Mini-mental state examination

To study the effect of individualized music therapy on nursing home residents with moderate to severe dementia. Also, to study the effect of this music therapy on the resident’s quality of life and psychotropic medications. Crossover, exploratory, randomized control trial. Forty-two nursing home residents from 14 different nursing homes with moderate to severe dementia were randomized into a sequence of six weeks of standard care and six weeks of individualized music therapy. The agitation…

aging and cognitive degeneration (2). Diagnostic workup for AD is physical and neurological assessment, and blood analysis (9). Besides biomarker-based tests in CSF analysis and brain imaging using CT scan or MRI, Mini Mental State Examination (MMSE) and Addenbrooke’s Cognitive Examination (ACE) are commonly used as cognitive screening (9). Hippocampus atrophy serves a predictor for the conversion of mild cognitive impairment to AD dementia (3). Wood et al. (2016) suggest an additional test…

comparable rate of decline. Lin found the risk of cognitive impairment and increased possibility for decline of cognition was linearly correlated to the individual’s severity of hearing loss at baseline.16 In another large-scale study, reviewed by Utah State University, Duke University and Johns Hopkins University, these findings were confirmed and their analysis suggested that hearing loss may be a indicator for cognitive…

Since the study involves testing middle-age participants’ recall, it has been suggested to use the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE), as Mammarella and colleagues (2007) conducted. The MMSE is an assessment used to screen cognitive function, and to separate patients with cognitive dysfunctions from those who do not (Tombaugh & McIntyre, 1992). The proposal also…

respectively. The rate of handedness conversion is 2.7% to 11.8% in prior studies based on the total population including innately right handed people. The rate of conversion of innately left handed people has not been reported. Cognition is the mental action or process of acquiring knowledge And understanding through thought , experience and the senses. It includes the ability to concentrate , remember and learn. Handedness…

reason behind the concussions is because most sports require individuals to meet at a certain location and time in order to receive or deflect a ball. This often leads to hard collisions between opponents and sometimes even a teammate. “In the United States, almost 175,000 children and adolescents are treated annually in emergency departments (EDs) for sport-related head injuries” (Purcell,…

consume carbohydrates. She enjoys eating toast, pasta, sandwiches, and frozen meals. B.S. is aware that carbohydrates eventually break down into sugar which contributes to her problem, so she is working on reducing her carbohydrate intake. B.S. states that she does not eat many things that have refined sugar, such as candy. According to the assessment tools, B.S. is living her life in a healthy manner. Her NSI score reveals that she is at moderate risk due to answering yes to three separate…

Introduction: Postmenopausal women have a greater risk of developing chronic kidney disease (CKD) in later life [1]. Estrogen is nephroprotective in premenopausal women; however, it has been suggested that the loss of estrogen predisposes women to reduced kidney function [2]. As a consequence, there is an increased risk of incident mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and dementia, which has been demonstrated by several studies [3-5]. The risk of incident cognitive impairment and dementia are…

MCI is considered the borderline between normal cognitive aging and very early dementia []. The historical evolution of the MCI concept has recently reviewed by Petersen [], including the more recent formulation by the Diagnostic Statistical Manual-5 (DSM-5) []. In general, the MCI syndrome is characterized by a cognitive deficit greater than expected for the individual’ age and educational level, but not enough to significantly interfere with the functioning of his daily life. According to…

Pathogenic Mechanism of Alzheimer’s disease The pathophysiology of Alzheimer’s disease is complex, involving several neurotransmitter systems and pathophysiologic process. The three hall marks of Alzheimer’s disease are the presence of neuritic (senile) plaques, neurofibrillary tangles, and amyloid angiopathy (Grossman & Porth, 2014). The neuritic plaques are patches or flat areas composed of clusters of degenerating nerve terminals arranged around a central amyloid core. The amyloid core has…