White matter changes in patients with hypoxic amnesia.

abstract：:Oculocutaneous albinism (OCA) is a group of autosomal recessive disorders characterized by impairment in the melanin synthesis. We report two siblings with OCA who presented with symptoms of autism spectrum disorder and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Ocular side effects occured after methylphenidate ...

journal_title：Neurocase

authors： Ünsel Bolat G

更新日期：2020-12-01 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：: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：:Neurophysiological and functional brain imaging studies suggest the importance of dorsolateral area 9/46 for modality-independent working memory. However, the behavioural manifestations following isolated damage to this area have not been clearly outlined. Here, we describe the dramatic derangement of pragmatic memory...

journal_title：Neurocase

authors： Ptak R,Schnider A

更新日期：2004-02-01 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：:While language characteristics of logopenic variant primary progressive aphasia (lvPPA) are well-defined, behavioral characteristics are less understood. We investigated correlations between language and behavioral scores across three variants of primary progressive aphasia (PPA) and found language performance and beh...

journal_title：Neurocase

authors： Keator LM,Wright AE,Saxena S,Kim K,Demsky C,Sebastian R,Sheppard SM,Breining B,Hillis AE,Tippett DC

更新日期：2019-01-01 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：:It has been suggested that formal thought disorder, the incoherent speech of schizophrenia, may involve a language disturbance among other abnormalities, or even be a form of dysphasia. Six patients with and seven without formal thought disorder were evaluated on an aphasia test battery. Spontaneous speech was also an...

journal_title：Neurocase

authors： Oh TM,McCarthy RA,McKenna PJ

更新日期：2002-01-01 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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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 clinical distinction between autism spectrum disorders (ASD), also called pervasive developmental disorders (PDD), and schizophrenia is often difficult to make. Here we describe a case of an adult patient presenting with a diagnosis of schizophrenia based on a history of functional deterioration and presumed perse...

journal_title：Neurocase

authors： Crivelli B,Rocca P

更新日期：2013-01-01 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：: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：: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：:After a stroke involving the left occipitotemporal cortex our patient shows a word-length effect and has problems to identify letters or numbers in strings of symbols. But he is normal in identifying isolated letters and in non-verbally categorizing even complex images such as faces or natural scenes. His cortical les...

journal_title：Neurocase

authors： Spang KM,Grimsen C,Brunner F,Fahle MW

更新日期：2019-10-01 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：:A 62-year-old male presented with progressive isolated writing and spelling difficulties. Neurological, neuropsychological, speech, and language evaluations identified only minimal additional abnormalities. The presenting characteristics did not meet criteria for any particular variant of primary progressive aphasia; ...

journal_title：Neurocase

authors： Utianski RL,Duffy JR,Savica R,Whitwell JL,Machulda MM,Josephs KA

更新日期：2018-04-01 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：: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：: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：: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：:Topographical disorientation is usually described in patients who have lost the ability to orient themselves as a consequence of acquired focal brain damage. Here, we describe the case of a 20-year-old woman with a congenital brain malformation who has never been able to orient herself within the environment. We addre...

journal_title：Neurocase

authors： Iaria G,Incoccia C,Piccardi L,Nico D,Sabatini U,Guariglia C

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00