Callosal disconnection and limb-kinetic apraxia.

abstract：:A hexanucleotide repeat expansion in the chromosome 9 open reading frame 72 (C9ORF72) gene was recently discovered as the cause underlying frontotemporal degeneration (FTD) and/or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) linked to chromosome 9 (c9FTD/ALS). In this atypical case of c9FTD/ALS, the proband presented with amne...

journal_title：Neurocase

authors： Adeli A,Savica R,Lowe VJ,Vemuri P,Knopman DS,Dejesus-Hernandez M,Rademakers R,Fields JA,Crum BA,Jack CR,Petersen RC,Boeve BF

更新日期：2014-01-01 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：:Patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) are often impaired when performing motor acts and in the acquisition of new motor skills. However, the role of dopamine in developing plans for skill acquisition is unclear. To assess the role of dopamine on the planning of actions, we tested 12 PD and 12 matched normal participa...

journal_title：Neurocase

authors： Hanna-Pladdy B,Heilman KM

更新日期：2010-04-01 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：:Both prosody and sentence structure (e.g., canonical versus non-canonical) affect sentence comprehension. However, few previous studies have examined a possible interaction between prosody and sentence structure. In adult controls we found a significant interaction: typical sentence prosody, versus list prosody, facil...

journal_title：Neurocase

authors： LaCroix AN,Blumenstein N,Houlihan C,Rogalsky C

更新日期：2019-01-01 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：: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：: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：:We observed a 59-year-old right-handed man with an infarction in his right-middle cerebral artery that included the parietal lobe, who abnormally manipulated mental images in the horizontal direction, resulting in calculation disturbances. Three years later, the patient suffered an infarction in the left parietal lobe...

journal_title：Neurocase

authors： Asada T,Takayama Y,Oita J,Fukuyama H

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We characterized the effect of virtual visual feedback (VVF) on supernumerary phantom limb pain (SPLP) in a patient with high cervical cord injury. The subject was a 22-year-old man diagnosed with complete spinal cord injury (level C2) approximately 5 years ago. We applied the ABA'B' single-case design and set phases ...

journal_title：Neurocase

authors： Katayama O,Iki H,Sawa S,Osumi M,Morioka S

更新日期：2015-01-01 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：:The brain's primary motor and primary somatosensory cortices are generally viewed as functionally distinct entities. Here we show by means of magnetoencephalography with a phantom-limb patient, that movement of the phantom hand leads to a change in the response of the primary somatosensory cortex to tactile stimulatio...

journal_title：Neurocase

authors： McGeoch PD,Brang D,Huang M,Ramachandran VS

更新日期：2015-02-01 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：:Central pontine and extrapontine myelinolysis (CPEM) is a rare neurological condition usually due to rapid correction of hyponatremia. CPEM is mainly characterized by motor deficits (typically quadraparesis or extrapyramidal features) but neurobehavioral symptoms were also reported in the literature. However, very few...

journal_title：Neurocase

authors： Arciero S,Kempf C,Bernard F,Gosselin N

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the case of a 71 year-old female patient (DC) with a left parietal lesion resulting in a peripheral dysgraphia essentially characterized by difficulties in letter sequences writing. The aim of our experiments was to analyze the influence of motor difficulties on the visual perception of both writing and reac...

journal_title：Neurocase

authors： Chary C,Méary D,Orliaguet JP,David D,Moreaud O,Kandel S

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper, we adopt a neurodevelopmental stance to examining frontal variant frontotemporal dementia (fv-FTD) by using experimental procedures from the literature on the growth of social behaviour in children to examine the deficits in social reasoning which may underpin behavioural disturbance in fv-FTD. We prese...

journal_title：Neurocase

authors： Lough S,Gregory C,Hodges JR

更新日期：2001-01-01 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：: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：: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：:The clinical distinction between autism spectrum disorders (ASD), also called pervasive developmental disorders (PDD), and schizophrenia is often difficult to make. Here we describe a case of an adult patient presenting with a diagnosis of schizophrenia based on a history of functional deterioration and presumed perse...

journal_title：Neurocase

authors： Crivelli B,Rocca P

更新日期：2013-01-01 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：:Subject PI demonstrated superior memory using a variant of a Method of Loci (MOL) technique to recite the first digits of the mathematical constant pi to more than 2(16) decimal places. We report preliminary behavioral, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), and brain volumetric data from PI. fMRI data collecte...

journal_title：Neurocase

authors： Raz A,Packard MG,Alexander GM,Buhle JT,Zhu H,Yu S,Peterson BS

更新日期：2009-10-01 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：:Neglect dyslexia is a reading disorder often associated with right-sided brain lesions. In reading single words, errors are mostly substitutions or omissions of letters that occupy the left-sided positions. Typically, these errors have been thought to depend on a single mechanism. Conversely, we propose that they are ...

journal_title：Neurocase

authors： Martelli M,Arduino LS,Daini R

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a previous report, we presented longitudinal clinical, cognitive and anatomical data of a right-handed woman, whose clinical picture evolved from progressive nonfluent aphasia with apraxia of speech to corticobasal syndrome (CBS) in the last stage of the disease. The patient died at age 57 and pathological examinat...

journal_title：Neurocase

authors： Sánchez-Valle R,Forman MS,Miller BL,Gorno-Tempini ML

更新日期：2006-12-01 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：:Opsoclonus myoclonus ataxia (OMA) is a rare neurological disorder (incidence = approximately 1/5 million) primarily associated with involuntary conjugate saccadic eye movements, involuntary muscle jerks, cerebellar ataxia, and neuropsychological impairments. Unfortunately, there is limited published data regarding the...

journal_title：Neurocase

authors： Smith ML,Thawani N,Johnstone B,Stucky R

更新日期：2010-08-01 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：: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：:Regressive behavior is a known sequela after severe traumatic brain injury (TBI). However, prolonged "infantile-like" behavior has received little attention in the literature, suggesting that this is a rare phenomenon. It is typically characterized by long-lasting childish, extremely dependent, and sometimes aggressiv...

journal_title：Neurocase

authors： Heled E,Sverdlik A,Agranov E

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00