Patient’s related factors: ∙ Cognitive dysfunction ∙ Disorganization ∙ Lack of insight ∙ Personal history of nonadherence to treatment ∙ Health Belief Model: (a) inadequate perceived efficacy (b) attitude and…
Emilio Sacchetti, Antonio Vita, Alberto Siracusano and Wolfgang FleischhackerAdherence to Antipsychotics in Schizophrenia201410.1007/978-88-470-2679-7_2 © Springer-Verlag Italia 2014 Pharmacological Strategies to Enhance Adherence in Schizophrenia Alex Hofer1 and Wolfgang Fleischhacker1 (1) Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Biological Psychiatry Division, Medical University…
Fig. 1 Adherence: a multi-dimensional phenomenon (Niolu, Siracusano, 2005) From Compliance to Adherence to the Alliance: Historical Notes The concept of adherence is contiguous to that of compliance: compliance is defined…
Figure 6.1 Axial fluid-attenuated inversion recovery (FLAIR) MRI scan of an older person with leukoaraiosis. Patchy white matter hyperintensties are scattered throughout the white matter. The concept of LA was…
Figure 14.1 Diagrams iIlustrating the gradual loss of white matter with aging. The left panel shows the trajectory of MRI frontal lobe white matter volume, and the right panel depicts…
Figure 16.1 White matter dementia citations on PubMed before 1988 (211) and after (4,235). Since the idea of WMD was conceived, not only has the Human Connectome Project been vigorously…
Figure 15.1 Postmortem coronal brain section showing diffuse axonal injury (DAI) in the corpus callosum after TBI (from Sharp DJ, Scott G, and Leech R, 2014). Neuroradiologists have endeavored to…
Figure 13.1 Simplified depiction of acquired factors implicated in the etiopathogenesis of two neurodegenerative diseases: Alzheimer’s Disease and chronic traumatic encephalopathy. Myelin repair The idea that myelin in the brain…
html xmlns=”http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml” xmlns:mml=”http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML” xmlns:epub=”http://www.idpf.org/2007/ops”> Chapter 12 White matter and cognition: research perspectives The prevailing view that cortical gray matter is the seat of higher functions has inspired a vast amount…
html xmlns=”http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml” xmlns:mml=”http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML” xmlns:epub=”http://www.idpf.org/2007/ops”> Chapter 11 Treatment The treatment of white matter dementia (WMD) and mild cognitive dysfunction (MCD) centers on the treatment of the underlying disorder deemed responsible for…
