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Dopaminergic modulation of prospective memory in Parkinson's diseaseAlberto Costa
I R C C S Fondazione Santa Lucia, Roma, Italy
Behav Neurol 19:45-8. 2008..These results support a critical role of dopaminergic modulation in prospective memory processes in PD patients, possibly through the replacement of dopamine levels in fronto-striatal pathways...
The right frontopolar cortex is involved in visual-spatial prospective memoryAlberto Costa
Clinical and Behavioural Neurology Laboratory, Istituto di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico Santa Lucia Foundation, Rome, Italy
PLoS ONE 8:e56039. 2013..In the context of previous data providing evidence for left BA 10 involvement in verbal prospective memory, our results also suggest material-specific lateralization of prospective memory processes in BA 10...
Keeping memory for intentions: a cTBS investigation of the frontopolar cortexAlberto Costa
Laboratorio di Neurologia Clinica e Comportamentale, Istituto di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico Fondazione Santa Lucia, Roma 00179, Italy
Cereb Cortex 21:2696-703. 2011..Our findings corroborate the hypothesis that within the prefrontal cortex, the left BA10 is specifically involved in the mediation of processes related to the execution of delayed intentions...- Prospective memory functioning: a new area of investigation in the clinical neuropsychology and rehabilitation of Parkinson's disease and mild cognitive impairment. Review of evidenceAlberto Costa
IRCCS Fondazione Santa Lucia, Via Ardeatina 306, 00179 Rome, Italy
Neurol Sci 33:965-72. 2012..At the current state of the art, however, no evidence-based protocols are available. Therefore, the discussion proposed here should be considered an attempt to identify some valuable perspectives for future research and interventions... - Prospective memory impairment in individuals with Parkinson's diseaseAlberto Costa
Instituto di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico IRCCS, Fondazione Santa Lucia, Rome, Italy
Neuropsychology 22:283-92. 2008..These results document that prospective memory is impaired in PD possibly in relation to a dysregulation of cognitive functions associated with frontal systems... - Levodopa improves time-based prospective memory in Parkinson's diseaseAlberto Costa
Istituto di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico Fondazione Santa Lucia, Roma, Italy
J Int Neuropsychol Soc 14:601-10. 2008..The increased accuracy in complying with the prospective memory task following levodopa medication supports the idea that dopamine depletion plays a role in the prospective memory deficits observed in PD patients... - Dopamine and cognitive functioning in de novo subjects with Parkinson's disease: effects of pramipexole and pergolide on working memoryAlberto Costa
I R C C S Fondazione Santa Lucia, Roma, Italy
Neuropsychologia 47:1374-81. 2009..The results of the present study show that stimulation of dopaminergic receptors improves high-level WM processes in PD patients, possibly by modulating activity in frontal-striatal circuits... - Effects of deep brain stimulation of the peduncolopontine area on working memory tasks in patients with Parkinson's diseaseAlberto Costa
Laboratorio di Neurologia Clinica e Comportamentale, I R C C S Fondazione Santa Lucia, Rome, Italy
Parkinsonism Relat Disord 16:64-7. 2010..The present findings, although preliminary, suggest that PPN area stimulation facilitates the speed processing of information in the content of WM, possibly through the modulation of the attentional resources... - Prevalence and characteristics of alexithymia in Parkinson's diseaseAlberto Costa
I R C C S Fondazione Santa Lucia, Roma, Italy
Psychosomatics 51:22-8. 2010..Alexithymia, a reduction in the tendency to think about emotions, together with a difficulty in identifying and describing feelings, has been characterized as a personality trait, but may be secondary to other pathological conditions... - Event-based prospective memory failure in amnestic mild cognitive impairmentAlberto Costa
Unit of Clinical and Behavioural Neurology, Santa Lucia Foundation, IRCCS, Via Ardeatina, 306 00179 Rome, Italy
Neuropsychologia 49:2209-16. 2011..Finally, the finding that in these individuals, a deficit in executive control cannot be claimed as the main responsible for the observed PM impairment could suggest the involvement of automatic-reflexive processes... - Prospective memory impairment in mild cognitive impairment: an analytical reviewAlberto Costa
I R C C S Fondazione Santa Lucia, Via Ardeatina 306, 00179, Rome, Italy
Neuropsychol Rev 21:390-404. 2011..Declarative memory dysfunction may account for the retrospective memory impairment, while either reduced executive abilities or a deficit of reflexive mechanisms could explain the prospective component impairment... - Neuropsychological correlates of alexithymia in Parkinson's diseaseAlberto Costa
Istituto di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico Fondazione Santa Lucia, Roma, Italy
J Int Neuropsychol Soc 13:980-92. 2007.... - Alexithymia in Parkinson's disease is related to severity of depressive symptomsA Costa
I R C C S Fondazione Santa Lucia, Roma, Italy
Eur J Neurol 13:836-41. 2006..These results extend to a cohort of PD patients previous data from the literature evidencing a strong association between alexithymia and severity of depressive symptoms... - Major and minor depression in Parkinson's disease: a neuropsychological investigationA Costa
I R C C S Fondazione Santa Lucia, Rome, Italy
Eur J Neurol 13:972-80. 2006..Moreover, the same data suggest that in these patients MiD and MD may represent a gradual continuum associated with increasing cognitive deficits... - Impaired reproduction of second but not millisecond time intervals in Parkinson's diseaseGiacomo Koch
Laboratorio di Neurologia Clinica e Comportamentale, Fondazione Santa Lucia IRCCS, Via Ardeatina, 306, 00179 Rome, Italy
Neuropsychologia 46:1305-13. 2008.... - Dopaminergic modulation of visual-spatial working memory in Parkinson's diseaseAlberto Costa
IRCCS, Fondazione Santa Lucia, Universita di Roma Tor Vergata, Italia
Dement Geriatr Cogn Disord 15:55-66. 2003..Instead, L-dopa administration had a ameliorative effect on accuracy and reaction times in both visual-spatial and visual-object tasks. These results highlight the role of dopamine in the modulation of the WM function in PD patients... - Prospective memory functioning in mild cognitive impairmentAlberto Costa
Istituto di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico Fondazione Santa Lucia, Roma, Italy
Neuropsychology 24:327-35. 2010..The present study aimed to investigate prospective memory (PM) in persons with mild cognitive impairment (MCI)... - Non-motor functions in parkinsonian patients implanted in the pedunculopontine nucleus: focus on sleep and cognitive domainsStefani Alessandro
IRCCS Fondazione S Lucia, Rome, Italy
J Neurol Sci 289:44-8. 2010.... - Functional changes in the activity of cerebellum and frontostriatal regions during externally and internally timed movement in Parkinson's diseaseAntonio Cerasa
Neuroimaging Laboratory, Fondazione Santa Lucia, IRCCS, 00179 Rome, Italy
Brain Res Bull 71:259-69. 2006.... - Prefrontal and temporo-parietal involvement in taking others' perspective: TMS evidenceAlberto Costa
I R C C S Fondazione Santa Lucia, Rome, Italy
Behav Neurol 19:71-4. 2008..The present study was aimed at investigating the role of the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex and temporo-parietal junction in ToM by using a repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) paradigm... - Priming for novel between-word associations in patients with organic amnesiaG A Carlesimo
Clinica Neurologica, Universita Tor Vergata, Roma, Italy
J Int Neuropsychol Soc 11:566-73. 2005..These data support the hypothesis of similar impairment of new episodic and implicit learning in amnesic patients and suggest that the hippocampus is crucial for both kinds of new learning... - Alexithymic features in stroke: effects of laterality and genderG Spalletta
IRCCS Fondazione Santa Lucia, Rome, Italy
Psychosom Med 63:944-50. 2001..This study tested the hypothesis that stroke patients with a lesion in the right hemisphere are at high risk of developing alexithymic features... - Functional brain activity within the medial and lateral portion of BA10 during a prospective memory taskFrancesco Barban
Clinical and Behavioural Neurology Laboratory, IRCCS Fondazione Santa Lucia, Rome, Italy
Behav Neurol 26:207-9. 2013..Our results give experimental support to the gateway hypothesis... - Psychiatric disorders and pain location in unilateral migraineursDaniela Cologno
I R C C S Fondazione S Lucia, Via Ardeatina 306, Rome, Italy
J Headache Pain 6:227-30. 2005..This finding appears to be consistent with studies that reported a higher degree of these disorders in patients with left cerebral hemispheric damage... - Forward and backward span for verbal and visuo-spatial data: standardization and normative data from an Italian adult populationMarco Monaco
IRCCS Fondazione Santa Lucia, Clinica Neurologica, Universita di Roma Tor Vergata, Via Ardeatina 306, 00179, Rome, Italy
Neurol Sci 34:749-54. 2013..We provide correction grids for age and literacy that derive from results of the regression analyses... - Psychiatric manifestations as a primary symptom in antiphospholipid syndromeR Manna
Department of Internal Medicine, Catholic University, Rome, Catholic University, Rome, Italy
Int J Immunopathol Pharmacol 19:915-7. 2006..We describe the case of a 62 yr old female showing schizophrenia-like symptoms in which further evaluations allowed us to diagnose the antiphospolipid syndrome... - Methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase (MTHFR) and breast cancer risk: a nested-case-control study and a pooled meta-analysisDebora Macis
Division of Chemoprevention, European Institute of Oncology, Milan, Italy
Breast Cancer Res Treat 106:263-71. 2007..A reduced activity of methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase (MTHFR) due to frequent C677T polymorphism affects DNA synthesis, repair and methylation and may be implicated in breast cancer risk...