Cerebrospinal fluid vasopressin and increased intracranial pressure.

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Chronic, low-dose exposure to pesticides is suspected to increase the risk for Parkinson's disease (PD), but data are inconclusive. METHODS:We prospectively examined whether individuals exposed to pesticides have higher risk for PD than those not exposed. The study population comprised participants in the Ca...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Ascherio A,Chen H,Weisskopf MG,O'Reilly E,McCullough ML,Calle EE,Schwarzschild MA,Thun MJ

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nineteen patients with radiologically confirmed stroke, and varying degrees of hemiparesis, were studied using somatosensory evoked potentials and the recently developed technique of transcutaneous motor cortex stimulation. The functional deficit caused by stroke was assessed at the time of evoked potential testing an...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Macdonell RA,Donnan GA,Bladin PF

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Determine the probability of attaining complete remission in children with nonsyndromic epilepsy (NSE) over the course of ≥10 years from initial diagnosis; identify early predictors of complete remission; and assess the risk of relapse after achieving complete remission. METHODS:In a prospective community-ba...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Berg AT,Testa FM,Levy SR

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We reviewed the records of 160 consecutive patients with glioblastoma and anaplastic astrocytoma to evaluate the long-term consequences of radiation therapy and chemotherapy. We defined long-term survivors as those patients with glioblastoma or anaplastic astrocytoma who lived at least 100% longer than median survival...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Imperato JP,Paleologos NA,Vick NA

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Positron emission tomography (PET) of brain glucose utilization is highly sensitive in detecting focal cortical abnormalities in patients with infantile spasms even when the computed tomographic (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans are normal. Of 110 infants with spasms evaluated for potential surgical inte...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Chugani HT,Da Silva E,Chugani DC

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pathological evidence suggests that alterations of the blood-brain barrier (BBB) may occur in association with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) dementia (HIVD). Increased BBB permeability could contribute to the development of dementia by facilitating the entry of activated and infected monocytes, as well as potenti...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Conant K,McArthur JC,Griffin DE,Sjulson L,Wahl LM,Irani DN

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined spinal cords, nerve roots, or peripheral nerves of 27 patients who died with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) for the presence of cytomegalovirus (CMV) and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) by immunoperoxidase techniques in paraffin-embedded tissue. Vacuolar myelopathy was seen in 8 of 26 spinal ...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Grafe MR,Wiley CA

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 10-year-old boy developed progressive dystonia and dementia. His symptoms had begun at age 2 1/2 years, and he had been unable to walk by 8 years. At age 10 he was severely dystonic, unable to use his hands to feed himself, and almost anarthric . He had dysphagia and urinary incontinence, and functioned at a 4-year-...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Meek D,Wolfe LS,Andermann E,Andermann F

更新日期：1984-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The highly encephalitogenic guinea pig peptide 68-88 has been used to develop an effective and reproducible model of protection in the Lewis rat. Doses as low as 0.1 nmol of peptide protected 70% of rats when injected intraperitoneally six and four weeks prior to challenge with 0.05 nmol of the peptide in complete Fre...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Chou FC,Chou CH,Fritz RB,Kibler RF

更新日期：1980-04-01 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：:Traumatic coma was produced in 45 monkeys by accelerating the head without impact in one of three directions. The duration of coma, degree of neurological impairment, and amount of diffuse axonal injury (DAI) in the brain were directly related to the amount of coronal head motion used. Coma of less than 15 minutes (co...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Gennarelli TA,Thibault LE,Adams JH,Graham DI,Thompson CJ,Marcincin RP

更新日期：1982-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Visual (VEP), brainstem auditory (BAEP), and somatosensory (SEP) evoked potential tests were performed in 45 patients representing ten types of inherited disorders in which ataxia was the most prominent symptom. Comparable VEP abnormalities were present among all types of patients. Normal BAEP tests were recorded in m...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Nuwer MR,Perlman SL,Packwood JW,Kark RA

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Axonal degeneration is a main contributor to disability in progressive neurodegenerative diseases in which oxidative stress is often identified as a pathogenic factor. We aim to demonstrate that antioxidants are able to improve axonal degeneration and locomotor deficits in a mouse model of X-adrenoleukodystro...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： López-Erauskin J,Fourcade S,Galino J,Ruiz M,Schlüter A,Naudi A,Jove M,Portero-Otin M,Pamplona R,Ferrer I,Pujol A

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Brainstem auditory evoked responses (BAERs) were recorded from 202 patients with definite, probable, or possible multiple sclerosis (MS). Definitions of abnormality were based only on interwave separations and the wave I/wave V amplitude ratio. Thirty-two percent of the patients had abnormal BAERs, and the presence of...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Chiappa KH,Harrison JL,Brooks EB,Young RR

更新日期：1980-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have analyzed muscle biopsy specimens from 48 patients with biochemically proven phosphorylase deficiency (McArdle's disease) by sodium dodecylsulphate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE), immunoblotting, and immunotitration (enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay [ELISA]). Thirty-five of the 42 patients studi...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Servidei S,Shanske S,Zeviani M,Lebo R,Fletterick R,DiMauro S

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Central motor conduction times for the adductor pollicis muscle, the twitch force of that muscle to scalp magnetic motor cortex stimulation, and the maximum force of phasic voluntary contraction of the same muscle were measured in 15 patients with multiple sclerosis. Two tests of manual dexterity of the same hand also...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： van der Kamp W,Maertens de Noordhout A,Thompson PD,Rothwell JC,Day BL,Marsden CD

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a double-blinded, placebo-controlled, crossover study in seven mitochondrial myopathy patients (MM), we investigated whether lowering of lactate with dichloroacetate (DCA) can improve exercise tolerance and oxidative capacity in MM. DCA lowered plasma lactate at rest and during exercise (from 10.5 +/- 2.0 to 5.0 +/...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Vissing J,Gansted U,Quistorff B

更新日期：2001-05-01 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：:Protease-resistant prion protein, total prion protein, and glial fibrillary acidic protein were measured in various brain regions from 9 subjects with fatal familial insomnia. Six were homozygotes methionine/methionine at codon 129 (mean duration, 10.7 +/- 4 months) and 3 were heterozygotes methionine/valine (mean dur...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Parchi P,Castellani R,Cortelli P,Montagna P,Chen SG,Petersen RB,Manetto V,Vnencak-Jones CL,McLean MJ,Sheller JR

更新日期：1995-07-01 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：OBJECTIVE:Loss of cerebral autoregulation (CA) plays a key role in secondary neurologic injury. However, the regional distribution of CA impairment after acute cerebral injury remains unclear because, in clinical practice, CA is only assessed within a limited compartment. Here, we performed large-scale regional mapping...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Hecht N,Schrammel M,Neumann K,Müller MM,Dreier JP,Vajkoczy P,Woitzik J

更新日期：2021-02-01 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：:We here report the second and third mutations in alphaB-crystallin causing myofibrillar myopathy. Two patients had adult-onset muscle weakness. Patient 1 had cervical, limb girdle, and respiratory muscle weakness and died of respiratory failure. Patient 2 had proximal and distal leg muscle weakness. Both had myopathic...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Selcen D,Engel AG

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent reports showed many patients with chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) harbor a retrovirus, xenotropic murine leukemia-related virus (XMRV), in blood; other studies could not replicate this finding. A useful next step would be to examine cerebrospinal fluid, because in some patients CFS is thought to be a brain disor...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Schutzer SE,Rounds MA,Natelson BH,Ecker DJ,Eshoo MW

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe 5 patients who presented with an acute cauda equina syndrome, which we believe was due to infarction of the conus medullaris. In 3 patients, the onset was spontaneous, and in 2 patients it was secondary to temporary occlusion of the distal aorta during medical manipulation. Pain in the buttocks and posteri...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Anderson NE,Willoughby EW

更新日期：1987-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lead intoxication in rats reliably produces segmental demyelination. Following a single intravenous injection of radioactive lead, localization of tracer was observed sequentially by quantitative electron microscopical autoradiography. The animals injected had been on a lead-containing diet for 70 days; as a result, t...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Windebank AJ,Dyck PJ

更新日期：1985-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intraneural injection of antisera from rabbits with high antigalactocerebroside antibody levels into rat sciatic nerve produced acute nerve conduction block. This was first apparent in some motor axons between 30 and 60 minutes after injection and progressed to completion within 2 to 4 hours. Concurrent morphological ...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Sumner AJ,Saida K,Saida T,Silberberg DH,Asbury AK

更新日期：1982-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In healthy individuals, motor training elicits cortical plasticity that encodes the kinematic details of the practiced movements and is thought to underlie recovery of function after stroke. The influence of age on this form of plasticity is incompletely understood. We studied 55 healthy subjects and identified a subs...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Sawaki L,Yaseen Z,Kopylev L,Cohen LG

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Electroencephalographic (EEG) and evoked potential data were recorded during behavioral testing from 8 dyslexic and 10 normal boys aged 9 to 11 years. Topographic mapping of their brain electrical activity revealed four discrete regions of difference between the two groups involving both hemispheres, left more than ri...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Duffy FH,Denckla MB,Bartels PH,Sandini G

更新日期：1980-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For unknown reasons, placebos reduce seizures in clinical trials in many patients. It is also unclear why some drugs showing statistical superiority to placebo in one trial may fail to do so in another. Using Seizuretracker.com, a patient-centered database of 684,825 seizures, we simulated "placebo" and "drug" trials....

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Goldenholz DM,Moss R,Scott J,Auh S,Theodore WH

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00