…but commonly associated co-morbidities such as diabetes, high blood pressure and metabolic disorders are. Dementia diseases in patients who suffer from diabetes are often treated inadequately, a new research paper…
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…Peter Maeck’s moving presentation entitled “Remembrance of Things Present – Making Peace with Dementia”. This presentation combined Mr Maeck’s poetry, prose and photographs to celebrate his father’s brave, good humoured…
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…developing a synucleinopathy (PD, multi-systems atrophy (MSA) or dementia with lewy bodies (DLB)) exceeds 70%.6 Such a high magnitude of risk may justify enrolment into clinical trials without further selection…
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…and up to 50% will experience mild psychotic symptoms1. The majority of mental health problems in Parkinson’s disease are not optimally managed2. Dementia is a common feature of the later…
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…interaction and reductions in agitated behaviour in dementia [4]; improvements in depression [5] (which is commonly seen in rehabilitation and recognised to reduce participation [6]) and even alterations in stress-…
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…history of Pellagra has been largely forgotten even if the 4 ‘D’s’ of Dementia, Dermatitis, Diarrhoea and Death are still taught to medical students.1, 2 Few realise that a festinating…
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…addressed ‘Neuropsychiatry of Parkinson’s Disease (PD)’ where Dr Rimona Weil delivered a talk on ‘Understanding dementia and hallucinations in PD’. The talk presented recent work using advanced neuroimaging to detect…
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…course, the ABN. This is a UK exam, and you need to know these by heart (or well at least). The diagnostic criteria for most neurological illnesses (GBS/CIDP/MND/MS/dementia/Parkinson’s/headache syndromes) should…
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…pre-CT scan era Adams et al. reported three cases of ventriculomegaly associated with gait disturbance, dementia and incontinence [1]. All three patients had normal CSF pressure (140-50, 160 and 175mmH2O)…
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