Temporal Discrimination: Mechanisms and Relevance to Adult-Onset Dystonia.

abstract：:Objective: This study aimed to screen gene mutations in Chinese patients with benign essential blepharospasm (BEB) to understand its etiology. Methods: Twenty BEB patients diagnosed by clinical manifestations between April 2015 and October 2015 were enrolled. All the cases were investigated by questionnaires about gen...

journal_title：Frontiers in neurology

authors： Dong H,Luo Y,Fan S,Yin B,Weng C,Peng B

更新日期：2020-01-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Inconclusive results have been reported in studies investigating the association between the brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) rs6265 polymorphism and migraine. In the present study, we conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis on the published data in order to quantitatively estimate the relationship bet...

journal_title：Frontiers in neurology

authors： Terrazzino S,Cargnin S,Viana M,Sances G,Tassorelli C

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Melodic intonation therapy (MIT) is a treatment program for the rehabilitation of aphasic patients with speech production disorders. We report a case of severe chronic non-fluent aphasia unresponsive to several years of conventional therapy that showed a marked improvement following intensive 9-day training on the Jap...

journal_title：Frontiers in neurology

authors： Tabei KI,Satoh M,Nakano C,Ito A,Shimoji Y,Kida H,Sakuma H,Tomimoto H

更新日期：2016-09-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The Boston Carpal Tunnel Questionnaire (BCTQ) is a scale that has been developed specifically for carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS). It consists of the Functional Status Scale (FSS) and the Symptom Severity Scale (SSS). It is the most widely used patient reported outcome measure in CTS and has been validated in many langua...

journal_title：Frontiers in neurology

authors： De Kleermaeker FGCM,Levels M,Verhagen WIM,Meulstee J

更新日期：2019-11-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Background: The bidirectional interaction between the gut and brain after stroke through the immune-mediated pathway has been studied. However, the long-term effects of gut microbiota and systemic immune homeostasis after cerebral ischemia remain unclear. We examined long-term changes in the gut microbiota and systemi...

journal_title：Frontiers in neurology

authors： Chen Y,Liang J,Ouyang F,Chen X,Lu T,Jiang Z,Li J,Li Y,Zeng J

更新日期：2019-06-28 00:00:00

abstract：Background and purpose:Stroke has been scarcely studied in Latin America (LA). The Mexican Institute of Neurology Stroke Registry was established in 1990 as a prospective computer-based database to register data obtained from patients admitted with stroke. Using this data, we attempted to define the profile of risk fac...

journal_title：Frontiers in neurology

authors： Arauz A,Marquez-Romero JM,Barboza MA,Serrano F,Artigas C,Murillo-Bonilla LM,Cantú-Brito C,Ruiz-Sandoval JL,Barinagarrementeria F

更新日期：2018-04-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Background: Chronic progressive neurological diseases like high grade glioma (HGG), Parkinson's disease (PD), and multiple sclerosis (MS) are incurable, and associated with increasing disability including cognitive impairment, and reduced life expectancy. Patients with these diseases have complex care needs. Therefore...

journal_title：Frontiers in neurology

authors： Walter HAW,Seeber AA,Willems DL,de Visser M

更新日期：2019-01-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Resting-state imaging designs are powerful in modeling functional networks in movement disorders because they eliminate task performance related confounds. However, the most common metric for quantifying functional connectivity, i.e., bivariate magnitude coherence (Coh), can sometimes be contaminated by spurious corre...

journal_title：Frontiers in neurology

authors： Hinkley LB,Sekihara K,Owen JP,Westlake KP,Byl NN,Nagarajan SS

更新日期：2013-10-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The involvement of the central nervous system (CNS) in Hodgkin lymphoma (HL) has been rarely reported, especially in its primary isolated form. Herein, we present a case of a 33-year-old woman, who received immunosuppressive treatment due to ulcerative colitis (at the beginning azathioprine and sulfasalazine, changed ...

journal_title：Frontiers in neurology

authors： Szczepanek D,Szumiło J,Stoma F,Szymczyk A,Jarosz B,Szczepanek A,Hus M,Trojanowski T,Wasik-Szczepanek E

更新日期：2020-09-08 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the usefulness of pain-related evoked potentials (PREP) elicited by electrical stimulation for the identification of small fiber involvement in patients with mixed fiber neuropathy (MFN). Eleven MFN patients with clinical signs of large fiber impairment and neuropathic pain and ten healthy controls unde...

journal_title：Frontiers in neurology

authors： Hansen N,Kahn AK,Zeller D,Katsarava Z,Sommer C,Üçeyler N

更新日期：2015-12-07 00:00:00

abstract：:This study aims to quantify passive muscle stiffness of spastic wrist flexors in stroke survivors using shear wave elastography (SWE) and to correlate with neural and non-neural contributors estimated from a biomechanical model to hyper-resistance measured during passive wrist extension. Fifteen hemiplegic individuals...

journal_title：Frontiers in neurology

authors： Leng Y,Wang Z,Bian R,Lo WLA,Xie X,Wang R,Huang D,Li L

更新日期：2019-07-10 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Tinnitus is a common symptom of hearing impairment. Patients who are bilaterally hard of hearing are often affected by tinnitus. However, they cannot undergo any of the standard tinnitus therapies, since they rely on hearing. Cochlear implantation (CI) used to treat severe hearing disabilities, such as bilate...

journal_title：Frontiers in neurology

authors： Knopke S,Szczepek AJ,Häussler SM,Gräbel S,Olze H

更新日期：2017-04-25 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:(1) To determine the brain connectivity pattern associated with clinical rigidity scores in Parkinson's disease (PD) and (2) to determine the relation between clinically assessed rigidity and quantitative metrics of motor performance. BACKGROUND:Rigidity, the resistance to passive movement, is exacerbated in...

journal_title：Frontiers in neurology

authors： Baradaran N,Tan SN,Liu A,Ashoori A,Palmer SJ,Wang ZJ,Oishi MM,McKeown MJ

更新日期：2013-06-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Objective: Simultaneous electroencephalography (EEG) and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) were applied to investigate the abnormalities in the topological characteristics of functional brain networks during non-rapid eye movement(NREM)sleep. And we investigated its relationship with cognitive abnormalities...

journal_title：Frontiers in neurology

authors： Zhu X,Ni K,Tan H,Liu Y,Zeng Y,Yu B,Guo Q,Xiao L

更新日期：2021-01-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Background: The forefront treatment of Parkinson's disease (PD) is Levodopa. When patients are treated with Levodopa cerebral blood flow is increased while cerebral metabolic rate is decreased in key subcortical regions including the putamen. This phenomenon is especially pronounced in patients with Levodopa-induced d...

journal_title：Frontiers in neurology

authors： Aljuaid M,Booth S,Hobson DE,Borys A,Williams K,Katako A,Ryner L,Goertzen AL,Ko JH

更新日期：2019-11-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Anticoagulation is highly effective in preventing stroke due to atrial fibrillation, but numerous studies have demonstrated low utilization of anticoagulation for these patients. Assessment of clinicians' attitudes on this topic indicate that fear of intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH), rather than appreciation of anticoag...

journal_title：Frontiers in neurology

authors： Fisher M

更新日期：2013-10-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Seizures are an infrequent and serious neurological complication of SARS-CoV-2 infection, with limited data describing the etiology and the clinical context in which these occur or the associated electrographic and imaging findings. This series details four cases of seizures occurring in patients with COVID-19 with di...

journal_title：Frontiers in neurology

authors： Hwang ST,Ballout AA,Mirza U,Sonti AN,Husain A,Kirsch C,Kuzniecky R,Najjar S

更新日期：2020-11-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Background: Recent studies have shown that renal disease is associated with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) markers of cerebral small vessel disease (CSVD), independent of traditional vascular risk factors. Although large artery lesions might be involved in the cerebrorenal association, evidence has been lacking. Met...

journal_title：Frontiers in neurology

authors： Ao DH,Zhai FF,Han F,Zhou LX,Ni J,Yao M,Zhang DD,Li ML,Fan XH,Jin ZY,Cui LY,Zhang SY,Zhu YC

更新日期：2018-06-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Apathy is pervasive across many neuropsychiatric disorders but is poorly characterized mechanistically, so targeted therapeutic interventions remain elusive. A key impediment has been the lack of validated assessment tools to facilitate translation of promising findings between preclinical disease models and patients....

journal_title：Frontiers in neurology

authors： Heath CJ,O'Callaghan C,Mason SL,Phillips BU,Saksida LM,Robbins TW,Barker RA,Bussey TJ,Sahakian BJ

更新日期：2019-08-09 00:00:00

abstract：CONTEXT:Mandibular movements (MM) are considered as reliable reporters of respiratory effort (RE) during sleep and sleep disordered breathing (SDB), but MM accuracy has never been validated against the gold standard diaphragmatic electromyography (EMG-d). OBJECTIVES:To assess the degree of agreement between MM and EMG...

journal_title：Frontiers in neurology

authors： Martinot JB,Le-Dong NN,Cuthbert V,Denison S,Silkoff PE,Guénard H,Gozal D,Pepin JL,Borel JC

更新日期：2017-07-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Objective: A number of studies have reported that aldehyde dehydrogenase-2 (ALDH2) polymorphisms maybe associated with the risk of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and Parkinson's disease (PD). However, the results of such studies are inconsistent. We therefore conducted a meta-analysis to clarify the association between ALDH...

journal_title：Frontiers in neurology

authors： Chen J,Huang W,Cheng CH,Zhou L,Jiang GB,Hu YY

更新日期：2019-03-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Hypertension (HTN) is the most common cause of spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH). The aim of this study is to investigate the role of resistant HTN in patients with ICH. METHODS AND RESULTS:We conducted a retrospective study of all consecutive ICH admissions at our medical center from November 2013...

journal_title：Frontiers in neurology

authors： Hong D,Stradling D,Dastur CK,Akbari Y,Groysman L,Al-Khoury L,Chen J,Small SL,Yu W

更新日期：2017-05-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Inconsistent gender differences in the outcome of TBI have been reported. The mechanism is unknown. In a recent male animal study, repeated stress followed by TBI had synergistic effects on brain gene expression and caused greater behavioral deficits. Because females are more likely to develop anxiety after stress and...

journal_title：Frontiers in neurology

authors： Xing G,Carlton J,Jiang X,Wen J,Jia M,Li H

更新日期：2014-08-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A possible link between 3D movies and headache (HA) has never been a target of specific and systematic investigations. The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between 3D cinema and HA and to evaluate possible risk factors of developing HA during or after watching a 3D movie. METHODS:This w...

journal_title：Frontiers in neurology

authors： Braschinsky M,Raidvee A,Sabre L,Zmachinskaja N,Zukovskaja O,Karask A,Saar B,Rakitin A

更新日期：2016-03-23 00:00:00

abstract：:To date, conflicting results about the role of vitamins in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) have been reported along with a lack of systematic studies on all types of serum vitamins in patients with ALS. Moreover, extensive studies have been conducted on vitamins in other neurodegenerative diseases; however, whethe...

journal_title：Frontiers in neurology

authors： Wang M,Liu Z,Sun W,Yuan Y,Jiao B,Zhang X,Shen L,Jiang H,Xia K,Tang B,Wang J

更新日期：2020-06-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Background: Tract-based spatial statistics (TBSS) is suitable for the assessment of voxel-wise changes in fiber integrity in WM tracts in the entire brain. Longitudinal TBSS analyses of early multiple sclerosis (MS) using 3 Tesla magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) are not common. Objective: To characterize microstructur...

journal_title：Frontiers in neurology

authors： Schneider R,Genç E,Ahlborn C,Gold R,Lukas C,Bellenberg B

更新日期：2019-11-05 00:00:00

abstract：Background:There is increasing interest in stem cell therapy as another treatment modality in stroke, particularly for patients who are unable to receive endovascular clot retrieval or thrombolysis therapies, or for whom standard treatment has failed. We have recently shown that human amniotic epithelial cells (hAECs) ...

journal_title：Frontiers in neurology

authors： Phan TG,Ma H,Lim R,Sobey CG,Wallace EM

更新日期：2018-06-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Background: Matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) are pleiotropic enzymes involved in extracellular protein degradation and turnover. MMPs are implicated in the pathogenesis of many neurological diseases, including multiple sclerosis (MS). Objective: To search the level of MMPs in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) of MS patien...

journal_title：Frontiers in neurology

authors： Castellazzi M,Ligi D,Contaldi E,Quartana D,Fonderico M,Borgatti L,Bellini T,Trentini A,Granieri E,Fainardi E,Mannello F,Pugliatti M

更新日期：2018-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous consensus statements on sports concussion have highlighted the importance of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and loss of consciousness (LOC) as risk factors related to concussion management. The present study investigated how self-reported history of either ADHD diagnosis or history of previou...

journal_title：Frontiers in neurology

authors： Kaye S,Sundman MH,Hall EE,Williams E,Patel K,Ketcham CJ

更新日期：2019-04-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Impulse control disorder (ICD) is a major non-motor complication of Parkinson's disease (PD) with often devastating consequences for patients' quality of life. In this study, we aimed to characterize the phenotype of impulsivity in PD and its neuroanatomical correlates. Methods: Thirty-seven PD patients (15 patients w...

journal_title：Frontiers in neurology

authors： Hlavatá P,Linhartová P,Šumec R,Filip P,Světlák M,Baláž M,Kašpárek T,Bareš M

更新日期：2020-01-10 00:00:00