Infantile bilateral striatal necrosis associated with human herpes virus-6 (HHV-6) infection.

abstract：:The recent advances in neonatal neurology which are discussed include i) the improved organization of perinatal medical services, ii) technological advances including ultrasonography, brainstem auditory evoked responses and intracranial pressure monitoring and, iii) new developments in therapeutics. The development of...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Ouvrier RA

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Response inhibition is an attention function which develops relatively early during childhood. Behavioral data suggest that by the age of 3, children master the basic task requirements for the assessment of response inhibition but performance improves substantially until the age of 7. The neuronal mechanisms underlyin...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Mehnert J,Akhrif A,Telkemeyer S,Rossi S,Schmitz CH,Steinbrink J,Wartenburger I,Obrig H,Neufang S

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study is to investigate predictive factors of post-traumatic syndrome in children with minor head injury. Prospective neurological, electroencephalographic and psychological investigations were performed in 98 children aged 3-13 years within 24 h after the trauma and 4-6 weeks later. Inclusion criteria...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Korinthenberg R,Schreck J,Weser J,Lehmkuhl G

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Hypophosphatasia (HPP) is a rare genetic disorder characterized by rachitic bone manifestations and a low serum alkaline phosphatase (ALP) level. It is caused by mutations in the tissue non-specific alkaline phosphatase (TNSALP) gene, which encodes the tissue non-specific isozyme of ALP. HPP patients exhibit...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Fukazawa M,Tezuka J,Sasazuki M,Masumoto N,Baba H,Doi T,Tsutsumi Y,Mizuno Y,Mihara F,Nakayama H

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of precocious puberty due to postmeningitic hydrocephalus was presented. Concentrations of serum gonadotropins and estradiol were found to be elevated, and the response of LH to LHRH was also high, similar to that in the late pubertal stage. CT scanning demonstrated marked dilatation of the third ventricle. It ...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Tomono Y,Maki Y,Ito M,Nakada Y

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bickerstaff's brainstem encephalitis (BBE) is a rare immune-mediated disorder characterized by ophthalmoplegia, ataxia and disturbance of consciousness, which may overlap with Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) if there is additional limb weakness. We report a 7-month-old boy presented with ophthalmoplegia followed by a ra...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Fong CY,Aung HWW,Khairani A,Gan CS,Shahrizaila N,Goh KJ

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a 22-year-old male patient with pharmacoresistant epilepsy, mental retardation and dysmorphisms. Standard cytogenetic analysis revealed a de novo interstitial duplication of the short arm of chromosome 11 (11p). High density array-CGH analysis showed that the rearrangement spans about 35Mb on chromosome 11p1...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Coppola A,Striano P,Gimelli S,Ciampa C,Santulli L,Caranci F,Zuffardi O,Gimelli G,Striano S,Zara F

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously reported that knockout mice lacking the p85alpha regulatory subunit of phosphoinositide-3 kinase (PI3K) (p85alpha(-/-) mice) significantly showed spatial learning-deficits, restlessness and motivation-deficit in water maze tests. It was also shown in the report that decline of PI3K activity in several br...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Tohda C,Nakanishi R,Kadowaki M

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:Abnormalities of gross motor function in children with autism are well known to clinicians but have not received much empirical documentation and, with the exception of stereotypies, are not among its diagnostic criteria. We recorded the characteristics of gait and prevalence of toe walking, the range of passive j...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Shetreat-Klein M,Shinnar S,Rapin I

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:We performed this study to evaluate the long-term efficacy and tolerability of ethosuximide (ESX), valproic acid (VPA), and lamotrigine (LTG) as initial monotherapies for patients with newly diagnosed childhood absence epilepsy. METHODS:We retrospectively reviewed the medical records of 128 patients (45 boys a...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Hwang H,Kim H,Kim SH,Kim SH,Lim BC,Chae JH,Choi JE,Kim KJ,Hwang YS

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seventeen normal term infants delivered at the Jikei University School of Medicine were placed daily on a pedoscope in the supine and prone position after birth, and the movement of the gravity center and changes in the activities of the extremities were assessed. The results indicated that both the activity of the ex...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Maekawa K,Soeda A,Yokoi S,Maekawa N,Usui N,Kiryu T,Hirasawa Y,Akamatsu H,Kamanaka A,Wada M

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirteen to 43% of patients with infantile spasms (IS) have other types of seizures, which are considered a feature of an unfavourable prognosis and, to some extent, as a contra-indication for steroid treatment. The present series comprised 43 patients treated with steroids, who suffered from other types of seizures p...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Velez A,Dulac O,Plouin P

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intranuclear rod myopathy (IRM), a variant of nemaline myopathy, is characterized by the presence of nemaline bodies in myonuclei. We report a case of IRM presenting with hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy (HIE). There were no prenatal complications caused by fetal brain injury. Although no nemaline bodies were observed ...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Kawase K,Nishino I,Sugimoto M,Kouwaki M,Koyama N,Yokochi K

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the 3rd case in the literature of a 3-year-old boy with D-2-hydroxyglutaric (D-2-HG) aciduria, who presented primarily generalized hypotonia and feeding difficulty during the neonatal period, with eventual development of generalized myoclonic seizures. Gas chromatographic analysis of urinary organic acids sh...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Sugita K,Kakinuma H,Okajima Y,Ogawa A,Watanabe H,Niimi H

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The incidence of brain tumors in children under 15 years of age in the United States is 2.4/100,000. Based upon a US population of approximately 60 million black and white children, there are only 1,200-1,500 newly diagnosed causes of CNS neoplasia diagnosed in children each year in the US. These relatively small numb...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Cohen ME,Duffner PK

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The aim of this study was to develop and introduce new method to quantify motor functions of the upper extremity. METHODS:The movement was recorded using a three-dimensional motion capture system, and the movement trajectory was analyzed using newly developed two indices, which measure precise repeatability ...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Matsumaru N,Hattori R,Ichinomiya T,Tsukamoto K,Kato Z

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This is the first case report on the diagnosis of spinal cord injury due to hemorrhage during the neonatal period using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Somatosensory evoked potentials are also helpful in the functional demonstration of this lesion. When discrepant signs, alert consciousness and intact cranial nerves...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Minami T,Ise K,Kukita J,Koyanagi T,Ueda K

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two siblings with adenosine deaminase deficiency were successfully treated with allogeneic bone marrow transplantation without conditioning. Although the patients were free from infections after immunologic reconstitution, both showed sensorineural deafness at 1 year of age. Because there were no structural abnormalit...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Tanaka C,Hara T,Suzaki I,Maegaki Y,Takeshita K

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Six females with Rett syndrome (RS)--all seriously motor disabled with clinical symptomatology indicating not only brain but also spinal cord impairment--were investigated using auditory and somatosensory evoked responses techniques. In all patients the responses representing the pathways through the upper spinal cord...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Badr GG,Witt-Engerström I,Hagberg B

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Blink reflex can be elicited by sudden strong auditory stimulation. Using a special transducer wer recorded this reflex which appears as a microvibration of the eyelid, and named it auditory-evoked eyelid microvibration (AMV). As the reflex pathway of AMV exists in the brainstem, AMV is an easy and useful way of knowi...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Yamada A

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neural stem cells (NSCs)of the central nervous system (CNS) have recently received a great deal of attention and interest for their therapeutic potential for neurological disorders. NSCs are defined as CNS progenitor cells that have the capacity for self-renewal and multipotent potential to become neurons or glial cel...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Kim SU

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many benzodiazepines used as anticonvulsants have nitrogen radicals in positions 1 and 4. Clobazam has nitrogen radicals in positions 1 and 5. We studied the antiepileptic effect of clobazam in 36 patients with intractable epilepsies in childhood. Their ages were 1 year 1 month to 16 years 5 months (mean 8 years). The...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Shimizu H,Abe J,Futagi Y,Onoe S,Tagawa T,Mimaki T,Yamatodani A,Kato M,Kamio M,Sumi K,Sugita T,Yabuuchi H

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two brothers, offspring of an Arab inbred family suffered from both mucolipidosis III (ML-III) and Bardet-Biedl syndrome (BBS). Other members of this family were affected either with ML-III, or with BBS. It seems that this unique combination is probably coincidental. ...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Gordon CR,Bar-Ziv Y,Frydman M,Zlotogora J,Gadoth N

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The stereotyped movement of hands, one of the core symptoms of the Rett syndrome (RS), was analyzed to study the pathophysiology. The development of hand function was delayed after mid-infancy and handedness was undetermined in most cases. Before the onset of the pathognomonic stereotypy, patients showed excessive or ...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Nomura Y,Segawa M

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine whether or not dystrophin really exists in the outer plexiform layer (OPL) of the retina, we studied control and mdx mice, using four kinds of polyclonal antibodies (DMDP-II, 60 kd, 30 kd and DMDP-IV) against dystrophin. Although control OPL showed a positive immunohistochemical reaction with all four ant...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Zhao J,Uchino M,Yoshioka K,Miyatake M,Miike T

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the effects of stimulus rates on the somatosensory evoked potential (SEP) amplitudes following median nerve stimulation at the wrist in 42 children. We divided these subjects into five groups according to their age (0-6 months, 7-12 months, 1-3 years, 4-6 years and more than 7 years) and measured the peak-...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Araki A,Takada A,Yasuhara A,Kobayashi Y

更新日期：1999-03-01 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：:We characterized the neuropsychological status of children with newly diagnosed idiopathic childhood epilepsy and measured differences in IQ between children with different types of epilepsy. The Korean Education Development Institute-Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (KEDI-WISC) was administered to 72 patients...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Jeong MH,Yum MS,Ko TS,You SJ,Lee EH,Yoo HK

更新日期：2011-09-01 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：:Penicillin (PC) neurotoxicity (convulsions and encephalopathy) is considered to be due to GABAergic inhibition. The effects of penicillin G(PCG) on [3H]flunitrazepam (FNZ) binding in rat neuron-enriched primary cultures was examined to assess the role of the benzodiazepine (BDZ) receptor in the neurotoxicity. PCG appl...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Shiraishi H,Ito M,Go T,Mikawa H

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00