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P. J. Andres-Barquin G. Le Prince C. Fages J. A. Garcia de Jalon A. Pérez-Martos M. Tardy M. J. López-Pérez 《Molecular and chemical neuropathology / sponsored by the International Society for Neurochemistry and the World Federation of Neurology and research groups on neurochemistry and cerebrospinal fluid》1994,22(1):57-65
Gene expression of two astroglial markers, glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) and glutamine synthetase (GS), was investigated in cerebellum and brainstem from scrapie-affected sheep. The GFAP and GFAP-mRNA concentrations were increased in the two cerebral regions studied in the scrapie-affected animals as compared to the controls. The good correlation between the increase in GFAP and GFAP-mRNA concentrations found in scrapie-affected sheep indicates a significantde novo synthesis of GFAP in this pathology. In contrast to these results, in scrapie no significant differences in GS-mRNA content appeared in either brain area from scrapie-affected sheep as compared to the controls. This fact could suggest some specificity of GFAP expression changes in this pathology. The over-expression of GFAP gene could be related to a possible interaction between GFAP and scrapie infectious agent in astrocytes. The relative increase in the GFAP and its encoding message in affected animals was higher in the cerebellum than in the brainstem, which would suggest regional comparative differences in the effect here described. 相似文献
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Several controlled trials have shown that the dopamine agonist, Trivastal (piribedil), is active in the treatment of Parkinson's disease, particularly with regard to tremor. To determine its efficacy as monotherapy in patients previously untreated with levodopa, a 3-month multicentre study was conducted with Trivastal 50 mg LP in 113 patients with idiopathic Parkinson's disease. The study population consisted of 66 men and 47 women, aged 63.1, SD 0.6 (43–79) years with a 2.1, SD 0.2 (1–15) year history of Parkinson's disease. Mean disease stage was 1.82 (1–4) by the Hoehn and Yahr classification. Tremor was the predominant clinical feature in 42 patients; the remaining 71 patients displayed the full parkinsonian syndrom. Trivastal 50 mg LP was prescribed stepwise up to doses of 150–250 (207, SD 6.4) mg/day at the end of 3 months. No concomitant antiparkinsonian medication was given. Patients were clinically assessed at 1, 2 and 3 months on the Webster scale, a specific tremor scale and the HARD depression scale. Mean results were as follows in the 90 patients completing the study. On the Webster scale, tremor fell from 1.7 to 1 (–41%,P<0.001), bradykinesia=" from=" 1.5=" to=" 0.8=">0.001),>P<0.001) and=" rigidity=" from=" 1.3=" to=" 0.9=">0.001)>P < 0.001);=" on=" the=" specific=" scale,=" rest=" tremor=" decreased=" in=" daily=" duration=" and=" amplitude=" from=" 3.9=" to=" 2.4=">P < 0.001)=" and=" from=" 2.9=" to=" 2.1=">P < 0.001),=" respectively.=" the=" 32=" patients=" in=" whom=" tremor=" was=" the=" predominant=" feature=" improved=" their=" total=" score=" on=" the=" webster=" scale=" from=" 5.8=" to=" 4.7=">P<0.05) and=" their=" tremor=" score=" from=" 1.7=" to=" 1.2=">0.05)>P < 0.05).=" the=" 58=" patients=" with=" the=" full=" parkinsonian=" syndrom=" improved=" their=" total=" webster=" score=" from=" 11.8=" to=" 6.9=">P < 0.001).=" eight=" of=" the=" ten=" items=" on=" the=" scale=" were=" significantly=" reduced,=" from=" between=" 33%=" (facial=" expression)=" to=" 53%=" (manual=" bradykinesia).=" the=" depression=" rating=" fell=" from=" 10.2=" to=" 7.3=">P < 0.001),=" the=" most=" marked=" improvement=" being=" in=" mood=" and=" inhibition.=" in=" conclusion,=" monotherapy=" with=" trivastal=" 50=" mg=" lp=" at=" a=" mean=" dose=" of=" 200=" mg/day=" is=" effective=" within=" 1=" month=" regarding=" the=" major=" features=" of=" parkinson's="> 相似文献
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Srinivasan Savithiry Kusum Kumar 《Molecular and chemical neuropathology / sponsored by the International Society for Neurochemistry and the World Federation of Neurology and research groups on neurochemistry and cerebrospinal fluid》1994,21(1):1-11
To investigate the role of Ca2+-independent forms of protein kinase C (PKC) in ischemic neuronal injury, mRNA expression of PKC was studied by Northern blot analysis. Ischemia was produced in gerbils by 10-min bilateral carotid artery occlusion and was followed by recirculation for 15 min, 6 h, and 24 h. Brains of postischemic and sham-operated animals were removed, forebrains fresh frozen, and processed for Northern blot analysis. Three synthetic oligonucleotide probes based on published cDNA sequences of rat brain PKC for the isozymes δ, ε, and ζ were utilized for hybridization. Northern blot analysis showed increased hybridization signal for all three PKC isozymes examined in the 6- and 24-h postischemic groups. Of these, the twofold increases in the expression of PKC δ and ζ were statistically significant in comparison to the control. These results suggest that the mRNA levels of Ca2+-independent forms of PKC, in particular, δ and ζ, are temporally stimulated by ischemic injury in the brain and may imply an important role of the enzyme in postischemic neuronal damage. However, since the protein itself was not examined in this study, the significance of the increased expression cannot be ascertained. However, it may reflect a compensatory response to the loss of PKC reported to occur in the reperfusion phase. 相似文献
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Maria T. Caserta 《Molecular and chemical neuropathology / sponsored by the International Society for Neurochemistry and the World Federation of Neurology and research groups on neurochemistry and cerebrospinal fluid》1994,22(3):197-210
Neuropeptide Y (NPY)-containing neurons are depleted in the cortices of individuals with Alzheimer disease (AD), yet spared in the striatum of patients with Huntington chorea. It is unknown whether this neuronal phenotype is inherently susceptible to the neurodegenerative processes that are a hallmark of AD. To study this question, the murine trisomy 16 model of Down syndrome and Alzheimer disease was investigated. Since trisomic fetuses diein utero, studies were carried out on primary cultures of dissociated cortical neurons. These were prepared from 15-d gestational trisomy 16 fetuses and their littermate euploid controls, and examined by immunocytochemical staining for neuropeptide Y at 7 and 12 d in vitro. Trisomy 16 neurons were also grown on euploid glial carpets, whereas euploid neurons were grown on trisomic glia. The results demonstrate a significant increase in the number of NPY neurons and a stunting in the dendritic arbor of these neurons in trisomic vs euploid cortex. Both of these parameters could be normalized by direct contact with euploid glia. When euploid cortex was plated on trisomic glia, the number of NPY neurons and their morphology were altered so that they began to resemble trisomic NPY cortical neurons. These results indicate a dysregulation of NPY neuronal expression and differentiation in trisomy 16 cortex that are modifiable by interaction with euploid glia and imply an abnormal trophic (glial) environment in trisomic cortex. 相似文献
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Pritchard AL Harris J Pritchard CW Coates J Haque S Holder R Bentham P Lendon CL 《Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry》2007,78(2):123-126
Background
Patients with Alzheimer''s disease and dementia commonly suffer from behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD). A genetic component to BPSD development in Alzheimer''s disease has been demonstrated. Several studies have investigated whether the exon 4 ε2/ε3/ε4 haplotype of the apolipoprotein E (APOE) gene is associated with BPSD, with variable results.Objective
We investigated the exon 4 polymorphisms and extended this study to include promoter polymorphisms and the resultant haplotypes across the gene.Methods
Our large independent cohort of 388 patients with longitudinal measures of BPSD assessed by the Neuropsychiatric Inventory was used to analyse whether any of these variants were associated with the presence of BPSD.Results
We revealed several significant relationships before correction for multiple testing. The exon 4 haplotype was associated with hallucinations and anxiety, A‐491T with irritability, T‐427C with agitation/aggression and appetite disturbances, and T‐219C with depression. Haplotype analyses of all variants did not reveal any statistically significant findings.Conclusions
Our data and a review of previous studies showed a diversity of relationships, suggesting that these findings might be due to chance and so collectively do not support a role for the APOE gene in BPSD.Many patients with dementia display behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD). Unlike cognitive decline, BPSD do not continuously exist in a patient once they have occurred. Genetic determinants of BPSD in Alzheimer''s disease have been proposed from studies on families.1,2,3 It has been hypothesised that the genes that increase the risk for Alzheimer''s disease may also determine the presence of BPSD.4 The ε4 allele of the apolipoprotein E (APOE) gene is the only risk factor robustly associated with Alzheimer''s disease. However, previous investigations on APOE have produced inconsistent findings on BPSD, with some researchers reporting associations with a variety of different symptoms and alleles4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16 (summarised in the table provided online at http://jnnp.bmjjournals.com/supplemental), whereas others find no relevant relationships.17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28,29,30,31,32,33 We used a large independent clinical cohort of patients with Alzheimer''s disease, with longitudinal data on BPSD to further extend these studies, and additionally investigated promoter polymorphisms of APOE, which have been shown to independently incur risk of Alzheimer''s disease in some studies.34 相似文献7.
Sibile Pardue Charles L. White Eilleen H. Bigio Marcelle Morrison-Bogorad 《Molecular and chemical neuropathology / sponsored by the International Society for Neurochemistry and the World Federation of Neurology and research groups on neurochemistry and cerebrospinal fluid》1994,22(1):1-24
Several reports indicate that Alzheimer disease (AD) brain contains elevated levels of heat shock 70 proteins. To determine the cellular localization of the heat shock 70mRNAs, specific oligonucleotide probes werein situ hybridized to AD and control brains. When oligonucleotides werein situ hybridized to brain sections with no AD neuropathology, hybridization was cell-specific and prior ribonuclease (RNase) treatment of adjacent sections resulted in no hybridization signal. However,in situ hybridization to AD hippocampus resulted in heavy grain deposition over senile plaques and neurofibrillary tangles. Despite altering a number of experimental variables, we observed a similar pattern of grain deposition with most of the oligonucleotides tested, including one oligonucleotide specific for glutamic acid decarboxylase mRNA.In situ hybridization with either an RNA probe for glutamic acid decarboxylase or an oligonucleotide probe specific for 18S rRNA did not show this pattern of grain deposition. In control studies a sense hsc70 oligonucleotide showed no grain deposition in either cerebellum or hippocampus. Sections from AD hippocampus pretreated with RNase prior toin situ hybridization demonstrated enhanced grain deposition with the majority of probes tested. Anomalousin situ hybridization to AD hippocampus was usually eliminated by removing formamide from the posthybridization weshes, although post-RNase sticking often remained intense. These findings indicate that artifactual probe binding to senile plaques and neurofibrillary tangles may complicate the analysis ofin situ hybridization studies using oligonucleotide probes to determine mRNA distribution in AD brain. 相似文献
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Bronnick K Emre M Lane R Tekin S Aarsland D 《Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry》2007,78(10):1064-1068
Objective
To compare the profile of cognitive impairment in Alzheimer''s disease (AD) with dementia associated with Parkinson''s disease (PDD).Methods
Neuropsychological assessment was performed in 488 patients with PDD and 488 patients with AD using the Mini‐Mental State Examination (MMSE) and the Alzheimer''s Disease Assessment Scale‐cognitive subscale (ADAS‐cog). Logistic regression analysis was used to investigate whether the diagnosis could be accurately predicted from the cognitive profile. Additionally, the cognitive profiles were compared with a normative group using standardised effect sizes (Cohen''s d).Results
Diagnosis was predicted from the cognitive profile, with an overall accuracy of 74.7%. Poor performance of the AD patients on the orientation test in ADAS‐cog best discriminated between the groups, followed by poor performance of the PDD patients on the attentional task in MMSE. Both groups showed memory impairment, AD patients performing worse than PDD patients.Conclusion
The cognitive profile in PDD differs significantly from that in AD. Performance on tests of orientation and attention are best in differentiating the groups.Alzheimer''s disease (AD) and Parkinson''s disease (PD) are the most common neurodegenerative diseases in the elderly. AD is primarily a dementing disease whereas PD is mainly characterised by a movement disorder. However, dementia is common among patients with PD (PDD), with an average point prevalence of 31%1 and a cumulative prevalence close to 80%.2 In PD, dementia is associated with rapid motor3 and functional decline,4 and increased mortality.5Cortical Lewy body pathology correlates best with dementia in PD6,7,8,9; subcortical pathology10 and AD‐type pathology11 have also been found to be associated with PDD. In addition to differences in morphological changes, AD and PDD also differ in the regional pattern of the pathology. In AD the first and most pronounced changes are found in the entorhinal cortex and parahippocampal region,12 subsequently involving neocortical areas, including the posterior association cortices.13 In contrast, in patients with PD without dementia, brainstem nuclei and other subcortical structures are initially affected.14 In PDD, limbic areas, neocortical association cortices, and the motor cortex and primary sensory cortical areas are thought to be successively involved with disease progression.15Given the difference in the distribution and progression of pathology in AD and PDD, it is expected that their cognitive profiles would also differ.16,17 AD is characterised by memory loss emerging in the early stages of the disease,18 primarily involving learning and encoding deficits19 which are associated with medial temporal lobe pathology.20,21,22,23 As the disease progresses, deficits in language, praxis, visuospatial and executive functions gradually develop. In contrast, the cognitive deficits in the early stages of PDD are characterised by executive dysfunction, including impairment in attention24 and working memory,25,26,27 reflecting involvement of brainstem nuclei and frontal–subcortical circuits; deficits in visuoperceptual28,29,30 and visuoconstructional tasks are also frequent.31 Memory impairment is often present26,32,33,34 but whether it is primarily a consequence of frontally mediated executive deficits resulting in poor learning efficacy and retrieval, or whether involvement of limbic areas directly related to memory encoding (such as hippocampal atrophy) also contribute to memory impairment, is debated. Patients with PDD have difficulties in retrieving newly learned material, but perform better in recognition,35 indicating that executive, rather than encoding, deficits, is the underlying mechanism. Conflicting results, however, have been reported recently36,37 which could indicate that the type and mechanisms of memory deficits may vary within the PD group.32Most studies investigating the cognitive profile of PDD patients included small samples which were not community based and thus not necessarily representative of the PD population at large. As there is evidence of interindividual heterogeneity,33 such studies may not adequately reflect the cognitive profile of patients with PDD. In order to assess the profile of cognitive deficits in PDD compared with AD in larger patient populations, we analysed the baseline cognitive data from large clinical trials conducted with the cholinesterase inhibitor rivastigmine.38,39 相似文献9.
Rossi S De Capua A Ulivelli M Bartalini S Falzarano V Filippone G Passero S 《Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry》2007,78(8):857-863
Background
Chronic tinnitus is a disabling, almost untreatable, condition, usually accompanied by psychiatric distress. In patients with complex neuropsychiatric diseases, such as chronic pain, with which tinnitus shares pathophysiological similarities, placebo effects may be pronounced. Moreover, it may be difficult to distinguish actual repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) induced clinical benefits beyond placebo effects in neuropsychiatric patients.Methods
16 patients with chronic tinnitus underwent a randomised, double blind, crossover, placebo controlled trial of 1 Hz rTMS (120% of motor threshold; 1200 stimuli/day for 5 days) of the left temporoparietal region. Patients were screened for psychiatric comorbidity; additionally, anxiety and depression were monitored throughout the study. Moreover, an original placebo rTMS procedure produced the same activation of ipsilateral face muscles (a condition which may per se change the subjective rating of tinnitus) as the real rTMS.Results
There were 8 out of 14 responders. Two patients dropped out for transient worsening of tinnitus. Active rTMS induced an overall significant, but transient, improvement (35% of the basal score) of subjective tinnitus perception that was independent of either tinnitus laterality or mood or anxiety changes. No correlations were found between response to rTMS and tinnitus duration, initial subjective score or patient age. When asked after the study was over, 71.4% of patients failed to identify the temporal sequence of the real or sham rTMS interventions.Conclusion
The beneficial effects of rTMS on tinnitus are independent of mood changes. Moreover, they appear in the context of an original placebo stimulation designed to more closely replicate the somatic sensation of active stimulation. Because of the limited temporal duration of the clinical benefit, these neuromodulatory effects could be mediated by transient functional changes taking place in the neural circuits underlying tinnitus processing.Tinnitus is a subjective auditory perception of sounds or noise, not triggered by external auditory stimuli, which affects millions of people.1 It is estimated that in 1–3% of the general population tinnitus becomes chronic and sufficiently intrusive to interfere with the patient''s quality of life, mainly because of psychiatric distress, including sleep disturbances, thereby leading to work impairment.2 Pharmacological and physical/behavioural treatments in severe cases are generally unsatisfactory.3Experimental data based on transection of4 or drug effects on5 the cochlear nerve, and in vivo human brain imaging studies,6,7,8 converge in suggesting that tinnitus could be associated with maladaptive plastic brain reorganisations, taking place at multiple brain levels following—and thereafter being maintained independently by—an initial cochlear dysfunction.9 Functional brain changes associated with tinnitus showed hyperactivity of discrete temporoparietal regions, including both the primary auditory cortex (AC)10,11,12,13 and the secondary, or associative, AC.7,11,14,15,16,17,18 More comprehensive views on the generation and maintenance of tinnitus indicate involvement of a broader neural network, most likely including the primary and associative AC (although it is difficult to disentangle the relative contribution of these two areas by positron emission tomography (PET) scans19), part of the limbic system,17 the anterior cingulated cortex18 and higher order processing areas.20,21More direct evidence for the key role played by the AC in the perception/elaboration of tinnitus comes from studies with repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS), a technique that transiently modulates/disrupts the brain function of the targeted area(s) in several perceptive, motor and cognitive domains22: high‐frequency rTMS (ie, 10 Hz or more for 2 s or less) applied on the scalp overlying the hyperactive left AC produced an intense, short lived tinnitus attenuation (see table 11).16,12,23,24 Although these studies were not designed to “treat” tinnitus, they demonstrate that the AC is definitely involved in the expression of tinnitus. Interestingly, high frequency rTMS has been applied successfully to produce transient clinical benefits in other deafferentation induced disorders, such as chronic neurogenic pain,25,26 which shares pathophysiological similarities with tinnitus in terms of maladaptive plastic changes at the cortical level.27Table 1 Full papers on repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation studies (single case reports are not considered) in chronic tinnitusPlewnia 200216 | Eichhammer 200339 | Kleinjung 200513 | De Ridder 200523 | |
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No of patients | 14 | 3 | 14 | 114 |
Treatment duration | Single application | 5 days | 5 days | Single application |
rTMS frequency/length of the train/No of stimuli | 10 Hz for 3 s (30 pulses) | 1 Hz (2000 stimuli/day) | 1 Hz (2000 stimuli/day) | 1, 3, 5, 10, 20 Hz (200 pulses each) |
Stimulus intensity (% of RMT) | 120% | 110% | 110% | 90% |
Coil type | Figure‐of‐eight | Figure‐of‐eight | Figure‐of‐eight | Circular non‐focal |
Individual neuronavigation | No | PET guided | PET guided | fMRI guided in 10 |
Target brain area | Temporoparietal (halfway between C3/T5 or C4/T6) and Pz | PAC | Hyperactive PAC | Unspecified coil positioning “on the AC” in 104 |
Controlled study | TMS delivered on additional 11 scalp positions | Double blind (placebo TMS with a sham coil) | Double blind (placebo TMS with a sham coil) | Sham with the coil at 90°. Unspecified blindness |
Crossover | No | Yes | Yes | No |
Percentage of responders | 57% | 2/3 patients | 78.6% | 53% with active, 63% with sham (but significantly more with active rTMS) |
Duration of effects after the last rTMS application | Seconds | One week | Up to 6 months | Unspecified, presumably seconds |
Correlations between rTMS and clinical characteristics | — | Responders had hyperactive PAC | Initial tinnitus grading and symptom duration negatively influenced rTMS response | High frequency better for acute tinnitus; low frequency better for chronic tinnitus |
Plewnia 200617 | Plewnia 200618 | Langguth 200640 | Fregni 2006 24 | |
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No of patients | 9 | 6 (retested after17) | 28 | 7 |
Treatment duration | Single application | 20 consecutive working days | 10 consecutive working days | Single application |
rTMS frequency/length of the train/No of stimuli | 1 Hz for 5, 15 or 30 min (300, 900 or 1800 pulses) | 1 Hz for 30 min/day (1800 pulses/day) | 1 Hz for 33.3 min/day (2000 pulses/day) | 3 trains 10 Hz for 3 s (30 pulses each) |
Stimulus intensity (% of the RMT) | 120% | 120% | 110% | 120% |
Coil type | Figure‐of‐eight | Figure‐of‐eight | Figure‐of‐eight | Figure‐of‐eight |
Individual neuronavigation | PET guided | PET guided | No | No |
Target brain area | Hyperactive BA 39 or 22 | Hyperactive BA 39 or 22 | Left PAC, determined on 10‐20 EEG system | Left temporoparietal (halfway between C3/T5 and Pz) |
Controlled study | Double blind (sham delivered on the lower occiput) | Double blind (sham delivered on the lower occiput) | No | Yes, sham coil. Unspecified blindness. Additional scalp positions stimulated |
Crossover | Yes | Yes | No | No |
Percentage of responders | 75% | 83.3% | 67.8% | 42% |
Duration of effects after the last rTMS application | Up to 30 min, dose dependent | 2 weeks | Up to 13 weeks | Less than 5 min |
Correlations between rTMS and clinical characteristics | Previous tinnitus duration negatively influenced rTMS response | Hyperactivity of the ACC predicted the response to rTMS | Not reported | Responders had less hearing loss |
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Friedhelm Helling Philip O. Livingston 《Molecular and chemical neuropathology / sponsored by the International Society for Neurochemistry and the World Federation of Neurology and research groups on neurochemistry and cerebrospinal fluid》1994,21(2-3):299-309
Gangliosides are known to be suitable targets for immune attack against cancer but they are poorly immunogenic. Active immunization with ganglioside/BCG or liposome vaccines results in moderate titer IgM antibody responses of short duration. Covalent attachment of poorly immunogenic antigens to immunogenic proteins is a potent method for inducing an IgG antibody response. GD3, a dominant ganglioside on malignant melanoma, was modified by ozone cleavage of the double bond in the ceramide backbone, an aldehyde group introduced and used for coupling via reductive amination to ε-aminolysyl groups of proteins. Utilizing this method, GD3 conjugates were constructed with:
- Synthetic multiple antigenic peptide (MAP) constructs expressing 4 repeats of a malaria T-cell epitope;
- Outer membrane proteins (OMP) ofNeisseria meningitidis;
- Cationized bovine serum albumin;
- Keyhole limpet hemocyanin (KLH); and
- Polylysine.
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Eliyas Jeffay Angela Sekely Michel Lacerte Konstantine K. Zakzanis 《Psychiatry, Psychology and Law》2021,28(1):135
The Personality Assessment Inventory (PAI) is a reliable multidimensional psychometric inventory that is increasingly being used in the medical–legal context. To date, 18 language adaptations of the PAI exist, yet only the Spanish, Greek and German language versions have been examined psychometrically. This study evaluated the psychometric properties of the French-Canadian version of the PAI by comparing mean scale and subscale scores between the French-Canadian and English language versions, and analyzing the internal consistency and mean item inter-correlations (MICs) of each version in a sample of 50 bilingual university students. Cronbach’s alphas ranged from −.57 to .80 in the French-Canadian version and from −1.10 to .83 in the English version, with most scales being below .70, indicating inadequate internal consistency. In addition, most of the MICs were below .20, indicating a lack of item homogeneity. Caution is given to this adaptation of the PAI in the medical–legal context. Key words: bilingual, language adaptation, medical–legal, Personality Assessment Inventory, psychological assessment, psychometrics, reliabilityThe generalizability of psychological tests with specific populations is an insidious problem in clinical psychology and may have significant implications in the context of a medical–legal examination. For example, if psychologists are asked to objectively substantiate the breadth, severity and veracity of subjective symptomatology and come to a diagnostic opinion, it is essential that such opinions are based on firm scientific grounds in order to meet legal standards and be accepted by the courts. This is especially important since psychologists are asked to suggest/comment on the efficacy of treatment, determine disability benefit or comment on the permanence or seriousness of a psychological injury, all in the ultimate context of assisting the trier of fact in a medical–legal setting. The Standards of Educational and Psychological Testing state that translating a measure into another language does not ensure the construct measured remains comparable to the original test (American Educational Research Association, American Psychological Association & National Council on Measurement in Education, 2014). As such, the examination of language adaptations is an essential part of the study of cultural differences and similarities (Ellis, 1989). This does not, of course, discount the complex and distinct sub-cultural groups who speak the same language (e.g. French speakers who are Moroccan, Congolese, Belgian, etc.). Cheung (2009) explained that personality instruments developed in Western cultures are often generalized to other cultural groups with the faulty assumption that these measures are valid for all groups. When a measure is adapted for a population that differs qualitatively from the one for which it was originally developed, the reliability and validity of the test must be evaluated before it can be clinically utilized (Butcher, Derksen, Sloore, & Sirigatti, 2003; Candell & Hulin, 1986; Cheung, 2009; Geisinger, 1994; Sireci & Berberoglu, 2000) and, hence, employed in the context of a medical–legal examination. Despite these recommendations, research on the language adaptations of the Personality Assessment Inventory (PAI; Morey, 1991, 2007) has been limited.The PAI is a self-report instrument that yields a broad range of clinically relevant information, and is a widely utilized test measure of personality and psychopathology in medical–legal examinations. It was developed using a rational and quantitative method of scale development. The rational criterion emphasizes theoretically informed choices when developing items, as opposed to empirically based instruments such as the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory–2 (MMPI–2; Butcher, Dahlstrom, Graham, Tellegen, & Kaemmer, 1989). The PAI consists of 344 items that constitute four sets of non-overlapping scales: (a) four validity scales: Inconsistency, Infrequency, Negative Impression Management and Positive Impression Management; (b) 11 clinical scales: Somatic Complaints, Anxiety, Anxiety-Related Disorders, Depression, Mania, Paranoia, Schizophrenia, Borderline Features, Antisocial Features, Alcohol Problems and Drug Problems; (c) five treatment scales: Aggression, Suicidal Ideation, Stress, Nonsupport and Treatment Rejection; and (d) two interpersonal scales: Dominance and Warmth. Several advantages of the PAI include its brevity, lower reading level requirements, focus on diagnostic concepts and attention to clinical management issues. The acronyms for the scales and subscales are presented in Scale acronym Scale name Subscale acronym Subscale name Validity INC Inconsistency INF Infrequency NIM Negative Impression PIM Positive Impression Clinical SOM Somatic Complaints SOM-C Conversion SOM-S Somatization SOM-H Health Concerns ANX Anxiety ANX-C Cognitive ANX-A Affective ANX-P Physiological ARD Anxiety-Related Disorders ARD-O Obsessive-Compulsive ARD-P Phobias ARD-T Traumatic Stress DEP Depression DEP-C Cognitive DEP-A Affective DEP-P Physiological MAN Mania MAN-A Activity Level MAN-G Grandiosity MAN-I Irritability PAR Paranoia PAR-H Hypervigilance PAR-P Persecution PAR-R Resentment SCZ Schizophrenia SCZ-P Psychotic Experiences SCZ-S Social Detachment SCZ-T Thought Disorder BOR Borderline Features BOR-A Affective Instability BOR-I Identity Problems BOR-N Negative Relationships BOR-S Self-Harm ANT Antisocial Features ANT-A Antisocial Behaviors ANT-E Egocentricity ANT-S Stimulus Seeking ALC Alcohol Problems DRG Drug Problems Treatment AGG Aggression AGG-A Aggressive Attitude AGG-V Verbal Aggression AGG-P Physical Aggression SUI Suicidal Ideation STR Stress NON Nonsupport RXR Treatment Rejection Interpersonal DOM Dominance WRM Warmth