Acts Aspect to the result of a cerebral hemorrhagic supratentorial session on the basics of analisys in the tentorial wedge

Cerebral transtentorial herniation determinates the course of progressive focal supratentorial impairments and acute hemorrhagic hemispheric stroke. Clinical and pathomorphological comparisons were done in patients with acute hemorrhagic hemispheric stroke. The following predictors of hemorrhagic hemispheric stroke lethal outcome were verified: 1) acute onset of coma in association with oculomotor dysfunctions; 2) focal hemiplegia in association with peduncular hemiplegia and paratonic rigiditydue due to compression of ipsilateral peduncle; 3) quick addition of vital disorders due to hemorrhagies into tectorium and it’s necrobiosis; 4) lethal outcome caused by herniation into occipital foramen due to necrobiosis of neurons in caudal part of brain stem tectorium.

Visuospatial encoding deficits and compensatory strategies in schizophrenia revealed by eye movement analysis during a working memory task

Objective:To investigate scanpath abnormalities during the encoding of static stimuli in schizophrenia and their interaction with visuospatial working memory (VSWM) dysfunction.Methods:Outpatients with schizophrenia and control subjects were asked to encode a static pattern for subsequent recognition after a short delay. We measured the number of correct and incorrect choices. We also assessed the number and the distribution of fixations, the scanning time in specific regions of interest (ROIs) and the head movements during the encoding of the stimuli. The distributions of fixations and scanning time in definite ROIs during the discrimination of the correct pattern from the foils were also measured.Results:Patients recognised fewer correct patterns than controls. Correct trials in patients were characterised by a specific exploration of the central part of the stimulus during its presentation, whereas this feature was absent in incorrect trials. However, the scanning time and the numbers of fixations and head movements during encoding were similar in both groups and unrelated to recognition accuracy. In both groups, correct trials were associated with a selective exploration of the correct pattern amongst the six possibilities during recognition. Furthermore, patients gave more attention to incorrect patterns with a leftmost element identical to that of the correct response and also those approximating its global structure.Conclusion:Patients showed a VSWM deficit independent of oculomotor dysfunctions and head movements during encoding. Patients’ correct trials were related to specific scanning during encoding and discrimination phases. Analysis of these patterns suggests that patients try to compensate for reduced VSWM ability by using specific encoding strategies.