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

abstract：:What distinguishes the recall of real-life experiences from that of self-created, fictitious emotionally laden information? Both kinds of information belong to the episodic memory system. Autobiographic memories constitute that part of the episodic memory system that is composed of significant life episodes, primarily...

journal_title：Behavioural neurology

authors： Markowitsch HJ,Thiel A,Reinkemeier M,Kessler J,Koyuncu A,Heiss WD

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The paper examines the ability of Statistical Parametric Mapping (SPM) to contribute towards the quantitative analysis of HMPAO SPECT images containing lesions. A validation study is described in which SPECT images were created that contained synthetic lesions and were analysed with SPM. The study established a set of...

journal_title：Behavioural neurology

authors： Stamatakis EA,Wilson JT,Wyper DJ

更新日期：2000-01-01 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：:The present study examined the differential contribution of cortical and subcortical brain structures in emotional processing by comparing patients with focal cortical lesions (n = 32) to those with primarily subcortical dysregulation of the basal ganglia (Parkinson's disease n = 14). A standardized measure of emotion...

journal_title：Behavioural neurology

authors： Breitenstein C,Daum I,Ackermann H

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of late onset sporadic startle syndrome in a patient with a right posterior fossa brain tumour is reported. The exaggerated startle response did not respond to treatment with clonazepam. In addition to anxiety and depression, the patient developed obsessive- compulsive symptoms which responded to behavioural th...

journal_title：Behavioural neurology

authors： Gonzalez A,Philpot MP

更新日期：1998-01-01 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：:Aiming and tapping movements were analysed repeatedly over a three-week period in a patient who was hemideafferented due to an ischaemic posterior thalamic lesion. Contrasting behaviour observed in six healthy subjects, nine hemiparetic patients and one patient with hemianopic stroke, allowed the determination of beha...

journal_title：Behavioural neurology

authors： Platz T,Mauritz KH

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This report presents a syndrome resembling obsessive convulsive disorder (OCD) secondary to a stroke in the left basal ganglia. The patient's syndrome is virtually identical to those that have been described in bilateral damage of the basal ganglia. However, the stroke described in this case report is located unilater...

journal_title：Behavioural neurology

authors： Lopez-Rodriguez F,Gunay I,Glaser N

更新日期：1997-01-01 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：: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：:This study examined hemispatial bias in a free-viewing condition of the judgement of facial expressions of emotions. Right-handed male subjects were asked to judge the intensity, in terms of expressiveness, of facial emotion in normal and mirror-reversed orientations. Expressions in mirror-reversed orientation were pe...

journal_title：Behavioural neurology

authors： Asthana HS,Mandal MK

更新日期：1996-01-01 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：: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：:Visual reaction time (RT) studies on patients with right hemisphere (RH) damage have demonstrated that the attentional imbalance to stimuli occupying left and right positions exists even within the "intact" ipsilesional hemifield. The purpose of the present study was to test whether such patients might also exhibit re...

journal_title：Behavioural neurology

authors： Mattingley JB,Bradshaw JL

更新日期：1994-01-01 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：: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：:We investigated completion phenomenon for proverbs in cases demonstrating transcortical sensory aphasia due to a variety of diseases. Lack of this completion was exclusively observed in patients with focal atrophy. These patients showed a selective and consistent impairment in word comprehension without phonemic cue e...

journal_title：Behavioural neurology

authors： Nakagawa Y,Tanabe H,Ikeda M,Kazui H,Ito K,Inoue N,Hatakenaka Y,Sawada T,Ikeda H,Shiraishi J

更新日期：1993-01-01 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：:We describe a cross-sectional study of aggressive behaviour in a sample of patients suffering from Huntington's disease in a residential nursing home. Data were obtained using the RAGE, a behaviourally oriented rating scale for measuring aggressive behaviour in cognitively impaired patients. Nursing staff rated 27 pat...

journal_title：Behavioural neurology

authors： Shiwach RS,Patel V

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of the Gilles de la Tourette syndrome from Guyana in South America is presented. The patient had a positive family history as well as coprolalia, echolalia, and attention deficit disorder with hyperactivity. The family history and cross-cultural similarity emphasise the biological factors in the aetiology of th...

journal_title：Behavioural neurology

authors： Eapen V,Robertson MM

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dementia of frontal lobe type may precede motor signs in a number of adult patients with amyotrophy. Neuropathological studies have shown neuron loss, spongiosis and gliosis mainly in layers II and III of the frontal and temporal lobes, together with myelin pallor of the subcortical white matter. Golgi studies reveale...

journal_title：Behavioural neurology

authors： Ferrer I

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A déjà vu experience is a dissociative phenomenon, which can be characterized as a subjectively inappropriate impression of familiarity of the present with an undefined past. This paper reviews empirical studies on déjà vu experiences and summarizes the most salient findings. Overall, the findings appear to be inconsi...

journal_title：Behavioural neurology

authors： Sno HN,Schalken HF,de Jonghe F

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The clinical and neuroradiological findings of three patients with marked palilalia due to different neurological disorders are reported. These cases and others in the literature suggest the possibility of different variations. "Spasmodic, heterophonic palilalia" is typically observed in Parkinson's syndrome and pseud...

journal_title：Behavioural neurology

authors： Ikeda M,Tanabe H

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a patient who developed severe ideomotor apraxia (IA) and subcortical aphasia after a hemorrhage involving the posterior part of the left thalamus and the posterior limb of the internal capsule. The cerebral blood flow (CBF) of the left hemisphere as measured by 99Tc-HM-PAO SPECT was initially diminished as...

journal_title：Behavioural neurology

authors： Schnider A,Landis T,Rösler HR

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirteen patients with idiopathic Parkinson's disease of recent onset (mean age 63·2 years) and a group of 10 young healthy volunteers (mean age 26·1 years) underwent a series of neuropsychological tests for assessment of memory, learning ability and mental processing speed before and during treatment with trihexyphen...

journal_title：Behavioural neurology

authors： Schelosky L,Benke T,Poewe W

更新日期：1991-01-01 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：:Patients with focal brain-damage, right/left hemisphere-damage (RHD/LHD) and anterior/posterior region-damage (ARD/PRD), and normal controls (NC) were asked to match photographs of top-bottom facial parts expressing different emotions, positive (happy, surprise), negative-aroused (fear, anger), negative-nonaroused (sa...

journal_title：Behavioural neurology

authors： Asthana HS,Mandal MK,Tandon SC,Asthana S

更新日期：1991-01-01 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：:Eighty-five patients with idiopathic spasmodic torticollis were compared with an equally chronic group of 49 cervical spondylosis sufferers in terms of body concept, depression, and disability. The torticollis patients were significantly more depressed and disabled and had a more negative body concept. Depression had ...

journal_title：Behavioural neurology

authors： Jahanshahi M,Marsden CD

更新日期：1990-01-01 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：:This paper critically examines three strands of evidence that concern the relationship between type A behaviours and coronary heart disease; prospective epidemiological studies of healthy populations, studies of those at high risk for coronary heart disease, and angiographic studies of atherosclerosis. The first of th...

journal_title：Behavioural neurology

authors： Bennett P,Carroll D

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tardive dystonia was identified in 25 patients: involvement of the face and neck was most common; truncal and limb dystonia were also observed. There were 3 cases of laryngospasm and 2 of spasmodic dysphonia. The latter has not been previously reported as a manifestation of tardive dystonia. In all cases, movements ty...

journal_title：Behavioural neurology

authors： Davis RJ,Cummings JL,Hierholzer RW

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00