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A digital teleneuropsychology platform for the diagnosis of mild cognitive impairment: from concept to certification as a medical device
Innovative digital solutions are sha** a new concept of dementia care, opening additional venues for prevention, diagnosis, monitoring and treatment. Hereby, we report the development of a tablet-based telen...
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Are we…social enough? Use of social media among members of the Italian Society of Neurology for the study of dementia
Clinical researchers increasingly embrace social media in their professional lives. The digital revolution has provided new routes for sharing data, disseminating results, and promoting the impact of scientifi...
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Correction to: A digital teleneuropsychology platform for the diagnosis of mild cognitive impairment: from concept to certification as a medical device
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Open AccessAnswer to "Current Potential for Clinical Optimization of Social Cognition Assessment for Frontotemporal Dementia and Primary Psychiatric Disorders"
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Risk factors for post-COVID cognitive dysfunctions: the impact of psychosocial vulnerability
Cognitive dysfunction is a well-established manifestation of the post-COVID syndrome. Psychological vulnerability to stressors can modify disease trajectories, causing long-term risk for negative outcomes. Non...
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Open AccessSocial and moral psychology of COVID-19 across 69 countries
The COVID-19 pandemic has affected all domains of human life, including the economic and social fabric of societies. One of the central strategies for managing public health throughout the pandemic has been th...
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Open AccessAuthor Correction: National identity predicts public health support during a global pandemic
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Open AccessNational identity predicts public health support during a global pandemic
Changing collective behaviour and supporting non-pharmaceutical interventions is an important component in mitigating virus transmission during a pandemic. In a large international collaboration (Study 1, N = 49,...
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Evaluation of Discriminative Detection Abilities of Social Cognition Measures for the Diagnosis of the Behavioral Variant of Frontotemporal Dementia: a Systematic Review
The use of social tasks in the neuropsychological assessment of the behavioral variant of frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD) is at present not required by diagnostic guidelines, despite extensive literature shows...
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Open AccessJob loss and health threatening events modulate risk-taking behaviours in the Covid-19 emergency
Covid-19 pandemic is exerting a tragic impact all around the world. First-person experience of life-threatening and stressful events can modify individuals’ risk perception, and, consequently, risk-taking beha...
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Randomized controlled trial on the efficacy of a multilevel non-pharmacologic intervention in older adults with subjective memory decline: design and baseline findings of the E.Mu.N.I. study
Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) is a multifactorial disorder driven by genetic and modifiable lifestyle risk factors. Lifestyle primary prevention initiatives may reduce the prevalence and incidence of dementia in ol...
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Testing the diagnostic accuracy of [18F]FDG-PET in discriminating spinal- and bulbar-onset amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
The role for [18F]FDG-PET in supporting amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) diagnosis is not fully established. In this study, we aim at evaluating [18F]FDG-PET hypo- and hyper-metabolism patterns in spinal- a...
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Open AccessA biomarker study in long-lasting amnestic mild cognitive impairment
Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) is a heterogeneous syndrome resulting from Alzheimer’s disease (AD) as well as to non-AD and non-neurodegenerative conditions. A subset of patients with amnestic MCI (aMCI) pres...
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Cross-validation of biomarkers for the early differential diagnosis and prognosis of dementia in a clinical setting
The aim of this study was to evaluate the supportive role of molecular and structural biomarkers (CSF protein levels, FDG PET and MRI) in the early differential diagnosis of dementia in a large sample of patie...
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Erratum to: Cross-validation of biomarkers for the early differential diagnosis and prognosis of dementia in a clinical setting
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A novel task assessing intention and emotion attribution: Italian standardization and normative data of the Story-based Empathy Task
Theory of Mind (ToM), the process by which an individual imputes mental states to himself and others, is presently considered as a multidimensional cognitive domain, with two main facets (i.e., cognitive and a...
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A Standardized [18F]-FDG-PET Template for Spatial Normalization in Statistical Parametric Map** of Dementia
[18F]-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) Positron Emission Tomography (PET) is a widely used diagnostic tool that can detect and quantify pathophysiology, as assessed through changes in cerebral glucose metabolism. [18F]-F...
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Emotion recognition from facial expressions: a normative study of the Ekman 60-Faces Test in the Italian population
The Ekman 60-Faces (EK-60F) Test is a well-known neuropsychological tool assessing emotion recognition from facial expressions. It is the most employed task for research purposes in psychiatric and neurologica...
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The behavioral variant of frontotemporal dementia: linking neuropathology to social cognition
The behavioral variant of frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD) is one of the most frequent neurodegenerative disorders with a presenile onset. It is characterized by a long phase of subclinical behavioral changes a...
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Progranulin gene (GRN) promoter methylation is increased in patients with sporadic frontotemporal lobar degeneration
Mutations in progranulin gene (GRN) are the most common cause of autosomal dominant familial frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD). In addition, GRN variability influences the risk to develop the disease in no...
