Coexisting adult polyglucosan body disease with frontotemporal lobar degeneration with transactivation response DNA-binding protein-43 (TDP-43)-positive neuronal inclusions.

abstract：:Subject GSI presents with a graphemic buffer deficit following a massive left fronto-parietal lesion. His errors involved essentially only consonants (98.2%). However, he always spelled correctly the first consonant in a string, and produced steadily increasing numbers of errors on the following consonants, while alwa...

journal_title：Neurocase

authors： Miceli G,Capasso R,Benvegnù B,Caramazza A

更新日期：2004-04-01 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：: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：:Recent research revealed decreased access to semantic and associative networks in acute cocaine withdrawal. In autism, such behavioral outcomes are associated with decreased functional connectivity using functional magnetic resonance imaging. Therefore, we wished to determine whether connectivity is also decreased in ...

journal_title：Neurocase

authors： Narayanan A,White CA,Saklayen SS,Abduljalil A,Schmalbrock P,Pepper TH,Lander BN,Beversdorf DQ

更新日期：2012-01-01 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：: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：: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：:A 51-year-old right-handed man developed hypersexuality after a second right temporal lobectomy to treat epilepsy. His hypersexuality started with increased marital intercourse and masturbation but he later downloaded child pornography. Hyperphagia and distractibility, other features of the Kluver-Bucy syndrome, also ...

journal_title：Neurocase

authors： Devinsky J,Sacks O,Devinsky O

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article describes an investigation into the residual writing skills of a severely dysgraphic patient (DA). We found that they were powerfully influenced by a number of lexical variables (lexicality, frequency, imageability, length and geminates). His error pattern was characterized by semantic, lexical, substitut...

journal_title：Neurocase

authors： Cipolotti L,Bird CM,Glasspool DW,Shallice T

更新日期：2004-12-01 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：: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：:Individuals with posterior cortical atrophy (PCA) report a host of unusual and poorly explained visual disturbances. This preliminary report describes a single patient (CRO), and documents and investigates abnormally prolonged colour afterimages (concurrent and prolonged perception of colours complimentary to the colo...

journal_title：Neurocase

authors： Crutch SJ,Lehmann M,Gorgoraptis N,Kaski D,Ryan N,Husain M,Warrington EK

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

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：: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 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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：:For functional neuroimaging studies of stuttering, two challenges are (1) the elicitation of naturally stuttered versus fluent speech and (2) the separation of activation associated with abnormal motor execution from activation that reflects the cognitive substrates of stuttering. This paper reports on a proof-of-conc...

journal_title：Neurocase

authors： den Ouden DB,Montgomery A,Adams C

更新日期：2014-08-01 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：:Chediak-Higashi syndrome (CHS) is a rare autosomal disorder characterized by immunodeficiency, albinism, and progressive neurologic abnormalities. While survivors of the childhood-onset disease are known to exhibit learning disabilities and neuropsychiatric disorders followed by middle-age dementia, we lack detailed d...

journal_title：Neurocase

authors： Yliranta A,Mäkinen J

更新日期：2020-12-09 00:00:00

abstract：:We hypothesized that distinct acute right hemisphere lesions disrupt separate components of valuation and emotional response to winning and losing money and of emotional empathy in observing a partner win or lose money. We measured skin conductance response (SCR) and ratings of emotions when acute right hemisphere str...

journal_title：Neurocase

authors： Kim EH,Chien JH,Liu CC,Oishi K,Oishi K,Sebastian R,Demsky C,Lenz F,Hillis AE

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Depression following stroke (PSD) affects up to 33% of patients and is associated with increased mortality. Antidepressant drugs have several side effects; therefore novel treatments are needed. Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) has induced mood and cognitive gain in several neuropsychiatric conditions bu...

journal_title：Neurocase

authors： Bueno VF,Brunoni AR,Boggio PS,Bensenor IM,Fregni F

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cerebral lesions are held to induce plastic changes of the brain. Less well established, however, is how much space-occupying brain lesions may only displace functional representations. In a 66-year-old man we show, by means of functional magnetic resonance imaging and transcranial magnetic stimulation, a profound dis...

journal_title：Neurocase

authors： Nickel J,Jörgens S,Bussfeld P,Seitz RJ

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00