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Description:: ``Hazy decisions: The effect of dementia on medical decision-making'' \\ I estimate the causal effect of having dementia on the course of treatment for unrelated diseases by leveraging differences in the relative time of onset of dementia and the other condition in a difference-in-differences event-study framework. To demonstrate this approach...
Keyword:: dementia, advance care planning, Alzheimer's disease, and medical procedure codes
Subject:: Economics, Health sciences, and Aging
Creator:: Paluszynska, Aleksandra Joanna
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 05/31/2023
Date Created:: 2023-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_982106 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16498

Description:: "Anosognosia" or lack of insight into one's own illness is not uncommon in central nervous system disease. Neurodegenerative diseases of the brain that cause dementia are often associated with anosognosia. A lot is known about anosognosia in Alzheimer's disease but relatively little is known about lack of insight into illness...
Keyword:: dementia, insight, alzheimer's disease, primary progressive aphasai, awareness, and frontotemporal dementia
Subject:: Psychology
Creator:: Sarah Banks
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 08/02/2018
Date Modified:: 08/02/2018
Date Created:: 2007-10-04
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Description:: Primary progressive aphasia (PPA) is a debilitating neurodegenerative syndrome that principally impairs the cognitive domain of language. Patients demonstrate deficits in a variety of language faculties including object naming (anomia), word finding, single word and sentence reading, speech comprehension, repetition, syntactic processing, and paraphasia. PPA has been associated with selective...
Keyword:: dementia, Primary Progressive Aphasia, fMRI, aphasia, language, and language network
Subject:: Neuroscience Institute Graduate Program
Creator:: Sreepadma Priya Sonty
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 07/30/2018
Date Modified:: 07/30/2018
Date Created:: 05-14-2007
Resource Type:: Dissertation

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