Neurological Disorders: Language & Behavior Issues

Clinical Characteristics of 32 Patients with Rapidly Progressive Dementia with Lewy Bodies

What are the clinical characteristics of patients with rapidly progressive dementia with Lewy bodies?

Due to the heterogeneity of symptoms, more research is needed to determine which patients may experience a more rapid onset of dementia.

FDG-PET, Neuropsychiatric Symptoms and the Risk of Incident Mild Cognitive Impairment

What is the association between neuropsychiatric symptoms and biomarker changes in elderly, cognitively normal people?

Based on these findings, the authors concluded neuropsychiatric symptoms may “be an important additional tool to the biomarker-based investigation of pre-symptomatic Alzheimer's disease.”

Gesture Comprehension and Language in Young Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder

Investigators examined gesture-language integration and gesture comprehension in young children with autism spectrum disorder.

Because gesture integration and comprehension was related to language skill, the authors stated results supported “the tenant that praxis and language networks are functionally linked.”

Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation in Post-Stroke Aphasia: the Impact of Baseline Severity and Task Specificity

Can transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) improve language production in people with chronic non-fluent aphasia due to left hemisphere stroke?

The authors recommend further studies to identify patient factors that can predict treatment response in order to “help refine strategies for the administration of therapeutic tDCS.”