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The Multiple Features Target Cancellation (MFTC): an attentional visual conjunction search test. Normative values for the Italian population
Several studies, showing that attention disorders during encoding reduce later memory performance, have stressed the critical role of attention for the formation of durable memory traces. Accordingly, some stu...
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The role of brain infarcts and hippocampal atrophy in subcortical ischaemic vascular dementia
We investigated if, in patients with vascular lesions, the variable that best discriminated demented from non–demented patients was the severity of the vascular pathology or the degree of hippocampal atrophy. ...
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Pseudotumor cerebri as presenting syndrome of Addisonian crisis
In a patient who developed clinical signs of intracranial hypertension, bilateral papilledema and diplopia, in association with mild hypotension, hyponatremia and hyperkalemia, the hypothesis of Addison's dise...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Post-stroke Depression: Psychological and Biochemical Interpretations
Affective disturbances of different kinds (ranging from agitated depression to disinhibited attitude and from irritability with outburst of anger to apathy with loss of motivation) are very frequent in brain-d...
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Book reviews
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Are drawing errors different in right-sided and left-sided constructional apraxics?
The drawings of 70 control subjects, 95 right and 118 left brain-damaged patients (BDP) were evaluated by two independent judges having no knowledge of the literature on constructional apraxia, who were reques...
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Semantic disorders of auditory language comprehension in right brain-damaged patients
A test of auditory language comprehension was given to 110 right brain-damaged patients and to 94 normal controls in order to check if patients with lesions of the right (nondominant) hemisphere make a signifi...
