Gilles de la Tourette syndrome-a case report from Guyana in South America.

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：: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：:Communication in humans activates almost every part of the brain. Of course, the use of language predominates, but other cognitive functions such as attention, memory, emotion, and executive processes are also involved. However, in order to explain how our brain "understands," "speaks," and "writes," and in order to r...

journal_title：Behavioural neurology

authors： Nasios G,Dardiotis E,Messinis L

更新日期：2019-07-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The prevalence of psychiatric disturbance for patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) is higher than that observed in other chronic health conditions. We report three cases of MS and bipolar disorder and we discuss the possible etiological hypothesis and treatment options. OBSERVATIONS:All patients fulfilled ...

journal_title：Behavioural neurology

authors： Sidhom Y,Ben Djebara M,Hizem Y,Abdelkefi I,Kacem I,Gargouri A,Gouider R

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Huntington disease (HD) is an inherited neuropsychiatric condition with progressive neurodegenerative changes, mainly affecting the striatum. Pathological processes within the striatum are likely to lead to alterations in dopamine and glutamate activity in frontostriatal circuitry, resulting in characteristi...

journal_title：Behavioural neurology

authors： Mittal SK,Eddy C

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：Objectives:This study is aimed at elucidating the prevalence of depression in patients with myasthenia gravis (MG) and examining the risk factors associated with depression. Methods:We evaluated adult patients with MG who were recruited from two tertiary hospitals in the central region (Riyadh) of Saudi Arabia. Data w...

journal_title：Behavioural neurology

authors： Alanazy MH

更新日期：2019-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Aberrant production of nitric oxide following inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS) expression has been implicated in cell death and contributes to ischemic brain injury. Tetrahydrobiopterin (BH4) is an essential cofactor of NOS activity. Herein, we evaluated antiapoptotic and anti-inflammatory effects of diamino-6-h...

journal_title：Behavioural neurology

authors： Qin Y,Hu W,Yang Y,Hu Z,Li W,Fang M

更新日期：2018-06-19 00:00:00

abstract：:When assessing for the presence of hemianesthesia, the examiner touches the body of the patients, and requests that they report verbally the location of the delivered tactile stimulus. Contralesional omissions of single tactile stimuli, however, might be due to either primary somatosensory deficits or to spatial atten...

journal_title：Behavioural neurology

authors： Pitteri M,Venneri A,Meneghello F,Priftis K

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neglect behavior of experimental animals with unilateral posterior cortical lesions improves with the placement of a second lesion in the contralesional superior colliculus or in the intercollicular commissure. Given that the retinotectal fibers are mainly crossed, it has been speculated that ipsilesional eye patching...

journal_title：Behavioural neurology

authors： Soroker N,Cohen T,Baratz C,Glicksohn J,Myslobodsky MS

更新日期：1994-01-01 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：:Tardive dystonia was identified in 25 patients: involvement of the face and neck was most common; truncal and limb dystonia were also observed. There were 3 cases of laryngospasm and 2 of spasmodic dysphonia. The latter has not been previously reported as a manifestation of tardive dystonia. In all cases, movements ty...

journal_title：Behavioural neurology

authors： Davis RJ,Cummings JL,Hierholzer RW

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two experiments examined short-term memory for order information in six patients diagnosed with Parkinson's disease (PD) and six control subjects while event related potentials (ERPs) were recorded. The subjects were tested for recognition of abstract spatial designs and words after a 5 s retention interval. The PD pa...

journal_title：Behavioural neurology

authors： Korsnes MS,Reinvang I

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Juxtaposed alongside the ongoing rise in the incidence and prevalence of dementia, is the surge of recent research confirming widespread exposure and bioaccumulation of chemical toxicants. Evidence from sources such as the Centers for Disease Control reveals that most people have accrued varying degrees of assorted to...

journal_title：Behavioural neurology

authors： Genuis SJ,Kelln KL

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examined hemispatial bias in a free-viewing condition of the judgement of facial expressions of emotions. Right-handed male subjects were asked to judge the intensity, in terms of expressiveness, of facial emotion in normal and mirror-reversed orientations. Expressions in mirror-reversed orientation were pe...

journal_title：Behavioural neurology

authors： Asthana HS,Mandal MK

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cognitive impairment is frequently encountered in multiple sclerosis (MS) affecting between 40-65% of individuals, irrespective of disease duration and severity of physical disability. In the present multicenter randomized controlled trial, fifty-eight clinically stable RRMS patients with mild to moderate cognitive im...

journal_title：Behavioural neurology

authors： Messinis L,Nasios G,Kosmidis MH,Zampakis P,Malefaki S,Ntoskou K,Nousia A,Bakirtzis C,Grigoriadis N,Gourzis P,Papathanasopoulos P

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eighty-five patients with idiopathic spasmodic torticollis were compared with an equally chronic group of 49 cervical spondylosis sufferers in terms of body concept, depression, and disability. The torticollis patients were significantly more depressed and disabled and had a more negative body concept. Depression had ...

journal_title：Behavioural neurology

authors： Jahanshahi M,Marsden CD

更新日期：1990-01-01 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：Background:Alzheimer's disease (AD) and dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) share many risk factors. Evidence suggests that metabolic risk factors are important to AD; however, their association with DLB is unclear. The risk of cardiovascular diseases (CVD) associated with AD and DLB is also uncertain. Thus, this nationwid...

journal_title：Behavioural neurology

authors： Cheng CK,Tsao YC,Su YC,Sung FC,Tai HC,Kung WM

更新日期：2018-06-03 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：:All published studies on micrographia, a diminution of letter size, examine handwriting in the horizontal direction. Writing horizontally typically requires increased wrist extension as handwriting progresses from left to right. Chinese characters, however, can be written not only horizontally from left to right, but ...

journal_title：Behavioural neurology

authors： Ma HI,Hwang WJ,Chang SH,Wang TY

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated social cognition and theory of mind in patients with schizophrenia and in patients with frontotemporal dementia in order to elucidate the cognitive mechanisms involved in the breakdown of these skills in psychiatric and neurological patients. Our tasks included videotaped scenarios of social interactio...

journal_title：Behavioural neurology

authors： Kosmidis MH,Aretouli E,Bozikas VP,Giannakou M,Ioannidis P

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite a vast literature examining semantic impairment in Alzheimer's disease (AD), consensus regarding the nature of the deficit remains elusive. We re-considered this issue in the context of a framework that assumes semantic cognition can break down in two ways: (1) core semantic representations can degrade or (2) ...

journal_title：Behavioural neurology

authors： Corbett F,Jefferies E,Burns A,Ralph MA

更新日期：2012-01-01 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：:We describe a cross-sectional study of aggressive behaviour in a sample of patients suffering from Huntington's disease in a residential nursing home. Data were obtained using the RAGE, a behaviourally oriented rating scale for measuring aggressive behaviour in cognitively impaired patients. Nursing staff rated 27 pat...

journal_title：Behavioural neurology

authors： Shiwach RS,Patel V

更新日期：1993-01-01 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：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：:The present study examined the differential contribution of cortical and subcortical brain structures in emotional processing by comparing patients with focal cortical lesions (n = 32) to those with primarily subcortical dysregulation of the basal ganglia (Parkinson's disease n = 14). A standardized measure of emotion...

journal_title：Behavioural neurology

authors： Breitenstein C,Daum I,Ackermann H

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The purpose of this study was to analyze the effect of a neuropsychological rehabilitation (NR) program on patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD). METHODS:The sample was composed of 16 elderly outpatients who participated in an open trial with rivastigmine (6 to 12 mg/day) for 4 months and were randomized to...

journal_title：Behavioural neurology

authors： Avila R,Carvalho IA,Bottino CM,Miotto EC

更新日期：2007-01-01 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：Objective:The aim of this study is to explore the relationship between neuron-specific enolase (NSE) gene polymorphism and delayed encephalopathy after acute carbon monoxide poisoning (DEACMP) and provide a theoretical basis for DEACMP pathogenesis, diagnosis, and prognosis. Methods:To investigate this relationship, w...

journal_title：Behavioural neurology

authors： Xu L,Liu X,Zhao J,Zeng J,Gu J,Zhang X,Zhang F,Han Y,Li W,Zhang P,Gu R

更新日期：2020-10-14 00:00:00