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A short neuropsychological evaluation of patients with primary Sjögren's syndrome
Rodrigues,Dóra-Neide; Hora,João Sergio Ignácio; Salgado,Maria Cecília Fonseca; Paes,Renata Alves; Vasconcelos,Claudia Cristina FerreiraObjective: To investigate cognitive deficits in patients with primary Sjögren’s syndrome (PSS). Method: Eighteen patients with PSS, aged between 25 and 61 years, were subjected to a short neuropsychological battery and compared with 18 patients with multiple sclerosis and 18 healthy controls. Results: The analysis of variance (ANOVA) revealed that the clinical groups had significantly worse performance than the...
Different cognitive profiles of Brazilian patients with relapsing-remitting and...
Rodrigues,Dóra-Neide; Paes,Renata Alves; Vasconcelos,Claudia Cristina Ferreira; Landeira-Fernandez,Jesus; Alvarenga,Maria PapaisCognitive impairment is a symptom of multiple sclerosis (MS). Different clinical forms of multiple sclerosis have different cognitive profiles, according to findings of previous studies which used extensive batteries of neuropsychological tests. OBJECTIVE: To investigate cognitive profiles of Brazilian patients with relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis (RRMS) and primary progressive multiple sclerosis (PPMS) ...