Fuel utilization in patients with very long-chain acyl-coa dehydrogenase deficiency.

abstract：:A 53-year-old man was diagnosed 8 years earlier with globoid cell leukodystrophy (GLD, Krabbe disease) by his severe deficiency of galactocerebrosidase (GALC) activity. He was found to have eight nucleotide changes on the two copies of his GALC gene, including two in the leader sequence, four considered polymorphisms,...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Luzi P,Rafi MA,Wenger DA

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 41-year-old right-handed man developed disturbances of language and memory after a discrete thalamic infarction. Detailed neuropsychological assessment revealed deficits in verbal fluency, word finding, confrontation naming, and anterograde memory for verbal material. High-resolution computed tomography with stereot...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Mori E,Yamadori A,Mitani Y

更新日期：1986-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the phenotypic variation and clinical genetics in nine families with generalized epilepsy with febrile seizures plus (GEFS+). This genetic epilepsy syndrome with heterogeneous phenotypes was hitherto described in only one family. We obtained genealogical information on 799 individuals and conducted detaile...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Singh R,Scheffer IE,Crossland K,Berkovic SF

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe 5 patients who presented with an acute cauda equina syndrome, which we believe was due to infarction of the conus medullaris. In 3 patients, the onset was spontaneous, and in 2 patients it was secondary to temporary occlusion of the distal aorta during medical manipulation. Pain in the buttocks and posteri...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Anderson NE,Willoughby EW

更新日期：1987-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nucleotide sequence of human T-lymphotropic virus type I (HTLV-I) in central nervous system tissue was determined in 3 autopsy cases with HTLV-I-associated myelopathy (HAM)/tropical spastic paraparesis (TSP) and 1 seropositive carrier without HAM/TSP but with multiple sclerosis. All HAM/TSP samples (3 spinal cords...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Kira J,Koyanagi Y,Yamada T,Itoyama Y,Tateishi J,Akizuki S,Kishikawa M,Baba E,Nakamura M,Suzuki J

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clinical seizure manifestations, physical examination, radiological studies, neuropsychological tests, and scalp and depth electroencephalographic (EEG) studies were done to localize seizure foci in 32 patients, 23 of whom have undergone surgery with more than one year of follow-up. Of 16 patients with unlocalized sca...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Spencer SS,Spencer DD,Williamson PD,Mattson RH

更新日期：1982-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report motor cortical function in the left occipital cortex of a subject who suffered a left middle cerebral artery stroke early in development. Transcranial magnetic stimulation of the left occipital cortex evoked contraction of right hand muscles. Electroencephalogram recorded over the left occipital cortex showe...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Basu A,Graziadio S,Smith M,Clowry GJ,Cioni G,Eyre JA

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Congenital amusia is a lifelong disability that prevents afflicted individuals from enjoying music as ordinary people do. The deficit is limited to music and cannot be explained by prior brain lesion, hearing loss, or any cognitive or socio-affective disturbance. Recent behavioral results suggest that this disorder is...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Peretz I,Brattico E,Tervaniemi M

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The anatomy of the recently discovered diencephalospinal dopaminergic system is summarized and its possible role in physiological and pathological processes suggested. The cell bodies of origin of this system are localized periventricularly in the dorsal hypothalamus and caudal thalamus, and the terminal innervations ...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Lindvall O,Björklund A,Skagerberg G

更新日期：1983-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the clinical and neuropathological findings in an immunocompetent 19-year-old patient with a fatal acute Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) meningoencephalitis and a lymphoma-like B-lymphocyte response. Our results suggest that an immunotoxic rather than direct viral neuronal invasion mediates brain damage in EBV ence...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Schellinger PD,Sommer C,Leithäuser F,Schwab S,Storch-Hagenlocher B,Hacke W,Kiessling M

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have recently reported homozygous mutations in the PINK1 gene in three consanguineous families with early-onset parkinsonism (EOP) linked to the PARK6 locus. To further evaluate the pathogenic role of PINK1 in EOP and to draw genotype-phenotype correlates, we performed PINK1 mutation analysis in a cohort of Italian...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Valente EM,Salvi S,Ialongo T,Marongiu R,Elia AE,Caputo V,Romito L,Albanese A,Dallapiccola B,Bentivoglio AR

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The Veterans Administration Cooperative Studies Program #468, a multicenter study that randomized Parkinson's disease (PD) patients to either subthalamic nucleus (STN) or globus pallidus internus (GPi) deep brain stimulation (DBS), found that stimulation at either target provided similar overall motoric benef...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Katz M,Luciano MS,Carlson K,Luo P,Marks WJ Jr,Larson PS,Starr PA,Follett KA,Weaver FM,Stern MB,Reda DJ,Ostrem JL,CSP 468 study group.

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Posterior choroidal artery (PChA) territory infarcts remain the least well-known type of thalamic infarcts. Our study of 10 personal cases, selected from 2,925 stroke patients admitted consecutively to a community-based primary care center, and 10 published cases of unilateral PChA territory infarct suggests that they...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Neau JP,Bogousslavsky J

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Mutations of the selenoprotein N gene (SEPN1) cause SEPN1-related myopathy (SEPN1-RM), a novel early-onset muscle disorder formerly divided into four different nosological categories. Selenoprotein N (SelN) is the only selenoprotein involved in a genetic disease; its function being unknown, no treatment is av...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Arbogast S,Beuvin M,Fraysse B,Zhou H,Muntoni F,Ferreiro A

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a prospective study, we repeatedly recorded fast goal-directed wrist movements of 8 patients who had experienced an acute cerebellar hypermetria due to a stroke and who had subsequently recovered clinically. Movements and the associated agonist and antagonist electromyographic (EMG) activities were recorded before ...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Manto M,Jacquy J,Hildebrand J,Godaux E

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Saturated very long-chain fatty acids in erythrocyte membranes, blood plasma, and mononuclear cells were studied in 4 patients with childhood-adolescent adrenoleukodystrophy and 4 patients with adult adrenoleukodystrophy and 19 normal control subjects by using high-performance liquid chromatography. Ratios of C26:0 to...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Antoku Y,Koike F,Ohtsuka Y,Sakai T,Tsukamoto K,Nagara H,Iwashita H,Goto I

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The amygdala and its subnuclei undergo severe volumetric atrophy in Alzheimer's disease (AD). To determine whether this atrophy is due to loss of neuropil, specific neuronal populations, or both, we evaluated the number, size, and packing density of neurons and glia in the cortical and magnocellular basal amygdaloid s...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Scott SA,DeKosky ST,Sparks DL,Knox CA,Scheff SW

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We measured neurotransmitter markers in autopsied brain of infants with glycine encephalopathy (GE). Because patients with GE develop intractable seizures, special attention was devoted to those neurotransmitter systems implicated in human epilepsy. Mean levels of glycine in the frontal cortex of GE patients were thre...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Kish SJ,Dixon LM,Burnham WM,Perry TL,Becker L,Cheng J,Chang LJ,Rebbetoy M

更新日期：1988-09-01 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：:A 51-year-old man presented with a six-year history of gradually progressive exertional dyspnea. His complaint was attributed to increasing age, but evaluation finally led to a diagnosis of diaphragmatic paralysis. Neurological examination disclosed only minimal evidence of weakness of limb muscles. Electromyographic ...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Sivak ED,Salanga VD,Wilbourn AJ,Mitsumoto H,Golish J

更新日期：1981-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Huntington disease (HD) is an inherited neurodegenerative disease caused by the mutant huntingtin gene (mHTT), which harbors expanded CAG repeats. We previously reported that the brain vessel density is higher in mice and patients with HD than in controls. The present study determines whether vascular functio...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Hsiao HY,Chen YC,Huang CH,Chen CC,Hsu YH,Chen HM,Chiu FL,Kuo HC,Chang C,Chern Y

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationship between extrapyramidal sign (EPS) severity and cognitive function was investigated in 184 patients with idiopathic Parkinson's disease (PD) and 301 normal elderly individuals from a community-dwelling cohort in northern Manhattan, New York City. Fifty-six of the patients with PD met criteria for demen...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Richards M,Stern Y,Marder K,Cote L,Mayeux R

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although interictal spikes are thought to share pathophysiological mechanisms with partial-onset seizure discharges, positron emission tomographic studies of the interictal state have paradoxically shown focal hypometabolism whereas seizures produce hypermetabolism. To address this question, we performed functional ma...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Handforth A,Finch DM,Peters R,Tan AM,Treiman DM

更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Positron emission tomography (PET) of glucose metabolism is often applied for the localization of epileptogenic brain regions, but hypometabolic areas are often larger than or can miss epileptogenic cortex in nonlesional neocortical epilepsy. The present study is a three-dimensional brain surface analysis designed to ...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Juhász C,Chugani DC,Muzik O,Watson C,Shah J,Shah A,Chugani HT

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Nonketotic hyperglycinemia is a neurometabolic disorder characterized by intellectual disability, seizures, and spasticity. Patients with attenuated nonketotic hyperglycinemia make variable developmental progress. Predictive factors have not been systematically assessed. METHODS:We reviewed 124 patients stra...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Swanson MA,Coughlin CR Jr,Scharer GH,Szerlong HJ,Bjoraker KJ,Spector EB,Creadon-Swindell G,Mahieu V,Matthijs G,Hennermann JB,Applegarth DA,Toone JR,Tong S,Williams K,Van Hove JL

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report on a new allele at the arylsulfatase A (ARSA) locus causing late-onset metachromatic leukodystrophy (MLD). In that allele arginine84, a residue that is highly conserved in the arylsulfatase gene family, is replaced by glutamine. In contrast to alleles that cause early-onset MLD, the arginine84 to glutamine s...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Kappler J,von Figura K,Gieselmann V

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report four children with idiopathic stroke syndromes who were assayed for human leukocyte antigen (HLA) class I markers and found to have HLA-B51 in common. This finding suggests that there may be a genetic predisposition for "idiopathic" childhood stroke, and host factors, possibly in concert with environmental f...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Mintz M,Epstein LG,Koenigsberger MR

更新日期：1992-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a prospective phase I/II clinical study, we treated eight patients suffering from recurrent glioblastoma multiform with stereotactically guided intratumoral convection-enhanced delivery of an HSV-1-tk gene-bearing liposomal vector and systemic ganciclovir. Noninvasive identification of target tissue together with a...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Voges J,Reszka R,Gossmann A,Dittmar C,Richter R,Garlip G,Kracht L,Coenen HH,Sturm V,Wienhard K,Heiss WD,Jacobs AH

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pathological evidence suggests that alterations of the blood-brain barrier (BBB) may occur in association with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) dementia (HIVD). Increased BBB permeability could contribute to the development of dementia by facilitating the entry of activated and infected monocytes, as well as potenti...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Conant K,McArthur JC,Griffin DE,Sjulson L,Wahl LM,Irani DN

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the carbonic anhydrase inhibitors have been used in the treatment of the primary periodic paralyses (PPs), their efficacy has not been demonstrated in double-blind, placebo-controlled trials. Therefore, we tested the efficacy of dichlorphenamide (DCP; Daranide), a potent carbonic anhydrase inhibitor, in the t...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Tawil R,McDermott MP,Brown R Jr,Shapiro BC,Ptacek LJ,McManis PG,Dalakas MC,Spector SA,Mendell JR,Hahn AF,Griggs RC

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00