ALLMedicine™ Dementia Center

Jun 2nd, 2021 - Memantine is an N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor (NMDA-R) antagonist, approved for dementia, but also studied in pediatric autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). We reviewed children treated with memantine...

Jun 2nd, 2021 - To evaluate the trend of healthcare utilization among patients with dementia (PwD) in different post-diagnosis periods, Taiwan's nationwide population database was used in this study. PwD were identified on the basis of dementia diagnoses during 2...

Jun 2nd, 2021 - The rise in dementia among the aging Korean population will quickly create a financial burden on society, but timely recognition of early warning for dementia and proper responses to the occurrence of dementia can enhance medical treatment. Health...

Jun 2nd, 2021 - The relationship between preexisting major psychiatric disorders and outcomes of spine surgery for degenerative thoracic/lumbar disease remains unclear. A 5% subset of inpatients was randomly selected from the Taiwan National Health Insurance Rese...

Jun 2nd, 2021 - Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder and represents the most common form of senile dementia. Autophagy and mitophagy are cellular processes that play a key role in the aggregation of β-amyloid (Aβ) and tau phosphory...

Apr 18th, 2021 - Sleep dysregulation is a feature of dementia but it remains unclear whether sleep duration prior to old age is associated with dementia incidence. Using data from 7959 participants of the Whitehall II study, we examined the association between sle...

Apr 6th, 2021 - Managing Sleep for Individuals With Dementia: A Guide for Caregivers.|2021|Rider JV,Tay MC,|

Feb 24th, 2021 - Sex differences in dementia risk are unclear. It is known that women have a greater prevalence of Alzheimer disease (AD) than men, at least partly because women live longer.1-3 Some, but not all, studies suggest that women have higher incidence of...

Feb 10th, 2021 - Background: Sleep disturbance and deficiency are common among older adults and have been linked with dementia and all-cause mortality. Using nationally representative data, we examine the relationship between sleep disturbance and deficiency and t...

Feb 5th, 2021 - Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common type of dementia leading to progressive memory loss and cognitive impairment. Considering that pharmacological treatment options for AD are few and not satisfactory, increasing attention is being paid to...

Jun 13th, 2021 - This transcript has been edited for clarity. Matthew F. Watto, MD: Welcome back to The Curbsiders. I'm Dr Matthew Watto, here with my good friend, Dr Paul Williams. We are going to talk about "dementia made simple" from a great conversation we had...

Jun 8th, 2021 - Takeaway In patients with type 2 diabetes (T2D), higher or unstable glycated haemoglobin (HbA1c) levels and the presence of diabetic complications were associated with an increased risk of dementia incidence.

Jun 2nd, 2021 - Memantine is an N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor (NMDA-R) antagonist, approved for dementia, but also studied in pediatric autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). We reviewed children treated with memantine...

Jun 2nd, 2021 - To evaluate the trend of healthcare utilization among patients with dementia (PwD) in different post-diagnosis periods, Taiwan's nationwide population database was used in this study. PwD were identified on the basis of dementia diagnoses during 2...

Jun 2nd, 2021 - The rise in dementia among the aging Korean population will quickly create a financial burden on society, but timely recognition of early warning for dementia and proper responses to the occurrence of dementia can enhance medical treatment. Health...

Jun 13th, 2021 - This transcript has been edited for clarity. Matthew F. Watto, MD: Welcome back to The Curbsiders. I'm Dr Matthew Watto, here with my good friend, Dr Paul Williams. We are going to talk about "dementia made simple" from a great conversation we had...

Jun 8th, 2021 - Takeaway In patients with type 2 diabetes (T2D), higher or unstable glycated haemoglobin (HbA1c) levels and the presence of diabetic complications were associated with an increased risk of dementia incidence.

May 20th, 2021 - Individuals at increased risk for dementia because of family history can reduce that risk by adopting healthy lifestyle behaviors, data from more than 300,000 adults aged 50-73 years suggest. Having a parent or sibling with dementia can increase a...

May 18th, 2021 - Takeaway Younger age at type 2 diabetes (T2D) onset was significantly associated with an increased risk of subsequent dementia. Why this matters While the association of early-onset T2D with cardiovascular outcomes is well known, its association w...

May 17th, 2021 - A research letter published in  JAMA Internal Medicine  reports that almost one-third of nursing home residents with atrial fibrillation (AF) and advanced dementia remained on anticoagulation during their last six months of life. The cross-section...