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Cognitive decline in dementia patients causes impairment in daily activities as well as occupational or social activities, which results in frustration and anxiety for the patients themselves. Furthermore, from the...
Vascular dementia is defined as a clinical syndrome of acquired intellectual impairment resulting from a brain injury due to a cerebrovascular disorder. It incorporates various vascular pathophysiological mechanisms and changes...
Vascular dementia is one of the few remediable causes of dementia among the eldery. Prevention of the disease can be best achieved by primary or secondary prevention of controllable risk...
Behavioral symptoms are well-recognized concomitants of the progression of dementia. These symptoms include agitation, aggression, anxiety, depression, disinhibition, delusions, hallucination, and sleep disturbance. Because these symptoms are a major source...
Three hormonal systems show decreasing circulating hormone concentrations during normal aging : (1) estrogen(in menopause), and testosterone (in andropause), (2) dehydroepiandrosterone and its sulfate (in adrenopause), and (3) the growth...
Differential diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and vascular dementia(VaD) has an important bearing on the diagnosis and management of patients with dementia. This article provides a guideline for the differential...
This article provides clinical practice guidelines for primary care physicians in the assessment of dementia patients. Dementia is an acquired syndrome due to brain dysfunction, which is characterized by multiple...
Hypertensive patients tend to experience cardiac diseases such as myocardial infarction more frequently than the normotensive subjects. Exercise training in hypertensive patients alliviates their symptoms, improves their cardiopulmonary endurance, and...
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is an age-related disorder. Both the prevalence and the incidence of AD double approximately every 5 years after the age of 60. This is a particularly serious...
Alzheimer's disease (AD), the cause of one of the most common types of dementia, is pathologically characterized by cholinergic deficits, extracellular amyloid deposit, intraneuronal neurofibrillary tangles, gliosis, and neuronal and...
Dementia as a public health problem looms as an epidemic of the 21st century. The aging population places an increasing number of individuals at risk for dementia. It is predicted...
School bullying, the most prevalent type of school violence, is known to be related to various behavioral, emotional, and social problems both in victims and perpetrators. The purpose of the...
Alzheimer's disease(AD) is one of the most common causes of mental deterioration in elderly individuals, accounting for around 45~60% of the overall cases of dementia over 65 years of age....
The pathogenesis of cervical cancer is a clinically important example of multistage epithelial tumorigenesis from the progressive neoplastic changes known as premalignant cervical intraepithelial neoplasias (CINs) to invasive cervical cancers....