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Temporal Involvement (temporal + involvement)
Selected AbstractsExtra temporal involvement in herpes simplex encephalitisEUROPEAN JOURNAL OF NEUROLOGY, Issue 6 2005M. Wasay Temporal lobe abnormalities on brain imaging have been described as strong evidence for herpes simplex encephalitis (HSE) in appropriate clinical settings. Extra temporal abnormalities are less well described in these patients. We retrospectively reviewed 20 patients of HSE and found extra temporal involvement in 11 (55%) patients. Three patients (15 %) had pure extra temporal abnormalities. Twelve patients (60%) had temporal lobe involvement, four patients (20%) had pure temporal lobe involvement and five patients (25%) had normal CT/MRI scans. Our study suggests that extra temporal involvement on brain imaging is common in HSE and in a significant minority of the patients this can even be the sole abnormality. [source] Dimensions of Mothers' and Fathers' Differential Treatment of Siblings: Links With Adolescents' Sex-Typed Personal Qualities,FAMILY RELATIONS, Issue 1 2003Corinna Jenkins Tucker We explored mothers' and fathers' differential treatment (PDT) of their adolescent offspring in five domains (privileges, chores, affection, discipline, and temporal involvement) and examined how siblings' personal qualities were associated with PDT. Participants were 188 families with first- and secondborn adolescents. Equal treatment was the modal parental style except for privileges and discipline. Even where equal treatment was normative a substantial proportion of parents reported differential treatment. Further, the similarity of the nature of parents' differential treatment varied by domain. Sex was associated with parents' differential temporal involvement. Sex-typed personal qualities were related to parents' differential discipline. Both sex and sex-typed personal characteristics were linked to differential affection. Privileges and chores were associated with age and birth order. [source] Presenile dementia mimicking Pick's disease: An autopsy case of localized amygdala degeneration with character change and emotional disorder,NEUROPATHOLOGY, Issue 3 2005Sumiko Shibuya-Tayoshi This report concerns an autopsy case showing localized amygdala degeneration. The patient was a Japanese single woman without hereditary burden who was 58 years old at the time of death. At the age of 55 years, the patient began to feel anxiety, agitation and depressive in mood. At age 58 years, she developed marked character changes and emotional disorders, although disorientation and memory disturbance were slight. We suspected her disease was a variant of presenile dementia, especially Pick's disease, and some neuroradiological examinations disclosed bilateral temporal involvements. We could not make a definitive diagnosis from the clinical findings. She choked to death 3 years after the disease onset. From the neuropathological examinations, the known neurodegenerative diseases causing dementia, including Pick's disease, were excluded and we diagnosed our case as having localized amygdala degeneration. Localized amygdala degeneration itself is very rare. Moreover, in this case, the amygdala degeneration was presumed to be idiopathic, without any apparent cause. To our knowledge, this is the first case of idiopathic localized amygdala degeneration. This case indicates that localized amygdala degeneration can cause presenile dementia, and that character changes and emotional disorders are predominant over memory disturbance and/or disorientation. [source] | ||||||||||