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Personality of patients with upper gastrointestinal symptoms: alexythymia, anxiety, depression and coping style investigation in a preliminary study.
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A Case of Visual Hypoemotionality Induced by Interferon Alpha-2b Therapy in a Patient With Chronic Myeloid Leukemia
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Recognition and naming of famous buildings: Italian normative data
No full textSemantically unique items are concrete entities characterized by a unique cluster of semantic information. In this field, neuropsychology has always given more attention to faces than to other kind of stimuli. An important category that has been largely neglected so far is famous buildings. A total of 200 healthy Italian adults with age, sex and education homogenously distributed across subgroups were administered a famous buildings naming and recognition test, which assessed both visual and verbal modalities. The test was divided in seven sections; norms were calculated taking into account demographic variables such as age, sex and education. Multiple regression analyses showed that education influenced significantly the performance on all subtests; age had a significant effect for five subtests; sex for three subtests. Adjusted scores were used to determine inferential cutoff scores and to compute equivalent scores. © Springer-Verlag 2010
Tests for the evaluation of depression in the elderly: A systematic review
No full textThe incidence of depression in the elderly has risen in recent years, with 30% of people over the age of 65 now reported to suffer from mood disorders. There are a number of possible causes for this increase; moreover, as the symptoms of depression in the elderly are often difficult to identify and interpret, a diagnosis of depression in the elderly may be difficult to make, particularly when other concomitant pathologies mask the signs and symptoms of this disease. There is thus a need to standardize the various self-rating and hetero-evaluation scales used to differentiate between normal and depressed subjects. These tools are designed to investigate and evaluate the various components of depression in depth. They are essential for the diagnosis and therapy in patients who suffer from mood disorders, though it should be borne in mind that these tests need to be preceded and confirmed by a thorough psychiatric examination. (C) 2009 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved
Morphological and functional retinal impairment in Alzheimer's disease patients
No full textObjective: Our study aims to assess the optic nerve fiber layer thickness in vivo, the function of the innermost retinal layer and whether a correlation exists between morphological and functional parameters in patients affected by Alzheimer's Disease (AD).
Methods: Seventeen AD patients (mean age 70.37 +/- 6.1 years, best corrected visual acuity >8/10 with refractive error between +/-3 sf, intra-ocular pressure (IOP) < 18 mmHg) were enrolled. They were compared to 14 age-matched controls. Nerve fiber layer (NFL) thickness was measured by optical coherence tomography (OCT). Three different measurements in each quadrant (superior, inferior, nasal, and temporal) were taken and averaged. The data in all quadrants (12 values averaged) were identified as NFL Overall. Retinal function was assessed by pattern electroretinogram (PERG) recordings using high-contrast (80%) checkerboard stimuli subtending 15 min of the visual are and reversed at the rate of two reversals/s.
Results: In AD eyes, there was a significant (P 0.01) between NFL values and other PERG parameters (N35 implicit time, N35-P50 amplitude) were found.
Conclusions: Our results suggest that in AD patients, there is a reduction of NFL thickness evaluated in vivo by OCT and this morphological abnormality is related to a retinal dysfunction as revealed by abnormal PERG responses
Borderline personality disorder in a neurologically asymptomatic patient with X-linked Adrenoleucodystrophy
No full textScience and visual arts: binomial or dichotomy. a pilot study in systemic lupus erythematosus patients
No full textScientific literature demonstrated the impairment in cognitive/executive functions and pragmatic language in SLE patients, potentially involving also asymptomatic subjects. The present study focuses on the assessment in an SLE cohort of emotional intelligence, which is an ability regulated by the network of the executive functions, cognitive abilities involved in the initiation, planning, organization, and regulation of achievement-oriented behaviors: with emotional. Thus, emotional intelligence, defined as the ability to reason with emotions, was evaluated in a SLE cohort diagnosed according to the 1997 American College of Rheumatology criteria. As control healthy subjects were enrolled. The Mayer-Salovey-Caruso Emotional Intelligence Test (MSCEIT), a skill-scale that measures the ability to perform tasks and solve emotional problems, was administered to patients and controls. Second, a group of SLE patients underwent the Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS) method in order to assess the potential impact of art in cognitive skills like critical thinking, problem solving, and emotional intelligence quotient. The protocol also included the evaluation of the improvement of some skills using a validated VTS skill grid. Self-reported scales for anxiety and depression were performed to rule out the influence of mood disorders on emotional intelligence. The present study demonstrated similar quotient scores of emotional intelligence in SLE patients and healthy controls. Furthermore, VTS method could help in improving this cognitive ability in patients, by implementing critical thinking and problem solving, promoting empathy, and improving tolerance to ambiguity and relational capacity
Pragmatic deficits in Crossed Aphasia withouth typical "neuropsychological right" deficits: a clinical case report
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