Botulinum toxin: evidence-based medicine criteria in rare indications.

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to evaluate the contribution of posterior circulation to memory function by comparing memory scores between patients with and without a foetal-type posterior cerebral artery (FTP) during the intracarotid amobarbital procedure (IAP) in epilepsy patients. Patients undergoing bilateral IAP b...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Zijlmans M,Huibers CJ,Huiskamp GJ,de Kort GA,Alpherts WC,Leijten FS,Hendrikse J

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Differentiation of herpes simplex virus (HSV) types 1 and 2 in cerebrospinal fluid of 17 patients with serologically diagnosed HSV encephalitis and meningitis or acute limbic encephalitis was determined by stringent hybridization of polymerase chain reaction--amplified DNAs. Ten of 17 patients were positive; six with ...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Shoji H,Koga M,Kusuhara T,Kaji M,Ayabe M,Hino H,Hondo R

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hearing deficits associated with cognitive impairment have attracted much recent interest, motivated by emerging evidence that impaired hearing is a risk factor for cognitive decline. However, dementia and hearing impairment present immense challenges in their own right, and their intersection in the auditory brain re...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Hardy CJ,Marshall CR,Golden HL,Clark CN,Mummery CJ,Griffiths TD,Bamiou DE,Warren JD

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In idiopathic rapid eye movement sleep behaviour disorder (RBD), an association with visuoperceptive disorders has been described. However, such an association has not been clearly established in RBD secondary to Parkinson's disease (PD). We compared visuoperceptive function in four groups of non-demented patients (pa...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Marques A,Dujardin K,Boucart M,Pins D,Delliaux M,Defebvre L,Derambure P,Monaca C

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The association of pathology and neurological deficit with quality of life (QoL) in multiple sclerosis (MS) is not fully understood. In this study, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) measures of pathology--T1 and T2 lesion volume and ratio; active T2 lesion number; global and regional brain volume and atrophy; magnetiza...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Hayton T,Furby J,Smith KJ,Altmann DR,Brenner R,Chataway J,Hunter K,Tozer DJ,Miller DH,Kapoor R

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dimethyl fumarate (DMF), fingolimod (FTY) and teriflunomide (TFN) are oral disease-modifying therapies (DMTs) approved for relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis (RRMS) whose efficacy and tolerability have been separately assessed in phase III trials. Conversely, little evidence exists about their head-to-head compari...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Lattanzi S,Danni M,Taffi R,Cerqua R,Carlini G,Pulcini A,Provinciali L,Silvestrini M

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pontocerebellar hypoplasia type 2 (PCH2) is a very rare autosomal recessive disorder. We report two unrelated female patients born to consanguineous parents presenting with this condition. Patient 1 showed a classical clinical/neuroradiological phenotype of PCH2 with dyskinesia/dystonia. Patient 2 had a neonatal onset...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Grosso S,Mostadini R,Cioni M,Galluzzi P,Morgese G,Balestri P

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) has been investigated as a tool for dysphagia recovery after stroke in several single-center randomized controlled trials (RCT). OBJECTIVE:The aim of this investigation was to quantitatively evaluate the effect of tDCS on dysphagia recovery after a stroke utili...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Marchina S,Pisegna JM,Massaro JM,Langmore SE,McVey C,Wang J,Kumar S

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The electrically elicited blink reflex was investigated in 25 patients with ischaemic lesions of the pons or the medulla oblongata. Only patients with a lesion on MRI appropriate to the clinical syndrome were included. Twenty patients had an infarction of the pons, bilateral in 5. Additional 5 patients had an infarcti...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Meincke U,Ferbert A

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Isolated floccular infarction is extremely rare, and impairments of the vestibulo-ocular reflex (VOR) have not been explored in humans with isolated floccular lesions. The purpose of this study was to examine and report selective impairment of VOR in response to high acceleration using head impulse in a patient with i...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Park HK,Kim JS,Strupp M,Zee DS

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the effect of bilateral subthalamic nucleus stimulation on levodopa-resistant balance impairment in 14 patients with Parkinson's disease and 18 matched controls. Instability was quantitatively assessed using standardized multidirectional dynamic posturography. Patients were tested after taking a suprathres...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Visser JE,Allum JH,Carpenter MG,Esselink RA,Speelman JD,Borm GF,Bloem BR

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a rare association of spinocerebellar ataxia and motor neuron disease (MND) in a woman with genetically confirmed SCA2 who subsequently developed a rapidly progressive and fatal form of MND. Considering the rarity of these two neurological conditions, it is interesting to note that the concomitant occurrence...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Nanetti L,Fancellu R,Tomasello C,Gellera C,Pareyson D,Mariotti C

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Parkinson's disease (PD) is the most common neurodegenerative movement disorder. Recent advances in genetics and pathophysiology have led to new insights into the pathogenesis of PD. Ten loci have been linked to hereditary PD. Mutations in alpha-synuclein and ubiquitin carboxy hydrolase L1 (UchL1) cause autosomal domi...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Chung KK,Dawson VL,Dawson TM

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE:Parkinson's disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative disorder characterized by deposition of intraneural inclusion bodies in the brain as well as the enteric nervous system. Emerging concepts regarding the brain-gut axis have been proposed for neurological disorders. Thus, the present study investigat...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Kim YJ,Lee CM,Kim S,Jang JW,Lee SY,Lee SH

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Treatment of multiple sclerosis (MS) with interferon beta (IFNbeta) can be associated with the development of binding antibodies (BAbs) and neutralizing antibodies (NAbs). NAbs are a subset of BAbs that prevent IFNbeta from effectively binding to or activating its receptor, thereby blocking its biologic effects and in...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Deisenhammer F,Schellekens H,Bertolotto A

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To characterize the relation between brain functional connectivity and disability in patients with multiple sclerosis; to investigate the existence of critical values of both disability and functional connectivity corresponding to exhaustion of functional adaptive mechanisms. METHODS:Hundred-and-nineteen pat...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Tommasin S,De Giglio L,Ruggieri S,Petsas N,Giannì C,Pozzilli C,Pantano P

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is increasing evidence that inflammation plays an important role in the progression of acute ischemic stroke (AIS). The primary aims of this study were to examine the serum levels of 13 cytokines, C-reactive protein (CRP), glucose, and hemoglobin in AIS patients, and their relationship to stroke lateralization, ...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Ormstad H,Aass HC,Lund-Sørensen N,Amthor KF,Sandvik L

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dementia is reversible in a minority of patients, and these should be diagnosed but without subjecting the majority with irreversible disease to an excessive set of investigations. Should a battery of ancillary investigations be performed routinely in dementia? Or can these tests be carried out as clinically indicated...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

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

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The recent discovery of disease specific and pathogenic autoantibodies in neuromyelitis optica (NMO, Devic's disease) has revived the interest in this intriguing yet often devastating condition. While the history of classic multiple sclerosis has been studied extensively, only very little is known so far about the ear...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Jarius S,Wildemann B

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Elevated intracranial intravenous pressure is not routinely measured in clinical practice. Indirect evidence of increased venous pressure is reflected in the size change of the cerebral sinuses and the presence of venous infarctions. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the role of brain perfusion venous time-dens...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Darwish RS,Amiridze NS

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evidence of a significant improvement of IFNB-1b in clinical severity in the older population with RRMS has not been established so far. The aim of this exploratory post hoc analysis of the 250 mcg IFNB-1b group of the BEYOND study is to compare the efficacy and safety of older versus younger patients using a cut-off ...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Lampl C,Nagl S,Arnason B,Comi G,O Connor P,Cook S,Jeffery D,Kappos L,Filippi M,Beckmann K,Bogumil T,Pohl C,Sandbrink R,Hartung HP

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The article Diagnostic accuracy of a smartphone bedside test to assess the fixation suppression of the vestibulo‑ocular reflex: when nothing else matters, written by Florin Gandor, Manfred Tesch, Hannelore Neuhauser, Doreen Gruber, Hans‑Jochen Heinze, Georg Ebersbach and Thomas Lempert, was originally published electr...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Gandor F,Tesch M,Neuhauser H,Gruber D,Heinze HJ,Ebersbach G,Lempert T

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A patient is described who developed complex partial seizures with secondary generalization 3 years after a severe viral encephalitis with a CT and EEG identified lesion in the left insular cortex and its surrounding structures. When the seizures first occurred CT and MRI as well as repeated interictal conventional EE...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Dressler D,Voth E,Feldmann M,Henze T,Felgenhauer K

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease (CMT) is the most common inherited neuropathy with heterogeneous clinical presentation and genetic background. The axonal form (CMT2) is characterised by decreased action potentials indicating primary axonal damage. The underlying pathology involves axonal degeneration which is supposed to ...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Bansagi B,Antoniadi T,Burton-Jones S,Murphy SM,McHugh J,Alexander M,Wells R,Davies J,Hilton-Jones D,Lochmüller H,Chinnery P,Horvath R

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been approximately 50 years since neurologists were introduced to the entities, "progressive supranuclear palsy" and "corticobasal degeneration". Since the two seminal publications, there have been significant advancements in our understanding of these two neurodegenerative diseases, particularly the fact that ...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Josephs KA

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To investigate the occurrence of symptomatic peroneal neuropathy (PN) in cancer patients, as well as that of cancer in PN patients and to seek possible factors in the aetiology of PN. METHODS:Clinical, neurographical, and myographical data of patients with PN, in two general neurology clinics during a 5-year peri...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Koehler PJ,Buscher M,Rozeman CA,Leffers P,Twijnstra A

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The concentrations of glucose, pyruvate and lactate were determined in the blood and lumbar CSF of 63 patients with neuromuscular disorders and 40 controls. The glucose/lactate and lactate/pyruvate ratios were also calculated, in addition to the cytoplasmic NADH/NAD+ (nicotinamide-adenine dinucleotide-H/nicotinamide-a...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Mechler F,Diószeghy P,Csenkér E,Molnár L

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent reports suggest the possible beneficial effects of haemopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) in autoimmune diseases such as multiple sclerosis (MS). The definition of the risk/benefit ratio for such a treatment is perceived as a major issue for the neurological community worldwide. The First Consensus Confe...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Comi G,Kappos L,Clanet M,Ebers G,Fassas A,Fazekas F,Filippi M,Hartung HP,Hertenstein B,Karussis D,Martino G,Tyndall A,van der Meché FG

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Circulating and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) neurofilament light chain (NfL) levels represent a reliable indicator of disease activity and axonal damage in different neuroinflammatory conditions. Recently, high CSF NfL levels have been detected in active autoimmune encephalitis, as opposed to significant lower levels aft...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Mariotto S,Gajofatto A,Zuliani L,Zoccarato M,Gastaldi M,Franciotta D,Cantalupo G,Piardi F,Polo A,Alberti D,Sartori S,Zanusso G,Agrò L,Demurtas R,Sechi G,Sechi E,Monaco S,Ferrari S

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Altered cerebral vasoreactivity (CVR) has been implicated in migraine. To test this hypothesis, we studied CVR as measured by transcranial Doppler ultrasound (TCD) in 11 migraineurs and 12 healthy controls of similar age. Mean flow velocities (MFV) in the middle cerebral artery (MCA) were recorded during a cognitive a...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Thie A,Carvajal-Lizano M,Schlichting U,Spitzer K,Kunze K

更新日期：1992-07-01 00:00:00