Background Hypothyroidism is a highly prevalent disease and has been associated with deficits in cognitive performance. It generally accepted that these could be related to psychiatric symptoms. Hormone replacement therapy the gold standard treatment for primary hypothyroidism, it appears effective correcting serum thyrotropin (TSH) values thyroid hormone profile. Despite correction of hormonal...

Parkinson disease (PD) is the second most common neurodegenerative disorder, affecting >1% of population ?65 years age and with a prevalence set to double by 2030. In addition defining motor symptoms PD, multiple non-motor occur; among them, cognitive impairment can potentially occur at any stage. Cognitive decline usually slow insidious, but rapid in some cases. Recently, focus has been on ear...

Various grades of cognitive impairment generally occur in older adults over the age 55, where cardiovascular risk factors such as diabetes and/or hypertension, coronary artery disease, or cerebrovascular accidents are also common. Cognitive occurs various forms, from mild amnesia forgetting today's date to more ominous and progressive frank dementia. Over 5 million people worldwide suffer demen...

results trail making test part b cognitive test showed statistically significant in comparison for pre and post exposure of anesthetics. this difference was seen in the desflurane group. other cognitive tests did not show differences on exposure to the anesthetic gases. conclusions this study questioned the difference between volatile anesthetic agent’s effects on patients completing a battery ...

The term “vascular cognitive impairment” was defined as cognitive dysfunction due to or associated with cerebro-vascular disease or vascular risk factors.1–4 The conception of vascular cognitive impairment originated on the basis of the idea of the possible reversibility of vascular dementia in its preclinical and early clinical stages and searching for appropriate therapies for its primary and...

The study aims to evaluate the prevalence of cognitive/functional impairment in community-dwelling elderly above 60 years of age (n = 870; m = 297, f = 573) and the relationship of age, gender, and functional impairment with cognitive impairment using Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) and Pfeffer Functional Activities Questionnaire (PFAQ). Chi-square and Student's tests were used to compare ...

normal 0 false false false en-us x-none fa background : fahr's disease is a rare neurodegenerative disorder of unknown cause characterized by idiopathic basal ganglia calcification that is associated with neuropsychiatric and cognitive impairment. no case of fahr's disease with associated cardiac conduction disease has been described in the literature to date. the objective of this case report ...

background: electroconvulsive therapy (ect) is one of the most efficacious treatment for major depressive disorder (mdd), it is also used as a rapid and efficacious treatment for other psychiatric disorders, especially treatment resistant ones. the cognitive impairment is one of the most important side effects of ect. this study examined the memoral herbal efficacy in prevention of ect‑induced ...

intracerebroventricular (icv) injection of streptozotocin (stz) in rats is followed by long-term and progressive deficits in learning, memory, and cognitive performance which is somewhat similar to sporadic alzheimer’s disease (sad). epidemiological studies suggest that non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (nsaids) could delay or slow the clinical expression of sad. therefore, the beneficial e...