2002
DOI: 10.1177/153331750201700411
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Evidence and mechanisms of retrogenesis in Alzheimer's and other dementias: Management and treatment import

Abstract: Retrogenesis is the process by which degenerative mechanisms reverse the order of acquisition in normal development. Alzheimer's disease (AD) and related conditions in the senium have long been noted to resemble "a return to childhood" Previously, we noted that the functional stages of AD precisely and remarkably recapitulated the acquisition of the same functional landmarks in normal human development. Subsequent work indicated that this developmental recapitulation also applied to the cognitive and related s… Show more

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“…The myelin breakdown process thus recapitulates the developmental process of myelination in reverse [14] and is hypothesized to underlie the progressive, bilaterally symmetrical spread of the pathognomonic lesions of AD (neuritic plaques and neurofibrillary tangles) from late-myelinating regions toward earlier-myelinating regions [3,4] (Figure 1A, C). A similar process of developmental recapitulation has been described clinically as a progression of the cognitive, functional, and neurologic declines that accompany AD [15].…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 78%
“…The myelin breakdown process thus recapitulates the developmental process of myelination in reverse [14] and is hypothesized to underlie the progressive, bilaterally symmetrical spread of the pathognomonic lesions of AD (neuritic plaques and neurofibrillary tangles) from late-myelinating regions toward earlier-myelinating regions [3,4] (Figure 1A, C). A similar process of developmental recapitulation has been described clinically as a progression of the cognitive, functional, and neurologic declines that accompany AD [15].…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 78%
“…Reisberg et al 8,9 utilizaram dados obtidos a partir da Escala de Estadiamento Funcional (Functional Assessment Staging -FAST) em idosos com DA para mostrar a retrogênese funcional. A FAST é composta por sete níveis funcionais que são distribuídos em ordem crescente de gravidade de acordo com a capacidade cognitiva e funcional do paciente.…”
Section: Retrogênese Funcionalunclassified
“…A FAST é composta por sete níveis funcionais que são distribuídos em ordem crescente de gravidade de acordo com a capacidade cognitiva e funcional do paciente. Essa escala, com respeito à retrogênese na DA, seguiria o caminho inverso da ontogênese, com os seguintes itens: déficits em ambiente de trabalho, auxílio para tarefas complexas, auxílio para escolha de vestuário, auxílio para vestir-se, auxílio para banhar-se adequadamente, auxílio para o toalete (descarga do vaso sanitário ou limpar-se), incontinência urinária, incontinência fecal, redução do vocabulário e da expressão verbal, vocabulário inteligível restrito a uma única palavra, perda da capacidade para deambular, perda da habilidade para sentar, perda da habilidade para sorrir, perda da habilidade para sustentar a cabeça 8,9 .…”
Section: Retrogênese Funcionalunclassified
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