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BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: The apolipoprotein E (Apo E) epsilon4 allele is known to be a risk factor for Alzheimer's disease (AD). However, there are debates about the relationship between Apo...
Elderly patients affected with dementia frequently accompany delusions, hallucinations and other psychotic symptoms. As such, these patients are commonly prescribed antipsychotic medications for the treatment of psychosis. However, in recent...
BACKGROUND: Posterior cortical atrophy (PCA) is characterized by slowly progressive early onset dementia with cortical visual dysfunction and disproportionate atrophy of the posterior cortex.
CASE REPORT: A 55-year-old right-handed woman developed...
BACKGROUND: Prosopometamorphopsia is a disorder of face perception in which faces appear distorted to the perceiver. Cases with unilateral prosopometamorphopsia caused by splenial lesion have been very rarely reported.
CASE REPORT:...
BACKGROUND: Tauopathies are a group of diseases caused by the accumulation of hyperphosphorylated tau protein in the central nervous system. Previous studies have revealed that there is considerable overlap in...
BACKGROUND: Cognitive therapy may have therapeutic benefit in patients with early Alzheimer's disease (AD).
CASE REPORT: This was a 12-week, single-blind pilot study of 4 patients with AD. The cognitive therapy...