Prospective study of caffeine consumption and risk of Parkinson's disease in men and women.

abstract：:There are no established treatments for patients with acute, severe neurological deficits caused by multiple sclerosis or other inflammatory demyelinating diseases of the central nervous system who fail to recover after treatment with high-dose corticosteroids. We conducted a randomized, sham-controlled, double-masked...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Weinshenker BG,O'Brien PC,Petterson TM,Noseworthy JH,Lucchinetti CF,Dodick DW,Pineda AA,Stevens LN,Rodriguez M

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The activities of complex I and complex II/III in platelet mitochondria are reduced in patients with early, untreated Parkinson's disease. Coenzyme Q10 is the electron acceptor for complex I and complex II. We found that the level of coenzyme Q10 was significantly lower in mitochondria from parkinsonian patients than ...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Shults CW,Haas RH,Passov D,Beal MF

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A patient with recessive generalized congenital myotonia and severe, disabling weakness underwent various forms of treatment while being monitored electrophysiologically. Phenytoin, verapamil, and acetazolamide were ineffective, but tocainide yielded good results. Improvement was dose-dependent, and was limited by irr...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Streib EW

更新日期：1986-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Molecular genetics has had a powerful impact on clinical neurology. Definitions of disease are changing from clinical criteria to DNA analysis, resolving questions about the nature of clinically similar but not identical diseases. Genetic counseling is more reliable. Concepts of mendelian inheritance are being tested ...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Rowland LP

更新日期：1992-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe the clinical and oculographic findings in 4 families with episodic ataxia and interictal nystagmus (EA-2) linked to chromosome 19p. Episodes varied from pure ataxia to combinations of symptoms suggesting involvement of the cerebellum, brainstem, and cortex. Some affected individuals exhibited a progressive...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Baloh RW,Yue Q,Furman JM,Nelson SF

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in AbetaPP cause deposition of Abeta amyloid fibrils in brain parenchyma and cerebral vessels, resulting in Alzheimer's disease (AD) and/or cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA). We report a novel mutation (L705V) within the Abeta sequence of AbetaPP in a family with autosomal dominant, recurrent intracerebral h...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Obici L,Demarchi A,de Rosa G,Bellotti V,Marciano S,Donadei S,Arbustini E,Palladini G,Diegoli M,Genovese E,Ferrari G,Coverlizza S,Merlini G

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Reducing health and economic burdens from diagnostic delay of psychogenic nonepileptic seizures (PNES) requires prompt referral for video electroencephalography (VEEG) monitoring, the diagnostic gold standard. Practitioners make VEEG referrals when semiology suggests PNES, although few semiological signs are ...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Syed TU,LaFrance WC Jr,Kahriman ES,Hasan SN,Rajasekaran V,Gulati D,Borad S,Shahid A,Fernandez-Baca G,Garcia N,Pawlowski M,Loddenkemper T,Amina S,Koubeissi MZ

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A patient with generalized convulsions noted that seizures were reliably precipitated by mental arithmetic. The interictal electroencephalogram revealed only a mild, diffuse, nonspecific disturbance, but bursts of generalized epileptiform activity with no obvious clinical expression accompanied efforts at mental arith...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Wilkins AJ,Zifkin B,Andermann F,McGovern E

更新日期：1982-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiple sclerosis (MS) is the most common idiopathic inflammatory disease of the central nervous system. The distinction between MS and other benign or fulminant inflammatory demyelinating disorders is based on quantitative, rather than qualitative, differences in chronicity and severity. Primary progressive MS may d...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Weinshenker BG

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Right-handedness and left-sided language lateralization is an unresolved mystery with unknown cause/effect relations. Most studies suggest that the language lateralization is related to a fundamental brain asymmetry: right-handedness may be secondary. We analyzed the possibility of an opposite cause/effect re...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Auer T,Pinter S,Kovacs N,Kalmar Z,Nagy F,Horvath RA,Koszo B,Kotek G,Perlaki G,Koves M,Kalman B,Komoly S,Schwarcz A,Woermann FG,Janszky J

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasma exchange (PE) is the standard treatment in Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) patients who have lost the ability to walk. The effect of exchanges before this stage and the optimal number of exchanges for the other patients are still unknown. We randomized 556 GBS patients according to severity and number of exchange...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors：

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a kindred with 7 confirmed and 2 probable cases of subacute dementia accompanied by myoclonus. The inheritance pattern is consistent with autosomal dominance and shows anticipation. The pathological changes involve marked gliosis with neuronal loss of the dorsomedial and midline thalamic nuclei, with lesse...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Little BW,Brown PW,Rodgers-Johnson P,Perl DP,Gajdusek DC

更新日期：1986-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The fate of neurofilament (NF) proteins was examined in sections of nerves from rats that survived for 3 to 90 days following nerve transection, using anti-NF monoclonal antibodies and immunohistochemical techniques. The same methods were also applied to twenty-three human nerve biopsy specimens. Granular debris with ...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Trojanowski JQ,Lee VM,Schlaepfer WW

更新日期：1984-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:A study was undertaken to establish an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) to detect JC virus (JCV)-specific antibodies in multiple sclerosis (MS) patients, and to evaluate its potential utility for identifying patients at higher or lower risk (ie, risk stratification) of developing progressive multifoc...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Gorelik L,Lerner M,Bixler S,Crossman M,Schlain B,Simon K,Pace A,Cheung A,Chen LL,Berman M,Zein F,Wilson E,Yednock T,Sandrock A,Goelz SE,Subramanyam M

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a motor neuron disease whose pathophysiological deficits, causing impairment in motor function, are largely unknown. Here we propose that hydrogen sulfide (H2 S), as a glial-released inflammatory factor, contributes to ALS-mediated motor neuron death. METHODS:H2 S conce...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Davoli A,Greco V,Spalloni A,Guatteo E,Neri C,Rizzo GR,Cordella A,Romigi A,Cortese C,Bernardini S,Sarchielli P,Cardaioli G,Calabresi P,Mercuri NB,Urbani A,Longone P

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the static encephalopathies of childhood are common, little is known of the underlying alterations in the neurochemical anatomy of the brain. Using quantitative morphological techniques, we examined the effect of perinatal hypoxia-ischemia on the number and distribution of cholinergic (ACh) neurons in a unila...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Burke RE,Karanas AL

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:What mechanisms underlie the loss and recovery of consciousness after severe brain injury? We sought to establish, in the largest cohort of patients with disorders of consciousness (DOC) to date, the link between gold standard clinical measures of awareness and wakefulness, and specific patterns of local brai...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Lutkenhoff ES,Chiang J,Tshibanda L,Kamau E,Kirsch M,Pickard JD,Laureys S,Owen AM,Monti MM

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Benign familial neonatal convulsions (BFNC) is a rare dominantly inherited epileptic syndrome characterized by frequent brief seizures within the first days of life. The disease is caused by mutations in one of two recently identified voltage-gated potassium channel genes, KCNQ2 or KCNQ3. Here, we describe a four-gene...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Lerche H,Biervert C,Alekov AK,Schleithoff L,Lindner M,Klinger W,Bretschneider F,Mitrovic N,Jurkat-Rott K,Bode H,Lehmann-Horn F,Steinlein OK

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dopa-responsive dystonia (DRD) is one form of childhood-onset idiopathic torsion dystonia. Adult-onset parkinsonism has appeared in several previously unaffected members in families with DRD suggesting that this may be an additional phenotypical expression of the disease. We report a family with DRD in which 2 women a...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Nygaard TG,Takahashi H,Heiman GA,Snow BJ,Fahn S,Calne DB

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Based on prior reports of free light chains of immunoglobulin G (IgG) in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) of patients with multiple sclerosis (MS), we quantitated free kappa and lambda chains and whole IgG concentrations using sensitive and specific radioimmunoassays (RIAs). The RIA for free kappa chains had a sensitivit...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Rudick RA,Pallant A,Bidlack JM,Herndon RM

更新日期：1986-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to determine the role of high-resolution T2-weighted fast multiplanar inversion-recovery (FMPIR) magnetic resonance (MR) imaging in detecting and delineating microscopic focal cortical dysplasia (FCD). We performed MR scans with FMPIR on 42 patients with suspected neocortical epilepsy. Te...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Chan S,Chin SS,Nordli DR,Goodman RR,DeLaPaz RL,Pedley TA

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A family with Gerstmann-Sträussler-Scheinker disease had coincidental clinical onset in three members of two generations, a phenomenon suggesting a common source of a transmissible agent. A regular dietary supplement in this family was home-bred rabbit. The clinical picture, although generally similar to that in previ...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Hudson AJ,Farrell MA,Kalnins R,Kaufmann JC

更新日期：1983-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We sought to determine whether medullary serotonergic neurons were affected in multiple system atrophy (MSA). Immunostaining for tryptophan hydroxylase was performed on serial 50 microm sections of the medulla of brains obtained at autopsy from six control subjects, eight subjects with clinical diagnosis of MSA, and f...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Benarroch EE,Schmeichel AM,Low PA,Parisi JE

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated a family with a new type of autosomal dominant cerebellar ataxia (ADCA) in which pure cerebellar ataxia is often accompanied with epilepsy. No CAG repeat expansions were detected at the spinocerebellar ataxia (SCA) type 1, 2, 3, 6, or 7 locus, and SCAs 4 and 5 were excluded by linkage analysis. We foun...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Matsuura T,Achari M,Khajavi M,Bachinski LL,Zoghbi HY,Ashizawa T

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cognitive and extrapyramidal effects of cholinomimetic therapy were evaluated in 8 patients with progressive supranuclear palsy. Each was randomized to a 10-day double-blind crossover trial of physostigmine and placebo. Physostigmine treatment was associated with marginal and inconsistent changes in long-term memory, ...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Litvan I,Gomez C,Atack JR,Gillespie M,Kask AM,Mouradian MM,Chase TN

更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Advances in neuroimaging techniques, particularly high-resolution magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), have proved invaluable in identifying structural brain lesions in patients with epilepsy. The assumption that such focal lesions invariably predict the site of seizure origin may not be correct, however. We report a ser...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Holmes MD,Wilensky AJ,Ojemann GA,Ojemann LM

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 30-year-old male drug abuser developed ophthalmoplegia, bulbar paralysis, and limb weakness responsive to edrophonium. However, potentiation of a low-amplitude evoked muscle action potential was produced with repetitive nerve stimulation at 10 Hz, and the clinical and electrophysiological data suggested the diagnosi...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Rapoport S,Watkins PB

更新日期：1984-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Indirect evidence suggests that an autoimmune response to myelin basic protein (MBP) may be involved in the pathogenesis of multiple sclerosis (MS). In MS, several reports have suggested that restricted T-cell populations respond to MPB, as in inbred rodents with the MS disease model experimental allergic encephalomye...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Joshi N,Usuku K,Hauser SL

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Monoclonal antibodies that target CD20 expressing B cells represent an important new treatment option for patients with multiple sclerosis (MS). B-cell-depleting therapy is highly effective against relapsing forms of the disease and is also the first treatment approach proven to protect against disability worsening in...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Greenfield AL,Hauser SL

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Striopallidodentate calcinosis (Fahr's disease) is characterized clinically by seizures, rigidity, and dementia and pathologically by mineral deposition in the basal ganglia, dentate nucleus, and cerebral cortex. Disorders of iron and calcium-phosphate metabolism are thought to play a role in its pathogenesis. We pres...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Beall SS,Patten BM,Mallette L,Jankovic J

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00