Therapy efficacy in chronic aphasia.

abstract：:Cognitive impairment is frequently encountered in multiple sclerosis (MS) affecting between 40-65% of individuals, irrespective of disease duration and severity of physical disability. In the present multicenter randomized controlled trial, fifty-eight clinically stable RRMS patients with mild to moderate cognitive im...

journal_title：Behavioural neurology

authors： Messinis L,Nasios G,Kosmidis MH,Zampakis P,Malefaki S,Ntoskou K,Nousia A,Bakirtzis C,Grigoriadis N,Gourzis P,Papathanasopoulos P

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gaining a driver's licence represents increased independence and can lead to improved quality of life for individuals and their families. Learning to drive a motor vehicle and maintaining safe on-road skills are often more difficult for people on the autism spectrum. Many countries currently have no autism-specific li...

journal_title：Behavioural neurology

authors： Wilson NJ,Lee HC,Vaz S,Vindin P,Cordier R

更新日期：2018-08-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Tardive dystonia was identified in 25 patients: involvement of the face and neck was most common; truncal and limb dystonia were also observed. There were 3 cases of laryngospasm and 2 of spasmodic dysphonia. The latter has not been previously reported as a manifestation of tardive dystonia. In all cases, movements ty...

journal_title：Behavioural neurology

authors： Davis RJ,Cummings JL,Hierholzer RW

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Introduction. Antiepileptic drugs are effective in the treatment of epilepsy to the extent that about 70% of people with epilepsy can be seizure-free, but poor adherence to medication is major problem to sustained remission and functional restoration. The aim of this study was to assess the prevalence and associated f...

journal_title：Behavioural neurology

authors： Getnet A,Woldeyohannes SM,Bekana L,Mekonen T,Fekadu W,Menberu M,Yimer S,Assaye A,Belete A,Belete H

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cannabinoids have been used for hundred of years for medical purposes. To day, the cannabinoid delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) and the cannabis extract nabiximols are approved for the treatment of nausea, anorexia and spasticity, respectively. In Tourette syndrome (TS) several anecdotal reports provided evidence th...

journal_title：Behavioural neurology

authors： Müller-Vahl KR

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Thalamic lesions are seen in a multitude of disorders including vascular diseases, metabolic disorders, inflammatory diseases, trauma, tumours, and infections. In some diseases, thalamic involvement is typical and sometimes isolated, while in other diseases thalamic lesions are observed only occasionally (of...

journal_title：Behavioural neurology

authors： Renard D,Castelnovo G,Campello C,Bouly S,Le Floch A,Thouvenot E,Waconge A,Taieb G

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When assessing for the presence of hemianesthesia, the examiner touches the body of the patients, and requests that they report verbally the location of the delivered tactile stimulus. Contralesional omissions of single tactile stimuli, however, might be due to either primary somatosensory deficits or to spatial atten...

journal_title：Behavioural neurology

authors： Pitteri M,Venneri A,Meneghello F,Priftis K

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) affects behavior, language, and personality. This study aims to explore functional connectivity changes in three FTD variants: behavioral (bvFTD), semantic (svPPA), and nonfluent variant (nfvPPA). Seventy-six patients diagnosed with FTD by international criteria and thirty-two controls we...

journal_title：Behavioural neurology

authors： Reyes P,Ortega-Merchan MP,Rueda A,Uriza F,Santamaria-García H,Rojas-Serrano N,Rodriguez-Santos J,Velasco-Leon MC,Rodriguez-Parra JD,Mora-Diaz DE,Matallana D

更新日期：2018-04-01 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：:Dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) is the second most common degenerative dementia of the central nervous system. The technique 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography (18F FDG PET) was used to investigate brain metabolism patterns in DLB patients. Conventional statistical methods did not consider intern meta...

journal_title：Behavioural neurology

authors： Chen D,Lu J,Zhou H,Jiang J,Wu P,Guo Q,Ge J,Zhang H,Shi K,Zuo C

更新日期：2018-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：Objective:To compare baseline and 72-hour hormone levels in women with traumatic brain injury (TBI) and controls. Setting:Hospital emergency department. Participants:21 women ages 18-35 with TBI and 21 controls. Design:Repeated measures. Main Measures:Serum samples at baseline and 72 hours; immunoassays for estradi...

journal_title：Behavioural neurology

authors： Niemeier JP,Perrin PB,Hurst BS,Foureau DM,Huynh TT,Evans SL,Silverman JE,Elise McClannahan M,Brusch BD,Newman M,Mougeot JL,Wagner AK

更新日期：2019-02-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) was used to study the neural correlates of neutral, stressful, negative and positive autobiographical memories. The brain activity produced by these different kinds of episodic memory did not differ significantly, but a common pattern of activation for different kinds of au...

journal_title：Behavioural neurology

authors： Vandekerckhove MM,Markowitsch HJ,Mertens M,Woermann FG

更新日期：2005-01-01 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：:Since the Korean language has two distinct writing systems, phonogram (Hangul) and ideogram (Hanja: Chinese characters), alexia can present with dissociative disturbances in reading between the two systems. A 74-year-old right-handed man presented with a prominent reading impairment in Hangul with agraphia of both Han...

journal_title：Behavioural neurology

authors： Park KC,Yoon SS

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：Objective:The aim of this study is to explore the relationship between neuron-specific enolase (NSE) gene polymorphism and delayed encephalopathy after acute carbon monoxide poisoning (DEACMP) and provide a theoretical basis for DEACMP pathogenesis, diagnosis, and prognosis. Methods:To investigate this relationship, w...

journal_title：Behavioural neurology

authors： Xu L,Liu X,Zhao J,Zeng J,Gu J,Zhang X,Zhang F,Han Y,Li W,Zhang P,Gu R

更新日期：2020-10-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Our purpose in undertaking the present study was to examine the hypotheses proposed for explaining the frequent comorbidity of bipolar disorder and multiple sclerosis. One hypothesis posits that, when there is comorbidity, MS plays a causal role in psychiatric manifestations. Another suggests that both disorders have ...

journal_title：Behavioural neurology

authors： Kosmidis MH,Bozikas VP,Giannouli V,Karavatos A,Fokas K

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a right-handed patient who suffered a ruptured aneurysm of the anterior communicating artery (ACoA) which was clipped successfully. Computerized tomography indicated a low density area in the genu of the corpus callosum and the infero-lateral aspect of the left frontal lobe. On recovery the patient's most ...

journal_title：Behavioural neurology

authors： Parkin AJ,Barry C

更新日期：1991-01-01 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：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：BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE:Poststroke depression (PSD) is a common complication after stroke. There is no adequate treatment for PSD. This study examined efficacy of cognitive rehabilitation therapy (CRT) in the treatment of PSD among stroke survivors. METHODS:An experimental design, 30 participants with poststroke depres...

journal_title：Behavioural neurology

authors： Olukolade O,Osinowo HO

更新日期：2017-01-01 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：Background:Epilepsy is a chronic neurological disorder characterized by unprovoked recurrent seizure episodes. The disease has detrimental effects on social, cognitive, psychological, and physical components of life consequently quality of life of the patients. The level of the effect of the disease on quality life is ...

journal_title：Behavioural neurology

authors： Gebre AK,Haylay A

更新日期：2018-12-02 00:00:00

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：: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：:Patients with Cushing's syndrome (CS) frequently report impairments in cognitive and emotional functioning. Given neuroimaging research that implicates alterations in structure and function in the brain in this population, goals of this study were to investigate neuropsychological and emotional functioning, with parti...

journal_title：Behavioural neurology

authors： Na S,Fernandes MA,Ioachimescu AG,Penna S

更新日期：2020-08-07 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Alzheimer's disease (AD) and dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) share many risk factors. Evidence suggests that metabolic risk factors are important to AD; however, their association with DLB is unclear. The risk of cardiovascular diseases (CVD) associated with AD and DLB is also uncertain. Thus, this nationwid...

journal_title：Behavioural neurology

authors： Cheng CK,Tsao YC,Su YC,Sung FC,Tai HC,Kung WM

更新日期：2018-06-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent research has characterized the anatomical connectivity of the cortico-cerebellar system - a large and important fibre system in the primate brain. Within this system, there are reciprocal projections between the prefrontal cortex and Crus II of the cerebellar cortex, which both play important roles in the acqui...

journal_title：Behavioural neurology

authors： Lesage E,Apps MA,Hayter AL,Beckmann CF,Barnes D,Langdon DW,Ramnani N

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dementia of frontal lobe type may precede motor signs in a number of adult patients with amyotrophy. Neuropathological studies have shown neuron loss, spongiosis and gliosis mainly in layers II and III of the frontal and temporal lobes, together with myelin pallor of the subcortical white matter. Golgi studies reveale...

journal_title：Behavioural neurology

authors： Ferrer I

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper critically examines three strands of evidence that concern the relationship between type A behaviours and coronary heart disease; prospective epidemiological studies of healthy populations, studies of those at high risk for coronary heart disease, and angiographic studies of atherosclerosis. The first of th...

journal_title：Behavioural neurology

authors： Bennett P,Carroll D

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The purpose of this study was to analyze the effect of a neuropsychological rehabilitation (NR) program on patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD). METHODS:The sample was composed of 16 elderly outpatients who participated in an open trial with rivastigmine (6 to 12 mg/day) for 4 months and were randomized to...

journal_title：Behavioural neurology

authors： Avila R,Carvalho IA,Bottino CM,Miotto EC

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00