COVID-19: dealing with a potential risk factor for chronic neurological disorders.

abstract：:The emotional and relationship problems associated with MS have not always been fully appreciated by the medical profession, which has tended to concentrate on the physical aspects of this disease. Yet the psychological problems of MS often cause more suffering than physical effects. ...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Kesselring J,Klement U

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Multiple sclerosis (MS) notably affects adults of working age. For persons with MS (PwMS), being employed enhances their quality of life and it may be regarded as an indicator of overall functioning. Thus, ensuring work participation in PwMS is of general public health interest. OBJECTIVE:To examine relevan...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Lehmann AI,Rodgers S,Kamm CP,Mettler M,Steinemann N,Ajdacic-Gross V,Kaufmann M,Kesselring J,Calabrese P,Salmen A,Gobbi C,Zecca C,Bauer GF,von Wyl V

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients in a minimally conscious state (MCS) show restricted signs of awareness but are unable to communicate. We assessed cerebral glucose metabolism in MCS patients and tested the hypothesis that this entity can be subcategorized into MCS- (i.e., patients only showing nonreflex behavior such as visual pursuit, loca...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Bruno MA,Majerus S,Boly M,Vanhaudenhuyse A,Schnakers C,Gosseries O,Boveroux P,Kirsch M,Demertzi A,Bernard C,Hustinx R,Moonen G,Laureys S

更新日期：2012-06-01 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：BACKGROUND:Rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder (RBD) is highly comorbid with Parkinson's disease (PD). Emerging evidence suggests that dopamine-replacement therapies (DRTs) for PD may modify the course of RBD, yet the nature of the association between DRTs and RBD remains unclear. To begin addressing this issue,...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Meloni M,Bortolato M,Cannas A,Laccu I,Figorilli M,Congiu P,Defazio G,Meloni F,Puligheddu M

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hereditary neuropathy with liability to pressure palsies (HNPP) is characterized by recurrent sensory and motor neuropathy in individual nerves starting in adolescence or young adulthood, focal conduction abnormalities at entrapment sites on nerve conduction studies, and sausage-like swellings (tomacula) of the myelin...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Attarian S,Fatehi F,Rajabally YA,Pareyson D

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report two adult Japanese sisters with L-2-hydroxy-glutaric aciduria (acidemia), both of whom were much older (aged 57, 47 years old) than previously reported patients (from neonate to 44 years old), and who presented with differing severity. Magnetic resonance imaging revealed typical subcortical white matter lesi...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Fujitake J,Ishikawa Y,Fujii H,Nishimura K,Hayakawa K,Inoue F,Terada N,Okochi M,Tatsuoka Y

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cortical tubers are very common in tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC) and widely vary in size, appearance and location. The relationship between tuber features and clinical phenotype is unclear. The aim of the study is to propose a classification of tuber types along a spectrum of severity, using magnetic resonance imag...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Gallagher A,Grant EP,Madan N,Jarrett DY,Lyczkowski DA,Thiele EA

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inherited ataxias are heterogeneous disorders affecting both children and adults, with over 40 different causative genes, making molecular genetic diagnosis challenging. Although recent advances in next-generation sequencing have significantly improved mutation detection, few treatments exist for patients with inherit...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Balreira A,Boczonadi V,Barca E,Pyle A,Bansagi B,Appleton M,Graham C,Hargreaves IP,Rasic VM,Lochmüller H,Griffin H,Taylor RW,Naini A,Chinnery PF,Hirano M,Quinzii CM,Horvath R

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Therapeutic apheresis has emerged as a major treatment option for autoantibody-associated inflammatory diseases of the nervous system. This includes patients with autoimmune encephalitides caused by antibodies against neuronal proteins. Plasma exchange (PE) and immunoadsorption (IA) constitute two possibilities to eli...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Heine J,Ly LT,Lieker I,Slowinski T,Finke C,Prüss H,Harms L

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To disclose the neuropathological progression course of Machado-Joseph disease (MJD), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) findings of six genetically confirmed MJD cases (four males and two females, including an autopsied female, all unrelated to one another) were further investigated on neurodegeneration. Brain MRI stud...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Horimoto Y,Matsumoto M,Akatsu H,Kojima A,Yoshida M,Nokura K,Yuasa H,Katada E,Yamamoto T,Kosaka K,Hashizume Y,Yamamoto H,Mitake S

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recessive mutations in GJC2, the gene-encoding connexin 47 (Cx47), cause Pelizaeus-Merzbacher-like disease type 1, a severe dysmyelinating disorder. One recessive mutation (p.Ile33Met) has been associated with a much milder phenotype--hereditary spastic paraplegia type 44. Here, we present evidence that a novel Arg98L...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Abrams CK,Scherer SS,Flores-Obando R,Freidin MM,Wong S,Lamantea E,Farina L,Scaioli V,Pareyson D,Salsano E

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Optic neuritis usually presents with rapid and gradual loss of vision that is either complete or incomplete, and typically associated with retro-orbital pain. To our knowledge there have been no documented reports of optic neuritis presenting with multiple episodes of amaurosis fugax, the sudden and transient loss of ...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Awad AM,Estephan B,Warnack W,Stüve O

更新日期：2009-12-01 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：OBJECTIVE:We report a clinical description of pure sensory stroke based on data collected from a prospective acute stroke registry. METHODS:From 2500 acute stroke patients included in a hospital-based prospective stroke registry over a 12-year period, 99 were identified as having pure sensory stroke. RESULTS:Pure sen...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Arboix A,García-Plata C,García-Eroles L,Massons J,Comes E,Oliveres M,Targa C

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Headache attributed to ingestion of a cold stimulus (ICHD-3 beta 4.5.1) is also known as ice cream headache (ICH). This cross-sectional epidemiological study included 283 students (10-14-year-olds) attending a grammar school in Germany, their parents (n = 401), and 41 teachers. A self-administered questionnaire was us...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Zierz AM,Mehl T,Kraya T,Wienke A,Zierz S

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The symptomatology of 18 patients with the severest clinical course after subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) is described and analyzed. Seventeen patients died, five with an acute bulbar syndrome with cardiac arrest, and 12 with irreversible breakdown of brain function. One patient had an apallic syndrome with minimal sign...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Binder H,Gerstenbrand F,Jellinger K,Krenn J,Watzek C

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dimethyl fumarate (DMF), fingolimod (FTY) and teriflunomide (TFN) are oral disease-modifying therapies (DMTs) approved for relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis (RRMS) whose efficacy and tolerability have been separately assessed in phase III trials. Conversely, little evidence exists about their head-to-head compari...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Lattanzi S,Danni M,Taffi R,Cerqua R,Carlini G,Pulcini A,Provinciali L,Silvestrini M

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An ultrastructural study of biopsied muscles was performed in seven patients with rimmed vacuolar distal myopathy, which was characterized by prominent rimmed vacuoles in the muscle fibers. The earliest changes noted were focal proliferation of the Golgi's apparatus and mitochondrial degeneration with myofibrillar los...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Mizusawa H,Kurisaki H,Takatsu M,Inoue K,Mannen T,Toyokura Y,Nakanishi T

更新日期：1987-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Late-onset Pompe disease (LOPD) is an often misdiagnosed inherited myopathy for which treatment exists. We noticed a bright tongue sign on brain MRIs of two patients who were admitted to the ICU for respiratory failure of unclear origin, and who were eventually diagnosed with LOPD. This led us to systematica...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Karam C,Dimitrova D,Yutan E,Chahin N

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two siblings with Lafora disease (LD) are described: one with epilepsy, myoclonus, EEG abnormalities, severe dementia and many Lafora bodies (LBs) in muscle and skin tissue; the other with myoclonus, epilepsy, EEG abnormalities and LBs in muscle and in skin tissue, without dementia. The findings suggest that the diagn...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Iannaccone S,Zucconi M,Quattrini A,Nemni R,Comola M,Taccagni L,Smirne S

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pontocerebellar hypoplasia type 2 (PCH2) is a very rare autosomal recessive disorder. We report two unrelated female patients born to consanguineous parents presenting with this condition. Patient 1 showed a classical clinical/neuroradiological phenotype of PCH2 with dyskinesia/dystonia. Patient 2 had a neonatal onset...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Grosso S,Mostadini R,Cioni M,Galluzzi P,Morgese G,Balestri P

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurological manifestations in pandemics frequently cause short and long-term consequences which are frequently overlooked. Despite advances in the treatment of infectious diseases, nervous system involvement remains a challenge, with limited treatments often available. The under-recognition of neurological manifestat...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Valerio F,Whitehouse DP,Menon DK,Newcombe VFJ

更新日期：2020-10-26 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe three patients with a late presentation of congenital muscular torticollis to emphasize that this non-dystonic type of torticollis has to be considered in the differential diagnosis of cervical dystonia, even in adult patients. Surgery is the treatment of choice. Postoperatively, two of our patients had a ...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Brans J,Aramideh M,Bosch A,Speelman H

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The computed tomography, magnetic resonance imaging and angiographic findings are described in a patient with Klippel-Trenaunay syndrome, who also had a cerebral haemorrhage from an arteriovenous malformation. The resulting aphasia disappeared completely after resorption of the haemorrhage. In this syndrome, the occur...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Jaksch H,Bewermeyer H,Dreesbach HA,Heiss WD

更新日期：1986-02-01 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：:Glucocorticoids are the standard of care for multiple sclerosis (MS) relapses, but the most desirable route of administration is still matter of debate. The aim of the study was to compare the efficacy and safety of oral versus intravenous steroids for treatment of acute relapses in patients with MS. Randomized or qua...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Lattanzi S,Cagnetti C,Danni M,Provinciali L,Silvestrini M

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 37-year-old man presented with an acute amnestic syndrome of Korsakoff's type and an upper brain-stem oculomotor syndrome. After a moderate improvement with steroid therapy, he developed progressive behavioural changes due to a frontal lobe syndrome, in addition to motor and visual impairment. Memory performance was...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Vighetto A,Charles N,Salzmann M,Confavreux C,Aimard G

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ten female patients suffering from catamenial epilepsy were treated with a synthetic analogue of the gonadotrophin releasing hormone (GnRH) in addition to antiepileptic drugs. Three of the patients became seizure free, in four patients seizure frequency decreased and in one patient seizures were of shorter duration. I...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Bauer J,Wildt L,Flügel D,Stefan H

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Putaminal iron deposition is a histopathological feature of multiple system atrophy (MSA), which is not observed in patients with idiopathic Parkinson's disease (PD). T2*-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) gradient echo (GE) sequences are sensitive for paramagnetic susceptibility changes and therefore...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： von Lewinski F,Werner C,Jörn T,Mohr A,Sixel-Döring F,Trenkwalder C

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00