{"id":16981,"date":"2020-10-16T09:43:06","date_gmt":"2020-10-16T13:43:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=16981"},"modified":"2020-10-16T09:43:06","modified_gmt":"2020-10-16T13:43:06","slug":"at-least-70-percent-of-patients-with-alzheimers-show-signs-of-apathy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=16981","title":{"rendered":"At least 70 percent of patients with Alzheimer\u2019s show signs of apathy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A VA pilot study found that a brain stimulation therapy provided to patients with Alzheimer\u2019s disease improved their state of apathy, the most common behavioral problem in people with Alzheimer\u2019s disease.\u00a0 Apathy is the impassivity, and indifference all denotes a lack of responsiveness to something that might normally excite interest or emotion. \u00a0The twenty veterans with Alzheimer\u2019s disease and apathy took part in the double-blind study; neither the participants nor the experimenters know who is receiving a particular treatment. Read article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.j-alz.com\/content\/brain-stimulation-improves-condition-patients-alzheimers\">here\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/dreamstime_m_31506937alzheimers-dementia-memory-care.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7919\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/dreamstime_m_31506937alzheimers-dementia-memory-care-300x194.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"194\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/dreamstime_m_31506937alzheimers-dementia-memory-care-300x194.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/dreamstime_m_31506937alzheimers-dementia-memory-care-768x497.jpg 768w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/dreamstime_m_31506937alzheimers-dementia-memory-care-1024x663.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice:<\/strong> The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A VA pilot study found that a brain stimulation therapy provided to patients with Alzheimer\u2019s disease improved their state of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alzheimersdementia","category-medical-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16981"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16982,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16981\/revisions\/16982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}