CONTEXT Several studies have reported an association between the metabolic syndrome and cardiovascular disease. Despite an increasing awareness that cardiovascular risk factors increase risk of cognitive decline and dementia, there are few data on the metabolic syndrome and cognition. OBJECTIVE To determine if the metabolic syndrome is a risk factor for cognitive decline and if this associati...

BACKGROUND The number of unlicensed homes for the aged in Quebec has increased rapidly over the last decade. Because these homes are not linked in any formal way to the Quebec Ministry of Health and Social Services, little is known about their residents. The objective of this study was to describe the sociodemographic characteristics and disability profile of elderly residents in unlicensed hom...

IMPORTANCE Cerebral white matter hyperintensities (WMHs) are involved in the evolution of impaired mobility and executive functions. Executive functions and mobility are also associated. Thus, WMHs may impair mobility directly, by disrupting mobility-related circuits, or indirectly, by disrupting circuits responsible for executive functions. Understanding the mechanisms underlying impaired mobi...

The Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE; M. F. Folstein, S. E. Folstein, & P. R. McHugh, 1975) and the Modified MMSE (E. L. Teng & H. C. Chui, 1987) were compared psychometrically. In this study, 525 community-dwelling participants, aged 65-89, were divided into 2 groups: no cognitive impairment (NCI; n 406) and Alzheimer's disease (n = 119). Both tests yielded comparable reliability estimates....

Dementia is a collection of symptoms that occurs progressively with cognitive decline marked by change in behavior, decreased memory or remembrance, orientation, difficulty communication and making decisions will affect normal social occupational activities. The occur the elderly can cause problems such as long-term information processing, have re-expressing incidents events experienced. This r...

BACKGROUND Physical activity reduces the incidence and progression of cognitive impairment. Cognitive-motor dual-task training, which requires dividing attention between cognitive tasks and exercise, may improve various cognitive domains; therefore, we examined the effect of dual-task training on the executive functions and on plasma amyloid β peptide (Aβ) 42/40 ratio, a potent biomarker of Alz...

18 Although there are many studies on the epidemiology of dementia, there are relatively few longitudinal studies that address progression to dementia in individuals whose cognition was well characterized at baseline. Identifying those at higher risk for the development of dementia is an important goal. Studies indicate that up to 12% of normal older adults became cognitively impaired over two ...

The morphology of the pronominal suffixes in dialectal Arabic are particular interest for scholars history two main reasons. First, multiple dialects attest that, from a comparative perspective, apparently retain final short vowels. second and more complicated issue concerns vowels which precede dialects, thought to either have been case inflecting or epenthetic. In this paper, I take up Jean C...