Polyradiculoneuritis following botulinum toxin therapy.

abstract：:Bcl2-associated athanogene 3 (BAG3) gene mutations cause dilated cardiomyopathy and myofibrillar myopathy. Recently, a novel c.625C>T (p.Pro209Ser) mutation in BAG3 was reported to cause axonal Charcot-Marie-Tooth (CMT) disease in three families. Here, we describe two patients with adult-onset and moderate CMT in a Ch...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Fu J,Ma M,Song J,Pang M,Li G,Zhang J

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Deep brain stimulation of the subthalamic nucleus (STN) is an effective treatment modality for motor symptoms of advanced Parkinson's disease. Recent studies focus on exploring its possible effects on cognition and behavior. We present a case with acute cognitive dysfunction due to misalignment of the electrodes to th...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Cakmakli GY,Oruckaptan H,Saka E,Elibol B

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This short review summarizes epilepsy papers published in the Journal of Neurology in 2009, covering pathophysiology (inflammation; propagation pathways), new treatments (oxcarbazepine in paediatrics; levetiracetam in status epilepticus), and non-seizure outcomes (violence; foetal/pregnancy). ...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Lozsadi DA,Von Oertzen J,Cock HR

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fatigue is an important contributor to quality of life in patients who survive aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH), but the determinants of this fatigue are unclear. We assessed the occurrence of fatigue 1 year after SAH and its relation to physical or cognitive impairment, passive coping, and emotional problems,...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Passier PE,Post MW,van Zandvoort MJ,Rinkel GJ,Lindeman E,Visser-Meily JM

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The neuropsychiatric symptoms and behavioral disorders affecting Parkinson's disease (PD) patients are common and disabling. A PD-specific interview-based 12-item scale, the Scale for Evaluation of Neuropsychiatric Disorders in Parkinson's Disease (SEND-PD), has been developed to assess the severity of neuropsychiatri...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Martinez-Martin P,Frades-Payo B,Agüera-Ortiz L,Ayuga-Martinez A

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To develop specific diagnostic ultrasound (US) models for hereditary motor and sensory neuropathies (HMSN) in patients with primarily demyelinating or axonal polyneuropathies (PNP) according to standard nerve conduction studies (NCS) criteria. METHODS:Single-centre, examiner-blinded cross-sectional study in ac...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Loewenbrück KF,Dittrich M,Böhm J,Klingelhöfer J,Baum P,Schäfer J,Reichmann H,Hermann A,Storch A

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Idiopathic intracranial hypertension is a neurological syndrome determined by a rise in intracranial pressure without a detectable cause. Course and prognosis may be changeable, requiring a multidisciplinary approach for its diagnosis and management. Although its precise pathogenesis is still unknown, many studies hav...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Toscano S,Lo Fermo S,Reggio E,Chisari CG,Patti F,Zappia M

更新日期：2020-05-27 00:00:00

abstract：:From a family with essential familial myoclonus, 150 members in eight generations were studied. Twenty-five of them suffered from myoclonus of varying severity. The findings in routine examinations of blood, urine and cerebrospinal fluid, EEG and skull radiographs were normal. Therapeutic trials did not produce lastin...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Przuntek H,Muhr H

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiple System Atrophy (MSA) and idiopathic Parkinson's disease (PD) can be difficult to distinguish. There is an ongoing debate about the diagnostic value of the growth-hormone response to clonidine (CGH-test) in PD and MSA. We investigated whether the CGH-test can identify individual patients in the early stages of...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Strijks E,van't Hof M,Sweep F,Lenders JW,Oyen WJ,Horstink MW

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polysomnography (PSG) is considered the gold standard for diagnosis of non-rapid eye movement (NREM) parasomnias, however its diagnostic yield has been rarely reported. We aimed to assess the diagnostic value of polysomnography in different categories of patients with suspected NREM parasomnia and define variables tha...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Fois C,Wright MA,Sechi G,Walker MC,Eriksson SH

更新日期：2015-02-01 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：:To further evaluate (1) transcranial sonography (TCS) for (pre)clinical diagnosis of Parkinson's disease (PD) and (2) to examine asymptomatic carriers of Parkin mutations we investigated substantia nigra (SN) hyperechogenicity in PD patients and unaffected subjects with and without Parkin mutations. The area (aSN) of ...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Hagenah JM,König IR,Becker B,Hilker R,Kasten M,Hedrich K,Pramstaller PP,Klein C,Seidel G

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A myasthenia gravis (MG) patient who seems to have recovered can later have recurrence of myasthenic signs. Clearly clinical remission does not always correspond to the normalization of all the factors involved in the pathogenesis of the disease. In ten patients who had apparently recovered from MG, electromyographic ...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Scoppetta C,Bartoccioni E,David P,Flamini G,Lo Monaco M,Scuderi F,Tonali P

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oculomotor dysfunction in Parkinson's disease (PD) is mainly characterized by a fragmentation of memory-guided gaze shifts (target is reached by several hypometric saccades). Since this phenomenon can also be observed in normal subjects, we scrutinized its pathophysiological significance in PD patients. We recorded ho...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Kimmig H,Haussmann K,Mergner T,Lücking CH

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of our study was to compare the results obtained by intraoperative and postoperative subthalamic nucleus (STN) macrostimulation in Parkinson's disease (PD). One hundred three PD patients implanted with bilateral STN stimulation were included. The thresholds for efficacy and side effects (motor contraction; par...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Xie J,Adamec D,Decullier E,Bin-Dorel S,Mertens P,Polo G,Poisson A,Broussolle E,Thobois S

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirteen patients with subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (S.S.P.E.) at different stages of the disease were admitted for transfer factor treatment. The transfer factor was prepared from non-selected blood bank donors. The activity of the transfer factor was tested in patients with diseases other than S.S.P.E. and wa...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Käckell YM,Grob PJ,Kreth WH,Kibler R,Meulen V

更新日期：1975-12-02 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of a patient with hyperinsulinism due to insulinoma associated with neurological and psychiatric disturbances including EEG alterations is reported. The hunger test as well as the i.v. tolbutamid test proved to be of diagnostic importance. In addition, the electroencephalographic studies combined with blood sug...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Matz D,Enders P,Baumeister G

更新日期：1976-04-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Leukocyte recruitment and inflammatory response play an important patho-physiologic role after cerebral ischemia. This study aimed to evaluate whether leukocyte adhesion molecules can predict clinical outcome in patients after ischemic stroke. We prospectively examined serial changes in p-selectin glycoprotein ligand-...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Tsai NW,Chang WN,Shaw CF,Jan CR,Huang CR,Chen SD,Chuang YC,Lee LH,Lu CH

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Childhood arterial ischaemic stroke (AIS) is rare, but causes significant morbidity and mortality. We aimed to investigate incidence, age-dependent clinical presentation, and risk factors and to discuss the medical care situation in Germany. METHODS:This prospective epidemiological study was conducted via ES...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Gerstl L,Weinberger R,Heinen F,Bonfert MV,Borggraefe I,Schroeder AS,Tacke M,Landgraf MN,Vill K,Kurnik K,Sorg AL,Olivieri M

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To investigate the occurrence of symptomatic peroneal neuropathy (PN) in cancer patients, as well as that of cancer in PN patients and to seek possible factors in the aetiology of PN. METHODS:Clinical, neurographical, and myographical data of patients with PN, in two general neurology clinics during a 5-year peri...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Koehler PJ,Buscher M,Rozeman CA,Leffers P,Twijnstra A

更新日期：1997-05-01 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：:We evaluated cyclosporine A (CsA) treatment in 9 patients (6 female and 3 male), 16-63 years old, with severe myasthenia gravis (MG) for a mean period of 2 years (range 16-36 months). All of the patients had been previously treated either with corticosteroids or by combined immunotherapy, and 5 needed periodic plasma ...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Bonifati DM,Angelini C

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spinocerebellar ataxias (SCA) are a genetically heterogeneous group of neurodegenerative diseases characterised by progressive cerebellar ataxia, dysarthria and oculomotor abnormalities. Recently the prodynorphin (PDYN) gene was identified as the cause of SCA23 in four Dutch families displaying progressive gait and li...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Fawcett K,Mehrabian M,Liu YT,Hamed S,Elahi E,Revesz T,Koutsis G,Herscheson J,Schottlaender L,Wardle M,Morrison PJ,Morris HR,Giunti P,Wood N,Houlden H

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Patients with blepharospasm in addition to involuntary contraction of the orbicularis oculi muscle also have non-motor symptoms (psychiatric, sleep, cognitive, and ocular). In this paper, we investigated the relationship of non-motor with motor symptoms and the total burden of non-motor symptoms in patient...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Ferrazzano G,Berardelli I,Conte A,Baione V,Concolato C,Belvisi D,Fabbrini G,Defazio G,Berardelli A

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A patient with chronic relapsing inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy was successfully treated with plasma exchanges and cyclosporin A (CsA). Dynamometric measurements of hand force during the time of CsA treatment showed a highly significant correlation between hand force and CsA blood levels. The largest influe...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Hefter H,Sprenger KB,Arendt G,Hafner D

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Windmill nystagmus is characterized by a clock-like rotation of the beating direction of a jerk nystagmus suggesting separate horizontal and vertical oscillators, usually 90° out of phase. We report oculographic characteristics in three patients with variants of windmill nystagmus in whom the common denominator was pr...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Choi KD,Shin HK,Kim JS,Kim SH,Choi JH,Kim HJ,Zee DS

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In fibromyalgia (FM), reduced habituation of laser-evoked potentials (LEPs) suggests a dysfunction of pain processing at a central level. In this study, we aimed to further examine the nociceptive pathways at the peripheral to the central level in a large group of FM patients by means of LEPs and skin biopsy, in light...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： de Tommaso M,Nolano M,Iannone F,Vecchio E,Ricci K,Lorenzo M,Delussi M,Girolamo F,Lavolpe V,Provitera V,Stancanelli A,Lapadula G,Livrea P

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Since the detection of autoantibodies against neuronal surface antigens, autoimmune encephalitis (AE) has been more frequently diagnosed, especially in patients with symptoms typical of limbic encephalitis, such as seizures, short-term memory deficits, or psychosis. However, the clinical spectrum of AE may b...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Baumgartner A,Rauer S,Hottenrott T,Leypoldt F,Ufer F,Hegen H,Prüss H,Lewerenz J,Deisenhammer F,Stich O

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lipids were extracted from brains of a patient with membranous lipodystrophy (ML) and three normal patients and the neutral lipid and sphingolipid constituents were investigated. The storage of a large amount of free fatty acid was observed in the ML brain, but no cholesterol ester was found. Total lipid, cholesterol ...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Ohtani Y,Miura S,Tamai Y,Kojima H,Kashima H

更新日期：1979-03-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Recent research has convincingly shown that the ability to work mainly depends on the cognitive status in multiple sclerosis (MS). An international committee of experts recommended a brief neuropsychological battery to evaluate cognitive performance in MS. BICAMS comprises three tests, the Symbol Digit Modal...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Filser M,Schreiber H,Pöttgen J,Ullrich S,Lang M,Penner IK

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00