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Aug 23, 10 08:00PMTo validate a new Alzheimer's Disease scale against other rating tools in subjects with dementia of Alzheimer's type, treated with memantine.Location: University Clinic Gustav Carus Status: Completed» Read more
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Aug 23, 10 03:19PMNeuropsychiatric symptoms form part of the clinical picture of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and other dementias. Irrespective of the severity of the disease, the most frequently encountered symptom is apathy. Apathy is increasingly diagnosed in patients with neurological and psychiatric conditions. Apathy is a disorder of motivation, defined as "the direction, intensity and ...Location: Nice University Hospital Status: Not yet recruiting» Read more
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Feb 02, 10 03:09PMLithium salts have been used for the treatment of psychiatric disorders for over five decades, mostly as a mood-stabilizing drug. Recent evidence points to the inhibition of the enzyme glycogen synthase kinase-3beta (GSK3) as one of its mechanisms of action. The overactivity of this enzyme has been implicated in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease (AD), given its inv...Location: Institute of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine - ... Status: Active, not recruiting» Read more
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Aug 23, 10 04:49AMThe current study is intended to enrich and extend the database of Alzheimer's Disease (AD) and healthy control (HC) MEG scans and will include patients meeting DSM-IV-TR criteria for dementia of Alzheimer's type, and age- and gender-matched HC subjects meeting criteria of normal neurological function. This study will include 2 MEG and electroencephalography (EEG) scans ...Location: Rush Alzheimer's Disease Center Status: Completed» Read more
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Aug 12, 10 07:17AMThis study measures whether the symptoms of frontotemporal dementia (FTD) can be successfully treated by (a) biofeedback training to increase brain blood flow, (b) biofeedback to increase the frequency of the brain's dominant brainwave rhythm, and (c) rhythmic stimulation to increase the brain's dominant brainwave frequency.Location: Quietmind Foundation Status: Completed» Read more
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Aug 12, 10 08:59AMThis study is designed to document the loss of sociomoral emotions (like empathy, guilt, and embarrassment) in patients with behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia. The loss of these emotions, which function as the motivators for social behavior, will manifest in specific interpersonal behaviors. These behaviors will correlate with regional changes in regional change...Location: UCLA Department of Neurology Status: Recruiting» Read more
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Aug 12, 10 09:34AMThe purpose of this 16-week research study is to determine whether a drug called memantine hydrochloride (memantine) has the potential to help improve memory and other cognitive abilities of young adults with Down syndrome. Memantine (Namenda®) is a drug approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for patients with moderate to severe Alzheimer-type dementia. About...Location: The Children's Hospital Status: Recruiting» Read more
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Sep 24, 10 09:00AMThe present study aims at combining biochemical methods with various types of imaging techniques to identify the pathophysiology of Alzheimer's disease (AD). Our main interest is to find markers associated with the very early steps in the pathology of this disease. We shall thus screen for i) molecules in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) and plasma specific for AD, and ii) brai...Location: Unit of Cognitive Medicin, Skåne University Hos... Status: Recruiting» Read more
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Feb 15, 11 02:01PMThe effectiveness of reminiscence for dementia has been claimed as an effective tool, but scientific validation and systematic assessment of this method is needed. Materials and Methods: A randomized controlled trial (RCT) was conducted to search whether a reminiscence program is associated with improvement of quality of life of demented long term care residents. The tri...Location: Faculty of Psychology Status: Completed» Read more
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Apr 13, 11 08:00AMThe primary aim of the DEDEMAS (Determinants of Dementia After Stroke) study is to identify predictors of post stroke depression (PSD). A particular focus will be on biological markers (neuroimaging, biochemical markers derived from blood) and on interactions between vascular and neurodegenerative mechanisms. For this purpose patients with an acute stroke and without pri...Location: Interdisciplinary Stroke Center Munich, Kliniku... Status: Not yet recruiting» Read more
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