Neopterin and biopterin concentrations in cerebrospinal fluid in controls less than 1 year old.

abstract：PURPOSE:To assess the efficacy of diazepam suppositories at preventing febrile seizure recurrence during a single febrile illness to determine how to treat children with a febrile seizure on presentation at the hospital. METHODS:We studied 203 children with febrile seizures from December 2004 through March 2006. On ad...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Hirabayashi Y,Okumura A,Kondo T,Magota M,Kawabe S,Kando N,Yamaguchi H,Natsume J,Negoro T,Watanabe K

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Somatomotor cortex of mice with microcephaly induced by DNA polymerase inhibitor cytosine arabinoside (Ara-C), has been studied with a modified Golgi-Cox staining and a HRP retrograde tracing method. Microcephalic mice were prepared by prenatal injections of cytosine arabinoside on days 13.5 and 14.5 of pregnancy. Cyt...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Ohno M

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Germ cell tumors originating in the posterior fossa are very rare. Described herein is a case of primary germ cell tumor (yolk sac tumor) found in the cerebellar vermis. A 5-year-old boy who complained of headache was admitted. CT and MRI revealed a tumor with diffuse enhancement by contrast medium in the right cerebe...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Nakase H,Ohnishi H,Touho H,Karasawa J,Tsunoda S

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study analyzed changes in cerebral blood volume (CBV) during apnea associated with hypoxia compared to apnea without hypoxia. Hypoxia was defined as pulsoxymetric oxygen saturation <80%>10 s. The employed technique was near infrared spectroscopy combined with electrocardiogram, electroocologram, pulsoxymet...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Payer C,Urlesberger B,Pauger M,Müller W

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously reported that knockout mice lacking the p85alpha regulatory subunit of phosphoinositide-3 kinase (PI3K) (p85alpha(-/-) mice) significantly showed spatial learning-deficits, restlessness and motivation-deficit in water maze tests. It was also shown in the report that decline of PI3K activity in several br...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Tohda C,Nakanishi R,Kadowaki M

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:This study aimed to analyze the topological characteristics of brain structural network in pediatric epilepsy patients with vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) by applying graph theoretical approaches. METHODS:Nine patients with generalized seizures and eight normal controls (NC) were enrolled. Based on diffusion te...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Zhu J,Xu C,Zhang X,Qiao L,Wang X,Zhang X,Yan X,Ni D,Yu T,Zhang G,Li Y

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The severity of intellectual sequelae and prognosis varies in patients with congenital ocular motor apraxia (COMA). Here, we explored this phenomenon with regard to the accompanying oculomotor signs and gross motor development, as well as the subtentorial structure defects. Ten patients diagnosed with COMA (M:F=4:6, 4...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Kondo A,Saito Y,Floricel F,Maegaki Y,Ohno K

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:From the mass screening EEG, 31 primary school children and 17 junior high school (Jr-HS) students with paroxysmal discharge were chosen. An equal number of children with disorganized patterns, including a few borderline ones, and with normal patterns were selected from the same classes. School performance and behavio...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Hara H,Tsuchiya S,Maruyama H

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Altered maternal micronutrients (folic acid, vitamin B(12)) are suggested to be at the heart of intra-uterine programming of adult diseases. We have recently described interactions of folic acid, vitamin B(12) and docosahexaenoic acid in one carbon metabolism that is considered to play a key role in regulation oxidati...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Roy S,Kale A,Dangat K,Sable P,Kulkarni A,Joshi S

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To study the efficacy of adrenocorticotrophic hormone (ACTH) in treating Taiwanese children with West syndrome (WS) and the impact on long-term prognosis, 66 patients with WS (54 symptomatic and 12 cryptogenic) were collected from 1987 to 1998 in a medical center in Taiwan. A total of 53 patients were enrolled in this...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Lin HC,Young C,Wang PJ,Lee WT,Shen YZ

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In children, the conditions defined as "ataxia" form a very heterogeneous group. They also often differ from the "ataxias" of adults. In many cases this can be attributed to their different etiology, but probably it is also due to the peculiar functional and physiopathologic characteristics of the cerebellar system du...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： De Negri M,Rolando S

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A research committee supported by the Japanese government conducted a nationwide survey on the epidemiology of acute encephalopathy in Japan using a questionnaire. A total of 983 cases reportedly had acute encephalopathy during the past 3 years, 2007-2010. Among the pathogens of the preceding infection, influenza viru...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Hoshino A,Saitoh M,Oka A,Okumura A,Kubota M,Saito Y,Takanashi J,Hirose S,Yamagata T,Yamanouchi H,Mizuguchi M

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alternating hemiplegia in childhood (AHC) has clinically characteristic features which are easily defined and recognizable. Laboratory investigations were basically normal although they were extensively examined during and between attacks. There is still much debate about its etiology, particularly its relation to mig...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Sakuragawa N

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Congenital cerebellar ataxia is usually thought to be of cerebellar origin. We report two children with congenital cerebellar ataxia, in whom neuroimaging investigations suggest the possibility of a parietal etiology. The two boys showed hypotonia, delayed motor and cognitive development followed by marked, truncally ...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Steinlin M,Schmitt B,Ferrini B

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Blink reflex can be elicited by sudden strong auditory stimulation. Using a special transducer wer recorded this reflex which appears as a microvibration of the eyelid, and named it auditory-evoked eyelid microvibration (AMV). As the reflex pathway of AMV exists in the brainstem, AMV is an easy and useful way of knowi...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Yamada A

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The abnormal patterns of cerebral convolutions range from severe to small anomalies restricted to tertiary gyri and sulci. Lesions within Glial-Pial barrier were found in examined cases with cortical developmental abnormalities. Anomalies and impaired function of vessels penetrating the cortex from meningeal plexus co...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Dambska M,Laure-Kamionowska M

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The electroencephalographic features and their evolutional changes with age were described in three cases of lissencephaly syndrome diagnosed by CT scan. The case with more severe lissencephaly displayed very similar EEG findings. In early or middle infancy when infantile spasms began, EEG showed very high amplitude (...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Hakamada S,Watanabe K,Hara K,Miyazaki S

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:154 patients with a mean age of 6 years 1 month were followed on valproate monotherapy for a period ranging from 5 to 27 months (mean 22 months). Absence epilepsies, benign myoclonic epilepsies and epilepsies with tonic-clonic seizures on awakening were the best controlled, followed by benign partial epilepsies and in...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Dulac O,Steru D,Rey E,Perret A,Arthuis M

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the efficacy and safety of intravenous (i.v.) thiamylal in pediatric magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) sedation. METHODS:Infants and children from 1 month up to 8 years of age who underwent MRI in our hospital between April 2017 and March 2019 were included in this prospective observational study....

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Irie S,Hirai K,Kano K,Yanabe S,Migita M

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The pathogenesis of acute encephalopathy (AE) remains unclear, and a biomarker has not been identified. METHODS:Levels of 49 cytokines and chemokines, including osteopontin (OPN), were measured in serum and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) of children with AE (n = 17) or febrile convulsion (FC; n = 8; control grou...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Kawahara Y,Morimoto A,Oh Y,Furukawa R,Wakabayashi K,Monden Y,Osaka H,Yamagata T

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This is the first study to report differences between Japanese children with and without dyslexia in the way string-length and lexicality effects are manifested when reading Japanese kana. These children were asked to read kana words and non-words consisting of either two or five kana characters. The results showed th...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Sambai A,Uno A,Kurokawa S,Haruhara N,Kaneko M,Awaya N,Kozuka J,Goto T,Tsutamori E,Nakagawa K,Wydell TN

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report an 11-year-old girl with progressive hypopituitarism and visual loss of the right eye caused by trans-sphenoidal and sphenoethmoidal encephaloceles associated with morning glory syndrome. She was first seen at the age of 8 years, because of polydipsia and polyuria, and examination at that time revealed pitui...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Morioka M,Marubayashi T,Masumitsu T,Miura M,Ushio Y

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We evaluated the usefulness of intravenous lidocaine therapy for managing of status epilepticus (SE) during childhood in a retrospective multi-institutional study. Questionnaires were sent to 28 hospitals concerning patients admitted for SE who were managed with lidocaine, assessing patient characteristics, treatment ...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Hattori H,Yamano T,Hayashi K,Osawa M,Kondo K,Aihara M,Haginoya K,Hamano S,Izumi T,Kaneko K,Kato I,Matsukura M,Minagawa K,Miura T,Ohtsuka Y,Sugai K,Takahashi T,Yamanouchi H,Yamamoto H,Yoshikawa H

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hereditary progressive dystonia (HPD) with marked diurnal fluctuation is caused by mutant guanosine triphosphate (GTP) cyclohydrolase I (GCH). The clinical presentation of dominant HPD varies considerably. We proposed the hypothesis that a relative increase of mutant GCH capable of inhibiting normal GCH is responsible...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Ueno S,Hirano M

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We recorded serially brainstem auditory evoked response (BAER) during the neonatal period in term infants who suffered perinatal asphyxia. The amplitudes of BAER components was analysed at 40 dB above BAER threshold of each subject who had a threshold

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Jiang ZD,Shao XM,Wilkinson AR

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 6-month-old girl developed West syndrome and it remitted in association with valproate-induced hepatic dysfunction. Plasma -alanine elevated after valproate hepatotoxicity, which seemed to be a possible cause of remission. The patient has been seizure-free with normal electroencephalogram for 12 months without any a...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Go T

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Relative to their numbers, more than twice the number of disabled children fell victim to the Great East Japan Earthquake than did normal people. It was important to find out needs and provide support, as the needs of disabled children vulnerable to the disaster, such as a shortage of diapers of the right size for dis...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Tanaka S

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Teratological study on microgyra is rare, and its morphogenesis is still on dispute. Microgyra associated with cranial meningocele and progressive hydrocephalus were induced in rat siblings by administration of 10 mg/kg.bw of n-methyl n-nitrosourea (MNU) to rat dams on day 9 of gestation. Microgyra were closely simila...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Sato H,Sato N,Tamaki N,Matsumoto S

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in the methyl-CpG-binding protein 2 (MECP2) gene located on Xq28, cause Rett syndrome (RTT) in female patients. Meanwhile, nonmosaic MECP2 mutations unknown in girls have been found in an increasing number of male patients with a normal 46, XY karyotype. They can cause a broad spectrum of neurodevelopmental ...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Moog U,Van Roozendaal K,Smeets E,Tserpelis D,Devriendt K,Buggenhout GV,Frijns JP,Schrander-Stumpel C

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine whether or not dystrophin really exists in the outer plexiform layer (OPL) of the retina, we studied control and mdx mice, using four kinds of polyclonal antibodies (DMDP-II, 60 kd, 30 kd and DMDP-IV) against dystrophin. Although control OPL showed a positive immunohistochemical reaction with all four ant...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Zhao J,Uchino M,Yoshioka K,Miyatake M,Miike T

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00