Somatostatin Receptor 2 Expression in Canine Meningioma.

The neuropeptide somatostatin (SST) plays an important regulatory role in the proliferation of normal and neoplastic cells. Five subtypes of somatostatin receptors (SSTRs), SSTR1-SSTR5, have been identified in human tumours. The SSTR2 subtype is identified most commonly in meningiomas.

Frontal lobe functioning in man: the riddle revisited.

Forty-eight patients, each with a single frontal lobe lesion, were tested with a battery of 10 of the most widely used neuropsychological tests, comprising five traditional "frontal" tests and five others, for which that claim is not generally made. All correlations among the tests in the group were positive and significant. Moreover, the average correlation between each frontal test and the other tests in the frontal group was found to be higher than the average correlation of the same frontal test with the tests in the other group.

Dissociation between recency and span: neuropsychological and experimental evidence.

This article reports dissociations between verbal span and the recency portion of the serial position curve in immediate free recall, in 2 neuropsychological case studies and in 3 experiments with normal participants. Patient A. N.

Recovery of object recognition in a case of simultanagnosia.

A case of visual agnosia is described. The patient, V C, complained of difficulties in identifying visual stimuli, after a stroke in the left occipital lobe. A neuropsychological examination demonstrated a range of symptoms consistent with (ventral) simultanagnosia, and a reaching disorder--suggesting Balint's syndrome.

Poppelreuter-Ghent's Overlapping Figures Test: its sensitivity to age, and its clinical use.

This study aims to identify the cognitive variables involved in a task of visual recognition of meaningful and meaningless two-dimensional line-drawings of shapes; the Poppelreuter-Ghent Overlapping Figures Test. It was found that the performance of healthy controls was influenced by age and education, but not sex. Age and education adjusted norms are set forth.