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False recognition/misidentification of unfamiliar person after cerebral infarction: A case report.

Cortex

February 2022

Nagaoka Rehabilitation Hospital, Shizuoka, Japan; Nikko-Noguchi Hospital, Tochigi, Japan; Department of Neurology and Rehabilitation Medicine, Juntendo University, Japan. Electronic address:

An 84-year-old man manifested false recognition/misidentification of unfamiliar person after cardiogenic cerebral infarction. He had good visual and hearing acuity, no hemianopsia, unilateral spatial neglect and visual object agnosia. However, he was unable to remember faces of his rehabilitation therapists, and repeatedly misidentified other patients' visitors and therapists as his family members and friends, without recognizing his mistakes.

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An 80-year-old woman had a stroke during treatment for diffuse large B cell lymphoma. She exhibited left hemispatial inattention, forced grasping with her left hand and moderate left hemiplegia. She always grasped the guard rail of the bed with her left hand, which prevented her from standing up and performing activities of daily living (ADL) centred on move and transfer operations.

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After the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, the thyroid ultrasound screening program for children aged 0-18 at the time of the accident was started from October 2011. The prevalence of thyroid carcinomas in that population has appeared to be very high (84 cases per 296,253). To clarify the pathogenesis, we investigated the presence of driver mutations in these tumours.

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WASPs and WAVEs: from molecular function to physiology in hematopoietic cells.

Semin Cell Dev Biol

April 2013

Department of Internal Medicine, Noguchi Hospital, Ashibetsu 075-0002, Japan.

The actin cytoskeleton is critically involved in a variety of cell functions. The Arp2/3 complex mediates branching of filamentous actin. The members of the Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome protein (WASP) family are major regulators of the complex.

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