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Association between Motor Signs and Cognitive Performance in Cognitively Unimpaired Older Adults: A Cross-Sectional Study Using the NACC Database
(2022)Aiming to examine whether specific motor signs are associated with worse performance in specific cognitive domains among cognitively unimpaired (CU) individuals, we performed a cross-sectional analysis of data from the ... -
Association between white matter lesions and Parkinson’s disease: an impact on Postural/Gait difficulty phenotype and cognitive performance
(2022)Background: White matter hyperintensities (WMHs) may be observed on Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) in patients with Parkinson disease with or without vascular risk factors. Whether WMHs may influence motor and non-motor ... -
Autism spectrum disorder, anxiety and severe depression in a male patient with deletion and duplication in the 21q22.3 region: A case report
(2019)In this report, a patient carrying a 650 kb deletion and a 759 kb duplication of chromosomal 21q22.3 region was described. Facial dysmorphic features, hypotonia, short stature, learning impairment, autism spectrum disorder, ... -
Clipping Versus Coiling in Anterior Circulation Ruptured Intracranial Aneurysms: A Meta-Analysis
(2017)Objective To evaluate open surgical versus endovascular repair of anterior circulation ruptured intracranial aneurysms based on operative mortality, permanent neurologic deficit, late mortality, and need for reintervention. ... -
Could IGF-I levels play a neuroprotective role in patients with large vestibular schwannomas?
(2018)Aim: To evaluate the possible superiority of outcome in patients with elevated IGF-I levels after vestibular schwannoma (VS) resection. Patients & methods: This retrospective study included 65 patients (34 male, 52.3%) ... -
Evaluation of nephrotoxicity and ototoxicity of aminosidine (paromomycin)-allopurinol combination in dogs with leishmaniosis due to Leishmania infantum: A randomized, blinded, controlled study
(2019)Canine leishmaniosis due to Leishmania infantum is a widespread zoonotic disease. Although aminosidine can be an effective treatment, current therapeutic recommendations do not advocate its use, mainly due to concerns ... -
Frailty and Prodromal Parkinson's Disease: Results from the HELIAD Study
(2021)Background: To investigate the association between frailty, Parkinson's disease (PD), and the probability of prodromal Parkinson's disease (prodromal PD) in Greek community-dwelling older individuals. Methods: Parkinson's ... -
Generalization of Youden index for multiple-class classification problems applied to the assessment of externally validated cognition in Parkinson disease screening
(2013)Routine cognitive screening in Parkinson disease (PD) has become essential for management, to track progression and to assess clinical status in therapeutic trials. Patients with mild cognitive impairment (PD-MCI) are more ... -
The greek variant in app gene: The phenotypic spectrum of app mutations
(2021)Mutations in the gene encoding amyloid precursor protein (APP) cause autosomal dominant inherited Alzheimer’s disease (AD). We present a case of a 68-year-old female who presented with epileptic seizures, neuropsychiatric ... -
Hereditary cerebral amyloid angiopathy mimicking CADASIL syndrome
(2021)Background: Small vessel disease (SVD), and most specifically hereditary forms like CADASIL and cerebral amyloid angiopathy (hCAA), are conditions of increasing clinical importance. We report a rare case of hCAA in a Greek ... -
The Impact of Primary Progressive Aphasia on Picture Naming and General Language Ability
(2021)Background: Primary progressive aphasia (PPA) is a clinical syndrome that is characterized by progressive deterioration of language while other cognitive domains remain relatively intact. The extent to which print exposure ... -
The Longitudinal Association of Lifestyle with Cognitive Health and Dementia Risk: Findings from the HELIAD Study
(2022)The aim of the current study was to investigate whether a Total Lifestyle Index (TLI), including adherence to the Mediterranean diet, sleep duration, physical activity and engagement in activities of daily living, is ... -
A novel homozygous SACS mutation identified by whole exome sequencing-genotype phenotype correlations of all published cases
(2020)ARSACS is an autosomal recessive disorder characterized by ataxia, spasticity, and polyneuropathy. A plethora of worldwide distributed mutations have been described so far. Here, we report two brothers, born to non-consanguineous ... -
Posterior reversible encephalopathy in a GT1a positive oculopharyngeal variant of Guillain-Barré syndrome: A case-report and review of the literature
(2020)Guillain-Barre syndrome (GBS) is the most common cause of acute flaccid paralysis and its incidence increases with age, although all age groups can be affected. The cranial subtypes of GBS account for approximately 5% of ... -
A Prospective Validation of the Updated Movement Disorders Society Research Criteria for Prodromal Parkinson's Disease
(2020)Objective: The objective of this study was to validate the recently updated research criteria for prodromal Parkinson's disease (pPD) proposed by the International Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorders Society. Methods: ... -
Recurrent episodes of syncope requiring pacemaker implantation as an initial presentation of neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder
(2020)Neuromyelitis Optica Spectrum Disorders (NMOSD) can manifest with a variety of heterogeneous symptoms, mainly encompassing optic neuritis, acute myelitis and area postrema syndrome (hiccups, nausea, and vomiting). Syncopal ... -
Small-vessel occlusion versus large-artery atherosclerotic strokes in diabetics: Patient characteristics, outcomes, and predictors of stroke mechanism
(2016)Introduction: Diabetes mellitus exerts a detrimental effect on cerebral vasculature affecting both macrovasculature and microvasculature. However, although ischaemic stroke is typically included among macrovascular diabetic ...