[PDF] Top 20 Dement. neuropsychol. vol.5 número2

... The authors concluded that persons deaf from birth who work with computers presented higher levels of atten- tion, sustained attention and resistance to interference when compared to t[r] ... See full document

... 6. Lepow L, Van Sweringen J, Strutt AM, et al. Frontal and tempo- ral lobe involvement on verbal fluency measures in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. J Clin Exp Neuropsychol 2010;32:913-922. 7. Nitrini R, Caramelli ... See full document

... Cogni- tive impairment is a common symptom in patients with PD, as dementia or as cognitive impairment no dementia.. Authors excluded patients with demen- tia or familial parkinsonism, [r] ... See full document

... Conclusion: The clinical diagnosis of progressive non-fluent aphasia secondary to corticobasal degeneration hinged on a specific pattern of impaired cognition as well as an extrapyram[r] ... See full document

... The present study is concerned with memory for spa- tial information and therefore assesses the visuospatial sketchpad proposed by Baddeley and Hitch. The aim was to investigate how age, gender and educational level ... See full document

... Evaluation of resistance to interference capacity - paced auditory serial addition test (PASAT) adapted to paced visual serial addition test (PVSAT): Individuals deaf from birth who [r] ... See full document

... A descriptive survey design study was performed. A questionnaire was designed including data on sociodemo- graphic characteristics such as age, gender and educational level as predictor variables. Eight “yes” or “no” ... See full document

... Coordinator of the Psychoeducational Intervention Group for Caregivers of Elderly patient with Alzheimer’s Disease from the Rehabilitation Center and Geriatric Day Care Hospital at the [r] ... See full document

... Conclusion: Findings demonstrated that schizophrenia was associated to worse cognitive impairment in long-term institutionalized elderly patients compared with institutionalized patien[r] ... See full document

... Table 2 contains data for the cognitive variables, the Bousfield measure, and GDS scores. The analysis revealed a significant difference between the two groups for the GDS (p=0.035), with young participants reporting a ... See full document

... The sociodemographic data were collected using a questionnaire including the following variables: gender, age, schooling, marital status, family income, occupation (worked and/or retired) and time studying at the UnATI ... See full document

... The present study assessed the performance of 119 Brazilian children on three phonemic fluency tasks and three semantic fluency tasks, analyzed the effects of age on performance, and [r] ... See full document

... The areas most strongly related to naming and to semantic errors were the medial temporal structures, thalami, superior and inferior temporal gyri, especially their anterior parts, as w[r] ... See full document

... The key terms used were: prospective memory, memory for intentions, delayed memory and memory for future actions, separately and also combined with the search terms dementia, Alzheimer[r] ... See full document

... Results: Significant differences (p=0.04) were observed in scores on the digit backward test during exercise when young individuals were compared to healthy older adults.. This result[r] ... See full document

... 1. Hebert LE, Scherr PA, Bienias JL, Bennett DA, Evans DA. Alzheimer disease in the US population: prevalence estima- tes using the 2000 census. Arch Neurol 2003;60:1119-1122. 2. Lobo A, Launer LJ, Fratiglioni L, et al. ... See full document

... Yassuda [Grupo de Neurologia Cognitiva e do Comportamento do Departamento de Neu- rologia da Faculdade de Medicina da USP; Departamento de Gerontolo- gia, Escola de Artes, Ciências e H[r] ... See full document

... Memantine is a non-competitive antagonist with mod- erate affinity for NMDA (N-methyl-d-aspartate) type re- ceptors of glutamate and this promotes a reduction in the pathologic neuronal excitotoxicity induced by this ... See full document

... 50. Barak Y, Plopski I, Tadger S, Paleacu D. Escitalopram versus risperidone for the treatment of behavioral and psychotic symptoms associated with Alzheimer’s disease: a randomized double-blind pilot study. Int ... See full document

... to 5 years lat- er; EM-CBD patients presented with a variety of motor symptoms, in some patients there was coincident onset of cognitive or behavioral changes; most common symptoms in the bvFTD-CBD cases were ... See full document