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：:The aim of the present paper was to investigate the fundamental ethical issues of Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) on patients remaining in Persistent Vegetative State (PVS). First, the purpose of this analysis was to discuss the nature of this intervention in order to classify it such as an ordinary clinical practice, or...

journal_title：Behavioural neurology

authors： Patuzzo S,Manganotti P

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Patients with clinically isolated syndrome (CIS) demonstrate brain hemodynamic changes and also suffer from difficulties in processing speed, memory, and executive functions. OBJECTIVE:To explore whether brain hemodynamic disturbances in CIS patients correlate with executive functions. METHODS:Thirty CIS p...

journal_title：Behavioural neurology

authors： Papadaki EZ,Simos PG,Mastorodemos VC,Panou T,Maris TG,Karantanas AH,Plaitakis A

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The prevalence of psychiatric disturbance for patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) is higher than that observed in other chronic health conditions. We report three cases of MS and bipolar disorder and we discuss the possible etiological hypothesis and treatment options. OBSERVATIONS:All patients fulfilled ...

journal_title：Behavioural neurology

authors： Sidhom Y,Ben Djebara M,Hizem Y,Abdelkefi I,Kacem I,Gargouri A,Gouider R

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To study risk factors related to ischemic stroke (IS) in youth and the influence of sleep quality on youth ischemic stroke incidence. METHODS:223 patients aged 18 to 45 years who were admitted to Puyang People's Hospital from June 2011 to February 2013 with a first-ever ischemic stroke were selected as the r...

journal_title：Behavioural neurology

authors： Zhang S,Chang C,Zhang J,Song B,Fang H,Xu Y

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cannabinoids have been used for hundred of years for medical purposes. To day, the cannabinoid delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) and the cannabis extract nabiximols are approved for the treatment of nausea, anorexia and spasticity, respectively. In Tourette syndrome (TS) several anecdotal reports provided evidence th...

journal_title：Behavioural neurology

authors： Müller-Vahl KR

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Tourette syndrome (TS) is a neuropsychiatric disorder with childhood onset characterized by chronic motor and vocal tics. The typical clinical course of an attenuation of symptoms during adolescence in parallel with the emerging self-regulatory control during development suggests that plastic processes may p...

journal_title：Behavioural neurology

authors： Eichele H,Plessen KJ

更新日期：2013-01-01 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：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：INTRODUCTION:Gilles de la Tourette Syndrome (GTS) is a childhood-onset hyperkinetic movement disorder defined by the chronic presence of multiple motor tics and at least one vocal tic and often complicated by co-morbid behavioural problems. The pharmacological treatment of GTS focuses on the modulation of monoaminergic...

journal_title：Behavioural neurology

authors： Waldon K,Hill J,Termine C,Balottin U,Cavanna AE

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:All published studies on micrographia, a diminution of letter size, examine handwriting in the horizontal direction. Writing horizontally typically requires increased wrist extension as handwriting progresses from left to right. Chinese characters, however, can be written not only horizontally from left to right, but ...

journal_title：Behavioural neurology

authors： Ma HI,Hwang WJ,Chang SH,Wang TY

更新日期：2013-01-01 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：:The case is reported of a patient (PS) who, following acute encephalitis with residual occipito-temporal damage, showed a selective deficit in writing cursive letters in isolation, but no difficulty to write cursive-case words and non-words. Notably, he was able to recognize the same allographs he could not write and ...

journal_title：Behavioural neurology

authors： Menichelli A,Machetta F,Zadini A,Semenza C

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our purpose in undertaking the present study was to examine the hypotheses proposed for explaining the frequent comorbidity of bipolar disorder and multiple sclerosis. One hypothesis posits that, when there is comorbidity, MS plays a causal role in psychiatric manifestations. Another suggests that both disorders have ...

journal_title：Behavioural neurology

authors： Kosmidis MH,Bozikas VP,Giannouli V,Karavatos A,Fokas K

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite a vast literature examining semantic impairment in Alzheimer's disease (AD), consensus regarding the nature of the deficit remains elusive. We re-considered this issue in the context of a framework that assumes semantic cognition can break down in two ways: (1) core semantic representations can degrade or (2) ...

journal_title：Behavioural neurology

authors： Corbett F,Jefferies E,Burns A,Ralph MA

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In addition to motor symptomatology, idiopathic Parkinson's disease is characterized by emotional dysfunction. Depression affects some 30 to 40 percent of Parkinson patients and other psychiatric co-morbidities include anxiety and apathy. Neuropsychological and neuroimaging studies of emotional dysfunction in Parkinso...

journal_title：Behavioural neurology

authors： Blonder LX,Slevin JT

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is good evidence that aphasia therapy is effective if sufficiently prolonged or intensive and that chronic aphasic individuals can also benefit from therapy, but data on chronic aphasia are scanty. The aim of this retrospective study was to investigate whether chronic aphasia benefits from a very intensive thera...

journal_title：Behavioural neurology

authors： Basso A,Macis M

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The global workspace (GW) theory proposes that conscious processing results from coherent neuronal activity between widely distributed brain regions, with fronto-parietal associative cortices as key elements. In this model, transition between conscious and non conscious states are predicted to be caused by abrupt non-...

journal_title：Behavioural neurology

authors： Bartolomei F,Naccache L

更新日期：2011-01-01 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：:Sex-related asymmetries in the ability to process different semantic categories have been reported both in normal subjects and in brain-damaged patients, but the nature of these asymmetries is still controversial. Some authors suggest that these differences might be due to social-role related familiarity factors, wher...

journal_title：Behavioural neurology

authors： Gainotti G,Ciaraffa F,Silveri MC,Marra C

更新日期：2010-01-01 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：: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：:Current research supports the strong potential of structural MRI profiles, even within cross-sectional designs, as a promising method for the discrimination of Alzheimer's Disease (AD) from normal controls and for the prediction of Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) progression and conversion to AD. Findings suggest that...

journal_title：Behavioural neurology

authors： Fennema-Notestine C,McEvoy LK,Hagler DJ Jr,Jacobson MW,Dale AM,The Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative.

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Amyloid imaging represents a major advance in neuroscience, enabling the detection and quantification of pathologic protein aggregations in the brain. In this review we survey current amyloid imaging techniques, focusing on positron emission tomography (PET) with (11)carbon-labelled Pittsburgh Compound-B ((11)C-PIB), ...

journal_title：Behavioural neurology

authors： Rabinovici GD,Jagust WJ

更新日期：2009-01-01 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：:Functional MRI is increasingly recognized for its potential as a powerful new tool in clinical neuropsychology. This is likely due to the fact that, with some degree of innovation, it is possible to convert practically any familiar cognitive test into one that can be performed in the MRI scanning environment. However,...

journal_title：Behavioural neurology

authors： Allen MD,Fong AK

更新日期：2008-01-01 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：: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：:Since the Korean language has two distinct writing systems, phonogram (Hangul) and ideogram (Hanja: Chinese characters), alexia can present with dissociative disturbances in reading between the two systems. A 74-year-old right-handed man presented with a prominent reading impairment in Hangul with agraphia of both Han...

journal_title：Behavioural neurology

authors： Park KC,Yoon SS

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) with dementia (ALS-D) is known to exhibit characteristics of frontotemporal dementia. However, in clinical situations, it is often difficult to evaluate their cognitive functions because of impaired voluntary speech and physical disabilities. In order to identify characteristic and ...

journal_title：Behavioural neurology

authors： Ichikawa H,Koyama S,Ohno H,Ishihara K,Nagumo K,Kawamura M

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The purpose of this study was to analyze the effect of a neuropsychological rehabilitation (NR) program on patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD). METHODS:The sample was composed of 16 elderly outpatients who participated in an open trial with rivastigmine (6 to 12 mg/day) for 4 months and were randomized to...

journal_title：Behavioural neurology

authors： Avila R,Carvalho IA,Bottino CM,Miotto EC

更新日期：2007-01-01 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：:Cognitive impairment in multiple sclerosis is an increasingly recognized entity. This article reviews the cognitive impairment of multiple sclerosis, its prevalence, its relationship to different types of multiple sclerosis, and its contribution to long-term functional prognosis. The discussion also focuses on the key...

journal_title：Behavioural neurology

authors： Pierson SH,Griffith N

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuroimaging studies and experimental data suggest that symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are associated with dysfunctions of neural circuits linking prefrontal cortex and the limbic system that have a role in autobiographic episodic memory. High-frequency repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (r...

journal_title：Behavioural neurology

authors： Rossi S,Cappa SF,Ulivelli M,De Capua A,Bartalini S,Rossini PM

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the evolution of the neurological and neuropsychological characteristics in a right-handed woman who was 53-years-old at the onset and who showed personality changes and behavioral disorders accompanied by progressive dysarthria. She had hypernasality and a slow rate of speech with distorted consonants...

journal_title：Behavioural neurology

authors： Ihori N,Araki S,Ishihara K,Kawamura M

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) was used to study the neural correlates of neutral, stressful, negative and positive autobiographical memories. The brain activity produced by these different kinds of episodic memory did not differ significantly, but a common pattern of activation for different kinds of au...

journal_title：Behavioural neurology

authors： Vandekerckhove MM,Markowitsch HJ,Mertens M,Woermann FG

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Does letter-form constrain errors in peripheral dyslexia? In Hebrew, 5 of the 22 letters have two different letter forms, one is used only when the letter occurs in word-final position, the other form is used in initial and middle positions. Is the information on final-forms encoded in the letter identity information ...

journal_title：Behavioural neurology

authors： Friedmann N,Gvion A

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report findings from a cognitive neuropsychological and psychophysiological investigation of a patient who displayed an exacerbated acute emotional expression during movement, innocuous, and aversive somatosensory stimulation. The condition developed in the context of non-specific white matter ischaemia along with ...

journal_title：Behavioural neurology

authors： Edelstyn NM,Baker SR,Ellis SJ,Jenkinson P

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pathological laughter is an uncommon symptom usually caused by bilateral, diffuse cerebral lesions. It has rarely been reported in association with isolated cerebral lesions. Midbrain involvement causing pathological laughter is extremely unusual. We describe three patients who developed pathological laughter after mi...

journal_title：Behavioural neurology

authors： Dabby R,Watemberg N,Lampl Y,Eilam A,Rapaport A,Sadeh M

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurologists and neuropsychologists are aware that aging men are more at risk than women for brain damage, principally because of the well known male-predominant risk for cardiovascular disease and related cerebrovascular accidents. However, a disproportion in prevalence of brain damage between the sexes in childhood ...

journal_title：Behavioural neurology

authors： Braun CM,Montour-Proulx I,Daigneault S,Rouleau I,Kuehn S,Piskopos M,Desmarais G,Lussier F,Rainville C

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00