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F. Le Pira

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Cognitive dysfunction in patients with relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis

2006

Cognitive dysfunction is considered one of the clinical markers of multiple sclerosis (MS). However, in the literature there are inconsistent reports on the prevalence of cognitive dysfunction, and separate data for the relapsing-remitting (RR) type of the disease are not always presented. In this study, we submitted 461 RRMS patients to a battery of neuropsychological tests to investigate their impairment in various cognitive domains. As a consequence of the exclusion criteria, the sample is not fully representative of the entire population of RRMS patients. In this selected sample, when only the eight scores of a core battery (Mental Deterioration Battery) were considered (with respectiv…

Adult050103 clinical psychologymedicine.medical_specialtyMultiple Sclerosismultiple sclerosis cognition single digit modality test information processingNeuropsychological TestsAudiologyDevelopmental psychology03 medical and health sciencesCognitionMultiple Sclerosis Relapsing-Remitting0302 clinical medicineMemoryOutpatientsOutpatients; Humans; Patient Selection; Multiple Sclerosis Relapsing-Remitting; Cognition; Cognition Disorders; Italy; Demography; Memory; Adult; Language; Neuropsychological Tests; SpeechmedicineHumansSpeech0501 psychology and cognitive sciencesMemory disorderCognitive deficitDemographyLanguagemedicine.diagnostic_testPatient SelectionMemoriaMultiple sclerosiscognition impairment05 social sciencesCognitive disorderNeuropsychologyCognitionNeuropsychological testmedicine.diseaserelapsing-remittingItalyinformation processing speedNeurologymultiple sclerosiSettore MED/26 - NeurologiaNeurology (clinical)medicine.symptomCognition DisordersPsychology030217 neurology & neurosurgeryrelapsing remitting
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The Italian dementia with Lewy bodies study group (DLB-SINdem): toward a standardization of clinical procedures and multicenter cohort studies design

2017

Dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) causes elevated outlays for the National Health Systems due to high institutionalization rate and patients' reduced quality of life and high mortality. Furthermore, DLB is often misdiagnosed as Alzheimer's disease. These data motivate harmonized multicenter longitudinal cohort studies to improve clinical management and therapy monitoring. The Italian DLB study group of the Italian Neurological Society for dementia (SINdem) developed and emailed a semi-structured questionnaire to 572 national dementia centers (from primary to tertiary) to prepare an Italian large longitudinal cohort. The questionnaire surveyed: (1) prevalence and incidence of DLB; (2) clinical…

Lewy Body Diseasemedicine.medical_specialtyPediatricsDementia with Lewy bodieDementia with Lewy bodiesDermatologyCohort StudiesDiagnosis Differential03 medical and health sciences0302 clinical medicineQuality of lifeAlzheimer DiseaseSurveys and Questionnairesmental disordersStandardization of diagnostic proceduresDiagnosisDementia with Lewy bodies; Standardization of diagnostic procedures; Survey; Alzheimer Disease; Cohort Studies; Diagnosis Differential; Disease Management; Humans; Italy; Lewy Body Disease; Research Design; Surveys and Questionnaires; 2708; Neurology (clinical); Psychiatry and Mental HealthmedicineDementiaHumans030212 general & internal medicineSurveyMED/01 - STATISTICA MEDICAMED/26 - NEUROLOGIAbusiness.industryDementia with Lewy bodiesDisease ManagementStandardization of diagnostic procedureGeneral Medicinemedicine.diseaseSettore MED/26 - NEUROLOGIADementia with Lewy bodies; Standardization of diagnostic procedures; Survey; 2708; Neurology (clinical); Psychiatry and Mental HealthItalyResearch DesignPsychiatry and Mental HealthCohortDifferentialPhysical therapyDeliriumNeurology (clinical)Alzheimer's diseasemedicine.symptombusiness030217 neurology & neurosurgeryFrontotemporal dementiaCohort study2708
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