…occurring without previous psychiatric co-morbidity has been reported in patients with dementia5 and following resection of a brain tumour.6 We report here a case of kleptomania occurring for the first…
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…Quid” (PAQUID) Mini-Mental State Examination trajectories so that time zero represents the estimated time to onset of dementia. Aβ, amyloid-β; p-tau, phosphorylated tau; PiB, Pittsburgh compound B; FDG, fluorodeoxyglucose; ADAS13,…
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…and alpha-synuclein form a bidirectional pathogenic loop in synucleinopathies. Cell 2011;146:37-52. Ramirez A, et al. Hereditary parkinsonism with dementia is caused by mutations in ATP13A2, encoding a lysosomal type 5…
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…which was answered by Dr Rees. The afternoon topics centred on Neuropsychiatry and Dementia. This started with a clinical talk by Professor Rossor on the clinical evaluation of patients with…
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…Fox discussed the role of neuroimaging in the management of dementia of the working age. Professor Fox discussed how this field is now moving away from a purely exclusionary approach…
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…no age limit and because infusions may be tried in patients with mild cognitive impairment or mild dementia if adequate caregiver support is available. Similarly, balance problems and falls during…
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…non-fluent aphasia causes effortful speech, orofacial apraxia and phonemic paraphasias, with subtle left posterior fronto-insular atrophy and can be caused by a range of different pathologies. Semantic dementia causes fluent,…
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…germinoma mimicking neurosarcoidosis, tau imaging in frontotemporal dementia, hepatitis E related brachial neuritis and, finally, a voltage-gated potassium channel antibody-mediated spinal neuronitis resulting in head drop, spinal myoclonus and camptocormia….
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Biomarkers have become an integral part of clinical practice in some spheres of neurology, such as dementia where they are enshrined in diagnostic criteria for Alzheimer’s disease as part of…
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