Pharmacokinetics of total and free valproic acid during monotherapy in infants.

abstract：:Apoptotic deletion of autoreactive T-cells is defective in patients with multiple sclerosis (MS). Glatiramer acetate (GA) treatment seems to restore apoptosis of detrimental T-cells. We analyzed the mitochondria membrane pro- (Bax) and anti-apoptotic (Bcl- 2) and cytosolic pro-apoptotic (Cyt-c, APAF-1) proteins expres...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Ruggieri M,Avolio C,Scacco S,Pica C,Lia A,Zimatore GB,Papa S,Livrea P,Trojano M

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The aim of this study was to identify clinical, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and biological markers predictive of long-term clinical response to interferon beta (IFN beta) therapy in patients with relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis (RRMS). METHODS:Sixty-eight patients treated with IFN beta were foll...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Tomassini V,Paolillo A,Russo P,Giugni E,Prosperini L,Gasperini C,Antonelli G,Bastianello S,Pozzilli C

更新日期：2006-03-01 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：OBJECTIVES:Sporadic (SSP) and hereditary spastic paraplegias (HSP) are clinically and genetically heterogeneous disorders, which are characterised by a slowly progressive spastic paraparesis. Initial symptoms and the rate of progression are variable even among members of the same family. Spastic paraparesis is the majo...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Klebe S,Stolze H,Kopper F,Lorenz D,Wenzelburger R,Volkmann J,Porschke H,Deuschl G

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The last 5 years have seen rapid progress in Parkinson’s disease (PD) genetics, with the publication of a series of large-scale genome wide association studies for PD, and evaluation of the roles of the LRRK2 and GBA genes in the aetiology of PD. We are beginning to develop a coherent picture of the interplay of Mende...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Lubbe S,Morris HR

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder (RBD) is highly comorbid with Parkinson's disease (PD). Emerging evidence suggests that dopamine-replacement therapies (DRTs) for PD may modify the course of RBD, yet the nature of the association between DRTs and RBD remains unclear. To begin addressing this issue,...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Meloni M,Bortolato M,Cannas A,Laccu I,Figorilli M,Congiu P,Defazio G,Meloni F,Puligheddu M

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We aimed to assess the intrasubject reproducibility of a technology-based levodopa (LD) therapeutic monitoring protocol administered in supervised versus unsupervised conditions in patients with Parkinson's disease (PD). The study design was pilot, intrasubject, single center, open and prospective. Twenty patients wer...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Lopane G,Mellone S,Corzani M,Chiari L,Cortelli P,Calandra-Buonaura G,Contin M

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To assess: (1) the prevalence of convexity subarachnoid hemorrhage (cSAH) in infective endocarditis (IE); (2) its relationship with IE features; (3) the associated lesions; (4) whether cSAH is a predictor of future hemorrhage; (5) whether cSAH could cause cortical superficial siderosis (cSS). METHODS:We retrospect...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Boukobza M,Ilic-Habensus E,Duval X,Laissy JP

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Focal transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) of the motor cortex was used to study excitatory and inhibitory stimulation effects in 25 patients with writer's cramp and 25 healthy volunteers. We investigated excitatory and inhibitory corticospinally mediated motor effects in muscles contralateral to the stimulation si...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Niehaus L,von Alt-Stutterheim K,Röricht S,Meyer BU

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The geste antagoniste is a voluntary maneuver that temporarily reduces the severity of dystonic posture or movements. It is a classical feature of focal and particularly cervical dystonia. However, the precise historical aspects of geste antagoniste still remain obscure. The goals of this review were (1) to clarify th...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Poisson A,Krack P,Thobois S,Loiraud C,Serra G,Vial C,Broussolle E

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three patients developed acute Guillain-Barré syndrome while on steroid treatment. The first patient suffered from ulcerative colitis and developed Guillain-Barré syndrome when the steroid dosage was being tapered. Another patient with long-standing multiple sclerosis received steroids during relapse and the Guillain-...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Steiner I,Wirguin I,Abramsky O

更新日期：1986-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An autopsy case of Creutzfeld-Jacob disease with widespread amyloid plaques is reported. A 45-year-old Japanese man, whose father had died of a similar disease, had a 5-year illness characterized by progressive cerebellar signs. Mental changes and brain-stem signs developed in the late stage. Myoclonus frequently occu...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Yagishita S,Iwabuchi K,Amano N,Yokoi S

更新日期：1989-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Central nervous system (CNS) involvement in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) remains difficult to diagnose, particularly since structural abnormalities may not be revealed by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Glucose utilisation was measured by positron emission tomography (PET) in 35 SLE patients to detect signs of...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Sailer M,Burchert W,Ehrenheim C,Smid HG,Haas J,Wildhagen K,Wurster U,Deicher H

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two previously healthy women are described who in their late thirties suffered transient strokelike episodes, consisting of initial headache and vomiting, with various subsequent neurological signs that were only partially reversible. Investigations revealed elevated serum creatine kinase, lactic acidosis, hypertrigly...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Kremer HP,Keyser A,Wintzen AR,Scholte HR,van Hellenberg Hubar JG,Poorthuis BJ,Ruitenbeek W

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In idiopathic rapid eye movement sleep behaviour disorder (RBD), an association with visuoperceptive disorders has been described. However, such an association has not been clearly established in RBD secondary to Parkinson's disease (PD). We compared visuoperceptive function in four groups of non-demented patients (pa...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Marques A,Dujardin K,Boucart M,Pins D,Delliaux M,Defebvre L,Derambure P,Monaca C

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Anti-epileptic drug (AED) prophylaxis in the first-seven days post-traumatic brain injury (TBI) is known to reduce seizure frequency acutely. AED efficacy is equivalent; therefore, choice of AED may rest with their side-effects. We hypothesise that AEDs that impair balance will prolong recovery, shown by a l...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Harris L,Hateley S,Tsang KT,Wilson M,Seemungal BM

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four cases of mild botulinus type B intoxication are reported with the clinical neurophysiological studies. Electromyographically tetanic stimulation of the N. ulnaris initially led to tetanic potentiation of the muscle action potential. After an interval without any symptoms tetanic reduction became apparent between ...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Hagenah R,Müller-Jensen A

更新日期：1978-02-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Most patients with multiple sclerosis presenting with a relapsing-remitting disease course at diagnosis transition to secondary progressive multiple sclerosis (SPMS) 1-2 decades after onset. SPMS is characterized by predominant neurodegeneration and atrophy. These pathogenic hallmarks result in unsa...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Ferrazzano G,Crisafulli SG,Baione V,Tartaglia M,Cortese A,Frontoni M,Altieri M,Pauri F,Millefiorini E,Conte A

更新日期：2020-06-05 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Phase I/II studies of autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) for multiple sclerosis ( MS) were initiated, based on results of experimental transplantation in animal models of multiple sclerosis and clinical observations in patients treated concomitantly for malignant disease. PATIENTS:Eigh...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Fassas A,Passweg JR,Anagnostopoulos A,Kazis A,Kozak T,Havrdova E,Carreras E,Graus F,Kashyap A,Openshaw H,Schipperus M,Deconinck E,Mancardi G,Marmont A,Hansz J,Rabusin M,Zuazu Nagore FJ,Besalduch J,Dentamaro T,Fouill

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have investigated how the abnormal head posture and motility in spasmodic torticollis interferes with ecological movements such as combined eye-to-foot whole-body reorientations to visual targets. Eight mildly affected patients and 10 controls voluntarily rotated eyes and body in response to illuminated targets of ...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Anastasopoulos D,Ziavra N,Pearce R,Bronstein AM

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rodent oligodendrocytes have a unique susceptibility among glia to the lytic effects of complement, due in part to a deficiency in CD59 (protectin), a key surface inhibitor of the complement membrane attack complex (MAC). The possibility that shedding of CD59 by human oligodendrocytes contributes to complement-mediate...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Roddy J,Clark I,Hazleman BL,Compston DA,Scolding NJ

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have studied the relationship between the apolipoprotein E gene (APOE) and the development of myoclonus, tremors, rigidity and seizures in 168 patients with probable early-onset Alzheimer's disease (AD). There was a statistically significantly lower risk of tremor for carriers of the epsilon 4 allele of APOE. This ...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Bronzova J,van Duijn CM,Havekes LM,de Knijff P,Van Broeckhoven C,Hofman A

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sera from 23 patients with acute Guillain Barré syndrome (GBS), 15 patients with chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy (CIDP) and from 40 age-matched blood donors were analysed for antibodies to acidic glycosphingolipids from human brain and peripheral nerve. Antibodies to ganglioside LM1, the majo...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Fredman P,Vedeler CA,Nyland H,Aarli JA,Svennerholm L

更新日期：1991-04-01 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：:We wanted to determine the neurocognitive profile of adult patients with moyamoya disease prior to neurosurgical intervention. The experience of three United States medical centers, Columbia University, University of Illinois at Chicago, and the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, were combined....

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Festa JR,Schwarz LR,Pliskin N,Cullum CM,Lacritz L,Charbel FT,Mathews D,Starke RM,Connolly ES,Marshall RS,Lazar RM

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The CHA(2)DS(2)-VASc score was developed to improve stroke risk stratification in atrial fibrillation (AF) patients. We sought to analyze the distribution and prognostic value of the CHA(2)DS(2)-VASc score in a cohort of ischemic stroke patients with AF. In total, 439 consecutive stroke patients with AF were studied. ...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Giralt-Steinhauer E,Cuadrado-Godia E,Ois Á,Jiménez-Conde J,Rodríguez-Campello A,Planellas L,Jimena-García S,Rubio MÁ,Roquer-González J

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peduncular hallucinosis (PH) is a syndrome of hallucinations and brainstem symptoms which has only been described in single case reports. A detailed analysis of five patients was undertaken to investigate the clincial characteristics, hallucinations and behavioural abnormalities of PH in greater detail. Frequent clini...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Benke T

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine the prevalence and risk factors for paroxysmal atrial fibrillation (PAF) diagnosis in non- cryptogenic ischemic stroke (CIS) patients. METHODS:In this pilot-prospective cohort study of non-CIS patients from September 2014 to September 2017, 53 patients were enrolled. 51/53 patients were implante...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Katz JM,Eng MS,Carrazco C,Patel AV,Jadonath R,Gribko M,Arora R,Libman RB

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The main aim was to explore the changes in hand-grip strength in patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) aged 5-29 years. Secondary aims were to test the effect of mutation, ambulatory status and glucocorticoid use on grip strength and its changes over time and to compute the number of subjects needed...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Hogrel JY,Decostre V,Ledoux I,de Antonio M,Niks EH,de Groot I,Straub V,Muntoni F,Ricotti V,Voit T,Seferian A,Gidaro T,Servais L

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Motor neuron disease (MND) is a group of disorders in which there is degeneration of upper and lower motor neurons to a variable degree. Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis is the most frequent form of the disease, presenting with both upper and lower motor neuron involvement. Frequently, especially in the early stages of t...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Bouche P,Le Forestier N,Maisonobe T,Fournier E,Willer JC

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00