Publications by authors named "A Tondinelli"

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  • Functional movement disorders (FMD) can resemble Parkinson's disease (PD), making it challenging to differentiate between the two, but examining social cognition and other psychological factors may aid in diagnosis.
  • A study involved participants with FMD, PD, and healthy controls to assess their social cognition abilities, attention, and dissociative symptoms, revealing that while both groups struggled with Theory of Mind, only PD showed notable attention issues.
  • Findings suggest that cognitive disturbances in FMD are independent and distinct from the cognitive impairments seen in PD, highlighting that while FMD demonstrates psychodynamic features like dissociation, the line between 'organic' and 'functional' disorders remains unclear.
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To identify the cortical and subcortical distribution of atrophy and the disorganization of white matter bundles underlying the apraxic disorders in a patient with corticobasal degeneration (CBD). Patient underwent appropriate neuropsychological tasks aimed at identifying the nature of the apraxic disorder and morphometric structural MRI with whole-brain voxel-wise analysis. Progressive limbkinetic apraxia (LKA) with onset in the right upper limb with subsequent extension to the limbs, trunk, orofacial district, and eye movements was documented, associated with element of ideomotor apraxia (IMA).

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Background: and Sex and cognitive profile may be related to the laterality of motor symptoms in idiopathic Parkinson's disease.

Introduction: Parkinson's disease (PD) is well recognised as an inherently asymmetric disease with unilateral onset of motor symptoms. The laterality of motor symptoms may be linked to sex, clinical and demographic variables, and neuropsychological disorders.

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Background: Integrase strand transferase inhibitors (INSTI), including raltegravir (RAL), elvitegravir (ELV), and dolutegravir (DTG), have demonstrated better efficacy and tolerability than other combination antiretroviral therapy (cART) classes in clinical trials; however, studies of sustainability of INSTI-containing therapy in the long-term are sparse. The purpose of this study was to provide an epidemiological overview comparing the outcome performance of different INSTI-based regimens longitudinally, including the metrics of efficacy, safety, convenience, and durability among a large, nationally representative cohort of persons living with HIV in Italy.

Methods: We selected subjects in the MaSTER cohort (an Italian multicenter, hospital-based cohort established in the mid-1990s that currently has enrolled over 24,000 PLWH) who initiated an INSTI-based regimen either when naïve or following a regimen switch.

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: Dolutegravir (DTG) is recommended by international guidelines as a main component of an optimal initial regimen of cART (combination antiretroviral treatment) in people living with HIV (PLWH) and in case of switching for failure or optimization strategies. However, studies on the performance of DTG-containing regimens and indications for switching therapies in the long term are sparse. The purpose of this study was to evaluate prospectively the performance of DTG-based regimens, using the metrics of "efficacy", "safety", "convenience" and ''durability'', among a nationally representative cohort of PLWH in Italy.

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