1 Chertkow, H., Feldman, H. H., Jacova, C., & Massoud, F. (2013). Definitions of dementia and predementia states in Alzheimer's disease and vascular cognitive impairment: consensus from the Canadian conference on diagnosis of dementia. Alzheimers Research and Therapy, 5, S2. Notes: There have been several newly proposed sets of diagnostic criteria for Alzheimer's disease/mild cognitive impairme...

Behçet’s disease is a vasculitis with multi-organ involvement. Our knowledge of the psychological aspects of Behçet’s disease is very limited. 40 women and 24 men who fulfilled the International Study Group (ISG) criteria of Behçet’s disease were selected from Behçet’s Disease Clinic of Nemazee Hospital Shiraz, South of Iran. Controls consisted of 65 healthy volunteers. Both patients and contro...

OBJECTIVES Alzheimer's disease is an age-related neurodegenerative disease and a synaptic function defect disease, the clinical symptoms are mainly progressive cognitive impairment, affecting patient's social function. Aim of this report was to investigate the effect of topiramate on apoptosis-related protein expression (Bcl-2, Survivin, Fas, Bax and Caspase-3) in the hippocampus of a rat model...

introduction: health literacy is a fundamental part of the healing promotion. the aim of this study was to evaluate periodontal health literacy among patients. materials and methods: 296 patients attending periodontal clinic who were above 16 years old participated in this study. gathering data was based on screening questions on a 5-point likert scale. after completion questionnaire, data was ...

background: there is no documented demographical study on iranian parkinson's disease (pd) patients, so this study was conducted to identify demographic information about patients with pd in iran, and to explore demographical differences between pd patients in iran and other countries. methods: we reviewed medical records of 1656 patients diagnosed with pd, who referred from all parts of iran t...

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Falls are a major risk for Parkinson disease patients (PD). We sought to understand why patients fall. In one study we followed 404 PD patients for a year, 204 of who fell at least once. We did not distinguish between single and recurrent fallers. In a second study we followed 249 different patients for a year, 205 of whom fell once and 44 fell more than once (recurrent fallers). In the first s...