BACKGROUND/AIMS Some dementia patients have profound behavioral and psychological symptoms which might cause legal violation. We illustrate clinical and criminal characteristics of dementia patients who had been incarcerated because of criminal activity. METHODS The National Forensic Hospital is the only hospital-based correctional facility in the Republic of Korea which incarcerates criminal...

Objectives The current study examines the features of the physical environment affecting environmental perception and tries to explain paradigm of architecture based on the neuropsychological features. This paper investigates the relationship between the two aspects of the physical and neuropsychological environment in the patients with dementia Alzheimer’s type in order to meet the needs of th...

BACKGROUND Patients with dementia are thought to be more sensitive to anesthesia, although volatile anesthetic requirement has not specifically been evaluated in this population. We tested the hypothesis that patients with dementia having non-cardiac surgery have a lower ratio of bispectral index (BIS) to minimal alveolar concentration (MAC) during the five minutes immediately preceding incisio...

Excessive daytime sleepiness is common in Parkinson's disease and has been associated with Parkinson's disease-related dementia. Narcoleptic features have been observed in Parkinson's disease patients with excessive daytime sleepiness and hypocretin cell loss has been found in the hypothalamus of Parkinson's disease patients, in association with advanced disease. However, studies on cerebrospin...

BACKGROUND Influenza vaccination is recommended for older people irrespective of cognitive decline or residential setting. OBJECTIVE To examine the effect of dementia diagnosis on flu vaccination uptake in community and care home residents in England and Wales. METHODS Retrospective analysis of a primary care database with 378,462 community and 9,106 care (nursing and residential) home resi...

BACKGROUND Delirium and dementia are highly interrelated. However, few comprehensive epidemiological studies have examined this altered state of consciousness superimposed on dementia. We investigated the frequency of delirium in patients with dementia, its prevalence in patients with each dementia type, and its association with cerebrovascular disease (CVD) in patients with neurodegenerative d...

how to cite this article: schulz a, kohlschütter a. ncl disorders: frequent causes of childhood dementia. iran j child neurol. 2013 winter;7(1):1-8. abstract dementia in children or young adults is most frequently caused by neuronal ceroidlipofuscinoses (ncl), a group of incurable lysosomal storage disorders linked by the accumulation of a characteristic intracellular storage material and progr...

celiac disease or gluten sensitivity may initially present as one or more neurological signs and/or symptoms. on the other hand, it may be associated with or complicated by neurological manifestations. neurological presentations are rare in children but as many as 36% of adult patients present with neurological changes. with severe malnutrition after progression of celiac disease, different vit...