Sentence examples for various forms of dementia from inspiring English sources

The advances in medicine that prolong our active lives also make it more likely that we will succumb to various forms of dementia, or survive a stroke for years in a helpless and barely conscious state.

Some cognitive enhancers, such as donepezil and galantamine, are prescribed for elderly patients with impaired reasoning and memory deficits caused by various forms of dementia, including Alzheimer disease, Parkinson disease with dementia, dementia with Lewy bodies, and vascular dementia.

Having followed story after story detailing how National Football League retirees are experiencing various forms of dementia at several times the national rate, and listening to the league and its doctors cast doubt that football played any role in their problems, she has emerged after 15 years to reconnect with players and sound an alarm.

In addition, there is also some evidence to suggest that 5-HT function in the brain may be important (particularly in the behavioral disturbances) in various forms of dementia including Alzheimer's disease.

Thirteen published clinical trials, examining in total 4054 patients, have evaluated the use of choline alphoscerate in various forms of dementia disorders of degenerative, vascular or combined origin, such as senile dementia of the Alzheimer's type (SDAT) or vascular dementia (VaD) and in acute cerebrovascular diseases, such as transitory ischemic attack (TIA) and stroke.

Therefore, therapeutic approaches that provide neuroprotection and restore excitability of hippocampal CA1 pyramidal neurons may benefit patients with various forms of dementia and brain trauma.

The usefulness of our MMT as a tool for the clinical evaluation of patients with various forms of vascular dementia was determined.

The MMT was administered to 100 healthy subjects from two different ethnic backgrounds (Indonesian and Chinese/Taiwanese) and diverse cultural and educational backgrounds, and to 61 patients with various forms of vascular dementia.

Another relevant problem that emerges from a critical analysis of the current and past literature is the relatively poor reliability of single studies performed on small samples of patients with various forms of vascular dementia (a further level of complexity is derived by the different criteria given to these patients in different periods of time).

Application of the EBM to other dementias, such as the various forms of (sporadic and familial) frontotemporal dementia, vascular dementia or dementia with Lewy bodies, will provide insight into how the underlying pathological process varies across different types of dementia.

Over the past years, various forms of community-based case management of dementia have emerged in different regions in the Netherlands.