Browsing Medical Gerontology (Scholarly Publications) by Subject "Medical Gerontology"
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Incidence and prediction of falls in dementia: a prospective study in older
(2009)Background: Falls are a major cause of morbidity and mortality in dementia, but there have been no prospective studies of risk factors for falling specific to this patient population, and no successful falls interventio ... -
A mathematical model of ageing-related and cortisol induced hippocampal dysfunction.
(BioMed Central, 2009)Background The hippocampus is essential for declarative memory synthesis and is a core pathological substrate for Alzheimer's disease (AD), the most common aging-related dementing disease. Acute increases in plasma cortisol ...