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Dementia: The International Journal of Social Research and Practice is a bimonthly peer-reviewed academic journal that covers research in the field of dementia studies. Its editors-in-chief are Dr. Pamela Roach (University of Calgary) and Dr. Caroline Swarbrick (University of Lancaster) .
The term young onset dementia is becoming more widely used to avoid the potential confusion between early onset dementia and early stage dementia. This term is now used as presenile dementia which is a historical term of people diagnosed with dementia from a younger age of 51 years old. This is caused by an atypical arteriosclerosis of the brain.
The Nun Study of Aging and Alzheimer's Disease is a continuing longitudinal study, begun in 1986, to examine the onset of Alzheimer's disease. [1] [2] David Snowdon, an Epidemiologist and the founding Nun Study investigator, started the Nun Study at the University of Minnesota, later transferring the study to the University of Kentucky in 1990. [3]
Google Scholar is a freely accessible web search engine that indexes the full text or metadata of scholarly literature across an array of publishing formats and disciplines. . Released in beta in November 2004, the Google Scholar index includes peer-reviewed online academic journals and books, conference papers, theses and dissertations, preprints, abstracts, technical reports, and other ...
More African Americans should be included in clinical trials for AD treatment so scientists and physicians could better development treatments and care plans for the African American population. A long history of discrimination from medical professionals could be the reason why there is a high level of mistrust of clinical trials in African ...
A monograph by Eugen Bleuler on dementia praecox (1911). Dementia praecox (meaning a "premature dementia" or "precocious madness") is a disused psychiatric diagnosis that originally designated a chronic, deteriorating psychotic disorder characterized by rapid cognitive disintegration, usually beginning in the late teens or early adulthood.
Professor June Andrews, OBE FRCN FCGI , is a Scottish psychiatric nurse who is an expert in dementia studies and aged care. She was the professor of dementia studies at the Dementia Services Development Centre at the University of Stirling. [1] She is now Professor Emeritus. She has written widely on dementia, care homes and geriatric care. [2]
Diagnosis of dementia is usually based on history of the illness and cognitive testing with imaging. Blood tests may be taken to rule out other possible causes that may be reversible, such as hypothyroidism (an underactive thyroid), and to determine the dementia subtype. One commonly used cognitive test is the mini–mental state examination.