Treatment of gustatory sweating with botulinum toxin.

abstract：:We describe a method of cortical stimulation for localizing functional areas of brain before operation for primary brain tumors that was carried out in 14 patients. The method is unique in that the stimulation is done over several days using chronically indwelling subdural electrode arrays. In addition to cortical sti...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Morris HH 3rd,Lüders H,Hahn JF,Lesser RP,Dinner DS,Estes ML

更新日期：1986-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty-five patients with recently diagnosed leptomeningeal metastases underwent a prospective clinical and electro-physiological study to assess the mode and extent of peripheral nerve and spinal root involvement. Motor conduction velocities and F wave latencies in the legs were found frequently to be disturbed compa...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Argov Z,Siegal T

更新日期：1985-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Right-handedness and left-sided language lateralization is an unresolved mystery with unknown cause/effect relations. Most studies suggest that the language lateralization is related to a fundamental brain asymmetry: right-handedness may be secondary. We analyzed the possibility of an opposite cause/effect re...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Auer T,Pinter S,Kovacs N,Kalmar Z,Nagy F,Horvath RA,Koszo B,Kotek G,Perlaki G,Koves M,Kalman B,Komoly S,Schwarcz A,Woermann FG,Janszky J

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding of the organization and function of a newly identified neuronal messenger molecule, nitric oxide, has progressed rapidly. Nitric oxide synthase has been purified and molecularly cloned from brain. Its localization is exclusively neuronal and endothelial. The catalytic activity of nitric oxide synthase ac...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Dawson TM,Dawson VL,Snyder SH

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Friedreich's ataxia (FA) is the most frequently inherited ataxia. To test the hypothesis that iron is increased in the cerebellum of patients with FA, we developed a multigradient echo magnetic resonance sequence for the three-dimensional imaging of brain iron-induced contrast. Relaxation rate (R2*) values in the unaf...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Waldvogel D,van Gelderen P,Hallett M

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Case series with (11)C-PK11195 and positron emission tomography (PET) in stroke patients suggest that activated microglia may be detected in remote brain regions with fiber tract connections to the lesion site as an indicator of poststroke neuroinflammation. However, the specificity of these imaging findings ...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Radlinska BA,Ghinani SA,Lyon P,Jolly D,Soucy JP,Minuk J,Schirrmacher R,Thiel A

更新日期：2009-12-01 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：:To study the distribution of myelin-associated glycoprotein (MAG) in human nervous tissue and in multiple sclerosis (MS) lesions, we used paraffin sections and our modification of the peroxidase-antiperoxidase technique. Sections of MS lesions also were treated with antiserum to basic protein (BP) and with histologica...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Itoyama Y,Sternberger NH,Webster HD,Quarles RH,Cohen SR,Richardson EP Jr

更新日期：1980-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Adipocytokines are hormones secreted from adipose tissue that possibly link adiposity and the risk of cardiovascular disease, but limited prospective data exist on plasma adipocytokines and ischemic stroke risk. We investigated associations and predictive properties of 4 plasma adipocytokines, namely resistin...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Prugger C,Luc G,Haas B,Arveiler D,Machez E,Ferrieres J,Ruidavets JB,Bingham A,Montaye M,Amouyel P,Yarnell J,Kee F,Ducimetiere P,Empana JP,PRIME Study Group.

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a family of 9 affected individuals in three generations with nocturnal oro-facio-brachial partial seizures, secondarily generalized partial seizures, and centro-temporal epileptiform discharges, associated with oral and speech dyspraxia and cognitive impairment. The speech disorder was prominent, but diffe...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Scheffer IE,Jones L,Pozzebon M,Howell RA,Saling MM,Berkovic SF

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 26-year-old woman was in spontaneous clinical remission from myasthenia gravis (MG) for six months, yet gave birth to a full-term infant with typical neonatal MG. It is believed that transplacental transfer of anti-acetylcholine (ACh) receptor antibodies is responsible for neonatal MG; therefore, neonatal MG represe...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Elias SB,Butler I,Appel SH

更新日期：1979-07-01 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：:Extramedullary hematopoiesis (EMH) in the spinal epidural space is a rare but treatable cause of progressive paraparesis in patients with a variety of hematological and systemic disorders. We report a case of extensive thoracic epidural EMH causing progressive spastic paraparesis in a patient with agnogenic myeloid me...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Stahl SM,Ellinger G,Baringer JR

更新日期：1979-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two recent case-control studies have suggested a strong association of a missense polymorphism in exon 2 of the cathepsin D gene (CTSD) and Alzheimer disease (AD). However, these findings were not confirmed in another independent study. We analyzed this polymorphism in two large and independent AD study populations an...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Bertram L,Guénette S,Jones J,Keeney D,Mullin K,Crystal A,Basu S,Yhu S,Deng A,Rebeck GW,Hyman BT,Go R,McInnis M,Blacker D,Tanzi R

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Juvenile myoclonic epilepsy is a common type of idiopathic generalized epilepsy characterized by myoclonic, generalized tonic-clonic, and in 30% of patients, absence seizures. We studied a three-generation pedigree of 33 members, 10 of whom were clinically affected with juvenile myoclonic epilepsy or presented with su...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Serratosa JM,Delgado-Escueta AV,Medina MT,Zhang Q,Iranmanesh R,Sparkes RS

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Regional patterns of cerebral glucose utilization (rCMRglc) and blood flow (rCBF) were examined in the early recovery period following transient forebrain ischemia in order to correlate early postischemic physiological events with regionally selective patterns of ischemic neuropathology. Wistar rats were subjected to ...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Ginsberg MD,Graham DI,Busto R

更新日期：1985-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the use of a new stable isotope-labeled form of levodopa (LD) to examine in vivo central LD metabolism in Parkinson's disease (PD). Eight patients representing a wide spectrum of disease severity were administered 50 mg of carbidopa orally followed in 1 hour by an intravenous bolus of 150 mg of stable isotop...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Durso R,Evans JE,Josephs E,Szabo GK,Evans BA,Handler JS,Jennings D,Browne TR

更新日期：1997-09-01 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：: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：:Clinical evidence is presented to support the contention that the sternocleidomastoid muscle is innervated primarily by undecussated fibers from the ipsilateral hemisphere. Stroke patients often show contralateral hemiparesis accompanied by weakness in head turning to the side of the paresis. ...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Balagura S,Katz RG

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Parkinsonism occurs in approximately 35 to 40% of patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) even with little or no neuronal degeneration in the substantia nigra, which in idiopathic Parkinson's disease (PD) results in the severe loss of striatal dopamine transporter sites. It is not known if there is a loss of striatal d...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Murray AM,Weihmueller FB,Marshall JF,Hurtig HI,Gottleib GL,Joyce JN

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The consequences of axonal injuries in the adult nervous system depend on the location of the axons: complete anatomical and functional repair can occur in the peripheral but not the central nervous system. A quantitative electron microscopical comparison of the reactions to axonal injuries in a peripheral site (the s...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Raisman G

更新日期：1978-02-01 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：:Solitary neoplastic proliferation of plasma cells (plasmacytoma) rarely occurs in the central nervous system. The longest follow-Up in nine previously reported patients was 5 years. We have followed two patients with solitary intracranial plasmacytoma for 8 and 13 years, respectively. At the time of biopsy diagnosis, ...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Krumholz A,Weiss HD,Jiji VH,Bakal D,Kirsh MB

更新日期：1982-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have proven remarkably effective at identifying reliably associated genetic variants, the biology underlying these discoveries is rarely immediately apparent and in most cases seems bound to require extensive fine mapping and functional analysis before it is revealed. In...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Sawcer S,Wason J

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a neurological disease among Cree Indian children in a northern Quebec village. The disease manifests as severe mental retardation, cerebral atrophy with white matter changes and calcifications, and systemic immunological abnormalities. Eleven cases are known in five families. The familial incidence of cases...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Black DN,Watters GV,Andermann E,Dumont C,Kabay ME,Kaplan P,Meagher-Villemure K,Michaud J,O'Gorman G,Reece E

更新日期：1988-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dopa-responsive dystonia (DRD) is one form of childhood-onset idiopathic torsion dystonia. Adult-onset parkinsonism has appeared in several previously unaffected members in families with DRD suggesting that this may be an additional phenotypical expression of the disease. We report a family with DRD in which 2 women a...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Nygaard TG,Takahashi H,Heiman GA,Snow BJ,Fahn S,Calne DB

更新日期：1992-11-01 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：:Parkinson's disease evolves slowly, and there is current interest in exploring the earliest stages of the disorder, because of new approaches to studying pathogenesis and developing potential neuroprotective treatment. Recognizing early Parkinson's disease is not easy. The certainty of diagnosis increases as the disea...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Calne DB,Snow BJ,Lee C

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Based on prior reports of free light chains of immunoglobulin G (IgG) in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) of patients with multiple sclerosis (MS), we quantitated free kappa and lambda chains and whole IgG concentrations using sensitive and specific radioimmunoassays (RIAs). The RIA for free kappa chains had a sensitivit...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Rudick RA,Pallant A,Bidlack JM,Herndon RM

更新日期：1986-07-01 00:00:00