Ainamani, Herbert E Bamwerinde, Wilson M Rukundo, Godfrey Z Tumwesigire, Sam Kalibwani, Rebecca M Bikaitwaho, Evard M Tsai, Alexander C
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Preventive medicine reports
Evidence from high-income settings suggests that gardening is associated with reductions in depression, anxiety, and stress. The benefits of gardening are less well understood by mental health practitioners and researchers from low- and middle-income countries. Our study estimated the association between participation in gardening and symptoms of d...
Liampas, Ioannis Raptopoulou, Maria Siokas, Vasileios Tsouris, Zisis Brotis, Alexandros Aloizou, Athina-Maria Dastamani, Metaxia Dardiotis, Efthimios
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Reviews in the neurosciences
Transient Global Amnesia (TGA) constitutes an enigmatic amnestic condition. In view of the admittedly limited knowledge regarding the nature of TGA, we decided to systematically review existing evidence for the generally regarded benign course of the disease. MEDLINE, EMBASE, CENTRAL and PsycINFO were searched for relevant articles. Observational (...
Klijs, Bart Mitratza, Marianna Harteloh, Peter Pm Moll van Charante, Eric P Richard, Edo Nielen, Markus Mj Kunst, Anton E
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International journal of epidemiology
Previous estimates of the lifetime risk of dementia are restricted to older age groups and may suffer from selection bias. In this study, we estimated the lifetime risk of dementia starting at birth using nationwide integral linked health register data. We studied all deaths in The Netherlands in 2017 (n = 147 866). Dementia was assessed using the ...
Anderson, Emma L Richmond, Rebecca C Jones, Samuel E Hemani, Gibran Wade, Kaitlin H Dashti, Hassan S Lane, Jacqueline M Wang, Heming Saxena, Richa Brumpton, Ben
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International journal of epidemiology
It is established that Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients experience sleep disruption. However, it remains unknown whether disruption in the quantity, quality or timing of sleep is a risk factor for the onset of AD. We used the largest published genome-wide association studies of self-reported and accelerometer-measured sleep traits (chronotype, dur...
Zhang, Ying Zhou, Junyi Gehl, Carissa R. Long, Jeffrey D. Johnson, Hans Magnotta, Vincent A. Sewell, Daniel Shannon, Kathleen Paulsen, Jane S.
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Frontiers in Neurology
As one of the clinical triad in Huntington's disease (HD), cognitive impairment has not been widely accepted as a disease stage indicator in HD literature. This work aims to study cognitive impairment thoroughly for prodromal HD individuals with the data from a 12-year observational study to determine whether Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) in HD g...
Custodio, Nilton Montesinos, Rosa Diaz, Monica M. Herrera-Perez, Eder Chavez, Kristhy Alva-Diaz, Carlos Reynoso-Guzman, Willyams Pintado-Caipa, Maritza Cuenca, José Gamboa, Carlos
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Frontiers in Neurology
Background: The accurate diagnosis of neurocognitive disorders in illiterate Peruvian populations is challenging, largely owing to scarcity of brief cognitive screening tools (BCST) validated in these diverse populations. The Peruvian version of the Rowland Universal Dementia Assessment Scale (RUDAS-PE) is a BCST that relies minimally on educationa...
Piña-Escudero, Stefanie Danielle Aguirre, Gloria Annette Javandel, Shireen Longoria-Ibarrola, Erika Mariana
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Frontiers in Neurology
Latin America is a vast heterogeneous territory where chronic diseases such as mild cognitive impairment or dementia are becoming higher. Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) prevalence in this region is estimated to be around 12–18 cases per thousand persons. However, this prevalence is underestimated given the lack of awareness of FTD even among healthc...
Xu, Ying Lavrencic, Louise Radford, Kylie Booth, Andrew Yoshimura, Sohei Anstey, Kaarin J Anderson, Craig S Peters, Ruth
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Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
Coexistent seizures add complexity to the burden of Alzheimer's disease (AD). We aim to estimate the incidence and prevalence of coexistent seizures and AD and summarize characteristics. A systematic review and meta-analysis (PROSPERO protocol registration CRD42020150479). Population-, community-, hospital-, or nursing home-based. Thirty-nine studi...
Leontjevas, Ruslan Knippenberg, Inge A H Smalbrugge, Martin Plouvier, Annette O A Teunisse, Saskia Bakker, Christian Koopmans, Raymond T C M Gerritsen, Debby L
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Aging & mental health
From the perspective of the nursing home (NH) practitioners, to gain understanding of (1) whether challenging behavior in NH residents changed during the COVID-19 measures, (2) whether the practitioners' involvement in the treatment of challenging behavior changed, (3) what can be learned from the experience of NH staff. A mixed methods study with ...
Wojt, Ilsa R Cairns, Rose Tan, Edwin C K
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Journal of the American Medical Directors Association
To describe the most common types of poisoning exposures, implicated substances and underlying sources of medication error in people with dementia. Retrospective analysis of call records from the New South Wales (NSW) Poisons Information Center (PIC). People with dementia who had a poisoning exposure reported to the NSW PIC (Australia's largest PIC...
