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Volume 2 - May 1997

Contents

Page 6 of 8

Continuing Medical Education

Grand Rounds

Indices

Continuing Medical Eduction

Front matter

  • CNS volume 2 issue 10 Cover and Front matter

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    07 November 2014, pp. f1-f10
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Continuing Medical Education

Book Review

Continuing Medical Education

Book Review

Back matter

  • CNS volume 2 issue 10 Cover and Back matter

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    07 November 2014, pp. b1-b2
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Letters

  • Temperature and Cognition in Alzheimer's Dementia

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    07 November 2014, p. 55

  • Epidemiological studies have identified thermotaxic decline in the elderly, with lower temperatures than the general population by 0.36-0.54°F. Researchers consider the lower temperatures to be due to a diminished thermoregulatory discrimination sensitivity to environmental temperature oscillations. Every 1.8°F reduction in temperature from 98.6° Fahrenheit is known to effect a decrease in laminar cerebral blood flow (CBF) by approximately 6%-7%. This reduction in CBF, however, is not without significant central nervous system effects. Correlations between CBF and performance on tests of language, memory, attention, figure copying, judgment, and similarity discrimination have been described.

    We have recently attempted to identify thermoregulatory changes occurring in a cognitively impaired population. We examined 39 subjects randomly selected from a clinical database (Statistical Analysis System) based upon NINCDS criteria for Alzheimer's dementia, probable and possible subtypes. Exclusion criteria included indications of abnormal endocrine or immune indices, histories of head trauma, cerebrovascular accidents, substance abuse, or current use of medications known to affect thermoregulation.

Front matter

  • CNS volume 2 issue 5 Cover and Front matter

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    07 November 2014, pp. f1-f12
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Front matter

  • CNS volume 2 issue 1 Cover and Front matter

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    07 November 2014, pp. f1-f15
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Indices

First Person

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