OBJECTIVE A secondary analysis of our data to investigate if sex influences the specificity of the relationship between each of the 3 clinical syndromes (i.e., reality distortion, disorganization and psychomotor poverty) in schizophrenia and the neurocognitive functions that are thought to represent regional brain functions. PATIENTS AND DESIGN Fifty-seven male and 30 female patients with a D...

Objective: Many studies have shown that non-motor symptoms can precede the decline of cognitive and motor function in neurocognitive disorders, and constipation is known to be one of them. Our aim is to evaluate cognitive functions in Korean elderly taking laxatives due to constipation. Method: We used data from the Korean Longitudinal Study on Health and Aging (KLoSHA), which is a community-ba...

Objective: Many studies have shown that non-motor symptoms can precede the decline of cognitive and motor function in neurocognitive disorders, and constipation is known to be one of them. Our aim is to evaluate cognitive functions in Korean elderly taking laxatives due to constipation. Method: We used data from the Korean Longitudinal Study on Health and Aging (KLoSHA), which is a community-ba...

UNLABELLED The critical challenge in abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) research is the accurate diagnosis and assessment of AAA progression. Angiogenesis is a pathologic hallmark of AAA, and CD105 is highly expressed on newly formed vessels. Our goal was to use (64)Cu-labeled anti-CD105 antibody Fab fragment for noninvasive assessment of angiogenesis in the aortic wall in a murine model of AAA. ...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Given the frequency of executive dysfunction in Parkinson's disease (PD), we wonder to what extent this fact might influence the coping strategies which are used. METHODS A total of 135 PD patients with no dementia were divided into two groups according to their cognitive status ('with frontal type executive impairment' or 'without frontal type executive executive impai...

BACKGROUND The absence of markers for ante-mortem diagnosis of progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP), results in this disorder being commonly mistaken for other conditions, such as idiopathic Parkinson's disease (IPD). Such mistakes occur particularly in the initial stages, when "plus syndrome" has not yet clinically emerged. OBJECTIVE To investigate the global brain volume and tissue loss in ...

BACKGROUND Existing tools for rapid cognitive assessment in HIV-positive individuals with mild cognitive deficits lack sensitivity or do not meet psychometric requirements for tracking changes in cognitive ability over time. METHODS Seventy-five nondemented HIV-positive patients were evaluated with the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA), a brief battery of standardized neuropsychological te...

Forty-eight patients, each with a single frontal lobe lesion, were tested with a battery of 10 of the most widely used neuropsychological tests, comprising five traditional "frontal" tests and five others, for which that claim is not generally made. All correlations among the tests in the group were positive and significant. Moreover, the average correlation between each frontal test and the ot...