Somatotopic mismatch of hand representation following stroke: is recovery possible?

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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：:Dissociative identity disorder (DID) is probably the most disputed of psychiatric diagnoses and of psychological forensic evaluations in the legal arena. The iatrogenic proponents assert that DID phenomena originate from psychotherapeutic treatment while traumagenic proponents state that DID develops after severe and ...

journal_title：Neurocase

authors： Reinders AA

更新日期：2008-01-01 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：:Debates about the role of language in human thinking are increasingly prominent in the cognitive sciences. There are claims that certain forms of reasoning can only be performed through access to the resources of the language faculty. In particular, a component of social cognition involving the representation of the m...

journal_title：Neurocase

authors： Varley R,Siegal M,Want SC

更新日期：2001-01-01 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：: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 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：: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：: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：:Psychiatric disorders represent common comorbidities in epileptic patients. Sometimes anxiety is part of the ictal semiology, especially during seizures arising from/involving frontal or temporal lobes. We describe a patient with focal epilepsy and recurrent hyperkinetic seizures who also presented prolonged episodes ...

journal_title：Neurocase

authors： Albini M,Morano A,Fattouch J,Fanella M,Avorio F,Basili LM,Cerulli Irelli E,Manfredi M,Giallonardo AT,Di Bonaventura C

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Metamemory is a multifaceted concept, which deals with an individual's knowledge and control of his or her own memory system. The ability to monitor memory performance accurately was examined in 16 patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD), 6 patients with frontotemporal lobe dementia (FTD) and 16 elderly subjects. Parti...

journal_title：Neurocase

authors： Souchay C,Isingrini M,Pillon B,Gil R

更新日期：2003-12-01 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：: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：: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：:Vocal emblems, such as shh and brr, are speech sounds that have linguistic and nonlinguistic features; thus, it is unclear how they are processed in the brain. Five adult dextral individuals with left-brain damage and moderate-severe Wernicke's aphasia, five adult dextral individuals with right-brain damage, and five ...

journal_title：Neurocase

authors： Neumann-Werth Y,Levy ES,Obler LK

更新日期：2013-01-01 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：: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：:The purpose of the present study was to investigate differences in brain activation with functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) during imagery of painful and non-painful 'finger movements' and 'hand positioning' in a subject with an amputated arm. The subject was a right-handed man in his mid-thirties who lost h...

journal_title：Neurocase

authors： Rosén G,Hugdahl K,Ersland L,Lundervold A,Smievoll AI,Barndon R,Sundberg H,Thomsen T,Roscher BE,Tjølsen A,Engelsen B

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 57-year-old man suffered severe amnesia and disorientation, accompanied by content-specific confabulation, due to an alcoholic Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome. For months, he was deeply concerned about a single obligation that he thought he had to respond to, but which he had already assumed 20 years previously. This mo...

journal_title：Neurocase

authors： Schnider A,Nahum L,Pignat JM,Leemann B,Lövblad KO,Wissmeyer M,Ptak R

更新日期：2013-01-01 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 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：: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：: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：: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：: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