Many factors play a role in the risk of dementia, including environment. Widespread and significant worldwide exposure to noise, severity related health consequences, limited tools available public protect themselves strongly support WHO's argument that 'noise pollution is not only an environmental nuisance but also threat health'. Exposures noise from industrial activities, airport or occupati...

cognize this dilemma might encourage them to develop functional teams. Individual neurologists and geriatricians could continue to diagnose routine neurological problems referred to them. In addition, they could subspecialize so that each might have a specific input in a multidisciplinary team which focused, for example, on the diagnosis and continuing care of the big three: stroke, the epileps...

European funded project PredictAD has developed a decision support tool for objective diagnostics of Alzheimer’s disease. The tool compares measurements of a patient to measurements of other persons available in large databases and provides a simple index about the severity of the disease. The project has shown that the tool improves the accuracy of diagnosis and clinicians’ confidence about th...

Will reading habit influence your life? Many say yes. Reading american psychiatric publishing textbook of alzheimers disease and other dementias the app textbook of geriatric psychiatry diagnostic issues in dementia is a good habit; you can develop this habit to be such interesting way. Yeah, reading habit will not only make you have any favourite activity. It will be one of guidance of your li...

Vellas B, Coley N, Ousset PJ, et al; GuidAge Study Group. Long-term use of standardised ginkgo biloba extract for the prevention of Alzheimers disease (GuidAge): a randomised placebo-controlled trial. Question In elderly patients who report memory complaints to their primary care physicians, does ginkgo biloba extract reduce risk for Alzheimer disease (AD)? Methods Design: Randomized placebo-co...

Positron Emission Tomography (PET) scan images are one of the bio medical imaging techniques similar to that of MRI scan images but PET scan images are helpful in finding the development of tumors. The PET scan images requires expertise in the segmentation where clustering plays an important role in the automation process. The segmentation of such images is manual to automate the process cluste...