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'Justifiable depression': how primary care professionals and patients view late-life depression? A qualitative study

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'Not knowing where I am doesn't mean I don't know what I like': cognitive impairment and quality of life responses in elderly people

scientific article published in September 1999

A Novel Hybrid Scale for the Assessment of Cognitive and Executive Function:The Free-Cog

scientific article published on 29 October 2020

A direct comparison of errorless and errorful therapy for object name relearning in Alzheimer's disease

scientific article published on January 2012

A double-blind placebo-controlled randomized trial of Melissa officinalis oil and donepezil for the treatment of agitation in Alzheimer's disease

scientific article published on 19 February 2011

A double-blind randomized placebo-controlled withdrawal trial comparing memantine and antipsychotics for the long-term treatment of function and neuropsychiatric symptoms in people with Alzheimer's disease (MAIN-AD).

scientific article published on 15 December 2014

A three-country randomized controlled trial of a psychosocial intervention for caregivers combined with pharmacological treatment for patients with Alzheimer disease: effects on caregiver depression

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A trial of vitamin supplementation in senile dementia

scholarly article by Alistair Burns et al published November 1989 in International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry

AD2000: design and conclusions.

scientific article published in October 2004

Abnormalities of CSF flow patterns in the cerebral aqueduct in treatment-resistant late-life depression: a potential biomarker of microvascular angiopathy

scientific article published in September 2006

Access to diagnostic evaluation and treatment for dementia in Europe.

scientific article published on January 2007

Achieving quality of care in dementia by appropriate and timely diagnosis

scientific article published in the British Medical Journal

Activities enjoyed by patients with dementia together with their spouses and psychological morbidity in carers.

scientific article published in March 2008

Age at onset and vascular pathology in late-life depression

scientific article published on June 2012

Alarming arbitrariness in EU prescription and reimbursement criteria for anti-dementia drugs

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Alistair Burns and 51 colleagues reply to David Le Couteur and colleagues

scientific article published on 15 October 2013

Alzheimer disease: Perceived efficacy of antidementia drug treatment.

scientific article published in June 2009

Alzheimer's disease

BMJ 2009; 338 article by A. Burns and S. Iliffe

Alzheimer's disease

scientific article published on 01 July 2002

Alzheimer's disease in senile dementia: loss of neurones in the basal forebrain. Whitehouse, P., Price, D., Struble, R., Clarke, A., Coyle, J. and Delong, M. Science (1982), 215, 1237-1239.

scientific article published on January 1997

Alzheimer's disease: on the verges of treatment and prevention

scientific article published on January 2009

Another nail in the coffin of the cognitive paradigm of dementia.

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Apathy and impulse control disorders in Parkinson's disease: a direct comparison

scientific article published on 28 October 2011

Apolipoprotein E epsilon4 allele frequency and age at onset of Alzheimer's disease

scientific article published on 14 November 2006

Apolipoprotein E epsilon4 allele frequency in vascular dementia.

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Apolipoprotein E genotypes and serum lipid levels in Alzheimer's disease and multi-infarct dementia.

scientific article published in March 1997

Apolipoprotein E4 and Alzheimer's disease pathology in Lewy body disease and in other beta-amyloid-forming diseases.

scientific article published in May 1994

Appreciating background and culture: the South Asian elderly and mental health

scientific article published in October 1997

Association of cerebral emboli with accelerated cognitive deterioration in Alzheimer's disease and vascular dementia

scientific article published in March 2012

Asymptomatic spontaneous cerebral emboli and cognitive decline in a cohort of older people: a prospective study.

scientific article published in August 2007

Asymptomatic spontaneous cerebral emboli and mood in a cohort of older people: a prospective study

scientific article published in December 2007

Asymptomatic spontaneous cerebral emboli predict cognitive and functional decline in dementia

scientific article published on 25 May 2007

Authors' reply to Brunet

scientific article published on 12 November 2013

Baseline characteristics, analysis plan and report on feasibility for the Prevention Of Decline in Cognition After Stroke Trial (PODCAST).

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Behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia: trial design.

scientific article published in January 2003

Behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia associated with Parkinson's disease.

scientific article published on 5 September 2006

Behavioural disorders, disability and quality of life in Parkinson's disease

scientific article published on 25 July 2011

Behavioural management in nursing and residential homes: a randomised controlled trial

scientific article published in July 1999

Brief psychosocial therapy for the treatment of agitation in Alzheimer disease (the CALM-AD trial).

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Brief psychotherapy in Alzheimer's disease: randomised controlled trial.

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Bright light therapy for agitation in dementia: a randomized controlled trial

scientific article published on 27 March 2009

Burden of Alzheimer's disease: helping the patient and caregiver.

scientific article published in January 1999

Carer burden in apathy and impulse control disorders in Parkinson's disease

scientific article published on 2 April 2011

Cerebral emboli and depressive symptoms in dementia.

scientific article published in September 2006

Cerebral emboli and paradoxical embolisation in dementia: a pilot study.

scientific article published in January 2005

Cerebral emboli as a potential cause of Alzheimer's disease and vascular dementia: case-control study

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Cerebral emboli in the genesis of dementia

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Cerebrovascular damage in late-life depression is associated with structural and functional abnormalities of subcutaneous small arteries.

scientific article published on 16 August 2010

Championing of dementia in England ⬇️

scientific article published on September 11, 2012

Charles Bonnet syndrome and cognitive impairment: a systematic review

scientific article published on 22 May 2014

Cholinesterase inhibitors for Alzheimer's disease: variations in clinical practice in the north-west of England.

scientific article published on October 2006

Cholinesterase inhibitors for delirium

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Clinical and neuropathological correlates of depression in Alzheimer's disease

scientific article published on November 1, 1992

Clinical features of dementia associated with apolipoprotein epsilon4: discrimination with a neural network genetic algorithm

scientific article published in January 2001

Clinical practice with anti-dementia drugs: a consensus statement from British Association for Psychopharmacology

scientific article published on November 2006

Clinical practice with anti-dementia drugs: a revised (second) consensus statement from the British Association for Psychopharmacology

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Computed tomography in Alzheimer's disease.

scientific article published in March 1993

Computed tomography in Alzheimer's disease: a longitudinal study

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Computed tomography in the elderly

scientific article published on 01 March 1998

Confusion begets confusion

scientific article published in The Lancet

Cost-effectiveness analyses for mirtazapine and sertraline in dementia: randomised controlled trial

scientific article published on 20 December 2012

DOMINO-AD protocol: donepezil and memantine in moderate to severe Alzheimer's disease - a multicentre RCT

scientific article published on 24 July 2009

Defining treatment response to donepezil in Alzheimer's disease: responder analysis of patient-level data from randomized, placebo-controlled studies.

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Deletion/insertion polymorphism of the angiotensin-converting enzyme gene and white matter hyperintensities in dementia: A pilot study.

scientific article published in September 2006

Delirium

scientific article published on 01 March 2004

Delusional misidentification in Alzheimer's disease: a summary of clinical and biological aspects

scientific article published in January 1994

Dementia

scientific article published in the British Medical Journal 5 February 2009

Dementia prevention, intervention, and care.

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Dementia prevention, intervention, and care: 2020 report of the Lancet Commission

scientific article published on 29 July 2020

Dental health of community-living older people attending secondary healthcare: a cross-sectional comparison between those with and without diagnosed mental illness

scientific article published on 15 December 2009

Depressed mood, cognitive impairment, and survival in older people admitted to care homes in England.

scientific article published on 15 May 2007

Depression in dementia: a study of mood in a community sample and referrals to a community service

scientific article published in May 1997

Deregulated semantic cognition contributes to object-use deficits in Alzheimer's disease: A comparison with semantic aphasia and semantic dementia

scientific article published on 09 June 2014

Determinants of carer stress in Alzheimer's disease

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Determining the minimum clinically important differences for outcomes in the DOMINO trial.

scientific article published on 16 September 2010

Development of an international schedule for the assessment and staging of care for dementia

scientific article published in January 2015

Development of the Dementia Quality of Life questionnaire (D-QOL): UK version.

scientific article published in January 2008

Differential Diagnosis: Discussion

Dimebolin in dementia

scientific article published on 11 June 2010

Dimebon in Alzheimer's disease: old drug for new indication

scientific article published in The Lancet

Do extrapyramidal features in Alzheimer patients treated with acetylcholinesterase inhibitors predict disease progression?

scientific article published in July 2007

Does integration really make a difference? A comparison of old age psychiatry services in England and Northern Ireland.

scientific article published on October 2003

Does post-traumatic stress disorder occur after stroke: a preliminary study

scientific article published in May 1998

Does telecare prolong community living in dementia? A study protocol for a pragmatic, randomised controlled trial.

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Don't use antipsychotics routinely to treat agitation and aggression in people with dementia

scientific article published in the British Medical Journal

Donepezil and memantine for moderate-to-severe Alzheimer's disease.

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Donepezil for Alzheimer's disease.

scientific article published on October 2007

Donepezil for the treatment of agitation in Alzheimer's disease

scientific article published in October 2007

Drug repositioning for Alzheimer's disease.

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Effect of apolipoprotein E status on clinical features of dementia

scientific article published on 01 March 1998

Effect of rivastigmine on delay to diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease from mild cognitive impairment: the InDDEx study

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Effectiveness of cognitive–behavioural family intervention in reducing the burden of care in carers of patients with Alzheimer's disease

scientific article published on 01 June 2000

Effects of a pharmacist's medication review in nursing homes. Randomised controlled trial.

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Efficacy and safety of donepezil over 3 years: an open-label, multicentre study in patients with Alzheimer's disease.

scientific article published in August 2007

Efficacy and tolerability of donepezil in vascular dementia: positive results of a 24-week, multicenter, international, randomized, placebo-controlled clinical trial

scientific article published on 11 September 2003

Efficacy of rivastigmine in subjects with moderately severe Alzheimer's disease

scientific article published in March 2004

Factors affecting survival of elderly nursing home residents

scientific article published in January 2001

Fear of falling more important than pain and depression for functional recovery after surgery for hip fracture in older people.

scientific article published on 25 July 2006

Future costs of dementia-related long-term care: exploring future scenarios

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Gallium-transferrin binding in Alzheimer's disease.

scientific article published in September 1990

Genetic associations between cathepsin D exon 2 C-->T polymorphism and Alzheimer's disease, and pathological correlations with genotype

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Goal-oriented cognitive rehabilitation for early-stage Alzheimer's and related dementias: the GREAT RCT

scientific article published on 01 March 2019

Goal-oriented cognitive rehabilitation in early-stage dementia: study protocol for a multi-centre single-blind randomised controlled trial (GREAT).

scientific article published on 27 May 2013

Grouping for behavioral and psychological symptoms in dementia: clinical and biological aspects. Consensus paper of the European Alzheimer disease consortium

scientific article published on 27 January 2005

Guidelines for the management of agitation in dementia

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Has the management of Alzheimer's disease changed over the past 100 years?

scientific article published in November 2006

Identifying features associated with higher-quality hospital care and shorter length of admission for people with dementia: a mixed-methods study

scientific article published on 06 May 2020

Improving end-of-life care for people with dementia

scientific article published on 01 November 2011

Individual cognitive stimulation therapy for dementia: a clinical effectiveness and cost-effectiveness pragmatic, multicentre, randomised controlled trial

scientific article published on August 2015

Integrated specialist assessment of older people and predictors of care-home admission

scientific article published on 27 March 2006

Integrating mental health services for older people in England - from rhetoric to reality

scientific article published in July 2009

Intensive versus Guideline Blood Pressure and Lipid Lowering in Patients with Previous Stroke: Main Results from the Pilot 'Prevention of Decline in Cognition after Stroke Trial' (PODCAST) Randomised Controlled Trial

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International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry. Editorial

scientific article published in September 2010

Intimacy as a determinant of expressed emotion in carers of people with Alzheimer's disease

scientific article published in September 1998

Investigating the stability of neuropsychiatric sub-syndromes with progression of dementia: a 2-year prospective study

scientific article published on 16 January 2012

Is subcortical disease associated with a poor response to antidepressants? Neurological, neuropsychological and neuroradiological findings in late-life depression

scientific article published in September 1998

Knowledge of dementia among South Asian (Indian) older people in Manchester, UK.

scientific article published in August 2007

MEFENAMIC ACID INDUCED LEUCOPENIA IN THE ELDERLY

scientific article published in The Lancet

Management of agitation, aggression, and psychosis associated with dementia: a pooled analysis including three randomized, placebo-controlled double-blind trials in nursing home residents treated with risperidone

scientific article published in October 2005

Meaningful treatment outcomes in Alzheimer's disease

scientific article published in November 2002

Medical disorders in Alzheimer's disease and vascular dementia.

scientific article published on August 1991

Medication use in nursing homes for elderly people

scientific article published in July 1998

Mental Status and Neuropsychological Assessment: Discussion

Mild cognitive impairment in older people.

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Neurologic signs in Alzheimer's disease. Results of a prospective clinical and neuropathologic study

scientific article published in October 1992

Neurological correlates of depressive symptoms in Alzheimer's disease and vascular dementia

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Neurological findings in late-onset depressive disorder: comparison of individuals with and without depression.

scientific article published in April 2005

Neuropsychiatric phenomena in Alzheimer's disease

scientific article published in December 2001

Neurosis and personality disorder in old age. Klaus Bergmann. In Studies in Geriatric Psychiatry Eds A. D. Isaacs and F. Post (1978). John Wiley, Chichester, pp. 41-75.

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Nonpharmacological and pharmacological interventions for symptoms in Alzheimer's disease.

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Nurses making a diagnosis of dementia--a potential change in practice?

scientific article published on January 2008

Nursing home placement in the Donepezil and Memantine in Moderate to Severe Alzheimer's Disease (DOMINO-AD) trial: secondary and post-hoc analyses.

scientific article published on 26 October 2015

Observations on the brains of demented old people. B.E. Tomlinson, G. Blessed and M. Roth, Journal of the Neurological Sciences (1970) 11, 205-242 and Observations on the brains of non-demented old people. B.E. Tomlinson, G. Blessed and M. Roth, Jou

scientific article published in August 1997

Old age mental health services in England: implementing the National Service Framework for Older People.

scientific article published on March 2007

Old age psychiatry

scientific article published on 01 February 2002

Older people with chronic schizophrenia.

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Organic correlates of depressive symptoms in Alzheimer's dementia. Results of a prospective study, review of the literature

scientific article published on 01 September 1992

Outcomes following hip fracture surgery: a 2-year prospective study

scientific article published on 6 February 2013

Paradoxical embolisation and cerebral white matter lesions in dementia

scientific article published on 12 November 2007

Paradoxical embolization: a potential cause of cerebral damage in Alzheimer's disease?

scientific article published on September 2006

Patient and caregiver perspectives of quality of life in dementia. An investigation of the relationship to behavioural and psychological symptoms in dementia.

scientific article published on 4 August 2008

Patients' and carers' experiences of UK memory services

scientific article published on 9 November 2015

Perceived mental health needs and adequacy of service provision to older people in care homes in the UK: a national survey

scientific article published in June 2004

Perceptions of memory problems are more important in predicting distress in older adults with subjective memory complaints than coping strategies

scientific article published on 22 March 2011

Perceptions of subjective memory complaint in older adults: the Illness Perception Questionnaire-Memory (IPQ-M).

scientific article published on 25 January 2010

Peripheral Markers: Discussion

Peripheral inflammatory markers in amnestic mild cognitive impairment

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Pesticide exposure and screen-positive neuropsychiatric disease in British sheep farmers

scientific article published on 14 October 2014

Pharmacological profile of an essential oil derived from Melissa officinalis with anti-agitation properties: focus on ligand-gated channels.

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Pharmacological profile of essential oils derived from Lavandula angustifolia and Melissa officinalis with anti-agitation properties: focus on ligand-gated channels

scientific article published in November 2008

Pharmacological treatment of dementia

scientific article published on 01 November 2012

Planning a personalised future with dementia: 'the misleading simplicity of advance directives'.

scientific article published in May 2013

Platelet and erythrocyte membrane changes in Alzheimer's disease

scientific article published on June 1990

Policy, organisation and practice of specialist old age psychiatry in England.

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Predictors of incident depression after hip fracture surgery

scientific article published on 13 August 2007

Prevention of Decline in Cognition after Stroke Trial (PODCAST): a study protocol for a factorial randomised controlled trial of intensive versus guideline lowering of blood pressure and lipids.

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Prognosis of late life depression: a three-year cohort study of outcome and potential predictors

scientific article published on January 2006

Putting brain training to the test

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Randomized controlled trial of memantine in dementia associated with Parkinson's disease

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Regional cerebral volume measurements in late-life depression: relationship to clinical correlates, neuropsychological impairment and response to treatment

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Regional neuronal network failure and cognition in late-onset sporadic Alzheimer disease.

scientific article published on 27 February 2014

Relationship of deep white matter hyperintensities and cerebral blood flow in severe carotid artery stenosis.

scientific article published in January 2006

Relationship of endothelial function and atherosclerosis to treatment response in late-life depression

scientific article published on 9 January 2012

Response to the open letter of Martin Brunet (and colleagues)

scientific article published in the British Medical Journal

Right-hemisphere encephalopathy in elderly subjects with schizophrenia: evidence from neuropsychological and brain imaging studies

scientific article published on 4 July 2003

Risperidone for the treatment of neuropsychiatric features in dementia.

scientific article published on January 2006

Rivastigmine in the treatment of delirium in older people: a pilot study

scientific article published on 31 March 2010

Safety and efficacy of galantamine (Reminyl) in severe Alzheimer's disease (the SERAD study): a randomised, placebo-controlled, double-blind trial

scientific article published on 29 November 2008

Screening for cognitive impairment in older African-Caribbeans

scientific article published in July 2000

Sertraline or mirtazapine for depression in dementia (HTA-SADD): a randomised, multicentre, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial

scientific article published on 19 July 2011

Social and custodial needs of older adults in prison

scientific article published on 21 June 2013

Staging of the cognitive decline in Alzheimer's disease: insights from a detailed neuropsychological investigation of mild cognitive impairment and mild Alzheimer's disease

scientific article published on 25 May 2011

Study of the use of antidepressants for depression in dementia: the HTA-SADD trial--a multicentre, randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of the clinical effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of sertraline and mirtazapine.

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Suicide in dementia: 9-year national clinical survey in England and Wales

scientific article published in February 2009

The balance of care: reconfiguring services for older people with mental health problems.

scientific article published in January 2008

The benefits of early diagnosis of dementia ⬇️

scientific article published in the British Medical Journal

The biology of psychosis in older people.

scientific article published on December 2003

The conversational mini-mental state examination: Estimating cognitive impairment

scientific article published in August 2010

The delusional misidentification syndromes in patients with and without evidence of organic cerebral disorder: a structured review of case reports

scientific article published on January 1993

The differentiation of DSM-III-R psychotic depression in later life from nonpsychotic depression: comparisons of brain changes measured by multispectral analysis of magnetic resonance brain images, neuropsychological findings, and clinical features

scientific article published in January 1999

The effect of anticholinesterases on personality changes in Alzheimer's disease.

scientific article published in November 2002

The effects of counseling spouse caregivers of people with Alzheimer disease taking donepezil and of country of residence on rates of admission to nursing homes and mortality.

scientific article published on September 2009

The effects of donepezil in Alzheimer's disease - results from a multinational trial.

scientific article published in May 1999

The effects of improving hearing in dementia

scientific article published in March 2003

The health and social needs of older male prisoners

scientific article published on 05 March 2012

The impact of individual Cognitive Stimulation Therapy (iCST) on cognition, quality of life, caregiver health, and family relationships in dementia: A randomised controlled trial

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The impact of psychological factors in recovery following surgery for hip fracture

scientific article published in January 2008

The prognostic significance of abnormalities seen on magnetic resonance imaging in late life depression: clinical outcome, mortality and progression to dementia at three years.

scientific article published in December 2000

The symptomatology of Alzheimer's disease: a cross-cultural study

scientific article published on 29 October 2010

The treatment of Alzheimer's disease

scientific article published on 01 January 1995

The use of assessment scales in Old Age Psychiatry Services in England and Northern Ireland

scientific article published on May 2004

The value of specialist clinical assessment of older people prior to entry to care homes

scientific article published in January 2004

Thirty-Five Years of Computerized Cognitive Assessment of Aging-Where Are We Now?

scientific article published on 06 September 2019

Transcultural influences in dementia care: observations from a psychosocial intervention study

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Treatment and Prevention of Depression After Surgery for Hip Fracture in Older People: Randomized, Controlled Trials

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Treatment and prevention of depression after surgery for hip fracture in older people: cost-effectiveness analysis

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Treatment of dementia

scientific article published on December 2005

Treatment response in late-onset depression: relationship to neuropsychological, neuroradiological and vascular risk factors.

scientific article published in January 2004

Unpicking the semantic impairment in Alzheimer's disease: qualitative changes with disease severity.

scientific article published on January 2012

Validating screening instruments for cognitive impairment in older South Asians in the United Kingdom

scientific article published in January 2000

Validity, reliability, and feasibility of clinical staging scales in dementia: a systematic review.

scientific article published on August 2011

Vascular cognitive impairment

scientific article published in February 2003

Vascular function in older adults with depressive disorder

scientific article published on July 2010

Virchow-Robin space dilatation may predict resistance to antidepressant monotherapy in elderly patients with depression

scientific article published on 17 August 2006

Vitamin E deficiency

scientific article published in April 1986

What are the benefits of cognitive enhancers for Alzheimer's Disease: use of Population Impact Measures

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Why don't older adults with subjective memory complaints seek help?

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World Federation of Societies of Biological Psychiatry guidelines for the pharmacological treatment of dementias in primary care

scientific article published on 18 October 2014

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