Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis with dementia. Case report.

abstract：:Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a neurodegenerative disease that affects the corticospinal tract. ALS functional rating scale (ALSFRS) is a questionnaire that quantifies motor deficits, while diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) evaluates the integrity of fibers through the fractional anisotropy (FA). In the present ...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Garcia LN,Silva AV,Carrete H Jr,Favero FM,Fontes SV,Moneiro MT,Oliveira AS

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To verify differences in the visual scanning strategies between pervasive developmental disorders (PDD) and controls when they are observing social and non-social pictures. METHOD:PDD group (PDDG) comprised by 10 non-retarded subjects (age from 4 to 41) and age-matched control group (CG). Nine social picture...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Mercadante MT,Macedo EC,Baptista PM,Paula CS,Schwartzman JS

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirteen alcoholic male patients that developed delirium tremens (DT) after admission in a psychiatric hospital for treatment of alcoholism (group I) had their clinical and laboratorial records examined. The laboratory samples were taken during the phase previous at the DT. Data on this group were compared to those of...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Borini P,da Silva CO

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuromyelitis of cyanocobalamin deficiency (group 1) post vaccination myelopathy (group 2), multiple sclerosis and neuromyelitis optica (group 3) are studied comparatively as to the respective cerebrospinal fluid changes on cytology, proteins and gamma globulins. Changes were found to be more intense and frequent in t...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Limongi JC,Machado LR,Spina-França A

更新日期：1981-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Therapeutic aspects of convulsive and non convulsive status epilepticus observed in fourteen patients with Lennox-Gastaut syndrome were studied. A temporal relationship between the status epilepticus onset and the beginning of treatment with chlonazepam and diphenylhydantoin was observed; these drugs withdrawal was fo...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Speciali JG,Lison MP

更新日期：1977-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To assess the association between child growth and teacher-reported behavior and academic standing, and neuropsychological performance. METHOD:The heights of 344 public-school children were measured using standard procedures. Teachers were requested to complete two behavioral and one academic performance rating sc...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Brito GN,Onis Md

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study has tested the validity and reliability of the Portuguese version of the Confusion Assessment Method (CAM), a diagnostic assessment instrument for delirium developed by Inouye et al. (1990). The sample was formed by 100 patients with 60 and more years of age, admitted at the emergency service of Santa Casa ...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Fabbri RM,Moreira MA,Garrido R,Almeida OP

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Topical treatments have gained popularity for general use as an adjunct to systemic drugs in neuropathic pain, but their use produces variable clinical results and local adverse events. OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the safety and analgesic effect of a formulation of liposomal capsaicin (LC) (0.025%) in patients wi...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Teixeira MJ,Menezes LM,Silva V,Galhardoni R,Sasson J,Okada M,Duarte KP,Yeng LT,Andrade DC

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We reviewed the charts of 176 adult patients, admitted with a diagnosis of acute bacterial meningitis, in the Hospital Couto Maia, from January 1990 to December 1992. All the patients had community-acquired meningitis. In 120 patients we could identify the causative agent on Gram's staining and culture. The most commo...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Gomes I,Lucena R,Melo A

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a seven year time period (July 1984 to June 1991) were studied CSF samples of 36,216 new patients, 470 of them infected by HIV. Number of AIDS patients represents 1.30% of total cases examined in the laboratory during this time period. Normal CSF was observed in only 16 cases (3.4%). Associated pathologies occurred...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Livramento JA,Machado LR,Gomes HR,Vianna LS,Spina-França A

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fifty AIDS patients were studied. All patients had anti-HIV antibodies (ELISA) present and met OPAS/Caracas punctuation criteria for AIDS cases in adults. Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) analysis included pressure, cytology (number of cytomorphological aspects), total protein and electrophoresis, glucose and chloride concen...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Hinrichsen SL,Ataíde Junior L,Travassos F,Travassos P,Alburquerque E,Moura L,Arraes LC,Rocha LV,Amorim MR,Luz LM,Braga A

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prevalence of "bayonet finger", a semiologic sign of attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), was determined in male illicit drug users, admitted in psychiatric hospital. A control group, paired in sex, age and social status, was built from the general population. The sign was observed en 165/345 (47.8%) d...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Borini P

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the predictive value of cerebral ultrasound in infants diagnoses on meningitis neonatal to the neurological outcome. METHOD:A retrospective study of 16 children admitted at Institute Fernandes Figueira RJ-Brazil, who had neonatal meningitis and were examined by cerebral ultrasound. The neurologic...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Monteiro AM,Bomfim O

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two cases of myotonic dystrophy with excessive daytime somnolence are described. All-night polysomnographic studies were performed revealing high number of central sleep apnea which triggered micro-arousals and awakenings leading to decrease of sleep efficiency as well as of stage 3, 4 and REM. Obstructive and mixed a...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Reimão R,Lemmi H,Bertorini T

更新日期：1985-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty seven patients with migraine without aura were investigated. The age was between 12 and 54 years; 5 were men and 22 women. The diagnosis of migraine was made according to the classification proposed by the International Headache Society. The method of visual evoked potential was performed with pattern reversal ...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Moreira Filho PF,Dantas AM

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aplasia cutis congenita is a rare condition characterized by the absence of skin layers. It is most common on the scalp, middle line, and it can be seen as a congenital ulcer involving periosteum, skull and dura. We present the case of a female newborn infant with a dysmorphic facies, a large scalp and skull defect ex...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Henriques JG,Pianetti Filho G,Giannetti AV,Henriques KS

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To study the HLA of class 1and 2 in a multiple sclerosis (MS) population to verify the susceptibility for the disease in the Southern Brazil. METHODS:We analyzed patients with MS and controls, by direct sequencing of the genes related to HLA DRB1, DQB1, DPB1, A, B and C alleles with high resolution technique...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Werneck LC,Lorenzoni PJ,Arndt RC,Kay CS,Scola RH

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present the cytologic aspects of 137 tumors operated by neurosurgeons, including 12 astrocytomas, 4 anaplastic astrocytomas, 26 glioblastomas, 7 oligodendrogliomas, 5 medulloblastomas, 8 schwannomas, 17 meningiomas, 13 pituitary adenomas, 20 metastatic tumors and 18 assorted tumors and nonneoplastic lesions. We hav...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Campos Ide S,Chimelli L

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thymomas are tumors characterized by a remarkable morphological heterogeneity and variable clinical behavior. This tumor has unique clinical associations, most notably with hematological abnormalities and myasthenia gravis. According with the Müller-Hermelink criteria, there are significant differences between the his...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Reis Filho JS,Milanezi MF,Moreira CG,Werneck LC,Boscardin P,Ioshii SO,Schmitt FC

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:With the objective to show the characteristics of neurocysticercosis (NCC) in Brazil, was performed a critical analysis of national literature which showed a frequency of 1.5% in autopsies and 3.0% in clinical studies, corresponding to 0.3% of all admissions in general hospitals. In seroepidemiological studies the pos...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Agapejev S

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Objective To describe and analyze cognitive aspects in patients with chronic pain and a control group without pain. Method A case-control study was conducted on 45 patients with chronic pain and on 45 control subjects. Data including pain diagnosis, comorbidities and medication used, were evaluated. Cognitive tests, s...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Ferreira Kdos S,Oliver GZ,Thomaz DC,Teixeira CT,Foss MP

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The case of a young female patient with acute symmetrical ascending polyneuropathy as a manifestation of systemic lupus erythematosus is reported. There was involvement of several cranial nerves and the cerebrospinal fluid showed albuminocytologic dissociation. Pathologic examination of the sural nerve showed degenera...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Moreira Filho PF,Nascimento OJ,Cinnicinatus D,Porto FJ,Freitas MR,Santos PC

更新日期：1980-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Functional imaging of brain electrical activity was performed in 25 chronic medicated schizophrenics and 40 controls, analyzing the classical frequency bands (delta, theta, alpha, and beta) of 19-channel EEG during resting state to identify brain regions with deviant activity of different functional significances, usi...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Veiga H,Deslandes A,Cagy M,Fiszman A,Piedade RA,Ribeiro P

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present our experience with 36 cases of nonfunctional pituitary adenomas. These tumors were divided into non reactive and inactive in agreement with the immunohistochemical study. They present with visual symptoms, mainly bitemporal hemianopsia; they were macroadenomas, either invasive or non invasive, in both grou...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Tella OI Jr,Herculano MA,Delcello R,Aguiar PH

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to analyze the neuronal density of the myenteric plexus of the intermediate and antimesocolic regions of the descending colon of rats. Whole-mounts were stained with three different techniques of neuronal evidenciation. Through counts of the number of neurons in an area of 6.64 mm under l...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Araújo EJ,Sant'Ana Dde M,Molinari SL,de Miranda Neto MH

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to investigate the prognostic value of the pretreatment and post-treatment albumin level, neutrophil-lymphocyte ratio (NLR), and platelet-lymphocyte ratio (PLR) in subtypes of Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS). A retrospective analysis of 62 patients with GBS treated between 2011 and 2015 in ...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Ozdemir HH

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The involvement of the central nervous system in paracoccidioidomycosis is more frequent than previously thought. The first reference to the possibility that Paracoccidioides brasiliensis could affect the central nervous system was by Pereira & Jacobs in 1919. Since then, a great number of other studies has showed thi...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： da Silva CE,Cordeiro AF,Gollner AM,Cupolilo SM,Quesado-Filgueiras M,Curzio MF

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors present three cases where the involuntary, imotivated laughter was a distinct finding. The first patient was a 29-year-old engineer, who had had several bursts of neurologic deficits, either sensitive or motor, which recovered almost completely and was diagnosed as suffering from multiple sclerosis. During...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Bertolucci PH,Andrade LA,Pereira JS,De Campos CJ

更新日期：1985-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The clinical aspects of the meningiomas are well described. However, there is an important number of reports on a variety of other lesions simulating meningioma, including the prostate cancer. The authors describe one additional patient with prostate cancer who at presentation had clinical and radiographic signs sugge...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Oliveira MA,Araujo JF,Balbo RJ

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:the aim of this report is to warn that sodium valproate used during pregnancy can produce craniosynostosis in the newborn, particularly trigonocephaly. METHOD:we describe a case of trigonocephaly in a six month-old girl, daughter of a young non-smoker couple, whose mother had used phenobarbital 100 mg daily ...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Assencio-Ferreira VJ,Abraham R,Veiga JC,Santos KC

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00