Cognitive Deficit-Related Interhemispheric Asynchrony within the Medial Hub of the Default Mode Network Aids in Classifying the Hyperthyroid Patients by Mengmeng Zhi, Zhenghua Hou, Yuqun Zhang, Yingying Yue, Ling Li, Yonggui Yuan

“…The association between altered voxel-mirrored homotopic connectivity (VMHC) and neuropsychological impairment in HPs remains unclear. This study is aimed at investigating the association between the disrupted functional coordination and psychological dysfunction in hyperthyroidism. …”
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Lateralized Cerebellar Contributions to Word Generation: A Phonemic and Semantic Fluency Study by Tom A. Schweizer, Michael P. Alexander, B. A. Susan Gillingham, Michael Cusimano, Donald T. Stuss

“…Impairment on verbal fluency tasks has been one of the more consistently reported neuropsychological findings after cerebellar lesions, but it has not been uniformly observed and the possible underlying cognitive basis has not been investigated. …”
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Effects of acupuncture at the Taichong (LIV3) and Hegu (LI4) points on functional connectivity with the retrosplenial cortex in patients with Alzheimer’s disease by Junkai Wang, Xinyue Bai, Xiaojun Chen, Shui Liu, Mengmeng Sun, Kuncheng Li, Yunsong Zheng, Zhiqun Wang

“…The aim of this study was to examine the effect of acupuncture on FC with the RSC in patients with AD.MethodsDemographic data, neuropsychological assessments, and resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data were collected from 14 AD patients and 14 normal controls (NCs) matched by age, sex, and educational level at baseline. …”
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Do Young Schizophrenics with Recent Onset of Illness Show Evidence of Hypofrontality? by O. Gureje, O. Olley, R. A. Acha, B. O. Osuntokun

“…Compared with normal controls, patient groups showed evidence of impaired functioning of many cortical areas but with the schizophrenics having the worst performance. …”
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Middle-age cerebral small vessel disease and cognitive function in later life: a population-based prospective cohort studyResearch in context by Ali Tanweer Siddiquee, Yoon Ho Hwang, Soriul Kim, Sung Jin Shin, Ji Soo Lee, June Christoph Kang, Min-Hee Lee, Hyeon Jin Kim, Seung Ku Lee, Chol Shin

“…Methods: This prospective cohort study was conducted in a community-based adult population (avg. age 58.5 ± 6.4) who underwent both magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and comprehensive neuropsychological tests at baseline (2011–2014). The participants were followed-up with the same neuropsychological test battery 4-yearly in two more cycles (in 2015–2018 and 2019–2022). …”
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Association of a multiplex immune marker panel with incident cognitive impairment and dementia: The Northern Manhattan Study by Mohammad Abdurrehman Sheikh, Michelle P. Moon, Clinton B. Wright, Jose Gutierrez, Minghua Liu, Tatjana Rundek, Ken Cheung, Mady Hornig, Mitchell S.V. Elkind

“…Design/methods: A subsample of the Northern Manhattan Study, a prospective cohort study in the racially/ethnically diverse population of New York City, underwent comprehensive neuropsychological testing up to three times, at approximately 5-year intervals. …”
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Humour in the management of multiple sclerosis: a scoping review by M. Šeduikienė, V. Matonis

“…Group analyses revealed lower scores in RRMS patients on humoristic visual tasks compared to scores on verbal tasks, and PwMS had impaired comprehension of figurative and humorous items compared to their comprehension of the literal items of simple medical responses. …”
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Metformin for neurocognitive dysfunction in schizophrenia: a systematic review by Zhen-Juan Qin, Zhan-Ming Shi, Li-Juan Li, Xin Wei, Hui-Lin Hu, Wei Wei, Zhi-Yuan Xie, Hang-Xi Ji, Yu-Hua Wei, Wei Zheng, Wei Zheng

“…Three RCTs (75%) demonstrated significant improvements in neurocognitive function with metformin compared to controls, as assessed by the MATRICS Consensus Cognitive Battery, Repeatable Battery for the Assessment of Neuropsychological Status, and Mini-Mental State Examination, but not the Brief Assessment of Cognition in Schizophrenia. …”
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Degenerative Jargon Aphasia: Unusual Progression of Logopenic/Phonological Progressive Aphasia? by Paolo Caffarra, Simona Gardini, Stefano Cappa, Francesca Dieci, Letizia Concari, Federica Barocco, Caterina Ghetti, Livia Ruffini, Guido Dalla Rosa Prati

“…At recent follow-up the patient developed an unintelligible jargon with both semantic and neologistic errors, as well as with severe deficit of comprehension which precluded any further neuropsychological assessment. Compared to healthy controls, FDG-PET showed a hypometabolism in the left angular and middle temporal gyri, precuneus, caudate, posterior cingulate, middle frontal gyrus, and bilaterally in the superior temporal and inferior frontal gyri. …”
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Toward an Executive Origin for Acquired Phonological Dyslexia: A Case of Specific Deficit of Context-Sensitive Grapheme-to-Phoneme Conversion Rules by Noémie Auclair-Ouellet, Marion Fossard, Marie-Catherine St-Pierre, Joël Macoir

“…Phonological dyslexia is a written language disorder characterized by poor reading of nonwords when compared with relatively preserved ability in reading real words. …”
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Spatiotemporal Parameters of Gait Among Adolescent Athletes with Concussion When Performing a Visuospatial Cognitive Task by Leah Lowe, Fernando Castillo, Melissa Allen, Michael Israel, Charlotte Yates

“…Researchers hypothesized that adolescents during the acute phase of concussion would be likely to experience a greater DTC compared to healthy peers in at least one spatiotemporal parameter of gait when walking within the dual-task paradigm…”
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Psychological Research in Fibromyalgia: The Search for Explanatory Phenomena by Michael D Boissevan

“…First, the literature on depression in fibromyalgia shows that although the preponderance of studies demonstrate that fibromyalgia patients are more depressed than comparable medical patients, rigorous disconfirming evidence exists. …”
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Effect of home environment on neuropsychiatric development in preterm infants discharged from NICU at 18 months corrected age by Yuan Tian, Chuncao Zhang, Li Shen, Haifeng Jiang, Feng Liu, Jinjin Chen, Xia Hong

“…Multiple logistic regression analyses showed that compared with infants in supportive home environments, infants with moderate/unsupportive home environments had significantly elevated risks of development delay: 2.162-fold for global (odds ratio (OR) 2.162, 95% confidence interval (CI) 1.274 to 3.665, p=0.004), 2.193-fold for fine motor (OR 2.193, 95% CI 1.161 to 4.140, p=0.016), 2.249-fold for language (OR 2.249, 95% CI 1.336 to 3.786, p=0.002) and 2.042-fold for personal-social (OR 2.042, 95% CI 1.149 to 3.628, p=0.015).Conclusions A supportive home environment is a crucial protective factor for the neuropsychological development of preterm infants. …”
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Tumor resting-state fMRI connectivity to extralesional brain is associated with cognitive performance in glioma patients by Chuh-Hyoun Na, Hans Clusmann, Martin Wiesmann, Kerstin Jütten, Verena Mainz

“…Research question: To investigate potential associations between pre- and postoperative resting-state fMRI connectivity (FC) and cognitive functions in glioma patients compared to healthy controls. Material and methods: 18 patients and 18 age-matched, healthy controls underwent resting-state fMRI and neuropsychological testing pre- and 4.5 months (mean) postoperatively. …”
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Efficacy of identifying Treatment-Resistant and non-Treatment-Resistant Schizophrenia using niacin skin flushing response combined with clinical feature by Jizhi Wang, Jinfeng Wang, Siyuan Wang, Yu Gu, Kai Liang, Yingxu Li, Zheng Zhang, Yan Li, Xiaoping Wang, Huijuan Guo, Jiansong Zhou

“…Patients with TRS have enhanced NSFR compared to patients with NTRS, and NSFR was positively correlated with the course of the disease. …”
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Altered regional brain activity and functional connectivity in relation to blood lead levels by Yi Shi, Linfeng Yan, Yang Yang, Fenfen He, Wenhao Li, Jianbin Zhang, Fang Zhao, Diya Wang, Wen Wang, Zaihua Zhao, Xuefeng Shen

“…We also examined the relationships between lead levels, FC values, and neuropsychological scores. Results Compared to the control group, individuals with high lead exposure exhibited increased ReHo in the bilateral insula and vermis and elevated DC in the left olfactory cortex. …”
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Dynamic alterations in spontaneous neural activity in patients with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: A resting-state fMRI study by Rui Hu, Wei Du, Fan Tan, Yong Wu, Chun Yang, Weiwei Wang, Wen Chen, Yanwei Miao

“…Neuropsychological scale scores correlated with some dALFF and dfALFF indicators. …”
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Plasma fibrinogen as a potential biomarker of cognitive impairment after acute ischemic stroke by Chunxiao Wei, Weijie Zhai, Panpan Zhao, Li Sun

“…The results indicate that plasma FBG levels are significantly elevated in patients with CI compared to those with non-cognitive impairment (NCI). …”
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Specificity of Cognitive Impairment in Neurological Disease: A Methodological Critique of Parkinson’s Disease by H. J. Sagar

“…The following recommendations are made: rigid diagnostic criteria; representative patient groups; avoidance of arbitrary quantitative criteria to limit definitions of dementia; matching of groups for overall level of cognitive impairment in the search for qualitative cognitive differences related to neuropathology or effects of particular drugs; the use of suitable controls in patient groups, neuropsychological tests and treatment regimes; the use of specific quantitative tests of cognition, affect and motor disability; and longitudinal, compared with cross-sectional, study design.…”
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A Foreign Speech Accent in a Case of Conversion Disorder by Jo Verhoeven, Peter Mariën, Sebastiaan Engelborghs, Hugo D’Haenen, Peter De Deyn

“…Two samples of the patient's spontaneous speech were analysed and compared to a 500,000-words reference corpus of 160 normal native speakers of Dutch. …”
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