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...animal kingdom. Augustin, well-played for most of the picture by the leonine Daniels, seems intrigued by these same questions, even overwhelmed by them. Having eventually lost hope of any rediscovery, he gives himself over entirely to the cat's way of life: lapping water, shedding his clothes etc. Dementia and self-abandonment are, however, notorious invitations to over-acting and under-directing, and Daniels' savagery grows almost as histrionic as Nicholson's The Shining, Currier's loss of control with the picture almost as total as Kubrick...
...YOUR ROCKER Some seniors actually benefit from sitting in a rocking chair. For those with Alzheimer's or other forms of dementia, rocking 80 minutes daily seems to reduce anxiety and depression--and improve their sense of balance...
Most hospitals had turned down Grayson, who had slipped into AIDS-related dementia...
...fantasy and into his and her reality," says Nettie Jones. But Bob had a volatile background. As a student at Wayne State University, he had written a column for the campus newspaper that he signed "A. Violence." As he got older, Bob appeared to slip into dementia. In 1974, a delusional Bob fired a gun into another apartment in his building in Staten Island, N.Y. It led to a seven-hour police siege, at the end of which he jumped out the window of the sixth-story apartment, proclaiming...
...drug is known to increase the number of hot flashes, which are usually triggered by the brain's attempts to deal with falling hormone levels. This suggests that raloxifene might act as an antiestrogen in the brain. Recent studies have shown that estrogen may provide some protection against dementia and other types of nerve disorders. Therefore, taking raloxifene for long periods of time could theoretically increase the risk of developing Alzheimer's disease...