Highly functional ipsilateral motor control after extensive left hemispheric damage during gestation.

abstract：:Dissociative identity disorder (DID) is probably the most disputed of psychiatric diagnoses and of psychological forensic evaluations in the legal arena. The iatrogenic proponents assert that DID phenomena originate from psychotherapeutic treatment while traumagenic proponents state that DID develops after severe and ...

journal_title：Neurocase

authors： Reinders AA

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients with memory disorders have severely restricted learning and memory. For instance, patients with anterograde amnesia can learn motor procedures and retain some restricted ability to learn new words and factual information. However, such learning is inflexible and frequently inaccessible to conscious awareness....

journal_title：Neurocase

authors： Olson IR,Berryhill ME,Drowos DB,Brown L,Chatterjee A

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:BVR was 77 years old when he sustained a large posterior cerebral artery territory infarct. Medical, cognitive and functional data collected on four occasions over 10 years initially revealed circumscribed neurological signs, no functional or cognitive deficits. BVR became significantly impaired only after two other s...

journal_title：Neurocase

authors： Piguet O,Bennett HP,Waite LM,Kril JJ,Creasey H,Anthony Broe G,Halliday GM

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An investigation of non-verbal auditory comprehension in two patients with global aphasia following stroke is reported. The primary aim of the investigation was to establish whether refractory access disorders can affect non-verbal input modalities. All previous reports of refractoriness, a cognitive syndrome characte...

journal_title：Neurocase

authors： Crutch SJ,Warrington EK

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A quantitative assessment of a distortion involving the left side of space, both in two-dimensional (drawing), and three-dimensional (modeling), visuo-constructional tasks is reported in a patient with a right temporoparieto-occipital lesion, and left hemianopia, without visuospatial neglect. In drawing and clay model...

journal_title：Neurocase

authors： Rode G,Revol P,Rossetti Y,Vallar G

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Primary progressive apraxia of speech (PPAOS) is a neurodegenerative disorder in which AOS is the sole presenting complaint. We report clinical and neuroimaging data spanning 10 years from disease onset-to-death in a 49 year-old male PPAOS patient, DY, who died with corticobasal degeneration. He presented with AOS wit...

journal_title：Neurocase

authors： Tetzloff KA,Duffy JR,Strand EA,Machulda MM,Boland SM,Utianski RL,Botha H,Senjem ML,Schwarz CG,Josephs KA,Whitwell JL

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a 4-year-old child with severe semi-lobar holoprosencephaly (HPE) not expected to survive after birth. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) revealed agenesis of the corpus callosum, absence of the third ventricle, fused thalami and basal ganglia. To investigate sensory function, visual, auditory and somatosensor...

journal_title：Neurocase

authors： Liasis A,Hildebrand D,Clark C,Katz X,Gunny R,Stieltjes B,Taylor D

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The frontal midline structures have been demonstrated by functional neuroimaging to be involved in the affective control of human behavior. However, due to the rareness of diseases affecting this part of the brain little is known about behavioral abnormalities following damage to these brain areas. We present a patien...

journal_title：Neurocase

authors： Schäfer R,Popp K,Jörgens S,Lindenberg R,Franz M,Seitz RJ

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The amygdala nuclei appear to be critically implicated in emotional memory. However, in most studies, encoding and consolidation processes cannot be analyzed separately. We thus studied the verbal emotional memory in a young woman with a ganglioglioma of the left amygdala and analyzed its impact (1) on each step of th...

journal_title：Neurocase

authors： Claire MD,Sophie D,Claudia P,Philippe M,Eliane RP

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Creatine transporter deficit (CT1) is an inherited metabolic disorder that causes mental retardation, epilepsy, speech, language and behavioral deficits. Until now, no treatment has been proven to be successful for this condition. We describe 1-year follow-up study of a child, aged 9.6 years, with CT1 defect, on oral ...

journal_title：Neurocase

authors： Chilosi A,Leuzzi V,Battini R,Tosetti M,Ferretti G,Comparini A,Casarano M,Moretti E,Alessandri MG,Bianchi MC,Cioni G

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We summarize two case studies as a context for discussing the use of neuroimaging as a convergent methodology in the study of neuroplasticity in single subjects. Throughout this paper we argue for a different approach for including neuroimaging in these types of study. Previous case studies of neuroplasticity in patie...

journal_title：Neurocase

authors： Romero SG,Manly CF,Grafman J

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 68-year-old man had a cerebral infarction affecting the right parietal lobe, right insula, and the left prefrontal region. On admission, left hand tactile extinction was noted when the hands were placed both in anatomical and crossed positions, but was noted only in crossed positions from day 20 and later. Five mont...

journal_title：Neurocase

authors： Asada T,Takeda K,Okiyama R,Isozaki E,Fukuyama H

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:By studying an enigmatic condition called, "calendar synesthesia", we explored the elusive boundary between perception, visual imagery, and the manner in which we construct an internal mental calendar by mapping time-sequences onto spatial maps. We use a series of demonstrations to establish that these calendars act m...

journal_title：Neurocase

authors： Ramachandran VS,Chunharas C,Marcus Z

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is a common finding in tests of false recognition that amnesic patients recognize fewer related lures than healthy controls, and this has led to assumptions that gist memory is damaged in these patients (Schacter, Verfaellie, & Anes, 1997, Neuropsychology, 11; Schacter, Verfaellie, Anes, & Racine, 1998, Journal of ...

journal_title：Neurocase

authors： Nissan J,Abrahams S,Sala SD

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This case study describes the neurocognitive presentation of a child with identified genetic abnormalities of trisomy 6 and monosomy 21 who was evaluated as part of a standard medical protocol for cochlear implantation following diagnosis of profound sensorineural hearing loss. This child received neurocognitive testi...

journal_title：Neurocase

authors： Katzenstein JM,Oghalai JS,Tonini R,Baker D,Haymond J,Caudle SE

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Both prosody and sentence structure (e.g., canonical versus non-canonical) affect sentence comprehension. However, few previous studies have examined a possible interaction between prosody and sentence structure. In adult controls we found a significant interaction: typical sentence prosody, versus list prosody, facil...

journal_title：Neurocase

authors： LaCroix AN,Blumenstein N,Houlihan C,Rogalsky C

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The degree of abnormality and rate of change in cognitive functions, positron emission tomography Pittsburg compound B (PET PIB), and fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) measures were studied for 8 years in an autopsy-confirmed Alzheimer's disease (AD) patient, who died 61 years old (Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) score 7)...

journal_title：Neurocase

authors： Almkvist O,Kadir A,Nordberg A

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To further understand the nature of the visual-spatial representations required for successful acquisition of written language skills, we investigated the written language abilities of two individuals with Williams syndrome (WS) a developmental genetic disorder in which the presence of severe visual-spatial developmen...

journal_title：Neurocase

authors： Dessalegn B,Landau B,Rapp B

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present HP, a patient who following the occurrence of herpes simplex encephalitis, lost the ability to understand a subset of words while others remained preserved. Of particular interest is the fact that the meaningless items retained their lexical status. HP's immediate serial recall of meaningless words was thus...

journal_title：Neurocase

authors： Caza N,Belleville S,Gilbert B

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:With injury of the anterior two-thirds of the corpus callosum, each hemisphere's attentional bias to contralateral hemispace becomes manifest with each hand deviating ipsilaterally during line bisection tasks. Patients with infarctions in the right posterior cerebral artery distribution with occipital and splenial dam...

journal_title：Neurocase

authors： Kesayan T,Gasoyan H,Heilman KM

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the case of a 71 year-old female patient (DC) with a left parietal lesion resulting in a peripheral dysgraphia essentially characterized by difficulties in letter sequences writing. The aim of our experiments was to analyze the influence of motor difficulties on the visual perception of both writing and reac...

journal_title：Neurocase

authors： Chary C,Méary D,Orliaguet JP,David D,Moreaud O,Kandel S

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the nature of covertly processed visual elements in a patient with simultanagnosia, a disorder characterized by the inability to perceive multiple aspects of a visual scene all at once. Using the first letter of the color words red, green, or blue, we created a novel testing paradigm that combined Navo...

journal_title：Neurocase

authors： Shenker JI,Roberts MH

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A current debate in the literature is whether all declarative memories and associated memory processes rely on the same neural substrate. Here, we show that H.C., a developmental amnesic person with selective bilateral hippocampal volume loss, has a mild deficit in personal episodic memory, and a more pronounced defic...

journal_title：Neurocase

authors： Rosenbaum RS,Carson N,Abraham N,Bowles B,Kwan D,Köhler S,Svoboda E,Levine B,Richards B

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a patient presenting with clinical features of logopenic variant primary progressive aphasia (lvPPA) who was later diagnosed with probable dementia with Lewy bodies. LvPPA is a neurodegenerative disease that is characterized by anomia, word-finding difficulty, impaired comprehension, and phonological errors....

journal_title：Neurocase

authors： Boes S,Botha H,Machulda M,Lowe V,Graff-Radford J,Whitwell JL,Utianski RL,Duffy JR,Josephs KA

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Central pontine and extrapontine myelinolysis (CPEM) is a rare neurological condition usually due to rapid correction of hyponatremia. CPEM is mainly characterized by motor deficits (typically quadraparesis or extrapyramidal features) but neurobehavioral symptoms were also reported in the literature. However, very few...

journal_title：Neurocase

authors： Arciero S,Kempf C,Bernard F,Gosselin N

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to determine if differential reading and spelling mechanisms were involved in a Japanese patient with aphasia. In our case, the patient scored low on all of the administered reading tasks, suggesting that both the reading lexical and non-lexical routes were impaired. In contrast, his writ...

journal_title：Neurocase

authors： Hashimoto K,Uno A

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vocal emblems, such as shh and brr, are speech sounds that have linguistic and nonlinguistic features; thus, it is unclear how they are processed in the brain. Five adult dextral individuals with left-brain damage and moderate-severe Wernicke's aphasia, five adult dextral individuals with right-brain damage, and five ...

journal_title：Neurocase

authors： Neumann-Werth Y,Levy ES,Obler LK

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The current study investigated the effects of easy versus difficult math on event-related potentials as a function of self-esteem in 28 undergraduate students. First, it was found that participants responded much more rapidly to an easy task. Second, the amplitude of P2 (150-300 ms) was more positive amplified in low ...

journal_title：Neurocase

authors： Yang J,Zhao R,Zhang Q,Pruessner JC

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Depression following stroke (PSD) affects up to 33% of patients and is associated with increased mortality. Antidepressant drugs have several side effects; therefore novel treatments are needed. Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) has induced mood and cognitive gain in several neuropsychiatric conditions bu...

journal_title：Neurocase

authors： Bueno VF,Brunoni AR,Boggio PS,Bensenor IM,Fregni F

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A hexanucleotide repeat expansion in the chromosome 9 open reading frame 72 (C9ORF72) gene was recently discovered as the cause underlying frontotemporal degeneration (FTD) and/or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) linked to chromosome 9 (c9FTD/ALS). In this atypical case of c9FTD/ALS, the proband presented with amne...

journal_title：Neurocase

authors： Adeli A,Savica R,Lowe VJ,Vemuri P,Knopman DS,Dejesus-Hernandez M,Rademakers R,Fields JA,Crum BA,Jack CR,Petersen RC,Boeve BF

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00