Alzheimer’s Dementia: A Primer Plaques and Tangles, Amyloid deposits and Apo-E: Who can keep them straight? Unless you are a researcher, all you really need to know is ...
Preventing Dementia: What Works We'd all like to escape dementia in our old age. Over the past decade, numerous large scale epidemiological studies have been published singing the ...
Comparing Cholinesterase Inhibitors If you were in TCR's editorial offices, surrounded by boxes of articles about acetylcholinesterase inhibitors (AChEI’s), you would quickly develop a sinking sensation. Not because ...
Can Your Older Patient Drive Safely? Approximately 22 million older adults (78%) have valid drivers' licenses, and the number will grow until 2029 as the baby boomer generation ages.1 This dramatic change in demographics will be reflected in the driving population, ...
Brain Aging and Dementia: Practical Tips From Clinical Research Cognitive decline with increasing age has emerged as one of the greatest health care problems worldwide. It is estimated that 1 in 10 persons older than 65 years and nearly half of those older than 85 have some degree of dementia.
Diabetes-Related Risk Factors and Cognitive Aging Researchers from more than 2 dozen large-scale epidemiological studies have reported a link between type 2 diabetes mellitus and cognitive impairment, cognitive decline, and dementia.
New Guidelines For Diagnosing Alzheimer’s: Wishful Thinking…Dangerous Consequences Previously, I have been quite critical of the DSM-5 suggestion to introduce a new diagnosis--Minor Neurocognitive Disorder--on the grounds that it would create a large false positive problem and would lead to unnecessary worry and cost with no useful intervention. Even more ambitious and dangerous are the recently suggested diagnostic guidelines for Alzheimer's created by a panel jointly sponsored by the National Institute on Aging and the Alzheimer's Association.
