Understanding mild cognitive impairment is important in coming up with better treatments for dementia in general, because the brain hasn't deteriorated as much as in Alzheimer's, so it may not be too late to intervene, experts say.
Dr. Barbara Messinger-Rapport, geriatrics chief at the Cleveland Clinic, noted that half of people 85 and older in developed countries have some dementia, usually Alzheimer's.
Comedians Jo Brand and Meera Syal have become two of England's first 'dementia friends', in an initiative launched by the Alzheimer's Society.
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Ginkgo is a top-selling herb and has been hailed by some as a memory-booster, but the new University of Pittsburgh study found it didn't help prevent Alzheimer's or other forms of dementia in more than 3, 000 elderly study subjects.
Belfast has the highest diagnosis rate of dementia in the UK, according to new figures released by the Alzheimer's Society.
Around 700, 000 people in the UK have dementia, and more than half suffer from Alzheimer's.
Known as brain infarcts, they're involved in vascular dementia, the second most common form of dementia, after Alzheimer's disease.
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When she created a strain of mice with the presenilin genes missing in their brains, the mice developed dementia and brain cell death just like Alzheimer's sufferers, but the mice had no amyloid deposits.
According to the Alzheimer's Society, there are 37, 000 people with dementia in Wales.
The Alzheimer's Society said of the 13, 500 people with dementia in Devon, the option of housing with on-site care and support would be welcomed by some.
Memantine is also especially useful in the treatment of patients with Alzheimer's disease and patients with vascular dementia.
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In general, cholinesterase inhibitors have shown some benefit for patients with vascular dementia, those with mixed Alzheimer's and vascular dementia, patients with the disease known as "dementia with Lewy bodies, " and dementia from Parkinson's disease.
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Originally developed by Microsoft Research in Cambridge, England, the technology has been licensed to Oxford-based Vicon, which will produce a version for Alzheimer's and dementia researchers by the year's end and a consumer version in 2010.
Haloperidol (Haldol) is indicated in the treatment of behavior issues in a patient with Alzheimer's disease, but can be harmful to a patient with dementia caused by Parkinson's disease.
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The Alzheimer's Society said the incident showed "a lack of understanding in society" of dementia.
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The Alzheimer's Society says around 800, 000 people in the UK have a form of dementia.
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Alzheimer's disease affects millions of people world-wide and is the leading cause of dementia in the elderly.
Dr Susanne Sorensen, head of research at the Alzheimer's Society, said that the findings were particularly interesting in relation to Lewy body dementia, which accounts for only 4% of dementia cases.
In a study published last year in the journal Cortex, Dr. Rankin and her colleagues studied the ability to detect sarcasm in 102 patients who had been diagnosed with four progressive diseases that lead to memory loss: frontotemporal dementia, Alzheimer's disease, progressive supranuclear palsy and vascular-cognitive impairment.
This kind of change in musical taste was not seen in any of the Alzheimer's patients, and thus appears to be specific to those with frontotemporal dementia.
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