May 15, 2020

Geriatric syndromes: clinical, research, and policy implications of a core geriatric concept.

Geriatric syndromes: clinical, research, and policy implications of a core geriatric concept.

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Geriatricians have embraced the time period “geriatric syndrome,” utilizing it extensively to focus on the distinctive options of widespread well being circumstances in older folks. Geriatric syndromes, similar to delirium, falls, incontinence, and frailty, are extremely prevalent, multifactorial, and related to substantial morbidity and poor outcomes. Nevertheless, this central geriatric idea has remained poorly outlined. […]

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Twenty years of research on cytokine-induced sickness behavior.

Twenty years of research on cytokine-induced sickness behavior. /

Cytokine-induced sickness habits was acknowledged inside a couple of years of the cloning and expression of interferon-alpha, IL-1 and IL-2, which occurred across the time that the primary challenge of Brain, Behavior, and Immunity was printed in 1987. Phase I scientific trials established that injection of recombinant cytokines into most cancers sufferers led to a

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Neuroimaging standards for research into small vessel disease and its contribution to ageing and neurodegeneration.

Neuroimaging standards for research into small vessel disease and its contribution to ageing and neurodegeneration.

Neuroimaging standards for research into small vessel disease and its contribution to ageing and neurodegeneration. /

Cerebral small vessel disease (SVD) is a standard accompaniment of ageing. Features seen on neuroimaging embrace current small subcortical infarcts, lacunes, white matter hyperintensities, perivascular areas, microbleeds, and mind atrophy. SVD can current as a stroke or cognitive decline, or can have few or no signs. SVD ceaselessly coexists with neurodegenerative disease, and can exacerbate

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