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| Rajeev KumarSummaryAffiliation: The Canberra Hospital Country: Australia Publications
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Depression in mild cognitive impairment in a community sample of individuals 60-64 years oldRajeev Kumar
Department of Psychological Medicine, Australian National University Medical School, Canberra, Australia
Int Psychogeriatr 18:471-80. 2006..The data presented here are from the first wave of the longitudinal Personality and Total Health Through Life 60+ (PATH 60+) Project...- Akathisia and second-generation antipsychotic drugsRajeev Kumar
Academic Unit of Psychological Medicine, Australian National University, Australia
Curr Opin Psychiatry 22:293-99. 2009..This review examines the recent literature relevant to second-generation antipsychotic (SGA)-induced akathisia... 
Association of type 2 diabetes with depression, brain atrophy, and reduced fine motor speed in a 60- to 64-year-old community sampleRajeev Kumar
Department of Psychological Medicine, The Canberra Clinical School, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
Am J Geriatr Psychiatry 16:989-98. 2008..The authors hypothesized that subjects with Type 2 diabetes are more likely to be depressed, have more brain atrophy, and poorer cognitive function compared with nondiabetic comparison subjects...- Clinical and neuroimaging correlates of mild cognitive impairment in a middle-aged community sample: the personality and total health through life 60+ studyRajeev Kumar
Department of Psychological Medicine, Australian National University Medical School, Canberra, Australia
Dement Geriatr Cogn Disord 21:44-50. 2006..Structural neuroimaging may not have an added advantage in the detection of MCI in middle-aged community-dwelling subjects. It may be that this age group is too young for such brain changes to be identified... - Prevalence of mild cognitive impairment in 60- to 64-year-old community-dwelling individuals: The Personality and Total Health through Life 60+ StudyRajeev Kumar
Department of Psychological Medicine, The Canberra Hospital, Canberra, Australia
Dement Geriatr Cogn Disord 19:67-74. 2005..The prevalence rate varies up to six-fold according to the diagnostic criteria applied, with limited overlap between diagnoses. There is an urgent need for standardization of the criteria... - Risk factors of transition from normal cognition to mild cognitive disorder: the PATH through Life StudyNicolas Cherbuin
Centre for Mental Health Research, Australian National University, Canberra, A C T, Australia
Dement Geriatr Cogn Disord 28:47-55. 2009..The aim of this study was to identify physical and mental health and lifestyle predictors of transition from normal cognition to mild cognitive disorder (MCD)... - Weekly alcohol consumption, brain atrophy, and white matter hyperintensities in a community-based sample aged 60 to 64 yearsKaarin J Anstey
Centre for Mental Health Research, Australian National University, Canberra ACT 0200, Australia
Psychosom Med 68:778-85. 2006..The objective of this study was to determine the association between weekly alcohol consumption and brain atrophy in adults aged 60 to 64 years... 
Follow-up of mild cognitive impairment and related disorders over four years in adults in their sixties: the PATH Through Life StudyKaarin J Anstey
Centre for Mental Health Research, Australian National University, Canberra, A C T, Australia
Dement Geriatr Cogn Disord 26:226-33. 2008..The study aimed to estimate incidence rates of mild cognitive impairment and related disorders, and conversion to dementia...- MRI hyperintensities and depressive symptoms in a community sample of individuals 60-64 years oldAnthony F Jorm
Centre for Mental Health Research, Australian National University, Canberra 0200, Australia
Am J Psychiatry 162:699-705. 2005..The present study investigates the association in a younger community sample (age 60-64 years) of depressed subjects and comparison groups for potential mediating and confounding variables... - Corpus callosum size, reaction time speed and variability in mild cognitive disorders and in a normative sampleKaarin J Anstey
Centre for Mental Health Research, Australian National University, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Neuropsychologia 45:1911-20. 2007..We propose that biological limits on reserve capacity must occur in mild cognitive disorders that result in stronger brain-behavior relationships being observed... - Caudate nucleus volumes in stroke and vascular dementiaJeffrey Chee Leong Looi
Research Centre for the Neurosciences of Ageing, Academic Unit of Psychological Medicine, Australian National University Medical School, Building 4, Level 2, The Canberra Hospital, P O Box 11, Woden Australian Capital Territory 2605, Australia
Psychiatry Res 174:67-75. 2009.... - Shape analysis of the neostriatum in frontotemporal lobar degeneration, Alzheimer's disease, and controlsJeffrey Chee Leong Looi
Research Centre for the Neurosciences of Ageing, Academic Unit of Psychological Medicine, Australian National University Medical School, Canberra Hospital, Canberra, Australia
Neuroimage 51:970-86. 2010..We measured the neostriatum (caudate nucleus and putamen) volume in FTLD (n=34), in comparison with controls (n=27) and Alzheimer's disease (AD, n=19) subjects... - Hormone replacement therapy, brain volumes and white matter in postmenopausal women aged 60-64 yearsLee Fay Low
Centre for Mental Health Research, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
Neuroreport 17:101-4. 2006..While acknowledging the limitations of a cross-sectional study, the results argue against hormone replacement therapy being protective against brain changes associated with ageing in women in their early 60s... - Benign brain tumours and psychiatric morbidity: a 5-years retrospective data analysisRamesh K Gupta
Mental Health Service, Phillip Health Centre, Woden, Canberra, Austalian Capital Territory, Australia
Aust N Z J Psychiatry 38:316-9. 2004..To examine the psychiatric comorbidity in benign brain tumours... - Volumetrics of the caudate nucleus: reliability and validity of a new manual tracing protocolJeffrey Chee Leong Looi
Research Centre for the Neurosciences of Ageing, Academic Unit of Psychological Medicine, Australian National University Medical School, The Canberra Hospital, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Psychiatry Res 163:279-88. 2008..This method is therefore potentially usable for any image analysis package capable of displaying and measuring outlined voxels from MRI brain scans... - Subsyndromal depression in old age: clinical significance and impact in a multi-ethnic community sample of elderly SingaporeansSoh Keng Chuan
Department of Psychological Medicine, National University of Singapore
Int Psychogeriatr 20:188-200. 2008..This cross-sectional study examined the clinical significance and impact of subsyndromal depression in a sample of elderly people living in the community in Singapore... - Serum urate as a predictor of clinical and radiographic progression in Parkinson diseaseMichael A Schwarzschild
MassGeneral Institute for Neurodegenerative Disease, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, USA
Arch Neurol 65:716-23. 2008..To determine whether concentration of serum urate, a purine metabolite and potent antioxidant that has been linked to a reduced risk of Parkinson disease (PD), predicts prognosis in PD... - Deep brain stimulationDrew S Kern
College of Medicine, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont, USA
Neurologist 13:237-52. 2007..This review primarily focuses on movement disorder applications and efficacy of DBS, but also briefly reviews other promising new and old uses of DBS... - Snuff-induced malignancy of the nasal vestibule: a case reportSuja Sreedharan
Department of ENT, Pathology and Prosthodontics, Kasturba Medical College, Mangalore, Karnataka, India
Am J Otolaryngol 28:353-6. 2007..We describe here a case of a 69-year-old woman who developed a nasal vestibular malignancy after 30 years of snuff usage, and this, we believe, is the only reported case of nasal snuff causing cancer in the last 2 centuries... - Hepatitis C and psychiatryRajeev Kumar
Australas Psychiatry 15:163. 2007 - Correlation between metabolite ratios and ADC values of prostate in men with increased PSA levelVirendra Kumar
Department of NMR, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Ansari Nagar, New Delhi 110029, India
Magn Reson Imaging 24:541-8. 2006..Results show positive correlation between MRSI and DWI and their potential in detection of malignancy, thereby improving the diagnosis especially in patients with PSA level of 4-20 ng/ml... - Social class and all-cause mortality in an urban population of North IndiaRam B Singh
Halberg Hospital and Research Institute, Moradabad, India
Acta Cardiol 60:611-7. 2005..There is a rapid emergence of cardiovascular disease in India with economic development, leading to an increase in mortality due to these diseases. The exact causes of death in India, however, are not known... - Homocysteine and the brain in midadult life: evidence for an increased risk of leukoaraiosis in menPerminder Sachdev
School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Arch Neurol 61:1369-76. 2004..Homocysteine also has a direct neurotoxic effect and has been linked to brain atrophy and an increased risk of Alzheimer disease... - A nomogram for single-stage cluster-sample surveys in a community for estimation of a prevalence rateRajeev Kumar
Division of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics, University College of Medical Sciences, Dilshad Garden, Delhi, India
Int J Epidemiol 31:463-7. 2002..This would be applicable only to single-stage CRS...