The impact of deep brain stimulation of the subthalamic nucleus on facial emotion recognition in patients with Parkinson's disease.

Deep brain stimulation (DBS) of the subthalamic nucleus (STN) is successful in patients with advanced Parkinson's disease (PD) but may worsen cognitive outcome, including facial emotion recognition (FER). Data-analyses on 59 consecutive PD patients with complete pre- and postoperative assessments, using a sensitive FER test, showed no changes in FER 1 year after STN-DBS surgery, both after group and individual analyses. These findings do however not exclude the impact of FER in and on itself on the outcome after STN-DBS.

Coordination and Cognition in Pure Nutritional Wernicke's Encephalopathy with Cerebellar Degeneration after COVID-19 Infection: A Unique Case Report.

Background: Alcoholic cerebellar degeneration is a restricted form of cerebellar degeneration, clinically leading to an ataxia of stance and gait and occurring in the context of alcohol misuse in combination with malnutrition and thiamine depletion. However, a similar degeneration may also develop after non-alcoholic malnutrition, but evidence for a lasting ataxia of stance and gait and lasting abnormalities in the cerebellum is lacking in the few patients described with purely nutritional cerebellar degeneration (NCD).

Methods: We present a case of a 46-year-old woman who developed NCD and Wernicke's encephalopathy (WE) due to COVID-19 and protracted vomiting, resulting in thiamine depletion.

The Effect of Deep Brain Stimulation of the Subthalamic Nucleus on Language Function in Parkinson's Disease: A Systematic Review.

Purpose This systematic review focuses on the effect of bilateral deep brain stimulation (DBS) of the subthalamic nucleus (STN) on language function in Parkinson's disease (PD). It fills an important gap in recent reviews by considering other language tasks in addition to verbal fluency. Method We critically and systematically reviewed the literature on studies that investigated the effect of bilateral STN-DBS on language function in PD.

Awake Surgery for a Violin Player: Monitoring Motor and Music Performance, A Case Report.

Objective: We report the case of a professional violin player who underwent an awake craniotomy to resect a tumor in the left supplementary motor area, an area involved in motor planning.

Method: A careful pre- and intraoperative monitoring plan for music performance and complex motor function was established that could be used in combination with cortical stimulation.

Results: The patient suffered an epileptic seizure during cortical stimulation.

The Effectiveness of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction on Psychological Distress and Cognitive Functioning in Patients with Multiple Sclerosis: a Pilot Study.

Patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) often suffer from psychological distress and cognitive dysfunctioning. These factors negatively impact the health-related quality of life. Only recently behavioral therapeutic approaches are being used to treat psychological distress in MS.

Memory worries and self-reported daily forgetfulness: a psychometric evaluation of the Dutch translation of the Multifactorial Memory Questionnaire.

The expression of memory worries and the self-reporting of daily forgetfulness easily spark discussion among sufferers and their family or friends about what is normal or abnormal forgetfulness. One way to investigate whether the reporting of forgetfulness might be excessive is to use a standardized memory questionnaire--for instance, the Multifactorial Memory Questionnaire (MMQ). The MMQ measures worries, daily forgetfulness, and memory strategy use.

Neural correlates of syntactic ambiguity in sentence comprehension for low and high span readers.

Syntactically ambiguous sentences have been found to be difficult to process, in particular, for individuals with low working memory capacity. The current study used fMRI to investigate the neural basis of this effect in the processing of written sentences. Participants with high and low working memory capacity read sentences with either a short or long region of temporary syntactic ambiguity while being scanned.

Intersentential syntactic context effects on comprehension: the role of working memory.

The study investigated the influence of a syntactically biasing context sentence on the processing of syntactically complex object-first relative clauses and even more complex object-first complement clauses in readers with individual differences in working memory. Behavioral as well as brain responses (event-related potentials, ERPs) were recorded from two groups of participants with either a high or a low working memory span. The behavioral data taken from a post-sentence comprehension question task indicate an intersentential syntactic contextual influence on the comprehension of object-first relative clauses for low span readers, but not for high span readers.