Lessons Learned From a Delayed‐Start Trial of Modafinil for Freezing of Gait in Parkinson's Disease
ABSTRACT Objective Freezing of gait (FOG) in people with Parkinson's disease (PwPD) is debilitating and has limited treatments. Modafinil modulates beta/gamma band activity in the pedunculopontine nucleus (PPN), like PPN deep brain stimulation. We therefore tested the hypothesis that Modafinil would improve FOG in PwPD.
Tuhin Virmani +8 more
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Cognitive Profiles of Aging in Multiple Sclerosis
BackgroundIncreasingly favorable mortality prognosis in multiple sclerosis (MS) raises questions regarding MS-specific cognitive aging and the presence of comorbidities such as Alzheimer’s disease (AD).ObjectiveTo assess elderly with MS (EwMS) and age ...
Dejan Jakimovski +14 more
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Common polygenic risk for autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is associated with cognitive ability in the general population [PDF]
Acknowledgements Generation Scotland has received core funding from the Chief Scientist Office of the Scottish Government Health Directorates CZD/16/6 and the Scottish Funding Council HR03006.
Clarke, T. K. +22 more
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Life‐Threatening Bradycardia in Anti‐NMDA‐Receptor Encephalitis and a Novel Use for Permanent Pacing
ABSTRACT Background Pediatric anti‐NMDA receptor encephalitis (pNMDARE) is an autoantibody‐mediated disorder that can cause severe autonomic dysfunction, including symptomatic bradycardia and asystole. Dysautonomia can last for years, making it very challenging to manage.
Sarah Tucker +9 more
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Profiles of Emotion Regulation: Understanding Regulatory Patterns and The Implications for Posttraumatic Stress [PDF]
Trauma survivors often experience posttraumatic stress (PTS) and report concurrent difficulties with emotion regulation (ER). Although individuals typically use multiple regulatory strategies to manage emotion, no studies yet examine the influence of a ...
Chesney, Samantha, Gordon, Nakia
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Finding Volunteers' Engagement Profiles in Human Computation for Citizen Science Projects
Human computation is a computing approach that draws upon human cognitive abilities to solve computational tasks for which there are so far no satisfactory fully automated solutions even when using the most advanced computing technologies available ...
Brasileiro, Francisco +1 more
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Axiom, anguish, and Amazement: How autistic traits modulate emotional mental imagery [PDF]
Cerca con AIRE(opens in a new window)|View at Publisher| Export | Download | Add to List | More... Frontiers in Psychology Volume 7, Issue MAY, 2016, Article number 757 Open Access Axiom, anguish, and Amazement: How autistic traits modulate ...
Claudio eMulatti +4 more
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ABSTRACT Objective The Gold Coast criteria permit diagnosis of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) even without upper motor neuron (UMN) signs. However, whether ALS patients with UMN signs (ALSwUMN) and those without (ALSwoUMN) share similar characteristics and prognoses remains unclear.
Hee‐Jae Jung +7 more
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Beauty, elegance, grace, and sexiness compared
Beauty is the single most frequently and most broadly used aesthetic virtue term. The present study aimed at providing higher conceptual resolution to the broader notion of beauty by comparing it with three closely related aesthetically evaluative ...
Kegel, V. +4 more
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Poor written and oral text comprehension in third grade children. A multiple case study [PDF]
In this multiple case study we analyzed oral text comprehension, reading profiles and underlying cognitive abilities (attention, executive functions, working memory, narrative memory, rapid automatized naming and vocabulary) of 9 children identified as ...
Davide Cavallo, Nicola +3 more
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