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    Mirtazapine is Not an Effective Treatment for Agitation in Dementia

    September 1, 2022

    Ms. Whalen CLINICAL QUESTION: What’s the clinical effectiveness and safety profile of mirtazapine in reducing agitation in dementia relative to placebo? BACKGROUND: Nonpharmacological...

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    News

    Neurologic disorders ubiquitous and rising in the U.S.

    March 2, 2021

    Most of the rise in disease burden could be attributed to population aging, while age-standardized figures showed stroke and dementias to be level or declining, offering hope that prevention measures may be having an effect.

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    Mental illness tied to increased mortality in COVID-19

    October 2, 2020

    “Pay attention and potentially address/treat a prior psychiatric diagnosis if a patient is hospitalized for COVID-19,” said Dr. Luming Li.

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    Opinion

    Are aging physicians a burden?

    August 19, 2020

    In our practice, the most common reason for those minor mistakes during our clinical evaluation is anxiety, said Dr. Nicolas Badre and Dr. Alan A. Abrams.

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    Consensus document reviews determination of brain death

    August 12, 2020

    The recommendations are the minimum criteria for the determination of brain death or death by neurologic criteria.

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    Infection ups mortality risk in patients with dementia

    August 3, 2020

    Those with dementia had a greater than sixfold increased risk of dying after acquiring any infection than those without dementia or an infection.

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    COVID-19: Psychiatrists assess geriatric harm from social distancing

    May 27, 2020

    “Certainly the appalling number of deaths in nursing homes is the No. 1 horror of the pandemic.”

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    Diastolic dysfunction is a common risk factor for cognitive decline

    May 5, 2020

    Proposed mechanisms for cognitive decline in patients with systolic dysfunction include low cardiac output, embolic infarctions, and hypoxic changes, among others.

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    Cognitive screening of older physicians: What’s fair?

    January 17, 2020

    A new report leads to questions about how to standardize the process rather than have a piecemeal institutional approach and whether to focus less on tests scores and more on clinical performance.

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    Certain diabetes drugs may thwart dementia

    October 21, 2019

    COPENHAGEN – Intriguing findings from a Danish national registry study.

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