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An investigation of PreMCI: subtypes and longitudinal outcomesDavid A Loewenstein
Wien Center for Alzheimer s Disease and Memory Disorders, Mount Sinai Medical Center, Miami Beach, FL, USA
Alzheimers Dement 8:172-9. 2012..To investigate the clinical features and rates of progression of conditions that are not considered to be normal, but do not fulfill criteria for mild cognitive impairment (MCI)...
Vulnerability to proactive semantic interference and progression to dementia among older adults with mild cognitive impairmentDavid A Loewenstein
Wein Center for Alzheimer s Disease and Memory Disorders, Mount Sinai Medical Center, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami Beach, FL 33140, USA
Dement Geriatr Cogn Disord 24:363-8. 2007..Vulnerability to proactive interference may be an early manifestation of an early dementing process and may have utility in predicting future progression to dementia...- Stability of different subtypes of mild cognitive impairment among the elderly over a 2- to 3-year follow-up periodDavid A Loewenstein
Wein Center for Alzheimer s Disease and Memory Disorders, Mount Sinai Medical Center, Miami Beach, Fla, USA
Dement Geriatr Cogn Disord 27:418-23. 2009..To investigate the longitudinal stability and progression of different subtypes of mild cognitive impairment (MCI) in older adults... 
Severity of medial temporal atrophy and amnestic mild cognitive impairment: selecting type and number of memory testsDavid A Loewenstein
Wien Center for Alzheimer s Disease and Memory Disorders, Mount Sinai Medical Center, Miami Beach, FL 33140, USA
Am J Geriatr Psychiatry 17:1050-8. 2009..The authors compared the strength of this biomarker with performance on four memory measures and examined the influence of demographic factors including age, level of education, and primary language (English or Spanish)...- The utility of a brief memory screen in the diagnosis of mild memory impairment in the elderly: preliminary studyDavid A Loewenstein
Wein Center for Alzheimer s Disease and Memory Disorders, Mount Sinai Medical Center, Miami Beach, FL 33140, USA
Am J Geriatr Psychiatry 17:437-40. 2009..This study evaluated the utility of the Florida Brief Memory Screen (FBMS), a new memory screening measure developed for Spanish-speaking and English-speaking subjects, which takes only 3-4 minutes to administer... - Pre-MCI and MCI: neuropsychological, clinical, and imaging features and progression ratesRanjan Duara
Wien Center for Alzheimer s Disease and Memory Disorders, Miami Beach, Florida, USA
Am J Geriatr Psychiatry 19:951-60. 2011.... - Comparing new templates and atlas-based segmentations in the volumetric analysis of brain magnetic resonance images for diagnosing Alzheimer's diseaseQian Shen
Wien Center for Alzheimer s Disease and Memory Disorders, Mount Sinai Medical Center, Miami Beach, FL, USA
Alzheimers Dement 8:399-406. 2012.... - Diagnosis and staging of mild cognitive impairment, using a modification of the clinical dementia rating scale: the mCDRRanjan Duara
Wien Center for Alzheimer s Disease and Memory Disorders, Mount Sinai Medical Center, Miami Beach, FL, USA
Int J Geriatr Psychiatry 25:282-9. 2010..To examine the reliability and validity of the mCDR, a modified version of the clinical dementia rating (CDR) scale... - The cognitive change checklist (3CL): cross-validation of a measure of change in everyday cognitionJohn A Schinka
James A Haley VA Medical Center, Tampa, FL, USA
Int J Geriatr Psychiatry 25:266-74. 2010.... - Minimal atrophy of the entorhinal cortex and hippocampus: progression of cognitive impairmentDaniel Varon
Wien Center for Alzheimer s Disease and Memory Disorders, Mount Sinai Medical Center, Miami Beach, FL 33140, USA
Dement Geriatr Cogn Disord 31:276-83. 2011..The significance of very mild atrophy of the ERC and HP on MRI scans among elderly subjects is unknown... - Using different memory cutoffs to assess mild cognitive impairmentDavid A Loewenstein
Wien Center for Alzheimer s Disease and Memory Disorders, Mount Sinai Medical Center, Miami Beach, FL 33140, USA
Am J Geriatr Psychiatry 14:911-9. 2006.... - Reliability and validity of an algorithm for the diagnosis of normal cognition, mild cognitive impairment, and dementia: implications for multicenter research studiesRanjan Duara
Mount Sinai Medical Center, Wien Center for Alzheimer s Disease and Memory Disorders, Miami Beach, FL 33140, USA
Am J Geriatr Psychiatry 18:363-70. 2010..As this procedure may be labor intensive and influenced by the philosophy and biases of a clinician, the diagnostic algorithm (AlgDx) was developed to identify individuals as cognitively normal, with MCI, or dementia... - Volumetric and visual rating of magnetic resonance imaging scans in the diagnosis of amnestic mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's diseaseQian Shen
Wien Center for Alzheimer s Disease and Memory Disorders, Mount Sinai Medical Center, Miami Beach, FL, USA
Alzheimers Dement 7:e101-8. 2011.... - The use of amnestic and nonamnestic composite measures at different thresholds in the neuropsychological diagnosis of MCIDavid A Loewenstein
Wien Center for Alzheimer s Disease and Memory Disorders, Mount Sinai Medical Center, Miami Beach, FL 33140, USA
J Clin Exp Neuropsychol 29:300-7. 2007..3%) and the composite measure of both impaired memory and nonmemory measures (sensitivity of 85.0%/specificity of 100%) had high levels of discrimination and may have utility as indices of early impairment as well as severity of MCI... - Nonpharmacological cognitive interventions in aging and dementiaAmarilis Acevedo
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, and Wien Center for Alzheimer s Disease and Memory Disorders, Mount Sinai Medical Center, Miami Beach, Florida 33140, USA
J Geriatr Psychiatry Neurol 20:239-49. 2007..It is concluded that cognitive interventions in the elderly show considerable promise and deserve further study... - Influence of sociodemographic variables on neuropsychological test performance in Spanish-speaking older adultsAmarilis Acevedo
Center on Aging and Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, FL 33140, USA
J Clin Exp Neuropsychol 29:530-44. 2007..These results underscore the impact of educational attainment on neuropsychological test performance among the cognitively normal Spanish-speaking older adult... - Cognitive profiles in Alzheimer's disease and in mild cognitive impairment of different etiologiesDavid A Loewenstein
Wein Center for Alzheimer s Disease and Memory Disorders, Mount Sinai Medical Center, Miami Beach, Fla, USA
Dement Geriatr Cogn Disord 21:309-15. 2006..MCI-AD and MCI-vascular patients frequently exhibit both common and overlapping amnestic and nonamnestic features. The implication of these findings for future clinical research is discussed... - Semantic interference deficits and the detection of mild Alzheimer's disease and mild cognitive impairment without dementiaDavid A Loewenstein
Department of Psychiatry, Wien Center for Alzheimer s Disease and Memory Disorders, Mount Sinai Medical Center, Miami Beach, Florida 33140, USA
J Int Neuropsychol Soc 10:91-100. 2004..6% and specificity of 96.2% in differentiating mild AD patients from normal older adults. Susceptibility to proactive semantic interference may be an early cognitive feature of MCI and AD patients presenting for clinical evaluation... - Cognitive rehabilitation of mildly impaired Alzheimer disease patients on cholinesterase inhibitorsDavid A Loewenstein
Wien Center for Alzheimer s Disease and Memory Disorders, Mount Sinai Medical Center, 4300 Alton Road, Miami Beach, FL 33140, USA
Am J Geriatr Psychiatry 12:395-402. 2004..The authors evaluated the efficacy of a new cognitive rehabilitation program on memory and functional performance of mildly impaired Alzheimer disease (AD) patients receiving a cholinesterase inhibitor... - Conversion to dementia among two groups with cognitive impairment. A preliminary reportCheryl A Luis
Wien Center for Alzheimer s Disease and Memory Disorders, Mount Sinai Medical Center, Miami, Fla 33140, USA
Dement Geriatr Cogn Disord 18:307-13. 2004..To determine the conversion rates to dementia in patients diagnosed with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) thought to be caused by incipient Alzheimer's disease (MCI-AD) or with MCI with features of vascular disease (MCI-Vas)... - Semantic interference in mild Alzheimer disease: preliminary findingsDavid A Loewenstein
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Miami School of Medicine, Miami Beach, FL 33140, USA
Am J Geriatr Psychiatry 11:252-5. 2003..The authors evaluated the usefulness and psychometric properties of the Semantic Interference Test (SIT) in patients with mild Alzheimer disease (AD)... - Age-associated differences in cognitive performance in older patients with schizophrenia: a comparison with healthy older adultsDavid A Loewenstein
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science and the Center on Aging, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, FL 33136, USA
Am J Geriatr Psychiatry 20:29-40. 2012..Previous studies have been limited by restricted age ranges among schizophrenia and psychiatrically healthy control samples as well as small numbers of control participants... - Stability of neurocognitive impairment in different subtypes of mild cognitive impairmentDavid A Loewenstein
Wien Center for Alzheimer s Disease and Memory Disorders, Mount Sinai Medical Center, Miami Beach, FL 33140, USA
Dement Geriatr Cogn Disord 23:82-6. 2007.... - Visual rating system for assessing magnetic resonance images: a tool in the diagnosis of mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer diseaseRaksha Urs
Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL, USA
J Comput Assist Tomogr 33:73-8. 2009.... - How late-life depression affects cognition: neural mechanismsElizabeth A Crocco
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, 1695 Northwest 9th Avenue, Suite 3308, Miami, FL 33136, USA
Curr Psychiatry Rep 12:34-8. 2010..This article discusses cognitive impairment in geriatric depression and how developing a better understanding of its neural correlates may lead to improved understanding and outcome of this specific disorder... - Performance on the Boston Naming Test in English-Spanish bilingual older adults: some considerationsAmarilis Acevedo
Center on Aging and Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami Beach, FL 33140, USA
J Int Neuropsychol Soc 13:212-4; discussion 215-8. 2007..In light of the methodology employed, we weigh different potential interpretations of the findings and make recommendations for future studies... - Psychiatric aspects of mild cognitive impairmentElizabeth A Crocco
Department of Psychiatry, Mount Sinai Medical Center, 4300 Alton Road, MRI Building, 2nd Floor, Miami Beach, FL 33140, USA
Curr Psychiatry Rep 7:32-6. 2005..This article presents current information on psychiatric symptoms in mild cognitive impairment, their suggested role in the pathophysiology of AD and future research considerations on the subject... - Towards an earlier diagnosis of Alzheimer disease (Proceedings of the 5th MCI Symposium, 2007)Lisa J Bain
Wien Center for Alzheimer s Disease and Memory Disorders, Mount Sinai Medical Center, 4300 Alton Road, Miami Beach, FL 33140, USA
Alzheimer Dis Assoc Disord 22:99-110. 2008..As was intended, the symposium delivered no consensus; however, there was substantial support for the idea that AD can and probably should be diagnosed before the onset of dementia, particularly as new interventions become available... - Hospitalization and psychosis: influences on the course of cognition and everyday functioning in people with schizophreniaPhilip D Harvey
Center on Aging, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL 33136, USA
Neurobiol Dis 53:18-25. 2013..Prevention of relapse and discovering treatments to assist patients with resistant symptoms may reduce the risk of cognitive and functional declines across the lifespan in people with schizophrenia... - High Blood caffeine levels in MCI linked to lack of progression to dementiaChuanhai Cao
Department of Pharmaceutical Science, University of South Florida College of Pharmacy, Tampa, FL 33620, USA
J Alzheimers Dis 30:559-72. 2012..This case-control study provides the first direct evidence that caffeine/coffee intake is associated with a reduced risk of dementia or delayed onset, particularly for those who already have MCI... - The effect of a family therapy and technology-based intervention on caregiver depressionCarl Eisdorfer
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Miami School of Medicine, 1695 N W 9th Avenue, Suite 3204, Miami, FL 33136, USA
Gerontologist 43:521-31. 2003.... - Caregiver appraisals of functional dependence in individuals with dementia and associated caregiver upset: psychometric properties of a new scale and response patterns by caregiver and care recipient characteristicsLaura N Gitlin
Thomas Jefferson University, USA
J Aging Health 17:148-71. 2005..DISCUSSION: The CAFU is easily administered, reliable, and valid for evaluating appraisals of dependencies and upsetting care areas... - Assessing the cognitive abilities that differentiate patients with Alzheimer's disease from normals: single and multiple factor modelsRaymond L Ownby
Center on Aging and the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Miami School of Medicine, Miami, Florida 33140, USA
Int J Geriatr Psychiatry 19:232-42. 2004..As deficits in cognitive abilities may reflect the pathological process or processes occurring in AD, determination of the structure of abilities in AD is important...