Cerebellar atrophy is a rare and challenging disease with few descriptions in the medical
literature. Motor impairment is mild, but behavioral and linguistic alterations stand out, in
what is known as the cerebellar cognitive affective syndrome secondary to cerebellar atrophy.
We report the case of an ol...
BACKGROUND: Nonmotor symptoms of Parkinson disease significantly hamper the quality of life of patients and have prognostic significance. AIM: To evaluate the presence of nonmotor symptoms in patients with Parkinson disease. MATERIAL AND METHODS: A structured interview was carried out in 32 patients aged...
Abstract Background: The World Health Organization Disability Assessment Schedule (WHODAS) 2.0 is a generic instrument to assess disability. Pain and psychological factors seem to play a pronounced disabling role in fibromyalgia (FM). There are few studies that investigate the factors associated with di...
O schwanoma vestibular é uma neoplasia que se origina das células de Schwann da porção vestibular do VIII nervo craniano e que corres- ponde a cerca de 10% dos tumores intracranianos e a 80% a 90% daqueles localizados no ângulo pontocerebelar. Apesar do crescimento lento e evolução em geral benign...
ABSTRACT We intended to evaluate whether non-demented Parkinsons’s disease (PD) patients, with or without subjective cognitive complaint, demonstrate differences between them and in comparison to controls concerning cognitive performance and mood. We evaluated 77 subjects between 30 and 70 years, d...
Chronic insomnia is the most common sleep disorder in adults andits diagnosis is fundamental for adequate clinical management. The aim of this paper is to present recently published definitions of insomnia according to current international classifications, such as the International Classification of Sle...
O presente trabalho faz uma revisäo bibliográfica sobre os transtornos do humor e dos distúrbios neuróticos, abordando aspectos de história, conceito, classificaçäo, etiopatogenia e quadro clínico de cada um dos grupos de entidades nosológicas. Apresenta também uma visäo atual dos determinante...
Especulaçöes sobre os efeitos do "stress" na saúde física e mental começaram já no final do século XIX. Os primeiros estudos desta época sugeriam que o "stress" contribuía para o desenvolvimento de doenças cardíacas (23). Este efeito adverso do "stress" sobre a saúde física e psicológica te...
