[Pure progressive amnesia, isolated for 16 years with focal hippocampus atrophy].

Introduction: Pure progressive amnesia is a rare and unusual syndrome involving long preservation of autonomy and absence of progression in other cognitive domains.

Case Report: We report a case which remained quiescent for 16 years characterized by severe isolated episodic amnesia and preservation of spatial, semantic and implicit memory and autonomy. MRI revealed bilateral focal atrophy of the hippocampus.

[Diagnostic criteria for mild cognitive impairment in a cohort of 100 subjects].

Introduction: Tracking can be proposed for subjects with prodromal sates of Alzheimer disease (AD) or people with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) at risk to develop dementia who present a memory complaint.

Patients And Methods: We present a cohort of 100 subjects who attended a French memory unit with a diagnostic of MCI. We applied the different definitions used in daily practice.

[Usefulness of the 10 pictures reminding test for memory assessment for the diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease, mild cognitive impairment and anxiety/depression].

Introduction: Episodic memory is often considered to be essential in the neuropsychological examination of elderly people consulting in the memory clinics. Therefore, the performance of three different episodic memory tests were compared in Alzheimer's disease (AD), mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and anxiety/depression.

Methods: Seventy-six patients with AD, 46 with MCI, and 36 with anxiety/depression performed three memory tests: (1) three-words immediate and delayed recall of the MMSE test; (2) 10-pictures reminding test; (3) 16-items free and cued reminding test.

[Searching for lost memory: memory loss and recovery mechanisms observed in a patient with pure retrograde amnesia].

We describe a patient who developed acute reversible amnesia characterized by impaired recollection of past events with preserved anterograde memory. This occurred after a mild head trauma and in the context of occupational stress. Isolated retrograde amnesia affected autobiographical memory (with lost of identity lasting a few days) and semantic knowledge.

[Memory complaints and anxiety. Apropos of 40 patients attending a specialized memory consultation].

This study reports results of the specialized memory consultation based on 2 successive examinations, one by a neurologist, the other by a psychologist, of 40 anxious subjects with or without social phobias. Traumatic events were frequent and we observed Alzheimer's disease in the family of 41.9% of subjects.

Procedural memory: computer learning in control subjects and in Parkinson's disease patients.

We used perceptual motor tasks involving the learning of mouse control by looking at a Macintosh computer screen. We studied 90 control subjects aged between sixteen and seventy-five years. There was a significant time difference between the scales of age but improvement was the same for all subjects.

[Specialized memory consultation and management of dementia syndrome].

The specialized memory consultation is based on two successive examinations: one by a neurologist, the other by a psychologist, using standardized batteries of tests. In 200 consecutive subjects with 63.8 years mean age, the authors observe dementia syndromes (39%), age related disorders of memory (6.

[Spelling impairments. Neuropsychological study in two adolescents with developmental dysgraphia].

Two adolescents 14 and 16 years of age presented with isolated developmental agraphia. The spelling errors were correlated with the degree of orthographic ambiguity and with the word frequency as in acquired agraphia. Patients used to simplify the words spelling and to follow the phoneme-grapheme conversion.

[Aging and procedural memory. Study of a series of tests on microcomputers].

The authors have assessed perceptual motor tasks involving the learning of the mouse control by locking at a Macinthosh computer screen during three consecutive sessions. Tests were performed by 102 control subjects aged between 16 and 85 years. Concerning age, there was a significant time difference (ANOVA) but improvement was the same for all subjects.