2012 January - 7 articles
Neuroimaging is continuously advancing at a rapid rate and has progressed from excluding relatively uncommon secondary causes (stroke, tumor) to assisting with early diagnosis and subtype of dementia. Structural imaging has given way to functional, m...
Alexia may be divided into different subtypes, with semantic paralexia being particularly rare. A 57 year old woman with a discreet left thalamic stroke and semantic paralexia is described. Language evalution with the Boston Diagnostic Aphasia Batter...
Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a progressive, chronic neurodegenerative disorder for which there is no known cure. Physical exercise programs may be used to assist with the physical management of PD. Several studies have demonstrated that community base...
CT angiography (CTA) has improved significantly over the past few years such that the reconstructed images of the cerebral arteries may now be equivalent to conventional digital angiography. The new technology of 64 slice multi-detector CTA can recon...
We report 2 cases that were considered to be neuro-Sweet disease. They initially manifested with meningoencephalitis and no skin lesions, and rapidly improved with corticosteroid therapy. In both cases, patients complained of meningitic symptoms such...
Alexia with agraphia is defined as an acquired impairment affecting reading and writing ability. It can be associated with aphasia, but can also occur as an isolated entity. This impairment has classically been associated with a left angular gyrus le...
Visual perception disorder detection may be challenging with several dozen different syndromes identifiable. These may range from hypofunction to hyperfunction in the topological as well as hodological dimensions of cerebral structure. We report here...
