Anna M Barrett

..In this article, Dr Barrett explores 10 conditions that may be mistaken for Alzheimer's disease...

..We conclude that monocular patching may primarily affect poststroke PA spatial bias. Further studies on this intervention are needed...

..To develop a quantitative method of assessing cognitive anosognosia in six cognitive and two noncognitive domains...

..We observed less implicit, spatial-syntactic left bias in aged than young participants. These results may be consistent with relatively less dominance of right hemisphere, dorsal spatial systems with aging...

..Although amantadine is used in neurorehabilitation of motivational disorders and head injury, it is not commonly prescribed to improve aphasia. This pilot study examined verbal fluency on and off amantadine for nonfluent speech...

..Although men and women with PD appear to engage different cognitive processes in this task, the reason for the sex difference remains to be elucidated...

..Further, the present findings suggested that the induced ipsilateral bias may be primarily induced by visual deprivation, consistent with compensatory "where" resource re-allocation...

..Clinicians prescribing eye patches to patients with brain injury even for purely ocular indications, should evaluate them for spatial neglect once the patch is in place...

..Because frontal pathophysiology can alter emotional perception, we examined whether emotional perception deficits occur in ALS, and whether they are related to depressive or dementia symptoms...

..Finally, we propose several methods for rehabilitating HSN, including the challenges facing remediation of such a heterogeneous cognitive disorder...

..Stroke survivors are at risk of developing comorbidities that further reduce their quality of life. The purpose of this study was to determine the risk of developing a secondary health problem after stroke...

..In lower body space, normal visual-perceptual-attentional systems may be more biased toward far space than are kinesthetic-motor systems...

..To learn whether young and aged subjects exhibit different recall biases for internally derived (Internal) versus externally supplied (External) material...

..Because hemianopic compensation should map retinotopically and the patient consistently erred body-leftward, the authors conclude that his contralesional errors are consistent with ipsilateral neglect...

..In contrast, the leftward visual-spatial bias may occur in subjects whose cultural and reading background is neither western nor left-to-right...

..We lastly review some creative questions for consideration in future research...

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..The contralateral crus cerebri (pyramidal tract) is pressed against the tentorial incisum and a resultant hemiparesis is found on the same side of the lesion...

..The social, financial and economic impacts will be profound. This article provides an overview of current dementia syndromes to assist clinicians in evaluating, educating and treating these patients...

..Identifying physical, clinical, and social factors that predispose stroke patients to falls may reduce further disability and life-threatening complications, and improve overall quality of life...

..These findings are not consistent with theories stating that feedback from an active face is necessary to experience emotion, or to process emotional facial expressions...

..This study provides further evidence that internally originating items can be used to assess memory. In pAD, memory for internal material with specific attempt to remember may be selectively impaired...

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..However, this work may also advance understanding of safe and adaptive movement in complex environments by neurologically-impaired persons, improving their driving and functional independence. ..