Effect of propranolol on verbal problem solving in autism spectrum disorder.

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：:We studied reading performance for words and for isolated letters in a pure alexic patient. She performed reasonably well when naming isolated letters but was slower in reading letters than a control subject when reaction times (RTs) were recorded. When the patient read isolated letters, RTs were slower for a subset o...

journal_title：Neurocase

authors： Bachoud-Lévi AC,Bartolomeo P

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Deep brain stimulation (DBS) of the subthalamic nucleus (STN) is an effective treatment for Parkinson's disease, but can lead to adverse effects including psychiatric disturbance. Little is known about the risk factors and treatment options for such effects. Here, we describe a patient who reproducibly developed stimu...

journal_title：Neurocase

authors： Schilbach L,Weiss PH,Kuhn J,Timmermann L,Klosterkötter J,Huff W

更新日期：2012-01-01 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：: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：:The accurate prediction, at a pre-dementia stage of Alzheimer's disease (AD), of the subsequent clinical evolution of patients would be a major breakthrough from both therapeutic and research standpoints. Amnestic mild cognitive impairment (MCI) is presently the most common reference to address the pre-dementia stage ...

journal_title：Neurocase

authors： Chételat G,Eustache F,Viader F,De La Sayette V,Pélerin A,Mézenge F,Hannequin D,Dupuy B,Baron JC,Desgranges B

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case report is presented detailing the successful use of awake intraoperative memory testing while using white matter stimulation in order to isolate the fornix tracks involved in memory function. The identification of the white matter tracks of the fornix that were involved in memory function was used to tailor the...

journal_title：Neurocase

authors： Brandling-Bennett EM,Bookheimer SY,Horsfall JL,Moftakhar P,Sedrak M,Barkulis CT,Gertsch JH,MacDougall MG,Boucharel W,Nuwer MR,Bergsneider M

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Children (aged 9-12) training in an El Sistema-inspired program (OrKidstra) and a matched comparison group participated in an auditory Go/No-Go task while event-related potentials (ERPs) were recorded. Entire-sweep waveform patterns correlated with known ERP peaks associated with executive and other cognitive function...

journal_title：Neurocase

authors： Hedayati N,Schibli K,D'Angiulli A

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A striking special ability in arranging picture stories was reported in an Asperger child (C.M.) showing an exceptional performance on Wechsler picture arrangement subtest. Neuropsychological examination did not disclose visuoperceptual and spatial defects, or working memory, attention and executive disorders, but rev...

journal_title：Neurocase

authors： Conson M,Salzano S,Grossi D

更新日期：2011-08-01 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：:One typical feature of the neglect syndrome in patients with right hemisphere damage is that they bisect horizontal lines to the right of centre. It has been argued that to a large extent these bisection errors can be attributed to a perceptual change whereby the patient experiences the left half of a line as shorter ...

journal_title：Neurocase

authors： Pritchard CL,Dijkerman HC,McIntosh RD,Milner AD

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The delay between cardiac arrest and brain MRI is usually extremely different in the few cerebral imaging studies assessing the affected brain areas. We report an unusual case of loss of psychic self-activation appeared immediately after a cardiac arrest in a middle age patient. The first brain MRI, one month after th...

journal_title：Neurocase

authors： Martinaud O,Le Goff F,Carlier J,Pouliquen D,Gérardin E,Savouré A

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 75 year-old man had a two-year history of progressive memory loss, trouble with finances and getting lost. On examination, he scored 16/30 in MoCA test, noticeably impaired on the attentional tasks. His screening bloodtests werenormal. Brain imaging revealed hippocampal atrophy and bilaterallarge areas of leukoaraio...

journal_title：Neurocase

authors： Pisanuwongrak K,Julayanont P,Heilman KM

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies of patients with brain lesions have demonstrated that language and praxis are mediated by dissociable networks. However, language has the capacity to influence the selection of purposeful actions. The abilities to use language and to program purposeful movements are often mediated by networks that have anatomi...

journal_title：Neurocase

authors： Falchook AD,Burtis DB,Acosta LM,Salazar L,Shushrutha Hedna V,Khanna AY,Heilman KM

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Short melodies are commonly linked to referents in jingles, ringtones, movie themes, and even auditory displays (i.e., sounds used in human-computer interactions). While melody associations can be quite effective, auditory alarms in medical devices are generally poorly learned and highly confused. Here, we draw on app...

journal_title：Neurocase

authors： Gillard J,Schutz M

更新日期：2016-12-01 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：:Physical symptoms of myoclonus dystonia due to epsilon-sarcoglycan mutations are well documented; however, the progression of neuropsychiatric and cognitive symptoms remains unclear. We present a case of a 34-year-old woman with early childhood onset of myoclonic jerks, dystonic posture and developmental delay due to ...

journal_title：Neurocase

authors： Multani N,Moro E,Lang A,Zurowski M,Duff Canning S,Tartaglia MC

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：: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：:Although structural brain scans help assess brain injury in stroke, they cannot identify regions that are functionally disabled due to disrupted perfusion. Perfusion and functional MRI have the potential for determining the functional consequences of stroke. Here we examine the effectiveness of functional MRI to measu...

journal_title：Neurocase

authors： Fridriksson J,Rorden C,Morgan PS,Morrow KL,Baylis GC

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent lesion studies have shown that left hemisphere lesions often give rise to frank sign language aphasias in deaf signers, whereas right hemisphere lesions do not, suggesting similar patterns of hemispheric asymmetry for signed and spoken language. We present here a case of a left-handed, deaf, life-long signer wh...

journal_title：Neurocase

authors： Pickell H,Klima E,Love T,Kritchevsky M,Bellugi U,Hickok G

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vagus Nerve Stimulation (VNS) is approved by the FDA for treatment of both epilepsy and depression. Recent work has shown that VNS acutely affects pain perception in humans, actually increasing pain sensitivity momentarily while the device is firing. It is unclear how this acutely increased sensitivity might change ov...

journal_title：Neurocase

authors： Borckardt JJ,Anderson B,Andrew Kozel F,Nahas Z,Richard Smith A,Jackson Thomas K,Kose S,George MS

更新日期：2006-08-01 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：:Debates about the role of language in human thinking are increasingly prominent in the cognitive sciences. There are claims that certain forms of reasoning can only be performed through access to the resources of the language faculty. In particular, a component of social cognition involving the representation of the m...

journal_title：Neurocase

authors： Varley R,Siegal M,Want SC

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the neural systems that support number processing in a patient (JL) who had damage to the left ventral occipito-temporal cortex (LvOT). JL had severely impaired written word recognition but he was remarkably accurate in number tasks, albeit slower than normal. This suggests LvOT activation is necessary...

journal_title：Neurocase

authors： Cappelletti M,Leff AP,Price CJ

更新日期：2012-01-01 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 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：: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：:Metamemory is a multifaceted concept, which deals with an individual's knowledge and control of his or her own memory system. The ability to monitor memory performance accurately was examined in 16 patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD), 6 patients with frontotemporal lobe dementia (FTD) and 16 elderly subjects. Parti...

journal_title：Neurocase

authors： Souchay C,Isingrini M,Pillon B,Gil R

更新日期：2003-12-01 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