PARDINI M.

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Given that the patterns and clinical correlates related to antidepressant drugs (ADs) prescription for BD remain generally unclear, his study aimed to compare socio-demographic and clinical features of BD patients treated vs. not treated with ADs. The sample consists of 287 currently euthymic bipolar patients. Among participants (mean...

Riboflavin is classified as one of the water-soluble B vitamins. It is part of the functional group of flavin mononucleotide (FMN) and flavin adenine dinucleotide (FAD) cofactors and is required for numerous flavoprotein-catalysed reactions. Riboflavin has important antioxidant properties, essential for correct cell functioning. It is required...

BACKGROUND: Major affective conditions are associated with significant disability and psychosocial impairment. Whether specific socio-demographic and clinical characteristics may distinguish subgroups of patients in terms of prognosis and illness trajectories is a matter of debate. METHODS: The sample of this naturalistic cohort study included...

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a heterogeneous illness including "atypical" clinical presentations dominated by visual, aphasic, "frontal" (behavioral), or apraxic symptoms. Initial description of atypical phenotypes of AD was based on clinicopathologic studies, but there is a growing body of evidence coming from in vivo molecular biomarkers...

Cognitive impairment and related abnormal brain activity are common in people with multiple sclerosis (PwMS). Adaptive training based on working memory (WM) has been shown to ameliorate cognitive symptoms, although the effects at a neural level are unclear. The aim of this study was to expand the existing research on the effects of an adaptive...

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Bipolar disorder (BD) is a chronic and disabling psychiatric condition that is linked to significant disability and psychosocial impairment. Although current neuropsychological, molecular, and neuroimaging evidence support the existence of neuroprogression and its effects on the course and outcome of this condition, whether and to what extent...

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Alzheimer's disease (AD) represents the most common type of neurodegenerative dementia and is characterized by extracellular amyloid-β (Aβ) deposition, pathologic intracellular tau protein tangles, and neuronal loss. Increasing evidence has been accumulating over the past years, supporting a pivotal role of inflammation in the pathogenesis of...

Purpose: The lifetime risk of developing amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) increases in the elderly, and greater age at symptom onset has been identified as a negative prognostic factor in the disease. However, the underlying neurobiological mechanisms are still poorly investigated. We hypothesized that older age at symptom onset would have...

Background: Pain and body perception are essentially two subjective mutually influencing experiences. However, in the field ofmusculoskeletal disorders and rheumatic diseases we lack of a comprehensive knowledge about the relationship between body perception dysfunctions and pain or disability. We systematically mapped the literature published...

Background: Pain is one of the most disabling symptoms in multiple sclerosis. Chronic pain in multiple sclerosis is often neuropathic in nature, although a clear-cut distinction with nociceptive pain is not easy. Objective: The aim of our study was to analyze the MRIs of multiple sclerosis patients with chronic pain in order to explore possible...

While multiple sclerosis can affect any part of the CNS, it does not do so evenly. In white matter it has long been recognized that lesions tend to occur around the ventricles, and grey matter lesions mainly accrue in the outermost (subpial) cortex. In cortical grey matter, neuronal loss is greater in the outermost layers. This cortical...

Introduction: The reduction of background activity and the increase of low-frequency powers on electroencephalogram (EEG) correlate with cognitive impairment and have been suggested to be underpinned by cholinergic deficit. We aimed to investigate the ratio between α and θ band power (α/θ ratio), as a synoptic index of quantitative EEG (qEEG)...