BACKGROUND: Distinguishing individuals with dementia from those with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) might demand a neuropsychological evaluation. METHODS: One hundred and thirty-one consecutive referred elderly patients (37 clinical-controls, 41 with amnestic MCI and 53 with possible/probable AD) were d...
O Teste Wisconsin de Classificação de Cartas (WCST) é um instrumento bastante relevante na avaliação neuropsicológica, considerado internacionalmente como padrão de referência para exame das Funções Executivas do cérebro, amplamente reconhecido a partir de 1993. Apesar disso, existem dificulda...
Neuropsychiatric complications are present in almost one third of patients diagnosed with AIDS who show wide variations in their clinical symptoms, featuring a spectrum of disorders ranging from minor cognitive-motor impairments to profound dementia. The Mini Mental State Examination (MMSE) is one of the...
The Montreal Battery of Evaluation of Amusia (MBEA) is a battery of tests that assesses six music processing components: scale, contour, interval, rhythm, metric, and music memory. The present study sought to verify the psychometric characteristics of the MBEA in a sample of 150 adolescents aged 14-18 ye...
Cognitive abnormalities have been extensively studied in Multiple Sclerosis (MS). However, little is known aboutthe cognitive involvement in patients with Clinically Isolated Syndrome (CIS). Objective: This study aimed to investigatecognitive impairment in patients with CIS compared with healthy subjects...
La neuropsicología se ha posicionado como un recurso esencial para la mayoría de las unidades de neurología, neurocirugía, psiquiatría y neurorrehabilitación, que atienden tanto a niños, adultos y adultos mayores, que padecen alteraciones del sistema nervioso central. El desafío de la neuropsicol...
The relationship between depression and cognitive impairment, frequent after stroke, is complex and has not been sufficiently elucidated. Objective: To review the relationship between post-stroke depression and cognitive impairment. Methods: We performed a PubMed database search spanning the last ten yea...
To investigate the diagnostic value of subtests of the NEUROPSI battery for differentiating subcorticalvascular dementia (SVaD) from Alzheimers disease (AD). Methods: Thirteen patients with mild SVaD, 15 patients with mild probable AD, and 30 healthy controls, matched for age, education and dementia seve...
Pemphigus vulgaris is a systemic auto-immune medical condition that mainly manifests with changes in skinand vasculopathy. This is a case report of a 69-year-old male with confirmed histopathologic diagnosis of Pemphigus vulgaris presenting ulterior Cognitive Impairment, mostly in executive function. The...
ABSTRACT. Background: The association between diabetes mellitus and cognitive dysfunction is becoming increasingly clear, rendering it necessary for physicians in charge of diabetic patients to have the means to assess cognitive performance. Simple tests that can be applied during routine consultations m...
