Current state of stem cell research for the treatment of Parkinson's disease.

abstract：:Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a fatal disease, leaving the patient in a partially or completely deafferented state. In an explorative study, we investigated responses to visual socio-emotional stimuli in ALS patients. Pictures from the International Affective Picture System (IAPS) were verbally judged by 12 m...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Lulé D,Kurt A,Jürgens R,Kassubek J,Diekmann V,Kraft E,Neumann N,Ludolph AC,Birbaumer N,Anders S

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although seizures in brain tumor patients are common, the knowledge on optimal anti-seizure therapy in this patient group is limited. An observational study was carried out using a database of all patients from the neuro-oncology service during the period 2000-2005, with data on seizure characteristics, therapy with A...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： van Breemen MS,Rijsman RM,Taphoorn MJ,Walchenbach R,Zwinkels H,Vecht CJ

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The finding of a mutation in the alpha-synuclein gene in a rare autosomal dominant form of idiopathic Parkinson's disease (IPD), has prompted increased interest in identifying genes that account for the more common sporadic form. A number of association studies have suggested that functional polymorphisms in genes tha...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Bajaj NP,Shaw C,Warner T,RayChaudhuri K

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the levels of transforming growth factor beta 1 (TGF-beta 1) in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) in children with meningitis, with a view to prognostic relevance. CSF TGF-beta 1 levels on admission were measured by a sandwich enzyme immunoassay in children with bacterial meningitis (n = 16), aseptic meningiti...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Huang CC,Chang YC,Chow NH,Wang ST

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The bulbocavernosus reflex (BCR) was examined in 39 normal potent men and in 252 patients with impaired potency of varying aetiology. For BCR evaluation minimum, maximum and mean latencies, the temporal dispersion in ten successive responses, together with minimum and maximum side differences from simultaneous recordi...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Tackmann W,Porst H,van Ahlen H

更新日期：1988-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis type 8 (ALS8) is a familial form of motor neuron disease, with predominance of lower motor neuron degeneration, and is caused by mutation of the vesicle-associated membrane protein-associated protein B (VAPB). We aimed to compare the cognitive profile of patients with ALS8 and he...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： de Alcântara C,Cruzeiro MM,França MC Jr,Camargos ST,de Souza LC

更新日期：2019-08-01 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：:To clarify the changes of cervical (cVEMP) and ocular (oVEMP) vestibular evoked myogenic potentials induced by air-conducted sound (ACS) and bone-conducted vibration (BCV) in patients with vestibular neuritis (VN), patients with VN (n = 30) and normal controls (n = 45) underwent recording of cVEMP and oVEMP in respons...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Oh SY,Kim JS,Yang TH,Shin BS,Jeong SK

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Atrial fibrillation (AF) is considered a predictor for severe stroke and poor outcome. The aim was to evaluate whether AF is associated with poor outcome in acute ischemic stroke (IS) patients treated with intravenous thrombolysis (IVT). In a retrospective study, 157 consecutive IS patients (98 males, mean age 67.3 +/...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Sanák D,Herzig R,Král M,Bártková A,Zapletalová J,Hutyra M,Skoloudík D,Vlachová I,Veverka T,Horák D,Kanovský P

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The safety and efficacy of intravenous thrombolysis (IVT) in dissection-related ischemic stroke (DRIS) has not been established. We sought to determine safety and recovery rates of IVT in DRIS using prospective, international, multicenter data and by conducting a comprehensive meta-analysis of reported case series. We...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Tsivgoulis G,Zand R,Katsanos AH,Sharma VK,Goyal N,Krogias C,Safouris A,Vadikolias K,Voumvourakis K,Alexandrov AW,Malkoff MD,Alexandrov AV

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:An upper motor neuron (UMN) lesion in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is often difficult to identify because clinical signs may be discrete or masked by severe simultaneous LMN lesions. We compared the diagnostic sensitivity of transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) to cranial muscles and limb muscles i...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Urban PP,Wicht S,Hopf HC

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies of the relationship between Alzheimer's disease (AD) and polymorphism in the promoter region of Interleukin 6 (IL-6) -174 G/C have reported inconsistent results. To assess the association between IL-6 -174 G/C promoter polymorphism and AD risk, a meta-analysis containing 3,101 AD cases and 3,860 controls from ...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Dai L,Liu D,Guo H,Wang Y,Bai Y

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy (SBMA) is caused by an abnormal expansion of the CAG repeat in the androgen receptor gene. This study aimed to systematically phenotype a German SBMA cohort (n = 80) based on laboratory markers for neuromuscular, metabolic, and endocrine status, and thus provide a basis for ...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Rosenbohm A,Hirsch S,Volk AE,Grehl T,Grosskreutz J,Hanisch F,Herrmann A,Kollewe K,Kress W,Meyer T,Petri S,Prudlo J,Wessig C,Müller HP,Dreyhaupt J,Weishaupt J,Kubisch C,Kassubek J,Weydt P,Ludolph AC

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Brains from 54 patients with organic dementia were examined systematically. As in previous investigations a predominance of Alzheimer type changes was observed. Seventeen patients showed Lewy bodies in the nucleus basalis, the substantia nigra and the locus coeruleus as well as other lesions of parkinsonian type. In 5...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Ulrich J,Probst A,Wüest M

更新日期：1986-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Adequate cerebral blood flow (CBF) is mainly governed by neurovascular coupling (NC) which adapts local CBF to underlying cortical activity,and cerebral autoregulation (CA)that tends to maintain constant CBF despite changes in arterial blood pressure (BP). Since it was suggested that resistance vessels play ...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Azevedo E,Rosengarten B,Santos R,Freitas J,Kaps M

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Tumefactive demyelinating lesions of the central nervous system can be the initial presentation in various pathological entities [multiple sclerosis (the most common), Balo's concentric sclerosis, Schilder's disease and acute disseminated encephalomyelitis] with overlapping clinical presentation. The aim of ...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Balloy G,Pelletier J,Suchet L,Lebrun C,Cohen M,Vermersch P,Zephir H,Duhin E,Gout O,Deschamps R,Le Page E,Edan G,Labauge P,Carra-Dallieres C,Rumbach L,Berger E,Lejeune P,Devos P,N'Kendjuo JB,Coustans M,Auffray-Calv

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Lamotrigine (LTG) and valproate (VPA) are widely used in the treatment of generalized epilepsies. Nevertheless seizure aggravation with LTG has been reported in juvenile myoclonic epilepsy and epilepsy with myoclonic absences. The aim of this study was to describe clinical features and EEG findings in patients ...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Trinka E,Dilitz E,Unterberger I,Luef G,Deisenhammer F,Niedermüller U,Thaler C,Bauer G

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of furosemide (Lasix) therapy on a standardized experimental cerebral edema, induced in rats by applying a cooling stamp to the right side of the skull over the right coronal suture by means of a stereotactic instrument, was examined. The hemispherically separated water and electrolyte contents of the brain...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Gaab M,Knoblich OE,Schupp J,Herrmann F,Fuhrmeister U,Pflughaupt KW

更新日期：1979-05-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:To date, insertable cardiac monitors (ICMs) are the most effective method for the detection of occult atrial fibrillation (AF) in cryptogenic stroke. The overall detection rate after 12 months, however, is low and ranges between 12.4 and 33.3%, even if clinical predictors are considered. Ischemic stroke pati...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Vollmuth C,Stoesser S,Neugebauer H,Hansel A,Dreyhaupt J,Ludolph AC,Kassubek J,Althaus K

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present evidence that Willy Loman, the protagonist of Arthur Miller's play "Death of a Salesman", meets current diagnostic criteria for probable dementia with Lewy bodies. In particular, he presents with attentional deficits and executive dysfunction (with additional subtle visuoperceptual deficits) in addition to ...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Fearon C,Taylor JP,O'Dowd S

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There has been a resurgence in the use of functional neurosurgery for Parkinson's disease. An important factor that has played a role in this development is the recent understanding of the functional anatomy of the basal ganglia including a knowledge of the changes in the activities of neurons in the internal segment ...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Lang AE,Duff J,Saint-Cyr JA,Trepanier L,Gross RE,Lombardi W,Montgomery E,Hutchinson W,Lozano AM

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate whether intracranial arachnoid cysts (AC) compromise visual attention and if so, whether surgical cyst decompression leads to improvement in visual attention performance. METHODS:The experiments were carried out on 27 patients with temporal (n=21) or frontal (n=6) AC, and 27 healthy control su...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Gundersen H,Helland CA,Raeder MB,Hugdahl K,Wester K

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An 8-year-old boy with galactose-1-phosphate uridyl transferase (GALT) deficiency presented with hypotonia, muscle hypotrophy, hepatomegaly, bilateral cataract and mild mental retardation. Two brothers showed a GALT activity consistent with a homozygotic condition and both parents were found to be heterozygotes for th...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Bresolin N,Comi GP,Fortunato F,Meola G,Gallanti A,Tajana A,Velicogna M,Gonano EF,Ninfali P,Pifferi S

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have performed genetic screening on the skeletal muscle chloride channel gene (CLCN1) in Taiwanese population. A total of four patients with myotonia congenita (MC) together with 106 normal individuals were examined. All 23 exons of the CLCN1 gene were analysed by direct sequencing of PCR products to detect the nuc...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Jou SB,Chang LI,Pan H,Chen PR,Hsiao KM

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our knowledge of the vestibular sensory system, its functional significance for gaze and posture stabilization, and its capability to ensure accurate spatial orientation perception and spatial navigation has greatly benefitted from experimental approaches using a variety of vertebrate species. This review summarizes t...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Straka H,Zwergal A,Cullen KE

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) of hand movements in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) has repeatedly demonstrated increased activation in cortical and subcortical areas, whereas a single study has suggested decreased rather than increased activations for tongue movements in patients with bulbar involve...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Kollewe K,Münte TF,Samii A,Dengler R,Petri S,Mohammadi B

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Idiopathic hypereosinophilic syndrome (IHES) is a primary haematological condition characterised by persistent, otherwise unexplained hypereosinophilia sufficient to cause organ damage. Various neurological complications are reported, but very few have mentioned CNS pathology and none has included CNS vasculitis. Our ...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Rice CM,Kurian KM,Renowden S,Whiteway A,Price C,Scolding NJ

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The goal of this study is to define the clinical features, pathogenesis and key investigation findings of fasciculation anxiety syndrome in clinicians (FASICS). Twenty consecutive clinicians presenting with fasciculations were prospectively assessed with serial clinical and neurophysiological evaluations. Clinicians w...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Simon NG,Kiernan MC

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Levodopa treatment does improve Parkinson's disease (PD) dysgraphia, but previous research is not in agreement about which aspects are most responsive. This study investigated the effect of levodopa on the kinematics of writing. Twenty-four patients with PD of less than 10 years duration and 25 age-matched controls we...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Zham P,Kumar D,Viswanthan R,Wong K,Nagao KJ,Arjunan SP,Raghav S,Kempster P

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Unilateral mesial temporal lobe epilepsy (MTLE) has been associated with reduced amygdala responsiveness to fearful faces. However, the effect of unilateral MTLE on empathy-related brain responses in extra-amygdalar regions has not been investigated. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging, we measured empathy-rel...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Toller G,Adhimoolam B,Grunwald T,Huppertz HJ,Kurthen M,Rankin KP,Jokeit H

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00