Dependence of the Achilles tendon reflex on the excitability of spinal reflex pathways.

abstract：:A recent controlled clinical trial suggested a role for amantadine as a treatment for pathological gambling in patients with Parkinson disease (PD). Analyzing data from a large cross-sectional study of impulse control disorders (ICDs) in PD, amantadine use (n = 728), vs no amantadine use (n = 2,357), was positively as...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Weintraub D,Sohr M,Potenza MN,Siderowf AD,Stacy M,Voon V,Whetteckey J,Wunderlich GR,Lang AE

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper attempts to place into perspective the present state of clinical investigation with PET in neurology. To this end we briefly review the work of the neurology group of the MRC Cyclotron Unit at Hammersmith Hospital, by reference to studies performed in normal subjects and in patients with cerebrovascular dis...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Frackowiak RS,Wise RJ,Gibbs JM,Jones T

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We prospectively recruited 10 patients who presented with urinary retention as a neurological deficit that was attributable to lateral medullary infarction. Of these, 9 patients underwent a urodynamic study, which demonstrated detrusor underactivity of the bladder in 7 patients. Urinary retention developed mainly when...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Cho HJ,Kang TH,Chang JH,Choi YR,Park MG,Choi KD,Sung SM,Park KP,Jung DS

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study assessed whether or not levodopa induces dyskinesias in normal (ie, unlesioned) squirrel monkeys. All six animals treated twice daily with levodopa (15 mg/kg with carbidopa by oral gavage) for two weeks developed choreoathetoid dyskinesias, whereas none of the vehicle-treated animals displayed any abnormal ...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Togasaki DM,Tan L,Protell P,Di Monte DA,Quik M,Langston JW

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During passive extension of the elbow, the triceps muscle normally shows a burst of electromyographic activity. This shortening reaction (SR) is known to be exaggerated in extrapyramidal disease states, but the effects of cerebellar disease are unknown. The SR was measured in both arms of a patient with hemiataxia, th...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Angel RW

更新日期：1982-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies using two seizure paradigms, electroconvulsive shock and kindling, suggested potential sites of endogenous thyrotropin-releasing hormone (TRH) action in specific epileptogenic areas. We studied TRH gene expression and TRH receptors in rat limbic areas using the kindling model of epilepsy. Immunoassaya...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Kubek MJ,Knoblach SM,Sharif NA,Burt DR,Buterbaugh GG,Fuson KS

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Passive joint position sense was tested in 10 subjects after unilateral total hip replacement surgery (which included capsulectomy). Varied initial limb position, amplitude, and velocity of movement were used. The unoperated side was used as a control. Statistically barely significant errors (p less than 0.025) on the...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Karanjia PN,Ferguson JH

更新日期：1983-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The monoclonal antibodies anti-Leu-19 and anti-NKH-1 recognize the CD56 differentiation antigen expressed on natural killer (NK) cells and on a T-cell subset. Because CD56 is an isoform of neural cell adhesion molecule (N-CAM), we examined its expression on human muscle using antibodies to Leu-19, NKH-1, and purified ...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Illa I,Leon-Monzon M,Dalakas MC

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Temporal lobe seizures are frequently associated with a characteristic pattern of hippocampal pathology (hippocampal sclerosis), as well as pathology in other temporal lobe structures. Despite more than a century of study, the relationship between pathology and epileptogenesis remains unclear. Endfolium sclerosis, whi...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Sloviter RS

更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic neuroinflammatory and neurodegenerative disease of unknown etiology. Although the prevalent view regards a CD4+ -lymphocyte autoimmune reaction against myelin at the root of the disease, recent studies propose autoimmunity as a secondary reaction to idiopathic brain damage...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Luchicchi A,Hart B,Frigerio I,van Dam AM,Perna L,Offerhaus HL,Stys PK,Schenk GJ,Geurts JJG

更新日期：2021-01-06 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the relationship between cerebral activity (measured with positron emission tomography) and word rate in normal subjects and aphasic patients listening to monosyllabic words at rates up to those encountered in normal speech. By measuring the slope of the regression of the individual activity-word rate ...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Leff A,Crinion J,Scott S,Turkheimer F,Howard D,Wise R

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two families with a point mutation in mtDNA associated with myoclonic epilepsy and ragged-red fiber disease showed pronounced clinical heterogeneity. The mothers of the two families had adult-onset myopathy with ragged-red fibers, partial deficiency of cytochrome c oxidase, and sensory neuropathy. Members of the first...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Graf WD,Sumi SM,Copass MK,Ojemann LM,Longstreth WT Jr,Shanske S,Lombes A,DiMauro S

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects on cerebral hemodynamics of venisection and a 4% albumin-saline infusion were studied in six patients with high hematocrit (mean, 51.5%). Cerebral blood flow (CBF) was measured using the xenon 133 intracarotid injection method. Blood gases were measured in arterial and jugular venous blood. Rapid two-stage...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Henriksen L,Paulson OB,Smith RJ

更新日期：1981-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) could potentially be used to interact with pathological brain signals to intervene and ameliorate their effects in disease states. Here, we provide proof-of-principle of this approach by using a BCI to interpret pathological brain activity in patients with advanced Parkinson d...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Little S,Pogosyan A,Neal S,Zavala B,Zrinzo L,Hariz M,Foltynie T,Limousin P,Ashkan K,FitzGerald J,Green AL,Aziz TZ,Brown P

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four patients, aged 7-20 years, suffered from recurrent episodes of flaccid paralysis and encephalopathy associated with bilateral striatal necrosis and chronic progressive polyneuropathy. Using homozygosity mapping, a pathogenic missense mutation in the SLC25A19 gene that encodes the mitochondrial thiamine pyrophosph...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Spiegel R,Shaag A,Edvardson S,Mandel H,Stepensky P,Shalev SA,Horovitz Y,Pines O,Elpeleg O

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In vivo phosphorus nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (31P NMR) was used to evaluate the pattern of phosphate compounds in seven newborn babies (mean gestational age, 32 weeks; birth weight, 1,430 gm; age, 37 days) with a history of perinatal asphyxia. Spectra were collected in a 1.9 Tesla superconductive magnet ...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Younkin DP,Delivoria-Papadopoulos M,Leonard JC,Subramanian VH,Eleff S,Leigh JS Jr,Chance B

更新日期：1984-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fuel utilization in two adult patients with the myopathic form of very long-chain acyl-CoA dehydrogenase (VLCAD) deficiency and five healthy subjects was investigated with stable isotopes during exercise at 50% of VO2max. The findings indicate that residual VLCAD activity in the patients is sufficient to maintain norm...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： ØRngreen MC,Nørgaard MG,Sacchetti M,van Engelen BG,Vissing J

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Magnetic resonance imaging is a highly sensitive method for the detection of the lesions of multiple sclerosis and renders possible the study and the evolution of early lesions. Previous reports on magnetic resonance imaging following gadolinium-diethylenetriamine pentaacetic acid (Gd-DTPA) injection demonstrated that...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Katz D,Taubenberger JK,Cannella B,McFarlin DE,Raine CS,McFarland HF

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Direct DNA tests for mutations in neurogenetic disorders are establishing a new era in diagnostic neurology. These highly accurate and specific tests will greatly improve diagnosis and genetic counseling, lead to more accurate assessment of prognosis, and reduce the cost of diagnostic evaluations. However, the use and...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Bird TD,Bennett RL

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:We tested the premise that cholinesterase inhibitor therapy should target butyrylcholinesterase (BuChE) in Alzheimer's disease (AD), not acetylcholinesterase (AChE) alone, because both enzymes hydrolyze acetylcholine, and BuChE is increased in AD cerebral cortex. METHODS:To examine this issue in vivo, we qua...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Kuhl DE,Koeppe RA,Snyder SE,Minoshima S,Frey KA,Kilbourn MR

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dopa-decarboxylase, acetylcholinesterase, sodium plus potassium stimulated adenosine triphosphatase (Na+ + K+-ATPase), and membrane-bound protein kinase were compared in the erythrocytes of patients with Huntington's disease and normal controls. All these enzymes also exist in the basal ganglia. The Na+ +K+-ATPase lev...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Butterfield DA,Oeswein JQ,Prunty ME,Hisle KC,Markesbery WR

更新日期：1978-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:We examined the sarcolemma of skeletal muscle from patients with facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD1A) to learn if, as in other murine and human muscular dystrophies, its organization and relationship to nearby contractile structures are altered. METHODS:Unfixed biopsies of control and FSHD deltoid...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Reed P,Porter NC,Strong J,Pumplin DW,Corse AM,Luther PW,Flanigan KM,Bloch RJ

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To clarify the influence of gastric emptying on levodopa-related motor fluctuations in Parkinson's disease, we assessed mobility and plasma levodopa concentrations in 10 patients during five modes of levodopa administration: (1) standard intermittent oral (SIO), (2) intermittent duodenal (ID), (3) continuous duodenal ...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Kurlan R,Nutt JG,Woodward WR,Rothfield K,Lichter D,Miller C,Carter JH,Shoulson I

更新日期：1988-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alterations of nodal and paranodal axolemma of the rat sciatic nerve were investigated in antigalactocerebroside serum-induced demyelination. A ferric ion-ferrocyanide (FeFCN) stain that appears to stain the regions with a high sodium channel density in nerve fibers was applied. When acute conduction block was initiat...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Saida K,Saida T,Kayama H,Nishitani H

更新日期：1984-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurotrophic factors have been demonstrated to prevent the development of peripheral neuropathy in animal models, but the therapeutic use of these factors in human disease has been limited by the short serum half-life and dose-limiting side effects of these potent peptides. We used peripheral subcutaneous inoculation ...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Chattopadhyay M,Wolfe D,Huang S,Goss J,Glorioso JC,Mata M,Fink DJ

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the clinical and neuropathological findings in an immunocompetent 19-year-old patient with a fatal acute Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) meningoencephalitis and a lymphoma-like B-lymphocyte response. Our results suggest that an immunotoxic rather than direct viral neuronal invasion mediates brain damage in EBV ence...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Schellinger PD,Sommer C,Leithäuser F,Schwab S,Storch-Hagenlocher B,Hacke W,Kiessling M

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of serotonin (5HT1B/1D) agonists as treatments for the acute attack of migraine has resulted in considerable interest in their mechanism of action and, to some extent, renewed interest in the role of serotonin (5-hydroxytryptamine; 5HT) in the disorder. The initial synthesis of this class of compounds ...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Goadsby PJ,Hoskin KL

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Benzodiazepines can regulate neoplastic growth and immune response through specific peripheral benzodiazepine receptors. We investigated the presence of peripheral and classic central benzodiazepine receptors as well as diazepam-binding inhibitor, an endogenous ligand of both types of receptors, in different human cer...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Ferrarese C,Appollonio I,Frigo M,Gaini SM,Piolti R,Frattola L

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serological evidence of either acute cytomegalovirus (CMV) or Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) infection was sought in a large series of patients with Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) and control subjects. Using an indirect immunofluorescent technique, IgM antibody directed against CMV was found in the serum of 33 of 220 GBS pat...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Dowling PC,Cook SD

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously shown bilateral activation of motor pathways and the recruitment of additional motor areas in studies of groups of patients with recovery from motor stroke. We have now developed a new positron emission tomographic technique to measure the changes in regional cerebral blood flow elicited during a mo...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Weiller C,Ramsay SC,Wise RJ,Friston KJ,Frackowiak RS

更新日期：1993-02-01 00:00:00