32 illustrations. Price, 18s. In this edition, the title of the book has^bee^ Ranged from the old one, Recen point out ^urology.because, as the ^niithors n_ neur0logv lri the, preface, there is a vast field m mnveniently and psychiatry overlap and which? ma> nt ypars, ?e de=ienated as ' neuro-psychiatry . in t -n'fieids Je subject has made great Pr0^ss V methods of due to the development of kno...

Methods: 131 patients with AD (mild, moderate degree) were included in the investigation according to the diagnostic criteria of DSM IV and MKB 10. 45 AD patients were on galantamine, 43-memantin and 43-combined therapy. The control group includes 45 patients. In our investigation in the main group of AD patients the duration of the disease was from 6 months to 4.3 years, on average 3.3 years. ...

Neuro Forum 1 2 3 Intelligence moderates reinforcement learning: a mini-review of the neural evidence 4 5 6 Chong Chen 1 7 1 Department of Psychiatry, Hokkaido University Graduate School of 8 Medicine, Sapporo 060-8638, Japan. Tel: (81)11-706-5973; Fax: (81)11-7069 5081; E-mail: [email protected] 10 11 12

iv CHAPTER 1: Psychopathy and Narcissism 1 1.1 Personality Disorders 1 1.2 Psychopathy 9 1.2.1 Psychopathy and Antisocial Personality Disorder (APD): Historical Background 9 1.2.2 Modern Conceptualisations: Primary and Secondary Psychopathy 14 1.2.3 Hare’s Two-Factor Conceptualisation of Psychopathy and the Psychopathy Checklist – Revised (PCL-R) 15 1.2.4 Levenson’s Self-Report Psychopathy Scal...

The aim of this study was to evaluate the correlations between the narcissistic personality trait, measured with the Narcissistic Personality Inventory, and proneness to shame and guilt, measured with the Shame-Guilt Proneness Scale. Participants were 165 students (83 men, 82 women), aged 19-30 years. Pearson product-moment correlations, with computations comparing NPI Total score with each of ...

This study examined the connections that the facets of narcissism captured by the Narcissistic Personality Inventory (NPI; Raskin & Hall, 1979) and the Pathological Narcissism Inventory (PNI; Pincus et al., 2009) have with self-esteem. This was accomplished by asking 372 participants to complete measures of narcissism and self-esteem level as well as daily diary measures concerning their state ...

Neuropsychiatric symptoms (mood, psychotic, and behavioural) are very common in dementia and do not necessarily correlate well with other measures of cognition. However, these symptoms are of great importance, as they are a major source of excess disability, patient distress and caregiver burden and have great impact on the level of care required, and the associated costs. This paper is a revie...

Background and aims: Depression disorder is one of the most common diseases, but the diagnosis is widely complicated and controversial because of interventions, overlapping and confusing nature of the disease. So, keeping previous patients’ profile seems effective for diagnosis and treatment of present patients. Use of this memory is latent in synthetic neuro-fuzzy algorithm. P...

Miller and Campbell (pp. 180–191, this issue) provide an informative discussion of the importance of considering narcissistic personality trait research when attempting to understand narcissistic personality disorder. Their arguments might seem so straightforward and compelling that they are hardly worth presenting. However, it does seem that this considerable body of literature is at times neg...

I n the 1960s, neuro-ophthalmology in Hungary began in the Neurology Clinic of Semmelweis University (Budapest), with the collaboration of Dr. Istvan Olah, a neuro-ophthalmologist, and Dr. Bela Horanyi, a neurologist. It was from this point forward that the importance of ophthalmic symptoms in neurologic disorders was emphasized, both in clinical practice and in medical education. At the same t...