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4 unusual facts about dementia


Alexei Stanchinsky

Later in life developed a hereditary type of Dementia, which was set on him very early, around the time that he was 21–22 years old.

Dementia

Acetylcholinesterase inhibitors, such as donepezil, may be useful for Alzheimer disease and other similar diseases causing dementia such as Parkinsons or vascular dementia.

Cholinesterase inhibitors are often used early in the disease course; however, benefit is slight.

Vladimir Vernadsky

While trying to find a topic for his doctorate, he first went to Naples to study with crystallographer Arcangelo Scacchi, who was senile by that time.


American Neuropsychiatric Association

Current SIGs include Clinical Practice, Conversion Disorders, Dementia, Developmental Disorders and Pediatrics, Early Career, Epilepsy, Forensics, Global Health, Movement Disorders, Neuroimaging and Traumatic Brain Injury.

Avoidant personality disorder

Swiss psychiatrist Eugen Bleuler described patients who exhibited signs of avoidant personality disorder in his 1911 work Dementia Praecox: Or the Group of Schizophrenias.

Berna Huebner

Berna G. Huebner is the founder of the Hilgos Foundation in Chicago, Illinois which supports and encourages the ongoing process of artistic creation with people who have different forms of dementia including Alzheimer’s.

Brain positron emission tomography

PET is probably most useful in early cases of certain dementias (with classic examples being Alzheimer's disease and Pick's disease) where the early damage is too diffuse and makes too little difference in brain volume and gross structure to change CT and standard MRI images enough to be able to reliably differentiate it from the "normal" range of cortical atrophy which occurs with aging (in many but not all) persons, and which does not cause clinical dementia.

BRICHOS family

These include BRI2, which is related to familial British and Danish dementia (FBD and FDD); Chondromodulin-I, related to chondrosarcoma; CA11, related to stomach cancer; and surfactant protein C (SP-C), related to respiratory distress syndrome (RDS).

Center for BrainHealth

All contributions support the cause of brain health and the Center’s many research focus areas-Alzheimer's disease, traumatic brain injury (TBI), autism, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), stroke, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Addiction, BrainHealth Physical, Dementia, Exercise and the Brain, Healthy Brain Aging, and Virtual Brain Training.

Curotek

Curotek is an American company based in Portland, Oregon that provides technology for community-based care settings such as assisted living communities and group home settings serving those with Dementia, Alzheimer's, Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities and other disabilities that cause safety risks associated with freedom of movement and personal autonomy.

Eric McFadden

McFadden has released several albums through the French label, Bad Reputation, including "Dementia" in 2006 and Let's Die Forever... Together May 2007.

Eugen Bleuler

Noll R,(2011) American Madness: The Rise and Fall of Dementia Praecox. Cambridge, MA, and London: Harvard University Press.

Harry and Tonto

During his episodic journey, he befriends a Bible-quoting hitchhiker (Michael Butler) and underage runaway Ginger (Melanie Mayron), visits his daughter (Ellen Burstyn), a bookstore owner in Chicago, and drops in on an early sweetheart (Geraldine Fitzgerald) in a retirement home, where she suffers from dementia.

In Abhorrence Dementia

In Abhorrence Dementia is the second studio album by Norwegian symphonic black metal band Limbonic Art released in 1997 through Nocturnal Art Productions.

Ispronicline

It has antidepressant, nootropic and neuroprotective effects, and is under development for the treatment of dementia and Alzheimer's disease.

Jose Chung's Doomsday Defense

As a series of still photographs pass into view, author Jose Chung describes the life of Juggernaut Onan Goopta, who went to college hoping to become a famous neuroscientist and instead was overcome by dementia and institutionalized.

Leonard Berg

Leonard Berg (1927 – January 15, 2007) was a neurologist at Washington University in St. Louis and a specialist in dementia and Alzheimer's disease.

Martti Katajisto

He received critical acclaim in 1993 for his role as a father with dementia in a Veikko Aaltonen film Isä meidän.

Meclofenoxate

Meclofenoxate (Lucidril), also known as centrophenoxine, is a drug used to treat the symptoms of senile dementia and Alzheimer's disease.

Ollie Matson

In his later years Matson suffered from dementia, which was linked to Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE),a progressive degenerative disease, diagnosed post-mortem in individuals with a history of multiple concussions and other forms of head injury.

Parkinson plus syndrome

Dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB), may or may not be part of the PD spectrum, but it is increasingly recognized as the second most common type of neurodegenerative dementia after Alzheimer's disease.

Richard Noll

Noll's most recent book, American Madness: The Rise and Fall of Dementia Praecox, was published by Harvard University Press in October 2011.

Rivastigmine

Rivastigmine (sold under the trade name Exelon) is a parasympathomimetic or cholinergic agent for the treatment of mild to moderate dementia of the Alzheimer’s type and dementia due to Parkinson's disease.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved rivastigmine capsules and patches for the treatment of mild to moderate dementia of the Alzheimer’s type and for mild to moderate dementia related to Parkinson's disease.

Steven T. DeKosky

He is currently leading a 3,000 person, National Institutes of Health-funded trial assessing the effectiveness of Ginkgo biloba in delaying or preventing the onset of dementia in healthy adults.

Sundown Syndrome

The title "Sundown Syndrome" refers to a psychological phenomenon called Sundowning.

Tickling Leo

When Zak and his girlfriend Delphina visit his estranged father in the Catskills, they find him suffering from dementia and inadvertently uncover a dark family secret from WWII: an impossible sacrifice Zak's grandfather (Eli Wallach) made to join Rudolph Kasztner's controversial freedom train out of Hungary.


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