Luigi Trojano

..These results could have important clinical implications since the quantitative analysis of visual behavior might provide additional elements in the differential diagnosis of DoC...

..The present findings demonstrate that the context provides strong bottom-up cues for the retrieval of motor patterns, while artificial testing conditions impose an additional cognitive load...

..This favourable outcome may serve as a stimulus for devising new training approaches in patients with complex patterns of cognitive impairments, even when associated with severe motor impairments...

..The cognitive dysfunction also characterizes a relevant fraction of patients with cardiovascular diseases uncomplicated by CHF...

..The present findings support the hemispheric specialization of the posterior parietal cortex in different spatial information processing in the imagery domain...

..This is the first behavioural demonstration of selective chronic metamorphopsia for the left side of faces, and provides new insights for models of face processing...

..On the basis of such cognitive assessments, cognitive rehabilitation training can now be applied, but we underline that this training must be tailored to single patients in order to allow them to communicate autonomously and efficiently...

..This case report shows that specific rehabilitative approaches can be devised in severely disabled LIS patients with additional brain lesions and specific cognitive defects...

..These findings allowed us to speculate on the heterogeneous nature of closing-in...

..Pathological gambling has been associated with frontal/executive dysfunctions, whereas hypersexuality and compulsive eating, and their relation with cognitive dysfunctions, have not been investigated in PD...

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..9; 95% CI: 2.82-277.95, P = 0.004). The results indicate an association between PG and frontal lobe dysfunctions in nondemented patients with PD. Low scores on the FAB indicate patients with PD at high risk for PG...

..These findings demonstrate a dissociation between spared hand recognition and impaired access to action simulation processes in LIS patients...

..Since such patients are diagnosed to be affected by depression according to clinical DSM-IV criteria, we suggest that DSM-IV criteria may not distinguish an affective from a cognitive disorder in PD...

..The reported clinical observations suggest that somatoparaphrenia can be observed as a body-related chronic disorder and can outlast other cognitive defects, even if it arose in conjunction with them...

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..These data provided direct support to the idea that different simulation states, such as action observation and motor imagery, share some common mechanisms but also show specific functional differences...

..These findings demonstrate that the basic left-to-right arrangement of the mental number line is defined with respect to the body-centred egocentric reference frame...

..The data are interpreted according to a theoretical model that highlights the close link between egocentric processing and perceptual control of action...

..From a theoretical perspective, these findings support the idea that visual perceptual and representational abilities do play a role in constructional skills...

..We concluded that reduced verbal fluency scores may predict the onset of hallucinations, while hallucinations and poor phonological fluency may predict development of dementia in PD patients...

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..The present 2-year prospective clinical study aimed to identify prognostic markers, recorded in the chronic phase, that might be useful for predicting recovery of responsiveness in a cohort of postanoxic VS patients...

..These data highlighted a complex interaction between body schema and motor imagery, and underlined the role of hand dominance in shaping such interaction...

..These findings seem consistent with the hypothesis that processing of these three mental categories is subserved by a common mechanism, representing duration and order information according to a spatially-defined magnitude system...

..Therefore, executive dysfunction may be considered as a risk factor for the development of hallucinations in non-demented PD patients...

..Our results indicate that cognitive aspects of ToM may be selectively impaired in ET. Possible underlying neural mechanisms of the deficits are discussed...

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..Our results might be consistent with the toxic gain-of-function theory in the pathogenesis of OPMD and hint at a possible direct role of PABPN1 in the CNS also in heterozygote patients...

..This suggests that item-specific recovery was based on interaction of circuitry of imitation with neural systems involved in emotional and motivational processing...

..These findings demonstrated that body-specific information contributes to sense of ownership, and that the "peri-dominant-hand space" is the preferred reference frame to distinguish self from not-self body parts...

..This conclusion would be consistent with neuroimaging evidence about the role of the basal ganglia in the control of motor sequencing, and could suggest that progressive micrographia might be associated with specific executive defects...

..This very unusual case report can be interpreted as an instance of disconnection syndrome, and allows a discussion of mechanisms involved in tactile object recognition...

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..A lack of concern (a sort of anosodiaphoria) and a poor cognitive flexibility could contribute to long-term persistence of MW...

..This requires replication of this work with a much larger sample so statistical power is adequate...

..These findings demonstrate that even in normal young adults, a reduction in available attentional resources can release an attraction toward the model...

..It could be speculated that frontal and visuospatial cognitive deficits might be the result of epileptic activity spreading within a neural network that includes structures far beyond the occipital lobe...

..Taken together, the present findings support simulation models of emotion recognition and provide insight into the role of mimicry in comprehension of others' emotional facial expressions...

..The different effects of others' grasping and eye gaze on observers' behaviour demonstrated that specific bodily cues convey distinctive information about other people's intentions...

..These findings showed that concurrent activation of egocentric and allocentric frames during mental transformation of body parts impairs participants' performance due to a conflict between motor and visual mechanisms...

..This is confirmed by a trial-by-trial analysis of correlations between reaction time and onset, width, and amplitude of the hemodynamic response. These findings pose neurophysiological constraints on cognitive models of mental imagery...

..Moreover, we speculated that such errors may result from cognitive conflict between different sources of information...

..These findings appear to reflect an intentional disorder characterized by pathologic approach behavior...

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..Aim of our study was to test the cortical cholinergic innervation in CADASIL by short latency afferent inhibition (SAI) technique...

..In conclusion, cognitive training seems ineffective in COPD. However, a multidimensional standardized therapeutic approach, as it was indistinctly provided to all patients, could help to slow or prevent cognitive decline...

..A confirmatory cognitive test should be administered to patients with an MMSE score of <24 and who are dependent in at least 1 IADL...

..Our experimental investigation has thus paved the way for a distinction between an "attentional" and a "representational" allochiria...