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Research articles are rapidly increasing in number of publications in the regular journals on geriatric psychiatry and it's allied fields since 1989. However, they were mainly on dementia, depression, epidemiology...
Dementia is the clinical syndrome characterized by acquired losses of cognitive abilities severe enough to interfere with daily functioning and the quality of life. More than 50 illnesses, some nonprogressive,...
The auther tried to describe the diagnosis and differential diagnosis of senile dementia, especially Alzheimer's dementia (AD). AD is a clinicopathological manifestation, which patients are estimated as about 150 hundred...
Symptoms of dementia vary widely according to the etiology, nature, progression of the causative disease. Not only various cognitive and non-cognitive features are present in any given point of evaluation,...
There are about sixty to seventy diseases which develop dementia until now. These include degenerative disease, vascular disease, infectious disease, hydrocephalus, toxic condition, head trauma, tumor , metabolic disease, and...
OBJECTIVE: Dementia is major neuropsychiatic disorder in the elderly. This study was aimed to investigate the prevalence of dementia and provide fundamental data for community mental health programs.
METHOD: 500 elderly...
OBJECTIVE: The authors investigated effects of gender, age and education on the MMSEK performances in a non-demented elderly rural population.
METHODS: The MMSEK was administered to 617 non-demented elderly people aged...
OBJECTIVES: The aims of this study were to identify the frequency and severity of white matter lesions on MRIs of late-life depression and deppression due to cerebrovascular diseases (vascular depression),...