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Katrin Jekel
Researcher at Heidelberg University
Publications - 5
Citations - 470
Katrin Jekel is an academic researcher from Heidelberg University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Memory clinic & Dementia. The author has an hindex of 4, co-authored 5 publications receiving 372 citations. Previous affiliations of Katrin Jekel include Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.
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Mild cognitive impairment and deficits in instrumental activities of daily living: a systematic review.
Katrin Jekel,Marinella Damian,Carina Wattmo,Lucrezia Hausner,Roger Bullock,Peter J. Connelly,Bruno Dubois,Maria Eriksdotter,Michael Ewers,Elmar Graessel,Milica G. Kramberger,Emma Law,Patrizia Mecocci,José Luis Molinuevo,Louise Nygård,Marcel Olde-Rikkert,Jean-Marc Orgogozo,Florence Pasquier,Karine Pérès,Karine Pérès,Eric Salmon,Sietske A.M. Sikkes,Tomasz Sobów,René Spiegel,Magda Tsolaki,Bengt Winblad,Lutz Frölich +26 more
TL;DR: IADL requiring higher neuropsychological functioning seem to be most severely affected in patients with MCI, and the development of performance-based assessment instruments should be intensified, as they allow a valid and reliable assessment of subtle IADL deficits in MCI.
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Single-Domain Amnestic Mild Cognitive Impairment Identified by Cluster Analysis Predicts Alzheimer's Disease in the European Prospective DESCRIPA Study
Marinella Damian,Lucrezia Hausner,Katrin Jekel,M.M. Richter,Lutz Froelich,Ove Almkvist,Mercè Boada,Roger Bullock,Peter Paul De Deyn,Giovanni B. Frisoni,Harald Hampel,Roy W. Jones,Patrick G. Kehoe,Hermine Lenoir,Lennart Minthon,Marcel G M Olde Rikkert,Guido Rodriguez,Philip Scheltens,Hilkka Soininen,L. Spiru,Jacques Touchon,Magda Tsolaki,Bruno Vellas,Frans R.J. Verhey,Bengt Winblad,Lars-Olof Wahlund,Gordon Wilcock,Pieter Jelle Visser +27 more
TL;DR: In subjects with mild MCI, the single-domain amnestic MCI profile was associated with the highest risk of conversion, even if memory impairment did not necessarily cross specific cut-off points.
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Development of a Proxy-Free Objective Assessment Tool of Instrumental Activities of Daily Living in Mild Cognitive Impairment Using Smart Home Technologies.
TL;DR: This pilot study showed that smart home technologies offer the chance for an objective and ecologically valid assessment of IADL and should concentrate on the development of automated detection of I ADL deficits.
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[Attitudes toward dementia management in Germany - Data from the IMPACT survey (Important Perspectives on Alzheimer's Care and Treatment)].
TL;DR: In this article, an online-befragung of 350 dauerhaft in Deutschland lebenden Personen aus drei Gruppen (Personen ohne personliche oder professionelle Beziehung zu Demenz-Patienten „Bevolkerung“, Arzte, pflegende Angehorige) wurden zwischen April and Mai 2009 deren Einstellungen und Wahrnehmungen zum medizinischen Umgang mit
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Absence and presence of the Alzheimer's disease signature in CSF in patients with MCI and dementia: A memory clinic cohort
TL;DR: The data suggested that MT2 receptor couples Akt signaling pathway to fulfill both necessary and sufficient conditions that mediate functional axonogenesis and synaptic formation in the central neurons.