Sökning: "terminal decline"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 21 avhandlingar innehållade orden terminal decline.

1. 1. Change and variability in cognitive performance in old age. Effects of retest, terminal decline, and pre-clinical dementia

   Författare :Valgeir Thorvaldsson; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Aging; cognition; longitudinal; retest effects; terminal decline; pre-clinical;

   Sammanfattning : The focus of the presented studies was to provide population estimates of change and variability in cognitive performance in old age. Data was drawn from the Gerontological and Geriatric Population Studies in Gothenburg, Sweden (H70). In study I retest effects were evaluated on level of performance in five cognitive abilities. LÄS MER

3. 2. Prodromal Cognitive Signs of Dementia

   Författare :Simona Sacuiu; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Nyckelord :cognitive function; mild cognitive impairment; prediction of dementia; Alzheimer s disease; vascular dementia; population study; birth cohort trends; terminal decline;

   Sammanfattning : The increase in proportion of elderly worldwide, coupled with the fact that increasing age is a primary risk factor for dementia, have fuelled the efforts to unveil the warning signs of dementia. Although important achievements have been made in this field during the last decades, many questions are still to be answered. LÄS MER

4. 3. Late life terminal decline and interdependence among cognitive changes as a function of age and mortality. Findings from an age-homogeneous population-based panel study

   Författare :Valgeir Thorvaldsson; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; aging; cognitive changes; terminal decline and drop; correlated and coupled changes; effects of repeated test exposure;

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5. 4. The decline of choreography and its movement : a body's (path)way

   Författare :Paz Rojo; Chrysa Parkinson; Victoria Pérez Royo; Noémie Salomon; Stockholms konstnärliga högskola; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Dance; withdrawal; no-future; destitution; gap; eclipse; crisis; body of dance; extra; Gerry; anonymity; bloom; whatever; impersonal; pre-individual; impossible; not-yet produced potentiality; path way; raw fact material signification; practical matter; reading apparatus; perceiving-receiving; preparation; before the beforehand; beginning : end; use; continuity; what s happening; doing; texture; articulation; density; volume; common surface; outside; out-side-ing; choreography; movement; Performativa och mediala praktiker; med inriktning mot film och media koreografi opera scen; Performative and mediated practices; with specializations in choreography film and media opera performing arts;

   Sammanfattning : This doctoral artistic research project addresses the possibility of a dance withdrawn from that neoliberal scheme accordingto which self-performance, entrepreneurship and the production of subjectivity rule. Taking as a starting point the dissident corporealities that have emerged in the last fifty years in Western contemporary experimental dance; the project involvesaesthetic, philosophical and socio-political perspectives, carried out on choreographic, performative, textual, audiovisual, curatorial and discursive media. LÄS MER

7. 5. Cognitive functioning during the transition from normal aging to dementia

   Författare :Erika Jonsson Laukka; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
   Nyckelord :preclinical dementia; Alzheimer s disease; vascular dementia; impending death; terminal decline; aging; cognition; population-based study;

   Sammanfattning : The general aim of this thesis was to address unresolved issues regarding cognitive functioning in preclinical dementia. Increasing the knowledge about the preclinical period of dementia might have important clinical implications. For example, it may facilitate early detection, and thereby increase the efficiency of available interventions. LÄS MER