The Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences

Publication date: 01 July 2018

Publication date: 24 April 2018

Noninvasive brain stimulation refers to a set of technologies and techniques with which to modulate the excitability of the brain via transcranial stimulation. Two major modalities of noninvasive brain stimulation are transcranial magnetic stimulation (...

Publication date: 21 March 2018

Publication date: 30 May 2018

Huntington’s disease is characterized by motor and behavioral symptoms as well as cognitive decline. Apathy is a common behavioral symptom, and its severity is related to disease progression. It has been suggested that Huntington’s disease gene expansion ...

Publication date: 12 January 2018

Unemployment is common for those with Huntington’s disease (HD), a genetic neurodegenerative disorder, and affects patients’ quality of life. HD is characterized by motor disturbances, cognitive dysfunction, and psychiatric symptoms. The purpose of this ...

Publication date: 21 March 2018

Up to 90% of individuals with Huntington’s disease (HD)—a progressive, inherited neurodegenerative disorder—experience apathy. Apathy is particularly debilitating because it is marked by a reduction in goal-directed behaviors, including self-care, social ...

Publication date: 20 February 2018

The “δ” (for “dementia”) is a latent dementia phenotype that can be constructed by a unique confirmatory bifactor model in a structural equation model framework. Because it is derived from Spearman’s general intelligence factor, “g,” δ can be constructed ...

Publication date: 06 April 2018

Patients with behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD) and Alzheimer’s disease (AD) differ in basic emotional tone. Skin conduction levels (SCLs), a measure of sympathetic tone, may be a sensitive test for discriminating these two dementias ...

Publication date: 05 March 2018

Pseudobulbar affect (PBA) is a syndrome of affective disturbance associated with inappropriate laughter and crying, independent of mood. PBA is common in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and increasingly recognized in Parkinson’s disease (PD) and ...

Publication date: 05 March 2018

Mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) is highly prevalent, with an estimated occurrence in the United States of more than 1.3 million per year. While one consequence of mTBI is impulsive aggressive behavior, very few studies have examined the relationship ...

Publication date: 06 April 2018

Dysfunction in the understanding of social signals has been reported in persons with epilepsy, which may partially explain lower levels of life satisfaction in this patient population. Extensive assessment is necessary, particularly when the mesial ...

Publication date: 24 April 2018

Excoriation (skin-picking) disorder (SPD) has similarities to obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and is included within the obsessive-compulsive and related disorders (OCRD) diagnostic class in DSM-5. Separate neuroimaging and neurocognitive studies ...

Publication date: 25 January 2018

Four transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) devices are currently approved for use in treatment-resistant depression. The authors present the first data-driven study examining the patient- and technician-experience using three of these distinct devices. ...

Publication date: 20 February 2018

Publication date: 01 July 2018

Publication date: 01 July 2018