Cognitive vitality is essential to quality of life and survival in old age. With normal aging,
cognitive changes such as slowed speed of processing are common, but there is substantial …

Background: Dementia can now be accurately diagnosed through clinical evaluation,
cognitive screening, basic laboratory evaluation and structural imaging. A large number of …

Background In 1988, 2 meta-analyses suggested that the prevalence of reversible dementia
was significantly lower than had been previously estimated. It was predicted that further work …

Objective: To develop evidence based consensus statements on which to build clinical
practice guidelines for primary care physicians toward the recognition, assessment and …

Mild cognitive impairment is an emerging term that encompasses the clinical state between
elderly normal cognition and dementia. Controversy surrounds its characterization …

Non-pharmacological treatment (NPT) improves cognitive functions and behavioural
disturbances in patients with dementia, but the underlying neural mechanisms are unclear …

Background and Purpose—Vascular causes of dementia are increasing in importance
because of the aging of the population. Biological markers to distinguish patients with …

The third edition of this successful textbook has been completely updated throughout and
includes new chapters on electrophysiological tests, biological markers, global staging …

Background. Prior research has found that dementia is often undiagnosed in primary care,
but there has been limited research on whether physicians respond to symptoms, behaviors …

Evaluating dementia in patients with early symptoms of cognitive decline is clinically
challenging. Growing evidence indicates that appropriate incorporation of PET into the …