SUMMARY PSYCHOLOGY DEMENTIA

SUMMARY psychology dementia

SUMMARY psychology dementia

Article # 1 Executive Functions in Frontotemporal Dementia and Lewy Body Dementia

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This was the first study to exactly compare FTD and LBD patients on measures of boss functioning. In supplement, a power of this study is to examine a relatively untainted experiment of FTD patients granted that we were careful to omit any patients who contacted the criteria for FTLD but displayed the characteristics of SD or NFPA. This item examined both statistical assembly dissimilarities and dissimilarities in clinical impairment, which included assessments of the average degree of impairment and the frequency of impairment. The significant finding of this study is that FTD and LBD patients presented remarkably likewise over the different assesses engaged, and when dissimilarities emerged between persevering groups, it was consistently the LBD perseverings who presented more badly. This is interesting and somewhat astonishing given that FTD is more normally advised to be a disorder with famous executive dysfunction. We start the discussion of our findings by summarizing the outcomes of the assessments of the two persevering groups with the NECs, and pursue it with a more in-depth discussion of the assessments between FTD and LBD patients. We compared both FTD and LBD patients with controls to determine the occurrence of dependable and clinically significant deficitson the assesses of boss functioning that were administered in this study. The statistical evaluation disclosed that both persevering groups performed considerably poorer than controls on effectively all of the assesses. Both assemblies showed dependable deficits in working recollection (BPT and LNS), inhibitory command (Stroop check and Hayling check, with the exclusion of inhibition time on the Hayling test in LBD patients), and verbal fluency (both phonemic and semantic).

It is interesting that there was a deficit on verbal fluency in FTD patients, even after omitting the subgroups in which we would anticipate impairment on this task (SD and NFPA). This finding could be due to the shortfalls on the boss aspect of the task (switching; Troyer et al., 1997), which was present in both the LBD and FTD groups. Both assemblies furthermore illustrated a clinically significant impairment (greater than 1.5 SD underneath the signify of the NECs) on all of the assesses of boss functioning administered (with the exception of the 20-s hold up status on the BPT in FTD perseverings). Furthermore, the investigation of one-by-one persevering presentation in comparison to usual controls on each of the checks of executive functioning disclosed that boss dysfunction was highly common in both FTD and LBD, with over 75% of patients being impaired on each of the checks.

Article #2 Clinical Psychology and anxiety and depression in dementia: Three case studies

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The situations offered here illustrate a little sample of the variety of ways clinical psychologists can assist to the treatment of despondency and disquiet in dementia, and a sense of the broad variety of abilities and knowledge required. widespread to each, as with Teri et al (2005), were interventions tailored to each case, a ...