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Description:: The role of providing care for a loved one with Alzheimer’s disease can expose friends and family caregivers to significant stress over an extended period of time, resulting in a host of negative outcomes like increased depression and anxiety, and diminished quality of life. However, previous studies have found that...
Keyword:: psychological well-being, positive emotion, caregiving, online intervention, Alzheimer's disease, and eHealth
Subject:: Clinical psychology, Health sciences, and Psychology
Creator:: Kwok, Zhenting Ian
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 08/23/2023
Date Created:: 2022-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16329 and etdadmin_upload_941336

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:: Background: Cancer-related cognitive impairment (CRCI) is among the most frequently reported adverse events during and following cancer treatment. Between 17% to 75% of chemotherapy-treated cancer patients evidence long-term cognitive deficits as many as 20 years after treatment. The variability in prevalence and the mechanisms of persistent CRCI are not well...
Keyword:: mild cognitive impairment, ADNI, Cancer-related cognitive impairment, cancer, Alzheimer's disease, and Aging
Subject:: Oncology, Clinical psychology, and Aging
Creator:: Eastman, Jennifer Ann
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/01/2021
Date Created:: 2019-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_677366 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14756

Description:: The brain is known to shrink in normal aging or neurodegenerative disease and yet the neurobiological underpinnings of the cortical atrophy remain elusive. The structural changes that represent cortical atrophy can be measured during life using the reliable and quantitative method known as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Primary progressive aphasia...
Keyword:: primary progressive aphasia, neurons, cortical atrophy, activated microglia, and Alzheimer's disease
Subject:: Pathology, Medical imaging, and Neurosciences
Creator:: Ohm, Daniel Timothy
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/12/2020
Date Created:: 2019-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_640035 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14532

Description:: The presence of subjective cognitive decline (SCD) among cognitively normal-for-age older adults is increasingly hypothesized to represent a preclinical stage in the development of Alzheimer’s dementia (Jessen et al., 2014). This project aimed to characterize this construct with regard to its cognitive, motor, emotional, and functional features. The first study...
Keyword:: subjective cognitive decline, cognitive aging, and Alzheimer's disease
Subject:: Clinical psychology and Neurosciences
Creator:: Kielb, Stephanie
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/12/2020
Date Created:: 2019-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14814 and etdadmin_upload_685763

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