Biomedical subjects
Publications and source records attributed to L Agostini.
Left-handedness, being exception to the rule of right-handedness, has provoked several questions about its origins and the significance of its relationships with some individual traits, like cognitive style, personality, creativity, motor abilities. Investigations on left-handedness in recent years suggest that hand preference is linked to the peculiar functional organization of the two hemispheres of the brain.
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A case of Progressive Supranuclear Palsy (The Steele-Richardson-Olszewski Syndrome) is presented. The chief clinical features are described. The neuropathological investigation confirmed the clinical diagnosis showing neuronal depopulation, gliosis and neurofibrillary degeneration with the characteristic topography in the brain stem, cerebellum and the subthalamic nuclei. They conclude with the hypothesis that sometimes a pregress cranial trauma can have an important role in the onset of this disease.
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