Daniela Perani

TL;DR: The results indicate that multilinguals have increased activation in the left putamen for a non-native language, but only if they are not highly proficient in that language, and found increased grey matter density in theleft putamen of mult bilinguals compared to monolinguals, highlighting that the multilingual brain handles a complex articulatory repertoire by inducing structural plasticity in the right putamen.

TL;DR: The results suggest that reasoning about syllogisms engages distinct brain mechanisms, depending on the intention to evaluate them deductively versus probabilistically.

TL;DR: In patients with the frontal variant of frontotemporal lobar degeneration, behavioral abnormalities may vary from apathy with motor slowness to disinhibition with agitation (disinhibited form), and the serotoninergic system dysfunction provides a rationale for therapeutic trials with selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors.

TL;DR: In patients with early AD, SPECT provides functional information to be compared with clinical and psychometric data, and asymmetries of relative perfusion between cerebral hemispheres were demonstrated when language was affected or visuospatial functions were unevenly impaired.

TL;DR: Compared with self-determined saccadic responses the performance of fast regular, reflexive saccades produces a limited activation of the frontal eye fields and in the antisaccadic task the inferior parietal lobes subserve operations of sensory-motor integration dealing with attentional disengagement from the initial peripheral cue.