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Diagnosis of Rapidly Progressive Dementia in a Referral Center in Argentina
(Lippincott Williams, 2019-08)
Introduction: Rapidly progressive dementia (RPD) is a broadly defined clinical syndrome. Our aim was to describe clinical and ancillary study findings in patients with RPD and evaluate their diagnostic performance for the ...
Dementia in Latin America: An Emergent Silent Tsunami
(Frontiers Research Foundation, 2016-10)
Recently the Lancet Neurology Commission (Winblad et al., 2016) has provided expert recommendations and highlighted that European Union (EU) is well positioned to take the work lead to prevent and cure the Alzheimer's ...
Beyond the face: How context modulates emotion processing in frontotemporal dementia subtypes
(Oxford University Press, 2018-04)
The importance of assessing social cognition to characterize dementia syndromes is increasingly recognized, with lower social cognition capacity associated with reduced functional independence and greater carer burden. ...
Risk of Conversion to Dementia in a Mild Behavioral Impairment Group Compared to a Psychiatric Group and to a Mild Cognitive Impairment Group
(IOS Press, 2018-02)
Background: There is insufficient available information on behavioral changes in the absence of cognitive impairment as factors increasing the risk of conversion to dementia. Objective: To observe and analyze patients with ...
The Latin America and the Caribbean Consortium on Dementia (LAC-CD): From Networking to Research to Implementation Science
(IOS Press, 2021-06)
In comparison with other regions, dementia prevalence in Latin America is growing rapidly, along with the consequent clinical, social, and economic burden upon patients and their families. The combination of fragile health ...
Methodological considerations regarding cognitive interventions in dementia
(Frontiers, 2014-08)
Dementia causes massive cognitive, affective, and social impairment as well as concomitant functional decline. Cognitive interventions, together with pharmacological treatments, are acknowledged as important tools to delay ...
COVID-19 Epidemic in Argentina: Worsening of Behavioral Symptoms in Elderly Subjects With Dementia Living in the Community
(Frontiers Media S.A., 2020-08)
In Argentina, the quality of care that elderly subjects with dementia living in the community received has been deeply affected by COVID-19 epidemic. Our objective was to study to what extend mandatory quarantine imposed ...
Living with dementia: increased level of caregiver stress in times of COVID-19
(Cambridge University Press, 2020-07)
COVID-19 pandemic has deeply affected the care that older adults with Alzheimer´s Disease(AD) and related disorders received in Argentina. Even though circulation for familycaregivers of subjects with dementia was one of ...
ALBA Screening Instrument (ASI): A brief screening tool for Lewy Body Dementia
(Elsevier, 2017-05)
Background Early detection of neurodegenerative diseases is essential for treatment and proper care of these patients. Screening tools available today are effective for several types of dementia. However, there is no one ...
Dementia in Latin America Assessing the present and envisioning the future
(Lippincott Williams, 2018-01)
The demographic structure of Latin American countries (LAC) is fast approaching that of developing countries, and the predicted prevalence of dementia in the former already exceeds the latter. Dementia has been declared a ...