Tourette syndrome: successful treatment with clonidine and oxycodone.

abstract：:A total of 15 patients affected by idiopathic dystonia (7 with generalized and 8 with focal or segmental dystonia) were subjected to therapy with bromocriptine at low doses, pimozide and trihexyphenidyl. The symptoms were evaluated by giving a progressive score in relation to the intensity of the dystonic symptom to e...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Girotti F,Scigliano G,Nardocci N,Angelini L,Broggi G,Giovannini P,Caraceni T

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Among the hereditary cerebellar ataxias (CAs), there are at least 36 different forms of autosomal dominant cerebellar ataxia (ADCAs), 20 autosomal recessive cerebellar ataxias (ARCAs), two X-linked ataxias, and several forms of ataxia associated with mitochondrial defects. Despite the steady increase in the number of ...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Mancuso M,Orsucci D,Siciliano G,Bonuccelli U

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:The present study aimed to survey the prevalence of prodromal symptoms of Parkinson's disease (PD) in Japanese health checkup examinees, for identifying at-risk subjects. METHODS:We conducted a questionnaire survey of annual health checkup examinees without neurological symptoms using the following self-r...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Hattori M,Tsuboi T,Yokoi K,Tanaka Y,Sato M,Suzuki K,Arahata Y,Hori A,Kawashima M,Hirakawa A,Washimi Y,Watanabe H,Katsuno M

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Recent retrospective studies found sleep disorders, including obstructive sleep apnea and its symptoms to occur more often in patients following aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage, but studies investigating the incidence of subarachnoid hemorrhage in patients with diagnosed obstructive sleep apnea [OSA] comp...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Zaremba S,Albus L,Schuss P,Vatter H,Klockgether T,Güresir E

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The significance of neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (NLR) has been explored in different diseases. Few studies addressed its role in patients with multiple sclerosis (MS), with promising results regarding its association with disease activity or disability. OBJECTIVES:We aimed at confirming the role of NLR a...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Gelibter S,Pisa M,Croese T,Dalla Costa G,Orrico M,Preziosa P,Sangalli F,Martinelli V,Furlan R,Filippi M

更新日期：2021-01-03 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：BACKGROUND:Little is known about the change in prevalence of comorbidities during the disease course of people with multiple sclerosis (MS) and whether the prevalences vary by MS onset type. OBJECTIVE:To calculate the change in prevalence of comorbidities between symptom onset and the time of study, to compare the pre...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Lo LMP,Taylor BV,Winzenberg T,Palmer AJ,Blizzard L,van der Mei I

更新日期：2020-09-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Nerve conduction studies (NCS) and electromyography (EMG), often shortened to 'EMGs', are a useful adjunct to clinical examination of the peripheral nervous system and striated skeletal muscle. NCS provide an efficient and rapid method of quantifying nerve conduction velocity (CV) and the amplitude of both sensory ner...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Kane NM,Oware A

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DWI has been described in some reports to be superior to FLAIR in early stage herpes simple virus encephalitis (HSE). Few data exist on detailed topographical MRI analysis in HSE. Our aim was to study DWI and FLAIR, and analyse topographically these sequences in non-neonatal HSE patients with MRI performed within 60 d...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Renard D,Nerrant E,Lechiche C

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP) is a rare, autoimmune-inflammatory disease of the peripheral nervous system. Recently, various immunoglobulin G4 (IgG4) type auto-antibodies have been described in patients with CIDP which can effectively be removed by immunoadsorption (IA). Therefore, ...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Dorst J,Ludolph AC,Senel M,Tumani H

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Autosomal recessive spastic ataxia of Charlevoix-Saguenay (ARSACS) is a rare early onset neurodegenerative disease that typically results in ataxia, upper motor neuron dysfunction and sensorimotor peripheral neuropathy. Dysarthria and dysphagia are anecdotally described as key features of ARSACS but the natu...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Vogel AP,Rommel N,Oettinger A,Stoll LH,Kraus EM,Gagnon C,Horger M,Krumm P,Timmann D,Storey E,Schöls L,Synofzik M

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inborn errors of metabolism in 40 children have been investigated by computed tomography to obtain data on the degree of cerebral involvement in neurodegenerative and storage disorders: 20 children had various mucopolysaccharidoses, 8 sphingolipidoses , 3 mucolipidoses, 2 oligosaccharidoses , 3 ceroidlipofuscinoses an...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Wende S,Ludwig B,Kishikawa T,Rochel M,Gehler J

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four patients with aphasia due to small circumscribed thalamic lesions are presented. A review of the literature on thalamic aphasia revealed 16 similar cases. While the general consensus that only left-sided thalmic lesions are associated with aphasia is confirmed, analysis of the sites of the thalamic infarctions an...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Bruyn RP

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To explore the value of olfactory identification deficits as a predictor of cerebral β-amyloid status and other markers of brain health in cognitively normal adults aged ~ 70 years. METHODS:Cross-sectional observational cohort study. 389 largely healthy and cognitively normal older adults were recruited from...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Buchanan SM,Parker TD,Lane CA,Keshavan A,Keuss SE,Lu K,James SN,Murray-Smith H,Wong A,Nicholas J,Cash DM,Malone IB,Coath W,Thomas DL,Sudre C,Fox NC,Richards M,Schott JM

更新日期：2020-11-01 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：:Early identification of cardiogenic vertigo (CV) is necessary to prevent serious complications of cardiovascular diseases. However, the literature is limited to case reports without detailed clinical features or diagnostic criteria. The aim of this study was to define characteristics of CV and propose diagnostic crite...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Kim HA,Ahn J,Park HS,Lee SM,Choi SY,Oh EH,Choi JH,Kim JS,Choi KD

更新日期：2020-10-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Two sexually active female patients presented with acute meningitis. The CSF abnormalities were severe and persistent. In spite of the absence of genital lesions, serological studies revealed a primary infection by herpes simplex virus type 2. An immunoblot study revealed intrathecal synthesis of anti-herpes antibodie...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Boucquey D,Chalon MP,Sindic CJ,Lamy ME,Laterre C

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tibial muscular dystrophy (TMD) or Udd myopathy is an autosomal dominant distal myopathy with late onset, at first described in the Finnish population. We report here the first Italian cases of TTN mutated titinopathy. The proband, a 60 year-old female, had the first muscular signs at the age of 59 years, with difficu...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Pollazzon M,Suominen T,Penttilä S,Malandrini A,Carluccio MA,Mondelli M,Marozza A,Federico A,Renieri A,Hackman P,Dotti MT,Udd B

更新日期：2010-04-01 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：:Small retrospective case series suggest that decompressive hemicraniectomy can be life saving in patients with cerebral venous thrombosis (CVT) and impending brain herniation. Prospective studies of consecutive cases are lacking. Thus, a single centre, prospective study was performed. In 2006 we adapted our protocol f...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Zuurbier SM,Coutinho JM,Majoie CB,Coert BA,van den Munckhof P,Stam J

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This review gives an overview of various neuroimmunological diseases in terms of incidence and prevalence rates, age and sex distribution, and the frequency of subtypes, if applicable. The disorders selected for review are inflammatory muscle disorders (polymyositis, dermatomyositis and inclusion body myositis), myast...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Flachenecker P

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We evaluated 49 paired cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) and serum samples of 35 patients infected with the human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) for laboratory evidence of cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection. The patients were grouped according to clinical criteria as probable CMV encephalitis/polyradiculomyelitis, CMV ret...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Weber T,Beck R,Stark E,Gerhards J,Korn K,Haas J,Lüer W,Jahn G

更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mal de debarquement (MdD) is a subjective perception of self-motion after exposure to passive motion, in most cases sea travel, hence the name. Mal de debarquement occurs quite frequently in otherwise healthy individuals for a short period of time (several hours). However, in some people symptoms remain for a longer p...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Van Ombergen A,Van Rompaey V,Maes LK,Van de Heyning PH,Wuyts FL

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic evidence indicates a central role of cerebral accumulation of beta-amyloid (Abeta) in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease (AD). Beside presenilin 1 and 2, three other recently discovered proteins (Aph 1, PEN 2 and nicastrin) are associated with gamma-secretase activity, the enzymatic complex generating Abe...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Sala Frigerio C,Piscopo P,Calabrese E,Crestini A,Malvezzi Campeggi L,Civita di Fava R,Fogliarino S,Albani D,Marcon G,Cherchi R,Piras R,Forloni G,Confaloni A

更新日期：2005-09-01 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：:Multiple system atrophy and progressive supranuclear palsy are disabling neurodegenerative disorders, also known as atypical parkinsonian syndromes. Currently, no health economic evaluations of these diseases are available. The objective of this study was to evaluate disease-related costs in German patients with multi...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Winter Y,Stamelou M,Cabanel N,Sixel-Döring F,Eggert K,Höglinger GU,Herting B,Klockgether T,Reichmann H,Oertel WH,Dodel R,Spottke AE

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Various parameters of histamine metabolism were studied in patients with migraine, cluster headache and chronic paroxysmal hemicrania. These included urinary excretion of radioactivity and of 14C histamine and its metabolites, exhaled 14CO2 and fecal radioactivity after oral as well as subcutaneous administration of r...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Sjaastad O,Sjaastad OV

更新日期：1977-09-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease (CMT) is the most common inherited neuropathy with heterogeneous clinical presentation and genetic background. The axonal form (CMT2) is characterised by decreased action potentials indicating primary axonal damage. The underlying pathology involves axonal degeneration which is supposed to ...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Bansagi B,Antoniadi T,Burton-Jones S,Murphy SM,McHugh J,Alexander M,Wells R,Davies J,Hilton-Jones D,Lochmüller H,Chinnery P,Horvath R

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:There are varying reports on whether monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance-associated neuropathy (MGUSN) patients are distinguishable from those with chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP) and whether specific MGUSN subclasses are associated with specific clinical phenotypes. ...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Alkhawajah NM,Dunnigan SK,Bril V

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Different physiological mechanisms of facilitation of latencies and amplitudes of magnetic motor evoked potentials (MEPs) were evaluated in a cohort of 140 healthy volunteers. The potentials were induced at the vertex and recorded at the abductor pollicis brevis. The aim of the present investigation was to compare phy...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Hufnagel A,Jaeger M,Elger CE

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00