An Explorative Investigation of the Effect of Naturalistic Light on Agitation-Associated Behavior in Nursing Home Residents With Dementia: A Pilot Study.

Aim: To study the effect of naturalistic light, programmed to replicate the spectrum distribution of natural light from dusk to dawn, on agitation measured with a Cohen-Mansfield Agitation Inventory-inspired score of nursing home residents with dementia.

Background: Though the effects of different types of light on the sleep-wake patterns of senior adults and people with dementia have been examined in several studies, the effects of naturalistic light systems, as a possible nonpharmacological intervention to improve sleep and reduce agitation, have yet to be extensively evaluated due to the relative novelty of the technology.

Methods: The study was designed as a 6-month pilot study of a prospective interventional longitudinal cohort study, with five participants recruited from a single department of a Danish nursing home.

Importance of Rapid Clinical Recognition of the Anterior Opercular Syndrome (Foix-Chavany-Marie Syndrome): A Case Report.

We have described a 55-year-old woman with the anterior opercular syndrome (Foix-Chavany-Marie syndrome). The clinical presentation included acute onset of bilateral facial palsy and anarthria. Immediate MRI of the brain revealed acute ischemia in the right opercular region and sequelae after a previous infarction involving the left opercular region.

[Intracranial hypertension secondary to systemic lupus erythematosus].

Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a diagnostically challenging autoimmune multisystem disease with intracranial hypertension as a rare initial clinical manifestation. This is a case report of a 27-year-old woman with a prior history of psychogenic non-epileptic attacks, intracranial hypertension, headache, visual impairment, papilloedema, and a BMI of 24 kg/m2. Upon acetazolamide treatment for intracranial hypertension and before the diagnosis of SLE was reached, the patient developed respiratory distress and metabolic acidosis, due to underlying SLE glomerulonephritis.