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Showing 1 to 20 of 31 for “"neuropsychiatric symptoms"”.
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Neuropsychiatric symptoms in thymoma-associated and non-thymoma myasthenia gravis
… have suggested a high prevalence of psychiatric symptoms amongst MG patients. Approximately 10% of MG subjects are found to have an associated thymoma and despite thymomectomy, the MG persists. The presence of thymoma may lead to other antibody-mediated neuropsychiatric manifestations including …
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Nursing home residents with mental and physical multimorbidity. Characteristics, neuropsychiatric symptoms and needs
Contains fulltext : 204528.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
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The Interaction Between Learning and Effort-Based Decision-Making: Mechanisms, Structural Brain Correlates, and Links to Neuropsychiatric Symptoms
… this connection. Studies have shown that across neuropsychiatric disorders, there are impairments in both learning and effort-based decision-making, though no studies to date have systematically examined whether the translation of learned expectations into effort might account for mood and …
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Persistent (>6 months) Neuropsychiatric symptoms in a cohort of SARS- CoV-2 PCR positive patients in Cape Town, South Africa
… virus, with several acute and more persistent neuropsychiatric sequelae reported. There are limited data from younger African cohorts and few acute illness biomarkers of persistent neuropsychiatric symptoms. Objectives : To determine the prevalence of neuropsychiatric symptoms in a cohort of …
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Patient and spouse perceptions of cognitive and neuropsychiatric symptoms in Parkinson’s Disease: Implications for distress, quality of life and relationship satisfaction
… Disease (PD) experience a range of cognitive and neuropsychiatric symptoms (CNPS), including depression, fatigue and anxiety, hallucinations and dementia. Although common, CNPS are less well understood than motor symptoms. CNPS are rated by patients as among the most important and challenging …
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Motivation as a Common Cognitive Signature of Physical and Mental Health: Bridging Computational Psychiatry, Chronobiology, and Metabolic Health
… in motivation relevant to transdiagnostic neuropsychiatric symptoms? Secondly, do bodily signals guide motivation via effort-based decision-making, contributing to individual differences in motivation? I investigate these questions using an experimental task and computational modelling …
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Severe Neurotoxicity Associated with supra-therapeutic Efavirenz concentrations: a retrospective cohort study
… line antiretroviral therapy, is associated with neuropsychiatric symptoms, often occurring early in therapy. Severe neurotoxicity has been reported but the clinical phenotype and risk factors are poorly defined. Methods We retrospectively identified adults with supratherapeutic efavirenz …
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On the neurobiology of apathy and depression in cerebral small vessel disease
… brain tissue changes. These can lead to neuropsychiatric symptoms such as apathy, a loss of motivation, and depression, which is characterised by low mood and a loss of pleasure. Apathy and depression are both prevalent symptoms in SVD, but an understanding of the relationship between …
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Predictors of Institutionalization in Patients with Alzheimer's Disease
… the measures of dementia severity, cognition, neuropsychiatric symptoms, and medication use between the institutionalized patients and not-institutionalized patients. On mean 3.19 years of follow-up, 421 (17%) of patients were institutionalized. Institutionalized patients were less educated, …
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Validation of the Mild Behavioral Impairment-Checklist in Subjective Cognitive Decline, Mild Cognitive Impairment and Dementia
Introduction: Neuropsychiatric symptoms (NPS) are early markers of dementia preceding cognitive impairment. The Mild Behavioral Impairment Checklist (MBI-C) was developed to characterize NPS for pre-dementia patients. This thesis examines the validity and utility of the MBI-C for detecting …
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A Comparison of the Frontal Variant of Alzheimer's Disease with Typical Alzheimer's Disease and Frontotemporal Dementia
… has investigated how executive deficits and neuropsychiatric symptoms of the FvAD subgroup differ from those seen in frontotemporal dementias. The current proposal describes a study designed to examine neuropsychological and behavioral functioning in groups of AD, FvAD and FTD patients. It is …
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Impact of co-occurring psychiatric disorders and traumatic brain injury on speech-language treatment: Speech-language pathologists’ perspectives
… to assist SLPs in distinguishing between the symptoms of psychiatric disorders versus the neuropsychiatric symptoms of TBI. Also, results indicated the heavy reliance on a multidisciplinary team to provide comprehensive and individualized treatment for the TBI clientele, and the negative …
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Evaluation of Neurotoxic Effect for the Low-Dose Mixed Organic Solvents Exposed Workers by using Posturography
… and self-administrated questionnaires of neuropsychiatric symptoms (Scandinavian Questionnaire 16). The exposed group showed a largersway area and length with the eyeopen(Area_EO,Length_EO)ascompared with non-exposed group. Thus, based on a linear multiple regression model, a statistically …
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Striatal Control of Sensory-Driven Behavior and Its Relevance for Neuropsychiatric Disorders
… this process are associated with a wide range of neuropsychiatric symptoms, including impulsivity and attentional deficits, making it critical to understand the underlying neural basis. In this study, we examined how the tail of the striatum (TS), a major sensory hub within the basal ganglia, …
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Dementia Risk in Elders with Anxiety and Insomnia
… relationship. There is sufficient evidence that neuropsychiatric symptoms, such as anxiety and insomnia, are indicators of prodromal dementia which may lead to treatment with benzodiazepine-receptor agonist medications. Therefore, the association between BZRAs and subsequent dementia may be a …
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Identifying Predictors of Reversion from Mild Cognitive Impairment to Normal Cognition
… medical health/dementia risk score, and neuropsychiatric symptoms. Binary stepwise logistic regression models were used to identify significant predictors of MCI reversion compared to MCI progression for each cluster, which were then entered into a final comprehensive model to find the …
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Dementia Risk in Elders with Anxiety and Insomnia
… relationship. There is sufficient evidence that neuropsychiatric symptoms, such as anxiety and insomnia, are indicators of prodromal dementia which may lead to treatment with benzodiazepine-receptor agonist medications. Therefore, the association between BZRAs and subsequent dementia may be a …
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The impact of patient-clinician interactions on patients with systemic autoimmune rheumatic diseases
… methods studies, the first to explore patient symptoms and medical experiences, the second to examine the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on healthcare and medical relationships, and the third to ascertain patient self-reported prevalence of neuropsychiatric symptoms, identification, and the …
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A study investigating the blood-brain barrier penetration, distribution and elimination of retro-inverso peptides as candidate treatments for Alzheimer’s disease
… clinically by cognitive decline and neuropsychiatric symptoms, while its pathological features are the accumulation of senile plaques and neurofibrillary tangles in the brain. Aβ pathology is a central component of the disease. Early aggregated forms of Aβ known as “soluble oligomers” …
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