The Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences
- Volume 16
- Number 4
- November 2004
Windows to the Brain
Special Article
Publication date: 01 November 2004
Pages400–408The contribution of cerebellar brain circuits to schizophrenia has been previously alluded to in the literature. This study examines current reappraisals of cerebellar involvement in cognition and behavior. An individual with documented developmental ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/jnp.16.4.400Publication date: 01 November 2004
Pages409–425Dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) is a common cause of dementia with effects on cognition, mood, behavior, and function. Changes in the acetylcholine system have been reported in brains of patients with DLB, which provides a rationale for trials of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/jnp.16.4.409Regular Article
Publication date: 01 November 2004
Pages426–434The authors examined the prevalence and clinical correlates of pathological laughing and crying (PLC) using the Pathological Laughter and Crying Scale (PLAC) in 92 consecutive patients with acute symptoms 3, 6, and 12 months after traumatic brain injury (...
https://doi.org/10.1176/jnp.16.4.426Publication date: 01 November 2004
Pages435–442The disturbance of motivation and its relationship to depression continues to spark contradictory findings among European and North American populations. Could a cross-cultural study shed some light on the situation? This study aims to detect the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/jnp.16.4.435Publication date: 01 November 2004
Pages443–445Nineteen children were acutely dysphoric, inattentive, irritable, and sometimes mute following midline posterior fossa neoplasm resection and arteriovenous malformation hemorrhage. These symptoms represent an acute manifestation of the cerebellar ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/jnp.16.4.443Publication date: 01 November 2004
Pages446–455In order to evaluate the suprahypothalamic neuroanatomical sites of relevance to adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH) and cortisol regulation, single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) investigation of induced sadness was combined with a linear ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/jnp.16.4.446Publication date: 01 November 2004
Pages456–464The anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) and lateral prefrontal (LPFC) cortex are brain regions important to executive cognitive functions (ECF). We determined ACC and LPFC function in 23-day abstinent cocaine abusers using positron emission tomography (PET H2...
https://doi.org/10.1176/jnp.16.4.456Publication date: 01 November 2004
Pages465–471In recent years, maintenance electroconvulsive therapy (M-ECT) has been a common treatment within psychiatric practice. Little information is available regarding the cognitive risks of this treatment, however. In this study, twenty psychiatric outpatients ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/jnp.16.4.465Publication date: 01 November 2004
Pages472–479Twenty-six patients with schizophrenia and 12 patients with schizophrenia-like psychosis of epilepsy (SLPE) were compared to 38 healthy volunteers and 12 nonpsychotic patients with epilepsy to determine the contribution of psychosis to the pattern of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/jnp.16.4.472Publication date: 01 November 2004
Pages480–487The authors explored relationships between neuropsychological performance and neurological exam abnormalities in 86 never-medicated patients with nonorganic psychosis (59 with schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder) and 51 healthy subjects. Assessments ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/jnp.16.4.480Publication date: 01 November 2004
Pages488–492By using [18F]-2-fluoro-deoxy-d-glucose and positron emission tomography, the authors studied changes in regional glucose metabolism after a 1-year interval in patients with mild Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Glucose metabolism declined over time in the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/jnp.16.4.488Clinical and Research Reports
Publication date: 01 November 2004
Pages493–499The objectives of this study were to compare diagnoses of postconcussional syndrome between the International Classification of Diseases, 10th revision (ICD-10) and Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 4th ed. (DSM-IV). The patient ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/jnp.16.4.493Publication date: 01 November 2004
Pages500–504The authors followed nine patients with Nipah virus encephalitis over the course of 24 months. Eight of the nine developed psychiatric features assigned to the encephalitis. Three patients developed major depressive disorder immediately after recovering ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/jnp.16.4.500Publication date: 01 November 2004
Pages505–508The authors report a patient with biopsy-proven temporal arteritis who manifested Charles Bonnet syndrome (CBS). Treatment with steroid resulted in prompt resolution of visual hallucinations, despite persistent visual loss, suggesting that cerebral ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/jnp.16.4.505Neuropsychiatric Practice and Opinion
Publication date: 01 November 2004
Pages509–524The author proposes a general model of human motivation as a separate function at the interface between emotion and action, which can be ascribed to subcortical circuits that are mainly centered on a subset of the basal ganglia and on their limbic ...
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