Criminal Behaviour After Diagnosis of a Neurocognitive Disorder: A Nationwide Finnish Register Study.

Objective: To explore criminal behavior of individuals with Alzheimer's disease (AD), frontotemporal dementia (FTD), or Lewy body dementias (LBD) after the diagnosis.

Design: Nationwide register study.

Setting: Information on diagnoses and criminality was received from Finnish registers.

Crime, mortality and neurocognitive disorders: A nationwide register study in Finland.

Objectives: To explore mortality of patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD), frontotemporal dementia (FTD), or Lewy body dementias (LBD) who had criminal behavior in the year preceding diagnosis.

Methods: Data were obtained from the nationwide registers. Mortality was compared between disorder groups with and without criminal acts and with the general population.

Incidence and mortality of alcohol-related dementia and Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome: A nationwide register study.

Background: Epidemiological data on alcohol-related cognitive disorders are scarce. Up-to-date population-based incidence and mortality rates for Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome (WKS) and alcohol-related dementia (ARD) are necessary to understand the burden of these diseases.

Methods: We collected diagnostic data from the Finnish Hospital Discharge Register and mortality data from Statistics Finland for all persons aged ≥40 years who had received a diagnosis of WKS (n = 1149) or ARD (n = 2432) between 1998 and 2015 in Finland.

Criminal Behavior in the Four Years Preceding Diagnosis of Neurocognitive Disorder: A Nationwide Register Study in Finland.

Objective: To explore the criminality of patients with subsequent diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease (AD), frontotemporal dementia (FTD), or Lewy body dementias (LBD) in the four years preceding diagnosis.

Design: Nationwide register study.

Setting: Data on Finnish patients were collected from the discharge register and data on criminal offending from the police register.

Prognosis after Mild Traumatic Brain Injury: Influence of Psychiatric Disorders.

Background: We evaluated the prevalence of psychiatric disorders in mild traumatic brain injury (MTBI) patients and investigated psychiatric comorbidity in relation to subjective symptoms and return to work (RTW).

Methods: We recruited 103 MTBI patients (mean age 40.8 years, SD 3.

Korsakoff Syndrome in Non-alcoholic Psychiatric Patients. Variable Cognitive Presentation and Impaired Frontotemporal Connectivity.

Non-alcoholic Wernicke's encephalopathy and Korsakoff syndrome are greatly underdiagnosed. There are very few reported cases of neuropsychologically documented non-alcoholic Korsakoff syndrome, and diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) data are scarce. We report clinical characteristics and neuropsychological as well as radiological findings from three psychiatric patients (one woman and two men) with a history of probable undiagnosed non-alcoholic Wernicke's encephalopathy and subsequent chronic memory problems.

Non-alcoholic Korsakoff syndrome in psychiatric patients with a history of undiagnosed Wernicke's encephalopathy.

Wernicke's encephalopathy is often undiagnosed, particularly in non-alcoholics. There are very few reports of non-alcoholic patients diagnosed with Korsakoff syndrome in the absence of a prior diagnosis of Wernicke's encephalopathy and no studies of diffusion tensor imaging in non-alcoholic Korsakoff syndrome. We report on three non-alcoholic psychiatric patients (all women) with long-term non-progressive memory impairment that developed after malnutrition accompanied by at least one of the three Wernicke's encephalopathy manifestations: ocular abnormalities, ataxia or unsteadiness, and an altered mental state or mild memory impairment.

Post-stroke depression and depression-executive dysfunction syndrome are associated with recurrence of ischaemic stroke.

Background: Depression and depression-executive dysfunction syndrome (DES) are common neuropsychiatric consequences of stroke. We hypothesized that if stroke as a cerebrovascular event causes depression, this so-called post-stroke depression will further increase the risk of recurrent stroke. The objective of the study was to investigate whether patients with post-stroke depression or DES have increased rates of stroke recurrence.

[Assessment and treatment of conversion disorder: the most fascinating borderline of psychiatry and neurology].

Conversion disorder or functional neurological disorder is a neurological symptom complex originating from psychological factors, which manifests in voluntary motor and sensory functions or as unexplained epilepsy-like seizures. Until the 1980's the disorder was called hysterical neurosis. Later on, various general terms, such as unexplained somatic symptoms, pseudoneurological, somatoformic, psychogenic, or psychosomatic symptoms, have been applied.

Post-stroke delirium in relation to dementia and long-term mortality.

Background: Delirium is a frequent post-stroke complication that compromises effective rehabilitation and has been associated with poor outcome. We aimed to investigate whether delirium is associated with increased risk of post-stroke dementia and long-term mortality once confounding is taken into account.

Methods: The study comprised 263 consecutive acute ischemic stroke patients aged 55-85 years admitted to the emergency department of a university hospital.

[Update on current care guidelines. The diagnosis and medical treatment of memory disorders].

Any complaints from a patient about their memory should be examined. Diagnosis is based on international criteria. The basic evaluation consists of the medical history, clinical evaluation, cognitive tests and brain imaging, especially using MRI.

Short cognitive behavioral therapy and cognitive training for adults with ADHD - a randomized controlled pilot study.

In clinical practice, a growing need exists for effective non-pharmacological treatments of adult attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Here, we present the results of a pilot study of 10 adults with ADHD participating in short-term individual cognitive- behavioral therapy (CBT), 9 adults participating in cognitive training (CT), and 10 controls. Self-report questionnaires, independent evaluations, and computerized neurocognitive testing were collected before and after the treatments to evaluate change.

Depression-executive dysfunction syndrome relates to poor poststroke survival.

Background: The aim of this study was to investigate the influence of poststroke depression and executive dysfunction on long-term survival after acute stroke.

Methods: A total of 257 consecutive acute ischemic stroke patients were included in the study and followed up to 12 years. Depression was diagnosed 3 months after stroke in 99 patients (38.

Cognitive impairment predicts poststroke death in long-term follow-up.

Background: Poststroke global cognitive decline and dementia have been related to poor long-term survival. Whether deficits in specific cognitive domains are associated with long-term survival in patients with ischaemic stroke is not known in detail.

Methods: Patients with acute stroke subjected to comprehensive neuropsychological evaluation were included in the study (n = 409) and followed up for up to 12 years.

Cognitive-behaviorally-oriented group rehabilitation of adults with ADHD: results of a 6-month follow-up.

Objective: Recently, novel psychological treatments for adult ADHD have been reported with promising results. However, studies about long-term treatment effects are scanty. The authors study effects of cognitive-behaviorally-oriented group rehabilitation during a 6-month follow-up.

Poststroke dementia predicts poor survival in long-term follow-up: influence of prestroke cognitive decline and previous stroke.

Background: The aim of this study was to investigate the influence of poststroke dementia on long-term survival after acute stroke and also to assess the possible influence of prestroke cognitive decline and previous stroke on this relationship.

Methods: A total of 451 consecutive patients with acute ischaemic stroke admitted to hospital were included in the study and followed up for 12 years. Dementia was diagnosed 3 months after stroke in 115 patients (25.

Age related white matter changes predict stroke death in long term follow-up.

Objective: Recurrent strokes and functional decline are predicted by age related white matter changes (ARWMC). Whether they are associated with long term survival among hospital patients referred for acute stroke is not known.

Methods: A total of 396 consecutive acute stroke patients subjected to MRI were included in the study and followed-up for up to 12 years.

Long-term survival after ischemic stroke in postmenopausal women is affected by an interaction between smoking and genetic variation in nitric oxide synthases.

Background: We aimed to study whether variations in vasoregulatory endothelial nitric oxide synthase (eNOS 4a/b) and tissue-injury-associated inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS R5/4) genes and smoking might explain gender differences in long-term survival after stroke.

Methods: A total of 486 consecutive acute stroke patients, subjected to MRI, were followed up for a mean of 7.6 years.

Adults with ADHD benefit from cognitive-behaviorally oriented group rehabilitation: a study of 29 participants.

Objective: In clinical practice, a growing need exists for effective nonpharmacological treatments of adult ADHD. The authors present results from a cognitive-behaviorally oriented psychological group rehabilitation for adult ADHD.

Method: A total of 29 adults with ADHD participated.

Depression-executive dysfunction syndrome in stroke patients.

Objective: It has been suggested that executive dysfunction could be the core defect in patients with geriatric or vascular depression, and that this depression-dysexecutive syndrome (DES) might be related to frontal-subcortical circuit dysfunction. The authors tested this hypothesis in 158 poststroke patients, of whom 21 had both depression and executive dysfunction.

Methods: In this cross-sectional cohort study, a neurological, psychiatric, and neuropsychological examination was carried out 3 months after ischemic stroke, and brain infarcts, white-matter changes, and brain atrophy were recorded by MRI.