BACKGROUND Parkinson disease with dementia (PDD) results from neuropathological changes in cortical and subcortical brain regions. Voxel-based morphometric analysis of magnetic resonance images can contribute to in vivo identification of the cerebral regions predominantly involved in PDD. OBJECTIVE To identify structural cerebral regions most closely related to the presence of PDD. DESIGN M...

Maternal mental disorders are known risk factors for child mistreatment. However, little is known about the involvement of maternal developmental disorder traits. The aim of this study was to examine maternal traits related to Pervasive Developmental Disorder (PDD) and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), and their possible association with child mistreatment. Maternal PDD and ADHD ...

INTRODUCTION A prospective study to evaluate the reliability of cystoscopy was performed with fluorescence (photodynamic diagnosis, PDD) compared with standard white light (WL) cystoscopy in patients with solitary carcinoma in situ (CIS), undergoing BCG treatment. MATERIALS AND METHODS Between February 2004 and March 2006, 49 patients suffering from CIS were enrolled in the study. Patients ag...

Dementia, a condition that frequently afflicts patients in advanced stages of Parkinson's disease (PD), results in decreased quality of life and survival time. Nevertheless, the pathological mechanisms underlying Parkinson's disease dementia (PDD) are not completely understood. The symptoms characteristic of PDD may be the result of functional and structural deficiencies. The present study impl...

This study examined everyday action impairment in participants with Parkinson's disease dementia (PDD) by comparison with participants with Parkinson's disease-no dementia (PD) or Alzheimer's disease (AD) and in reference to a neuropsychological model. Participants with PDD (n = 20), PD (n = 20), or AD (n = 20) were administered performance-based measures of everyday functioning that allowed fo...

Abstract This work deals with emphasizing the relation between particle dimension distribution of nanocellulose (PDD) particles its efficiency as stabilizing/adsorbent agent Indigo dye. In this respect, different pulping reagents were used in preparation Rice straw pulps precursors for nanocelluloses using acid hydrolysis and oxidizing agents [(KMnO 4 NH ) 2 S O 8 ] methods. The PDD was estimat...

A 5-month-old female Citron-crested Cockatoo (Cacatua sulphurea citrinocristata) that was born and hand-reared in Japan died with suspected proventricular dilatation disease (PDD). Macroscopic and microscopic examinations of the bird revealed characteristic features of PDD, i.e., distention of the proventriculus and infiltration of lymphocytes and plasma cells in ganglia of various organs and i...

The performance of two screening instruments for pervasive developmental disorders was studied in the total population of children and adolescents with mental retardation between 4 and 18 years (N=1059) in Friesland, a northern province of the Netherlands. Parents completed the ABC, staff completed the PDD-MRS. The screening instruments were related to the ADI-R and ADOS for 184 participants. T...

Previous studies indicate that Multiple Complex Developmental Disorder (MCDD) children differ from PDD-NOS and autistic children on a symptom level and on psychophysiological functioning. Children with MCDD (n = 21) and PDD-NOS (n = 62) were compared on two facets of social-cognitive functioning: identification of neutral faces and facial expressions. Few significant group differences emerged. ...

AIMS Using fMRI, we evaluated the default mode network (DMN) and the extrastriate visual resting state network (ESV-RSN) in 14 patients with Parkinson's disease dementia (PDD) as compared with 18 patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) without dementia and 18 healthy controls (HC). METHODS We analyzed the seed-based functional connectivity of both resting state data and deactivations during a ...