Two novel gap junction protein alpha 12 gene mutations in two Chinese patients with Pelizaeus-Merzbacher-like disease.

abstract：:Congenital cerebellar ataxia is usually thought to be of cerebellar origin. We report two children with congenital cerebellar ataxia, in whom neuroimaging investigations suggest the possibility of a parietal etiology. The two boys showed hypotonia, delayed motor and cognitive development followed by marked, truncally ...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Steinlin M,Schmitt B,Ferrini B

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Self-induced seizures by somatosensory stimulation are rare. We describe two epileptic patients with self-induced seizures presumably by peri-orbital somatosensory stimulation. Two infants with severely delayed psychomotor development and poor visual acuity after acute subdural hemorrhage in early infancy had been dia...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Takayama R,Takahashi Y,Mogami Y,Ikegami M,Mukaida S,Ikeda H,Imai K,Shigematsu H,Suzuki Y,Inoue Y

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 9-year-old female MELAS patient with myoclonus is reported, with emphasis on the results of electrophysiological studies of the myoclonus. At age 5 years she experienced a stroke-like episode, and a diagnosis of MELAS was made at age 6 years on the basis of muscle biopsy findings. At age 9 years spontaneous and segm...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Saitoh S,Kohsaka S,Mizukami S,Kajii N

更新日期：1992-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Autism spectrum disorders (ASD) are manifest as impairments in social interaction, language and speech development, and the appearance of repetitive behaviors with restricted interests. Motor impairments in individuals with ASD have been categorized as "associated symptoms". The objective of this study was to describe...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Ming X,Brimacombe M,Wagner GC

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to study the validity of disintegrative psychosis (DP) as defined in ICD-9, we compared the natural history of somatic morbidity of 13 patients given this diagnosis in childhood with a control group of 39 patients with infantile autism (IA) matched for gender, age, IQ and social class. Average follow-up time ...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Mouridsen SE,Rich B,Isager T

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the development of the voluntary control of saccadic eye movement, we examined eye movements in 99 normal children (4-13 years of age). Subjects were asked to fixate a central light for 3-5 s. A target was then presented, either to its right or left. In visually guided saccades, the mean latencies of th...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Fukushima J,Hatta T,Fukushima K

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Aromatic l-amino acid decarboxylase (AADC) deficiency (OMIM #608643) is a rare and severe disorder of biogenic amine synthesis caused by mutations in the DDC gene. The phenomenology of the movement disorder includes intermittent oculogyric crises and limb dystonia, generalized athetosis, and impaired volunta...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Dai L,Ding C,Fang F

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infarct locations in children with arterial ischemic stroke have primarily been reported to be lobar or in the basal ganglia, and those in patients with Down syndrome (DS) and antiphospholipid syndrome (APS) are typically wide and multiple. No solitary brain stem infarctions have ever been reported in children with DS...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Imagi T,Matsushita T,Matsushita M,Yae Y,Yokochi T,Kawano G,Akita Y,Ohbu K,Matsuishi T

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 2-yr-3-mo-old girl with metachromatic leukodystrophy (MLD) was examined using serial multiple electrophysiological procedures. Sensory nerve conduction velocity was delayed earlier and more severely than motor nerve conduction velocity. Visual evoked potentials (VEPs) showed prolonged latency of wave IV. Auditory br...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Takakura H,Nakano C,Kasagi S,Takashima S,Takeshita K

更新日期：1985-01-01 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：:Molecular background of neurogenetic disease is briefly reviewed. Importance and usefulness of genetic testing are emphasized. Molecular genetics is a powerful tool for investigation of epileptic syndromes. Diagnosis based on gene analysis will give a new insight for pathophysiology and clinical outcome of the patient...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Suzuki Y

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two cases of convulsive syncope following the insertion of sphenoidal electrodes are reported. The episodes occurred shortly after an uneventful insertion of the needle. Both patients exhibited behavioral arrest with loss of muscle tone, followed by flexor posturing, jerking of the extremities, then followed by what a...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： DeToledo JC

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Several studies have been conducted to determine the risk of recurrence after withdrawal of antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) in recent years. There is no consensus concerning the circumstances affecting discontinuation of AEDs. This study was designed to determine the recurrence rate of epilepsy after withdrawal o...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Karalok ZS,Guven A,Öztürk Z,Gurkas E

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a 2-month-old boy who presented with apneic attacks as a manifestation of epileptic seizures at onset and eventually progressed to infantile spasms. At onset, at 2 months of age, apneic attacks were the sole symptom of epileptic fits. Although these seizures were accompanied by cyanosis, bradycardia was not ...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Kamei A,Ichinohe S,Ito M,Fujiwara T

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Autonomic nervous system activity is recognized as a major component of emotional responses. Future reward/punishment expectations depend upon the process of decision making in the frontal lobe, which is considered to play an important role in executive function. The aim of this study was to investigate the r...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Hosaka H,Aoyagi K,Kaga Y,Kanemura H,Sugita K,Aihara M

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Assessment of treatment strategies in febrile seizures should be based on short- and long-term outcomes, with and without acute, intermittent, or chronic medical intervention, as well as short- and long-term side effects. Febrile seizures are a benign condition with a normal neurological, motor, intellectual, and cogn...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Knudsen FU

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to clarify the risk factors of relapse following discontinuation of AEDs in patients with childhood-onset cryptogenic localization-related epilepsies. The subjects were 82 patients who fulfilled the following criteria: (1) age at first visit of less than 15 years, (2) follow-up period of ...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Ohta H,Ohtsuka Y,Tsuda T,Oka E

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prominent dysphagia is seen among patients with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) type 2, especially at the late stage of their disease progression. Nasogastric tube feeding and gastrostomy are commonly utilized to maintain their nutritional status. However, choosing a treatment strategy to maintain appropriate nutritiona...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Suzukia Y,Sano N,Shinonaga C,Fukuda M,Hyodo M,Morimoto T

更新日期：2007-11-01 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：INTRODUCTION:Acute encephalopathy with biphasic seizures and late reduced diffusion (AESD) is the most common subtype of acute encephalopathy among children in Japan. The pathogenesis of AESD is mostly delayed cerebral edema caused by excitotoxic injury. It is difficult to discriminate AESD and complex febrile seizure ...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Yokochi T,Takeuchi T,Mukai J,Akita Y,Nagai K,Obu K,Kakuma T,Matsuishi T

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previously we have observed different characteristic chromatographic ultraviolet absorbancy profiles at 280 nm for urinary protein precipitates from patients with behavioral disorders. The purpose with this study was to look for similar changes in urinary protein excretion from the grossly disabled patients with the R...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Foss I,Hagberg B,Trygstad O

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a common autosomal recessive neuromuscular disorder that is caused by loss of the survival motor neuron gene, SMN1. SMA treatment strategies have focused on production of the SMN protein from the almost identical gene, SMN2. Valproic acid (VPA) is a histone deacetylase inhibitor that c...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Harahap IS,Saito T,San LP,Sasaki N,Gunadi,Nurputra DK,Yusoff S,Yamamoto T,Morikawa S,Nishimura N,Lee MJ,Takeshima Y,Matsuo M,Nishio H

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A large body of experience has been compiled in different countries, documenting the efficacy of adenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH) for infantile spasms. This is important, because it may serve as a key for understanding this disorder, as well as for designing better medicines. However, significant discrepancies exist ...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Baram TZ

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several new histological findings in six cases of the trisomy D1 syndrome are described: hyperplasia of fetal structures (indusium griseum, median raphe of the medulla oblongata) and completely developed cerebellar cortical heterotopia in the dentate nucleus. In one case, a heterotopic pontine nucleus was found within...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Hori A,Peiffer J,Pfeiffer RA,Iizuka R

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Mutations in the XPR1 gene are associated with primary familial brain calcifications (PFBC). All reported mutations are missense and inherited as an autosomal dominant trait. PFBC patients exhibited movement disorders, neuropsychiatric symptoms, and other associated symptoms with diverse severity, even withi...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Tang LO,Hou BH,Zhang XN,Xi ZY,Li CX,Xu L

更新日期：2021-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report on a 9-year-old boy who presented with acute encephalopathy and hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (HLH). The patient was referred to our hospital because of fever, seizures, and decreased consciousness. He showed moderately elevated levels of proinflammatory cytokines in the cerebrospinal fluid and plasma, ...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Wada T,Nishiura K,Kuroda M,Asai E,Vu QV,Toma T,Niida Y,Yachie A

更新日期：2012-05-01 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 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：:The relationship between febrile seizures and hippocampal sclerosis has been the subject of longstanding discussion. Animal models for prolonged seizures have shown a clear causal relationship with focal limbic features at low dose and hippocampal damage at high dose. Careful history taking of febrile seizure semiolog...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Neville BG,Gindner D

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Abnormalities of the cerebral arteries and the aorta are more common in young patients with tuberous sclerosis than in the rest of the population. Strokes have been reported but there is no confirmation that embolization of cerebral arteries by fragments of cardiac rhabdomyoma plays a role in the higher incidence of s...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Gomez MR

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00