Adult polyglucosan body disease: clinical and nerve biopsy findings in two cases.

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To study antibody-independent contributions of B cells to inflammatory disease activity, and the immune consequences of B-cell depletion with rituximab, in patients with multiple sclerosis (MS). METHODS:B-Cell effector-cytokine responses were compared between MS patients and matched controls using a 3-signal...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Bar-Or A,Fawaz L,Fan B,Darlington PJ,Rieger A,Ghorayeb C,Calabresi PA,Waubant E,Hauser SL,Zhang J,Smith CH

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The amygdala and its subnuclei undergo severe volumetric atrophy in Alzheimer's disease (AD). To determine whether this atrophy is due to loss of neuropil, specific neuronal populations, or both, we evaluated the number, size, and packing density of neurons and glia in the cortical and magnocellular basal amygdaloid s...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Scott SA,DeKosky ST,Sparks DL,Knox CA,Scheff SW

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Instrumental neutron activation analysis procedures were used to determine the aluminum content of various brain regions in histologically verified Alzheimer disease (AD) and in controls. The grand mean aluminum level for 74 AD specimens was 0.372 +/- 0.058 microgram/gm and for 137 adult controls, 0.467 +/- 0.033 micr...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Markesbery WR,Ehmann WD,Hossain TI,Alauddin M,Goodin DT

更新日期：1981-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clinical electrophysiological studies are important in the evaluation of patients with Guillain-Barré syndrome. Physiological evidence of demyelination occurs in almost all patients with Guillain-Barré syndrome, especially if serial studies are performed. Criteria for demyelination are proposed. Prognostic information...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Cornblath DR

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ten patients developed a subacute lower motor neuron syndrome as a remote effect of Hodgkin's disease or other lymphoma. The illness usually followed a benign course independent of the activity of the underlying neoplasm. Seven of the patients improved spontaneously, and 3 became neurologically normal. Two patients di...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Schold SC,Cho ES,Somasundaram M,Posner JB

更新日期：1979-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Wide interindividual variability exists in response to tissue plasminogen activator (t-PA) treatment in the acute phase of ischemic stroke. We aimed to find genetic variations associated with hemorrhagic transformation (HT) and mortality rates after t-PA. We then generated a clinical-genetic model for predict...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： del Río-Espínola A,Fernández-Cadenas I,Giralt D,Quiroga A,Gutiérrez-Agulló M,Quintana M,Fernández-Álvarez P,Domingues-Montanari S,Mendióroz M,Delgado P,Turck N,Ruíz A,Ribó M,Castellanos M,Obach V,Martínez S,Freijo MM,Ji

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The worldwide epidemiology of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) is presented from an analysis of 1,435 patients. In the United States, the average annual mortality rate is at least 0.26 deaths per million. Temporal-spatial clustering of cases was not found in the United States, but reports from other countries indicate ...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Masters CL,Harris JO,Gajdusek DC,Gibbs CJ Jr,Bernoulli C,Asher DM

更新日期：1979-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 9-year-old, blind boy with severe mental retardation with a chronic sleep/wake disturbance had a circadian rhythm of 24.75 hours and an internal desynchronization of the endogenous rhythms. Treatment with oral melatonin given at 6 PM induced a regular sleep/wake pattern. Melatonin, in this patient, convincingly entr...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Palm L,Blennow G,Wetterberg L

更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Because of the association of D-penicillamine (DP) therapy with myasthenia gravis, we have studied long-term DP treatment in five inbred strains of mice with doses comparable to those used in patients with rheumatoid arthritis. No clinical weakness or anti-acetylcholine receptor (AChR) antibody developed with up to 6 ...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Bever CT Jr,Dretchen KL,Blake GJ,Chang HW,Penn AS,Asofsky R

更新日期：1984-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Malignant tumors are known to have a "remote" or nonmetastatic effect on the central and peripheral nervous systems. Eight patients were seen with proximal muscle weakness in association with bronchogenic carcinoma (5), carcinoma of breast (2), and leukemia (1). Electromyography demonstrated small polyphasic motor uni...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Barron SA,Heffner RR Jr

更新日期：1978-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In adult brain, during insulin-induced hypoglycemia, striatal extracellular fluid concentrations of the excitatory amino acids glutamate and aspartate rise markedly (fourfold to tenfold). In this study, we used in vivo microdialysis to determine if insulin-induced hypoglycemia altered striatal amino acid efflux in sim...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Silverstein FS,Simpson J,Gordon KE

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunohistochemical examination of 20 Down's syndrome brains, using antibodies to alpha-, beta-, and gamma-synuclein, demonstrated many alpha-synuclein-positive Lewy bodies and dystrophic neurites in 50% of amygdala samples from Down's syndrome brains with Alzheimer's disease. Similar lesions were less common in other...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Lippa CF,Schmidt ML,Lee VM,Trojanowski JQ

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the analgesic effect of botulinum toxin type A (BTX-A) on patients with spinal cord injury-associated neuropathic pain. METHODS:The effect of BTX-A on 40 patients with spinal cord injury-associated neuropathic pain was investigated using a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled design. A 1-...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Han ZA,Song DH,Oh HM,Chung ME

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The oculocerebrorenal syndrome (OCRS), Lowe's syndrome, is an X-linked, recessive disease characterized by mental retardation, congenital corneal abnormalities and cataracts, growth failure, rickets, osseous abnormalities, renal dysfunction with periodic acidosis, hypotonia, and areflexia. Ultrastructural studies of s...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Wisniewski KE,Kieras FJ,French JH,Houck GE Jr,Ramos PL

更新日期：1984-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Selective neuronal vulnerability is a key feature of the neuropathology of Huntington's disease. We used [3H]CP-55,940, a synthetic cannabinoid, to label cannabinoid receptors in tissue sections from individuals dying with Huntington's disease and from normal control subjects. The density of cannabinoid receptors in s...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Richfield EK,Herkenham M

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nineteen patients aged 4 to 44 years with generalized epilepsy and generalized 3 Hz spike-and-wave activity, were monitored for 24 or 36 hours on one to nine occasions to determine the time distribution of ictal and interictal electroencephalographic discharges and the consistency of the time patterns observed. Two pa...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Kellaway P,Frost JD Jr,Crawley JW

更新日期：1980-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Faster time from onset to recanalization (OTR) in acute ischemic stroke using endovascular therapy (ET) has been associated with better outcome. However, previous studies were based on less-effective first-generation devices, and analyzed only dichotomized disability outcomes, which may underestimate the full...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Sheth SA,Jahan R,Gralla J,Pereira VM,Nogueira RG,Levy EI,Zaidat OO,Saver JL,SWIFT-STAR Trialists.

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report thirty-three patients with alternating skew deviation on lateral gaze. The right eye was hypertropic in right gaze, and the left eye was hypertropic in left gaze. Most patients had associated downbeat nystagmus and ataxia and were diagnosed as having lesions of the cerebellar pathways or the cervicomedullary...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Moster ML,Schatz NJ,Savino PJ,Benes S,Bosley TM,Sergott RC

更新日期：1988-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) provides a powerful tool for assessing disease activity in multiple sclerosis (MS), and its role as a surrogate marker for monitoring treatment efficacy is now becoming established. The most commonly used MRI parameters in treatment trials are (1) monthly gadolinium-enhanced MRI, with ...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Molyneux PD,Filippi M,Barkhof F,Gasperini C,Yousry TA,Truyen L,Lai HM,Rocca MA,Moseley IF,Miller DH

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using proton magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging, we studied the cerebellum of 9 patients with cerebellar degeneration and of 9 age-matched normal control subjects. This technique permits the simultaneous measurement of N-acetylaspartate, choline-containing compounds, creatine/phosphocreatine, and lactate signal ...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Tedeschi G,Bertolino A,Massaquoi SG,Campbell G,Patronas NJ,Bonavita S,Barnett AS,Alger JR,Hallett M

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human prion diseases can occur as an idiopathic disorder (sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease) or can be acquired, as is the case for variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. These disorders are characterized by the accumulation of a protease-resistant form of the host-encoded prion protein termed PrP(Sc) in the brains of af...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Head MW,Bunn TJ,Bishop MT,McLoughlin V,Lowrie S,McKimmie CS,Williams MC,McCardle L,MacKenzie J,Knight R,Will RG,Ironside JW

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiple sclerosis patients who become pregnant experience a significant decrease in relapses that may be mediated by a shift in immune responses from T helper 1 to T helper 2. Animal models of multiple sclerosis have shown that the pregnancy hormone, estriol, can ameliorate disease and can cause an immune shift. We t...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Sicotte NL,Liva SM,Klutch R,Pfeiffer P,Bouvier S,Odesa S,Wu TC,Voskuhl RR

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess the ability for visual search and recognition of roadside targets and safety errors during a landmark and traffic sign identification task in drivers with Parkinson's disease (PD). METHODS:Seventy-nine drivers with PD and 151 neurologically normal older adults underwent a battery of visual, cogniti...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Uc EY,Rizzo M,Anderson SW,Sparks J,Rodnitzky RL,Dawson JD

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of focal ischemia on tissue pH was studied at various times up to 6 hours after permanent middle cerebral artery occlusion in rats. Tissue pH was imaged by using umbelliferone fluorescence and correlated with cerebral blood flow, ATP content, and recordings of the steady potential. Circumscribed foci of all...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Back T,Hoehn M,Mies G,Busch E,Schmitz B,Kohno K,Hossmann KA

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seven patients with postfacial palsy contracture and mass contractions were investigated electrophysiologically. In 3 patients the early blink reflex showed an unusually high amplitude, which can be attributed to enhanced excitability of facial motor neurons. In 5 patients the early blink reflex had acquired a crossed...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Bratzlavsky M,vander Eecken H

更新日期：1977-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hippocampal depth electrodes are often used to localize seizure onset in patients who may have temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE). A number of features of the spontaneous seizures and of their ictal onset patterns can be analyzed from these recordings. We compared a number of the typical electroencephalographic (EEG) change...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Williamson A,Spencer SS,Spencer DD

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Cognitive impairment is common in epilepsy, particularly in memory function. Interictal spikes (IISs) are thought to disrupt cognition, but it is difficult to delineate their contribution from general impairments in memory produced by etiology and seizures. We investigated the transient impact of focal IISs o...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Kleen JK,Scott RC,Holmes GL,Lenck-Santini PP

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Central nervous system pathology in multiple sclerosis includes both focal inflammatory perivascular injury and injury to superficial structures, including the subpial region of the cortex, which reportedly exhibits a gradient of damage from the surface inward. We assessed how early in the multiple sclerosis ...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Fadda G,Brown RA,Magliozzi R,Aubert-Broche B,O'Mahony J,Shinohara RT,Banwell B,Marrie RA,Yeh EA,Collins DL,Arnold DL,Bar-Or A,Canadian Pediatric Demyelinating Disease Network.

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability to distinguish adaptive cortical reorganization may help to target future therapeutic strategies after neurological insult. We investigated cortical plasticity by prospectively applying visual functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and optic nerve MRI to 20 patients with acute optic neuritis at basel...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Toosy AT,Hickman SJ,Miszkiel KA,Jones SJ,Plant GT,Altmann DR,Barker GJ,Miller DH,Thompson AJ

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 13-year-old boy with imipramine overdose developed seizures, respiratory arrest, and coma. Abnormalities of oculovestibular reflexes, electroencephalograms, and brainstem auditory evoked potentials were monitored in relation to measurements of drug levels. An alpha-coma electroencephalographic pattern evolved into o...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Pulst SM,Lombroso CT

更新日期：1983-11-01 00:00:00