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Erratum to: Apathy in untreated, de novo patients with Parkinson’s disease: validation study of Apathy Evaluation Scale
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Apathy in untreated, de novo patients with Parkinson’s disease: validation study of Apathy Evaluation Scale
Apathy is a behavioural disturbance occurring alone or in concomitance with depression in Parkinson’s disease (PD). Here we present a validation study for the self-report version of the Apathy Evaluation Scale...
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Psychometric properties of the Hamilton Depression Rating Scale in multiple sclerosis
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is frequently associated with depressive symptoms and major depression.
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The Addenbrooke’s Cognitive Examination Revised (ACE-R) and its sub-scores: normative values in an Italian population sample
The Addenbrooke’s Cognitive Examination Revised (ACE-R) is a rapid screening battery, including five sub-scales to explore different cognitive domains: attention/orientation, memory, fluency, language and visu...
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Assessment of apathy independent of physical disability: validation of the Dimensional Apathy Scale in Italian healthy sample
Apathy is well described in neurodegenerative diseases characterized by motor disability; therefore, assessment of apathy avoiding possible confounding effects of motor impairments is necessary in neurological...
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Usefulness of nutraceuticals in migraine prophylaxis
Several studies have supported the efficacy of complementary and alternative medicine approaches (physical, behavioral and nutraceutical therapies) in the treatment of headache disorders. Nutraceutical treatme...
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High openness and high extroversion are linked with better time-based prospective memory in multiple sclerosis
Prospective memory (PM) deficits are often reported in multiple sclerosis (MS), but their relationship with neuropsychological characteristics and personality traits remains to be explored.
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Neural correlates of apathy in patients with neurodegenerative disorders: an activation likelihood estimation (ALE) meta-analysis
Apathy is commonly reported in Alzheimer’s Disease (AD), Fronto-Temporal Dementia (FTD) and Parkinson’s Disease (PD). In our meta-analysis we analysed a total of 41 studies to identify brain patterns associate...
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Interoceptive awareness in focal brain-damaged patients
Interoception is the basic process enabling evaluation of one’s own internal state of body, but its alteration in brain-damaged patients has not been adequately investigated. Our study aimed to investigate awa...
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Open AccessSubjective cognitive failures and their psychological correlates in a large Italian sample during quarantine/self-isolation for COVID-19
The quarantine/self-isolation measures implemented to retard the spread of the 2019 coronavirus disease (COVID-19) may negatively affect the mental health of the population. The present study aimed to explore ...
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Open AccessAuditory cortex hypoperfusion: a metabolic hallmark in Beta Thalassemia
Sensorineural hearing loss in beta-thalassemia is common and it is generally associated with iron chelation therapy. However, data are scarce, especially on adult populations, and a possible involvement of the...
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Open AccessThe Neural Bases of Drawing. A Meta-analysis and a Systematic Literature Review of Neurofunctional Studies in Healthy Individuals
Drawing is a multi-component process requiring a wide range of cognitive abilities. Several studies on patients with focal brain lesions and functional neuroimaging studies on healthy individuals demonstrated ...
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Non-transfusion-dependent thalassemia in Italy: less blues, no role of reds
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Open AccessThe effect of autistic traits on disembedding and mental rotation in neurotypical women and men
Recent data has revealed dissociations between social and non-social skills in both autistic and neurotypical populations. In the present study, we investigated whether specific visuospatial abilities, such as...
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Neural correlates of embodied action language processing: a systematic review and meta-analytic study
The neural correlates of action language processing are still debated within embodied cognition research and little is known about the flexible involvement of modality-specific pre-motor system and multimodal ...
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The Cognitive Profile of Atypical Parkinsonism: A Meta-Analysis
Atypical Parkinsonism (AP) syndromes are characterized by a wide spectrum of non-motor symptoms including prominent attentional and executive deficits. However, the cognitive profile of AP and its differences ...
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The bodily fundament of empathy: The role of action, nonaction-oriented, and interoceptive body representations
Mental representations with bodily contents or in various bodily formats have been suggested to play a pivotal role in social cognition, including empathy. However, there is a lack of systematic studies invest...
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The relation between cognitive functioning and activities of daily living in normal aging, mild cognitive impairment, and dementia: a meta-analysis
Literature suggests that dementia and, more generally, cognitive impairment affect the capacity to carry out activities of daily living (ADL) in aging. However, it is important to decipher the weight of specif...
