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Serotonergic Regulation and Cognition after Stroke: The Role of Antidepressant Treatment and Genetic Variation
Conclusion: There was no difference in cognition between citalopram and placebo-treated patients according to the genotype group. Our results indicate, however, that low expression SERT genotype may contribute to reduced cognitive function post stroke as placebo-treated patients with low SERT expression tended to score lower on the SDMT. The significant difference in SDMT scores between low and high expression patients was present only in the placebo-treated group, thereby warranting further exploration of the potential effect of early citalopram treatment on cognitive functioning. Our results are preliminary and need repl...
Source: Cerebrovascular Diseases - March 7, 2019 Category: Neurology Source Type: research

Acute aortic occlusion in a patient without risk factors
A 94-year-old female with a history of ischemic stroke, mild right hemiparesis, vascular dementia, breast cancer with right mastectomy, colon cancer resulting in colectomy, hyperlipidemia, and hypertension presented to the emergency department (ED) with bilateral leg pain. Patient had no smoking history, and her medications included Donepezil, Aspirin, Citalopram, Losartan, and Pantoprazole.
Source: The American Journal of Emergency Medicine - March 28, 2018 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Trina Stoneham, Erin L. Simon Source Type: research

A Case of Transient Global Amnesia: A Review and How It May Shed Further Insight into the Neurobiology of Delusions
Conclusion In closing, our patient’s episode of TGA combined with her emotional and perceptual response lends credence to the proposal of a “fear/paranoia” circuit in the genesis of paranoid delusions—a circuit incorporating amygdala, frontal, and parietal cortices. Here, neutral or irrelevant stimuli, thoughts, and percepts come to engender fear and anxiety, while dysfunction in frontoparietal circuitry engenders inappropriate social predictions and maladaptive inferences about the intentions of others.[54] Hippocampus relays information about contextual information based on past experiences and the current situat...
Source: Innovations in Clinical Neuroscience - April 1, 2016 Category: Neuroscience Authors: ICN Online Editor Tags: Anxiety Disorders Behavioral and Cognitive Neurology Case Report Cognition Current Issue Dementia Medical Issues Neurologic Systems and Symptoms Psychiatry Schizophrenia delusions hippocampus neurobiology Transient global amnesia Source Type: research

Is this Dementia or Alcohol Intoxication or Both?
I am presenting the case of an independent lady whose active alcohol abuse masked her new onset dementia. Ms. G is a 76 year old female who lives alone in a continuum of care retirement community. She has difficult-to-control hypertension, hypothyroidism, B12 deficiency, anxiety, and adjustment disorder which started after her husband, who was an alcoholic, committed suicide. She struggled with alcohol abuse herself through the years. She takes citalopram, amlodipine, B12 injections, and vitamin D supplements. She has lived in this community for 4 years. She has made new friends and currently has a new boyfriend, with who...
Source: Journal of the American Medical Directors Association - February 25, 2013 Category: Health Management Authors: Wanda Colón Cartagena, Wanda Colón Cartagena, Sandra Bellantonio Tags: Poster Abstracts Source Type: research