Historical review of academic concepts of dementia in the world and Japan: with a short history of representative diseases.

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：:Previous research suggests that the noradrenergic system modulates flexibility of access to the lexical-semantic network, with propranolol benefiting normal subjects in lexical-semantic problem solving tasks. Patients with Broca's aphasia with anomia have impaired ability to access appropriate verbal output for a give...

journal_title：Neurocase

authors： Beversdorf DQ,Sharma UK,Phillips NN,Notestine MA,Slivka AP,Friedman NM,Schneider SL,Nagaraja HN,Hillier A

更新日期：2007-08-01 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：: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：: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：:This case study describes the neurocognitive presentation of a child with identified genetic abnormalities of trisomy 6 and monosomy 21 who was evaluated as part of a standard medical protocol for cochlear implantation following diagnosis of profound sensorineural hearing loss. This child received neurocognitive testi...

journal_title：Neurocase

authors： Katzenstein JM,Oghalai JS,Tonini R,Baker D,Haymond J,Caudle SE

更新日期：2009-01-01 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：:This paper reports the case of a patient, M.P., who developed delusion of inanimate doubles, without Capgras syndrome, after traumatic brain injury. His delusional symptoms were studied longitudinally and the cognitive impairments associated with delusion were investigated. Data suggest that M.P. did 'perceive' the ac...

journal_title：Neurocase

authors： Abbate C,Trimarchi PD,Salvi GP,Quarenghi AM,Vergani C,Luzzatti C

更新日期：2012-01-01 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 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：: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：: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 semantic variant of primary progressive aphasia (PPA-S) is characterized by impairments in confrontation naming and single word comprehension. Although episodic memory may be relatively spared, there can be impairment in verbal learning tasks. We report a patient with PPA-S and impaired verbal learning who was tes...

journal_title：Neurocase

authors： Milano NJ,Williamson JB,Heilman KM

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The concreteness effect occurs in both normal and language-disordered populations. Research suggests that abstract and concrete concepts elicit differing neural activation patterns in healthy young adults, but this is undocumented in persons with aphasia (PWA). Three PWA and three age-matched controls were scanned usi...

journal_title：Neurocase

authors： Sandberg C,Kiran S

更新日期：2014-08-01 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：: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：: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：:Monocular patching might improve perceptual-attentional, not motor-intentional deficits in a patient with chronic post-stroke left spatial neglect. Performing a line-cancellation task, his omission errors were associated with a perceptual-attentional 'where' deficit, while perseverative errors were associated with 'ai...

journal_title：Neurocase

authors： Khurshid S,Longin H,Crucian GP,Barrett AM

更新日期：2009-08-01 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：: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：: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：: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：UNLABELLED:Neuropathologic change underlying primary progressive aphasia (PPA) most commonly includes one of the frontotemporal lobar degenerations, such as FTLD-tau or FTLD-ubiquitin. The next most frequent etiology of PPA is Alzheimer's disease (AD). We describe 5 subjects with clinical diagnoses of semantic dementia...

journal_title：Neurocase

authors： Chow TW,Varpetian A,Moss T,Vinters HV,Marquez S,Miller C

更新日期：2010-02-01 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：:Frontotemporal lobar degeneration with ubiquitin-positive inclusions (FTLD-U) is one of the most common pathological findings associated with the clinical FTLD syndromes. However, molecular characterization with genetic sequencing and protein expression techniques are recognizing many new subtypes for FTLDs. FTLDs are...

journal_title：Neurocase

authors： Farmer JG,Crain BJ,Harris BT,Turner RS

更新日期：2013-01-01 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：:The degree of abnormality and rate of change in cognitive functions, positron emission tomography Pittsburg compound B (PET PIB), and fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) measures were studied for 8 years in an autopsy-confirmed Alzheimer's disease (AD) patient, who died 61 years old (Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) score 7)...

journal_title：Neurocase

authors： Almkvist O,Kadir A,Nordberg A

更新日期：2015-01-01 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 psychoses of epilepsy are well recognized complications of seizure disorders, diagnosed easily from the history. However, in the absence of recognized seizures, the diagnosis can be challenging. We present a 27-year-old female, who suffered a treatment refractory psychosis for 6 years. She did not report, or dis...

journal_title：Neurocase

authors： Needham E,Hamelijnck J

更新日期：2012-01-01 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