Neuropsychology and Neuropsychiatry of Neurodegenerative DisordersManuel Menéndez-González, Tania Álvarez Avellón This book compiles all articles within the Research Topic "Neuropsychology and neuropsychiatry of neurodegenerative disorders" published in the journal Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience. The call was launched in 2014 and closed in 2015 with 21 articles published. Papers deal on several important topics of neuropsychology -such as language and visuospatial functions- and neuropsychiatry - such us the emotional or motivational spheres - , and the interphase between them. There are also articles on psychometry, brain morphometry, brain connectivity, diagnostic tests and interventional studies. All these articles are focused on neurodegenerative conditions, mostly Alzheimer’s disease and Parkinson’s disease. Interestingly, several articles addressed the early stages of these diseases. All together, this Research Topic provides a rich perspective of the research made today around neuropsychological and neuropsychiatric aspects of neurodegenerative diseases. We hope readers enjoy this collection of articles. |
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Neuropsychology and Neuropsychiatry of Neurodegenerative Disorders | 5 |
a few implications for the neuropsychological evaluation in Alzheimers disease | 9 |
Motor and cognitive changes in normal aging | 13 |
Deficits in narrative discourse elicited by visual stimuli are already present in patients with mild cognitive impairment | 16 |
results from the WAISR block design test | 27 |
Psychometric properties of the Brazilian version of Pfeffers Functional Activities Questionnaire | 34 |
Differences in prefrontal cortex activation and deactivation during strategic episodic verbal memory encoding in mild cognitive impairment | 41 |
Mild cognitive impairment poor episodic memory and latelife depression are associated with cerebral cortical thinning and increased white matter hy... | 51 |
Differences in functional brain connectivity alterations associated with cerebral amyloid deposition in amnestic mild cognitive impairment | 105 |
a restingstate fMRI study | 115 |
Elevated levels of cerebrospinal fluid synuclein oligomers in healthy asymptomatic LRRK2 mutation carriers | 127 |
Apathy in Parkinsons disease is related to executive function gender and age but not to depression | 135 |
a comparison to healthy participants | 141 |
Effects of combined MAOB inhibitors and levodopa vs monotherapy in Parkinsons disease | 152 |
Dopaminergic modulation of emotional conflict in Parkinsons disease | 161 |
Graph analysis of verbal fluency test discriminate between patients with Alzheimers disease mild cognitive impairment and normal elderly controls | 175 |
Interactive effects of vascular risk burden and advanced age on cerebral blood flow | 63 |
Bone mineral density adiposity and cognitive functions | 73 |
Specific cognitive functions and depressive symptoms as predictors of activities of daily living in older adults with heterogeneous cognitive backgrou... | 83 |
On the central role of brain connectivity in neurodegenerative disease progression | 95 |
Impaired generation of new subcategories and switching in a semantic verbal fluency test in older adults with mild cognitive impairment | 185 |
Back Cover | 191 |