Serum and cerebrospinal fluid cytokines in children with acute encephalopathy.

abstract：:We present a unique 11-year-old girl showing clinical features of Rett-related disorder with distinctive facial features and multiple congenital anomalies including ocular hypertelorism, arched eyebrows, a broad nose, dental anomalies, congenital heart disease, truncal obesity, and epilepsy. A novel de novo mutation i...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Saikusa T,Hara M,Iwama K,Yuge K,Ohba C,Okada JI,Hisano T,Yamashita Y,Okamoto N,Saitsu H,Matsumoto N,Matsuishi T

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Xeroderma pigmentosum (XP), a genetic disorder in DNA nucleotide excision repair, is characterized by skin hypersensitivity to sunlight and progressive neurological impairment. Laryngeal dystonia and vocal cord paralysis are complications that can arise in older XP group A (XPA) patients. We report three patients with...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Miyata R,Sasaki T,Hayashi M,Araki S,Shimohira M,Kohyama J

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cat scratch disease (CSD) is a zoonotic illness caused by the Gram negative bacillus Bartonella henselae characterized by a small skin lesion at the site of a bite, lick or scratch by a cat, commonly followed by regional lymphadenopathy 1 or 2 weeks later. We report herein on severe neurological complications of CSD c...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Genizi J,Kasis I,Schif A,Shahar E

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to reveal the pathophysiology of photoparoxysmal responses (PPRs) in photosensitive patients with hereditary dentatorubral-pallidoluysian atrophy (DRPLA) who had expansion of the CAG repeat in the DRPLA gene, we studied the characteristics of PPRs using optical filters with specific wavelength transmission. I...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Takahashi Y,Watanabe M,Fujiwara T,Yagi K,Kondo N,Orii T,Seino M

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two siblings with adenosine deaminase deficiency were successfully treated with allogeneic bone marrow transplantation without conditioning. Although the patients were free from infections after immunologic reconstitution, both showed sensorineural deafness at 1 year of age. Because there were no structural abnormalit...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Tanaka C,Hara T,Suzaki I,Maegaki Y,Takeshita K

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Autism is now widely accepted as a biological disorder which, by and large, starts before birth. It has been shown that serotonin (5-HT) is associated with several psychological processes and hyperserotoninemia is observed in some autistic patients. The results of previous reports about family-based association studie...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Koishi S,Yamamoto K,Matsumoto H,Koishi S,Enseki Y,Oya A,Asakura A,Aoki Y,Atsumi M,Iga T,Inomata J,Inoko H,Sasaki T,Nanba E,Kato N,Ishii T,Yamazaki K

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Pelizaeus-Merzbacher disease (PMD), a hypomyelinating leukodystrophy, and the related but less severe allelic spastic paraplegia 2 (SPG2) are caused by mutations in the proteolipid protein 1 (PLP1) gene. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is pivotal for diagnosing these disorders. The severity of PMD/SPG2 vari...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Shiihara T,Watanabe M,Moriyama K,Uematsu M,Sameshima K

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although hypothalamic hamartomas (HHs) have been shown to be intrinsically epileptogenic and to participate in the generation of gelastic seizures, no evidence has been reported regarding its contribution to the pathogenesis of infantile spasms. We describe a male infant with Pallister-Hall syndrome who had a large HH...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Wakamoto H,Sumi A,Motoki T,Ohmori H

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent advances in modern technologies have enabled us to investigate higher brain functions non-invasively in human subjects. These techniques include topographic analysis of the scalp-recorded electric potentials, recording of the magnetic field generated from the brain, measurement of regional cerebral blood flow c...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Shibasaki H

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 10-year-old girl with a mass lesion in the left deep frontal lobe was reported. Clinically, seizures occurred at 3 years and 8 months and became intractable around the age of 5.5 years. EEG initially showed focal spikes on the left fronto-central area and later developed into diffuse slow spike and wave complexes (D...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Honda K,Shinomiya N,Nomura Y,Sato K,Segawa M

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a 22-year-old male patient with pharmacoresistant epilepsy, mental retardation and dysmorphisms. Standard cytogenetic analysis revealed a de novo interstitial duplication of the short arm of chromosome 11 (11p). High density array-CGH analysis showed that the rearrangement spans about 35Mb on chromosome 11p1...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Coppola A,Striano P,Gimelli S,Ciampa C,Santulli L,Caranci F,Zuffardi O,Gimelli G,Striano S,Zara F

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The electroencephalographic features and their evolutional changes with age were described in three cases of lissencephaly syndrome diagnosed by CT scan. The case with more severe lissencephaly displayed very similar EEG findings. In early or middle infancy when infantile spasms began, EEG showed very high amplitude (...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Hakamada S,Watanabe K,Hara K,Miyazaki S

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:The Mitofusin 2 gene (MFN2), which encodes a mitochondrial membrane protein, is known to be the first cause of autosomal dominant Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease type 2 (CMT2) with early onset. This gene is involved in typical CMT2A and in more atypical phenotypes as optic atrophy or spastic paraplegia. CMT2 r...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Di Meglio C,Bonello-Palot N,Boulay C,Milh M,Ovaert C,Levy N,Chabrol B

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Apoptosis is a highly conservative energy demand program for non-inflammatory cell death, which is extremely significant in normal physiology and disease. There are many techniques used for studying apoptosis. MicroRNA (miRNA) is closely related to cell apoptosis, and especially microRNA-31 (miR-31) is involved in apo...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Wang Y,Yuan Y,Gao Y,Li X,Tian F,Liu F,Du R,Li P,Wang F,Xu S,Wu X,Wang C

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The discovery of nerve growth factor (NGF) over 40 years ago led to the formulation of the "Neurotrophic Factor Hypothesis". This hypothesis states that developing neurons compete with each other for a limited supply of a neurotrophic factor (NTF) provided by the target tissue. Successful competitors survive; unsucces...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Yuen EC,Howe CL,Li Y,Holtzman DM,Mobley WC

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:CLCN2-related leukoencephalopathy (CC2L) is a rare autosomal recessive disorder caused by variants in CLCN2. We report a boy whose brain MRI during an episode of aseptic meningitis at the age of 6 years revealed wide areas of restriction on diffusion-weighted images (DWI) in the cerebral subcortical white matter calle...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Ozaki A,Sasaki M,Hiraide T,Sumitomo N,Takeshita E,Shimizu-Motohashi Y,Ishiyama A,Saito T,Komaki H,Nakagawa E,Sato N,Nakashima M,Saitsu H

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For the purpose of early detection and intervention in mentally handicapped children, the mental retardation (MR) Monitoring Research Committee in Japan initiated a survey in 1981 to determine the prevalence rate and etiology of MR children who had been born between 1969 and 1974, that's those currently from 7 to 12 y...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Shiotsuki Y,Matsuishi T,Yoshimura K,Yamashita F,Yano K,Tokimasa H,Shoji H

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirty-one epileptic patients, selected from among 900 children with previous febrile convulsions and subsequent epilepsy, were typed for HLA antigens. In 16 of the 31 patients CMV was isolated from the urine shortly after the appearance of spontaneous fits; in the remaining 15 patients the virus was never detected. A...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Iannetti P,Morellini M,Raucci U,Cappellacci S

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present the case of a Japanese male infant with Alexander disease who developed infantile spasms at 8 months of age. The patient had a cluster of partial seizures at 4 months of age. He presented with mild general hypotonia and developmental delay. Macrocephaly was not observed. Brain magnetic resonance imaging (MR...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Torisu H,Yoshikawa Y,Yamaguchi-Takada Y,Yano T,Sanefuji M,Ishizaki Y,Sawaishi Y,Hara T

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously reported that knockout mice lacking the p85alpha regulatory subunit of phosphoinositide-3 kinase (PI3K) (p85alpha(-/-) mice) significantly showed spatial learning-deficits, restlessness and motivation-deficit in water maze tests. It was also shown in the report that decline of PI3K activity in several br...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Tohda C,Nakanishi R,Kadowaki M

更新日期：2009-01-01 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：:Arachnoid cysts comprise approximately 1% of all intracranial space-occupying lesions and usually occur sporadically. We report retrocerebellar arachnoid cysts in two male siblings with mental retardation and undescended testis, suggesting the possibility of a genetic basis for at least some cases of retrocerebellar a...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Suzuki H,Takanashi J,Sugita K,Barkovich AJ,Kohno Y

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Guillain Barre syndrome (GBS) commonly presents with limb weakness and occasional cranial nerve, respiratory or autonomic involvement. Isolated or predominant bilateral finger drop as presenting feature has never been reported in the pediatric age group. CASE:A 9-year-old boy presented with deformity of bot...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Dubey R,Kaushik JS,Israni A,Saini L,Patel H,Chakrabarty B,Gulati S

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:In order to evaluate whether face perception is intact or not in Williams syndrome (WS), the face inversion effects (FIE) in the event-related potential (ERP) or magnetoencephalography (MEG) were investigated in three teenaged patients with WS. METHODS:Responses to the inverted faces and upright faces were c...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Nakamura M,Watanabe S,Inagaki M,Hirai M,Miki K,Honda Y,Kakigi R

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:l-2-Hydroxyglutaric aciduria (l-2-HGA) is a rare inborn error of metabolism. Mainly, patients with this disorder exhibit neurological symptoms and characteristic neuroradiological findings, such as subcortical white matter abnormalities, which are believed to be caused by the toxicity of the accumulation of l-2-hydrox...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Yamamoto T,Yoshioka S,Tsurusaki Y,Shino S,Shimojima K,Shigematsu Y,Takeuchi Y,Matsumoto N

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a patient with holoprosencephaly, partial seizures had various initial ictal symptoms, and ictal EEGs showed epileptogenic foci in the right and left brain. Partial seizures did not culminate in secondary generalized tonic-clonic convulsions. Characteristic malformed structures contribute to the absence of secondar...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Takahashi S,Takahashi Y,Kondo N,Orii T

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

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：:In the present study, we investigated age-related changes in pteridine levels and enzymatic activity responsible for tetrahydrobiopterin biosynthesis in mouse tissues. Until about 15 weeks after the birth, the remarkable change of tetrahydrobiopterin (BH4) was observed in all tissues tested. Between 20 and 50 weeks af...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Yoshida YI,Eda S,Masada M

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:This study investigated the efficacy and safety of zonisamide (ZNS) adjunctive therapy in children with intractable epilepsy to existing antiepileptic drugs (AEDs). METHODS:A clinical retrospective study was performed from 2003 to 2005 at two tertiary epilepsy centers. We reviewed the data from 163 children (1...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Lee YJ,Kang HC,Seo JH,Lee JS,Kim HD

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:The prevalence of cerebral palsy (CP) has not decreased in developed countries over the past 30 years. We examined gestational age-specific trends in the prevalence of CP. METHODS:This unselected, population-based study was conducted in Miyazaki prefecture, Japan (10,000 deliveries annually), where 102,999 deliver...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Kodama Y,Sameshima H,Ikenoue T

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00