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| Urs Peter MosimannSummaryAffiliation: University of Newcastle Country: UK Publications
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Visual perception in Parkinson disease dementia and dementia with Lewy bodiesU P Mosimann
Institute for Ageing and Health, Wolfson Research Centre, Newcastle General Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne NE4 6BE, UK
Neurology 63:2091-6. 2004..To quantify visual discrimination, space-motion, and object-form perception in patients with Parkinson disease dementia (PDD), dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB), and Alzheimer disease (AD)...- Characteristics of visual hallucinations in Parkinson disease dementia and dementia with lewy bodiesUrs P Mosimann
Institute for Ageing and Health, Wolfson Research Centre, Newcastle General Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
Am J Geriatr Psychiatry 14:153-60. 2006..Recurrent visual hallucinations (RVH) are common in both disorders. The authors have compared details of hallucination characteristics and associated neuropsychiatric features in DLB and PDD... - To look or not to look at threat? Scanpath differences within a group of spider phobicsTobias Pflugshaupt
Perception and Eye Movement Laboratory, Departments of Neurology and Clinical Research, University of Berne, Inselspital, Freiburgstrasse 10, 3010 Berne, Switzerland
J Anxiety Disord 21:353-66. 2007..We suggest that variation of oculomotor avoidance between phobics reflects different strategies of how they cope with threat in confrontational situations... 
A semi-structured interview to assess visual hallucinations in older peopleUrs Peter Mosimann
Institute for Ageing and Health, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Int J Geriatr Psychiatry 23:712-8. 2008..Our objective was to develop a reliable, valid, semi-structured interview for identifying and assessing visual hallucinations in older people with eye disease and cognitive impairment...- Verbal instructions and top-down saccade controlU P Mosimann
Department of Neurology, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Exp Brain Res 159:263-7. 2004..It is questionable whether parallel processing is possible in top-down control, since the long ISI for instructed direction changes suggests sequential planning... - Saccadic eye movement changes in Parkinson's disease dementia and dementia with Lewy bodiesUrs P Mosimann
Institute for Ageing and Health, Wolfson Research Centre, Newcastle General Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Brain 128:1267-76. 2005..The similarities in saccade performance in PDD and DLB underline the overlap between these conditions and underscore differences from Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease... - The retina in Parkinson's diseaseNeil K Archibald
Clinical Research Fellow, Clinical Ageing Research Unit, Newcastle University, Campus for Ageing and Vitality, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE4 5PL, UK
Brain 132:1128-45. 2009.... - More severe functional impairment in dementia with lewy bodies than Alzheimer disease is related to extrapyramidal motor dysfunctionIan G McKeith
Institute for Ageing and Health, Newcastle General Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Am J Geriatr Psychiatry 14:582-8. 2006..The objective of this study was to compare functional impairments in dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) and Alzheimer disease (AD) and their relationship with motor and neuropsychiatric symptoms... - The assessment of cognition in visually impaired older adultsAlison Killen
Newcastle University Institute for Ageing and Health, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
Age Ageing 42:98-102. 2013..002). Conclusion: visually impaired patients benefit from cognitive tests, which do not rely on vision. The more visually impaired the greater the benefit... - Orthostatic hypotension in Parkinson's disease: association with cognitive decline?Liesl M Allcock
Parkinson s Disease Research Unit, Department of Neurology, Sunderland Royal Hospital, Sunderland, UK
Int J Geriatr Psychiatry 21:778-83. 2006..We therefore hypothesize that PD patients with orthostatic hypotension (OH) have a different cognitive profile compared to PD patients without OH... - Time-dependent hierarchical organization of spatial working memory: a transcranial magnetic stimulation studyThomas Nyffeler
Eye Movement Research Laboratory, Department of Neurology, Bern University, Bern, CH-3010, Switzerland
Eur J Neurosci 16:1823-7. 2002..For a long memorization delay, however, working memory seems to have an additional, DLPFC-independent component... - Change in perfusion, hallucinations and fluctuations in consciousness in dementia with Lewy bodiesMichael J Firbank
Institute for Ageing and Health, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Wolfson Research Centre, Newcastle General Hospital, Westgate Road, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE4 6BE, UK
Psychiatry Res 139:79-88. 2005..We have identified important neural correlates of key clinical features in Lewy body dementia and postulate that the associations can be understood through the influence of the cholinergic system on attention... - Cholinesterase inhibitors in advanced Dementia with Lewy bodies: increase or stop?Sanjeet Pakrasi
Institute for Ageing and Health, Wolfson Research Centre, Newcastle General Hospital, Westgate Road, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Int J Geriatr Psychiatry 21:719-21. 2006..There is little data on stopping cholinesterase inhibitors in Dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB). Equally, it is not known if increasing the dose of cholinesterase inhibitors may help neuropsychiatric symptoms in advanced DLB... - Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation: a putative add-on treatment for major depression in elderly patientsUrs P Mosimann
Institute for Ageing and Health, Newcastle General Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne NE4 6BE, UK
Psychiatry Res 126:123-33. 2004..Therapeutic effects of rTMS in this clinically challenging patient group remain to be demonstrated... - Hypervigilance-avoidance pattern in spider phobiaTobias Pflugshaupt
Perception and Eye Movement Laboratory, Departments of Neurology and Clinical Research, University of Berne, Inselspital, Freiburgstrasse 10, 3010 Berne, Switzerland
J Anxiety Disord 19:105-16. 2005.... - Residual oculomotor and exploratory deficits in patients with recovered hemineglectTobias Pflugshaupt
Departments of Neurology and Clinical Research, Perception and Eye Movement Laboratory, University of Berne, Inselspital, Freiburgstrasse 10, 3010 Berne, Switzerland
Neuropsychologia 42:1203-11. 2004..In conclusion, we have identified behavioural aspects that seem to recover slower than others. A disengagement deficit and biases in early orienting have been the most pronounced residual oculomotor deficits... - Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation of the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex affects divided attention immediately after cessation of stimulationMichael Wagner
Psychiatric Neuroimaging Group, Department of Psychiatry, University Hospital Bern, Switzerland
J Psychiatr Res 40:315-21. 2006..Sensitive cognitive measures may be useful to trace those short-term effects of rTMS non-invasively in humans... - Role of cholinesterase inhibitors in Parkinson's disease and dementia with Lewy bodiesDag Aarsland
Rogaland Central Hospital, Psychiatric Clinic, PO Box 1163, Hillevaag, 4095 Stavanger, Norway
J Geriatr Psychiatry Neurol 17:164-71. 2004....