Recurrent Intussusception in a Pediatric Patient: The Role of the Mesoappendix as a Potential Culprit.

Intussusception, a condition in which one part of the intestine telescopes into another, primarily affects children under 18 months of age. This case report details the radiologic findings in a six-year-old child with a long-standing history of recurrent ileocolic intussusception, who presented with abdominal pain and was diagnosed with intussusception-associated appendicitis. Following the fifth recurrence, the patient underwent laparoscopic reduction of the intussusception and appendectomy.

Contemporary prenatal diagnosis of congenital heart disease in a regional perinatal center lacking onsite pediatric cardiac surgery: obstetrical and neonatal outcomes.

Objectives: Determine obstetrical and neonatal outcomes in neonates with major CHD delivered at a level IV neonatal intensive care units (NICU) center lacking onsite pediatric cardiac surgery.

Methods: A 10- year retrospective review of all neonates admitted to our level IV NICU, with CHD between January 1st, 2011 and December 31st, 2021. Births and NICU charts were cross queried with those from our perinatal center which include pediatric cardiology records.

Psychosomatic interactions in kidney transplantation: role of personality dimensions in mental health-related quality of life.

Background And Aims: The increase in innovative and personalized medicine solutions in kidney surgery can improve patients' chances of survival; however, during the transplantation process, patients are exposed to many psychological challenges. This study aimed to evaluate the role and impact of personality dimensions on the behaviour of waiting-list patients towards the post-surgery adaptation process.

Method: The participants were 113 out-patients aged 18-70 years (mean age 54.

Prolonged COVID 19 Outbreak and Psychological Response of Nurses in Italian Healthcare System: Cross-Sectional Study.

Aim of the study was to analyze the posttraumatic stress disorder risk nurses, detecting the relationship between distress experience and personality dimensions in Italian COVID-19 outbreak. A cross-sectional study was conducted based on 2 data detection (March 2020 and September 2020). Mental evaluation was carried out in Laboratory of Clinical Psychology on n.

Cognitive Reserve and Digital Confidence among Older Adults as New Paradigm for Resilient Aging.

Objective: The purpose of this study was to examine the digital confidence of elder adults and identify behavioral patterns for technology that are related to cognitive abilities among elders.

Method: An observational study was conducted using a sample of 94 elders, aged 53 to 86 years. Neuropsychological and emotional measures were used, and technology use was assessed.

[Emotional pattern and body perception: cross-sectional study on risk factors for health management in young women.].

Introduction: The purpose of this study was to investigate the adherence of girls and young adults to socio-cultural beauty models measuring the emotional patterns and behavioral attitudes of self-body management.

Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted on 2163 Italian women between the ages of 15 and 25 (M=22.2, SD=2.

Psychological Barriers to Digital Living in Older Adults: Computer Anxiety as Predictive Mechanism for Technophobia.

This study aimed to investigate the emotional impact of technology use in an Italian adult population and to detect technophobia. This cross-sectional study was conducted with 117 Italian participants (age range of 50-67 years). Measured variables were computer anxiety and technology use ability.

Survivorship in young women after early breast cancer: a cross-sectional study of emotional traits along 3-years perspective.

Background: Breast cancer diagnosis and treatments have a strong impact on women's lives. This study aimed to evaluate the changes in emotional traits in women aged 38-50 years over a three-year period.

Method: By cross-sectional study design, a sample of n.

Emotional "Patient-Oriented" Support in Young Patients With I-II Stage Breast Cancer: Pilot Study.

The recent increased survival rate after breast cancer (BC) diagnosis and treatment is mostly related to early screening in younger age. Evidence gained from newly detected assessed psychological needs as well as certain emotional regulatory patterns in younger survivors has been related in the literature to an extremely low rate of adherence to the psychological therapies offered. Tailored psychological support is necessary.

Object decision and multiple sclerosis: a preliminary study.

The aim of this research was to study cognitive dysfunctions in multiple sclerosis (MS) by exploring subtle cognitive tasks, usually not included in the standard neuropsychological assessment. We wished to investigate whether it is possible to identify object decision deficits in MS patients without evident cognitive impairment; secondary objectives were to understand whether these deficits can be detected in the early stages of the disease and whether there are differences related to different phenotypes. Participants were divided into four groups: (a) 12 patients with early relapsing-remitting MS [ERR]; (b) 14 with late relapsing-remitting MS [LRR]; (c) 10 with secondary progressive MS [SP]; (d) 36 healthy controls [HCs].

The Semantic Associative Ability in Preschoolers with Different Language Onset Time.

Aim of the study is to verify the semantic associative abilities in children with different language onset times: early, typical, and delayed talkers. The study was conducted on the sample of 74 preschool children who performed a Perceptual Associative Task, in order to evaluate the ability to link concepts by four associative strategies (function, part/whole, contiguity, and superordinate strategies). The results evidenced that the children with delayed language onset performed significantly better than the children with early language production.

Deterioration of semantic associative relationships in mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer Disease.

The aim of this research was to study semantic abilities and their loss in mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and in dementia, while analyzing efficiency in the use of associative relations, within verbal and visuoperceptual modalities. Participants were split into 4 groups: 19 participants with amnestic MCI, 16 patients with mild Alzheimer disease (AD), 20 patients with moderate AD, and 20 healthy controls (HCs). All participants performed standardized neuropsychological tests and experimental (naming and semantic associations) tasks to evaluate verbal and visuoperceptual semantic abilities.

Loss of semantic associative categories in patients with Alzheimer's disease.

Deterioration of semantic memory is one of the primary neuropsychological deficits caused by Alzheimer's disease (AD). In this study, we hypothesize that the breakdown of semantic memory in the mild-to-moderate stage of AD is due to the disruption of the semantic network that links the concepts. Furthermore, the loss of these links is not homogeneous through the semantic association categories (i.

The loss of conceptual associations in mild Alzheimer's dementia.

Changes in semantic memory are a controversial topic in research on cognitive decline in aging. In this study, we analyzed whether the semantic deficits in mild Alzheimer's disease (AD) reflect the information acquisition process, and whether the deficits are related to when the information was initially stored. We hypothesized that in the earlier stages of dementia, the ability to access semantic associative relations reflects the use of these associations during different developmental stages.

Creativity and dementia: a review.

In these last years, creativity was found to play an important role for dementia patients in terms of diagnosis and rehabilitation strategies. This led us to explore the relationships between dementia and creativity. At the aim, artistic creativity and divergent thinking are considered both in non-artists and artists affected by different types of dementia.

Semantic associative relations and conceptual processing.

We analysed the organisation of semantic network using associative mechanisms between different types of information and studied the progression of the use of these associative relations during development. We aimed to verify the linkage of concepts with the use of semantic associative relations. The goal of this study was to analyse the cognitive ability to use associative relations between various items when describing old and/or new concepts.

When, where, and how the corpus callosum changes in MCI and AD: a multimodal MRI study.

Background: The corpus callosum (CC) has been shown to be susceptible to atrophy in Alzheimer disease (AD) as a correlate of wallerian degeneration or retrogenesis. However, when and where these 2 mechanisms intervene is still unclear.

Methods: In 3 memory clinics, we recruited 38 patients with amnestic mild cognitive impairment (MCI), 38 patients with mild AD, and 40 healthy controls (HC).

Callosal atrophy in mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease: different effects in different stages.

Alzheimer's Disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disorder that mainly affects grey matter (GM). Nevertheless, a number of investigations have documented white matter (WM) pathology associated with AD. The corpus callosum (CC) is the largest WM fiber bundle in the human brain.

Word-stem completion task to investigate semantic network in patients with Alzheimer's disease.

Semantic impairment in patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) is revealed by tasks of verbal naming, verbal fluency, and semantic knowledge. Causes of the deficit remain unclear in spite of many studies to investigate whether AD patients suffer from the inability to have voluntary access to an almost intact semantic store or from its break down. Word-stem completion (WSC) tasks have been utilized in healthy subjects in order to study semantic memory and network by exploiting the possibility of the involuntary access to them.

Reading latency of words and nonwords in Alzheimer's patients.

Contrasting data on reading ability in Alzheimer's disease patients have been reported in the literature. Recently Patterson, Graham and Hodges (1994) found that irregular words were misread by demented subjects, while regular words were read correctly. The present study hypothesizes that reading latency may be a sensitive measure of Alzheimer's patients reading impairment.

Functional basis of memory impairment in multiple sclerosis: a[18F]FDG PET study.

Structural neuroimaging has been used to correlate lesional patterns with the cognitive profile of patients with multiple sclerosis (MS), especially for "frontal" dysfunction. However, a clear-cut anatomical explanation has yet to be found for the long-term memory deficit which is a hallmark of MS cognitive impairment. We have used PET to measure regional cerebral glucose metabolism (rCMRglc) in a group of 15 MS patients with involvement of verbal and/or spatial long-term memory.

Cognitive and brain imaging measures of multiple sclerosis.

In this review we will describe the cognitive deficiency in Multiple Sclerosis (MS) and analyze the relationship between the performance on neuropsychological tests and the anatomofunctional findings assessed by neuroimaging techniques. Memory, abstract reasoning, and visuospatial abilities impairments are correlated with lesion extension and with corpus callosum atrophy, quantified on MRI. On the other hand, in MS patients with cognitive disturbance, PET and SPET studies show metabolic alterations and perfusion deficits at the cortical level, particularly in the left hemisphere and in the frontal and temporal lobes.

Anterior corpus callosum atrophy and verbal fluency in multiple sclerosis.

To determine whether different portions of the corpus callosum (CC) are responsible for transferring the information of specific cognitive modalities, eighteen females with relapsing-remitting Multiple Sclerosis (MS) were studied using neuropsychological procedures and Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI). Measures of both anterior and posterior CC areas were obtained in patients with MS as well as in eighteen age and sex matched healthy controls. MRI scans were additionally analyzed for each patient in order to evaluate the extent of demyelinating lesions in both periventricular and subcortical areas.

SPECT, MRI and cognitive functions in multiple sclerosis.

Seventeen patients with relapsing remitting multiple sclerosis (MS) and mild physical disability had neuropsychological testing, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and single photon emission computerised tomography (SPECT) using technetium 99m (99mTc) hexamethyl-propyleneamine oxime (HMPAO). Performance in verbal fluency, naming and memory testing appeared to be impaired in MS patients compared with 17 age-sex and education matched normal controls. Weighted periventricular and confluent lesion scores and the width of the third ventricle, proved to be the most sensitive MRI measures in differentiating more cognitively impaired patients from those who were relatively unimpaired.

Technetium-99m HM-PAO-SPECT study of regional cerebral perfusion in early Alzheimer's disease.

Regional cerebral perfusion was evaluated by single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) using technetium-99m hexamethylpropyleneamine oxime ([99mTc]HM-PAO) in sixteen patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) in early clinical phase and in 16 healthy elderly controls. In all patients transmission computed tomography (TCT) and/or magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) did not show focal brain abnormalities. Relative to normal subjects, AD patients showed significant reductions in cortical/cerebellar activity ratio: cortical perfusion was globally depressed with the largest reductions in frontal and posterior temporo-parietal cortices.