Parkinsonism-Plus Syndromes

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Idiopathic Parkinson’s disease Parkinson’s disease Genetic forms of Parkinson’s disease Parkinsonism plus syndromes Progressive supranuclear palsy Multiple system atrophy Cortico-basal ganglionic degeneration Dementia with lewy Bodies Hereditary neurodegenerative Parkinsonism Huntington’s…

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Role of Neuropsychology in Neurodegeneration

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Name of test Remarks Wechsler Memory Scale (WMS-III and IV) Most widely used scale, includes tasks of story recall (Logical memory), recall of word pairs (Verbal paired Associates) and visual…

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Imaging Biomarkers in Neurodegenerative Conditions

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Fig. 2.1 Surface based morphometry (SBM) and voxel based morphometry (VBM) comparing cohorts of healthy controls and ALS patients. The analyses highlight motor cortex atrophy and additional grey matter changes…

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Prion Diseases

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Fig. 12.1 Image of the structure of PrPC showing three alpha helices, a single disulphide bond, up to two carbohydrate moieties and attachment to the cell surface via a glycosylinositolphosphate…

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HIV and Other Infectious Causes of Dementia

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HIV associated asymptomatic neurocognitive impairment (ANI) 1. Acquired impairment in cognitive functioning, involving at least two ability domains, documented by performance of at least 1 standard deviation below the mean…

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Common Themes in the Pathogenesis of Neurodegeneration

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Fig. 1.1 Clinical Classification of Neurodegenerative conditions Eponymous classifications (e.g., Alzheimer disease, Parkinson disease, and Huntington disease) remain useful in a clinical setting, as the diagnosis generates a framework for…

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Alzheimer’s Disease

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Gene (protein) Chromosome Inheritance Role in AD pathogenesis APP (amyloid precursor protein) 21 Autosomal dominant Mutations in the APP gene promote cleavage at b or g sites leading to overproduction…

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Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis

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1. Speech  4 Normal speech  3 Detectable disturbance  2 Intelligible without repeating  1 Speech with non-verbal communication  0 Loss of useful speech 2. Salivation  4 Normal  3 Slight but definite…

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Fronto-Temporal Dementia (FTD)

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Examples of speech “We are looking for one hor….like we…are just saying…I should not have done…I didn’t realize it, like I say………. I used to be very ….. I had…

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Huntington’s Disease

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Title Authors Scale description Functional Capacity Rating Scale Shoulsan and Fahn (1979) Measures functional capacity across 5 domains on a scale of 1–5 Unified Huntington’s Disease Rating Scale (UHDRS) Kieburtz…

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