Objectives: Subcortical ischaemic vascular disease (SIVD) is a subtype of vascular cognitive impairment characterised by extensive white matter lesions and multiple lacunar infarcts. Radiologically defined diagnostic ...
Background: Various studies have demonstrated abnormal neuropsychological function in boys with the childhood cerebral phenotype of X-linked adrenoleukodystrophy. Not much is known about the cognitive function of neur...
Background: Since the Food and Drug Administration approved DBS, there has been a surge in the number of centers providing the procedure. There is currently no consensus regarding appropriate screening procedures, nec...
Background: Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) and Alzhei- mer’ s disease are clinically distinct disorders, yet neuropsychological stu dies have had variable success in distinguishing them. A possible reason is that stud...
Objective: To establish the occurrence of mental retardation in a group of patients with Mbius syndrome and subsequently, if mental retardation is absent, to screen major aspects of memory and attention, in order to...
Better knowledge of the preclinical phase of Alzheimer’s disease would be an important advance to allow earlier treatment of this ominous disease. This prodr omal period was investigated in the Paquid cohort by analy...
Objective: To determine if individuals ultimately diagnosed with Alzheimer dis ease (AD) exhibited evidence of cognitive impairment on neuropsychological tests administered between1.5 years and 8.1 years before dement...
Background: Subcortical ischemic vascular dementia has been ascribed to promin ent frontal lobe dysfunction secondary to ischemic lesions in frontothalamic cir cuits. Whether smallvessel disease in fact predominantly ...