Unpicking the semantic impairment in Alzheimer's disease: qualitative changes with disease severity.

abstract：BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE:Impaired cardiac function can adversely affect the brain via decreased perfusion. The purpose of this study was to determine if cardiac ejection fraction (EF) is associated with cognitive performance, and whether this is modified by low blood pressure. METHODS:Neuropsychological testing evaluati...

journal_title：Behavioural neurology

authors： Gottesman RF,Grega MA,Bailey MM,Zeger SL,Baumgartner WA,McKhann GM,Selnes OA

更新日期：2010-01-01 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：: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：:Primary sexual dysfunctions (SD) are a direct result of neurological changes that affect the sexual response. Secondary SD result from the symptoms that do not directly involve nervous pathways to the genital system, such as bladder and bowel problems, fatigue, spasticity, or muscle weakness. Tertiary SD are the resul...

journal_title：Behavioural neurology

authors： Dobrakowski P,Machowska-Majchrzak A,Labuz-Roszak B,Niewiadomska E,Pierzchala K

更新日期：2020-10-10 00:00:00

abstract：:A déjà vu experience is a dissociative phenomenon, which can be characterized as a subjectively inappropriate impression of familiarity of the present with an undefined past. This paper reviews empirical studies on déjà vu experiences and summarizes the most salient findings. Overall, the findings appear to be inconsi...

journal_title：Behavioural neurology

authors： Sno HN,Schalken HF,de Jonghe F

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The importance of tools for the measurement of outcomes and needs in traumatic brain injury is well recognised. The development of tools for these injuries in indigenous communities has been limited despite the well-documented disparity of brain injury. The wairua theory of traumatic brain injury (TBI) in Māori propos...

journal_title：Behavioural neurology

authors： Elder H,Kersten P

更新日期：2015-01-01 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：:While several studies have detected raised levels of neurological soft signs in patients with obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), the specificity of these abnormalities remains uncertain. This study used a new standardised measure, the Cambridge Neurological Inventory (CNI), to assess soft signs in 51 subjects with O...

journal_title：Behavioural neurology

authors： Bolton D,Gibb W,Lees A,Raven P,Gray JA,Chen E,Shafran R

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Current research supports the strong potential of structural MRI profiles, even within cross-sectional designs, as a promising method for the discrimination of Alzheimer's Disease (AD) from normal controls and for the prediction of Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) progression and conversion to AD. Findings suggest that...

journal_title：Behavioural neurology

authors： Fennema-Notestine C,McEvoy LK,Hagler DJ Jr,Jacobson MW,Dale AM,The Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative.

更新日期：2009-01-01 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：:We investigated completion phenomenon for proverbs in cases demonstrating transcortical sensory aphasia due to a variety of diseases. Lack of this completion was exclusively observed in patients with focal atrophy. These patients showed a selective and consistent impairment in word comprehension without phonemic cue e...

journal_title：Behavioural neurology

authors： Nakagawa Y,Tanabe H,Ikeda M,Kazui H,Ito K,Inoue N,Hatakenaka Y,Sawada T,Ikeda H,Shiraishi J

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The paper examines the ability of Statistical Parametric Mapping (SPM) to contribute towards the quantitative analysis of HMPAO SPECT images containing lesions. A validation study is described in which SPECT images were created that contained synthetic lesions and were analysed with SPM. The study established a set of...

journal_title：Behavioural neurology

authors： Stamatakis EA,Wilson JT,Wyper DJ

更新日期：2000-01-01 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: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：:Aiming and tapping movements were analysed repeatedly over a three-week period in a patient who was hemideafferented due to an ischaemic posterior thalamic lesion. Contrasting behaviour observed in six healthy subjects, nine hemiparetic patients and one patient with hemianopic stroke, allowed the determination of beha...

journal_title：Behavioural neurology

authors： Platz T,Mauritz KH

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：Objectives:To investigate the role of Scriptaid in reducing brain injury after intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) in mice. Methods:An ICH model was constructed by injecting autologous blood into the right basal ganglia in mice. The animals were administered 3.5 mg/kg of Scriptaid intraperitoneally after ICH. The hematoma ...

journal_title：Behavioural neurology

authors： Yang H,Ni W,Jiang H,Lei Y,Su J,Gu Y,Zhou L

更新日期：2018-08-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Presently, there are no valid biomarkers to identify individuals with eating disorders (ED). The aim of this work was to assess the feasibility of a machine learning method for extracting reliable neuroimaging features allowing individual categorization of patients with ED. Support Vector Machine (SVM) technique, comb...

journal_title：Behavioural neurology

authors： Cerasa A,Castiglioni I,Salvatore C,Funaro A,Martino I,Alfano S,Donzuso G,Perrotta P,Gioia MC,Gilardi MC,Quattrone A

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Visual reaction time (RT) studies on patients with right hemisphere (RH) damage have demonstrated that the attentional imbalance to stimuli occupying left and right positions exists even within the "intact" ipsilesional hemifield. The purpose of the present study was to test whether such patients might also exhibit re...

journal_title：Behavioural neurology

authors： Mattingley JB,Bradshaw JL

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study is aimed at identifying the most prominent determinants of OCD along with their strength to classify the OCD patients from healthy controls. The data for this cross-sectional study were collected from 200 diagnosed OCD patients and 400 healthy controls. The respondents were selected through purposive...

journal_title：Behavioural neurology

authors： Shahzad MN,Suleman M,Ahmed MA,Riaz A,Fatima K

更新日期：2020-06-22 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：:Amyloid imaging represents a major advance in neuroscience, enabling the detection and quantification of pathologic protein aggregations in the brain. In this review we survey current amyloid imaging techniques, focusing on positron emission tomography (PET) with (11)carbon-labelled Pittsburgh Compound-B ((11)C-PIB), ...

journal_title：Behavioural neurology

authors： Rabinovici GD,Jagust WJ

更新日期：2009-01-01 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：:We investigated the evolution of the neurological and neuropsychological characteristics in a right-handed woman who was 53-years-old at the onset and who showed personality changes and behavioral disorders accompanied by progressive dysarthria. She had hypernasality and a slow rate of speech with distorted consonants...

journal_title：Behavioural neurology

authors： Ihori N,Araki S,Ishihara K,Kawamura M

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Apathy and reduced emotion-based decision-making are two behavioral modifications independently described in Alzheimer's disease (AD) and amnestic mild cognitive impairment (aMCI). OBJECTIVES:The aims of this study were to investigate decision-making based on emotional feedback processing in AD and aMCI and...

journal_title：Behavioural neurology

authors： Bayard S,Jacus JP,Raffard S,Gely-Nargeot MC

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Physiological behaviours such as the sleep-wake cycle and exploratory behaviours are important parameters in intact and sham-operated animals and are usually thought to be unaffected by experimental protocols in which neurosurgery is performed. However, there is insufficient evidence in the literature on the behaviour...

journal_title：Behavioural neurology

authors： Chiprés-Tinajero GA,Núñez-Ochoa MA,Medina-Ceja L

更新日期：2020-03-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Anxiety in Parkinson's disease (aPD) is underdiagnosed, undertreated, and understudied. As many as 50% of persons diagnosed with Parkinson's disease (PD) are reported to suffer from anxiety. Current treatment is largely pharmacologic, which can result in a myriad of undesirable and unsafe side effects. The aim of this...

journal_title：Behavioural neurology

authors： Chandler SK,Robins JL,Kinser PA

更新日期：2019-05-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Although proverb tests are commonly used in the mental status examination surprisingly little is known about either normal comprehension or the interpretation of proverbial expressions. Current proverbs tests have conceptual and linguistic shortcomings, and few studies have been done to investigate the specific effect...

journal_title：Behavioural neurology

authors： Van Lancker D

更新日期：1990-01-01 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：:Patients with Cushing's syndrome (CS) in remission often suffer from impaired quality of life and cognitive dysfunction. The primary aim was to investigate the occurrence of mental fatigue, characterized by mental exhaustion and long recovery time following mentally strenuous tasks, in patients with CS in remission. T...

journal_title：Behavioural neurology

authors： Papakokkinou E,Johansson B,Berglund P,Ragnarsson O

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Medication adherence and belief are crucial to achieving the desired goal of therapy in epileptic patients. However, there is a lack of study regarding medication adherence and belief in our setting. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to investigate medication adherence and belief and associated factor...

journal_title：Behavioural neurology

authors： Niriayo YL,Mamo A,Gidey K,Demoz GT

更新日期：2019-04-23 00:00:00