Memory part II: perception, attention and short-term memory/Gedachtnis: teil 2: wahrnehmung, aufmerksamkeit und kurzzeitgedachtnis/La memoire: 2ieme partie Perception, Attention et memoire a court terme.
Zusammenfassung Gedachtnis Teil 2: Wahrnehmung, Aufmerksamkeit und Kurzzeitgedachtnis Neurowissenschaftliche Erkenntnisse erklaren uns kognitive Funktionen und ihre Veranderungen im Alternsprozess bis hin zu demenziellen Erkrankungen. Im ersten Teil dieser Serie wurde ein grundlegendes Modell der Funktionen des Gedachtnisses eingefuhrt und erlautert. Dieser zweite Teil gilt dem...

Senior living communities; operations management and marketing for assisted living, congregate, and continuing care retirement communities, 2d ed.
9780801887185 Senior living communities; operations management and marketing for assisted living, congregate, and continuing care retirement communities, 2d ed. Pearce, Benjamin W. Johns Hopkins U. Press 2007 342 pages $75.00 Paperback HD728 ...

Anticholinergic drugs linked to decline in cognition.
CHICAGO -- The use of anticholinergic drugs triggered swift cognitive decline in an elderly cohort compared with people not taking such agents, which include medicines for stomach cramps, motion sickness, and urinary incontinence. "Doctors may need to take this into account before prescribing these commonly used drugs,"...

Fitness may slow brain atrophy in Alzheimer's.
CHICAGO -- Keeping fit may help reduce brain atrophy in patients with early Alzheimer's, researchers said at the International Conference on Alzheimer's Disease. An exercise-tolerance study confirmed that the hippocampus, one of the first brain regions to be affected in Alzheimer's, was significantly larger among patients who...

Insulin linked with decreased brain plaques in Alzheimer's.
CHICAGO -- A postmortem analysis of subjects with both Alzheimer's disease and diabetes found up to 80% fewer amyloid [beta] plaques in the brains of those who took both insulin and oral diabetic medication while alive. The finding might shed some light on a discrepancy that has...

Elopement: staff ignored door alarm, resident fell, broke hip.
A lawsuit filed in the Superior Court, Orange County, California on behalf of an eighty-one year-old nursing facility resident resulted in a $988,000 settlement, reported on condition that the name of the facility be kept confidential. The resident had been in the facility more than two years....

Lupus has many Neuropsychiatric manifestations: headaches, cognitive disorders, psychosis, and seizures tend to occur early in the disease course.
DESTIN, FLA. -- Neuropsychiatric manifestations of systemic lupus erythematosus occur in more than 80% of patients during the course of disease, and can pose particular challenges to clinicians caring for these patients. Not only can such manifestations of lupus be difficult to distinguish from infectious or other...

Life in the Balance.
Life in the Balance Thomas Graboys, MD with Peter Zheutlin Union Square Press c/o Sterling Publishing 387 Park Avenue South, New York NY 10016 1402753411, $19.95 www.sterlingpublishing.com Any general-interest library or health collection needs LIFE IN THE...

The perilous world of POA agents: they're responsible for tedious recordkeeping and, in some cases, prodigious uncompensated labor. They risk getting caught in family crossfire, even being sued. Who would want this thankless job? And can you make a well-meaning agent's work easier?
As this issue of the IBJ went to press, the media reported that a New York physician who had been indicted for allegedly converting nearly $1 million of his 92-year-old retired and ailing mother's savings using a power of attorney had accepted a plea bargain that would keep him...

Blood test in pipeline may help diagnose Alzheimer's.
CHICAGO -- A simple blood test could soon allow primary care providers to diagnose Alzheimer's disease accurately if a final validation study proceeds as well as optimistic researchers hope. In a study of 88 patients, the test findings agreed with expert clinical diagnosis more than 90%, with...