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P M Furlan

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PubMed1978

[An atypical case of subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (SSPE), (with special reference to psychiatric and psychological evaluations)].

An atypical case of subacute sclerosing panencephalitis is described, with particular reference to its psychiatric and psychological aspects in the light of the neurological and laboratory data: slow-gamma electrophoresis of the spinal fluid, periodic delta signs in the EEG over about 6 yr, 1/160 blood titre of anti-measles virus antibodies. The history displayed an ingravescent dementia course and the patient's continuing survival for more than 11 yr makes the case the longest recorded in the literature. Both the psychiatric-psychological and neurological symptoms had occurred in distinct stages. It is suggested that neurological recrudescence was responsible for the pattern of symptomatological stabilisation followed by sudden relapses. The symptoms regarded as characteristic of the terminal stage have not yet appeared, especially on the neurological side.

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PubMed1976

[Neuropsychiatric findings in a case of paramyoclonus multiplex].

In a subject affected with multiple paramyoclonus, showing asyncronous, bilateral, intermittent, spontaneous myoclonic jerks, a neuro-psychiatric investigation was performed. Several day-time poligraphic recordings were normal, while the night-time ones showed the lack of myoclonic jerks throughout the sleep. Metrazol activation pointed out a probable hyperexcitability of brain stem reticular formation. The psychiatric investigation, performed with a psychodynamic approach let realize the existence of a distortion of neuro-psychological functions due to an impaired elaboration of emotional information and psycho-structuring engrams. The Authors conclude for a posible convergence of biological and psychological factors causing the clinical symptoms.

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PubMed1976

[The influence of noise on the human central nervous system (author's transl)].

We studied the effects of the road noise on the central nervous system in a group of 40 normal adult subjects. The neurophysiological research included the following parameters: acoustic and visual evoked cortical potentials, percentage of EEG desynchronization, contingent negative variation (CNV) and sleep-EEG. The results showed in every subject a reduction of the amplitude of the acoustic evoked potential recorded during the road noise as against to that one we recorded during normal silence. This fact, also in contrast to the stability of the visual evoked potential during the road noise and the normal silence, permitted to verify the existence of a neuronal occlusion phenomenon interesting the evocative acoustic stimulus when the noise is provided at the same time. The study of the EEG desynchronization during the road noise compared to that one during the normal silence did not give any statistically difference. The study of the CNV gave analogous results. Only if we complete the research with the study of the base-personality of every subject by the Rorschachtest, we found significant differences among the neurphysiological parameters as the EEG desynchronization and the CNV during the normal silence and the noise in relation to the different levels of anxiety and endotensivity of every subject.

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