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F Inzerillo
FATTORI SCATENANTI LA SINDROME DEL BURNOUT NELLA RELAZIONE MEDICO-PAZIENTE
Alleanza terapeutica, Meccanismi di difesa ed Esiti nel trattamento del DAP. Analisi di una interruzione di trattamento. Uno studio single-case
Verbal Fluency in Mild Alzheimer's Disease: Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation over the Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex
Background: Recent studies showed that in healthy controls and in aphasic patients, inhibitory trains of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) over the right prefrontal cortex can improve phonemic fluency performance, while anodal transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) over the left prefrontal cortex can improve performance in naming and semantic fluency tasks. Objective: This study aimed at investigating the effects of cathodal tDCS over the left or the right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) on verbal fluency tasks (VFT) in patients with mild Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Methods: Forty mild AD patients participated in the study (mean age 73.17±5.61 years). All part…
ETHICS AND AGING: FOCUS ON LIVING WILL FOR PATIENTS WITH DEMENTIA
Today dementia certainly represents a public health priority with a huge global impact on wordwide population. However, clinical and social issues related to dementia have long been marginalized. The actual high prevalence of dementias requires also to face issues from a bioethical perspective, regarding how to deal with demented patient’s disposition. There are currently no specific guidelines on the national territory regarding whether to draw up a living will by a patient with dementia, neither about the informative role of physicians during the progressive story of the disease.
DECLINO COGNITIVO E CADASIL: CASO CLINICO
PSICOTERAPIA CON PAZIENTI GERIATRICI: IL GRUPPO TERAPEUTICO COME STRUMENTO DI CAMBIAMENTO IN QUADRO DI UMORE DEPRESSO
Nutrition, physical activity, and other lifestyle factors in the prevention of cognitive decline and dementia
Multiple factors combined are currently recognized as contributors to cognitive decline. The main independent risk factor for cognitive impairment and dementia is advanced age followed by other determinants such as genetic, socioeconomic, and environmental factors, including nutrition and physical activity. In the next decades, a rise in dementia cases is expected due largely to the aging of the world population. There are no hitherto effective pharmaceutical therapies to treat age-associated cognitive impairment and dementia, which underscores the crucial role of prevention. A relationship among diet, physical activity, and other lifestyle factors with cognitive function has been intensive…