BACKGROUND Chronic bilateral subthalamic deep brain stimulation (STN-DBS) is known to improve motor function in patients with Parkinson disease (PD). However, the possible effects of STN-DBS on neuropsychological functions have been studied less. OBJECTIVE To investigate the effects of STN-DBS on neuropsychological functions in PD. DESIGN Before-after trial. PATIENTS AND METHODS Fifteen c...

Background: Neuropsychiatric symptoms in patients with frontotemporal dementia (FTD) are highly prevalent and may complicate clinical managements. Objective: We tested whether the Neuropsychiatry Inventory (NPI) could detect change neuropsychiatric caregiver´s distress diagnosed behavioral variant (bvFTD) Alzheimer’s disease (AD) from baseline to a 12-month follow-up. Methods: The sample consis...

PURPOSE Congenital amusia (tone deafness) is a disorder in which those affected typically complain of or are identified by their inability to sing in tune. A psychophysical and possibly surrogate marker of this condition is the inability to recognize deviations in pitch that are one semitone (100 cents) or less. The aim of our study was to identify candidate brain regions that might be associat...

Background The COVID-19 pandemic has become a serious global problem that affected almost all aspects of modern society, especially public health. Among the significant health problems one can single out - an increase in number people with cognitive, depressive and anxiety disorders patients. These disoders may be due to severity patient’s condition during period disease, presence events after ...

Clinical neuropsychologists have adopted numerous (and sometimes conflicting) approaches to the assessment of brain-behavior relationships. We review the historical development of these approaches and we advocate an approach to clinical neuropsychology that is informed by recent findings from cognitive neuroscience. Clinical assessment of executive and emotional processes associated with the fr...

OBJECTIVE The aims of this study were to compare distinct brain frontal lobe parcellation methods across 90 brain magnetic resonance imaging scans and examine their associations with cognition in older age. METHODS Three parcellation methods (Manual, FreeSurfer, and Stereology) were applied to T1-weighted magnetic resonance imaging of 90 older men, aged ∼ 73 years. A measure of general fluid ...

In order to discriminate situation awareness (SA) levels on the basis of SA-sensitive electroencephalography (EEG) features, high-SA (HSA) group and low-SA (LSA) groups, which are representative two SA levels, were classified according global assessment technology (SAGAT) scores measured in multi-attribute task battery (MATB) II tasks. Furthermore, three types EEG namely, absolute power, relati...

Impairments in executive functions (EF) in Parkinson's disease (PD) will have a negative influence on daily life. For the assessment objective and subjective measurement approaches are used. It is however unknown whether these approaches contribute in a different way to the assessment of EF in PD. Thirty-nine PD patients and 24 healthy participants completed the Dysexecutive questionnaire (DEX;...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES The neuropsychological exam plays a central role in the assessment of elderly patients with cognitive complaints. It is particularly relevant to differentiate patients with mild dementia from those subjects with mild cognitive impairment. Formal education is a critical factor in neuropsychological performance; however, there are few studies that evaluated the psychomet...

Stroke is a leading cause of disability worldwide. Cognitive functions and, in particular, executive function, are commonly affected after stroke, leading to impairments in performance of daily activities, decrease in social participation and in quality of life. Appropriate assessment and understanding of executive dysfunction are important, firstly to develop better rehabilitation strategies f...