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pro vyhledávání: '"A M, Mellow"'
Autor:
Alan J. Zillich, Pamela Reeves, Barbara Hyduke, Thomas R. Emmendorfer, Kenneth Shay, Peter Woodbridge, Mark A. Supiano, Alan M. Mellow, Steven R. Counsell
Publikováno v:
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 56:1299-1305
OBJECTIVES: To examine the effectiveness of a quality improvement program to decrease prescribing of high-risk medications. DESIGN: Single cohort, pre- and postintervention. SETTING: Regional network of Department of Veterans Affairs medical faciliti
Publikováno v:
The American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry. 13:88-98
Depression may occur as a result of vascular disease in a significant subpopulation of elderly persons. Indirect support for vascular disease as an underlying etiology of late-life depression includes the high rate of depression in patients with vasc
Autor:
Mary Sano, Lon S. Schneider, R. G. Thomas, Linda Teri, Elaine R. Peskind, Peter J. Whitehouse, Alexander P. Auchus, Murray A. Raskind, Michael Grundman, Rebecca G. Logsdon, Norman L. Foster, Pierre N. Tariot, Leon J. Thal, Myron F. Weiner, A. M. Mellow, Kimberly Schafer, Rochelle E. Tractenberg
Publikováno v:
Neurology. 55:1271-1278
Background: Treatment of agitation is a crucial problem in the care of patients with AD. Although antipsychotic and antidepressant medications and behavior management techniques (BMT) have each been used to treat agitation, clinical trials of these t
Autor:
C. Raymond Bingham, Helen C. Kales, Jeffrey Scott Roberts, Laurel A. Copeland, Alan M. Mellow, Frederic C. Blow
Publikováno v:
The American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry. 8:301-309
To evaluate the impact of race on mental health care utilization among older patients within given clinical psychiatric diagnoses, the authors examined a retrospective sample of 23,718 elderly veterans treated in Department of Veterans Affairs inpati
Autor:
Frederic C. Blow, Raymond C. Bingham, Helen C. Kales, Alan M. Mellow, Ericka E. Kammerer, Laurel A. Copeland
Publikováno v:
American Journal of Psychiatry. 156:550-556
Few studies have examined the course of coexisting dementia and depression. The purpose of this study was to compare elderly patients who had coexisting dementia and depression with elderly patients who had either disorder alone in terms of their uti
Autor:
Helen C. Kales, Gregory W. Dalack, Alan M. Mellow, Sara Figueroa, Frederic C. Blow, Kristen L. Barry, Marcia Valenstein
Publikováno v:
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 46:1499-1505
OBJECTIVES: To determine whether patient age is associated with psychiatric diagnosis or provider intervention in a busy primary care clinic, and, if so, whether a screening and diagnostic tool, the PRIME-MD, modifies age-related differences. DESIGN,
Autor:
D. L. Murman, A. M. Mellow, Roderick J. A. Little, Jewel R. Johanns, Norman L. Foster, Bruno Giordani, M. Hariharan
Publikováno v:
Neurology. 49:153-161
Background: Excitotoxicity may contribute to neuronal degeneration in Huntington's disease (HD). N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor antagonists can prevent neuronal degeneration caused by excitotoxicity, but their effects in HD patients are not kno
Autor:
Rick A. Martinez, Trey Sunderland, Brian A. Lawlor, Heidi Martinson, Karen Putnam, Susan E. Molchan, Alan M. Mellow, Francois Lalonde
Publikováno v:
International Psychogeriatrics. 4:291-309
Although the central cholinergic deficits are still considered to be of primary importance in Alzheimer's disease, there is great need for an expansion of the pharmacological approach in this illness beyond the simple cholinergic replacement hypothes
Autor:
Alan M. Mellow, Michael J. Panzer
Publikováno v:
Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry and Neurology. 5:195-199
Pathologic laughing or crying (PLC), a complication of many neurologic disorders, involves behavior that is either inappropriate to the context or to the patient's subjective feeling state. It is due to a dysregulation of the motoric components of em
Autor:
Rick A. Martinez, Trey Sunderland, Susan E. Molchan, Herbert Weingartner, Alan M. Mellow, Benedetto Vitiello, James L. Hill
Publikováno v:
Journal of Psychopharmacology. 6:489-500
Thyrotropin-releasing hormone (TRH), a neuromodulator and possibly a neurotransmitter in the central nervous system, was shown in a prior study of young normal volunteers to attenuate the memory impairment induced by the anticholinergic drug scopolam