The Screening Accuracy of a Visually Based Montreal Cognitive Assessment Tool for Older Adult Hearing Aid Users.

Objectives: This research aims to validate a modified visually based Montreal Cognitive Assessment for hearing-aid users (MoCA-HA). This population should be the target of cognitive screening due to high risk of developing dementia.

Design: Case-control study.

Neuropsychological deficits in Posterior Cortical Atrophy and typical Alzheimer's disease: A meta-analytic review.

Aims: To identify cognitive tests that best differentiate between Posterior Cortical Atrophy (PCA) and typical Alzheimer's Disease (tAD), as well as PCA and healthy control (HC) participants.

Method: Medline, PsycInfo and Web of Science were systematically searched using terms related to PCA, tAD, and cognitive testing. Seventeen studies were identified, including 441 PCA, 391 tAD, and 284 HC participants.

Adaption and preliminary validation of the Addenbrooke's Cognitive Examination-III as a screening test for mild cognitive impairment and dementia in hearing-impaired individuals.

Background: A large proportion of older adults assessed for cognitive impairment likely have hearing loss, potentially affecting accuracy of cognitive performance estimations. This study aimed to develop a hearing-impaired version of the Addenbrooke's Cognitive Examination-III (HI-ACE-III) and to assess whether the HI-ACE-III can accurately distinguish people with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and dementia from cognitively intact controls.

Methods: The HI-ACE-III was developed by converting verbal instructions into a visual, timed PowerPoint presentation.

Napping in high-performance athletes: Sleepiness or sleepability?

Daytime napping is a common practice in high-performance athletes, and is widely assumed to reflect sleepiness arising from sports-related sleep debt. The possibility that athlete naps may also be indicative of 'sleepability', a capacity to nap on demand that is only weakly related to homeostatic sleep pressure, has not previously been tested. The present study compared daytime sleep latencies in high-performance athletes and non-athlete controls using a single nap opportunity model.

Sonographic features of peritoneal lymphomatosis in 4 cats.

Background: The metastatic spread of feline lymphoma to the peritoneum ("lymphomatosis") has been rarely reported in the literature. The sonographic features specific to this rare disease manifestation have not been described and have important treatment and prognostic considerations prompting definitive diagnosis.

Objectives: To describe the ultrasonic features of feline peritoneal lymphomatosis.

Recovery from Cyclophosphamide Overdose in a Dog.

An adult female spayed dog was evaluated after inadvertently receiving a total dose of 1,750 mg oral cyclophosphamide, equivalent to 2,303 mg/m, over 21 days (days -21 to 0). Nine days after the last dose of cyclophosphamide (day +9), the dog was evaluated at Perth Veterinary Specialists. Physical examination revealed mucosal pallor, a grade 2/6 systolic heart murmur, and severe hemorrhagic cystitis.