Delusion of inanimate doubles: description of a case of focal retrograde amnesia.

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：: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：:Primary progressive apraxia of speech (PPAOS) is a neurodegenerative disorder in which AOS is the sole presenting complaint. We report clinical and neuroimaging data spanning 10 years from disease onset-to-death in a 49 year-old male PPAOS patient, DY, who died with corticobasal degeneration. He presented with AOS wit...

journal_title：Neurocase

authors： Tetzloff KA,Duffy JR,Strand EA,Machulda MM,Boland SM,Utianski RL,Botha H,Senjem ML,Schwarz CG,Josephs KA,Whitwell JL

更新日期：2018-04-01 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：: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：: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：: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

abstract：:Confabulation may be present in Alzheimer's disease (AD), but usually it is not a primary feature of either its typical or atypical variants. In this report, we describe the case of an AD patient who showed an unusual and enduring neuropsychiatric phenotype characterized by early and prominent spontaneous confabulatio...

journal_title：Neurocase

authors： Abbate C,Trimarchi PD,Rotondo E,Inglese S,Nicolini P,Rossi PD,Arosio B,Mari D

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Synaesthesia is often triggered by numbers, although it is conceivable that different aspects of numerical representation are responsible for different variants of synaesthesia. For individuals with "higher synaesthesia" it is assumed that number meaning (or numerosity) is responsible for the elicitation of synaesthet...

journal_title：Neurocase

authors： Ward J,Sagiv N

更新日期：2007-04-01 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：:In this paper we report the results of a longitudinal study which examined memory for a single routine activity of daily living in people with dementia of the Alzheimer type. We assessed memory in a natural setting, visiting volunteers in their homes. We video-taped performance on the selected task and analysed the re...

journal_title：Neurocase

authors： Rusted J,Sheppard L

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The impact of epileptiform activity on the functional organization of various cortical regions is currently a widely discussed topic. Our patient, suffering from left-sided temporal lobe epilepsy with typical mesiotemporal sclerosis, had a remarkable history of a clear-cut handedness shift in early childhood. In this ...

journal_title：Neurocase

authors： Chlebus P,Brázdil M,Hlustík P,Mikl M,Pazourková M,Krupa P

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 54-year-old art teacher, experienced a right putaminal hemorrhage, and thereafter suffered severe left hemiplegia and unilateral spatial neglect, and was transferred to the rehabilitation department of the University Hospital 1 month after the onset. Although the unilateral spatial neglect was improving, the patient...

journal_title：Neurocase

authors： Kondo M,Mori T,Makino K,Okazaki T,Hachisuka K

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the relations between selection for perception and selection for action in a patient FK, with bilateral damage to his temporal and medial frontal cortices. The task required a simple grasp response to a common object (a cup) in the presence of a distractor (another cup). The target was cued by colour or lo...

journal_title：Neurocase

authors： Boutsen L,Humphreys GW

更新日期：2003-06-01 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：: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：: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：:A quantitative assessment of a distortion involving the left side of space, both in two-dimensional (drawing), and three-dimensional (modeling), visuo-constructional tasks is reported in a patient with a right temporoparieto-occipital lesion, and left hemianopia, without visuospatial neglect. In drawing and clay model...

journal_title：Neurocase

authors： Rode G,Revol P,Rossetti Y,Vallar G

更新日期：2008-01-01 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：:Previous studies on visual form agnosic patients have shown that their color perception is relatively preserved when monochromatic figures are used. However, it is unclear whether their color perception remains normal when figures are composed of two parts in different colors. The results showed that patient X.F. had ...

journal_title：Neurocase

authors： Yang J,Wu M,Shen Z

更新日期：2007-10-01 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：: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：: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：: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：: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：:A deficit of declarative memory is a common sequela after a hypoxic episode. While the role of gray matter changes (i.e., atrophy of hippocampal formation) as mainly responsible for memory loss has been emphasized, the role of the white matter damage has so far been neglected. The present study was aimed at evaluating...

journal_title：Neurocase

authors： Di Paola M,Moscatelli A,Bigler ED,Caltagirone C,Carlesimo GA

更新日期：2011-02-01 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：: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：:Prior research on developmental dyslexia using Stroop tasks with young participants has found increased interference in participants with dyslexia relative to controls. Here we extend these findings to adult participants, and introduce a novel test of Stroop incongruity, whereby the color names appeared on an object c...

journal_title：Neurocase

authors： Proulx MJ,Elmasry HM

更新日期：2015-01-01 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