[PDF] Top 20 Dement. neuropsychol. vol.6 número3

... reviewed the role of difusion tensor imaging as a biomarker for monitoring vascular disease progression and integrity of white matter tracts, and correlation with cognitive impairment[r] ... See full document

... After cognitive evaluation, 4.6% were diagnosed as CIND (cognitive impairment no dementia) and 12.2% had a diagnosis of dementia (probable vascular dementia in 20 patients and one subj[r] ... See full document

... More recently, vascular dementia again became a focus of attention following clinicopathological studies showing that even a small degree of vascular brain change may cause cognitive[r] ... See full document

... 5 We present the case of a patient diagnosed with Pemphigus vulgaris that developed cognitive complaints before 65 years without previous focal signs or any evidence of other predi[r] ... See full document

... Cerebral Autosomal Dominant Arteriopathy with Subcortical Infarcts and Leukoencephalopathy (CADASIL) is a hereditary cerebral arteriopathy caused by mutations in the Notch-3 gene.. The [r] ... See full document

... In the Framingham Ofspring Study, inlammatory bio- markers were associated with neuroimaging markers of ischemia and dementia (e.g. white matter hyperinten- sities and total brain volume). CD40 ligand, C-reactive ... See full document

... ated decreased appetite to hypoperfusion in left orbito- frontal cortex and left anterior cingulate cortex on SPECT scans. Besides degeneration in hippocampus, atrophy in these structures may play a role in appetite ... See full document

... 7. McKhann GM, Knopman DS, Chertkow H, et al. The diagnosis of de- mentia due to Alzheimer’s disease: Recommendations from the Nation- al Institute on Aging-Alzheimer’s Association workgroups on diagnostic guidelines for ... See full document

... AD: axial diffusivity; ADC: apparent diffusion coefficient; CC: corpus callosum; CN: cognitively normal; FA: fractional anisotropy; IFOF: inferior frontal-occipital fasciculus; HBP: high[r] ... See full document

... diagnostic algorithm for identifying MCI patients and predicting possible etiologies and progression patterns, according to subtypes. his classiication system difer- entiated four subgroups of MCI: amnestic (single and ... See full document

... and is potentially confused with PD, LBD, PSP and oth- er causes of the syndrome. Estimates of the frequency of VP vary greatly worldwide; 3% to 6% of all cases of Parkinsonism are found to have a vascular ... See full document

... he precise mechanisms by which MIs cause cognitive impairment are not well known, but one plau- sible explanation is that they are widespread and ac- companied by difuse hypoperfusion, [r] ... See full document

... he early studies assessing cognitive function using neuropsychological tests in the irst three months after stroke reported associations between speciic neuropsy- chological proiles an[r] ... See full document

... A recent study evaluated cerebral blood low using phase contrast magnetic resonance angiography and cog- nitive testing preoperatively, and at 1, 6, and 12 months postoperatively. Patients with baseline impairment ... See full document

... he aim of this study was to describe the global cog- nitive proile of two groups of patients diagnosed with AD from two diferent regions of Brazil (Palmas, Tocan- tins state and Brasíli[r] ... See full document

... Fifteen out of the 23 studies (65.3%) retrieved reported abnormalities on neuropsychological tests in migraine patients, notably tests of memory, attention and information processing sp[r] ... See full document

... In summary, both igure recognition (slow to apply) and verbal luency (rapid to apply) tests proved to be re- liable instruments for detecting cognitive impairment over the course of th[r] ... See full document

... 26. Nitrini R, Caramelli P, Porto CS, Fichman HC, Formigoni AP. Brief cognitive battery in the diagnosis of mild Alzheimer’s disease in subjects with me- dium and high levels of education. Dement ... See full document

... Memory can be deined as the recording, retention, and retrieval of knowledge. It accounts for all knowl- edge gained from experience – facts that are known, events that are remembered, and skills that are applied. ... See full document

... tion in sample of behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD) patients, who show the most signii- cant behavioural changes in the FTD spectrum, by (i) contrasting the pre- and [r] ... See full document