New guidelines will help doctors identify patients with a common memory-loss syndrome that is often misdiagnosed as Alzheimer's disease in older adults. The diagnostic criteria for limbic-predominant ...

PHILADELPHIA— New guidelines will help doctors identify patients with a common memory-loss syndrome that is often ...

The classification of frontotemporal lobar dementias ... that include prominent apraxia (corticobasal degeneration), parkinsonism (frontotemporal lobar degeneration with MAPT (microtubule ...

Limbic-predominant age-related TDP-43 encephalopathy (LATE) is a recently characterized form of dementia that is distinct ...

A new study led by Western researchers found frequent treatment with intranasal oxytocin – a hormone in the brain associated ...

Dementia posturing refers to a group of physical symptoms that can affect people with dementia. They include a stooped posture, shuffling walk, balance difficulties, or stiff movements. Dementia ...

Neurodegenerative diseases are a heterogeneous group of disorders that are characterized by the progressive degeneration of the structure and function of the central nervous system or peripheral ...

A multi-task learning framework, DEMENTIA, has been developed by Prof. Li Hai and his team at the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, to improve the early ...

Although the ALS phenotype was first observed by Charcot over 100 years ago, the site of ALS onset and the pathophysiological mechanisms underlying the development of motor neuron degeneration remain ...

Figure 3 sets out an approach to the assessment of cerebral atrophy. Atrophy with a focal lobar predominance is a useful starting point to help narrow the differential diagnosis in patients with ...