Bernard Pillon

TL;DR: The Frontal Assessment Battery is easy to administer at bedside and is sensitive to frontal lobe dysfunction.

TL;DR: These findings support the efficacy and safety of the use of bilateral stimulation of the internal globus pallidus in selected patients with primary generalized dystonia.

TL;DR: Neuropsychological investigations of patients with Parkinson’s disease have shown specific impairments even in the early stages of the disease, which include deficit of behavioural regulation in sorting or planning tasks, defective use of memory stores, and impaired manipulation of internal representation of visuospatial stimuli, suggesting a functional continuity or complementarity between the basal ganglia and association areas of the prefrontal cortex.

TL;DR: Patients with lesions restricted to the parietal cortex were found to be impaired selectively at predicting, through mental imagery, the time necessary to perform differentiated finger movements and visually guided pointing gestures, in comparison to normal individuals and to a patient with damage to the primary motor area.

TL;DR: Improvement in parkinsonian motor disability induced by STN stimulation is not necessarily accompanied by improvement in psychic function and quality of life, and it is suggested that a careful psychological and psychiatric interview be performed before surgery.