Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) refers to the clinical state between normal cognition and probable Alzheimer's disease (AD), but persons diagnosed with MCI may progress to non-AD forms of dementia, remain MCI until death, or recover to normal cognition. Risk factors for these various clinical changes, which we term "transitions," may provide targets for therapeutic interventions. Therefore, it ...

BACKGROUND Type 2 diabetes mellitus is an important risk factor for Alzheimer disease and is more prevalent in elderly minority persons compared with non-Hispanic white persons. OBJECTIVE To determine whether diabetes is related to a higher risk of mild cognitive impairment (MCI), a transitional stage between normal cognition and Alzheimer disease, in a multiethnic cohort with a high prevalen...

OBJECTIVE To explore whether hypertension is associated with the risk of mild cognitive impairment (MCI), an intermediate stage of dementia, because there are conflicting data relating hypertension to the risk of Alzheimer disease. DESIGN AND SETTING Prospective community-based cohort study conducted in northern Manhattan. Multivariate proportional hazards regression analyses were used, relat...

Objective: Aim of the present review study was to describe and compare neurocognitive features MCI which could predict its progression DLB vs AD. Background: Progression AD or is a relatively recent field with emphasis on clinical neuropsychological potentially specific types dementia. Methods: A literature in Pubmed database has been made, after year 2005, using key- words: assessment; MCI; AD...

Cognitive scientists have increasingly turned to cultural transmission to explain the widespread nature of religious representations. One key hypothesis focuses on memory, proposing that that minimally counterintuitive (MCI) content facilitates the transmission of supernatural beliefs. We propose two caveats to the MCI hypothesis: 1) distinctiveness, and therefore memory, decreases as MCI conce...

BACKGROUND The impact of cognitive impairment on activities of daily living (ADL) is being used as a major criterion for differentiating between mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and dementia. The concept of an ADL threshold that separates MCI from dementia, however, appears to be improbable for several reasons. OBJECTIVES To determine whether complex ADL are impaired in patients with MCI; to e...

T   he completed MCI includes three main channels of interest rate, exchange rate and credit rate. In developing countries such as Iran, this indicator, which contains a credit channel, could be better used to illustrate the country’s monetary condition. This study has been done to calculate this index for the period of 1978–2012. For this purpose, the function of the total economy demand ...