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Biomarkers8

• In a next substantial research step we are developing blood-based biomarkers and modern neuroimaging based methods to support early detection and prediction and to bring new effective treatments to Irish patients as soon as they become available. (tcd.ie)
• The Brain Ageing and Dementia in LMICs conference provides an opportunity to learn about recent advances in the global burden of disease, epidemiology, risk factors, biomarkers for dementia and prevention of disease as well as ongoing and future projects. (alz.org)
• Together with previous studies ADNI1 and ADNI-GO, ADNI2 seeks to determine the relationships among brain imaging results, biomarkers, and clinical, cognitive, and genetic characteristics of the entire spectrum of Alzheimer's as it evolves from normal aging through dementia. (alzheimers.gov)
• Dr. Vassilaki's research interests involve studying activities of daily living before a dementia diagnosis and the association of such activities with biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease, Alzheimer's-related dementias and aging. (mayo.edu)
• Dr. Vassilaki's research uses population-based observational studies to provide valuable insight into factors associated with both cognitive impairment and imaging biomarkers of Alzheimer's and dementia in older adults. (mayo.edu)
• The research teams for HABLE and HABLE-AT(N) consist of leading experts in Mexican American cognitive aging, neuroimaging, blood-based biomarkers, as well as advanced statistical modeling. (nih.gov)
• Biomarkers such as cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) have predictive value for progression to dementia in patients with mild cognitive impairment (MCI). (beds.ac.uk)
• Through cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers, volumetric neuroimaging, functional neuroimaging, and cognitive stresstests, individuals at significant risk for developing dementia can now be identified with greater sensitivity andspecificity. (hmamedicalclinic.com)

Parkinson's12

• COPENHAGEN - A prediction model based on PET images acquired within 10 minutes of tracer injection in patients with newly diagnosed Parkinson's disease may help clinicians identify which patients will go on to develop dementia within 5 years, South Korean researchers report. (medscape.com)
• So the research team set out to determine whether those images could serve as a predictor of early dementia conversion in patients with newly diagnosed Parkinson's disease. (medscape.com)
• Among 187 patients, 47 experienced Parkinson's disease with dementia (PDD) conversion within 5 years of initial Parkinson's diagnosis and were classified as a high-risk dementia group (PDD-H). (medscape.com)
• Parkinson's disease dementia (PDD) is dementia that is associated with Parkinson's disease (PD). (wikipedia.org)
• Parkinson's disease starts as a movement disorder, but progresses in most cases to include dementia and changes in mood and behavior. (wikipedia.org)
• DLB and PDD are clinically similar after dementia occurs in Parkinson's disease. (wikipedia.org)
• Parkinson's disease dementia can only be definitively diagnosed after death with an autopsy of the brain. (wikipedia.org)
• Cognitive behavioral therapy can help Parkinson's patients with parkinsonian pain, insomnia, depression, anxiety, and impulse disorders, if those interventions are properly adapted to the motor, cognitive and executive dysfunctions seen in Parkinson's disease, including Parkinson's dementia. (wikipedia.org)
• General awareness about LBD lags well behind that of Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases, even though LBD is the second most common dementia, after Alzheimer's. (wikipedia.org)
• The purpose of this review is to aid primary care providers in distinguishing dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) from Alzheimer's disease and from Parkinson's disease with dementia. (psychiatrist.com)
• She currently serves as the primary neuropsychologist for the Neuromodulation and Advanced Therapies Clinic in the Johns Hopkins Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorder Center as well as the Frontotemporal Dementia (FTD) and Young-Onset Dementias Clinic. (hopkinsmedicine.org)
• Her clinical research populations of interest include Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease, schizophrenia, and frontotemporal dementia. (hopkinsmedicine.org)

Lewy8

• Together with dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB), it is one of the Lewy body dementias characterized by abnormal deposits of Lewy bodies in the brain. (wikipedia.org)
• A PubMed search was undertaken using the keywords Lewy body dementia, dementia with Lewy bodies, and Lewy body disease. (psychiatrist.com)
• Dementia with Lewy bodies is the second leading cause of dementia after Alzheimer's disease. (psychiatrist.com)
• Dementia with Lewy bodies is an often missed diagnosis. (psychiatrist.com)
• D ementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) accounts for 15% to 35% of dementia cases. (psychiatrist.com)
• Cholinesterase inhibitors are the first-line treatment for dementia with Lewy bodies. (psychiatrist.com)
• Sixteen brain banks contributed cases meeting histopathological criteria for frontotemporal lobar degeneration and a clinical diagnosis of behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia, Alzheimer's disease, dementia with Lewy bodies or vascular dementia at presentation. (nih.gov)
• The book brings together lessons learned from neuroimaging tools in the content of movement disorders, including chapters on Molecular Imaging of Dementia with Lewy Bodies, Structural and Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Dementia with Lewy Bodies, Network Imaging in Parkinsonian and Other Movement Disorders: Network Dysfunction and Clinical Correlates, Neuroimaging of Rapid Eye Movement Sleep Behavior Disorder, Hybrid PET-MRI Applications in Movement Disorders, and more. (whsmith.co.uk)

Variant frontotemporal7

• Based on the recent literature and collective experience, an international consortium developed revised guidelines for the diagnosis of behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia. (nih.gov)
• According to the revised criteria, 'possible' behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia requires three of six clinically discriminating features (disinhibition, apathy/inertia, loss of sympathy/empathy, perseverative/compulsive behaviours, hyperorality and dysexecutive neuropsychological profile). (nih.gov)
• Probable' behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia adds functional disability and characteristic neuroimaging, while behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia 'with definite frontotemporal lobar degeneration' requires histopathological confirmation or a pathogenic mutation. (nih.gov)
• Of 137 cases where features were available for both proposed and previously established criteria, 118 (86%) met 'possible' criteria, and 104 (76%) met criteria for 'probable' behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia. (nih.gov)
• In conclusion, the revised criteria for behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia improve diagnostic accuracy compared with previously established criteria in a sample with known frontotemporal lobar degeneration. (nih.gov)
• Background Some patients meeting behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD) diagnostic criteria progress slowly and plateau at mild symptom severity. (bmj.com)
• Behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD) is a neurodegenerative clinical syndrome characterised by insidious behavioural and personality changes. (bmj.com)

Vascular dementia1

• Frisoni GBCalabresi LGeroldi C et al Apolipoprotein E ϵ4 allele in Alzheimer's disease and vascular dementia. (jamanetwork.com)

Neuropsychological8

• Her lab employs a range of neuroscientific methods, including olfactory and gustatory psychophysical measures, measures of decision making, traditional neuropsychological assessment, air-dilution olfactometry, and structural and functional neuroimaging at 7T. (hopkinsmedicine.org)
• Such patients have mild neuropsychological and functional impairments, lack characteristic bvFTD brain atrophy and have thus been referred to as bvFTD 'phenocopies' or slowly progressive (bvFTD-SP). (bmj.com)
• Neuropsychological and functional data, as well as brain atrophy patterns, assessed using voxel based morphometry (VBM), were compared with 44 patients with sporadic bvFTD and 85 healthy controls. (bmj.com)
• Over 2 years, her neuropsychological and functional scores as well as brain atrophy remained stable. (bmj.com)
• Jefferson Neuropsychology provides comprehensive neuropsychological assessments for adults and adolescents to evaluate changes in cognition and behavior in a wide range of neurologic disorders, including epilepsy, stroke, brain injury, Alzheimer's disease, other forms of dementia, as well as psychiatric disorders. (jefferson.edu)
• To learn more about our active neuropsychological and neuroimaging research, please visit our research page. (jefferson.edu)
• His research is focussed on the use of neuroimaging to study neuropsychological issues, including trauma, ageing and dementia and myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS). (edu.au)
• Subjective cognitive decline is a putative precursor to dementia marked by perceived worsening of cognitive function without overt performance issues on neuropsychological assessment. (beds.ac.uk)

FMRI6

• Consistent with current standard of care practices, the Cognitive Neuroscience and Brain Mapping Lab routinely conducts functional and structural magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) for patients who are being considered for neurosurgical interventions to treat their intractable epilepsy. (jefferson.edu)
• Recent studies of non-invasive neuroimaging, resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (rs-fMRI) with graph theoretical analysis have shown that patients with AD and mild cognitive impairment (MCI) exhibit disrupted topological organization in large-scale brain networks. (asu.edu)
• We apply this measure to study rs-fMRI data from the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI) and compare our approach with five other widely used graph measures across five parcellation schemes ranging from 90 to 1024 region-of-interests (ROIs). (asu.edu)
• Jan 21, 2023 · At Cognitive FX, we do a type of fMRI called fNCI, or functional neurocognitive imaging. (bleistiftreviews.de)
• Comparison of group-level, source localized activity for simultaneous functional near-infrared spectroscopy-magnetoencephalography and simultaneous fNIRS-fMRI during parametric median nerve stimulation. (humanconnectome.org)
• We recorded concurrent fNIRS with magnetoencephalography (MEG) and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) in order to investigate the group-level correspondence of these measures with source-localized fNIRS estimates. (humanconnectome.org)

Prevalence4

• Population-based prevalence and incidence studies are essential for understanding the burden of frontotemporal dementia (FTD). (cambridge.org)
• AD is the most common neurodegenerative disease, contributing up to 70% of all cases of dementia, and has an exponentially increasing prevalence after the age of 65 [ 9 ]. (biomedcentral.com)
• With the projected aging of the global population, order,AD,isthemajorcauseofthesyndromehasespecially the prevalence of dementia is anticipated to rise come to light during the last 40 years. (hmamedicalclinic.com)
• [ 1 ] Around 60-80% of all dementia cases are caused by Alzheimer's disease [ 2 ] and two-thirds of those diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease are women ( https://www.dementiastatistics.org/statistics/prevalence-by-gender-in-the-uk/ ). (medscape.com)

Near-infrared spe3

• Functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) is a non-invasive, portable, and low-cost imaging modality that can measure brain activity. (bleistiftreviews.de)
• Functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) is a noninvasive neuroimaging technique, which uses light to measure changes in cerebral blood oxygenation through sensors placed on the surface of the scalp. (humanconnectome.org)
• Age dependency of the hemodynamic response as measured by functional near-infrared spectroscopy. (mpg.de)

Diagnosis2

• Most importantly, it will help to clarify questions in the diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease and related dementias in Mexican Americans. (nih.gov)
• however, not all patients with MCI will progress to dementia and not all dementia patients will have a previous diagnosis of MCI. (cdc.gov)

Decline5

• She serves as the neuropsychologist on NIH-funded studies examining risk factors for cognitive decline in persons with mild cognitive impairment, schizophrenia, frontotemporal dementia, delirium and Down syndrome. (hopkinsmedicine.org)
• Specifically, her studies are centered on cognitive decline and its risk factors, mild cognitive impairment, and Alzheimer's disease and related dementias. (mayo.edu)
• Functional Connectivity Disruption in Subjective Cognitive Decline and Mild Cognitive Impairment: A Common Pattern of Alterations. (humanconnectome.org)
• Subjective cognitive decline (SCD) has emerged as a pre-mild cognitive impairment (pre-MCI) at risk condition of dementia and cognitive decline. (beds.ac.uk)
• Subjective cognitive decline (SCD) in cognitively unimpaired older individuals has been recognized as an early clinical at-risk state for Alzheimer's disease (AD) dementia and as a target population for future. (beds.ac.uk)

Frontotemporal lobar degene3

• The presentation of degenerative disease in focal areas of the cerebral cortex is the hallmark of the family of diseases referred to as frontotemporal dementia (also termed frontotemporal lobar degeneration). (medscape.com)
• The condition described in the North American literature as primary progressive aphasia and that described in the European literature as frontal dementia have been combined under the term frontotemporal lobe dementia (FTD) or frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD). (medscape.com)
• An alternate term, frontotemporal lobar degeneration, relates to pathologies associated with the frontotemporal lobe dementia syndromes. (medscape.com)

Centre1

• Professor Marios Politis (MD MSc DIC PhD FRCP FEAN) is a Professor of Neurology, Consultant Neurologist, the Director of Neurodegeneration Imaging Group and the Director of Mireille Gillings Neuroimaging Centre at the University of Exeter. (whsmith.co.uk)

Type of dementia2

• Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common type of dementia in the elderly with no effective treatment currently. (asu.edu)
• An additional benefit of HABLE and HABLE AT(N) will be the ability to better classify/categorize participants into groups by type of dementia and stage of the disease. (nih.gov)

Cause of dementia2

• DLB is the second most common cause of dementia after Alzheimer's disease. (psychiatrist.com)
• from nearly 40 million persons today to approx- imately 118 million by 2050.1 Today, Alzheimer disease (AD), the preeminent cause of dementia, is as much a part of the It was little more than a century ago that Dr. Alois Alzhei- public health lexicon as cancer, stroke, and heart disease. (hmamedicalclinic.com)

Forms of dementia1

• To successfully battle and ultimately prevent or treat a complex disease such as Alzheimer's, we need to understand how this disease and other forms of dementia affect our nation's diverse communities differently," said Eliezer Masliah, M.D., director of the NIA Division of Neuroscience. (nih.gov)

Individuals Without Dementia1

• Association of Brain Amyloid-β With Slow Gait in Elderly Individuals Without Dementia: Influence of Cognition and Apolipoprotein E ε4 Genotype. (humanconnectome.org)

Progression2

• In this study, we investigated the diagnostic performance of plasma GFAP (pGFAP), plasma neurofilament light chain (pNfL) and their combination for frontotemporal dementia (FTD) and Alzheimer's disease (AD) and their clinical utility in predicting disease progression. (biomedcentral.com)
• The findings could offer new avenues for treatments to slow the progression of dementia. (neurosciencenews.com)

Mild5

• Yassa M, Stark C, Bakker A, Albert M , Gallagher M, Stark C. High-resolution structural and functional MRI of hippocampal CA3 and dentate gyrus in patients with amnestic mild cognitive impairment. (hopkinsmedicine.org)
• Morphometry of the corpus callosum in patients with questionable and mild dementia. (mpg.de)
• Correlation between cortical theta activity and hippocampal volumes in health, mild cognitive impairment, and mild dementia. (mpg.de)
• Thus, AD is now considered to have presymptomatic, prodromal (mild cognitive impairment), and dementia phases. (hmamedicalclinic.com)
• While definitions differ, mild cognitive impairment (MCI) is best described as an intermediate clinical state between normal cognitive function and dementia. (cdc.gov)

Semantic dementia2

• The progressive aphasias have been divided into 3 groups: progressive nonfluent aphasia, semantic dementia, and logopenic progressive aphasia. (medscape.com)
• Hodges JRGarrard PPatterson K Semantic dementia. (jamanetwork.com)

Techniques to investigate2

• His research employs quantitative structural, functional, and molecular neuroimaging techniques to investigate dementias as well as normal aging. (beingpatient.com)
• In our research, we use psychological tests and experimental methods together with neuroimaging techniques to investigate how mental functions are organised in the healthy brain and how certain personality characteristics, disorders and lesions influence the mind-brain system. (lu.se)

Frontal lobe1

• In England and Europe, cases of frontal lobe dementia were described with progressive dysfunction of the frontal lobes. (medscape.com)

Findings3

• Are schizophrenia, autistic, and obsessive spectrum disorders dissociable on the basis of neuroimaging morphological findings? (crossref.org)
• Although a few investigators have attempted to identify MBD-related functional abnormalities in the cerebral gray matter (3−5), findings are not inconsistent. (ajnr.org)
• He investigated this link in both human trauma survivors and animal models with the aim to translate the observed findings from the humans into animals for pathological investigation and to help in developing the future interventions to reduce the risk for developing dementia. (edu.au)

Neurology1

• Part of the Oxford Textbooks in Clinical Neurology series, the Oxford Textbook of Neuroimaging provides an overview of the established and latest neuroimaging methodologies, and illustrates their application to the main diseases of the brain and the spinal cord including movement disorders, headache and stroke. (pickapdf.com)

Connectome1

• Research areas include structural and functional connectome studies of cognitive and seizure networks, functional change and reorganization after epilepsy surgery, and other projects related to epilepsy and dementia. (jefferson.edu)

Brain14

• Multimodal integration of functional and structural brain connectivity. (upm.es)
• His research is focused on developing functional imaging techniques for studying brain pathologies. (bepress.com)
• Finally, his team is investigating how the combination of PET/MRI can be harnessed for neuroimaging applications, including hybrid approaches for imaging brain perfusion and oxygen consumption, and combining functional MRI with PET to understand how brain function is altered by the underlying neurochemistry/physiology. (bepress.com)
• Functional Brain Mapping. (jefferson.edu)
• In: 3rd International Conference on Functional Mapping of the Human Brain, May 19-23,1997, Copenhagen, Denmark S118. (imtlucca.it)
• He started working in the field of neuroimaging in 2013 with experience in brain imaging and analysis. (edu.au)
• During his PhD, he used neuroimaging modalities - including structural magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), functional MRI, diffusion tensor imaging, and positron emission tomography - to study the possible risk of Alzheimer's disease following trauma in the form of traumatic brain injury and post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). (edu.au)
• His research is focused on the integrative translational neuroimaging, including generating and testing hypotheses and identifying brain changes underlying neurological and mental disorders. (edu.au)
• Our approach addresses these symptoms from multiple angles, employing multi-sensory therapy to guide your brain in reconstructing these vital blood vessels and neuronal pathways.The relationship between functional brain images and performances in narcoleptic patients and controls is a new field of investigation. (bleistiftreviews.de)
• It is used to study the structural and functional brain abnormalities. (dxsaver.com)
• Thebiological capacities of neurogenesis and neuroplasticity and the related concepts of brain and cognitive reserveprovide a rationale for developing techniques to maintain or enhance the cognitive abilities of older persons tosufficiently prevent dementia. (hmamedicalclinic.com)
• Key Words: Alzheimer disease Y Dementia Y History Y Prevention Y Brain fitness. (hmamedicalclinic.com)
• Visual assessment of brain perfusion MRI scans in dementia: a pilot study. (lu.se)
• Explanations have been linked to a variety of factors including differences in cognitive reserve, resilience, as well as genetics (apolipoprotein ε4) and functional and structural brain changes. (medscape.com)

BvFTD1

• Some bvFTD-SP patients may have neurodegenerative pathology, and C9ORF72 mutations should be considered in patients with bvFTD-SP and a family history of dementia or motor neuron disease. (bmj.com)

Alzheimer's Association1

• Join the Alzheimer's Association and ISTAART for a series of webinars that share the latest advances in Alzheimer's and dementia research, as well as strategies for career development. (alz.org)

Disorders4

• Brad Dickerson, M.D., is the Director of the Massachusetts General Hospital Frontotemporal Disorders Unit and Neuroimaging Lab in Boston. (beingpatient.com)
• He is also a staff behavioral neurologist in the MGH Memory Disorders Unit and co-investigator on the Neuroimaging Core of the Alzheimer's Disease Research Center. (beingpatient.com)
• Imaging in Movement Disorders: Imaging in Movement Disorder Dementias and Rapid Eye Movement Sleep Behavior Disorder, Volume 144 provides an up-to-date textbook on the use of imaging modalities across the spectrum of movement disorders and dementias. (whsmith.co.uk)
• His research involves the use of Positron Emission Tomography (PET) and Single Photon Emission Tomography (SPECT) molecular imaging, structural and functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), CSF and blood molecular markers, digital markers and clinical observation as methods of investigating aetiology, pathophysiology, and effects and complications of novel therapies in Neurodegenerative disorders. (whsmith.co.uk)

Syndromes1

• In recent years, the term frontotemporal dementia has become an umbrella term referring to clinical syndromes of frontal dementia or progressive aphasia. (medscape.com)

Amygdala1

• Developmental sex differences in resting state functional connectivity of amygdala sub-regions. (ohsu.edu)

Connectivity3

• Neuroimaging revealed those who were left-handed had increased functional connectivity between left and right language networks. (neurosciencenews.com)
• Functional connectivity (FC) alterations represent a key feature in Alzheimer's Disease (AD) and provide a useful tool to characterize and predict the course of the disease. (humanconnectome.org)
• Adolescent Gender Differences in Cognitive Control Performance and Functional Connectivity Between Default Mode and Fronto-Parietal Networks Within a Self-Referential Context. (ohsu.edu)

Impairments1

• In addition to hemispheric disconnection syndrome, various cognitive impairments, including dementia, occur, but the mechanism underlying them remains undetermined. (ajnr.org)

Studies3

• Summary: We report functional neuroimaging studies of a 54-year-old man with Marchiafava-Bignami disease (MBD). (ajnr.org)
• The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed network measure shows more statistical power and stronger robustness in group difference studies in that the absolute values of the proposed measure of AD are lower than MCI's, and much lower than normal control's, providing empirical evidence for decreased functional integration in AD dementia and MCI. (asu.edu)
• Meta-analytic evidence from large population studies derived from the United States, Europe, and Asia indicates that women are at significantly greater risk of developing Alzheimer's disease, though not other dementias [ 3 ] and this increased incidence is not due to women having a longer life-span. (medscape.com)

Patients6

• Together, these 140 patients were classified as a low-risk dementia group (PDD-L). (medscape.com)
• In 1982, Mesulam reported 6 patients with progressive aphasia, gradually worsening over a number of years, who did not develop a more generalized dementia. (medscape.com)
• [ 5 ] Many patients develop more generalized dementia later in the course of the illness, as reported by Kirshner et al. (medscape.com)
• Based on estimates in the year 2000, at least 30,000 patients with dementia are living in Ireland, with the annual costs of treatment of these patients accruing to about €474 million (National Council on Aging and Older People, 2000, National University of Ireland). (tcd.ie)
• Dr. Dickerson runs a busy weekly clinic caring for patients with various forms of cognitive impairment and dementia, as well as providing training for clinical and research fellows. (beingpatient.com)
• Sign up now for our free weekly email with in-depth reporting on topics important to patients and caregivers of Alzheimer's & other dementias. (beingpatient.com)

Study6

• Professor Hampel stated: "Preliminary results of the follow-up study provide a first promising hint that concentrations of the biomarker BACE 1 in combination with the ApoE genotype enable enhanced accuracy in the early pre-dementia detection and prognosis of an underlying ongoing Alzheimer's disease manifestation in the patient's brains. (tcd.ie)
• This technology has been applied to the study of chronic pain, frontotemporal dementia and cardiovascular disease. (bepress.com)
• The added funding for HABLE-AT(N) significantly expands the neuroimaging component of the study to include amyloid and tau PET. (nih.gov)
• A new study links common genetic variants to both ALS and frontotemporal dementia. (neurosciencenews.com)
• Study reports a mutation in a single gene that causes hereditary frontotemporal dementia makes it harder for neurons to communicate, leading to neurodegeneration. (neurosciencenews.com)
• A ground-breaking study published in JAMA Network Open offers proof that the functional medicine model is associated with improvements in health-related quality of life. (bleistiftreviews.de)

Risk4

• Current opinion has labeled MCI to be a risk state for dementia on the basis of 5%-15% annual dementia conversion rate ( Mitchell and Shiri-Feshki, 2009 ). (frontiersin.org)
• The concept of MCI underpins the importance in screening high risk groups by identifying factors that predict dementia onset within specific time periods. (frontiersin.org)
• Geschwind DKarrim JNelson SFMiller B The apolipoprotein E ϵ4 allele is not a significant risk factor for frontotemporal dementia. (jamanetwork.com)
• Exposure to psychological trauma and fine particulate matter may increase the risk of dementia in traumatized populations including military veterans and World Trade Center responders. (cdc.gov)

Neurological2

• In addition, assessments of neuroimaging techniques in both adult and paediatric neurological conditions are included, enabling thorough examples from both age groups. (pickapdf.com)
• Providing a balanced state-of-the-art guide to neuroimaging for neurologists and radiologists, this title will enhance understanding of the pathophysiological basis of neurological conditions and will help set the stage for future research. (pickapdf.com)

Incidence1

• Dementia affects around 47 million people worldwide and the incidence is expected to double every 20 years. (medscape.com)

Psychosis1

• Results tend to indicate pervasive deficits in terms of monitoring of cognitive performance in conditions such as dementia (Souchay, 2007), psychosis (David, Bedford, Wiffen, & Gilleen, 2012) and hemiplegia (Orfei et al. (bvsalud.org)

Epilepsy1

• MRI neuroimaging is an effective investigative tool for many medical conditions of the central nervous system, including dementia, cerebrovascular disease, epilepsy, and infectious diseases. (dxsaver.com)

Cerebral1

• Una de las claves del éxito en los estudios de la función cerebral ha sido convertirse en una disciplina que combina conocimientos de diversas áreas: de la física, de las matemáticas, de la estadística y de la psicología. (upm.es)