Aarsland, Dag, Ballard, Clive, Walker, Zuzana, Bostrom, Fredrik, Alves, Guido, Kossakowski, Katja, ...
BACKGROUND: Dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) and Parkinson's disease dementia (PDD) are common forms of dementia that substantially affect quality of life. Currently, the only treatment licensed for...
High Prevalence of Orthostatic Hypotension in Mild Dementia. (2009)
Sonnesyn, Hogne, Nilsen, Dennis W, Rongve, Arvid, Nore, Sabine, Ballard, Clive, Tysnes, Ole B, ...
Background/Aims: Orthostatic hypotension (OH) and QTc prolongation have potentially important prognostic and therapeutic consequences but have rarely been studied in patients with mild dementia....
Dementia with Lewy Bodies, Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s (2008)
Francesca Cormack, Dag Aarsl, Clive Ballard, Martin J. Tovée, John Wiley
Pentagon drawing and neuropsychological performance in
Clive Ballard, Marisa Margallo Lana, Megan Theodoulou, Simon Douglas, Rupert McShane, Robin Jacoby, ...
BackgroundThere have been increasing concerns regarding the safety and efficacy of neuroleptics in people with dementia, but there are very few long-term trials to inform clinical practice. The aim...
Abuhamdah, Sawsan, Huang, Liping, Elliott, Mark S.J, Howes, Melanie-Jayne R, Ballard, Clive, Holmes, Clive, ...
A dual radioligand binding and electrophysiological study, focusing on a range of ligand-gated ion channels, was performed with a chemically-validated essential oil derived from Melissa officinalis...
Wood-Mitchell, Amy, James, Ian Andrew, Waterworth, Anna, Swann, Alan, Ballard, Clive
Background: despite evidence of limited efficacy, psychotropic medications are widely used as a first line treatment for those with behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD). Clearly...
Homocysteine and post-stroke cognitive decline (2007)
Rowan, Elise N., Dickinson, Heather O., Stephens, Sally, Ballard, Clive, Kalaria, Raj, Anne Kenny, Rose
Homocysteine and post-stroke cognitive decline (2007)
Rowan, Elise N., Dickinson, Heather O., Stephens, Sally, Ballard, Clive, Kalaria, Raj, Anne Kenny, Rose
Ballard, Clive, Johnson, Mary, Piggot, Margaret, Perry, Robert, O'Brien, John, Rowan, Elise, ...
Background: Depression is a common and distressing problem in the context of dementia, and is significantly more common in Dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) than in Alzheimer’s disease. The...
Sauer, Justin, Ffytche, Dominic H., Ballard, Clive, Brown, Richard G., Howard, Robert
We investigated whether previously reported differences between Alzheimer's disease and dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) in resting occipital activity lead to activation differences within...
Sauer, Justin, Ffytche, Dominic H., Ballard, Clive, Brown, Richard G., Howard, Robert
We investigated whether previously reported differences between Alzheimer's disease and dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) in resting occipital activity lead to activation differences within...
Ballard, Clive, Jacoby, Robin, Del Ser, Teodoro, Khan, M. Nadeem, Munoz, David G., Holmes, Clive, ...
OBJECTIVE: This investigation was undertaken to clarify the neuropathological substrates of key psychiatric symptoms in dementia with Lewy bodies. METHOD: The authors studied 112 autopsy-confirmed...
Lowery, Kath, Ballard, Clive, Rodgers, Helen, McLaren, Andrew, O'Brien, John, Rowan, Elise, ...
Background: although cognitive decline is frequent after stroke, there has been very little work focussing upon older age groups, in whom the majority of strokes occur. Objective: to determine...
Attention and fluctuating attention in dementia with Lewy bodies and Alzheimer's disease (2001)
Ballard, Clive, O'Brien, John, Gray, Alistair, Cormack, Franchesca, Ayre, Gareth, Rowan, Elise, ...
Background Attentional deficits are described in the consensus clinical criteria for the operationalized diagnosis of dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) as characteristic of the condition. In addition,...
Placement of dementia sufferers in residential and nursing home care (1998)
BANNISTER, CAROL, BALLARD, CLIVE, LANA, MARISSZA, FAIRBAIRN, ANDREW, WILCOCK, GORDON
Background: few UK studies have examined the associations of residential or nursing home placement in dementia sufferers. Method: 124 patients with mild to moderate dementia (according to the...
Ballard, Clive, Fossey, Jane, Chithramohan, Ramilgan, Howard, Robert, Burns, Alistair, Thompson, Peter, ...
Ballard, Clive, Margallo-Lana, Marisa, Juszczak, Edmund, Douglas, Simon, Swann, Alan, Thomas, Alan, ...
Objectives To determine the respective efficacy of quetiapine and rivastigmine for agitation in people with dementia in institutional care and to evaluate these treatments with respect to change in...
Fossey, Jane, Ballard, Clive, Juszczak, Edmund, James, Ian, Alder, Nicola, Jacoby, Robin, ...
Objective To evaluate the effectiveness of a training and support intervention for nursing home staff in reducing the proportion of residents with dementia who are prescribed neuroleptics.
Ballard, Clive, Fossey, Jane, Chithramohan, Ramilgan, Howard, Robert, Burns, Alistair, Thompson, Peter, ...
Ballard, Clive, Margallo-Lana, Marisa, Juszczak, Edmund, Douglas, Simon, Swann, Alan, Thomas, Alan, ...
Objectives To determine the respective efficacy of quetiapine and rivastigmine for agitation in people with dementia in institutional care and to evaluate these treatments with respect to change in...
Fossey, Jane, Ballard, Clive, Juszczak, Edmund, James, Ian, Alder, Nicola, Jacoby, Robin, ...
Objective To evaluate the effectiveness of a training and support intervention for nursing home staff in reducing the proportion of residents with dementia who are prescribed neuroleptics.
Ballard, Clive, Lana, Marisa Margallo, Theodoulou, Megan, Douglas, Simon, McShane, Rupert, Jacoby, Robin, ...
In a randomized trial of patients with dementia, Clive Ballard and colleagues show that withdrawal of neuroleptics had no overall detrimental effect, and by some measures improved, functional and...