Pathological laughter as a symptom of midbrain infarction.

abstract：Background:Epilepsy is a chronic neurological disorder characterized by unprovoked recurrent seizure episodes. The disease has detrimental effects on social, cognitive, psychological, and physical components of life consequently quality of life of the patients. The level of the effect of the disease on quality life is ...

journal_title：Behavioural neurology

authors： Gebre AK,Haylay A

更新日期：2018-12-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Thalamic lesions are seen in a multitude of disorders including vascular diseases, metabolic disorders, inflammatory diseases, trauma, tumours, and infections. In some diseases, thalamic involvement is typical and sometimes isolated, while in other diseases thalamic lesions are observed only occasionally (of...

journal_title：Behavioural neurology

authors： Renard D,Castelnovo G,Campello C,Bouly S,Le Floch A,Thouvenot E,Waconge A,Taieb G

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirteen patients with idiopathic Parkinson's disease of recent onset (mean age 63·2 years) and a group of 10 young healthy volunteers (mean age 26·1 years) underwent a series of neuropsychological tests for assessment of memory, learning ability and mental processing speed before and during treatment with trihexyphen...

journal_title：Behavioural neurology

authors： Schelosky L,Benke T,Poewe W

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a case of a blind woman, M.N., who experienced the Capgras delusion. She thought that her pet cat had been replaced by a replica which was "ill-intentioned" towards her. M.N.'s case shows that the basis of the Capgras delusion cannot lie exclusively in damage to the visual system. However, testing of M.N.'s ...

journal_title：Behavioural neurology

authors： Reid I,Young AW,Hellawell DJ

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examined hemispatial bias in a free-viewing condition of the judgement of facial expressions of emotions. Right-handed male subjects were asked to judge the intensity, in terms of expressiveness, of facial emotion in normal and mirror-reversed orientations. Expressions in mirror-reversed orientation were pe...

journal_title：Behavioural neurology

authors： Asthana HS,Mandal MK

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The importance of tools for the measurement of outcomes and needs in traumatic brain injury is well recognised. The development of tools for these injuries in indigenous communities has been limited despite the well-documented disparity of brain injury. The wairua theory of traumatic brain injury (TBI) in Māori propos...

journal_title：Behavioural neurology

authors： Elder H,Kersten P

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Increasing proportion of the elderly in the driving population raises the importance of assuring their safety. We explored the effects of three different types of cognitive training on the cognitive function, brain structure, and driving safety of the elderly. METHODS:Thirty-seven healthy elderly daily driv...

journal_title：Behavioural neurology

authors： Nozawa T,Taki Y,Kanno A,Akimoto Y,Ihara M,Yokoyama R,Kotozaki Y,Nouchi R,Sekiguchi A,Takeuchi H,Miyauchi CM,Ogawa T,Goto T,Sunda T,Shimizu T,Tozuka E,Hirose S,Nanbu T,Kawashima R

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The neuroanatomical region that has most prominently altered with the advancing cognitive competency of the human is the prefrontal cortex, particularly the rostral extreme. While the prefrontal cortex does not appear to contain the neural networks that carry out cognitive activities, the management of these high leve...

journal_title：Behavioural neurology

authors： Benson DF

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuropsychological studies of memory disorders have played a prominent role in the development of theories of memory. To test and refine such theories in future, it will be advantageous to include research that utilizes physiological measures of the neural events responsible for memory. Measures of the electrical acti...

journal_title：Behavioural neurology

authors： Paller KA

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although proverb tests are commonly used in the mental status examination surprisingly little is known about either normal comprehension or the interpretation of proverbial expressions. Current proverbs tests have conceptual and linguistic shortcomings, and few studies have been done to investigate the specific effect...

journal_title：Behavioural neurology

authors： Van Lancker D

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study examined the differential contribution of cortical and subcortical brain structures in emotional processing by comparing patients with focal cortical lesions (n = 32) to those with primarily subcortical dysregulation of the basal ganglia (Parkinson's disease n = 14). A standardized measure of emotion...

journal_title：Behavioural neurology

authors： Breitenstein C,Daum I,Ackermann H

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Patients with clinically isolated syndrome (CIS) demonstrate brain hemodynamic changes and also suffer from difficulties in processing speed, memory, and executive functions. OBJECTIVE:To explore whether brain hemodynamic disturbances in CIS patients correlate with executive functions. METHODS:Thirty CIS p...

journal_title：Behavioural neurology

authors： Papadaki EZ,Simos PG,Mastorodemos VC,Panou T,Maris TG,Karantanas AH,Plaitakis A

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：Objective:To compare baseline and 72-hour hormone levels in women with traumatic brain injury (TBI) and controls. Setting:Hospital emergency department. Participants:21 women ages 18-35 with TBI and 21 controls. Design:Repeated measures. Main Measures:Serum samples at baseline and 72 hours; immunoassays for estradi...

journal_title：Behavioural neurology

authors： Niemeier JP,Perrin PB,Hurst BS,Foureau DM,Huynh TT,Evans SL,Silverman JE,Elise McClannahan M,Brusch BD,Newman M,Mougeot JL,Wagner AK

更新日期：2019-02-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding the mental states of others entails a number of cognitive processes known as Theory of Mind (ToM). A relationship between ToM deficits and executive disorders has been hypothesized in individuals with Parkinson's disease (PD). The present study was aimed at investigating the effect of dysexecutive defici...

journal_title：Behavioural neurology

authors： Costa A,Peppe A,Martini M,Coletta K,Oliveri M,Caltagirone C,Carlesimo GA

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Does letter-form constrain errors in peripheral dyslexia? In Hebrew, 5 of the 22 letters have two different letter forms, one is used only when the letter occurs in word-final position, the other form is used in initial and middle positions. Is the information on final-forms encoded in the letter identity information ...

journal_title：Behavioural neurology

authors： Friedmann N,Gvion A

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Tacrolimus-associated encephalopathy (TAC-E) is usually described under the term of posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome (PRES). However, a large amount of data has suggested that TAC-E is not a homogenous entity: indeed, TAC-E which is often presented with atypical and potentially misleading imaging...

journal_title：Behavioural neurology

authors： Wu Q,Marescaux C,Qin X,Kessler R,Yang J

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Primary sexual dysfunctions (SD) are a direct result of neurological changes that affect the sexual response. Secondary SD result from the symptoms that do not directly involve nervous pathways to the genital system, such as bladder and bowel problems, fatigue, spasticity, or muscle weakness. Tertiary SD are the resul...

journal_title：Behavioural neurology

authors： Dobrakowski P,Machowska-Majchrzak A,Labuz-Roszak B,Niewiadomska E,Pierzchala K

更新日期：2020-10-10 00:00:00

abstract：Objectives:This study is aimed at elucidating the prevalence of depression in patients with myasthenia gravis (MG) and examining the risk factors associated with depression. Methods:We evaluated adult patients with MG who were recruited from two tertiary hospitals in the central region (Riyadh) of Saudi Arabia. Data w...

journal_title：Behavioural neurology

authors： Alanazy MH

更新日期：2019-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a right-handed patient who suffered a ruptured aneurysm of the anterior communicating artery (ACoA) which was clipped successfully. Computerized tomography indicated a low density area in the genu of the corpus callosum and the infero-lateral aspect of the left frontal lobe. On recovery the patient's most ...

journal_title：Behavioural neurology

authors： Parkin AJ,Barry C

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE:Impaired cardiac function can adversely affect the brain via decreased perfusion. The purpose of this study was to determine if cardiac ejection fraction (EF) is associated with cognitive performance, and whether this is modified by low blood pressure. METHODS:Neuropsychological testing evaluati...

journal_title：Behavioural neurology

authors： Gottesman RF,Grega MA,Bailey MM,Zeger SL,Baumgartner WA,McKhann GM,Selnes OA

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aiming and tapping movements were analysed repeatedly over a three-week period in a patient who was hemideafferented due to an ischaemic posterior thalamic lesion. Contrasting behaviour observed in six healthy subjects, nine hemiparetic patients and one patient with hemianopic stroke, allowed the determination of beha...

journal_title：Behavioural neurology

authors： Platz T,Mauritz KH

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our purpose in undertaking the present study was to examine the hypotheses proposed for explaining the frequent comorbidity of bipolar disorder and multiple sclerosis. One hypothesis posits that, when there is comorbidity, MS plays a causal role in psychiatric manifestations. Another suggests that both disorders have ...

journal_title：Behavioural neurology

authors： Kosmidis MH,Bozikas VP,Giannouli V,Karavatos A,Fokas K

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study is aimed at identifying the most prominent determinants of OCD along with their strength to classify the OCD patients from healthy controls. The data for this cross-sectional study were collected from 200 diagnosed OCD patients and 400 healthy controls. The respondents were selected through purposive...

journal_title：Behavioural neurology

authors： Shahzad MN,Suleman M,Ahmed MA,Riaz A,Fatima K

更新日期：2020-06-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Eighty-five patients with idiopathic spasmodic torticollis were compared with an equally chronic group of 49 cervical spondylosis sufferers in terms of body concept, depression, and disability. The torticollis patients were significantly more depressed and disabled and had a more negative body concept. Depression had ...

journal_title：Behavioural neurology

authors： Jahanshahi M,Marsden CD

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of late onset sporadic startle syndrome in a patient with a right posterior fossa brain tumour is reported. The exaggerated startle response did not respond to treatment with clonazepam. In addition to anxiety and depression, the patient developed obsessive- compulsive symptoms which responded to behavioural th...

journal_title：Behavioural neurology

authors： Gonzalez A,Philpot MP

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two experiments examined short-term memory for order information in six patients diagnosed with Parkinson's disease (PD) and six control subjects while event related potentials (ERPs) were recorded. The subjects were tested for recognition of abstract spatial designs and words after a 5 s retention interval. The PD pa...

journal_title：Behavioural neurology

authors： Korsnes MS,Reinvang I

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The extent of brain damage in chronic stroke patients is traditionally defined as the necrotic tissue observed on magnetic resonance image (MRI). However, patients often exhibit symptoms suggesting that functional impairment may affect areas beyond the cortical necrotic lesion, for example, when cortical sym...

journal_title：Behavioural neurology

authors： Bonilha L,Nesland T,Rorden C,Fillmore P,Ratnayake RP,Fridriksson J

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurologists and neuropsychologists are aware that aging men are more at risk than women for brain damage, principally because of the well known male-predominant risk for cardiovascular disease and related cerebrovascular accidents. However, a disproportion in prevalence of brain damage between the sexes in childhood ...

journal_title：Behavioural neurology

authors： Braun CM,Montour-Proulx I,Daigneault S,Rouleau I,Kuehn S,Piskopos M,Desmarais G,Lussier F,Rainville C

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Tourette syndrome (TS) is a neuropsychiatric disorder with childhood onset characterized by chronic motor and vocal tics. The typical clinical course of an attenuation of symptoms during adolescence in parallel with the emerging self-regulatory control during development suggests that plastic processes may p...

journal_title：Behavioural neurology

authors： Eichele H,Plessen KJ

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The purpose of this study was to analyze the effect of a neuropsychological rehabilitation (NR) program on patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD). METHODS:The sample was composed of 16 elderly outpatients who participated in an open trial with rivastigmine (6 to 12 mg/day) for 4 months and were randomized to...

journal_title：Behavioural neurology

authors： Avila R,Carvalho IA,Bottino CM,Miotto EC

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00