A unifying hypothesis for the cause of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, parkinsonism, and Alzheimer disease.

abstract：:Averaged electroencephalographic activity related to rhythmic jerking movements was recorded in a patient with a complex neurological symptomatology. The diagnosis of a functional disorder was strongly suggested by his clinical course, inconsistent findings from physical examination, and negative workup. His abnormal ...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Toro C,Torres F

更新日期：1986-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:We utilized the amyloid imaging ligand Pittsburgh Compound B (PiB) to determine the presence of Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathology in different mild cognitive impairment (MCI) subtypes and to relate increased PiB binding to other markers of early AD and longitudinal outcome. METHODS:Twenty-six patients with ...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Wolk DA,Price JC,Saxton JA,Snitz BE,James JA,Lopez OL,Aizenstein HJ,Cohen AD,Weissfeld LA,Mathis CA,Klunk WE,De-Kosky ST

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The North American study of plasmapheresis in Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) included early, standardized electrodiagnostic testing in 210 of the 245 patients. To determine the types of abnormalities and the relation to outcome, we analyzed the prospectively collected motor conduction data obtained during the first 30 ...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Cornblath DR,Mellits ED,Griffin JW,McKhann GM,Albers JW,Miller RG,Feasby TE,Quaskey SA

更新日期：1988-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied 23 patients with clinically defined mitochondrial encephalomyopathy, lactic acidosis, and stroke-like episodes (MELAS), 25 oligosymptomatic or asymptomatic maternal relatives, and 50 mitochondrial disease control subjects for the presence of a previously reported heteroplasmic point mutation at nt 3,243 in ...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Ciafaloni E,Ricci E,Shanske S,Moraes CT,Silvestri G,Hirano M,Simonetti S,Angelini C,Donati MA,Garcia C

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Life table methods were used to determine the relative risk of Alzheimer's disease (AD) in relatives of index cases with AD. Risk of AD was assessed in 967 first-degree relatives of 128 probands with clinically diagnosed AD and 572 first-degree relatives of a control group consisting of 84 subjects with Parkinson's di...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Farrer LA,O'Sullivan DM,Cupples LA,Growdon JH,Myers RH

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Axonal degeneration is a major cause of permanent neurological deficit in multiple sclerosis (MS), but no current therapies for the disease are known to be effective at axonal protection. Here, we examine the ability of a sodium channel-blocking agent, flecainide, to reduce axonal degeneration in an experimental model...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Bechtold DA,Kapoor R,Smith KJ

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genomic triplication of the alpha-synuclein gene recently has been associated with familial Parkinson's disease in the Spellman-Muenter kindred. Here, we present an independent family, of Swedish-American descent, with hereditary early-onset parkinsonism with dementia due to alpha-synuclein triplication. Brain tissue ...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Farrer M,Kachergus J,Forno L,Lincoln S,Wang DS,Hulihan M,Maraganore D,Gwinn-Hardy K,Wszolek Z,Dickson D,Langston JW

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We registered 366 families in a study of dominantly inherited amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Two hundred ninety families were screened for mutations in the gene encoding copper-zinc cytosolic superoxide dismutase (SOD1). Mutations were detected in 68 families. The most common SOD1 mutation is an alanine for valine sub...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Cudkowicz ME,McKenna-Yasek D,Sapp PE,Chin W,Geller B,Hayden DL,Schoenfeld DA,Hosler BA,Horvitz HR,Brown RH

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously reported a marked increase of a 20,000 molecular weight (MW) protein, P20, in some neuronal fractions and whole cortical homogenates isolated from affected cortex in Alzheimer disease; P20 comigrated electrophoretically with an unidentified, major 20,000 MW protein present in human neurofilament (NF) fra...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Selkoe DJ,Brown BA,Salazar FJ,Marotta CA

更新日期：1981-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We measured neurotransmitter markers in autopsied brain of infants with glycine encephalopathy (GE). Because patients with GE develop intractable seizures, special attention was devoted to those neurotransmitter systems implicated in human epilepsy. Mean levels of glycine in the frontal cortex of GE patients were thre...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Kish SJ,Dixon LM,Burnham WM,Perry TL,Becker L,Cheng J,Chang LJ,Rebbetoy M

更新日期：1988-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasma valproate concentrations were monitored prospectively in 54 previously untreated adult patients with epilepsy. Dose and plasma concentration were highly correlated. Adverse effects were common in association with plasma levels above 100 micrograms/ml. In patients suffering tonic-clonic seizures without focal sy...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Turnbull DM,Rawlins MD,Weightman D,Chadwick DW

更新日期：1983-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A modified technique of isoelectric focusing on thin-layer polyacrylamide gel followed by immunofixation with monospecific antisera was used to identify individual cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) and serum proteins and to define the oligoclonal reaction observed in multiple sclerosis (MS). "Normal" IgG gave about 20 to 30 b...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Laurenzi MA,Mavra M,Kam-Hansen S,Link H

更新日期：1980-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Focal cortical myoclonus is rare. Obvious causes include tumor or atrophy involving the motor strip, but in some cases no cause is apparent. We present 4 patients who started to have focal myoclonus in childhood. All had focal motor seizures as well, and one had recurrent focal motor status epilepticus. All 4 had a mi...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Kuzniecky R,Berkovic S,Andermann F,Melanson D,Olivier A,Robitaille Y

更新日期：1988-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Hemodynamic impairment in one hemisphere has been shown to trigger ipsilateral motor activation in the opposite hemisphere on functional imaging. We hypothesized that reversing the hypoperfusion would normalize the motor activation pattern. METHODS:We studied four patients with high-grade stenosis and impair...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Chmayssani M,Lazar RM,Hirsch J,Marshall RS

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The objective of this study was to investigate the role of CD8+ CD25+ FoxP3+ cells during the course of multiple sclerosis (MS). METHODS:Peripheral blood and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) CD8+ T-cell clones (TCCs) recognizing autoreactive CD4+ T cells were isolated from 20 MS patients during exacerbations, 15 pa...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Correale J,Villa A

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have developed a radioimmunoassay to measure a specific neurological component, the basic protein of myelin, and have used this test for assessing this component in spinal fluid. The levels of basic protein in spinal fluid correlate closely with the clinical activity of multiple sclerosis; therefore the test can be...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Cohen SR,Brooks BR,Herndon RM,McKhann GM

更新日期：1980-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ten patients with sporadic olivopontocerebellar atrophy and autonomic failure were studied with positron emission tomography. Subjects underwent both an [11C]diprenorphine and an [18F]fluorodopa scan. The mean caudate-occipital uptake ratio for [11C]diprenorphine was significantly reduced to 88% and the putamen-occipi...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Rinne JO,Burn DJ,Mathias CJ,Quinn NP,Marsden CD,Brooks DJ

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A hereditary ceruloplasmin deficiency associated with severe iron deposition in visceral organ and brain tissues found on histopathological examination at autopsy is discussed. Three siblings of consanguineous Japanese parents were studied. Their clinical symptoms were progressive dementia, extrapyramidal disorders, c...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Morita H,Ikeda S,Yamamoto K,Morita S,Yoshida K,Nomoto S,Kato M,Yanagisawa N

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An in vitro preparation has been developed in which epileptogenesis in mammalian central nervous system tissue may be studied. Addition of sodium penicillin to the medium bathing slices of guinea pig hippocampus induced epileptiform activity similar to that seen in hippocampal penicillin foci in vivo. Epileptiform eve...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Schwartzkroin PA,Prince DA

更新日期：1977-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To explore the prognostic implications of epilepsy duration and age at surgery for seizure outcomes after frontal lobe epilepsy (FLE) surgery. METHODS:We reviewed 158 patients who underwent FLE surgery from 1995 to 2010. The primary outcome was seizure freedom at last follow-up (Engel class IA). Analyses emp...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Simasathien T,Vadera S,Najm I,Gupta A,Bingaman W,Jehi L

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intracytoplasmic aggregation of alpha-synuclein protein as Lewy bodies in the brainstem neurons is diagnostic for Parkinson's disease, whereas if this process also occurs in the cortical neurons, it is considered pathognomonic for dementia with Lewy bodies. However, the link between alpha-synuclein incorporation into ...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Parkkinen L,Kauppinen T,Pirttilä T,Autere JM,Alafuzoff I

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We evaluated the role of positron emission tomography (PET) with [18F]deoxyglucose (FDG) (FDG-PET) for planning surgery in 53 patients who had temporal lobectomy for uncontrolled seizures at National Institutes of Health from 1981 to 1990. Investigators blinded to PET data used results of telemetered video-electroence...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Theodore WH,Sato S,Kufta C,Balish MB,Bromfield EB,Leiderman DB

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Loss of function mutations in PINK1 typically lead to early onset Parkinson disease (PD). Zebrafish (Danio rerio) are emerging as a powerful new vertebrate model to study neurodegenerative diseases. We used a pink1 mutant (pink(-/-) ) zebrafish line with a premature stop mutation (Y431*) in the PINK1 kinase d...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Flinn LJ,Keatinge M,Bretaud S,Mortiboys H,Matsui H,De Felice E,Woodroof HI,Brown L,McTighe A,Soellner R,Allen CE,Heath PR,Milo M,Muqit MM,Reichert AS,Köster RW,Ingham PW,Bandmann O

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An increasing spectrum of diseases has been shown to be associated with the human T-cell lymphotropic virus type I (HTLV-I), most notably a chronic, progressive myelopathy termed HTLV-I--associated myelopathy/tropical spastic paraparesis and adult T-cell leukemia. HTLV-II is a close relative of HTLV-I and is structura...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Jacobson S,Lehky T,Nishimura M,Robinson S,McFarlin DE,Dhib-Jalbut S

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations of the ganglioside-induced differentiation-associated protein 1 gene (GDAP1) cause autosomal recessive Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease type 4A. We report four additional families with recessive mutations (487C-->T, Q163X; 359G-->A, R120Q) of GDAP1; Q163X occurred in three unrelated Hispanic families that had the...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Boerkoel CF,Takashima H,Nakagawa M,Izumo S,Armstrong D,Butler I,Mancias P,Papasozomenos SC,Stern LZ,Lupski JR

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a young child with tuberous sclerosis and cardiac rhabdomyoma who developed reversible heart block after being placed on carbamazepine treatment for seizures. Patients of any age with known or suspected intrinsic cardiac disease should be monitored for conduction disturbance if they are treated with carbam...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Weig SG,Pollack P

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a double-blind crossover study in which patients received placebo or active drug for varying periods, we evaluated the ability of guanidine hydrochloride (20 to 35 mg/kg per day perorally) to improve the rate of recovery in patients with moderate or severe botulism, type A, intoxication. Among 14 patients who recei...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Kaplan JE,Davis LE,Narayan V,Koster J,Katzenstein D

更新日期：1979-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Orally administered levodopa remains the most effective symptomatic treatment for Parkinson's disease (PD). The introduction of levodopa therapy is often delayed, however, because of the fear that it might be toxic for the remaining dopaminergic neurons and, thus, accelerate the deterioration of patients. However, in ...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Murer MG,Dziewczapolski G,Menalled LB,García MC,Agid Y,Gershanik O,Raisman-Vozari R

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Pituitary dysfunction is a recognized consequence of traumatic brain injury (TBI) that causes cognitive, psychological, and metabolic impairment. Hormone replacement offers a therapeutic opportunity. Blast TBI (bTBI) from improvised explosive devices is commonly seen in soldiers returning from recent conflict...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Baxter D,Sharp DJ,Feeney C,Papadopoulou D,Ham TE,Jilka S,Hellyer PJ,Patel MC,Bennett AN,Mistlin A,McGilloway E,Midwinter M,Goldstone AP

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The aim of the study was to evaluate whether the visual analysis of muscle magnetic resonance imaging scans can identify specific patterns of muscle involvement. METHODS:We assessed scans from 83 patients with muscle disorders characterized by rigidity of the spine secondary to mutations in 4 different genes...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Mercuri E,Clements E,Offiah A,Pichiecchio A,Vasco G,Bianco F,Berardinelli A,Manzur A,Pane M,Messina S,Gualandi F,Ricci E,Rutherford M,Muntoni F

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00