.,
Chang, Chung-Chou H.,
Bilt, Joni Vander,
Gao, Sujuan,
Saxton, Judith,
Hall, Kathleen S.,
Ganguli, Mary
Background: Neuropsychological tests, including tests of language ability, are frequently used to differentiate normal from pathological cognitive aging. However, language can be particularly difficult to assess in a standardized manner in cross-cultural studies and in patients from different educational and cultural backgrounds. This study examined the effects of age, gender, education and race on performance […]
Diagnostic performance of cerebrospinal fluid total tau and phosphorylated tau in Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease: results from the Swedish Mortality Registry
Skillbäck, Tobias,
Rosén, Christoffer,
Asztely, Fredrik,
Mattsson, Niklas,
Blennow, Kaj,
Zetterberg, Henrik
Importance: Identifying a clinical distinction between the invariably lethal prion disease Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) and nonprion rapidly progressive dementias is important and sometimes difficult; thus, reliable tools for diagnosis are in great demand.; Objective: To test the diagnostic performance of dementia cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) biomarkers total tau (T-tau), phosphorylated tau (P-tau), and the T-tau to […]
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and executive dysfunction. A case-control study on the significance of frontal white matter changes detected by diffusion tensor imaging (DTI)
Sjöbeck, Martin,
Elfgren, Christina,
Larsson, Elna-Marie,
Brockstedt, Sara,
Lätt, Jimmy,
Englund, Elisabet,
Passant, Ulla
White matter (WM) changes are frequently seen on structural imaging in AD but the clinical relevance of these changes is uncertain. Frontal WM pathology is often observed upon neuropathological examination in AD. Since frontal cortical/sub-cortical pathology is known to relate to executive dysfunction, the aim was to elucidate if frontal WM changes in AD correlated […]
Cognitive dysfunction in HIV patients despite long-standing suppression of viremia
Simioni, Samanta,
Cavassini, Matthias,
Annoni, Jean-Marie,
Rimbault Abraham, Aline,
Bourquin, Isabelle,
Schiffer, Véronique,
Calmy, Alexandra,
Chave, Jean-Philippe,
Giacobini, Ezio,
Hirschel, Bernard,
Du Pasquier, Renaud A.
Objective: To determine the prevalence of cognitive complaints and HIV-associated neurocognitive disorders (HANDs) in a cohort of aviremic HIV-positive patients. To evaluate the relevance of the HIV dementia scale to detect HANDs.; Design: Assessment of HANDs with neuropsychological tests.; Methods: Two hundred HIV-infected patients with undetectable HIV-1 RNA concentrations in the plasma, no history of […]
Qualification of the analytical and clinical performance of CSF biomarker analyses in ADNI
Shaw, Leslie M.,
Vanderstichele, Hugo,
Knapik-Czajka, Malgorzata,
Figurski, Michal,
Coart, Els,
Blennow, Kaj,
Soares, Holly,
Simon, Adam J.,
Lewczuk, Piotr,
Dean, Robert A.,
Siemers, Eric,
Potter, William,
Lee, Virginia M.-Y.,
Trojanowski, John Q.
The close correlation between abnormally low pre-mortem cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) concentrations of amyloid-β1-42 (Aβ(1-42)) and plaque burden measured by amyloid imaging as well as between pathologically increased levels of CSF tau and the extent of neurodegeneration measured by MRI has led to growing interest in using these biomarkers to predict the presence of AD plaque […]