Neuroimaging in dementia

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Neuroimaging in dementia and depression

John O’Brien is a Senior Lecturer in Old Age Psychiatry at the Institute for the Health of the Elderly (Wolfson Research Centre, Newcastle General Hospital, Westgate Road, Newcastle upon Tyne NE4 6BE, Tel: 0191 256 3323; fax: 0191 219 5051; e-mail: j.t.o’[email protected]). Bob Barber is a consultant psychiatrist and Honorary Lecturer in Old Age Psychiatry at the Centre for the Health of the Elde...

Neuroimaging of Disorders Causing Dementia

Few areas in Medicine are evolving as quickly as our ability to image the human brain. The rapid development of neuroimaging tools in the past few years has provided the physician with a panoply of imaging modalities, each with a somewhat complex technology and with specific applications. A learning need exists to update the knowledge of neurologists and other physicians on the current role of ...

Dementia, quantitative neuroimaging, and apolipoprotein E genotype.

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Quantitative MR imaging differences in an elderly population of subjects with various clinical disorders (including dementia, particularly Alzheimer's disease and vascular dementia) and disorders of mild cognitive impairment were examined. Potential quantitative MR differences were assessed by presence or absence of the apolipoprotein E (APOE) epsilon4 allele and by level...

"how could neuroimaging be helpful in the assessment of dementia in a clinical setting? "

this study was conducted to evaluate how neuroimaging procedures (mri, spect) could be used in clinical setting for diagnosis of dementia.forty out of 94 patients suspected of having a diagnosis of dementia, referred to radiology department for consecutive neuroimaging procedures, were selected. patients’ medical records reviewed anda retrospective diagnosis was reached according to dsm-iv for ...