[PDF] Top 20 Dement. neuropsychol. vol.2 número3

... In this broadening of the readership of Dementia & Neu- ropsychologia , all members of BAGNP will be receiving the journal, as will members of the Scientific Department of Cogniti[r] ... See full document

... antidepressive, anxiolytic and/or anticonvulsant drugs. The clinical assessment of the patients was conducted in two stages. First, the patient was evaluated by a neu- rologist, who applied the Unified PD Rating Scale ... See full document

... The study identified cerebral areas developed by learning a writing system. According to the authors, oral or written language utilizes: (1) areas in the auditory cortex and in the subcortex for phonological modulation; ... See full document

... Measurements: activities of daily living (Katz and Lawton & Brody questionnaires), mobility (Timed Up and Go Test, Timed Up and Go manual Test and Timed Up and Go Cognitive Test), c[r] ... See full document

... The mean IQCODE score was 3.21 (proxy answer) and 3.26 (elderly answer). Compared to the caregivers, a greater number of elderly subjects were complainers, although there was no statistical difference between the means. ... See full document

... However, FTLD and AD patients showed statistically significant differences in performance in tests of verbal (Logical Memory, Rey Auditory Verbal Learning Test) and visual (Visual Repro[r] ... See full document

... and very early AD has become a central focus of research. The pre-dementia diagnosis is intimately connected to the development of therapies for the prevention of AD. This challenge explains the popularity of the concept ... See full document

... The distress NPI (NPI-D) was developed to measure emotional and psychological burden on caregivers under each NPI symptom domain. Besides information on the presence, frequency, and severity of behavioral symptoms, ... See full document

... antidepressive, anxiolytic and/or anticonvulsant drugs. The clinical assessment of the patients was conducted in two stages. First, the patient was evaluated by a neurolo- gist, who applied the Unified PD Rating Scale ... See full document

... example, if two patients have the same lesion extent but different levels of BRC, the clinical deficit will only appear in the patient with the lower BRC level given that the lesion exceeds the threshold of the BRC. An ... See full document

... Results: The main central autonomic-related structures are described, including cortical areas, subcortical structures (amygdala, thalamus, hypothalamus, brainstem, cerebellum) and spi[r] ... See full document

... A broad spectrum of answers was obtained because there were no set items to choose from on the question- naire. Accordingly, we were able to record spontaneous re- ply, although this may have inadvertently led to bias in ... See full document

... Objective: The goal of this study was to investigate whether the Spanish version of the Addenbrooke’s Cognitive Examination (ACE) is capable of detecting cognitive difficulties in pat[r] ... See full document

... 12. Tombaugh TN, Kozak J, Rees L. Normative data stratified by age and education for two measures of verbal fluency: FAS and animal naming. Arch Clin Neuropsychol 1999;14:167-177. 13. Loonstra AS, Tarlow AR, ... See full document

... Involved a young woman aged 23y4m, bachelor, hold- ing a degree in Letters, who worked as a secretary (Table 2). The symptoms manifested at 16 years, when attend- ing high school and had begun working. She ... See full document

... 8. Lam LC, Lui VW, Chiu HF, Chan SS, Tam CW. Executive func- tion impairment in community elderly subjects with question- able dementia. Dement Geriatr Cogn Disord 2005;19:86-90. 9. Fischer JS, Hannay HJ, Loring ... See full document

... Resumo – Um grande destaque ao hemisfério direito tem sido dado pela sua possível contribuição seletiva no processamento de enunciados metafóricos. Objetivos: Descrever o processamento de metáforas em um caso de um ... See full document

... 2. Kasai M, Ishizaki J, Meguro K. Alzheimer’s diseases do not show left unilateral spatial neglect but exhibit peripheral inattention and simplification. Dement Neuropsychol 2007;1:374-380. ... See full document

... Table 2 shows ‘pass’ or ‘fail’ scores on face recognition tasks. The patient was able to identify race, ages and emo- tions in pictures of unfamiliar people, as well as recog- nize faces of Brazilian actresses, ... See full document

... erable variability between performance on tests of memory and executive functions in patients with focal frontal dam- age, but found striking evidence that the critical deficit for con[r] ... See full document