Supporting communication for patients with neurodegenerative disease

Supporting communication for patients with neurodegenerative disease.

BACKGROUND Communication supports, referred to as augmentative and alternative communication (AAC), are an integral part of medical speech-language pathology practice, yet many providers remain unfamiliar with assessment and intervention principles. For patients with complex communication impairments secondary to neurodegenerative disease, AAC services differ depending on whether their conditio...

Intercellular (Mis)communication in Neurodegenerative Disease

Neurodegenerative diseases have been intensively studied, but a comprehensive understanding of their pathogenesis remains elusive. An increasing body of evidence suggests that non-cell-autonomous processes play critical roles during the initiation and spatiotemporal progression or propagation of the dominant pathology. Here, we review findings highlighting the importance of pathological cell-ce...

Supporting patients with a rare disease.

Factors affecting survival of patients with neurodegenerative disease.

BACKGROUND Survival varies widely among different neurodegenerative diseases. Data on the role of the Mini Mental State Examination (MMSE) and apolipoprotein E (APOE) in survival are sparse except for Alzheimer's disease (AD). METHODS We studied mortality of 3,581 patients in an academic clinic from 1993 to 2004. Average follow-up was 4.1 years. We studied patients with amyotrophic lateral sc...

System for supporting clinical professionals dealing with chronic disease patients

To deal with the large amount of data produced by telemonitoring of patients with chronic diseases, a decision support system (DSS) was developed. The DSS uses sensor data and the data from a patient’s electronic health record as the input. It assesses the risk to the patient’s health by exploiting the existing medical knowledge. The risk assessment can show the contribution of the individual m...