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Pathology and temporal onset of visual hallucinations, misperceptions and family misidentification distinguishes dementia with Lewy bodies from Alzheimer's diseaseT J Ferman
Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL, USA Electronic address
Parkinsonism Relat Disord 19:227-31. 2013....- Inclusion of RBD improves the diagnostic classification of dementia with Lewy bodiesT J Ferman
Department of Psychiatry and Psychology, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL 32224, USA
Neurology 77:875-82. 2011..To determine whether adding REM sleep behavior disorder (RBD) to the dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) diagnostic criteria improves classification accuracy of autopsy-confirmed DLB... - Dementia with Lewy bodiesTanis J Ferman
Department of Psychiatry and Psychology, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL 32224, USA
Neurol Clin 25:741-60, vii. 2007..Differences in the severity of cholinergic depletion and type/distribution of neuropathology contribute to these clinical differences... 
Neuropsychological differentiation of dementia with Lewy bodies from normal aging and Alzheimer's diseaseTanis J Ferman
The Department of Psychiatry and Psychology, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL 32224, USA
Clin Neuropsychol 20:623-36. 2006..These finding extend prior research suggesting a cognitive profile that can aid in the clinical diagnosis of DLB. Early attention and visual perceptual disturbance suggests DLB, while early impairment in memory and naming suggests AD...- REM sleep behavior disorder and dementia: cognitive differences when compared with ADT J Ferman
Department of Psychiatry and Psychology, Mayo Clinic and Foundation, Rochester, MN, USA
Neurology 52:951-7. 1999.... - DLB fluctuations: specific features that reliably differentiate DLB from AD and normal agingT J Ferman
Department of Psychiatry and Psychology, Mayo Clinic and Foundation, Jacksonville, FL 32224, USA
Neurology 62:181-7. 2004..To determine whether certain aspects of fluctuations reliably distinguish dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) from Alzheimer's disease (AD) and normal aging... - Global-local processing in schizophrenia: hemispheric asymmetry and symptom-specific interferenceT J Ferman
Finch University of Health Sciences, Chicago Medical School, USA
J Int Neuropsychol Soc 5:442-51. 1999..Interconnected temporal and frontal systems are postulated to contribute to this pattern of perceptual processing efficiency and distractibility in schizophrenia... - Dementia with Lewy bodies may present as dementia and REM sleep behavior disorder without parkinsonism or hallucinationsTanis J Ferman
Department of Psychiatry and Psychology, Mayo Clinic and Foundation, Jacksonville, Florida 32224, USA
J Int Neuropsychol Soc 8:907-14. 2002..This provides further evidence in support of including RBD as one of the core diagnostic features of DLB... - Early and pre-symptomatic neuropsychological dysfunction in the PPND family with the N279K tau mutationT J Ferman
Department of Psychiatry and Psychology, Mayo Clinic, 4500 San Pablo Road, Jacksonville, FL 32224, USA
Parkinsonism Relat Disord 9:265-70. 2003..In addition, results suggest that letter fluency may be a sensitive predictor of incipient PPND... - Mild cognitive impairment associated with limbic and neocortical Lewy body disease: a clinicopathological studyJennifer Molano
Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN 55905, USA
Brain 133:540-56. 2010.... - Mayo's Older African Americans Normative Studies: norms for Boston Naming Test, Controlled Oral Word Association, Category Fluency, Animal Naming, Token Test, WRAT-3 Reading, Trail Making Test, Stroop Test, and Judgment of Line OrientationJohn A Lucas
Department of Psychiatry and Psychology, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL 32224, USA
Clin Neuropsychol 19:243-69. 2005..These data should enhance interpretation of individual test performances and facilitate analysis of neuropsychological profile patterns in older African American patients who present for dementia evaluations... - Current management of sleep disturbances in dementiaBradley F Boeve
Mayo Sleep Disorders Center, Department of Neurology, Mayo Alzheimer s Disease Research Center, Mayo Clinic, 200 First Street SW, Rochester, MN 55905, USA
Curr Neurol Neurosci Rep 2:169-77. 2002.... - A cost effective method of identifying and recruiting persons over 80 free of dementia or mild cognitive impairmentNeill R Graff-Radford
Department of Neurology, Biostatistics Unit at Mayo Clinic Jacksonville, Jacksonville, Florida 32224, USA
Alzheimer Dis Assoc Disord 20:101-4. 2006..Hearing loss present in 50% did not influence TICS-m or CDR performance. Using stringent entry criteria and the telephone CDR, this method accurately identified normal elderly persons... - Reliable change on the Dementia Rating ScaleOtto Pedraza
Department of Psychiatry and Psychology, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, Florida 32224, USA
J Int Neuropsychol Soc 13:716-20. 2007..In addition, preliminary cross-validation was performed in a clinical comparison sample of another 22 older adults. The findings are discussed in the context of potential clinical and research applications... - Mayo's Older African American Normative Studies: Auditory Verbal Learning Test norms for African American eldersTanis J Ferman
Department of Psychiatry and Psychology, Mayo Foundation, Jacksonville, FL 32224, USA
Clin Neuropsychol 19:214-28. 2005.... - Mayo's Older African Americans Normative Studies: WMS-R norms for African American eldersJohn A Lucas
Department of Psychiatry and Psychology, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL 32224, USA
Clin Neuropsychol 19:189-213. 2005..We anticipate that these data will enhance the diagnostic utility and clinical interpretation of WMS-R performance in older African Americans... - A brief report on WAIS-R normative data collection in Mayo's Older African Americans Normative StudiesJohn A Lucas
Department of Psychiatry and Psychology, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL 32224, USA
Clin Neuropsychol 19:184-8. 2005..As such, WAIS-R normative estimates are not presented here. Interested readers who wish to obtain a full set of MOAANS WAIS-R norms, however, are invited to contact the authors for these data... - Mayo's Older African Americans Normative Studies: normative data for commonly used clinical neuropsychological measuresJohn A Lucas
Department of Psychiatry and Psychology, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL 32224, USA
Clin Neuropsychol 19:162-83. 2005..In most cases, the use of MOAANS norms should improve diagnostic accuracy in dementia evaluations of African American elders... - REM sleep behavior disorder in Parkinson's disease and dementia with Lewy bodiesBradley F Boeve
Sleep Disorders Center, Department of Neurology, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, MN 55905, USA
J Geriatr Psychiatry Neurol 17:146-57. 2004..The evolving data suggests that RBD may have clinical diagnostic and pathophysiologic significance in isolation and when associated with neurodegenerative disease... - Antemortem differential diagnosis of dementia pathology using structural MRI: Differential-STANDPrashanthi Vemuri
Department of Radiology, Mayo Clinic and Foundation, Rochester, MN 55905, USA
Neuroimage 55:522-31. 2011.... - Rates of cerebral atrophy differ in different degenerative pathologiesJennifer L Whitwell
Department of Radiology, Mayo Clinic Rochester, Rochester, MN 55905, USA
Brain 130:1148-58. 2007.... - Focal atrophy in dementia with Lewy bodies on MRI: a distinct pattern from Alzheimer's diseaseJennifer L Whitwell
Department of Radiology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN 55905, USA
Brain 130:708-19. 2007..Damage to this network of structures in DLB may affect a number of different neurotransmitter systems which in turn may contribute to a number of the core clinical features of DLB... 
Evaluation of subclinical cerebral injury and neuropsychologic function in patients undergoing carotid endarterectomyJuergen Falkensammer
Section of Vascular Surgery, Mayo Clinic Jacksonville, Jacksonville, FL 32224, USA
Ann Vasc Surg 22:497-504. 2008..This was the only individual to obtain a consistently high S100B and NSE increase. Neuropsychological testing combined with measurements of S100B and NSE may improve sensitivity when assessing subtle cerebral damage following CEA...- Functional impact of white matter hyperintensities in cognitively normal elderly subjectsMelissa E Murray
Department of Neuroscience Neuropathology, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, Florida, USA
Arch Neurol 67:1379-85. 2010..To investigate the impact white matter hyperintensities (WMH) detected on magnetic resonance imaging have on motor dysfunction and cognitive impairment in elderly subjects without dementia... - Validation of the neuropathologic criteria of the third consortium for dementia with Lewy bodies for prospectively diagnosed casesHiroshige Fujishiro
Department of Pathology and Neuroscience, Mayo Clinic, 4500 San Pablo Road, Jacksonville, FL 32224, USA
J Neuropathol Exp Neurol 67:649-56. 2008.... - Association of alpha-, beta-, and gamma-Synuclein with diffuse lewy body diseaseKenya Nishioka
Department of Neuroscience, Mayo Clinic Florida, 4500 San Pablo Rd, Jacksonville, FL 32224, USA
Arch Neurol 67:970-5. 2010..To determine the association of the genes that encode alpha-, beta-, and gamma-synuclein (SNCA, SNCB, and SNCG, respectively) with diffuse Lewy body disease (DLBD)... - Mayo's Older African American Normative Studies: norms for the Mattis Dementia Rating ScaleLaurie M Rilling
Department of Psychiatry, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA
Clin Neuropsychol 19:229-42. 2005..These norms should help improve interpretation of DRS performance in African Americans and allow for greater diagnostic accuracy in patients with early cognitive decline... - Mayo's older African American normative studies: confirmatory factor analysis of a core batteryOtto Pedraza
Department of Clinical and Health Psychology and McKnight Brain Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA
J Int Neuropsychol Soc 11:184-91. 2005.... - Melatonin for treatment of REM sleep behavior disorder in neurologic disorders: results in 14 patientsBradley F Boeve
Sleep Disorders Center, Mayo Clinic, 200 First Street SW, Rochester, MN 55905, USA
Sleep Med 4:281-4. 2003..Prospective, long-term, controlled trials with melatonin are warranted in a larger number of patients with RBD associated with a variety of neurologic symptoms and disorders...
Research Grants
- NEUROPSYCHOLOGY OF DEMENTIA WITH LEWY BODIESTANIS FERMAN; Fiscal Year: 2007..This has implications for symptom management, development of treatment options and for providing education and support to DLB patients and their caregivers. ..
- NEUROPSYCHOLOGY OF DEMENTIA WITH LEWY BODIESTANIS FERMAN; Fiscal Year: 2003..abstract_text> ..
- NEUROPSYCHOLOGY OF DEMENTIA WITH LEWY BODIESTANIS FERMAN; Fiscal Year: 2009..This has implications for symptom management, development of treatment options and for providing education and support to DLB patients and their caregivers. ..