A case of frontotemporal lobar degeneration with progressive dysarthria.

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：:The term functional amnesia (FA) has been proposed for cases of memory impairment presenting with severe retrograde amnesia in the absence of cerebral injury or history of psychiatric disturbance. Emotional flattening has often been reported alongside FA, however the mechanism of such a modification is unknown. This s...

journal_title：Behavioural neurology

authors： Tramoni E,Khalfa S,Felician O,Trebuchon-Da Fonseca A,Poncet M,Ceccaldi M

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sex-related asymmetries in the ability to process different semantic categories have been reported both in normal subjects and in brain-damaged patients, but the nature of these asymmetries is still controversial. Some authors suggest that these differences might be due to social-role related familiarity factors, wher...

journal_title：Behavioural neurology

authors： Gainotti G,Ciaraffa F,Silveri MC,Marra C

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The "psychic tonus" model or PTM [1] of hemispheric specialization states that the left hemisphere is a psychic and behavioral activator and that the right hemisphere is an inhibitor. The PTM predicts that the tonus of visual representation ought to manifest hemispheric specialization in the occipital lobes. Specifica...

journal_title：Behavioural neurology

authors： Braun CM,Guimond A

更新日期：2008-01-01 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：:Pathological laughter is an uncommon symptom usually caused by bilateral, diffuse cerebral lesions. It has rarely been reported in association with isolated cerebral lesions. Midbrain involvement causing pathological laughter is extremely unusual. We describe three patients who developed pathological laughter after mi...

journal_title：Behavioural neurology

authors： Dabby R,Watemberg N,Lampl Y,Eilam A,Rapaport A,Sadeh M

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a right-handed man who developed selective Kana (phonogram) agraphia following an infarct in the non-dominant right cerebral hemisphere. His ability for comprehension, reading and writing of Kanji (ideogram) was unaffected. Kana errors consisted of substitution with another letter and the number of target wo...

journal_title：Behavioural neurology

authors： Abe K,Yokoyama R,Yanagihara T

更新日期：1995-01-01 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：:We report findings from a cognitive neuropsychological and psychophysiological investigation of a patient who displayed an exacerbated acute emotional expression during movement, innocuous, and aversive somatosensory stimulation. The condition developed in the context of non-specific white matter ischaemia along with ...

journal_title：Behavioural neurology

authors： Edelstyn NM,Baker SR,Ellis SJ,Jenkinson P

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Little is known about physical activity and its association with volumes of whole brain gray matter and white matter and deep gray matter structures in persons with multiple sclerosis (MS). PURPOSE:This study examined the association between levels of physical activity and brain volumetric measures from mag...

journal_title：Behavioural neurology

authors： Klaren RE,Hubbard EA,Motl RW,Pilutti LA,Wetter NC,Sutton BP

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Subjects with Alzheimer's disease (AD) show loss of cognitive functions and change in behavioral and functional state affecting the quality of their daily life and that of their families and caregivers. A neuropsychological assessment plays a crucial role in detecting such changes from normal conditions. However, desp...

journal_title：Behavioural neurology

authors： Battista P,Salvatore C,Castiglioni I

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Gilles de la Tourette Syndrome (GTS) is a childhood-onset hyperkinetic movement disorder defined by the chronic presence of multiple motor tics and at least one vocal tic and often complicated by co-morbid behavioural problems. The pharmacological treatment of GTS focuses on the modulation of monoaminergic...

journal_title：Behavioural neurology

authors： Waldon K,Hill J,Termine C,Balottin U,Cavanna AE

更新日期：2013-01-01 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：:Despite a vast literature examining semantic impairment in Alzheimer's disease (AD), consensus regarding the nature of the deficit remains elusive. We re-considered this issue in the context of a framework that assumes semantic cognition can break down in two ways: (1) core semantic representations can degrade or (2) ...

journal_title：Behavioural neurology

authors： Corbett F,Jefferies E,Burns A,Ralph MA

更新日期：2012-01-01 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：:Psychogenic amnesia is a complex disorder characterised by a wide variety of symptoms. Consequently, in a number of cases it is difficult distinguish it from organic memory impairment. The present study reports a new case of global psychogenic amnesia compared with two patients with amnesia underlain by organic brain ...

journal_title：Behavioural neurology

authors： Serra L,Fadda L,Buccione I,Caltagirone C,Carlesimo GA

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The clinical and neuroradiological findings of three patients with marked palilalia due to different neurological disorders are reported. These cases and others in the literature suggest the possibility of different variations. "Spasmodic, heterophonic palilalia" is typically observed in Parkinson's syndrome and pseud...

journal_title：Behavioural neurology

authors： Ikeda M,Tanabe H

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To study risk factors related to ischemic stroke (IS) in youth and the influence of sleep quality on youth ischemic stroke incidence. METHODS:223 patients aged 18 to 45 years who were admitted to Puyang People's Hospital from June 2011 to February 2013 with a first-ever ischemic stroke were selected as the r...

journal_title：Behavioural neurology

authors： Zhang S,Chang C,Zhang J,Song B,Fang H,Xu Y

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A déjà vu experience is a dissociative phenomenon, which can be characterized as a subjectively inappropriate impression of familiarity of the present with an undefined past. This paper reviews empirical studies on déjà vu experiences and summarizes the most salient findings. Overall, the findings appear to be inconsi...

journal_title：Behavioural neurology

authors： Sno HN,Schalken HF,de Jonghe F

更新日期：1992-01-01 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：:We describe a cross-sectional study of aggressive behaviour in a sample of patients suffering from Huntington's disease in a residential nursing home. Data were obtained using the RAGE, a behaviourally oriented rating scale for measuring aggressive behaviour in cognitively impaired patients. Nursing staff rated 27 pat...

journal_title：Behavioural neurology

authors： Shiwach RS,Patel V

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cognitive impairment in multiple sclerosis is an increasingly recognized entity. This article reviews the cognitive impairment of multiple sclerosis, its prevalence, its relationship to different types of multiple sclerosis, and its contribution to long-term functional prognosis. The discussion also focuses on the key...

journal_title：Behavioural neurology

authors： Pierson SH,Griffith N

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of the Gilles de la Tourette syndrome from Guyana in South America is presented. The patient had a positive family history as well as coprolalia, echolalia, and attention deficit disorder with hyperactivity. The family history and cross-cultural similarity emphasise the biological factors in the aetiology of th...

journal_title：Behavioural neurology

authors： Eapen V,Robertson MM

更新日期：1992-01-01 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：:Juxtaposed alongside the ongoing rise in the incidence and prevalence of dementia, is the surge of recent research confirming widespread exposure and bioaccumulation of chemical toxicants. Evidence from sources such as the Centers for Disease Control reveals that most people have accrued varying degrees of assorted to...

journal_title：Behavioural neurology

authors： Genuis SJ,Kelln KL

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three points of interest lie in considering how Alzheimer, and more significantly Perusini, struggled to throw light on the cause of this devastating disease. There is a stimulating possibility that Perusini believed presenile forms of Alzheimer's disease described the same disease as senile forms. If so this would an...

journal_title：Behavioural neurology

authors： Macchi G,Brahe C,Pomponi M

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The paper examines the ability of Statistical Parametric Mapping (SPM) to contribute towards the quantitative analysis of HMPAO SPECT images containing lesions. A validation study is described in which SPECT images were created that contained synthetic lesions and were analysed with SPM. The study established a set of...

journal_title：Behavioural neurology

authors： Stamatakis EA,Wilson JT,Wyper DJ

更新日期：2000-01-01 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：:The jugular venous pulse (JVP) provides valuable information about cardiac haemodynamics and filling pressures and is an indirect estimate of the central venous pressure (CVP). Recently it has been proven that JVP can be obtained by measuring the cross-sectional area (CSA) of the IJV on each sonogram of an ultrasound ...

journal_title：Behavioural neurology

authors： Sisini F,Toro E,Gambaccini M,Zamboni P

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Presently, there are no valid biomarkers to identify individuals with eating disorders (ED). The aim of this work was to assess the feasibility of a machine learning method for extracting reliable neuroimaging features allowing individual categorization of patients with ED. Support Vector Machine (SVM) technique, comb...

journal_title：Behavioural neurology

authors： Cerasa A,Castiglioni I,Salvatore C,Funaro A,Martino I,Alfano S,Donzuso G,Perrotta P,Gioia MC,Gilardi MC,Quattrone A

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00