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Most of the research activities on dementias have been and are focused on Alzheimer's disease. With regard to the treatment possibility and the cause and pathogenesis of cognitive impairment, however,...
OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to measure and compare temporal lobe volumes of geriatric depressive patients and normal controls. Temporal lobe volume was measured with computerized volumetric technique...
The dementia with Lewy bodies which was common next to the Alzheimer's dementia had been oftenly misdiagnozed as vascular dementia. The pathologic diagnosis of dementia with Lewy bodies was increasing...
It has been widely known that the elderly suffer very mild cognitive impairment including memory function that cannot satisfy the criteria of dementia. Koivisti and Hannien et al reported that...
Suh GH, Son HG, Shin H, Kim IM, Hong S, Park J, Choi IG, Kim SK, Yeon BK
KMID: 2064044
J Korean Geriatr Psychiatry.
2001 Jun;5(1):50-57.
OBJECTIVE: The aims of this study were to (1) validate the inter-rater reliability of the BEHAVE-AD, Korean version, to (2) analyze the quantitative relationship between severity of Alzheimer's disease (AD)...
OBJECTIVE: The aims of this study were to determine the factor structure of the BEHAVE-AD, Korean version, and to identify the cross-cultural validity of the observed factors .
DESIGN: Cross-sectional study...
The diagnostic concept of age-associated memory impairment (AAMI) suggests that clinically recognized memory dysfunction could be a feature of normal aging. Although the memory impairment associated with aging is well...
It is sufficient to justify distinguishing age-appropriate and age-inappropriate forms of age-related memory decline. The former, of which AAMI is an example, represents a normal age-related phenomenon, whereas the latter,...
OBJECTIVE: This study examines the risk factors of the falls of the dementic elderlies in the nursing home. Especially we investigated how the psychotropics affect them in the aspect of...
OBJECTIVES: 'The 7 Minute Screen' was reported so sensitive to discriminate mild dementia. The test results were not influenced by the education, age and sex. Furthermore, the examiners needed no...