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Alzheimer's "other dementia"David J Libon
New Jersey Institute for Successful Aging, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, School of Osteopathic Medicine, Stratford, NJ 08084, USA
Cogn Behav Neurol 19:112-6. 2006..The socio-medical events that led to the dominance of Alzheimer disease are discussed. Alzheimer's contributions to our current understanding of vascular dementia are reviewed...- Patterns of neuropsychological impairment in frontotemporal dementiaD J Libon
New Jersey Institute for Successful Aging, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey School of Osteopathic Medicine, Suite 1800, 42 East Laurel Rd, Stratford, NJ 08084, USA
Neurology 68:369-75. 2007..To differentiate frontotemporal dementia (FTD) subtypes from each other and from probable Alzheimer disease (AD) using neuropsychological tests... - The neuropsychological profile of alcohol-related dementia suggests cortical and subcortical pathologyKara S Schmidt
Center for Aging, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Stratford, NJ 08084, USA
Dement Geriatr Cogn Disord 20:286-91. 2005..This pattern of performance suggests that long-term alcohol abuse, in comparison to AD and VaD, may be associated with both cortical and subcortical neuropathology... - Everyday action in dementia: evidence for differential deficits in Alzheimer's disease versus subcortical vascular dementiaTania Giovannetti
Department of Psychology, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19122, USA
J Int Neuropsychol Soc 12:45-53. 2006..In AD, everyday action may be negatively influenced by episodic memory failures. Thus, dementia diagnosis has relevance to everyday function... 
Alterations in working memory as a function of leukoaraiosis in dementiaMelissa Lamar
Institute of Psychiatry, King s College London, Department of Psychology, De Crespigny Park, London, UK
Neuropsychologia 45:245-54. 2007..LA may disconnect the frontal lobes from subcortical and cortical structures that form the neuronal networks critical for these WM functions...- Capacity to maintain mental set in dementiaMelissa Lamar
National Institute on Aging, Gerontology Research Center, National Institutes of Health, Baltimore, MD, USA
Neuropsychologia 40:435-45. 2002..Rather, failure to maintain mental set in dementia may be best understood within the context of predictable and specific within-task time epochs... - Environmental adaptations improve everyday action performance in Alzheimer's disease: empirical support from performance-based assessmentTania Giovannetti
Psychology Department, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 19122, USA
Neuropsychology 21:448-57. 2007..Thus, environmental adaptations improved everyday performance in AD by facilitating task accomplishment, object selection, and task-congruent actions... - Screening for frontotemporal dementias and Alzheimer's disease with the Philadelphia Brief Assessment of Cognition: a preliminary analysisDavid J Libon
New Jersey Institute for Successful Aging, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, School of Osteopathic Medicine, Stratford, NJ 08084, USA
Dement Geriatr Cogn Disord 24:441-7. 2007..A neuropsychological screening instrument sensitive to neuropsychological deficits associated with Alzheimer's disease (AD) and patients with frontotemporal dementia (FTD) would be valuable for diagnostic evaluation... - Assessing the impact of vascular disease in demented and nondemented patientsDavid J Libon
Department of Neurology, Drexel University College of Medicine, New College Building, Mail Stop 423 245 North Broad St, Philadelphia, PA 19102, USA
Stroke 39:783-4. 2008 
Error detection and correction patterns in dementia: a breakdown of error monitoring processes and their neuropsychological correlatesBrianne Magouirk Bettcher
Psychology Department, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19122, USA
J Int Neuropsychol Soc 14:199-208. 2008..The results specify the error monitoring deficits in AD and VaD and have implications for improving functional abilities in dementia...- Neuropsychological functioning of dementia patients with psychosisMary W Hopkins
Department of Psychology, Manhattanville College, Purchase, New York, USA
Arch Clin Neuropsychol 20:771-83. 2005..Less evidence was obtained to support our contention that psychotic symptoms in dementia may arise from an interaction of neuropsychological deficits involving greater impairment in executive and visuoperceptual functioning... - Treating dementia patients with vascular lesions with donepezil: a preliminary analysisDavid A Thomas
Penn NeuroCare, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Appl Neuropsychol 12:12-8. 2005..The clinical implications of these findings are discussed... - Determining levels of unawareness in dementia researchMelissa Lamar
Neuropsychology Program, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, USA
J Neuropsychiatry Clin Neurosci 14:430-7. 2002..Cluster analysis appears more appropriate for understanding the overall spectrum of unawareness in dementia research... - Awareness of naturalistic action errors in dementiaTania Giovannetti
Moss Rehabilitation Research Institute, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19141, USA
J Int Neuropsychol Soc 8:633-44. 2002..Rather, direct assessment of error detection and correction may provide novel information about behavioral monitoring that can not be extrapolated from measures of dementia severity or traditional neuropsychological assessment... - Naturalistic action impairments in dementiaTania Giovannetti
Moss Rehabilitation Research Institute, Philadelphia, PA 19141, USA
Neuropsychologia 40:1220-32. 2002..Taken together, the present findings are inconsistent with semantic and executive accounts, but support the limited-capacity resource theory of naturalistic action impairment... - The clinical diagnosis of vascular dementia: A comparison among four classification systems and a proposal for a new paradigmStephanie A Cosentino
The Department of Neurology, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Clin Neuropsychol 18:6-21. 2004..A new paradigm that seeks to describe, in addition to diagnosing dementia associated with cerebrovascular disease is discussed... - Characterizing alterations in executive functioning across distinct subtypes of cortical and subcortical dementiaMelissa Lamar
National Institute on Aging, Baltimore, MD, USA
Clin Neuropsychol 18:22-31. 2004..EFD in dementia can be divided into specific components that are differentially impaired by cortical and subcortical dementias. Implications for an overall conceptual framework of EFD in dementia are discussed... - From Binswanger's disease to leuokoaraiosis: what we have learned about subcortical vascular dementiaDavid J Libon
Center for Aging, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey School of Osteopathic Medicine, Suite 1800, 42 East Laurel Rd, Stratford, NJ, 08084, USA
Clin Neuropsychol 18:83-100. 2004..We discuss questions and issues about vascular dementia that deserve further consideration and study... - Errors produced on the mini-mental state examination and neuropsychological test performance in Alzheimer's disease, ischemic vascular dementia, and Parkinson's diseaseAngela L Jefferson
Neuropsychology Program, Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
J Neuropsychiatry Clin Neurosci 14:311-20. 2002..Such analyses of MMSE performance could assist in formulating referral questions for cognitive assessment and in tracking the course of dementing illnesses... - Linking MRI hyperintensities with patterns of neuropsychological impairment: evidence for a threshold effectDavid J Libon
Department of Neurology, Drexel University College of Medicine, Mail Stop 423, 245 North 15th St, Philadelphia, PA 19102, USA
Stroke 39:806-13. 2008..The purpose of this study is to ascertain the threshold of MRI-LA as measured with a visual rating scale needed to induce specific patterns of neuropsychological impairment associated with dementia... - Error analysis of the nine-word California Verbal Learning Test (CVLT-9) among older adults with and without dementiaKelly L Davis
Neuropsychology Program, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Clin Neuropsychol 16:81-9. 2002..1997). These results were interpreted within the context of the semantic knowledge, and executive functions deficits that typify AD and IVD, respectively... - Distinct antemortem profiles in patients with pathologically defined frontotemporal dementiaMurray Grossman
Department of Neurology, 2 Gibson, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, 3400 Spruce St, Philadelphia, PA 19104 4283, USA
Arch Neurol 64:1601-9. 2007..Clinical-pathologic studies are crucial to understanding brain-behavior relations and improving diagnostic accuracy in neurodegenerative diseases... - Characterization of everyday functioning in mild cognitive impairment: a direct assessment approachTania Giovannetti
Department of Psychology, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 19122, USA
Dement Geriatr Cogn Disord 25:359-65. 2008..To evaluate the degree and pattern of functional difficulties in mild cognitive impairment (MCI) via direct observation of everyday task performance... - Alcohol and cognitive function in older womenKara S Schmidt
N Engl J Med 352:1817-9; author reply 1817-9. 2005 - Clock drawing errors in dementia: neuropsychological and neuroanatomical considerationsStephanie Cosentino
Department of Neurology, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Cogn Behav Neurol 17:74-84. 2004..DISCUSSION: Our data suggest that heavy demands on executive control associated with the interruption of large-scale cortical-subcortical neural networks underlie impairment in clock drawing in mild dementia... - The influence of personal familiarity on object naming, knowledge, and use in dementiaTania Giovannetti
Temple University, Psychology Department, Weiss Hall, 1701 N 13th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19122, USA
Arch Clin Neuropsychol 21:607-14. 2006..4, p=.03) for personal objects. Thus, the personal object advantage was observed for script/semantic knowledge and movement sequences, and should be considered in residential planning for various dementia patients... - Neuropsychiatric symptoms and medical illness in patients with dementia: an exploratory studyPeter Tran
Center for Aging, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey-School of Osteopathic Medicine, 42 E Laurel Road, Suite 1800, Stratford, NJ 08084-1354, USA
J Am Osteopath Assoc 106:412-4. 2006..CONCLUSION: The authors' preliminary data underscore the importance of primary care physicians assessing patients with dementia for comorbidity of psychiatric illnesses when conducting medical examinations... - Defining the diagnosis of vascular dementiaKelly Davis Garrett
Utah State University and LDS Hospital Neurospecialty Rehabilitation Unit, Salt Lake City, UT 84143 0001, USA
Appl Neuropsychol 11:204-9. 2004.... - The impact of region-specific leukoaraiosis on working memory deficits in dementiaMelissa Lamar
MRC Center for Neurodegeneration, Department of Psychology Section of Brain Maturation, Institute of Psychiatry, King s College London, M6 01, P050 De Crespigny Park, London SE5 8AH, United Kingdom
Neuropsychologia 46:2597-601. 2008..Results suggest involvement of anterior (fronto-striatal) and more posterior (inferior parietal) white matter tracts in higher order WM deficits in dementia...