Publications by authors named "Ahmed El Bassiony"
Article Synopsis
- Asymptomatic patients with cerebral arterial stenosis (CAS) exhibit significant cognitive impairment, which has been a topic of debate in research.
- The study categorized patients into intracranial stenosis (ICS) and extracranial stenosis (ECS) groups and compared their cognitive functions using various neurophysiological and cognitive tests.
- Results indicated that both groups showed cognitive impairments, with ICS patients particularly struggling with executive functions while ECS patients faced more issues with memory and information processing.
Objectives: It has recently been suggested that drug-induced tardive syndromes (TS) might be due to maladaptive plasticity, which increases motor excitability in cerebral cortex and basal ganglia. In order to test this hypothesis, we performed the first measurements of cortical excitability in TS.
Methods: Motor cortex excitability was examined using transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) in 22 TS patients and compared with that in 20 age and sex-matched healthy individuals.