(1) It's the demented flipside of David Guetta bringing Euro house into the mainstream.
(2) The densities of muscarinic receptors, as well as the proportions of M1 and M2 subtypes, in the CA1 sector and dentate gyrus were not significantly different between ATD and old non-demented patients.
(3) Among these associated neurological features, only aphasia and apraxia were present in mildly demented cases with sufficient frequency to suggest utility as diagnostic signs early in the course of the disease.
(4) Furthermore, both the mildly and the more severely demented patients differed from controls in having reduced ratios of parietal association to sensorimotor peak rCMRglc.
(5) Recent work has demonstrated the coexistence of depressive illness in some patients with dementing disorders.
(6) Four occurrences of this injury in three elderly, demented patients were observed in an acute-care Geriatric Evaluation Unit.
(7) Whereas cortical senile plaque count did not distinguish well between demented and nondemented subjects, every subject with numerous cortical neurofibrillary tangles was demented.
(8) To assess the effect, if any, of the therapy, two psychological rating scales devised specially for demented patients, were established by the team of psychologists at the Grenoble Teaching Hospital.
(9) Also, among clinically nondemented individuals periventricular white-matter alterations may be associated with subtle but definable neuropsychological deficits, and these individuals may be at risk for developing a dementing illness.
(10) A potentially treatable cause was found in 10.7% of all demented patients, the most common being metabolic disorders, meningioma, hydrocephalus, subdural haematoma, and depressive pseudodementia.
(11) A retrospective pilot study of 17 incontinent demented patients and 17 continent patients, matched for age, sex, and total score on the Folstein Mini-Mental Status Exam (MMSE), revealed a striking association between an inability to do a copy task and urinary incontinence.
(12) The P3 is no longer thought of as a diagnostic tool in dementia; however, longitudinal changes in the P3 latency can be used to follow the course of a dementing illness or to assess effects of therapy.
(13) We measured cerebral glucose metabolism with positron emission tomography in 20 control subjects and in 14 patients with PD with mental status ranging from normal to severely demented to determine whether changes in cortical glucose metabolism occur in early PD and whether the degree and pattern of metabolic change relate to the severity of dementia.
(14) Since then, researchers have studied the problem of troublesome behavior in demented patients and the burden that this creates for relatives nursing them.
(15) A questionnaire describing hypothetical cases of dehydration in an elderly terminal cancer patient in different clinical situations (conscious, demented, comatose) was sent to 978 physicians.
(16) On verbal recall, both the mildly and moderately demented patients were severely impaired and evidenced a very rapid rate of forgetting between the 15-s and 2-min recall attempts.
(17) Hence the data support the idea that understimulation is present in the demented patient's life but it can hardly be the cause of the behaviour.
(18) This contrasted with the rebound in REM sleep activity seen in control subjects, and the more modest increase in demented patients.
(19) The most common cause of dementing illness is Alzheimer disease (enlarged cerebrospinal fluid spaces, focal medial temporal lobe abnormal signal intensity, cortical iron).
(20) To improve the reliability of rCBF in demented patients, especially in Alzheimer disease, the correction of rCBF data for end-tidal CO2 concentration should be performed.
Deranged
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Derange
(a.) Disordered; especially, disordered in mind; crazy; insane.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is not known whether the deposits are primary or secondary events, but they may be of importance in initiating or maintaining derangement in heart function.
(2) All of them had fever, jaundice, abdominal pain, leucocytosis and deranged liver function while 26.6% were in shock, 13.3% in coma and 40% in azotaemia.
(3) In patients with Cushing's disease or Nelson's syndrome ACTH secretion is insensitive to naloxone, presumably because of an autonomous pituitary adenoma or hypothalamic derangement.
(4) The high ratio observed in BALF from patients with sarcoidosis and a chronic derangement of alveolar structure suggests either an increased C2 production or an alternative complement pathway (C2-independent) activation within their lungs.
(5) Progress is our understanding of the roles of vasogenic and cytotoxic brain edema in secondary brain damage can be expected from studies of the ability of biochemical factors to open the blood-brain barrier, derange the microcirculation, and cause cell swelling and necrosis.
(6) We assert that OCD and AVN are relatively common, clinically significant lesions of the mandibular condyle often associated with preexisting internal derangement of the temporomandibular joint.
(7) A hypothesis is presented as to how certain occlusal relationships and habitual patterns of jaw use may predispose an individual to TMJ internal derangements.
(8) These data suggest the feasibility of using calcium and EDTA infusions combined with an intact PTH assay to define the relationships between circulating levels of PTH-(1-84) and calcium in states of normal and deranged parathyroid physiology.
(9) Functionally, the first component reflected 55% of the reducibility property and an unimpaired oxidizability property, while the latter exhibited derangement of both aspects of cytochrome c activity.
(10) Laboratory investigations revealed hyperbilirubinemia, marked increase in serum transaminases, a variable alkaline phosphatase level and electrolytes derangement.
(11) Understanding how steroids work has led to improved comprehension of such derangements of hormonal regulation as testicular feminization.
(12) A case of a patient with a malignant schwannoma, who was originally diagnosed as having internal derangement of the temporomandibular joint (TMJ), is presented.
(13) The consequence of these derangements is often widespread plugging of small bronchi and bronchioles.
(14) The deranged adenosine metabolism and raised cAMP in the platelets of this child with severe combined immunodeficiency may explain the altered response to ADP.
(15) Surgery has been important in the treatment of internal derangement of the TMJ.
(16) Biopsies of lumbar multifidus muscles were obtained at operation on seventeen patients aged from fifteen to fifty-eight with lumbar spinal derangement, and further material was taken from the cadavers of three subjects aged from nineteen to fifty-one.
(17) Infection, compression and metabolic derangement were implicated as the most common etiologic factors.
(18) The rate of decline of creatinine clearance, the changes of the urinary protein loss, of total serum protein, of the daily insulin requirement, of the nutritional status and of some hormonal derangements were examined.
(19) Respiratory and circulatory derangements and brain damage ensue if the problem is not promptly recognized and corrected.
(20) It has been suggested that the occurrence of an intracellular Ca2+ overload may result in the development of diabetic cardiomyopathy, which is associated with depletion of high-energy phosphate stores and a derangement of ultrastructure and cardiac dysfunction.