Dementia Ppts and Latest 50 Published articles

Dementia: Dementia is a loss of brain function that occurs with certain diseases. It affects memory, thinking, language, judgment, and behavior. The following medical conditions also can lead to dementia: Huntington's disease, Multiple sclerosis, Infections that can affect the brain, such as HIV /AIDS and Lyme disease, Parkinson's disease, Pick's disease, Progressive supranuclear palsy.

Drug  Induced Dementia: Proceed  with Caution
by David  M. Angaran, MS, FASHP, FCCP
http://alzonline.phhp.ufl.edu/pp_slides/03_27_03_angaran.ppt

Pain Assessment  and Dementia
by Amanda Floetke Elliott,  PhD(c), ARNP, Ann L. Horgas, RN,  PhD, FAAN
http://alzonline.phhp.ufl.edu/pp_slides/060117_elliot.ppt

Dementia - Medical  Aspects of Disability
http://courses.phhp.ufl.edu/rcs6080/ppt_files/Dementia.ppt

Dementias 
by Pat Borman, MD
http://www.fammed.washington.edu/network/sfm/Didactic%20Handouts/DEMENTIA.ppt

Palliative care  of advanced dementia A patient centered  approach
by VJ  Periyakoil, MD
http://mirecc.stanford.edu/ppt/uod06/6_periyacoil_dementia_handout_final.ppt

Managing rehabilitation  challenges of patients with dementia
by Tom Holmes,  OTR, MA
http://www.uthct.edu/files/ppt/rehab_dementia.ppt

Dementia:  Diagnosis and Treatment
by Debra  L. Bynum, MD
http://www.med.unc.edu/medicine/web/8.19.08%20Bynum.%20Dementia.ppt

Dementia Evaluation and Treatment
by John Frederick MD
http://depts.washington.edu/psyclerk/secure/dementia.ppt

Practice Parameter:  Evaluation and Treatment of Depression, Psychosis  and Dementia in Parkinson Disease:   An Evidence-Based Review
by J. Miyasaki,  MD; K. Shannon, MD; V. Voon, MD;  B. Ravina, MD; G. Kleiner-Fisman, MD;  K. Anderson, MD; L.M. Shulman, MD; G.  Gronseth, MD; and W.J. Weiner, MD
http://www.aan.com/practice/guideline/index.cfm?fuseaction=home.view&guideline=199

Dementia
by Michael A Hill, MD
http://www.med.unc.edu/psyclerk/files/copy_of_DementiaForMedStudents.ppt

Structural and Functional Neuroimaging in the Diagnosis of Dementia
by John M. Ringman, M.D.
http://www.loni.ucla.edu/twiki/pub/CCB/CCB_Meetings_NYLF2006/Ringman_NeuroimagStudents.ppt

Delirium,  Dementia, and Amnestic  Disorders
http://www.mccc.edu/~martinl/documents/DeliriumDementiaandAmnesticDisordersstudent.ppt

New  Directions in Dementia Care at Home
by Tracey  Vause-Earland, MS, OTR/L, E.  Adel Herge, MS, OTR/L, Catherine  Verrier Piersol, MS,  OTR/L
http://www.jefferson.edu/carah/documents/AOTA_2007_Conference.ppt.

Medical  Evaluation of the Patient with Brain Failure
by Jane  F. Potter, MD
http://www.unmc.edu/media/intmed/geriatrics/ppt/brainfailuremedeval4.ppt

Latest 50 published articles

1. "Atypical" method for understanding dementia. How can studying epigenetics contribute?
2. Dementia : Why it is worthwhile to dedicate several more decades of attention to the topic.
3. Diabetes and dementia.
4. Gait changes as an early indicator of dementia.
5. Palliative care for patients with dementia.
6. The helping relationship in the face of dementia syndrome.
7. A brief update on dementia prevention.
8. A Case of Adult Asperger's Syndrome Previously Diagnosed as Frontotemporal Dementia.
9. An exploration of nursing home managers' knowledge of and attitudes towards the management of pain in residents with dementia.
10. Analysis of case management programs for patients with dementia: A systematic review.
11. Assessment of cognitive fluctuation in dementia: a systematic review of the literature.
12. Clinical approach to atypical typer of dementia.
13. Combination of Biomarkers: PET FFlutemetamol Imaging and Structural MRI in Dementia and Mild Cognitive Impairment.
14. Co-occurrence of parkinsonism and dementia in clinical practice : Relevant differential diagnoses.
15. Criminal manifestations of dementia patients: report from the national forensic hospital.
16. Decrease of synaptic plasticity associated with alteration of information flow in a rat model of vascular dementia.
17. Dementia after Age 75: Survival in Different Severity Stages and Years of Life Lost.
18. Dementia with lewy bodies: diagnosis and management for primary care providers.
19. Dementia with motor neuron disease.
20. Diagnosing early onset dementia and then what? A frustrating system of aftercare resources.
21. Diminished disgust reactivity in behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia.
22. Distinct clinical and pathological characteristics of frontotemporal dementia associated with C9ORF72 mutations.
23. Does a family meetings intervention prevent depression and anxiety in family caregivers of dementia patients? A randomized trial.
24. Effect of Chronic Dementia Caregiving and Major Transitions in the Caregiving Situation on Kidney Function: A Longitudinal Study.
25. Effect of vascular burden as measured by vascular indexes upon vascular dementia: a matched case-control study.
26. Family Perceptions of End-of-Life Care for Long-Term Care Residents with Dementia: Differences Between the United States and the Netherlands.
27. Genetic variations in CHRNA7 or CHRFAM7 and susceptibility to dementia.
28. Impact of the Food and Drug Administration's antipsychotic black box warning on psychotropic drug prescribing in elderly patients with dementia in outpatient and office-based settings.
29. Is the screening test of the French version of the dementia quality of life questionnaire indispensable?
30. Music interventions against agitated behaviour in elderly persons with dementia: a cost-effective perspective.
31. Net costs of dementia in Sweden - An Incidence Based 10 Year Simulation Study.
32. Neuroimaging of dementia with lewy bodies.
33. Pain and dementia : A diagnostic challenge.
34. Palliative Care for Advanced Dementia: A Pilot Project in 2 Nursing Homes.
35. Prevalence of Depression and Dementia among Adults with Developmental Disabilities in Manitoba, Canada.
36. Response to the letter by Dr. Bellelli, Raglio and Trabucchi's article "Music intervention against agitated behavior in elderly persons with dementia: a cost-effective perspective".
37. Severe olfactory dysfunction is a prodromal symptom of dementia associated with Parkinson's disease: a 3 year longitudinal study.
38. Sleep apnea increases dementia risk in older women.
39. Social Cognition and Emotional Assessment differentiates frontotemporal dementia from depression.
40. Sortilin and SorLA Regulate Neuronal Sorting of Trophic and Dementia-Linked Proteins.
41. Subcortical vascular dementia: Significance in the differential diagnosis of dementia.
42. Superficial siderosis of the central nervous system: a rare cause of dementia with therapeutic consequences.
43. Tau deficiency induces parkinsonism with dementia by impairing APP-mediated iron export.
44. Telomere length shortening in patients with dementia with Lewy bodies.
45. The cohort study of dementia: the Hisayama study.
46. The Disappearing Subject: Exclusion of People with Cognitive Impairment and Dementia from Geriatrics Research.
47. The validity of amnestic MCI and non-amnestic MCI at age 75 in the prediction of Alzheimer's dementia and vascular dementia.
48. Validation of the Sinhala version of the Montreal Cognitive Assessment in screening for dementia.
49. Voxel-based morphometry in patients with obsessive-compulsive behaviors in behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia.
50. When the profession becomes personal: dementia care practitioners as family caregivers.