Caveats in the Established Understanding of CMT1A.

abstract：Objective:GDP-mannose pyrophosphorylase B (GMPPB) related phenotype spectrum ranges widely from congenital myasthenic syndrome (CMS), limb-girdle muscular dystrophy type 2T (LGMD 2T) to severe congenital muscle-eye-brain syndrome. Our study investigates the clinicopathologic features of a patient with novel GMPPB mutat...

journal_title：Annals of clinical and translational neurology

authors： Tian WT,Zhou HY,Zhan FX,Zhu ZY,Yang J,Chen SD,Luan XH,Cao L

更新日期：2019-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Mitochondrial dysfunction plays a key role in the pathophysiology of neurodegenerative disorders such as ataxia and Parkinson's disease. We describe an extended Belgian pedigree where seven individuals presented with adult-onset cerebellar ataxia, axonal peripheral ataxic neuropathy, and tremor, in variable c...

journal_title：Annals of clinical and translational neurology

authors： Van Maldergem L,Besse A,De Paepe B,Blakely EL,Appadurai V,Humble MM,Piard J,Craig K,He L,Hella P,Debray FG,Martin JJ,Gaussen M,Laloux P,Stevanin G,Van Coster R,Taylor RW,Copeland WC,Mormont E,Bonnen PE

更新日期：2016-11-16 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The aim of this study was to evaluate if urinary sediment cells offered a robust alternative to muscle biopsy for the diagnosis of single mtDNA deletions. METHODS:Eleven adult patients with progressive external ophthalmoplegia and a known single mtDNA deletion were investigated. Urinary sediment cells were u...

journal_title：Annals of clinical and translational neurology

authors： Varhaug KN,Nido GS,de Coo I,Isohanni P,Suomalainen A,Tzoulis C,Knappskog P,Bindoff LA

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Brain involvement is a serious complication of HIV infection. The earliest changes in the brain, which represents an anatomic site for viral persistence, are largely unknown. METHODS:This investigation used quantitative Magnetic Resonance methodologies, including high resolution and diffusion tensor (DTI) im...

journal_title：Annals of clinical and translational neurology

authors： Ragin AB,Wu Y,Gao Y,Keating S,Du H,Sammet C,Kettering CS,Epstein LG

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The objective of this study was to investigate the genetic etiology of the X-linked disorder "Hypomyelination of Early Myelinating Structures" (HEMS). METHODS:We included 16 patients from 10 families diagnosed with HEMS by brain MRI criteria. Exome sequencing was used to search for causal mutations. In silic...

journal_title：Annals of clinical and translational neurology

authors： Kevelam SH,Taube JR,van Spaendonk RM,Bertini E,Sperle K,Tarnopolsky M,Tonduti D,Valente EM,Travaglini L,Sistermans EA,Bernard G,Catsman-Berrevoets CE,van Karnebeek CD,Østergaard JR,Friederich RL,Fawzi Elsaid M,Schieving J

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：Objective:The objective of this study was to evaluate prespecified and post hoc analyses in RENEW subgroups to identify participants more likely to benefit from opicinumab. Methods:RENEW assessed the efficacy/safety of opicinumab versus placebo in participants with a first unilateral acute optic neuritis (AON) episode...

journal_title：Annals of clinical and translational neurology

authors： Cadavid D,Balcer L,Galetta S,Aktas O,Ziemssen T,Vanopdenbosch LJ,Leocani L,Freedman MS,Plant GT,Preiningerova JL,Ziemssen F,Massacesi L,Chai Y,Xu L,RENEW Study Investigators.

更新日期：2018-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Motor neuron disorders involving upper and lower neurons are a genetically and clinically heterogenous group of rare neuromuscular disorders with overlap among spinal muscular atrophies (SMAs) and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Classical SMA caused by recessive mutations in SMN1 is one of the most comm...

journal_title：Annals of clinical and translational neurology

authors： Sedghi M,Moslemi AR,Olive M,Etemadifar M,Ansari B,Nasiri J,Emrahi L,Mianesaz HR,Laing NG,Tajsharghi H

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To study the safety of antiepileptic drug (AED) withdrawal after temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) surgery. METHODS:We reviewed patients who underwent TLE surgery from 1995 to 2011, collecting data on doses, dates of AED initiation, reduction, and discontinuation. Predictors of seizure outcome were defined using ...

journal_title：Annals of clinical and translational neurology

authors： Yardi R,Irwin A,Kayyali H,Gupta A,Nair D,Gonzalez-Martinez J,Bingaman W,Najm IM,Jehi LE

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in RNF216 have been found to be associated with autosomal recessive Huntington-like disorder. Here, we describe a patient with Huntington-like disorder caused by a novel de novo RNF216 mutation. The patient started to have choreatic movements of both hands, slowly progressing to head, face, and four extremit...

journal_title：Annals of clinical and translational neurology

authors： Chen KL,Zhao GX,Wang H,Wei L,Huang YY,Chen SD,Lin BY,Dong Q,Cui M,Yu JT

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Diabetes leads to cognitive impairment and is associated with age-related neurodegenerative diseases including Alzheimer's disease (AD). Thus, understanding diabetes-induced alterations in brain function is important for developing early interventions for neurodegeneration. Low-capacity runner (LCR) rats are...

journal_title：Annals of clinical and translational neurology

authors： Choi J,Chandrasekaran K,Demarest TG,Kristian T,Xu S,Vijaykumar K,Dsouza KG,Qi NR,Yarowsky PJ,Gallipoli R,Koch LG,Fiskum GM,Britton SL,Russell JW

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：Objective:To determine the cognitive profile of adult patients with mitochondrial disease, and the effect of disease severity on cognition. Methods:Using a prospective case-control design, we compared cognition of patients to normative data and to matched controls, assessed three times over 18 months. Forty-nine patie...

journal_title：Annals of clinical and translational neurology

authors： Moore HL,Kelly T,Bright A,Field RH,Schaefer AM,Blain AP,Taylor RW,McFarland R,Turnbull DM,Gorman GS

更新日期：2019-03-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Prenatal exposure to sodium valproate (VPA) is associated with neurodevelopmental impairments. Cortical thickness was measured in 16 children exposed prenatally to VPA and 16 controls. We found increased left inferior frontal gyrus (IFG; BA45) and left pericalcarine sulcus (BA18) thickness, an association between VPA ...

journal_title：Annals of clinical and translational neurology

authors： Wood AG,Chen J,Barton S,Nadebaum C,Anderson VA,Catroppa C,Reutens DC,O'Brien TJ,Vajda F

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spinocerebellar ataxia type 2 (SCA2) is among the most common forms of autosomal dominant ataxias, accounting for 15% of the total families. Occurrence is higher in specific populations such as the Cuban and Southern Italian. The disease is caused by a CAG expansion in ATXN2 gene, leading to abnormal accumulation of t...

journal_title：Annals of clinical and translational neurology

authors： Antenora A,Rinaldi C,Roca A,Pane C,Lieto M,Saccà F,Peluso S,De Michele G,Filla A

更新日期：2017-08-10 00:00:00

abstract：Background:There is currently no formal method for predicting the range expected in an individual's seizure counts. Having access to such a prediction would be of benefit for developing more efficient clinical trials, but also for improving clinical care in the outpatient setting. Methods:Using three independently col...

journal_title：Annals of clinical and translational neurology

authors： Goldenholz DM,Goldenholz SR,Moss R,French J,Lowenstein D,Kuzniecky R,Haut S,Cristofaro S,Detyniecki K,Hixson J,Karoly P,Cook M,Strashny A,Theodore WH

更新日期：2018-01-09 00:00:00

abstract：Objective:The prognostic value of cerebrospinal fluid neurofilament light chain, total tau, phosphorylated tau181, and amyloid beta1-42 was examined in frontotemporal dementia subtypes. Methods:We compared baseline biomarkers between 49 controls, 40 patients with behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia, 24 with sem...

journal_title：Annals of clinical and translational neurology

authors： Ljubenkov PA,Staffaroni AM,Rojas JC,Allen IE,Wang P,Heuer H,Karydas A,Kornak J,Cobigo Y,Seeley WW,Grinberg LT,Spina S,Fagan AM,Jerome G,Knopman D,Boeve BF,Dickerson BC,Kramer J,Miller B,Boxer AL,Rosen HJ

更新日期：2018-09-20 00:00:00

abstract：Objective:Immunological studies have demonstrated a plethora of beneficial effects of dimethyl fumarate (DMF) on various cell types. However, the cellular and molecular targets are incompletely understood and response markers are scarce. Here, we focus on the relation between nuclear factor (erythroid-derived 2)-like 2...

journal_title：Annals of clinical and translational neurology

authors： Hammer A,Waschbisch A,Kuhbandner K,Bayas A,Lee DH,Duscha A,Haghikia A,Gold R,Linker RA

更新日期：2018-04-16 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Cancer patients may experience neurologic adverse effects, such as alterations in neurocognitive function, as a consequence of chemotherapy. The mechanisms underlying such neurotoxic syndromes remain poorly understood. We here describe the temporal and regional effects of systemically administered platinum-ba...

journal_title：Annals of clinical and translational neurology

authors： Horky LL,Gerbaudo VH,Zaitsev A,Plesniak W,Hainer J,Govindarajulu U,Kikinis R,Dietrich J

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The causal role of midline thalamus in the initiation and early organization of mesial temporal lobe seizures is studied. Three patients undergoing stereoelectroencephalography were enrolled for the placement of an additional depth electrode targeting the midline thalamus. The midline thalamus was recruited in all thr...

journal_title：Annals of clinical and translational neurology

authors： Romeo A,Issa Roach AT,Toth E,Chaitanya G,Ilyas A,Riley KO,Pati S

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:FBXO7 is implicated in the ubiquitin-proteasome system and parkin-mediated mitophagy. FBXO7defects cause a levodopa-responsive parkinsonian-pyramidal syndrome(PPS). METHODS:We investigated the disease molecular bases in a child with PPS and brain iron accumulation. RESULTS:A novel homozygous c.368C>G (p.S123*) FBXO7...

journal_title：Annals of clinical and translational neurology

authors： Correa-Vela M,Lupo V,Montpeyó M,Sancho P,Marcé-Grau A,Hernández-Vara J,Darling A,Jenkins A,Fernández-Rodríguez S,Tello C,Ramírez-Jiménez L,Pérez B,Sánchez-Montáñez Á,Macaya A,Sobrido MJ,Martinez-Vicente M,Pérez-Dueñas B,

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To investigate the clinical, electrophysiological, neuroimaging characteristics and genetic features of SPG5 in Taiwan. METHODS:Mutational analysis of the coding regions of CYP7B1 was performed by utilizing targeted resequencing analysis of the 187 unrelated Taiwanese HSP patients. The diagnosis of SPG5 was...

journal_title：Annals of clinical and translational neurology

authors： Chou CT,Soong BW,Lin KP,Tsai YS,Jih KY,Liao YC,Lee YC

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：Objective:Intracerebral hemorrhage carries a high mortality and survivors are frequently left with significant disability. Immunological mechanisms may play an important role in hemorrhage-induced brain injury, however, research linking these mechanisms with clinical outcome remains limited. We aim to identify serum in...

journal_title：Annals of clinical and translational neurology

authors： Landreneau MJ,Mullen MT,Messé SR,Cucchiara B,Sheth KN,McCullough LD,Kasner SE,Sansing LH,Serum Markers After Spontaneous Cerebral Hemorrhage (SMASCH) Investigators.

更新日期：2018-07-03 00:00:00

abstract：Introduction:It is unknown if treatment with rt-PA in mild acute ischemic stroke (MIS) is associated with improvement in long term cognition. Methods:Forty-five patients with suspected acute mild stroke or transient ischemic attacks with NIHSS ≤6 were enrolled in a prospective cohort. Cognitive testing was performed w...

journal_title：Annals of clinical and translational neurology

authors： Rosenbaum Halevi D,Bursaw AW,Karamchandani RR,Alderman SE,Breier JI,Vahidy FS,Aden JK,Cai C,Zhang X,Savitz SI

更新日期：2019-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Rebound disease following cessation of disease modifying treatment (DMT) has been reported in people with both relapsing and progressive multiple sclerosis (pwRMS, pwPMS) questioning strict separation between these two phenotypes. While licensed DMT is available for pwRMS to counter rebound disease, no such option exi...

journal_title：Annals of clinical and translational neurology

authors： Alvarez-Gonzalez C,Adams A,Mathews J,Turner BP,Giovannoni G,Baker D,Schmierer K

更新日期：2017-05-17 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Brain connectivity at rest is altered in temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE), particularly in "hub" areas such as the posterior default mode network (DMN). Although both functional and anatomical connectivity are disturbed in TLE, the relationships between measures as well as to seizure frequency remain unclear. We ...

journal_title：Annals of clinical and translational neurology

authors： Douw L,DeSalvo MN,Tanaka N,Cole AJ,Liu H,Reinsberger C,Stufflebeam SM

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Rolandic epilepsy is a common genetic focal epilepsy of childhood characterized by centrotemporal sharp waves on electroencephalogram. In previous genome-wide analysis, we had reported linkage of centrotemporal sharp waves to chromosome 11p13, and fine mapping with 44 SNPs identified the ELP4-PAX6 locus in tw...

journal_title：Annals of clinical and translational neurology

authors： Panjwani N,Wilson MD,Addis L,Crosbie J,Wirrell E,Auvin S,Caraballo RH,Kinali M,McCormick D,Oren C,Taylor J,Trounce J,Clarke T,Akman CI,Kugler SL,Mandelbaum DE,McGoldrick P,Wolf SM,Arnold P,Schachar R,Pal DK,Stru

更新日期：2016-06-02 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Heterozygous SHANK3 mutations or partial deletions of the long arm of chromosome 22, also known as Phelan-McDermid syndrome, result in a syndromic form of the autism spectrum as well as in global developmental delay, intellectual disability, and several neuropsychiatric comorbidities. The exact pathophysiolog...

journal_title：Annals of clinical and translational neurology

authors： Jesse S,Müller HP,Schoen M,Asoglu H,Bockmann J,Huppertz HJ,Rasche V,Ludolph AC,Boeckers TM,Kassubek J

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an autoimmune demyelinating disorder, which is characterized by relapses and remissions. Serum neurofilament light chain (sNfL) is an emerging biomarker of disease activity but its clinical use is still limited. In this study, we aim to characterize the temporal association between ...

journal_title：Annals of clinical and translational neurology

authors： Rosso M,Gonzalez CT,Healy BC,Saxena S,Paul A,Bjornevik K,Kuhle J,Benkert P,Leppert D,Guttmann C,Bakshi R,Weiner HL,Chitnis T

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Few studies have captured the neuropsychological profile of sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (sCJD) with neuropsychological testing, and little is known about cognitive predictors of survival. We characterized baseline neuropsychological performance in sCJD and investigated associations with survival. METH...

journal_title：Annals of clinical and translational neurology

authors： Sundaram SE,Staffaroni AM,Walker NC,Casaletto KB,Casey M,Golubjatnikov A,Metcalf S,O'Leary K,Wong K,Benisano K,Forner S,Gonzalez Catalan M,Allen IE,Rosen HJ,Kramer JH,Geschwind MD

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Myotonic dystrophy type I (DM1) is an autosomal dominant disease of which clinical manifestations resemble premature aging. We evaluated the contribution of telomere length in pathogenesis in 361 DM1 patients (12 with serial measurements) and 223 unaffected relative controls using qPCR assay. While no differences in b...

journal_title：Annals of clinical and translational neurology

authors： Wang Y,Best A,Fernández-Torrón R,Alsaggaf R,Garcia-Puga M,Dagnall CL,Hicks B,Thompson M,Matheu Fernandez A,Zulaica Ijurco M,Greene MH,Lopez de Munain A,Gadalla SM

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 61-year-old man with past medical history significant for prediabetes, hyperlipidemia and high-grade prostate intraepithelial neoplasia presents with headaches for one month. Imaging of his brain reveals hydrocephalus and spine imaging reveals a cord lesion. These findings are discussed further in the case. ...

journal_title：Annals of clinical and translational neurology

authors： Yu M,Brooker S,Priyadarshini S

更新日期：2020-12-18 00:00:00