the purpose of this study was to design a valid questionnaire to the iranian culture for dementia diagnosis and more specifically in its early stage.a cross-sectional study was conducted in 2012 in memory clinic of roozbeh hospital and iranian alzheimer association in tehran in 2012. among 235 subjects, there were 72 patients with alzheimer's disease (ad), 137 patients with other types of demen...

objectives: the aim of the study was to determine the effect of a selected exercise training on reducing symptoms of dementia caused by alzheimer's disease in people with down syndrome. methods: 27 men with down syndrome were randomized to intervention (n=13) and control (n=13) groups. all persons in experimental group followed 12 weeks selected exercise training, three times a week. prior...

conclusions with growing cohort of young and middle-aged people, there is a probable risk of upsurge of ard. presently, there are dilemmas over the diagnosis of independent ard. thus, there is a need to develop evidence-based guidelines for diagnosis and management of ard through further systematic studies. results the prolonged and excessive use of alcohol may lead to structural and functional...

conclusions the persian version of dad, during the study, had a very good validity and reliability and can serve as a useful scale in clinical assessment of functional disability in patients with alzheimer’s in the area of activities of daily living. background as dementia progresses in the course of life, one's functions may be reduced regarding to fulfill the activities of daily living. one o...

objective: this review will indicate the quality of the evidence supporting the clinical effects of a number of commonly used types of herbal medicines for psychiatric and neurological disorders. method: we conducted a review of literature to understand the biochemical and evidential bases for the use of herbs in psychiatric and neurological disorders as follow: 1) alzheimer’s disease, 2) depre...

background an absolute prerequisite to the effective management of dementia is its early diagnosis. successful dementia screening requires precise and sensitive instruments that can be completed even by illiterate elderly people. objectives the aim of this study was to evaluate the psychometric properties of the persian version of the cognitive state test (cost). materials and methods this meth...

Iranian Traditional Medicine (ITM) describes a kind of dementia with similar signs and symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease (AD). It explains the pathology of dementia with cold intemperament of the brain, which means that the brain is colder than its healthy form. ITM strategy for treatment of dementia is to heat the brain up by medical “hot” herbs. Nepeta menthoides (NM) is one of these “hot” herb...

Iranian Traditional Medicine (ITM) describes a kind of dementia with similar signs and symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease (AD). It explains the pathology of dementia with cold intemperament of the brain, which means that the brain is colder than its healthy form. ITM strategy for treatment of dementia is to heat the brain up by medical “hot” herbs. Nepeta menthoides (NM) is one of these “hot” herb...

alzheimers disease (ad) is by far the most common cause of dementia. definite diagnosis of ad is based on pathological findings. nincds-adrda criteria, published more than 25 years ago, are commonly used for the clinical diagnosis of ad. however, considering serious shortcomings of these criteria, new criteria have been proposed. according to these new criteria, ad can be diagnosed in predement...