The Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences
- Volume 3
- Number 4
- November 1991
Publication date: 01 November 1991
Pages364–370A prospective cross-sectional investigation examining the relationship of neuropsychological and behavioral changes to the occurrence of delusions in dementia syndromes was conducted. Nineteen patients had Alzheimer's disease (AD), and 14 had multi-...
https://doi.org/10.1176/jnp.3.4.364Publication date: 01 November 1991
Pages371–376In a consecutive sample of 230 community-dwelling patients with probable Alzheimer's disease, a structured interview yielded evidence of current hallucinations in 29.1% and misperceptions in another 11.3%. Visual and auditory modalities were similarly ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/jnp.3.4.371Publication date: 01 November 1991
Pages377–382We reviewed the records of 42 patients with Wilson's disease participating in a zinc acetate treatment protocol and interviewed 17 of them. Five of the patients studied were asymptomatic. A significant number of symptomatic patients (64.8%) reported ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/jnp.3.4.377Publication date: 01 November 1991
Pages383–386The large, hyperchromic, cholinergic neurons of the nucleus basalis of Meynert (nbM) and the presence of senile plaques were quantified in postmortem brain tissue from 10 intellectually impaired schizophrenic patients, seven intellectually intact ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/jnp.3.4.383Publication date: 01 November 1991
Pages387–391A quantitative magnetic resonance imaging study of regional brain T1 spin-lattice relaxation times in 29 normal volunteers and in 20 patients with major depression revealed significantly shortened T1 relaxation times for the hippocampus in depressed ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/jnp.3.4.387Publication date: 01 November 1991
Pages392–397A brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) study of the corpus callosum in 36 normal volunteers, ages 26-79 years, revealed that age was positively correlated with the T1 spin-lattice relaxation time of the corpus callosum and was negatively correlated with ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/jnp.3.4.392Publication date: 01 November 1991
Pages398–404The diagnostic performance of the expert system EVINCE was compared with that of 85 clinicians in diagnosing 10 patients suspected of suffering from dementia. A multidisciplinary expert committee provided a standard diagnosis as reference for comparison. ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/jnp.3.4.398Publication date: 01 November 1991
Pages405–411In this pilot study, a prolonged (interictal) delirium was induced by electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) in seven out of seven depressed patients with Parkinson's disease. This occurrence of delirium appears much higher than what has been reported in other ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/jnp.3.4.405Publication date: 01 November 1991
Pages412–416We examined the effects of anticholinergic medication on memory function in 113 patients with idiopathic Parkinson's disease (PD). Subjects were divided into three disease duration groups: early, middle, and advanced. The battery consisted of three tasks ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/jnp.3.4.412Publication date: 01 November 1991
Pages417–421Patients with Tourette's syndrome (TS) were grouped on the basis of levels of urinary phenylethylamine (PEA). These groups of TS patients were compared on an extensive battery of neuropsychological measures converted to age-corrected T scores based on ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/jnp.3.4.417Publication date: 01 November 1991
Pages422–428Comprehensive neuropsychological evaluations were performed on 103 asymptomatic, HIV-1 antibody seropositive U.S. Army males to assess cognitive impairment. The sample was demographically heterogeneous. Using established clinical norms, 37.9% of the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/jnp.3.4.422Publication date: 01 November 1991
Pages429–430This study investigates the relationship between abnormal neurologic findings and periodic limb movements (PLMs). Neurologic abnormalities were found to be statistically related to the occurrence of PLMs on polysomnographic study. The neurologic ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/jnp.3.4.429Publication date: 01 November 1991
Pages431–435The flash visual evoked potential P2 component is delayed in etiologically mixed groups of demented patients compared to healthy controls or nondemented patients. This study compared patients meeting both DSM-III-R criteria for dementia and NINCDS-ADRDA ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/jnp.3.4.431Publication date: 01 November 1991
Pages436–439Previous articles in this series have described how receiver operating characteristic (ROC) graphs provide comprehensive graphic representations of the diagnostic performance of non-binary tests and have explained how one constructs "trapezoidal" ROC ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/jnp.3.4.436Article
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