Successful Treatment With Lithium in a Refractory Patient With Periodic Catatonic Features: A Case Report.

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：:Tiagabine (TGB), a recently approved antiepileptic drug (AED), has a specific mechanism of action that is unique among AEDs. A potent AED with linear, predictable pharmacokineties, it inhibits gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) reuptake into neurons and glia. Tiagabine does not have any clinically relevant effects on hepa...

journal_title：Clinical neuropharmacology

authors： Schachter SC

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four to 10% of patients with Parkinson disease and chronically treated with levodopa undergo an addictionlike behavioral disturbance named dopamine dysregulation syndrome (DDS). This article suggests that patients with Parkinson disease could be especially prone to develop DDS due to the dopamine deficiency and the "p...

journal_title：Clinical neuropharmacology

authors： Linazasoro G

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The extensive use of the Unified Parkinson's Disease Rating Scale (UPDRS) has revealed low interrater reliability in some items and redundancy in others. In view of these shortcomings, we have structured a new scale that includes a zero-to three-point scale for each item in the evaluation of PD. The mental axis includ...

journal_title：Clinical neuropharmacology

authors： Rabey JM,Bass H,Bonuccelli U,Brooks D,Klotz P,Korczyn AD,Kraus P,Martinez-Martin P,Morrish P,Van Sauten W,Van Hilten B

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We investigated the effects of age on the association between early and eventual responses to paroxetine treatment in patients with major depressive disorder (MDD). METHODS:Eighty-nine patients with MDD were administered paroxetine and completed the 6-week protocol. On the basis of our previous study, we de...

journal_title：Clinical neuropharmacology

authors： Tomita T,Sato Y,Nakagami T,Tsuchimine S,Kaneda A,Kaneko S,Nakamura K,Yasui-Furukori N

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adjunctive use of methylphenidate, a central stimulant, has been considered as a potential therapeutic choice for patients with refractory unipolar depression, geriatric depression, bipolar depression, and depression secondary to a medical illness. We present a case of psychotic unipolar depression in which the patien...

journal_title：Clinical neuropharmacology

authors： Huang CC,Shiah IS,Chen HK,Mao WC,Yeh YW

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Myoclonic status epilepticus (MSE) in patients without epilepsy, or de novo MSE, is a rare condition associated with several acute symptomatic etiologies, including drugs and toxins. We describe a 94-year-old woman with Alzheimer dementia and long use of mirtazapine 30 mg/d and alprazolam 1 mg/d who developed MSE appr...

journal_title：Clinical neuropharmacology

authors： Vicente Ferreira Naves P,Calderaro M,Caboclo LO

更新日期：2018-07-01 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：:In order to have a correct evaluation of the activity of a nootropic drug, the criteria adopted for the choice of patients to be included in the clinical trials and the methods used to clarify the meaning of changes observed on cognitive tasks are reported. The results of a clinical trial with the nootropic oxiracetam...

journal_title：Clinical neuropharmacology

authors： Gainotti G,Benedetti N,Caltagirone C,Nocentini U

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent reports suggest some utility for famotidine, a histamine type 2 (H2) antagonist, in the treatment of schizophrenia. The current report describes a treatment-resistant patient with chronic undifferentiated schizophrenia whose most dramatic symptomatic improvements were temporarily related to the open-label addit...

journal_title：Clinical neuropharmacology

authors： Rosse RB,Kendrick K,Tsui LC,Fay-McCarthy M,Collins JP Jr,Rosenberg P,Wyatt RJ,Deutsch SI

更新日期：1995-08-01 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：:Age-associated memory impairment (AAMI) is a diagnostic term applied to healthy persons greater than 50 years of age who have experienced a gradual decline in memory that lies within the boundaries of normality. Although the behavioral deficits associated with AAMI are modest in comparison to those associated with dem...

journal_title：Clinical neuropharmacology

authors： Crook TH,Larrabee GJ,Youngjohn JR

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a degenerative neurological condition that results in impairments in multiple domains including cognition, fatigue, and mood. Dalfampridine-extended release (D-ER) has been approved to improve walking in persons with MS. It is plausible that D-ER could improve cognition, fatigue, an...

journal_title：Clinical neuropharmacology

authors： Triche EW,Ruiz JA,Olson KM,Lo AC

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the effectiveness of OR-611 and OR-462, two novel inhibitors of the enzyme catechol-O-methyltransferase (COMT), on 3-O-methyldopa (OMD) formation in cynomolgus monkeys following intravenous levodopa administration. OR-611 dose-dependently reduced the area under the OMD concentration-vs-time curve, reduced m...

journal_title：Clinical neuropharmacology

authors： Cedarbaum JM,Leger G,Guttman M

更新日期：1991-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antiepileptic drugs might be effective in the treatment of patients with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, a condition with unmet pharmacologic needs. We review the literature on the efficacy and tolerability of antiepileptic drugs in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, both case reports and open studies, as well as controlle...

journal_title：Clinical neuropharmacology

authors： Iancu I,Rosen Y,Moshe K

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:We present 3 new cases of psychotic symptoms in patients with adult attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder while regularly treated with a stimulant therapy with methylphenidate. METHODS:Existing literature about this theme is reviewed, and potential mechanisms are discussed. RESULTS AND CONCLUSIONS:Medica...

journal_title：Clinical neuropharmacology

authors： Kraemer M,Uekermann J,Wiltfang J,Kis B

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The primary objective of this study was to describe the pharmacokinetics of oral pergolide in patients with mild to moderate Parkinson disease using a new high-performance liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry assay. A secondary objective was to investigate the relationship between plasma concentrations and e...

journal_title：Clinical neuropharmacology

authors： Thalamas C,Rajman I,Kulisevsky J,Lledó A,Mackie AE,Blin O,Gillespie TA,Seger M,Rascol O

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE:Treatment of chronic insomnia with nightly hypnotics is efficacious, but discontinuation is recommended after 1 month, less than the average disease duration. This study was undertaken to determine the efficacy of intermittent administration. PATIENTS AND METHODS:A double-blind study was carried...

journal_title：Clinical neuropharmacology

authors： Parrino L,Smerieri A,Giglia F,Milioli G,De Paolis F,Terzano MG

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of 5-HT are varied and widely distributed throughout the human body. At this time, 5-HT research is a field ripe for "plucking." Not only is there a great demand for more selective agonists and antagonists, but there is more than enough work needed in receptor binding studies to keep pharmacologists employ...

journal_title：Clinical neuropharmacology

authors： Bonate PL

更新日期：1991-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spinal cord injury (SCI) is a devastating and common neurologic disorder that has profound influences on modern society from physical, psychosocial, and socioeconomic perspectives. Accordingly, the present decade has been labeled the Decade of the Spine to emphasize the importance of SCI and other spinal disorders. Sp...

journal_title：Clinical neuropharmacology

authors： Dumont RJ,Okonkwo DO,Verma S,Hurlbert RJ,Boulos PT,Ellegala DB,Dumont AS

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Various reactions to benzodiazepine withdrawal have been widely described. Among these, seizures have occasionally occurred on abrupt withdrawal. Our own experience of 48 cases of seizures suspected to have been caused by benzodiazepine withdrawal and reported to the Adverse Drug Reaction (ADR) Monitoring Center (1979...

journal_title：Clinical neuropharmacology

authors： Fialip J,Aumaitre O,Eschalier A,Maradeix B,Dordain G,Lavarenne J

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the case of a 76-year-old, right-handed woman with progressive primary freezing of gait. Despite several therapeutic strategies, she continued to worsen to the point that she became confined to a wheelchair. Treatment with selegiline in doses up to 20 mg/d led to marked improvement of the gait disorder. This...

journal_title：Clinical neuropharmacology

authors： Zúñiga C,Lester J,Cersósimo MG,Díaz S,Micheli FE

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Monoamine oxidase (MAO) inhibitors (MAOIs) provide effective alternative therapy for those patients with major depression who do not respond to tricyclic antidepressants or such related compounds as the selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors. This article reviews studies on the efficacy of both the classical MAOIs an...

journal_title：Clinical neuropharmacology

authors： Nolen WA,Hoencamp E,Bouvy PF,Haffmans PM

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cyclosporine A (CsA) neurotoxicity is an iatrogenic disease with significant morbidity and occasional mortality. We retrospectively reviewed the cases of CsA neurotoxicity among bone marrow transplant recipients at our institution, and summarized the current literature on the subject. The neurologic presentation is va...

journal_title：Clinical neuropharmacology

authors： Shah AK

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A group of four monkeys was rendered parkinsonian with the toxin MPTP. They were then treated chronically with L-DOPA/benserazide 50/12.5 mg/kg given orally daily for 2 months. This dose produced a striking antiparkinsonian effect, but all animals manifested dyskinesia. A series of agents acting primarily on neurotran...

journal_title：Clinical neuropharmacology

authors： Gomez-Mancilla B,Bédard PJ

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Five of 24 (21%) normal men (volunteers) administered alpha-methyl-para-tyrosine (AMPT), a catecholamine-depleting agent, developed acute dystonic reactions. The finding that catecholamine depletion without receptor blockade is sufficient to cause acute dystonia suggests that a variety of neurotransmitter imbalances m...

journal_title：Clinical neuropharmacology

authors： McCann UD,Penetar DM,Belenky G

更新日期：1990-12-01 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：OBJECTIVE:A multicenter open-label clinical trial was conducted to evaluate the clinical usefulness of topiramate (TPM) as primary or adjunctive therapy for infantile spasms in the postmarketing period in China. METHODS:Thirty-four centers participated in the trial. Patients included in the study had 1 or more seizure...

journal_title：Clinical neuropharmacology

authors： Zou LP,Lin Q,Qin J,Cai FC,Liu ZS,Mix E,Topiramate Study Group.

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 34-year-old man presented with severe refractory depression. He had failed to respond to various antidepressants, augmentation therapy with lithium carbonate, and modified electroconvulsive therapy. Switching from amoxapine 150 mg/day to selegiline 7.5 mg/day, a selective monoamine oxidase type-B inhibitor, produced...

journal_title：Clinical neuropharmacology

authors： Higuchi H,Kamata M,Sugawara Y,Yoshida K

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the present study was to evaluate sexual function and behaviour in male patients who take lithium. Participants included 35 bipolar and schizoaffective men, aged 43.3 +/- 9.6 years, who were in euthymic state and were receiving lithium as the sole medical treatment. Eleven patients (31.4%) reported sexual d...

journal_title：Clinical neuropharmacology

authors： Aizenberg D,Sigler M,Zemishlany Z,Weizman A

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00