No abstract available.
Aged* ; Classification* ; Dementia* ; Gyeongsangbuk-do* ; Humans ; Prevalence*

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Aged* ; Classification* ; Dementia* ; Gyeongsangbuk-do* ; Humans ; Prevalence*

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Dementia*

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Dementia*

The concept of vascular dementia is not still established. Its pathogenesis is not completely understood, either. It may be different among the subtypes, e.g., ischemic, hemorrhaginc, or Binswanger's disease. In this article epidemiology of vascular dementia was reviewed, based on the important findings regarding to prevalence, ethnic difference in prevalence, incidence, risk factors, and natural history and survival. We have to wait for more elegant concept of and better understanding of vascular dementia.
Cerebrovascular Disorders ; Dementia, Vascular* ; Epidemiology* ; Incidence ; Natural History ; Prevalence ; Risk Factors

No abstract available.
Aged* ; Dementia* ; Gyeongsangbuk-do* ; Humans ; Prevalence*

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Aged* ; Dementia* ; Gyeongsangbuk-do* ; Humans ; Prevalence*

OBJECTIVE: The authors investigated effects of gender, age and education on the MMSEK performances in a non-demented elderly rural population. METHODS: The MMSEK was administered to 617 non-demented elderly people aged 65 or more in a rural area. The effects on the total and subtest MMSEK scores of gender, age and education were analyzed by Student t-test, Pearson's correlation, oneway analysis of variance, analysis of covariance and stepwise multiple regression. RESULTS: The three independent variables showed significant influence on the total score, orientation in time, orientation in place, attention/calculation, language function and comprehension & judgement of the MMSEK. The three variables could account for 40.0% of the variance of the total MMSEK score. Of the MMSEK subtests, memory registration and memory recall were resistant to the variables. MMSEK scores of the female, the older people and the undereducated were even less. CONCLUSION: Prevalence of dementia seems not to influence on the variance of total MMSEK score in a population in which its prevalence is about 10%. Gender, age and education have significant effects on orientation in time, orientation in place, attention/calculation, language function and comprehension & judgement, while not on memory registration and memory recall. Female sex, old age and undereducation are thought to be risk factors for development of dementia.
Aged* ; Cognition ; Comprehension ; Dementia ; Education* ; Female ; Humans ; Memory ; Prevalence ; Risk Factors ; Rural Population*

Research articles are rapidly increasing in number of publications in the regular journals on geriatric psychiatry and it's allied fields since 1989. However, they were mainly on dementia, depression, epidemiology and neurocognitive functions. Widening of research areas, refinement of study methodology and multidisciplinary approach based on clinical data are needed. And of importance is submission to the popular foreign scientific journals listed in medical indexes, including the Current Contents, Excerpta Medica, Index Medicus, Medline, Psychological Abstracts, Science Citation Index, and Social Science Citation Index. In the case of home journals, a meticulous peer review system of manuscripts could improve the quality of research activities and of publications. All these activities would help us open a new horizon in the research into mental health problems in Korea.
Dementia ; Depression ; Epidemiology ; Geriatric Psychiatry ; Korea ; MEDLINE ; Mental Health ; Peer Review ; Social Sciences

Even until the early 20th century psychiatry and neurology had been one. However, the chasm had been wider and wider between the two, at least in this country and the United States, until three decades before when chemical treatments were popular for schizophrenia and mood disorders. During the past three decades there have been many revolutionary progresses in neurosciences. Thanks to those developments, psychiatry and neurology are going gradually closer to each other and expected to become a single clinical specialty not far ahead. It may be called neuropsychiatry or clinical neuroscience. Alzheimer's disease seems to be a very good model bridging again the rift between the two medical specialties. It is so in terms of both from basic molecular genetics to clinical symptoms and from causes of to therapeutic interventions of cognitive, behavioral, and psychological manifestations.
Alzheimer Disease* ; Cognition ; Molecular Biology ; Mood Disorders ; Neurology ; Neuropsychiatry* ; Neurosciences ; Schizophrenia ; United States