Therefore, practitioners have adapted standard tools in a simple way: first, convert the heterogeneous distribution of income and non-income characteristics into an equivalent distribution of living standards and second, apply the preferred standard tool to the distribution of living standards, either unweighted, or weighted by the number of individuals. The essence of the living standard funct...

BACKGROUND Alzheimer's disease (AD) is characterized not only by cognitive and functional decline, but also often by the presence of neuropsychiatric symptoms. Apathy, which can be defined as a lack of motivation, is one of the most prevalent neuropsychiatric symptoms in AD and typically leads to a worse quality of life and greater burden for caregivers. Treatment options for apathy in AD are l...

Apathy is defined as a disorder of motivation. There is wide acknowledgement that apathy is an important behavioral syndrome in Alzheimer's disease and in various neuropsychiatric disorders. In light of recent research and the renewed interest in the correlates and impacts of apathy and in its treatments, it is important to develop criteria for apathy that will be widely accepted, have clear op...

The Handprint Initiative was born out of the need for a new pedagogical approach to deal with current global challenges. It is founded in social responsibility educators and learners actively participate decision-making process our society. To achieve this, there statistical basis measure learners’ attitudes towards environment. A 19-item survey used determine five key high school students Mexi...

OBJECTIVE To test the hypothesis that emotion recognition and apathy share the same functional circuit involving the subthalamic nucleus (STN). METHODS A consecutive series of 17 patients with advanced Parkinson's disease (PD) was assessed 3 months before (M-3) and 3 months (M+3) after STN deep brain stimulation (DBS). Mean (+/-S.D.) age at surgery was 56.9 (8.7) years. Mean disease duration ...

We argue that apathy towards security is a serious and, as of yet, underexplored issue in HCI. Secure and trustworthy design will have difficulty to ever really succeed if the user’s priorities and intentions are contrary to these goals. The reasons for and different manifestations of security apathy have to be explored more thoroughly so that future design solutions can be evaluated not only o...

Apathy is a disabling non-motor symptom that is frequently observed in Parkinson's disease (PD). Its description and physiopathology suggest that it is partially mediated by emotional impairment, but this research issue has never been addressed at a clinical and metabolic level. We therefore conducted a metabolic study using (18)fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography ((18)FDG PET) in 3...

Dysthymia is a depressive mood disorder characterized by chronic and persistent but mild depression. It is often difficult to be distinguished from major depression, specifically in its partially remitted state because "loss of interest" or "apathy" tends to prevail both in dysthymia, and remitted depression. Apathy may also occur in various psychiatric and neurological disorders, including sch...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the efficacy of pharmacological treatment of apathy in patients with neurodegenerative diseases. METHODS Systematic review of studies assessing the effects of pharmacological treatment on apathy in neurodegenerative diseases. RESULTS Thirty-five studies were included: 2 meta-analyses, 13 randomized controlled trials (RCTs), 14 open-label studies, 5 case series, and 1 s...