Levodopa--an exotoxin or a therapeutic drug?

abstract：:In this review, we describe the wide clinical spectrum of features that can be seen in multiple system atrophy (MSA) with a focus on the premotor phase and the non-motor symptoms providing an up-to-date overview of the current understanding in this fast-growing field. First, we highlight the non-motor features at dise...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Chelban V,Catereniuc D,Aftene D,Gasnas A,Vichayanrat E,Iodice V,Groppa S,Houlden H

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Intracranial lipomas are rare, mostly congenital lesions. Sporadic case reports suggest an association with focal epilepsy. METHODS:All admissions to our epilepsy monitoring unit who had had brain MRI were reviewed for intracranial lipomas during 6 consecutive years. RESULTS:Five patients with intracrani...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Loddenkemper T,Morris HH 3rd,Diehl B,Lachhwani DK

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:58 patients with various underlying neurological diseases, who had an impairment of attention, were examined. 12 patients without clinically evident disorders of attention were examined as a control group. The aim of the study was the development of a standardized procedure for the assessment of impaired attention. An...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： von Cramon D,Brinkmann R,Schulz H

更新日期：1975-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hirayama's disease is a benign juvenile form of focal amyotrophy affecting the upper limbs. Previous studies have suggested that the disorder is a neck flexion induced cervical myelopathy. We report clinical and magnetic resonance imaging findings in nine patients with Hirayama's disease. Cervical imaging of seven pat...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Schröder R,Keller E,Flacke S,Schmidt S,Pohl C,Klockgether T,Schlegel U

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dementia has a reversible cause in some cases, and these should be diagnosed without over-investigating the many patients with irreversible disease. We prospectively studied the prevalence of reversible dementia in a memory clinic, determined the added value of investigations compared with clinical examination and ass...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Walstra GJ,Teunisse S,van Gool WA,van Crevel H

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Optic neuritis usually presents with rapid and gradual loss of vision that is either complete or incomplete, and typically associated with retro-orbital pain. To our knowledge there have been no documented reports of optic neuritis presenting with multiple episodes of amaurosis fugax, the sudden and transient loss of ...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Awad AM,Estephan B,Warnack W,Stüve O

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Familial paroxysmal exercise-induced dyskinesia (PED) is a rare movement disorder that is mostly caused by mutations in the solute carrier family 2, member 1 (SLC2A1) gene and inherited in an autosomal dominant manner. Clinical, laboratory, and genetic studies were performed in three family members. The proband's symp...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Tacik P,Loens S,Schrader C,Gayde-Stephan S,Biskup S,Dressler D

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stavudine (2',3'-didehydro-3'deoxythymidine) is a pyrimidine analogue that may be of great value in combination antiretroviral therapy (ART) for treating patients infected with human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1). We assessed potential neurotoxic side effects by comparing peripheral nerve function in patients ...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： von Giesen HJ,Hefter H,Jablonowski H,Arendt G

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The MS-ID (Multiple Sclerosis Information Dividend) project was initiated by the European Multiple Sclerosis Platform (EMSP) in 2007 in order to identify and address major inequalities of MS treatment and care and thus eliminate disparities across the EU. One major approach to reach these goals in the longer term is t...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Flachenecker P,Khil L,Bergmann S,Kowalewski M,Pascu I,Pérez-Miralles F,Sastre-Garriga J,Zwingers T

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tibial muscular dystrophy (TMD) or Udd myopathy is an autosomal dominant distal myopathy with late onset, at first described in the Finnish population. We report here the first Italian cases of TTN mutated titinopathy. The proband, a 60 year-old female, had the first muscular signs at the age of 59 years, with difficu...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Pollazzon M,Suominen T,Penttilä S,Malandrini A,Carluccio MA,Mondelli M,Marozza A,Federico A,Renieri A,Hackman P,Dotti MT,Udd B

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clinical and neuropathological data of a 50-year-old woman with an unusual multisystem degeneration are presented. Clinically the illness was characterized by progressive ataxia with ophthalmoplegia and multiple cranial nerve palsies. Neuropathological investigation showed a severe and selective degeneration of the de...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Janzer RC,Barontini F

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case is reported of severe agnosia for verbal and non-verbal sounds without associated aphasic disorder. A CT scan revealed bilateral, temporal lobe lesions from two ischaemic accidents that had occurred 9 months apart. The search for subtle deficits in the patient showed normal sensitivity to changes in the intensi...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Rosati G,De Bastiani P,Paolino E,Prosser S,Arslan E,Artioli M

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several studies have reported infection as a possible risk factor for cervical artery dissection (CAD). We retrospectively analyzed several inflammatory parameters of CAD patients with the aim of detecting differences between spontaneous (n = 25) and traumatic (n = 18) CAD. In this case-control study, we observed sign...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Forster K,Poppert H,Conrad B,Sander D

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy yields metabolic information and has proved to be a useful addition to structural imaging in neurological diseases. We applied short-echo time Spectroscopic Imaging in a cohort of 42 patients with secondary progressive multiple sclerosis (SPMS). Linear modelling with respect to b...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Marshall I,Thrippleton MJ,Bastin ME,Mollison D,Dickie DA,Chappell FM,Semple SIK,Cooper A,Pavitt S,Giovannoni G,Wheeler-Kingshott CAMG,Solanky BS,Weir CJ,Stallard N,Hawkins C,Sharrack B,Chataway J,Connick P,Chandran S

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cerebral venous thrombosis (CVT) affects mainly working-aged individuals. Functional recovery after CVT is generally considered good with about 3/4 of patients achieving short-term independence. However, vascular events, long-term functional outcome, and employment after CVT remain poorly investigated. We identified c...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Hiltunen S,Putaala J,Haapaniemi E,Tatlisumak T

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Recently, therapeutic attempts to control motor choreatic hyperkinesia of Huntington's disease (HD) by means of pallidal deep brain stimulation (Gp-DBS) were successful. With respect to the clinical effects of Gp-DBS in juvenile hypokinetic-rigid HD (jHD; Westphal variant), only one single-case has been repo...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Ferrea S,Groiss SJ,Elben S,Hartmann CJ,Dunnett SB,Rosser A,Saft C,Schnitzler A,Vesper J,Wojtecki L,Surgical Approaches Working Group of the European Huntington’s Disease Network (EHDN).

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The symptomatology of 18 patients with the severest clinical course after subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) is described and analyzed. Seventeen patients died, five with an acute bulbar syndrome with cardiac arrest, and 12 with irreversible breakdown of brain function. One patient had an apallic syndrome with minimal sign...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Binder H,Gerstenbrand F,Jellinger K,Krenn J,Watzek C

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the role of MR morphometry in the characterization of cerebral microangiopathy (CMA) in relation to clinical and neuropsychological impairment. SUBJECTS AND METHODS:3D MR images of 27 patients and 27 age-matched controls were morphometrically analysed for regional thickness. The normalized values...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Preul C,Lohmann G,Hund-Georgiadis M,Guthke T,von Cramon DY

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Collective evidence supports the notion that multiple sclerosis is principally an autoimmune disease. Much of it stems from models of experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis, generated by inoculation of animals with central nervous system antigens such as MBP, PLP, S100 and MOG or peptides thereof. Different ways of...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Hartung HP,Kieseier BC,Hemmer B

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Determine toxicity and efficacy of autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) for patients with chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy (CIDP) who are dependent on intravenous immunoglobulins or plasmapheresis. METHODS:Unselected peripheral blood stem cells were re-infused on...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Burt RK,Balabanov R,Tavee J,Han X,Sufit R,Ajroud-Driss S,Jovanovic B,Quigley K,Arnautovic I,Helenowski I,Sharrack B

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eighteen patients with dural arteriovenous fistulas or intradural arteriovenous malformations underwent clinical and neurophysiological examination. Bladder disturbances, pain, sensory abnormalities and involvement of both upper and lower motor neurons were commonly observed. Abnormal findings were obtained both in el...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Linden D,Berlit P

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hereditary neuropathy with liability to pressure palsies (HNPP) is characterized by recurrent sensory and motor neuropathy in individual nerves starting in adolescence or young adulthood, focal conduction abnormalities at entrapment sites on nerve conduction studies, and sausage-like swellings (tomacula) of the myelin...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Attarian S,Fatehi F,Rajabally YA,Pareyson D

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a case of polycythemia vera with chorea in which the brain metabolism and dopamine system were investigated using 2-[(18)F]fluoro-2-deoxy-D-glucose positron emission tomography (FDG PET) and (99m)Tc-labeled tropane dopamine transporter ((99m)Tc-TRODAT-1) single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT). Al...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Huang HC,Wu YC,Shih LY,Lo WC,Tsai CH,Shyu WC

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four patients with aphasia due to small circumscribed thalamic lesions are presented. A review of the literature on thalamic aphasia revealed 16 similar cases. While the general consensus that only left-sided thalmic lesions are associated with aphasia is confirmed, analysis of the sites of the thalamic infarctions an...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Bruyn RP

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:The aim of the study was to assess adjunctive intravenous dexamethasone in adult community-acquired bacterial meningitis (BM) in daily practice. Analysis of consecutive patients (1990-2009) with acute community-acquired bacterial meningitis in a single centre in Zagreb, Croatia, N = 304. Adjusted relative ri...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Peterković V,Trkulja V,Kutleša M,Krajinović V,Lepur D

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aquaporin-4 antibody (AQP4-Ab)-positive neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder (NMOSD) is a rare but often severe autoimmune disease with median onset around 40 years of age. We report characteristics of three very-late-onset NMOSD (including complete NMO) patients >75 years of age, in whom this diagnosis initially se...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Krumbholz M,Hofstadt-van Oy U,Angstwurm K,Kleiter I,Jarius S,Paul F,Aktas O,Buchholz G,Kern P,Straube A,Kümpfel T

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In December 2019, unexplained cases of pneumonia emerged in Wuhan, China, which were found to be secondary to the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2. On March 11, 2020, the WHO declared the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-2019) outbreak, a pandemic. OBJECTIVE:To clarify the neurological complications of SARS-CoV-...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Ghannam M,Alshaer Q,Al-Chalabi M,Zakarna L,Robertson J,Manousakis G

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report three members of a single family with an apparently autosomal dominant, nonparoxysmal, hyperkinetic movement disorder with onset in adolescence. The proband, a 56-year-old woman, manifested dystonia, tremor and myoclonus; one of her daughters exhibited myoclonus with tremor, and the other demonstrated myoclo...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Lossos A,Cohen O,Meiner V,Blumenfeld A,Reches A

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report on a 14-year-old boy with congenital isolated hemifacial hyperplasia. Hemifacial hypertrophy most likely represents a minor form of congenital hemihypertrophy. MRI of the soft tissue is particularly suitable to support the diagnosis and reveal associated bony asymmetries. ...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Urban PP,Bruening R

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To determine demographic or disease-related factors that may influence the severity of autonomic dysfunction in idiopathic Parkinson's disease (IPD). METHODS:532 patients with IPD aged between 55 and 75 years were included. Severity of autonomic dysfunction was assessed using a 9-item autonomic dysfunction ...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Korchounov A,Kessler KR,Yakhno NN,Damulin IV,Schipper HI

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00