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Seizure
January 2025
The National Centre for Epilepsy, Division of Clinical Neuroscience, Full Member of European Reference Network on Rare and Complex Epilepsies EpiCARE, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway; Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.
Objective: Functional/dissociative seizures (FDS) are common and pose a considerable burden on both individual patients and healthcare systems. Cognitive complaints are frequent in patients with FDS. Previous studies on cognitive function in patients with FDS have yielded mixed results.
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January 2025
Department of Physiology, University of Sindh, Jamshoro, PAK.
Background: Erectile dysfunction (ED) in men is overlooked and is often linked with psychogenic causes. Due to cultural barriers, this area of research remains neglected.
Objective: The study was conducted to determine the factors that can be associated with ED in otherwise apparently healthy men.
Front Psychiatry
December 2024
Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile.
The concept of mental symptom is constructed considering not only the biological signal that determines it, but the multilayered causative factors related to intersubjective experience. However, specific brain damage might produce a set of symptoms expressed in a recognizable gestalt that helps to differentiate organic of psychogenic causation. The legacy of the theory of mental symptoms developed by German Berrios and the seminal work of Hughlings Jackson and Kurt Goldstein can contribute to this difficult task.
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November 2024
Memorial Sisli Hastanesi, Urology Department, Istanbul, Turkiye.
Purpose: This study aimed to assess postoperative pain, depression, and anxiety levels in infertile men who underwent microsurgical testicular sperm extraction (micro-TESE) for non-obstructive azoospermia (NOA) and compare results between patients with successful and unsuccessful sperm retrieval.
Material And Methods: A total of 105 NOA patients participated, completing preoperative Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) and Situational and Transient Anxiety Inventory (SAI and TAI) questionnaires. Postoperatively, Visual Analog Scale (VAS) scores were recorded.
Acta Neurol Belg
November 2024
Faculty of Medicine, Grigore T. Popa University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Iași, 700115, Romania.
Foreign Accent Syndrome (FAS) is a rare and complex speech disorder characterized by the sudden emergence of a foreign accent, typically following neurological events such as strokes, traumatic brain injuries, or neurodegenerative diseases. This comprehensive review explores the pathophysiology, neuroimaging findings, and prevalence of FAS. Neuroimaging studies, including MRI and fMRI, reveal significant brain reorganization predominantly in the left hemisphere, involving regions such as the superior temporal gyrus and medial frontal structures.
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