Laboratory of Neuro Imaging, Dept. of Neurology, Division of Brain Mapping, 4238 Reed Neurology, UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1769 Child Psychiatry Branch, National Institute of Mental Health, NIH, Bethesda, MD 20892-1600 Dept. of Psychology, UCLA College of Letters and Science, and Depts. of Psychiatry and Human Genetics, UCLA School of Medicine, Franz Hall, 405 Hilgard Avenu...

OBJECTIVE Neuropsychiatric symptoms are common in Parkinson's disease dementia (PDD). Frequent and severe neuropsychiatric symptoms create high levels of distress for patients and caregivers, decreasing their quality of life. The aim of this study was to investigate neuropsychiatric symptoms that may contribute to increased caregiver burden in PDD patients. METHODS Forty-eight PDD patients we...

Background: Adaptive narcissism is the presence of narcissistic personality traits in otherwise normal individuals. Considering potential effects on medical profession. Objectives: The aim present study was to investigate prevalence adaptive and its demographic correlations among a student population using self-assessment tools. Methods: Participants were selected through cluster sampling stude...

AIMS Patients with Alzheimer's disease need assistance and supervision of their daily activities. They survive for protracted periods of time, placing an extensive burden of care on the caregiver prior to the patient's death. The present study addressed the predictive value of behavior-related burden on Alzheimer's disease caregivers. PARTICIPANTS 82 patients with probable Alzheimer's (73.7 +...

BACKGROUND Sleep disturbances are widespread among nursing home (NH) patients and associated with numerous negative consequences. Identifying and treating them should therefore be of high clinical priority. No prior studies have investigated the degree to which sleep disturbances as detected by actigraphy and by the sleep-related items in the Cornell Scale for Depression in Dementia (CSDD) and ...

background and aims: depression disorder is one of the most common diseases, but the diagnosis is widely complicated and controversial because of interventions, overlapping and confusing nature of the disease. so, keeping previous patients’ profile seems effective for diagnosis and treatment of present patients. use of this memory is latent in synthetic neuro-fuzzy algorithm. present article in...

The Sleep Disorders Inventory (SDI) is an expanded version of one item of the Neuropsychiatric Inventory (NPI). It describes the frequency, severity, and caregiver burden of sleep-disturbed behaviors during a period prior to its administration. We carried out post hoc analyses on baseline responses to the SDI in 104 persons with Alzheimer's disease (AD) and live-in caregivers who had been recru...

Background Apathy is one of the most common neuropsychiatric symptoms in dementia. The aim this study to evaluate apathy and its relationships with activities daily living, quality life caregiver burden patients Method research was conducted a descriptive analytic type. sample consisted 88 definite diagnosis dementia attending outpatient clinic university hospital Istanbul between October 2019-...

OBJECTIVE The objective of the study was to evaluate the effects of the Namaste Care programme on the behavioural symptoms of residents with advanced dementia in care homes and their pain management. METHODS Six dementia care homes collaborated in an action research study-one withdrew. Inclusion criteria were a dementia diagnosis and a Bedford Alzheimer's Nursing Severity Scale score of >16. ...

BACKGROUND The relationship between early life experience and the occurrence of neuropsychiatry symptoms (NPSs) in patients with Alzheimer disease (AD) is unclear. METHODS From 2012 to 2014, we prospectively recruited 250 patients with probable AD from the memory clinic of Taipei Veterans General Hospital. All patients underwent standard assessments, including brain magnetic resonance imaging...