Clinical onset and prognosis of Asian children with organic acidemias, as detected by analysis of urinary organic acids using GC/MS, instead of mass screening.

abstract：:This is the first study to report differences between Japanese children with and without dyslexia in the way string-length and lexicality effects are manifested when reading Japanese kana. These children were asked to read kana words and non-words consisting of either two or five kana characters. The results showed th...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Sambai A,Uno A,Kurokawa S,Haruhara N,Kaneko M,Awaya N,Kozuka J,Goto T,Tsutamori E,Nakagawa K,Wydell TN

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the past decade research on childhood epilepsy in our country has progressed in a step-by-step fashion. At first clinical experiences of the diagnosis and treatment of childhood epilepsy and febrile convulsions as to the results of follow-up studies were published. These have helped to overcome the barriers of trad...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Zuo CH

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Defects in DNA damage responses or repair mechanisms cause numerous rare inherited diseases, referred to as "DNA-repair defects" or "DNA damage deficiency", characterized by neurodegeneration, immunodeficiency, and/or cancer predisposition. Early accurate diagnosis is important for informing appropriate clin...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Kashimada A,Hasegawa S,Nomura T,Shiraku H,Moriyama K,Suzuki T,Nakajima K,Mizuno T,Imai K,Sugawara Y,Morio T,Kumada S,Takagi M

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:MPS type II (Hunter disease) results from deficiency of the lysosomal enzyme iduronate-2-sulfate sulfatase. Two forms of the disease have been recognized, based on absence or presence of progressive intellectual deterioration. This study aimed to assess activities of daily life (ADL) in 27 Hunter disease-affected Japa...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Kato T,Kato Z,Kuratsubo I,Ota T,Orii T,Kondo N,Suzuki Y

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cerebral palsy (CP) is a group of movement and posture disorders attributed to insults in the developing brain. In rats, CP-like motor deficits can be induced by early hind-limb sensorimotor restriction (SR; from postnatal days P2 to P28), associated or otherwise with perinatal anoxia (PA; on P0 and P1). In this study...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Marcuzzo S,Dutra MF,Stigger F,do Nascimento PS,Ilha J,Kalil-Gaspar PI,Achaval M

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Factors useful to predict seizure frequency and duration of antiepileptic treatment of children with benign partial epilepsy and rolandic spikes were retrospectively evaluated in 72 patients seizure-free for at least 5 years and off antiepileptic drugs for at least 2 years. Three groups were considered: Group I, 11 pa...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Ambrosetto G,Giovanardi Rossi P,Tassinari CA

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cutis laxa (CL) syndromes are connective tissue disorders characterized by redundant, sagging, inelastic and wrinkled skin, with organ involvement. Here, we describe a patient with ALDH18A1-related CL who developed cyclic vomiting. The patient was a 12-year-old boy who presented with poor postnatal growth, hypotonia, ...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Nozaki F,Kusunoki T,Okamoto N,Yamamoto Y,Miya F,Tsunoda T,Kosaki K,Kumada T,Shibata M,Fujii T

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 6-month-old boy with persistent primitive trigeminal artery (PPTA) presented with stridor, dysphagia, delayed motor development and postural neck and shoulder dystonia. Magnetic resonance imaging/angiography and ultrasonography revealed PPTA, with flow from the dilated basilar artery to the right internal carotid ar...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Okanishi T,Saito Y,Miki S,Nagaishi J,Hanaki K,Tomita Y,Fukuda C,Fujii S,Fujiwara K,Kawamoto K,Hata F,Maegaki Y,Ohno K

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The efficacy, serum concentration and side effects of CBZ for partial seizures in children were evaluated. The study was undertaken on 27 patients with partial seizures ranging from 5 to 17 years of age. Further 15 patients with various types of epilepsy taking CBZ with other anticonvulsants were selected as controls ...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Sato H,Doi M,Okuno T

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Arachnoid cysts comprise approximately 1% of all intracranial space-occupying lesions and usually occur sporadically. We report retrocerebellar arachnoid cysts in two male siblings with mental retardation and undescended testis, suggesting the possibility of a genetic basis for at least some cases of retrocerebellar a...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Suzuki H,Takanashi J,Sugita K,Barkovich AJ,Kohno Y

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Ictal fear is an uncommon condition in which fear manifests as the main feature of epileptic seizures. The literature has suggested that ictal fear is generally associated with poor seizure outcomes. We wanted to clarify the variability in seizure outcome of children with ictal fear. SUBJECTS AND METHODS:We id...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Akiyama M,Kobayashi K,Inoue T,Akiyama T,Yoshinaga H

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of drug on the cholinergic system (atropine and physostigmine) were evaluated in acute tests in 12 infant patients with the West syndrome (WS) and in 12 older ones who had suffered from WS at typical ages, displaying various types of epileptic symptoms. In both groups paroxysmal EEG activity was inhibited ...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Rektor I,Svejdová M,Ménini C

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Leigh syndrome (LS) is a mitochondrial disorder that shows abnormal basal ganglia lesion and psychomotor regression. Although vitamins have been used for LS, we have not found any effective drug. CASE PRESENTATION:A 26-year-old man who showed psychomotor delay and short stature at the age of 1 year was diag...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Kimura S,Shiraishi H,Egawa K,Uchida M,Ueno M

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To better define the characteristic clinical features of benign convulsions with mild gastroenteritis, recently recognized as a new entity in Japan, we reviewed all the 10 patients we have seen from 1992 to 1994. The clinical features have been previously reported in the literature to be afebrile generalized tonic-clo...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Komori H,Wada M,Eto M,Oki H,Aida K,Fujimoto T

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This trial sought to evaluate our experience using the antimigraine prophylactic drug, use of valproate for the prophylactic management of cyclic vomiting syndrome (CVS) in children. Thirteen children diagnosed with severe CVS were enrolled. Prophylactic therapy consisted of valproate administered at a dose of 10-40 m...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Hikita T,Kodama H,Nakamoto N,Kaga F,Amakata K,Ogita K,Kaneko S,Fujii Y,Yanagawa Y

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Severe myoclonic epilepsy in infancy (SMEI) is an age-dependent epileptic encephalopathy occurring in the first year of life and is one of the intractable epilepsies. Heterozygous mutations in the voltage-gated sodium channel alpha subunit type1 gene (SCN1A) are frequently identified in patients with SMEI; two-thirds ...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Kimura K,Sugawara T,Mazaki-Miyazaki E,Hoshino K,Nomura Y,Tateno A,Hachimori K,Yamakawa K,Segawa M

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The electroencephalographic features and their evolutional changes with age were described in three cases of lissencephaly syndrome diagnosed by CT scan. The case with more severe lissencephaly displayed very similar EEG findings. In early or middle infancy when infantile spasms began, EEG showed very high amplitude (...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Hakamada S,Watanabe K,Hara K,Miyazaki S

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The abducens nucleus directly innervates the lateral rectus muscle and plays a role in controlling conjugate horizontal eye movements. Although the neuronal cytoarchitecture of the abducens nucleus has been extensively investigated in various species of vertebrates, few studies have been undertaken in humans...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Yamaguchi K,Honma K

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An unique cytoplasmic inclusion was found in astrocytes of a 2-month-old female baby who showed Leigh-like brain lesions with lactic acidosis, hypoglycemia and hepatomegaly. Although a defective enzyme was not determined, a metabolic disorder was suggested from clinicopathological observations. Symmetrically distribut...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Yamamoto T,Armstrong D,Shibata N,Kato Y,Kobayashi M

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:21-hydroxylase deficiency is the most common cause of congenital adrenal hyperplasia, an autosomal recessive disorder characterized by impaired synthesis of cortisol from cholesterol by the adrenal cortex. Subclinical involvement of brain white matter has been reported in subjects with congenital adrenal hyperplasia. ...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Gaudiano C,Malandrini A,Pollazzon M,Murru S,Mari F,Renieri A,Federico A

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This report concerns a 6-year-old girl who showed peculiar symptoms but responded favourably to L-dopa. She developed normally until around 1 year of age, at which time head instability, hypotonia, increased deep tendon reflexes and choreoathetotic movements developed. These symptoms appeared to worsen in the afternoo...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Yoshikawa H,Araki K,Sakuragawa N,Arima M

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Congenital muscular dystrophy (CMD) is a heterogenous group of disorders. In the majority of cases the intelligence is preserved, which comprises the classic "occidental" (type 1) form. This type appears to be prevalent in the west. We report a five-case series in Turkey, confirming its geographical distribution. ...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Topaloğlu H,Yalaz K,Renda Y,Kale G,Cağlar M,Göğüş S

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Congenital neuromuscular disease with uniform type 1 fibers is a rare form of congenital nonprogressive myopathy. We report a 3-year-old boy with this disease who showed delayed motor developmental milestones and recurrent acute respiratory failure. He obtained head control at 16 months, crawled at 17 months and sat a...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Sakamoto HM,Yoshioka M,Tsuji M,Kuroki S,Higuchi Y,Nonaka I,Nishino I

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:713 children (from newborn to 12-month-old) with delayed motor development were carefully examined and classified into normal, very light cerebral coordination disturbance (CCD, Vojta), light CCD, moderate CCD, severe CCD, suspected cerebral palsy (CP) and other diseases at their first visit, and were followed up care...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Imamura S,Sakuma K,Takahashi T

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hypoxia-inducible transcription factors (HIF)-1 and HIF-2, composed of an oxygen-dependent alpha-subunit and a constitutive beta-subunit, have been characterized as the most important regulators of oxygen homeostasis during physiological and pathological conditions. During embryonic, fetal and postnatal brain developm...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Trollmann R,Gassmann M

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:MeCP2 is a protein that selectively binds to methylated cytosines through its methyl-CpG-binding domain (MBD) and connects DNA methylation to transcriptional repression. Mutations in MECP2 gene, located in Xq28, have been reported as being the major cause of Rett syndrome and are also associated with some cases of X-l...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Campos M Jr,Abdalla CB,Santos-Rebouças CB,dos Santos AV,Pestana CP,Domingues ML,dos Santos JM,Pimentel MM

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Here we describe two patients with 5p- syndrome who suffered from epilepsy characterised by stimulus-induced epileptic spasms manifesting as head nodding. In patient 1, a series of spasms were exclusively triggered by eating, and were associated with diffuse high-voltage slow waves on ictal EEG, particularly presentin...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Shirai K,Saito Y,Yokoyama A,Nishimura Y,Tamasaki A,Maegaki Y

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We evaluated the usefulness of intravenous lidocaine therapy for managing of status epilepticus (SE) during childhood in a retrospective multi-institutional study. Questionnaires were sent to 28 hospitals concerning patients admitted for SE who were managed with lidocaine, assessing patient characteristics, treatment ...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Hattori H,Yamano T,Hayashi K,Osawa M,Kondo K,Aihara M,Haginoya K,Hamano S,Izumi T,Kaneko K,Kato I,Matsukura M,Minagawa K,Miura T,Ohtsuka Y,Sugai K,Takahashi T,Yamanouchi H,Yamamoto H,Yoshikawa H

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Carnitine deficiency is relatively common in epilepsy; risk factors reportedly include combination antiepileptic drug (AED) therapy with valproic acid (VPA), young age, intellectual disability, diet and enteral or parenteral feeding. Few studies have examined the correlation between each risk factor and carn...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Fukuda M,Kawabe M,Takehara M,Iwano S,Kuwabara K,Kikuchi C,Wakamoto H,Morimoto T,Suzuki Y,Ishii E

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine the effect of flunarizine therapy on patients with alternating hemiplegia of childhood (AHC), we sent a questionnaire by mail to council members of the Japanese Society of Child Neurology. We collected 28 AHC patients, and studied their clinical courses and the effects of drug therapy. All of the patients...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Sasaki M,Sakuragawa N,Osawa M

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00