Aprosodias in Indonesian patients with right cerebral hemisphere stroke [1997] - 625KB
by Yudiarto FL
This is a study of 15 Indonesian speaking right handed patients a month after a cerebrovascular accident involving the right hemisphere with left hemiparesis. 14 patients had aprosodia; this could be ...

Running a stroke unit: lessons from The Stroke Programme, Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore [1997] - 818KB
by Venketasubramanian N
Stroke units have been shown to reduce mortality, morbidity, disability, institutionalisation, length of stay and health costs of stroke patients. The benefits of stroke units probably results from pa...

Pattern of anti-epileptic drug usage in a tertiary referral hospital in Singapore [1997] - 1,004KB
by Lim SH, Tan EK, Chen C
This study describes the anti-epileptic drug (AED) usage pattern of an individual neurologist in a tertiary referral hospital in Singapore. Two hundred thirty six epilepsy patients seen as outpatients...

The 2nd Biennial Convention of the ASEAN Neurological Association [1997] - 5,210KB

Epidemiology of dementia among the Chinese [1997] - 723KB
by Liu HC, Teng EL
Dementia has become a growing medical and social concern because the aging population is increasing rapidly in most countries. The prevalence of dementia among the Chinese ³ 65 years in age has been ...

Neuroimaging in epilepsy: A brief review [1997] - 1,713KB
by Chee MWL
Determining the underlying cause of a patient's seizures is a fundamental goal in the workup of epilepsy. Imaging of the brain provides valuable information in this regard. Structural brain imaging re...

Stereotactic posteroventral pallidotomy for Parkinson's disease [1997] - 420KB
by Tan AKY, Yeo TT
There has been renewed interest in posteroventral pallidotomy (PVP) as a treatment for Parkinson's disease (PD) because the effects of medications waned after several years and the patient is beset wi...

Cultural belief system and headache [1997] - 600KB
by Tan CT
There is wide variation in the attributed precipitating causes of headache in the medical literature. Such variations are difficult to be completely accounted for by known physical and biological fact...

Prevalence of beta-amyloid protein deposition in normal aging non-demented brains in a Malaysian population [1997] - 1,735KB
by Ong BB, Looi LM
It is well known that beta-amyloid is pathologically accumulated in the brains of patients with Alzheimer's disease. In addition, it is also present in smaller quantities in the non-demented normal ag...

Prevalence of dementia among elderly Malays in an urban settlement in Malaysia [1997] - 595KB
by Krishnaswamy S, Kadir K, Ali RA, Sidi H, Mathews S
This is a community based study of the prevalence of dementia among the Malay urban settlements in Kuala Lumpur. 522 subjects were screened using the Malay version of the Elderly Cognitive Assessment ...