Neurophysiological studies in the Leigh syndrome.

abstract：:We report on a 9-year-old boy who presented with acute encephalopathy and hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (HLH). The patient was referred to our hospital because of fever, seizures, and decreased consciousness. He showed moderately elevated levels of proinflammatory cytokines in the cerebrospinal fluid and plasma, ...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Wada T,Nishiura K,Kuroda M,Asai E,Vu QV,Toma T,Niida Y,Yachie A

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Doublecortin (DCX) and tubulin play critical roles in neuronal migration. DCX mutations usually cause anterior dominant lissencephaly in males and subcortical band heterotopia (SBH) in females. We used whole-exome sequencing to investigate causative gene variants in a large family with late-childhood-onset focal epile...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Kim YO,Nam TS,Park C,Kim SK,Yoon W,Choi SY,Kim MK,Woo YJ

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Germline mutations of the PTEN gene are responsible for several PTEN hamartoma tumor syndromes. They are also implicated as a cause of macrocephaly and mild to severe developmental delay, regardless of the presence or absence of hamartomas in childhood. Nevertheless, because of limited information, the clini...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Kato K,Mizuno S,Inaba M,Fukumura S,Kurahashi N,Maruyama K,Ieda D,Ohashi K,Hori I,Negishi Y,Hattori A,Saitoh S

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The diagnosis of fragile X A syndrome (FRAXA) during childhood depends largely on DNA-based diagnostic tests due to the lack of the specific clinical features. To determine a non-invasive screening method for fragile X syndrome, we studied the method of DNA-based diagnosis using urine or hair roots instead of routinel...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Suwa K,Momoi MY

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pelizaeus-Merzbacher-like disease (PMLD) is a hypomyelinating disorder of the central nervous system caused by mutation in the gap junction protein alpha 12 (GJA12) gene. Uniparental disomy (UPD) is defined as the presence of a chromosome pair, in a diploid individual, that derives from only one parent. Here, we analy...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Wang J,Wang H,Wang Y,Chen T,Wu X,Jiang Y

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Biotinidase deficiency (BTD) is an autosomal recessive inborn error of metabolism provoking progressive biotin depletion, which causes, in turn, multiple carboxylase deficiency. Its infantile onset is characterized by intractable seizures associated with lethargy, psychomotor regression, hypotonia, feeding a...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Battini R,Olivieri G,Milone R,Mazio F,Scalise R,Verdolotti T,Primiano G,Genovese O,Mercuri E,Servidei S

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To analyze and to discuss whether by paying attention to the many recent advancements in the field of pediatric epilepsy surgery catastrophic childhood epilepsies caused by definitive or suspected structural lesions can be prevented more often these days in comparison to the past. METHODS:Based on data from ...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Holthausen H,Pieper T,Kudernatsch M

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Various abnormalities of sleep have been reported in extrapyramidal diseases in adults. We have investigated the disturbances of REM sleep (SREM) in severe athetoid cerebral palsy (ACP) originating perinatally. Ten ACP patients, 5 males and 5 females ranging from 15 to 30 years old, were studied by means of all-night ...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Hayashi M,Inoue Y,Iwakawa Y,Sasaki H

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the effects of stimulus rates on the somatosensory evoked potential (SEP) amplitudes following median nerve stimulation at the wrist in 42 children. We divided these subjects into five groups according to their age (0-6 months, 7-12 months, 1-3 years, 4-6 years and more than 7 years) and measured the peak-...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Araki A,Takada A,Yasuhara A,Kobayashi Y

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Primary pseudotumor cerebri (PTC) in childhood is a rare but important differential diagnosis in children presenting with papilledema. It is defined as elevated cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) pressure of more than 20 cm H(2)O, normal CSF composition, and exclusion of underlying structural or systemic causes. Vi...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Distelmaier F,Sengler U,Messing-Juenger M,Assmann B,Mayatepek E,Rosenbaum T

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Epilepsy is a common chronic disorder in pediatric neurology. Nowadays, a variety of antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) are available. A scientific method designed to evaluate the effectiveness of AEDs in the early stage of treatment has not been reported. PURPOSE:In this study, we try to use quantitative EEG (QEEG...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Ouyang CS,Chiang CT,Yang RC,Wu RC,Wu HC,Lin LC

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Magnetic resonance (MR) findings in cases of total asphyxia, whose lesions are mainly in the brainstem and deep nuclei, have not been clarified. In this study, we investigated MR images in neonates with total asphyxia. MR images of six infants (three males and three females; gestational age, 35-39 weeks; birth weights...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Sugiura H,Kouwaki M,Kato T,Ogata T,Sakamoto R,Ieshima A,Yokochi K

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alexander disease is a major entity of leukodystrophy; magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) studies of the brain typically show extensive changes in the cerebral white matter with frontal predominance. Heterozygous missense mutations of GFAP are thought to be sufficient for the molecular diagnosis, which has widened the A...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Shiihara T,Yoneda T,Mizuta I,Yoshida T,Nakagawa M,Shimizu N

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the case of an 11-year-old girl who developed slowly progressive atrophy of the left lower extremity. She suffered from mild dilated cardiomyopathy of unknown cause since 4years of age. When she was 7years old, her family noticed that her left extremity was thinner compared to the right one. Computed tomogra...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Miyahara-Katayama A,Ohya Y,Omi T,Komaki H,Nonaka I,Sato N,Sasaki M

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serial polygraphic recordings of two to three hours duration were made in five full-term newborns with trisomy 18 and one full-term newborn with trisomy 13 syndrome. The newborns with 18 trisomy syndrome were poor sleepers with long periods of wakefulness and/or drowsiness. There were no consistent abnormalities in th...

journal_title：Brain & development

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

更新日期：1979-01-01 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：:Hyperprolinemia type I (HPI) results from a deficiency of proline oxidase (POX), involved in the first step in the conversion of proline to glutamate. Diverse phenotypes were described in patients with HPI, prior to the identification of the POX gene (PRODH): whereas various patients were asymptomatic, others had neur...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Afenjar A,Moutard ML,Doummar D,Guët A,Rabier D,Vermersch AI,Mignot C,Burglen L,Heron D,Thioulouse E,de Villemeur TB,Campion D,Rodriguez D

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:As a new screening tool for neuromotor development in children aged two, we developed the Neuromotor 5 min Exam 2-year-old version (N5E2), which can be easily administered by pediatricians or primary care physicians. In this study, as an initial attempt to examine the utility of the N5E2, the inter-rater reli...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Aoki S,Hashimoto K,Mezawa H,Hatakenaka Y,Yasumitsu-Lovell K,Suganuma N,Ohya Y,Wilson P,Fernell E,Kamio Y,Gillberg C

更新日期：2018-06-01 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：:Fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) of DNA-DNA or DNA-RNA using post-mortem brain samples is one approach to study low-level chromosomal aneuploidy and selective expression of specific genes in the brain of patients with neuropsychiatric diseases. We have performed a pilot molecular-cytogenetic analysis of post-...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Yurov YB,Vostrikov VM,Vorsanova SG,Monakhov VV,Iourov IY

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twelve patients with early infancy onset megalencephaly and leukodystrophy with a mild clinical course are reported. The neuroradiological, clinical, and genetic aspects of this recently recognized familial leukodystrophy syndrome were reviewed. Five were affected siblings, and all patients had consanguineous parents....

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Topcu M,Saatci I,Topcuoglu MA,Kose G,Kunak B

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Patients with Tourette syndrome (TS) often report characteristic sensory experiences, also called premonitory urges (PUs), which precede tic expression and have high diagnostic relevance. This study investigated the usefulness of a scale developed and validated in children and adolescents-the Premonitory Urge...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Crossley E,Seri S,Stern JS,Robertson MM,Cavanna AE

更新日期：2014-01-01 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：: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：:To clarify the predictive value of the seven more commonly used postural reactions (PR) in the 1st year of life regarding the diagnosis of cerebral palsy (CP), we prospectively examined 204 high-risk infants of whom 58 developed CP, 22 had developmental retardation (DR) and 124 were normal at follow-up at 3 years of a...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Zafeiriou DI,Tsikoulas IG,Kremenopoulos GM,Kontopoulos EE

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Becker muscular dystrophy (BMD) was diagnosed in a male patient with Klinefelter's syndrome (47, XXY karyotype). The BMD was confirmed by (i) immunohistological methods and Western blotting, showing decreased quantity of dystrophin in muscle biopsy specimen and (ii) molecular genetic analysis which demonstrated a homo...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Zeitoun O,Ketelsen UP,Wolff G,Müller CR,Korinthenberg R

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Amongst the motor, mental, cognitive and emotional symptoms of the Rett syndrome (RS) the motor symptoms stand out as the hallmark in analyzing the essential pathophysiology. Summarizing the motor symptoms and searching into the knowledge of relevant basic sciences, this report aims at stressing the pathophysiological...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Nomura Y,Segawa M

更新日期：1992-05-01 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：:In order to study the validity of disintegrative psychosis (DP) as defined in ICD-9, we compared the natural history of somatic morbidity of 13 patients given this diagnosis in childhood with a control group of 39 patients with infantile autism (IA) matched for gender, age, IQ and social class. Average follow-up time ...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Mouridsen SE,Rich B,Isager T

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glucose transporter type I deficiency syndrome (GLUT-1 DS) is an inborn error of glucose transport characterized by seizures, developmental delay, spasticity, acquired microcephaly and ataxia. Diagnosis is based on the finding of low cerebrospinal fluid glucose, in the absence of hypoglycemia, and identification of GL...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Veggiotti P,Teutonico F,Alfei E,Nardocci N,Zorzi G,Tagliabue A,De Giorgis V,Balottin U

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00