Publications by authors named "Chiara Tripodi"
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- Poor affect recognition is an early indicator of frontotemporal dementia (FTD), and this study used the Comprehensive Affect Testing System (CATS-A) to assess emotional dysfunction in FTD patients compared to healthy controls.
- The study involved 139 FTD patients of various subtypes and tested them alongside 116 healthy controls, measuring their Affective Recognition Quotient (ARQ) to evaluate emotional recognition accuracy.
- Results showed that the CATS-A effectively differentiated between FTD patients and healthy controls with high accuracy (AUC 0.89) and had robust internal reliability, suggesting it's a valuable clinical tool for assessing emotional dysfunction in FTD.
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- The study focused on predicting the spread of pathology in frontotemporal dementia (FTD) to improve early diagnosis and intervention, utilizing the Network Diffusion Model (NDM) to analyze brain atrophy in patients.
- Researchers examined various FTD subtypes, finding four main epicenters of atrophy, with significant correlations between NDM predictions and actual longitudinal changes observed in patients over 24 months.
- Results highlighted the progression patterns of different FTD variants, with notable early involvement in specific brain regions and varying effects on atrophy depending on the subtype, particularly in semantic-variant PPA and semantic behavioral variant FTD.
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- The study aimed to assess the clinical usability of the Comprehensive Affect Testing System (CATS) in recognizing emotional responses in Italian ALS patients.
- A total of 96 ALS patients and 116 healthy controls participated in neuropsychological assessments, revealing that the CATS-A measures demonstrated good diagnostic accuracy for distinguishing between ALS patients with cognitive impairments and those without.
- The findings suggested that CATS-A ARQ is an effective tool for identifying affect recognition deficits in ALS, which could indicate frontotemporal brain involvement in these patients.
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- The study looks at bradykinesia, which is when movement becomes slow and small, particularly in people with Parkinson's disease (pwPD) during a hand-tapping task.
- Researchers compared 25 people with Parkinson's to 25 healthy controls using a brain scan and special gloves to measure their hand movements.
- They found that people with Parkinson's had less movement and their brains showed different activity patterns, losing some coordination areas and using more cognitive areas instead, which helps understand how their movement problems happen.
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