introduction: the aim of the global dementia scale factor structure roland (rudas) was conducted in patients with dementia. methods: this descriptive correlation study was conducted. population of all nursing home patients with dementia tehran bazaar was formed in 1390., in this study, 78 patients from the kahrizak nursing home patients with dementia sampling method selected data on the global ...

An ideal measure of global functioning for patients with dementia would discriminate at very high and very low levels of functioning and would have linear measurement properties such that a given change in score corresponds to the same amount of change in underlying ability at any part of the ability continuum. Using item response theory methods, linearity of test measurement can be directly as...

The purpose of this study was to: (1) determine the diagnostic prediction of the global score of the Kaplan-Baycrest Neurocognitive Assessment and (2) determine which subtests discriminate individuals with mild dementia from individuals without dementia. A case-control study of 33 individuals, diagnosed with mild dementia, was matched with 33 individuals with no cognitive or memory complaints, ...

Patients with mild cognitive deficits experience different types of evolution. They are at increased risk of developing dementia, but they have also a chance of remaining stable in cognition or of improving. We investigated whether global brain volume, callosal size and hippocampal size are associated with the rate of cognitive change in elderly without dementia. Volumetric MR images were recor...

Since no theoretical foundations for proving the convergence of Graph Shift Algorithm have been reported, we provide a generic framework consisting of three key GS components to fit the Zangwill’s convergence theorem. We show that the sequence set generated by the GS procedures always terminates at a local maximum, or at worst, contains a subsequence which converges to a local maximum of the si...

STUDY DESIGN A 14-week, randomized, double-blind, multicenter, placebo-controlled study of Japanese patients with chronic low back pain (CLBP) who were randomized to either duloxetine 60 mg once daily or placebo. OBJECTIVE This study aimed to assess the efficacy and safety of duloxetine monotherapy in Japanese patients with CLBP. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA In Japan, duloxetine is approved f...

OBJECTIVES To review the evidence for an association of white matter hyperintensities with risk of stroke, cognitive decline, dementia, and death. DESIGN Systematic review and meta-analysis. DATA SOURCES PubMed from 1966 to 23 November 2009. STUDY SELECTION Prospective longitudinal studies that used magnetic resonance imaging and assessed the impact of white matter hyperintensities on ris...

The hypothesis of a functional disconnection of neuro-cognitive networks in patients with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and Alzheimer Dementia was investigated using baseline resting EEG data. EEG databases from New York (264 subjects) and Stockholm (155 subjects), including healthy controls and patients with varying degrees of cognitive decline or Alzheimer Dementia were analyzed using Globa...