Sociodemographic, Clinical Variables, and Quality of Life in Patients with Epilepsy in Mekelle City, Northern Ethiopia.

abstract：:We report a right-handed man who developed selective Kana (phonogram) agraphia following an infarct in the non-dominant right cerebral hemisphere. His ability for comprehension, reading and writing of Kanji (ideogram) was unaffected. Kana errors consisted of substitution with another letter and the number of target wo...

journal_title：Behavioural neurology

authors： Abe K,Yokoyama R,Yanagihara T

更新日期：1995-01-01 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：:Psychogenic amnesia is a complex disorder characterised by a wide variety of symptoms. Consequently, in a number of cases it is difficult distinguish it from organic memory impairment. The present study reports a new case of global psychogenic amnesia compared with two patients with amnesia underlain by organic brain ...

journal_title：Behavioural neurology

authors： Serra L,Fadda L,Buccione I,Caltagirone C,Carlesimo GA

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The serum concentration achieved and maintained following the administration of a fixed drug dosage is a direct consequence of the interactions of a wide variety of interrelated processes, including drug absorption, distribution, metabolism, and excretion, and the physiological status of the patient. These interrelati...

journal_title：Behavioural neurology

authors： Johannessen SI

更新日期：1990-01-01 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：:The "psychic tonus" model or PTM [1] of hemispheric specialization states that the left hemisphere is a psychic and behavioral activator and that the right hemisphere is an inhibitor. The PTM predicts that the tonus of visual representation ought to manifest hemispheric specialization in the occipital lobes. Specifica...

journal_title：Behavioural neurology

authors： Braun CM,Guimond A

更新日期：2008-01-01 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：:The term functional amnesia (FA) has been proposed for cases of memory impairment presenting with severe retrograde amnesia in the absence of cerebral injury or history of psychiatric disturbance. Emotional flattening has often been reported alongside FA, however the mechanism of such a modification is unknown. This s...

journal_title：Behavioural neurology

authors： Tramoni E,Khalfa S,Felician O,Trebuchon-Da Fonseca A,Poncet M,Ceccaldi M

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent research has characterized the anatomical connectivity of the cortico-cerebellar system - a large and important fibre system in the primate brain. Within this system, there are reciprocal projections between the prefrontal cortex and Crus II of the cerebellar cortex, which both play important roles in the acqui...

journal_title：Behavioural neurology

authors： Lesage E,Apps MA,Hayter AL,Beckmann CF,Barnes D,Langdon DW,Ramnani N

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three points of interest lie in considering how Alzheimer, and more significantly Perusini, struggled to throw light on the cause of this devastating disease. There is a stimulating possibility that Perusini believed presenile forms of Alzheimer's disease described the same disease as senile forms. If so this would an...

journal_title：Behavioural neurology

authors： Macchi G,Brahe C,Pomponi M

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Primary sexual dysfunctions (SD) are a direct result of neurological changes that affect the sexual response. Secondary SD result from the symptoms that do not directly involve nervous pathways to the genital system, such as bladder and bowel problems, fatigue, spasticity, or muscle weakness. Tertiary SD are the resul...

journal_title：Behavioural neurology

authors： Dobrakowski P,Machowska-Majchrzak A,Labuz-Roszak B,Niewiadomska E,Pierzchala K

更新日期：2020-10-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding the mental states of others entails a number of cognitive processes known as Theory of Mind (ToM). A relationship between ToM deficits and executive disorders has been hypothesized in individuals with Parkinson's disease (PD). The present study was aimed at investigating the effect of dysexecutive defici...

journal_title：Behavioural neurology

authors： Costa A,Peppe A,Martini M,Coletta K,Oliveri M,Caltagirone C,Carlesimo GA

更新日期：2013-01-01 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：:Although proverb tests are commonly used in the mental status examination surprisingly little is known about either normal comprehension or the interpretation of proverbial expressions. Current proverbs tests have conceptual and linguistic shortcomings, and few studies have been done to investigate the specific effect...

journal_title：Behavioural neurology

authors： Van Lancker D

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：Aim:To identify the factors protecting Abeta-positive subjects with normal cognition (NC) or mild cognitive impairment (MCI) from conversion to Alzheimer's disease (AD). Methods:Subjects with MCI in the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI) database, with baseline data for neuropsychological tests, brain ...

journal_title：Behavioural neurology

authors： Zhou B,Tanabe K,Kojima S,Teramukai S,Fukushima M,Neuroimaging Initiative TAD

更新日期：2020-10-29 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a case of a blind woman, M.N., who experienced the Capgras delusion. She thought that her pet cat had been replaced by a replica which was "ill-intentioned" towards her. M.N.'s case shows that the basis of the Capgras delusion cannot lie exclusively in damage to the visual system. However, testing of M.N.'s ...

journal_title：Behavioural neurology

authors： Reid I,Young AW,Hellawell DJ

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Norepinephrine and dopamine are both believed to affect signal-to-noise in the cerebral cortex. Dopaminergic agents appear to modulate semantic networks during indirect semantic priming, but do not appear to affect problem solving dependent on access to semantic networks. Noradrenergic agents, though, do affect semant...

journal_title：Behavioural neurology

authors： Cios JS,Miller RF,Hillier A,Tivarus ME,Beversdorf DQ

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：Objective:To compare baseline and 72-hour hormone levels in women with traumatic brain injury (TBI) and controls. Setting:Hospital emergency department. Participants:21 women ages 18-35 with TBI and 21 controls. Design:Repeated measures. Main Measures:Serum samples at baseline and 72 hours; immunoassays for estradi...

journal_title：Behavioural neurology

authors： Niemeier JP,Perrin PB,Hurst BS,Foureau DM,Huynh TT,Evans SL,Silverman JE,Elise McClannahan M,Brusch BD,Newman M,Mougeot JL,Wagner AK

更新日期：2019-02-12 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：: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：:Subjects with Alzheimer's disease (AD) show loss of cognitive functions and change in behavioral and functional state affecting the quality of their daily life and that of their families and caregivers. A neuropsychological assessment plays a crucial role in detecting such changes from normal conditions. However, desp...

journal_title：Behavioural neurology

authors： Battista P,Salvatore C,Castiglioni I

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Tacrolimus-associated encephalopathy (TAC-E) is usually described under the term of posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome (PRES). However, a large amount of data has suggested that TAC-E is not a homogenous entity: indeed, TAC-E which is often presented with atypical and potentially misleading imaging...

journal_title：Behavioural neurology

authors： Wu Q,Marescaux C,Qin X,Kessler R,Yang J

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a right-handed patient who suffered a ruptured aneurysm of the anterior communicating artery (ACoA) which was clipped successfully. Computerized tomography indicated a low density area in the genu of the corpus callosum and the infero-lateral aspect of the left frontal lobe. On recovery the patient's most ...

journal_title：Behavioural neurology

authors： Parkin AJ,Barry C

更新日期：1991-01-01 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：:There is paucity of computed tomography (CT) studies from developing countries, where schizophrenia is said to have more favourable outcome and present predominantly with positive symptoms. We highlight the densitometric analysis of frontal and parietal areas, assessed by tracing of regions of interest on the slice th...

journal_title：Behavioural neurology

authors： Ohaeri JU,Adeyinka AO,Osuntokun BO

更新日期：1995-01-01 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：:The neuroanatomical region that has most prominently altered with the advancing cognitive competency of the human is the prefrontal cortex, particularly the rostral extreme. While the prefrontal cortex does not appear to contain the neural networks that carry out cognitive activities, the management of these high leve...

journal_title：Behavioural neurology

authors： Benson DF

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients with brain function disorders due to stroke or dementia may show inability to recognize themselves in the mirror. Although the cognitive ability to recognize mirror images has been investigated in many animal species, the animal species that can be used for experimentation and the mechanisms involved in recog...

journal_title：Behavioural neurology

authors： Ueno H,Suemitsu S,Murakami S,Kitamura N,Wani K,Takahashi Y,Matsumoto Y,Okamoto M,Ishihara T

更新日期：2020-02-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuropsychological studies of memory disorders have played a prominent role in the development of theories of memory. To test and refine such theories in future, it will be advantageous to include research that utilizes physiological measures of the neural events responsible for memory. Measures of the electrical acti...

journal_title：Behavioural neurology

authors： Paller KA

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients with unilateral neglect are impaired at making saccades to contralesional targets. Whether this problem arises from a deficit in perception, in planning the saccade or in executing the eye movement or some combination thereof remains unclear. We measured several variables related to the initiation and executi...

journal_title：Behavioural neurology

authors： Behrmann M,Ghiselli-Crippa T,Dimatteo I

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00