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Serious games (SG), are digital applications specialized for purpose other than entertaining. These technology devices could help to overcome the limits of traditional paper-and-pencil approaches. These traditional interventions, even if particular familiar to older patients, involve indeed some
Non-pharmacological intervention may represent adjunctive therapy to medications in order to delay the onset of the cognitive deficits or dementia.
Previous studies observed a positive effect of cognitive training on cognition both in healthy elderly people and patients in the early stage of
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common cause of dementia in the elderly, accountings for 60-70% of all demented cases. It is a neuro-pathological diagnosis determined by presence of neurofibrillary tangles and senile plaques in the brain of patients with dementia. The disease frequently starts
This study is a prospective, self-control, phase I trial, which will be performed in Department of Neurosurgery, Chinese PLA General Hospital (Beijing, China). Six patients with severe Alzheimer's disease will be included in this study and receive continuous bilateral deep brain stimulation of the
Anesthesiologist was informed about the patients (Post clipping for cerebral aneurysm) having neurological deterioration (hemiparesis, aphasia, apraxia, hemianopia, or neglect), or a decrease of ≥ 2 points on the Glasgow Coma Scale(GCS) and in whom the duration of symptoms lasted for at least 1
Parkinson's disease (PD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder that affects both motor and non-motor basal ganglia circuitry (Stern et al., 2012). The degeneration of dopaminergic neurons in the substantia nigra leads to the clinical manifestation of the cardinal motor features of PD:
Introduction Dementia The estimated prevalence of dementia in Denmark is 85.000 (2011) and the global prevalence is close to 36 million (2010). Furthermore the number is predicted to double in the next 20 years, primarily due to the demographic ageing. The costs of dementia accounts for 1% of the
Apraxia of Speech (AOS) is a disorder of speech motor planning and/or programming that affects the production of speech, characterized by slow speaking rate, abnormal prosody and distorted sound substitutions, additions, repetitions and prolongations, sometimes accompanied by groping, and trial and
Speech and language based dementias (SLDs) (often referred to as primary progressive aphasias or PPA) are neurodegenerative diseases in which speech or language impairments are the most salient features of the disease and explain deficits in activities of daily living. Patients with SLDs may have