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An autopsied case of Pick's disease, having an extraordinary cerebral change in the anterior portion of Lobus frontalis and temporalis, was reported. Our case is a 71 year-old woman at death with a fourteen year history of chronic progressive dementia and mental deterioration, and it may be stressed that the existence lasted 8 years, over the latter half of clinical course, was depended on the tube feeding. The first symptoms suddenly appeared in 1964, 2 months after her husband's death of illness, when she was 57. She prepared the table for breakfast late at night, calculated wrongly in her domestic account book, and stole foods in the grocery. Two years later, her illness was diagnosed as presenile dementia by characteristic personality change and marked dilatation of anterior horn of lateral ventriculus. On admission to National Musashi Sanatorium, three years after the first symptoms' appearance, she presented restless walking, insomnia, memory loss, weakness of concentration, and high degree of disorientation. Particularly, it was noticeable that she behaved with bizzare contact. After 1970, tube feeding was introduced continuously, because of swallowing difficulty. Death occurred in July 1978 from a general weakness and a broncho-pneumonia, 14 years after the onset of the first symptoms. Autopsy revealed small and atrophied brain weighed 820 g. Cerebral cortical atrophy extended to frontal, temporal, insular, and parietal lobes, but right T-1 was relatively well preserved. On section, frontal and temporal ventriculus were remarkably enlarged and caudate nuclei were extremely atrophic.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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PMID:[A case of Pick's disease with long duration--an extraordinary cerebral change in the fore part of cerebrum]. 381 43

Nocturnal sleep was poligraphycally recorded in three male patients aged 54-67, with progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP). All patients suffered from insomnia. In case 1 REM sleep was markedly reduced and spindles were less numerous than in normal subjects. In cases 2 and 3, EEG patterns were not distinguishable from those observed when the patients were awake. Sleep, therefore, was recognized only by constant observation of the patients. As seen in the literature EEG changes during sleep can be correlated to the severity of the clinical picture and the stage of evolution of the disease. EEG patterns of sleep in PSP are similar to those reported in patients with presenile dementia.
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PMID:[Sleep in progressive supranuclear palsy]. 718 69