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Mastication and oral health in elderly persons with dementia: The relationship with cognition and quality of life
Full text linkScherder, E.J.A. [Promotor]Lobbezoo, F. [Promotor
Waarom kauwen en mondzorg belangrijk zijn - juist ook bij dementia
No full textDementie is een aandoening, die voor geheugen- en gedragsproblemen zorgt. Meestal is opname in een verzorgings- of verpleeghuis onvermijdelijk. Na opname wordt bij de patiënt vaak een vervuilde mond - met soms pijnlijke aandoeningen - aangetroffen. Hierdoor kan iemand soms niet meer kauwen. Uit onderzoek blijkt dat er een relatie is tussen de kauwfunctie en verschillende hersenfuncties. Het is belangrijk dat de kauwfunctie en de mondgezondheid bij ouderen met een dementie behouden blijven. Door middel van nieuw onderzoek werd geprobeerd de mondzorg te verbeteren, zodat de patiënten meer zouden gaan kauwen, om op die manier het geheugen en het gedrag te verbeteren. Tijdens het onderzoek bleek het erg moeilijk mondzorg te verlenen aan ouderen met een dementie. Vooral het omgaan met afweergedrag werd als lastig ervaren. Daarnaast was er gebrek aan kennis en aan vaardigheden bij de verzorgenden. Zorgverleners kunnen veel winst behalen wanneer zij de tijd nemen om een manier te vinden die het probleemgedrag vermindert
Chew the pain away - Oral habits to cope with pain and stress, and to stimulate cognition?
Full text linkThe acute effects of chewing gum on cognitive performance, stress, and pain have been intensively studied in the last decade. The results have been contradicting, and replication studies proved challenging. Here, we review some of the recent findings of this topic and explore possible explanations for these discrepancies by incorporating knowledge derived from studies into oral habits and bruxism. Both stress and cerebral functional specialization (i.e., the involvement of specific brain structures in distinctive cognitive processes) are hypothesized to play a major role in the underlying physiological mechanisms of the diverse effects of chewing gum on cognition, stress, and pain
Topical review: orofacial pain in dementia patients: a diagnostic challenge
No full textThis article presents a comprehensive review of the literature on the diagnosis of pain in the orofacial region of patients suffering from a cognitive impairment or a dementia. This review was based on a literature search yielding 74 papers, most of which dealt with the assessment of pain in general in nonverbal individuals, for which several observational tools were developed. Unfortunately, none of these tools have been designed for the specific assessment of orofacial or dental pain. Thus, none of them can be recommended for use in the dental setting. There is hardly any information available in the literature on how to assess orofacial and/or dental pain in patients with a cognitive impairment or a dementia. Given the expected increase in the incidence of dementia over the upcoming decades, it is of the utmost importance that dentists can use well-tested tools that can help them in the diagnosis of orofacial and dental pain in this vulnerable patient population. Such tools should incorporate specific orofacial/dental pain indicators, such as the patient holding/rubbing the painful orofacial area, limiting his/her mandibular movements, modifying his/her oral behavior, and being uncooperative/resistant to oral care
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
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