[Neuropsychological thinking at everyday clinical practice].

In this paper, at first I noted the way how to pick up the neuropsychological signs and symptoms during routine neurological examination, and their diagnostic power. Second, I presented the clinical approach for dementia. Medical history should be obtained from both patients themselves and their caregivers.

[Macdonald Critchley].

In this paper, I review some of the writings of Macdonald Critchley with an accompanying biographical sketch. The contents of his first book, "Mirror-Writing" (1928) as well as those of "Aphasiology and other aspects of language" (1970), and his views on aphasia are presented. The book "Mirror-Writing" consists of a major review of mirror writing and related reversal phenomena.

Transient interhemispheric disconnection in a case of insulinoma-induced hypoglycemic encephalopathy.

We report a case of a 22-year-old male who was transferred to our hospital in a comatose state following successive seizures. Low blood glucose had been detected upon his arrival at the previous hospital. He became responsive 12 days after the onset of coma.

Single-incision laparoscopically assisted vaginal hysterectomy: Operative outcomes and its learning curve.

We previously reported on single-incision laparoscopic surgery applied to laparoscopically assisted vaginal hysterectomy (LAVH) cases. We accumulated single-incision LAVH cases to evaluate this operation, including its learning curve. Since July 2009, we planned to perform single-incision LAVH in 50 cases.

Transumbilical single-incision laparoscopic surgery: application to laparoscopically assisted vaginal hysterectomy.

Purpose: Transumbilical single-incision laparoscopic surgery has been used more frequently in general surgery to reduce the invasiveness of traditional laparoscopy. However, few reports of single-incision laparoscopic surgery have been described in the field of gynecology. We used single-incision laparoscopic surgery to laparoscopically assisted vaginal hysterectomy (LAVH).