El Sistema-inspired ensemble music training is associated with changes in children's neurocognitive functional integration: preliminary ERP evidence.

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：: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：: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：: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：:Short melodies are commonly linked to referents in jingles, ringtones, movie themes, and even auditory displays (i.e., sounds used in human-computer interactions). While melody associations can be quite effective, auditory alarms in medical devices are generally poorly learned and highly confused. Here, we draw on app...

journal_title：Neurocase

authors： Gillard J,Schutz M

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 51-year-old right-handed man developed hypersexuality after a second right temporal lobectomy to treat epilepsy. His hypersexuality started with increased marital intercourse and masturbation but he later downloaded child pornography. Hyperphagia and distractibility, other features of the Kluver-Bucy syndrome, also ...

journal_title：Neurocase

authors： Devinsky J,Sacks O,Devinsky O

更新日期：2010-04-01 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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：:The amygdala nuclei appear to be critically implicated in emotional memory. However, in most studies, encoding and consolidation processes cannot be analyzed separately. We thus studied the verbal emotional memory in a young woman with a ganglioglioma of the left amygdala and analyzed its impact (1) on each step of th...

journal_title：Neurocase

authors： Claire MD,Sophie D,Claudia P,Philippe M,Eliane RP

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The frontal midline structures have been demonstrated by functional neuroimaging to be involved in the affective control of human behavior. However, due to the rareness of diseases affecting this part of the brain little is known about behavioral abnormalities following damage to these brain areas. We present a patien...

journal_title：Neurocase

authors： Schäfer R,Popp K,Jörgens S,Lindenberg R,Franz M,Seitz RJ

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A striking special ability in arranging picture stories was reported in an Asperger child (C.M.) showing an exceptional performance on Wechsler picture arrangement subtest. Neuropsychological examination did not disclose visuoperceptual and spatial defects, or working memory, attention and executive disorders, but rev...

journal_title：Neurocase

authors： Conson M,Salzano S,Grossi D

更新日期：2011-08-01 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：: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：: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：:Prior research on developmental dyslexia using Stroop tasks with young participants has found increased interference in participants with dyslexia relative to controls. Here we extend these findings to adult participants, and introduce a novel test of Stroop incongruity, whereby the color names appeared on an object c...

journal_title：Neurocase

authors： Proulx MJ,Elmasry HM

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurophysiological and functional brain imaging studies suggest the importance of dorsolateral area 9/46 for modality-independent working memory. However, the behavioural manifestations following isolated damage to this area have not been clearly outlined. Here, we describe the dramatic derangement of pragmatic memory...

journal_title：Neurocase

authors： Ptak R,Schnider A

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We summarize two case studies as a context for discussing the use of neuroimaging as a convergent methodology in the study of neuroplasticity in single subjects. Throughout this paper we argue for a different approach for including neuroimaging in these types of study. Previous case studies of neuroplasticity in patie...

journal_title：Neurocase

authors： Romero SG,Manly CF,Grafman J

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been suggested that formal thought disorder, the incoherent speech of schizophrenia, may involve a language disturbance among other abnormalities, or even be a form of dysphasia. Six patients with and seven without formal thought disorder were evaluated on an aphasia test battery. Spontaneous speech was also an...

journal_title：Neurocase

authors： Oh TM,McCarthy RA,McKenna PJ

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oculocutaneous albinism (OCA) is a group of autosomal recessive disorders characterized by impairment in the melanin synthesis. We report two siblings with OCA who presented with symptoms of autism spectrum disorder and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Ocular side effects occured after methylphenidate ...

journal_title：Neurocase

authors： Ünsel Bolat G

更新日期：2020-12-01 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：: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：: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：: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：:Chediak-Higashi syndrome (CHS) is a rare autosomal disorder characterized by immunodeficiency, albinism, and progressive neurologic abnormalities. While survivors of the childhood-onset disease are known to exhibit learning disabilities and neuropsychiatric disorders followed by middle-age dementia, we lack detailed d...

journal_title：Neurocase

authors： Yliranta A,Mäkinen J

更新日期：2020-12-09 00:00:00