Imaging dopamine function and microglia in asymptomatic LRRK2 mutation carriers.

abstract：:The clinical features of 31 cases of syringomyelic syndrome, confirmed by metrizamide CT myelography (CTM) or magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), were analysed. Bilateral suspended sensory disturbance, previously regarded as a characteristic feature, was encountered in only 2 cases (6.5%). Thirteen patients (41.9%) show...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Tashiro K,Fukazawa T,Moriwaka F,Hamada T,Isu T,Iwasaki Y,Abe H

更新日期：1987-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Myasthenia gravis (MG) is the archetypic disorder of both the neuromuscular junction and autoantibody-mediated disease. In most patients, IgG1-dominant antibodies to acetylcholine receptors cause fatigable weakness of skeletal muscles. In the rest, a variable proportion possesses antibodies to muscle-specific tyrosine...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Binks S,Vincent A,Palace J

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Contactin-associated protein-like 2 (CASPR2) autoantibody disease has a variable clinical phenotype. We present a case report and performed a systematic review of the literature to summarize: (1) the clinical phenotype of patients with CASPR2 antibodies, (2) the findings in neurological investigations, and (...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Boyko M,Au KLK,Casault C,de Robles P,Pfeffer G

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seventy-seven cases of the optic-spinal form of multiple sclerosis (OSMS) were collected from 6 institutes in 3 cities of Japan, and the clinical and MRI features were analyzed. Two-thirds of the OSMS patients had longitudinally extensive spinal cord MRI lesions (LESL), and had clinical features similar to those of re...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Nakashima I,Fukazawa T,Ota K,Nohara C,Warabi Y,Ohashi T,Miyazawa I,Fujihara K,Itoyama Y

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eighty patients were studied by angiography within 6 h of an ischaemic stroke. Angiography was carried out with digital equipment and was usually limited to the vascular territory responsible for the neurological deficits. In 12 of 19 patients with internal carotid occlusion, the contralateral side was also studied. T...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Bozzao L,Fantozzi LM,Bastianello S,Bozzao A,Argentino C,Lenzi GL,Fieschi C

更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Augmented spinal nociception during the "off" phase has been observed early in Parkinson's disease further increasing with disease duration. To find out whether increased spinal nociception represents a premotor feature, experimental pain sensitivity was assessed in idiopathic REM-sleep behavior disorder (IRBD) patien...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Boura E,Stamelou M,Vadasz D,Ries V,Unger MM,Kägi G,Oertel WH,Möller JC,Mylius V

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thinning of the retinal nerve fiber layer (RNFL) of clinically unaffected eyes is seen in patients with multiple sclerosis (MS). It is uncertain when this thinning occurs, and whether ongoing RNFL loss can be measured over time with optical coherence tomography (OCT). Using time-domain OCT, we studied 34 patients with...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Henderson AP,Trip SA,Schlottmann PG,Altmann DR,Garway-Heath DF,Plant GT,Miller DH

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:We characterised the clinical and neuro-otological characteristics of patients with Susac syndrome. METHODS:The medical records of 30 patients with Susac syndrome were reviewed for details of their clinical presentation and course, neuro-otological symptoms, investigation results including audiology and vest...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Hardy TA,Taylor RL,Qiu J,O'Brien B,Gopinath S,Trewin B,Spring PJ,Shaffi M,Bolitho SJ,Garsia RJ,Roxburgh R,Mason DF,Ip J,Chan F,Chen L,Wilson I,Beadnall HN,Barnett MH,Parratt JDE,Watson JDG,Welgampola MS,Reddel S

更新日期：2020-12-01 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：:To analyze the in vivo biological effect of anti-interferon beta (IFN-beta) neutralizing antibodies (NABs), blood concentrations of neopterin, beta2microglobulin (Beta2-MG), mRNA-dependent myxovirusresistant protein A (MxA) and dsRNA-dependent protein kinase (PKR) were measured before (predose) and 24 hours after (pos...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Scagnolari C,Duda P,Bagnato F,De Vito G,Alberelli A,Lavolpe V,Girardi E,Durastanti V,Trojano M,Kappos L,Antonelli G

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inherited neuropathies caused by mutations of the major structural protein of peripheral myelin, myelin protein zero (MPZ), contribute to 5% of all cases of Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease (CMT). They can be divided into an early-onset neuropathy with symptoms prior to the stage of walking, and a late-onset neuropathy wit...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Kleffner I,Schirmacher A,Gess B,Boentert M,Young P

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the effect of bilateral subthalamic nucleus stimulation on levodopa-resistant balance impairment in 14 patients with Parkinson's disease and 18 matched controls. Instability was quantitatively assessed using standardized multidirectional dynamic posturography. Patients were tested after taking a suprathres...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Visser JE,Allum JH,Carpenter MG,Esselink RA,Speelman JD,Borm GF,Bloem BR

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cerebellar ataxia can have many genetic causes among which are the congenital disorders of glycosylation type I (CDG-I). In this group of disorders, a multisystem phenotype is generally observed including the involvement of many organs, the endocrine, hematologic and central nervous systems. A few cases of CDG-Ia have...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Vermeer S,Kremer HP,Leijten QH,Scheffer H,Matthijs G,Wevers RA,Knoers NA,Morava E,Lefeber DJ

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Levodopa therapy is essential for patients in the advanced stages of Parkinson's disease. However, at early stages, DA agonist therapy has similar efficacy in the treatment of parkinsonism and a lower incidence of motor complications compared to levodopa therapy several years after the initiation of the therapy. The m...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Kondo T

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate the efficacy of acupuncture on stroke recovery compared to an inert placebo. DESIGN:Placebo-controlled, randomised, clinical trial. SETTING:Post-stroke rehabilitation wards in five NHS hospitals in the UK. SUBJECTS:Patients between 4 and 10 days after their first stroke. INTERVENTIONS AND O...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Hopwood V,Lewith G,Prescott P,Campbell MJ

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Frailty is known to predict dementia. However, its link with neurodegenerative alterations of the central nervous system (CNS) is not well understood at present. We investigated the association between the biomechanical response of the CNS and frailty in older adults suspected of normal pressure hydrocephalus (NPH) pr...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Vallet A,Del Campo N,Hoogendijk EO,Lokossou A,Balédent O,Czosnyka Z,Balardy L,Payoux P,Swider P,Lorthois S,Schmidt E

更新日期：2020-05-01 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：:Sensory trick may relieve dystonic symptoms in patients with idiopathic cervical dystonia (CD). We investigated the patterns of brain functional MRI (fMRI) during resting state, sensory trick simulation and sensory trick imagination in CD patients both with and without an effective sensory trick. We recruited 17 CD pa...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Sarasso E,Agosta F,Piramide N,Bianchi F,Butera C,Gatti R,Amadio S,Del Carro U,Filippi M

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Decreased tongue strength (TS) might herald bulbar involvement in patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) well before dysarthria or dysphagia occur, and as such might be prognostic of short survival. The purpose of this study was to investigate the prognostic value of a decreased TS, in addition to other pro...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Weikamp JG,Schelhaas HJ,Hendriks JC,de Swart BJ,Geurts AC

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess the overlap of and differences between quantitative muscle MRI and ultrasound in characterizing structural changes in leg muscles of facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD) patients. METHODS:We performed quantitative MRI and quantitative ultrasound of ten leg muscles in 27 FSHD patients and a...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Mul K,Horlings CGC,Vincenten SCC,Voermans NC,van Engelen BGM,van Alfen N

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Knowledge of restless legs syndrome (RLS) has greatly increased in recent years due to the many advances that have been made in diagnosis, management and genetics. Tools have been developed that facilitate the diagnosis and treatment of RLS, in particular the essential diagnostic criteria for RLS have been refined, se...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Trenkwalder C,Högl B,Winkelmann J

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the case of a 17.5-year old girl with generalized myasthenia gravis (MG). When she was 13, she started to complain of episodic diplopia, ptosis and mild fatigability of upper and lower extremity muscles. She was diagnosed with MG 3 years later, after exacerbation of her limb muscle weakness. Acetylcholine re...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Kostera-Pruszczyk A,Kwiecinski H

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Suicide is a leading cause of death in Huntington's disease (HD), following pneumonia. Up to one-fifth of individuals with HD report suicidal ideation. Identifying the risk factors of suicidal ideation in this clinical population is thus pivotal. Here, we review the literature on prevalence rates and risk factors of s...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Honrath P,Dogan I,Wudarczyk O,Görlich KS,Votinov M,Werner CJ,Schumann B,Overbeck RT,Schulz JB,Landwehrmeyer BG,Gur RE,Habel U,Reetz K,Enroll-HD investigators.

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vanishing white matter disease (VWM) is one of the most prevalent inherited leukoencephalopathies in childhood. Infantile VWM is more severe but less understood than the classic early childhood type. We performed a follow-up study on 14 infantile and 26 childhood patients to delineate the natural history and neuroimag...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Zhou L,Zhang H,Chen N,Zhang Z,Liu M,Dai L,Wang J,Jiang Y,Wu Y

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE:Stratification of patients with transient ischemic attack (TIA) or ischemic stroke (IS) by risk of recurrent stroke can contribute to optimized secondary prevention. We therefore aimed to assess cardiovascular risk factor profiles of consecutive patients hospitalized with TIA/IS to stratify the r...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Weimar C,Goertler M,Röther J,Ringelstein EB,Darius H,Nabavi DG,Kim IH,Theobald K,Diener HC,SCALA Study Group.

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In vascular dementia (VaD), assessment of cerebral blood flow by single photon emission computed tomography (CBF SPECT) has been used to detect a patchy decrease of blood flow or a frontal reduction. In addition to reduced blood flow, the heterogeneous distribution of cerebral blood flow is often observed in...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Yoshikawa T,Murase K,Oku N,Kitagawa K,Imaizumi M,Takasawa M,Rishu P,Hashikawa K,Nishikawa T,Hori M,Matsumoto M

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Unilateral mesial temporal lobe epilepsy (MTLE) has been associated with reduced amygdala responsiveness to fearful faces. However, the effect of unilateral MTLE on empathy-related brain responses in extra-amygdalar regions has not been investigated. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging, we measured empathy-rel...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Toller G,Adhimoolam B,Grunwald T,Huppertz HJ,Kurthen M,Rankin KP,Jokeit H

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE:Cerebral microbleeds (CMBs) are a possible predictor of symptomatic intracranial hemorrhage (sICH) and poor function outcome (PFO). We aimed to investigate the presence of CMBs on increased incidence of sICH and PFO in acute ischemic stroke patients receiving intravenous thrombolysis (IVT) treatm...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Yan J,Qiu J,Wu X,Ge Y,Wang J,Wang Y

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies suggest that the risk of cerebral infarction is increased during the puerperium but not during pregnancy itself. Most of the known causes of ischaemic stroke in the young have been reported during pregnancy. In most of these conditions, it is uncertain whether pregnancy is coincidental or plays a role i...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Mas JL,Lamy C

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of Guillain-Barré syndrome is reported in a patient, who had previously received botulinum toxin type A injections into both orbicularis oculi muscles to treat idiopathic blepharospasm. The possibility of a causal relationship is discussed with consideration of the literature on adverse effects of vacc...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Haug BA,Dressler D,Prange HW

更新日期：1990-02-01 00:00:00