Amnesiacs might get the gist: reduced false recognition in amnesia may be the result of impaired item-specific memory.

abstract：:Well-organized somatotopic representation of the hand is required to interpret input from cutaneous mechanoreceptors. Previous reports have identified patients with various distortions of somatotopic representation after stroke. Importantly, those patients were investigated years after the stroke, indicating that affe...

journal_title：Neurocase

authors： Birznieks I,Logina I,Wasner G

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：: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

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：: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：: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：:Recent lesion studies have shown that left hemisphere lesions often give rise to frank sign language aphasias in deaf signers, whereas right hemisphere lesions do not, suggesting similar patterns of hemispheric asymmetry for signed and spoken language. We present here a case of a left-handed, deaf, life-long signer wh...

journal_title：Neurocase

authors： Pickell H,Klima E,Love T,Kritchevsky M,Bellugi U,Hickok G

更新日期：2005-06-01 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：:We present HP, a patient who following the occurrence of herpes simplex encephalitis, lost the ability to understand a subset of words while others remained preserved. Of particular interest is the fact that the meaningless items retained their lexical status. HP's immediate serial recall of meaningless words was thus...

journal_title：Neurocase

authors： Caza N,Belleville S,Gilbert B

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To further understand the nature of the visual-spatial representations required for successful acquisition of written language skills, we investigated the written language abilities of two individuals with Williams syndrome (WS) a developmental genetic disorder in which the presence of severe visual-spatial developmen...

journal_title：Neurocase

authors： Dessalegn B,Landau B,Rapp B

更新日期：2013-08-01 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：: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：: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 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：: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：:Acute and complete ischemia of the hippocampi represents a rare cause of amnesia. This paper describes the features of four such cases presenting to a single tertiary care center over a 3-year period. Interestingly, in three instances, toxicology screening was positive for opioids at the time of presentation, while in...

journal_title：Neurocase

authors： Small JE,Butler PM,Zabar Y,Barash JA

更新日期：2016-10-01 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：:One typical feature of the neglect syndrome in patients with right hemisphere damage is that they bisect horizontal lines to the right of centre. It has been argued that to a large extent these bisection errors can be attributed to a perceptual change whereby the patient experiences the left half of a line as shorter ...

journal_title：Neurocase

authors： Pritchard CL,Dijkerman HC,McIntosh RD,Milner AD

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a case of frontotemporal dementia caused by a novel MAPT mutation (Q351R) with a remarkably long amnestic presentation mimicking familial Alzheimer's disease. Longitudinal clinical, neuropsychological and imaging data provide convergent evidence for predominantly bilateral anterior medial temporal lobe invol...

journal_title：Neurocase

authors： Liang Y,Gordon E,Rohrer J,Downey L,de Silva R,Jäger HR,Nicholas J,Modat M,Cardoso MJ,Mahoney C,Warren J,Rossor M,Fox N,Caine D

更新日期：2014-01-01 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

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：: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：: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：:A current debate in the literature is whether all declarative memories and associated memory processes rely on the same neural substrate. Here, we show that H.C., a developmental amnesic person with selective bilateral hippocampal volume loss, has a mild deficit in personal episodic memory, and a more pronounced defic...

journal_title：Neurocase

authors： Rosenbaum RS,Carson N,Abraham N,Bowles B,Kwan D,Köhler S,Svoboda E,Levine B,Richards B

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies of patients with brain lesions have demonstrated that language and praxis are mediated by dissociable networks. However, language has the capacity to influence the selection of purposeful actions. The abilities to use language and to program purposeful movements are often mediated by networks that have anatomi...

journal_title：Neurocase

authors： Falchook AD,Burtis DB,Acosta LM,Salazar L,Shushrutha Hedna V,Khanna AY,Heilman KM

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The noradrenergic system modulates performance on tasks dependent on semantic and associative network flexibility (NF) in individuals without neurodevelopmental diagnoses in experiments using a beta-adrenergic antagonist, propranolol. Some studies suggest drugs decreasing noradrenergic activity are beneficial in ASD. ...

journal_title：Neurocase

authors： Beversdorf DQ,Carpenter AL,Miller RF,Cios JS,Hillier A

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

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：: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

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 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