BACKGROUND Both apathy and suicide are common in poststroke patients. However, the association between poststroke apathy and suicide-related ideation (SI) in Chinese stroke patients is not clear and poorly understood. The aim of this study was to examine the association between apathy and SI in stroke. METHODS A cross-sectional study was conducted to investigate the association in 518 stroke ...

In addition to cognitive impairment, apathy is increasingly recognized as an important neuropsychiatric syndrome in Alzheimer's disease (AD). Aims To identify the relationship between dementia severity and apathy levels, and to discuss the association of this condition with other psychopathological manifestations in AD patients. Methods This study involved 15 AD patients (mean age: 77 years...

Previous clinical trials suggest that the traditional Japanese medicine yokukansan has beneficial effects on the behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD). The present study was conducted to elucidate the efficacy of yokukansan on BPSD in patients with vascular dementia. Thirteen Japanese patients (9 men and 4 women) who were diagnosed as having vascular dementia (VaD) according ...

This technical paper used rank correlation analysis to link the spatial distribution of sites and emissions associated with industrial pollution sources, derived from the National Pollution Inventory (NPI), to Indigenous status and socio-economic disadvantage characteristics of communities, derived from Australian Bureau of Statistics indicators. Specifically, this analysis considered the distr...

OBJECTIVE To document the prevalence and pattern of stereotypic behaviour in patients with Alzheimer's dementia and frontal and temporal variants of frontotemporal dementia. Secondly, to examine the relationship between stereotypic and other neuropsychiatric behaviours. METHODS Patients with the following were studied; Alzheimer's disease (n=28), frontal variant frontotemporal dementia (fvFTD...

OBJECTIVE Across all stages of Alzheimer disease (AD), apathy is the most common neuropsychiatric symptom. Studies using the Neuropsychiatric Inventory (NPI) have found that apathy is present in up to 70% of individuals with Alzheimer disease. One of the main difficulties in assessing apathy and other neuropsychiatric symptoms is the absence of reliable, objective measures. Motor activity asses...

This paper looks at the distributional pattern of NPIs under the exclusive focus particle only. Despite the commonly accepted view that only can license an NPI that appears within the unfocused part of its immediate scope, Wagner (2006) observes evidence contra this view from both DP-only and VP-only: (i) DP-only does not license an NPI that appears within the unfocused part of its left argumen...

In supply chain management (SCM), multi-product and multi-period models are usually used to select the suppliers. In the real world of SCM, however, there are normally several echelons which need to be integrated into inventory management. This paper presents a hybrid intelligent algorithm, based on the push SCM, which uses a fuzzy neural network and a genetic algorithm to forecast the rate of ...

In this paper, for effective multi-echelon supply chains under stochastic and fuzzy environments, an inventory management framework and deterministic/stochastic-neuro-fuzzy cost models within the context of this framework are structured. Then, a numerical application in a three-echelon tree-structure chain is presented to show the applicability and performance of proposed framework. It can be s...