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M Parma

Publications and source records attributed to M Parma.

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PubMed1982

A case of receptive amusia with prominent timbre perception defect.

A patient with a right temporal lesion is described who, in recognising sounds and noises, complained of deficits which seemed to be most evident when sounds and noises could be recognised mainly by timbre whereas no deficit was noticed when pitch and rhythm were the main indicators. In addition, some global distortions in musical appreciation were complained of and described as "resonance" or "loss of aesthetic pleasure".

Auditory Perceptual Disorders↗
PubMed1981

Hemispheric dominance in the perception of tonal sequences in relation to sex, musical competence and handedness.

Sixty right-handed non-musician subjects, thirty males and thirty females, and thirty right-handed musician subjects, seventeen males and thirteen females, were submitted to dichotically presented tonal sequences. Immediate identification procedure with preliminary training was used. The results point out that both, musicians and non-musicians, males and females, show significant left ear dominance. The left ear dominance was more frequent in musicians. The results are discussed in the light of the "analytic-synthetic" theory of Bever and Chiarello and the "temporal" theory of Gordon.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1980

[Therapeutic management of cluster headache with lithium carbonate].

Therapeutic effectiveness of lithium carbonate in cluster headache is confirmed on the ground of the results in 20 patients (14 with the episodic form, 6 with the chronic one). Outstanding findings were: a) the early effectiveness; b) the occurrence of therapeutic effects even with low doses; c) the negligible risk of side effects. The way interrupting the treatment in episodic cluster headache is proposed. In chronic cluster headache recurrence can be expected when lithium is stopped, but in some cases it occurs after a long free interval. The contrast is stressed between the high efficacy in all the 20 patients with cluster headache and the complete uneffectiveness in 5 patients affected by headaches considered as borderline between cluster headache and migraine.

Adult↗
PubMed1980

Neuropsychological functions in the follow-up of transient global amnesia.

Sixteen patients, who had suffered only one episode of transient global amnesia and showed no clinically evident abnormalities in their follow-up, were examined with psychometric and memory tests. Deficits in verbal long-term memory and in verbal IQ were found. These observations seem to demonstrate that in transient global amnesia patients regarded as being 'normal' in their follow-up there is no complete recovery and the sequelae seem to conform to a definite pattern. Problems of nosology and localization are discussed.

Adult↗
PubMed1979

Carrier detection in Duchenne muscular dystropy.

We investigated the number of echinocytes, the serum hemopexin level, and spectrin band II phosphorylation in the blood of normal subjects, patients, and carriers of Duchenne dystrophy. The patients and carriers exhibited quantitatively significant differences with respect to controls.

Erythrocytes, Abnormal↗
PubMed1978

Responses to dichotic listening tasks in temporal epileptics with or without clinically evident lesions.

Dichotic listening was studied in two groups of temporal epileptics with monolateral circumscribed EEG focus: the first presenting with signs of brain damage and the second free from these signs. The lesional group tended to prefer the ear ipsilateral to the side of lesion, while subjects with non-lesional focus tended to prefer the ear contralateral to the side of focus. The results are discussed and compared with other observations in this field.

Adult↗
PubMed1978

Deformed erythrocytes in muscular dystrophies.

Because of previous reports of a possible correlation between echinocytogenesis and muscular dystrophies, we investigated the time-dependent development of echinocytes in the blood of normal subjects, patients, and healthy carries of Duchenne dystrophy. There was a quantitatively significant increase of echinocytes in patients and carriers.

Adolescent↗