T2*-weighted MRI in diagnosis of multiple system atrophy. A practical approach for clinicians.

abstract：:Behçet's disease is a multisystem inflammatory disorder with unknown aetiology. It is a disease of young adults with a more severe course in males subjects. Its prevalence is high in the Mediterranean basin and Japan and has been linked with human leucocyte antigen B5 (HLA-B5) in those countries. According to the diag...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Serdaroğlu P

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE:Stratification of patients with transient ischemic attack (TIA) or ischemic stroke (IS) by risk of recurrent stroke can contribute to optimized secondary prevention. We therefore aimed to assess cardiovascular risk factor profiles of consecutive patients hospitalized with TIA/IS to stratify the r...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Weimar C,Goertler M,Röther J,Ringelstein EB,Darius H,Nabavi DG,Kim IH,Theobald K,Diener HC,SCALA Study Group.

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two siblings with Lafora disease (LD) are described: one with epilepsy, myoclonus, EEG abnormalities, severe dementia and many Lafora bodies (LBs) in muscle and skin tissue; the other with myoclonus, epilepsy, EEG abnormalities and LBs in muscle and in skin tissue, without dementia. The findings suggest that the diagn...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Iannaccone S,Zucconi M,Quattrini A,Nemni R,Comola M,Taccagni L,Smirne S

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of CT-diagnosed brain-stem haematoma associated with signs of dorsal medullary involvement is reported. The patient recovered completely within 1 month. ...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Cappa SF,Riva M,Sterzi R,Canepari C,Delzanno GB

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Spontaneous cervical artery dissections (sCAD) are often preceded by infections. However, existing data about inflammatory parameters remained inconsistent. Remarkably, concurrent information about the coagulation system, whose affection seems also reasonable to cause ischaemic events, are still lacking in s...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Pelz JO,Harms K,Metze M,Michalski D

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article describes the clinical features of anterior semicircular canal benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (AC-BPPV) and a new therapeutic maneuver for its management. Our study was a retrospective review of cases from an ambulatory tertiary referral center. Thirteen patients afflicted with positional paroxysmal...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Yacovino DA,Hain TC,Gualtieri F

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eye movements were studied in 13 patients with Friedreich's ataxia and correlated with MRI findings to investigate whether oculomotor abnormalities can be traced to cerebellar disturbances in this disease. One of the most prominent eye signs was fixation instability (square-wave jerks, SWJ.). Besides SWJ the patients ...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Spieker S,Schulz JB,Petersen D,Fetter M,Klockgether T,Dichgans J

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Therapeutic apheresis has emerged as a major treatment option for autoantibody-associated inflammatory diseases of the nervous system. This includes patients with autoimmune encephalitides caused by antibodies against neuronal proteins. Plasma exchange (PE) and immunoadsorption (IA) constitute two possibilities to eli...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Heine J,Ly LT,Lieker I,Slowinski T,Finke C,Prüss H,Harms L

更新日期：2016-12-01 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：:The concentration of neopterin was measured in serum samples taken from individuals infected with HTLV-I: 5 from asymptomatic individuals, 1 from a patient with adult T-cell leukaemia and 30 from patients with tropical spastic paraparesis (TSP). In addition, cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) was available from 22 of the TSP p...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Ali A,Rudge P,Dalgleish AG

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Fabry disease (FD) is an X-linked lysosomal storage disorder resulting in vascular glycosphingolipid accumulation and increased stroke risk. MRI findings associated with FD include white matter hyperintensities (WMH) and cerebral microbleeds (CMBs), suggesting the presence of cerebral small vessel disease....

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Lyndon D,Davagnanam I,Wilson D,Jichi F,Merwick A,Bolsover F,Jager HR,Cipolotti L,Wheeler-Kingshott C,Hughes D,Murphy E,Lachmann R,Werring DJ

更新日期：2020-10-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Regional cerebral glucose metabolism (rCMRGlc) and dopamine D2 receptor binding were measured in a 31-year-old, severely affected, untreated patient with Wilson's disease of 3 years' duration using positron emission tomography and 18F-deoxyglucose and 18F-methylspiperone ([18F]MSP), respectively. There was a severe re...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Schlaug G,Hefter H,Nebeling B,Engelbrecht V,Weiss P,Stöcklin G,Seitz RJ

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 23-year-old woman had progressive right hemiparesis followed by spontaneous clinical remission. The clinical profile and multifocal contrast-enhancing CT lesions in the periventricular region of the cerebrum favored the diagnosis of an acute demyelinating process. Serial examinations showed resolution of CT abnormal...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Kuroiwa Y,Nishimura Y,Kobayashi S,Mizoguchi K,Honda N

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anti-N-Methyl-D-Aspartate receptor (NMDAR) encephalitis is an acute neurological disorder affecting children and adults. We aimed to compare the clinical characteristics, treatments, and outcomes between children and adults with anti-NMDAR encephalitis and to assess the probable risk factors. In this observational stu...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Huang Q,Wu Y,Qin R,Wei X,Ma M

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We should like to emphasize the following points: 1. Apathy is defined here as a quantified and observable behavioral syndrome consisting in a quantitative reduction of voluntary (or goal-directed) behaviors; 2. Therefore, apathy occurs when the systems that generate and control voluntary actions are altered; 3. These...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Levy R,Czernecki V

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an autoimmune, demyelinating disease of the central nervous system. The treatment of MS has always been a focus of neurological research. To date, the US Food and Drug Administration has approved 15 medications for modifying the course of multiple sclerosis. In this study, we exami...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Li H,Hu F,Zhang Y,Li K

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Different physiological mechanisms of facilitation of latencies and amplitudes of magnetic motor evoked potentials (MEPs) were evaluated in a cohort of 140 healthy volunteers. The potentials were induced at the vertex and recorded at the abductor pollicis brevis. The aim of the present investigation was to compare phy...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Hufnagel A,Jaeger M,Elger CE

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirty-five patients with intraventricular haemorrhage shown by CT underwent cerebral arteriography. In 15 patients arteriography showed an occlusion of a carotid or middle cerebral artery. Secondary bleeding into an infarction caused the intraventricular haemorrhage. All 15 patients were aged over 40 years. ...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Cohn DF,Avrahami E

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuropsychological deficits and the relationship to brain pathology were examined in 13 primary progressive (PP) and 12 secondary progressive (SP) multiple sclerosis patients with a similar duration of the progressive phase and comparable physical disability. A battery of neuropsychological tests to assess attention, ...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Foong J,Rozewicz L,Chong WK,Thompson AJ,Miller DH,Ron MA

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adrenoleukodystrophy (ALD) and adrenomyeloneuropathy (AMN) are allelic X-chromosomal disorders of peroxisomal lipid metabolism due to mutations of the ABCD1-gene, leading, respectively, to leukoencephalopathy or myeloneuropathy in male patients. We report a family with two symptomatic carriers in subsequent generation...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Guettsches AK,Kuechler A,Gal A,Schmitz W,Tegenthoff M,Vorgerd M

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The transcranial activation and the conduction properties of corticospinal and callosal neurons were investigated in 12 early-treated adolescents (aged 17.3, SD 3.5 years; range 14-27 years) with phenylketonuria (PKU) by focal transcranial magnetic stimulation (fTMS) of the motor cortex. The patients had no functional...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Röricht S,Meyer BU,Irlbacher K,Ludolph AC

更新日期：1999-01-01 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：:Exercise therapy (ET) can be beneficial in disabled multiple sclerosis (MS) patients. Intermittent transcranial magnetic theta burst stimulation (iTBS) induces long-term excitability changes of the cerebral cortex and may ameliorate spasticity in MS. We investigated whether the combination of iTBS and a program of ET ...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Mori F,Ljoka C,Magni E,Codecà C,Kusayanagi H,Monteleone F,Sancesario A,Bernardi G,Koch G,Foti C,Centonze D

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE:An optimal management of vascular risk factors, associated with antithrombotic drugs and carotid surgery when appropriate, reduces the risk of a new vascular event after stroke. Although secondary prevention is not optimal in many patients in practice, the question of whether there is an improv...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Girot M,Mackowiak-Cordoliani MA,Deplanque D,Hénon H,Lucas C,Leys D

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two patients are reported with a chronic progressive illness characterized by dementia, ataxia and spasticity. There were no myoclonic jerks and both had normal electroencephalograms (EEG). Pathological findings in three brain biopsies were those of viral meningoencephalitis with perivenous demyelination. Serological ...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Derakhshan I,Shafii A,Lotfi J,Abbassioun K,Scillian JJ

更新日期：1979-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The course of multiple sclerosis (MS) can be monitored by measuring changes in brain volume, but consensus is still lacking on the best strategy to be adopted. We compared the reproducibility and sensitivity of volume measurements from different brain portions for detecting changes on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) ...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Rovaris M,Inglese M,van Schijndel RA,Sormani MP,Rodegher M,Comi G,Filippi M

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Knowledge of restless legs syndrome (RLS) has greatly increased in recent years due to the many advances that have been made in diagnosis, management and genetics. Tools have been developed that facilitate the diagnosis and treatment of RLS, in particular the essential diagnostic criteria for RLS have been refined, se...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Trenkwalder C,Högl B,Winkelmann J

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The computed tomography, magnetic resonance imaging and angiographic findings are described in a patient with Klippel-Trenaunay syndrome, who also had a cerebral haemorrhage from an arteriovenous malformation. The resulting aphasia disappeared completely after resorption of the haemorrhage. In this syndrome, the occur...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Jaksch H,Bewermeyer H,Dreesbach HA,Heiss WD

更新日期：1986-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two cases of Addison's disease associated with myasthenia gravis are reported. This association has been described only rarely in the literature. In the first case, there were marked immunological abnormalities. It is most likely that the origin of the adrenocortical insufficiency in the second case is tuberculous. Th...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Dumas P,Archambeaud-Mouveroux F,Vallat JM,Barussaud D,Hugon J,Dumas M

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate the efficacy of acupuncture on stroke recovery compared to an inert placebo. DESIGN:Placebo-controlled, randomised, clinical trial. SETTING:Post-stroke rehabilitation wards in five NHS hospitals in the UK. SUBJECTS:Patients between 4 and 10 days after their first stroke. INTERVENTIONS AND O...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Hopwood V,Lewith G,Prescott P,Campbell MJ

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00