Sentences with phrase «including mild cognitive impairment»

The gray matter it contains acts as a marker for neurological disorders that can occur over time, including mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's.

The study also linked traumatic brain injury with the onset of neurodegenerative disorders, including mild cognitive impairment as well as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases.

What's worse is these statistics do not include mild cognitive impairment (MCI), or «pre-dementia,» which accounts for another 22 percent of people over 71.

Not exact matches

The study included 121 people from Japan and 252 from Australia, and both groups involved individuals with normal brain function, mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's.

If dozens of human and animal studies published over the past six years are borne out by large clinical trials, nicotine — freed at last of its noxious host, tobacco, and delivered instead by chewing gum or transdermal patch — may prove to be a weirdly, improbably effective drug for relieving or preventing a variety of neurological disorders, including Parkinson's disease, mild cognitive impairment (MCI), Tourette's and schizophrenia.

A person with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) has a slight but noticeable and measurable decline in cognitive abilities, including memory and thinking skills.

Hye and his colleagues analysed 26 proteins in blood from 1,148 people, including 476 people with Alzheimer's, 220 with mild cognitive impairment and 452 elderly healthy controls.

The trial included 56 participants who had suffered mild traumatic brain injury one to five years earlier and were still bothered by headaches, difficulty concentrating, irritability, and other cognitive impairments.

However, no one was included in Halloway's analysis who had a diagnosis or symptoms of dementia, or even mild cognitive impairment; a history of brain surgery; or brain abnormalities such as tumors, as seen on MRIs.

During this time, 28 people developed Alzheimer's or mild cognitive impairment, thought to be the earliest noticeable sign of several types of dementia, including Alzheimer's disease.

She enrolls and manages patients on several trials including: the A4 prevention trial, the BAN20401 study for patients with Mild Cognitive Impairment and very early Alzheimer's Disease, the NOBLE Study and theExpedition 3 study.

Abstract: While behavioral symptoms are both early and prevalent features of behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD), they can be present in other types of dementia as well, including Alzheimer's disease (AD) and even mild cognitive impairment (MCI).

While behavioral symptoms are both early and prevalent features of behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD), they can be present in other types of dementia as well, including Alzheimer's disease (AD) and even mild cognitive impairment (MCI).

Methods: From the Amsterdam Dementia Cohort, we included 429 non-demented elderly with subjective cognitive decline (SCD; n = 206, 61 ± 9 years, Mini-Mental State Exam (MMSE) 28 ± 2) and mild cognitive impairment (MCI; n = 223, 67 ± 8 years, MMSE 27 ± 2), with a... mean follow - up of 2.5 ± 1.6 years.

The operationalization of mild cognitive impairment (MCI) led to targeting earlier symptomatic cases of the illness and treatment strategies based less on pathology and more on a chance to halt or slow decline than there would be earlier in the disease.1 With the development of amyloid imaging, MCI due to AD diagnosis was refined, 2 and early - stage AD was extended further to include preclinical AD, 3 wherein a positive amyloid positron emission tomography (PET) scan or diagnostic low levels of cerebrospinal fluid β - amyloid (Aβ) indicated the presence of pathology in people who were cognitively normal.

Each group included some people with Alzheimer's disease, some with mild cognitive impairment, and some with no signs of mental deterioration.

• Increased risk of heart attack • Increased risk of stroke • Increased risk of blood clots • Increased risk of breast cancer • Reduced risk of colorectal cancer • Fewer fractures • No protection against mild cognitive impairment and increased risk of dementia (study included only women 65 and older)

The study included 152 adult participants (aged 70 to 80) affected by mild cognitive impairment.

They used mass spectrometry to analyse the blood plasma of 53 participants with mild cognitive impairment or Alzheimer's disease, including 18 who developed symptoms during the study, and 53 who remained cognitively healthy.