Levodopa efficacy and pathological basis of Parkinson syndrome.

abstract：:Levodopa (LD) is one of the most effective drugs for clinical symptoms in patients with Parkinson disease (PD). Most PD patients are advanced in age and may have trouble with LD absorption because aging influences drug absorption processes. Previous reports have indicated that ascorbic acid (AsA) can reduce LD dosage ...

journal_title：Clinical neuropharmacology

authors： Nagayama H,Hamamoto M,Ueda M,Nito C,Yamaguchi H,Katayama Y

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of the psychotropic drug etoperidone on the response to laboratory stressors was investigated in a controlled study. Cardiovascular and hormonal (catecholamines, corticotropin, and cortisol) measurements were made in a group of young, healthy volunteers during a cold pressor test (CPT), a mental arithmetic...

journal_title：Clinical neuropharmacology

authors： Costa A,Martignoni E,Blandini F,Petraglia F,Genazzani AR,Nappi G

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a brain disorder with recognizable periods of onset, course, familial occurrence, epidemiology, phenomenology, and treatment response. Several manifestations of pathophysiology are beginning to be defined, although they may represent intermediate pathophysiology rather than prima...

journal_title：Clinical neuropharmacology

authors： Micallef J,Blin O

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Paroxetine has been reported to be useful for management of stuttering symptoms, but only a few reports have examined its effects. We have investigated the efficacy of paroxetine in a randomized, placebo-controlled study. METHODS:Five stuttering subjects received paroxetine at 20 mg once daily at night for ...

journal_title：Clinical neuropharmacology

authors： Busan P,Battaglini PP,Borelli M,Evaristo P,Monti F,Pelamatti G

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Neurosyphilis, an infectious neuroinflammatory disorder, could cause diverse neuropsychiatric symptoms mimicking disorders of schizophrenia and dementia; hence, it is known as the "chameleon of psychiatry." Here, we present a subject with neurosyphilis with schizophrenic features and share the treatment outc...

journal_title：Clinical neuropharmacology

authors： Chen WC,Wang HY,Chen PA,Chen IC,Chen YC

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Heart rate variability (HRV) reflects the cardiac autonomic regulation, and reduced HRV is considered a pathophysiological link between depression and cardiovascular mortality. So far, there is only limited information on the effects of venlafaxine and mirtazapine on HRV.We studied 28 nondepressed controls and 41 mode...

journal_title：Clinical neuropharmacology

authors： Terhardt J,Lederbogen F,Feuerhack A,Hamann-Weber B,Gilles M,Schilling C,Lecei O,Deuschle M

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report on a schizophrenic patient whose tardive dystonia, delusions, and auditory hallucinations showed remarkable concurrent improvement after replacing haloperidol with risperidone. The present finding suggests that the 5-hydroxytryptamine-2 (5-HT2) antagonistic action of risperidone has brought about the improve...

journal_title：Clinical neuropharmacology

authors： Yoshida K,Higuchi H,Hishikawa Y

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intravenous injection of low doses of naloxone was found to reverse the respiratory depression induced by apomorphine in chloralose-anesthesized dogs. Similar results were obtained with haloperidol, whereas yohimbine remained ineffective. These data suggest that apomorphine depresses respiratory rate through a mechani...

journal_title：Clinical neuropharmacology

authors： Montastruc JL,Rascol O,Montastruc P

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Drugs (e.g., PCP) which interfere with glutamatergic transmission at the N-methyl D-aspartate (NMDA) subclass of glutamate receptors precipitate both positive and negative symptoms of psychosis in humans. Based on a proposed "glutamatergic deficiency" in schizophrenia, pharmacologic facilitation of NMDA-mediated neura...

journal_title：Clinical neuropharmacology

authors： Rosse RB,Schwartz BL,Davis RE,Deutsch SI

更新日期：1991-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The treatment of obesity remains a puzzling challenge because long-term maintenance of weight loss--one of the most suitable goals--is rarely achieved with conventional methods. Among the theoretical measures able to maintain a permanent and bearable constraint to obtain the maintenance of weight loss is long-term (li...

journal_title：Clinical neuropharmacology

authors： Guy-Grand BJ

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Parkinson disease (PD) is a progressive, disabling, neurodegenerative disorder characterized by both motor and nonmotor symptoms. Monoamine oxidase B inhibitors, dopamine agonists, N-methyl-D-aspartate antagonists and levodopa (LD), with its various formulations and administration modes, mainly improve the motor sympt...

journal_title：Clinical neuropharmacology

authors： Müller T

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate clinical aspects of the neutropenia induced by high-dose intravenous immunoglobulin therapy (IVIG) we performed serial hematology, including differentiation of white blood cells (WBC), before and after 22 instances of IVIG in 16 patients with neuroimmunologic disorders. WBC and neutrophils showed a sign...

journal_title：Clinical neuropharmacology

authors： Matsuda M,Hosoda W,Sekijima Y,Hoshi K,Hashimoto T,Itoh S,Ikeda S

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect and clinical significance of tolcapone withdrawal on erythrocyte catechol-O-methyltransferase (COMT) activity, levodopa pharmacokinetics, and levodopa requirements were investigated in 59 patients with fluctuating parkinsonism who were randomized to receive placebo or tolcapone 100 or 200 mg three times dai...

journal_title：Clinical neuropharmacology

authors： Jorga KM,Davis TL,Kurth MC,Saint-Hilaire MH,LeWitt PA,Fotteler B,Zürcher G,Rabbia M

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bupropion hydrochloride (HCl) is an antidepressant that has many different biological targets, acting as both a norepinephrine-dopamine reuptake inhibitor as well as a nicotinic antagonist. This second-generation antidepressant is available in 3 bioequivalent formulations: immediate release, sustained release, and ext...

journal_title：Clinical neuropharmacology

authors： Schwitalla TA,Patel RA,Catalano G,Nirmalani-Gandhy A

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:BL-1020, a novel gamma aminobutyric acid (GABA) ester of perphenazine, is a new oral antipsychotic with a strong affinity for dopamine and serotonin receptors. Unlike first- and second-generation antipsychotics, it has agonist activity at GABA(A). OBJECTIVE:This is the first study to examine tolerability an...

journal_title：Clinical neuropharmacology

authors： Anand R,Geffen Y,Vasile D,Dan I

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors compared the two portions of the OFF period in patients with Parkinson disease and response fluctuations: time to ON (the latency from levodopa intake to turning ON) and wearing off (time from termination of the beneficial dose effect until the time when the next dose was taken). Time to ON was more than t...

journal_title：Clinical neuropharmacology

authors： Merims D,Djaldetti R,Melamed E

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Safety and efficacy of botulinum neurotoxin type A preparation NT 201 (Xeomin, Merz Pharmaceuticals GmbH, Frankfurt am Main, Germany) were investigated over 52 weeks in a double-blind, randomized trial with 32 male volunteers. METHODS:Electroneurographic assessments with surface electrodes were performed aft...

journal_title：Clinical neuropharmacology

authors： Wohlfarth K,Müller C,Sassin I,Comes G,Grafe S

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic posthypoxic myoclonus is characterized by myoclonic jerks that are specifically triggered by action. It is a rare but devastating sequela of hypoxic encephalopathy. We report a 42-year-old female patient with treatment-resistant chronic posthypoxic myoclonus, which improved with administration of the drug agom...

journal_title：Clinical neuropharmacology

authors： González de la Aleja J,Saiz-Díaz RA,De la Peña P

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Botulinum toxin A (BTA) is considered an effective treatment of cervical dystonia. The aim of this prospective, randomized, double-blind study was to compare Botox and Prosigne, a BTA of Chinese origin, with a view to establish the safety, the efficacy, and the equivalence of doses of the 2 formulations in the treatme...

journal_title：Clinical neuropharmacology

authors： Quagliato EM,Carelli EF,Viana MA

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the effect of inhibiting the enzyme catechol-O-methyltransferase (COMT) by a novel COMT inhibitor, entacapone, on the pharmacokinetics and metabolism of levodopa in 12 healthy male volunteers. Single increasing oral doses of entacapone (50-400 mg) were administered concomitantly with a single oral dose of l...

journal_title：Clinical neuropharmacology

authors： Keränen T,Gordin A,Harjola VP,Karlsson M,Korpela K,Pentikäinen PJ,Rita H,Seppälä L,Wikberg T

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine if levetiracetam is efficacious in the treatment of essential tremor. METHODS:Fifteen patients (3 women), aged 35 to 83 years, with essential tremor were studied in a double-blind, placebo-controlled crossover trial of levetiracetam. During the 2 treatment periods, levetiracetam or placebo was t...

journal_title：Clinical neuropharmacology

authors： Elble RJ,Lyons KE,Pahwa R

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interferons are a set of cytokines that activate antiviral responses by the body's immune cells and have been a mainstay of treatment of hepatitis C. Well-known neuropsychiatric effects of interferons include depression, irritability, and impaired concentration. A condition reported rarely in association with this tre...

journal_title：Clinical neuropharmacology

authors： Wangensteen KJ,Krawitt EL,Hamill RW,Boyd JT

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:The Restless Legs Syndrome is a common sensorimotor disorder, typically amenable to treatment with dopamine agonist therapy. Dopamine agonists have been associated with emergent impulse control disorders (ICDs) when used in patients with Parkinson disease, and ICDs have now been reported in individuals wit...

journal_title：Clinical neuropharmacology

authors： Dang D,Cunnington D,Swieca J

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prion diseases are invariably fatal. Recently, quinacrine and chlorpromazine have been suggested as immediate candidates for the treatment of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and other prion diseases. The objective of this paper was to report on 2 fatal familial insomnia patients whose overall condition worsened despite quin...

journal_title：Clinical neuropharmacology

authors： Benito-León J

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hypothermia is a potentially life-threatening emergency. This article examines the case of a 34-year-old, mentally retarded man who experienced three episodes of hypothermia during recurrent exposure to pipamperone. After the pipamperone dose was largely reduced, no further hypothermic episodes occurred. Nine other ca...

journal_title：Clinical neuropharmacology

authors： Schwaninger M,Weisbrod M,Schwab S,Schröder M,Hacke W

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The units of different botulinum toxin products are not identical, and the dose equivalence has been debated for several years. In the year 2000, our clinic changed the recommended botulinum toxin product from Botox to Dysport for the treatment of cervical dystonia. Based on published reports, where dose con...

journal_title：Clinical neuropharmacology

authors： Rystedt A,Nyholm D,Naver H

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The capacity of peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) of anorexia nervosa (AN) patients to produce interleukin-1 (IL-1), interleukin-2 (IL-2), and interleukin-3-like activity (IL-3-LA) was studied. A significantly lower (-49%, p < 0.005) capacity to synthesize IL-2 and an almost significantly impaired ability (-3...

journal_title：Clinical neuropharmacology

authors： Bessler H,Karp L,Notti I,Apter A,Tyano S,Djaldetti M,Weizman R

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To review the current evidence on the effectiveness of second-generation antipsychotics (SGAs) in the treatment of tardive dystonia (TDt) and give recommendations for treatment. METHODS:Medline/PubMed/Psyclit/Embase database searches were conducted in January 2015, and a manual review of references within th...

journal_title：Clinical neuropharmacology

authors： Pinninti NR,Faden J,Adityanjee A

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glutamine synthetase (GS), an enzyme localized in astroglial cells in the brain, is directly implicated in brain detoxification. An ontogenic study of GS activity was performed in homogenates from four distinct brain areas in comparison with the respective astrocytes obtained in primary cultures. GS was induced by hyd...

journal_title：Clinical neuropharmacology

authors： Tardy M,Rolland B,Fages C,Caldani M

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To evaluate the clinical outcome of Parkinson disease (PD) patients treated with selegiline (with L-Dopa/decarboxylase inhibitor) in the early stage of the disease in comparison with that of late-stage use of selegiline. METHODS:The study and the reference groups were extracted from a large database of the ...

journal_title：Clinical neuropharmacology

authors： Mizuno Y,Kondo T,Kuno S,Nomoto M,Yanagisawa N

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00