A case of semantic variant primary progressive aphasia with Pick's pathology.

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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：:We assessed visuospatial abilities in PCA. Sequential display of two simple geometric figures enhanced detection and discrimination relative to simultaneous display (Exps 1 & 2). Comparing edges of a single object enhanced discrimination relative to comparing edges of two separate objects, consistent with object-based...

journal_title：Neurocase

authors： Fernandez-Duque D,Black SE

更新日期：2020-04-01 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：: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：: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：: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：: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：:Vagus Nerve Stimulation (VNS) is approved by the FDA for treatment of both epilepsy and depression. Recent work has shown that VNS acutely affects pain perception in humans, actually increasing pain sensitivity momentarily while the device is firing. It is unclear how this acutely increased sensitivity might change ov...

journal_title：Neurocase

authors： Borckardt JJ,Anderson B,Andrew Kozel F,Nahas Z,Richard Smith A,Jackson Thomas K,Kose S,George MS

更新日期：2006-08-01 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：:A deficit of declarative memory is a common sequela after a hypoxic episode. While the role of gray matter changes (i.e., atrophy of hippocampal formation) as mainly responsible for memory loss has been emphasized, the role of the white matter damage has so far been neglected. The present study was aimed at evaluating...

journal_title：Neurocase

authors： Di Paola M,Moscatelli A,Bigler ED,Caltagirone C,Carlesimo GA

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case report is presented detailing the successful use of awake intraoperative memory testing while using white matter stimulation in order to isolate the fornix tracks involved in memory function. The identification of the white matter tracks of the fornix that were involved in memory function was used to tailor the...

journal_title：Neurocase

authors： Brandling-Bennett EM,Bookheimer SY,Horsfall JL,Moftakhar P,Sedrak M,Barkulis CT,Gertsch JH,MacDougall MG,Boucharel W,Nuwer MR,Bergsneider M

更新日期：2012-02-01 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

abstract：:The delay between cardiac arrest and brain MRI is usually extremely different in the few cerebral imaging studies assessing the affected brain areas. We report an unusual case of loss of psychic self-activation appeared immediately after a cardiac arrest in a middle age patient. The first brain MRI, one month after th...

journal_title：Neurocase

authors： Martinaud O,Le Goff F,Carlier J,Pouliquen D,Gérardin E,Savouré A

更新日期：2019-01-01 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：:BVR was 77 years old when he sustained a large posterior cerebral artery territory infarct. Medical, cognitive and functional data collected on four occasions over 10 years initially revealed circumscribed neurological signs, no functional or cognitive deficits. BVR became significantly impaired only after two other s...

journal_title：Neurocase

authors： Piguet O,Bennett HP,Waite LM,Kril JJ,Creasey H,Anthony Broe G,Halliday GM

更新日期：2006-04-01 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：: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：: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：:Expanding our knowledge of the history of dementia may be beneficial for its holistic understanding. This article aims to review the trajectory of the concepts of dementia in the world and Japan. Historical backgrounds of major dementia diseases are also addressed. The first reference to "imbecility" appeared in Greec...

journal_title：Neurocase

authors： Fukui T

更新日期：2015-01-01 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