Aggressive and impulsive behaviors in Frontotemporal dementia and Alzheimer's disease.

Background: Differentiating FTD and AD is of great clinical significance, due to the very different efficacy of cholinesterase inhibitors in the two disorders. Previous studies have pointed to behavioral differences in FTD and AD, but less attention has been paid to comparing aggressive and impulsive behaviors in the AD and the FTD.

Material/methods: Nursing home residents diagnosed with AD (NINCDS/ADRDA criteria) or the behavioral variant of FTD (Frontotemporal Dementia and Pick's Disease Working Group criteria) were included in the research group.

Rehabilitation of a patient with aphasia due to severe traumatic brain injury.

Background: There has been little attention given to traumatic aphasia in recent neuropsychological literature. It is difficult to justify this relative neglect, however, since speech and language disturbances subsequent to traumatic brain injury (TBI) causa serious therapeutic difficulties. Hence the problems encountered by our patient, K.

Behavioral and psychological symptoms in the preclinical stage of Alzheimer's disease.

Background: AD is preceded by a lengthy preclinical period. Neural degeneration may lead to the appearance of behavioral and psychological symptoms, even before other clinical symptoms are manifest. We attempted to evaluate this symptomatology in preclinical AD.

An evaluation of executive functions in sportsmen after traumatic brain injury.

Background. A particularly difficult problem in the rehabilitation of patients with closed-head injuries (TBI) is executive dysfunction, i.e.

Disturbances of speech and language in patients aroused from long-term coma subsequent to traumatic brain injury.

Background. The purpose of this study was to characterize the speech and language disturbances seen in patients with traumatic brain injury aroused from long-term coma at the Rehabilitation Clinic of the Bydgoszcz Academy of Medicine. Material and methods.