Synaesthesia for finger counting and dice patterns: a case of higher synaesthesia?

abstract：:Frontotemporal lobar degeneration with ubiquitin-positive inclusions (FTLD-U) is one of the most common pathological findings associated with the clinical FTLD syndromes. However, molecular characterization with genetic sequencing and protein expression techniques are recognizing many new subtypes for FTLDs. FTLDs are...

journal_title：Neurocase

authors： Farmer JG,Crain BJ,Harris BT,Turner RS

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Psychiatric disorders represent common comorbidities in epileptic patients. Sometimes anxiety is part of the ictal semiology, especially during seizures arising from/involving frontal or temporal lobes. We describe a patient with focal epilepsy and recurrent hyperkinetic seizures who also presented prolonged episodes ...

journal_title：Neurocase

authors： Albini M,Morano A,Fattouch J,Fanella M,Avorio F,Basili LM,Cerulli Irelli E,Manfredi M,Giallonardo AT,Di Bonaventura C

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 57-year-old male with no family history was diagnosed with semantic dementia. He also showed some unusual cognitive features such as episodic memory and executive dysfunctions, spatial disorientation, and dyscalculia. Rapidly progressive cognitive and physical decline occurred. About 1.5 years later, he developed cl...

journal_title：Neurocase

authors： Clerc MT,Deprez M,Leuba G,Lhermitte B,Lopez U,von Gunten A

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Expanding our knowledge of the history of dementia may be beneficial for its holistic understanding. This article aims to review the trajectory of the concepts of dementia in the world and Japan. Historical backgrounds of major dementia diseases are also addressed. The first reference to "imbecility" appeared in Greec...

journal_title：Neurocase

authors： Fukui T

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neglect dyslexia is a reading disorder often associated with right-sided brain lesions. In reading single words, errors are mostly substitutions or omissions of letters that occupy the left-sided positions. Typically, these errors have been thought to depend on a single mechanism. Conversely, we propose that they are ...

journal_title：Neurocase

authors： Martelli M,Arduino LS,Daini R

更新日期：2011-01-01 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：:This paper reports the case of a patient, M.P., who developed delusion of inanimate doubles, without Capgras syndrome, after traumatic brain injury. His delusional symptoms were studied longitudinally and the cognitive impairments associated with delusion were investigated. Data suggest that M.P. did 'perceive' the ac...

journal_title：Neurocase

authors： Abbate C,Trimarchi PD,Salvi GP,Quarenghi AM,Vergani C,Luzzatti C

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:After a unilateral brain lesion, patients may show cross-modal, visual-tactile extinction. Such patients may fail to report tactile stimuli on the contralesional hand when presented together with competing visual stimuli near the ipsilesional hand. In this work we tested the hypothesis that this cross-modal extinction...

journal_title：Neurocase

authors： Maravita A,Clarke K,Husain M,Driver J

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In large early cortical lesions, one of the most devastating consequences is the impaired motor dexterity of the contralateral limb. We present the case of an 8-year-old girl with a large left hemispherical porencephaly. Unlike previous reports, the girl exhibited high dexterity of the contralateral hand with preserve...

journal_title：Neurocase

authors： Weber B,Fliessbach K,Elger CE

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) are often impaired when performing motor acts and in the acquisition of new motor skills. However, the role of dopamine in developing plans for skill acquisition is unclear. To assess the role of dopamine on the planning of actions, we tested 12 PD and 12 matched normal participa...

journal_title：Neurocase

authors： Hanna-Pladdy B,Heilman KM

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute and complete ischemia of the hippocampi represents a rare cause of amnesia. This paper describes the features of four such cases presenting to a single tertiary care center over a 3-year period. Interestingly, in three instances, toxicology screening was positive for opioids at the time of presentation, while in...

journal_title：Neurocase

authors： Small JE,Butler PM,Zabar Y,Barash JA

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have seen a patient with a profound, isolated, and quite selective deficit in proverb interpretation-aproverbia. The patient presented to us after an anoxic brain injury with aproverbia. Interestingly, the aproverbia appeared to be premorbid to the presenting event. Furthermore, the patient had no brain lesion that...

journal_title：Neurocase

authors： Brown C,Smith-Benjamin S,Patira R,Altschuler EL

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper, we adopt a neurodevelopmental stance to examining frontal variant frontotemporal dementia (fv-FTD) by using experimental procedures from the literature on the growth of social behaviour in children to examine the deficits in social reasoning which may underpin behavioural disturbance in fv-FTD. We prese...

journal_title：Neurocase

authors： Lough S,Gregory C,Hodges JR

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a case of frontotemporal dementia caused by a novel MAPT mutation (Q351R) with a remarkably long amnestic presentation mimicking familial Alzheimer's disease. Longitudinal clinical, neuropsychological and imaging data provide convergent evidence for predominantly bilateral anterior medial temporal lobe invol...

journal_title：Neurocase

authors： Liang Y,Gordon E,Rohrer J,Downey L,de Silva R,Jäger HR,Nicholas J,Modat M,Cardoso MJ,Mahoney C,Warren J,Rossor M,Fox N,Caine D

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cerebral lesions are held to induce plastic changes of the brain. Less well established, however, is how much space-occupying brain lesions may only displace functional representations. In a 66-year-old man we show, by means of functional magnetic resonance imaging and transcranial magnetic stimulation, a profound dis...

journal_title：Neurocase

authors： Nickel J,Jörgens S,Bussfeld P,Seitz RJ

更新日期：2007-10-01 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：: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：:The concreteness effect occurs in both normal and language-disordered populations. Research suggests that abstract and concrete concepts elicit differing neural activation patterns in healthy young adults, but this is undocumented in persons with aphasia (PWA). Three PWA and three age-matched controls were scanned usi...

journal_title：Neurocase

authors： Sandberg C,Kiran S

更新日期：2014-08-01 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：: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：: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：:We characterized the effect of virtual visual feedback (VVF) on supernumerary phantom limb pain (SPLP) in a patient with high cervical cord injury. The subject was a 22-year-old man diagnosed with complete spinal cord injury (level C2) approximately 5 years ago. We applied the ABA'B' single-case design and set phases ...

journal_title：Neurocase

authors： Katayama O,Iki H,Sawa S,Osumi M,Morioka S

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:According to Liepmann, patients with limb-kinetic apraxia (LKA) have a loss of upper limb deftness-dexterity. Prior studies have revealed in right-handed patients that, whereas injury of the left hemisphere induces an ipsilesional LKA, injury to the right hemisphere does not induce an ipsilesional LKA. There are at le...

journal_title：Neurocase

authors： Acosta LM,Bennett JA,Heilman KM

更新日期：2014-01-01 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：:The purpose of the present study was to investigate differences in brain activation with functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) during imagery of painful and non-painful 'finger movements' and 'hand positioning' in a subject with an amputated arm. The subject was a right-handed man in his mid-thirties who lost h...

journal_title：Neurocase

authors： Rosén G,Hugdahl K,Ersland L,Lundervold A,Smievoll AI,Barndon R,Sundberg H,Thomsen T,Roscher BE,Tjølsen A,Engelsen B

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The psychoses of epilepsy are well recognized complications of seizure disorders, diagnosed easily from the history. However, in the absence of recognized seizures, the diagnosis can be challenging. We present a 27-year-old female, who suffered a treatment refractory psychosis for 6 years. She did not report, or dis...

journal_title：Neurocase

authors： Needham E,Hamelijnck J

更新日期：2012-01-01 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：:Regressive behavior is a known sequela after severe traumatic brain injury (TBI). However, prolonged "infantile-like" behavior has received little attention in the literature, suggesting that this is a rare phenomenon. It is typically characterized by long-lasting childish, extremely dependent, and sometimes aggressiv...

journal_title：Neurocase

authors： Heled E,Sverdlik A,Agranov E

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：:Gerstmann-Sträussler-Scheinker syndrome is a rare autosomal dominant disease caused by a mutation in the prion gene, usually manifesting as progressive ataxia with late cognitive decline. A 44-year-old woman with a positive family history developed early personality and behavior changes, followed by paresthesias and a...

journal_title：Neurocase

authors： Rusina R,Fiala J,Holada K,Matějčková M,Nováková J,Ampapa R,Koukolík F,Matěj R

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00