Frontopolar and anterior temporal cortex activation in a moral judgment task: preliminary functional MRI results in normal subjects.

abstract：:There is evidence in electroencephalography that alpha, theta and delta band oscillations reflect cognitive and memory performances and that quantitative techniques can improve the electroencephalogram (EEG) sensitivity. This paper presents the results of comparative analysis of qEEG variables as reliable markers for ...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Anghinah R,Kanda PA,Lopes HF,Basile LF,Machado S,Ribeiro P,Velasques B,Sameshima K,Takahashi DY,Pinto LF,Caramelli P,Nitrini R

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:We previously demonstrated correlation between parasympathetic dysfunction and brain white matter lesions in chronic chagasic patients. OBJECTIVE:To correlate serum functional circulating antibodies with beta adrenergic (Ab-beta), muscarinic (Ab-M) or muscarinic and beta adrenergic (Ab-Mbeta) activity, the ...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Py MO,Maciel L,Pedrosa RC,Nascimento JH,Medei E

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors present the results of the treatment with methylphenidate in 24 children with attention deficit disorder based on DSM-III. The prescribed dose was 5 to 10 mg per day, once or twice a day. The results were good in 79.1% of the patients and poor in 16.6%. The drug was withdrawn in one patient because of side...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Guerreiro MM,Montenegro MA,Piva RT,Moura-Ribeiro MV

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Heterotopic ossification (HO) is a complication of the spinal cord injury (SCI). It can result in anchylosis, harming the rehabilitation and quality of life. Previous publications had not elucidated the relation between possible independent variables, the aim of this study. METHOD:From 230 patients with SCI,...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Coelho CV,Beraldo PS

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The involvement of the leptomeninges by metastatic tumors can be observed in solid tumors, in which case it is termed meningeal carcinomatosis (MC), and in lymphoproliferative malignant disease. It is more common in breast and lung cancer, as well as melanoma, with adenocarcinoma being the most frequent histological t...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Martins SJ,Azevedo CR,Chinen LT,Cruz MR,Peterlevitz MA,Gimenes DL

更新日期：2011-12-01 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：:The authors review papers and researches about skull growth in newborns and infants: they analysed and correlated anthropometric data with maternal biological and social factors. ...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Rosado ML,Barbieri MA,Bettiol H,Gomes UA,Moura-Ribeiro MV

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Coronary heart disease and ischemic stroke are frequent coexistent conditions that share risk factors and pose major burdens to global health. Even though a clear relation has been established between extracranial internal carotid artery atherosclerosis and symptomatic or asymptomatic coronary heart disease, there is ...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Conforto AB,Leite Cda C,Nomura CH,Bor-Seng-Shu E,Santos RD

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hallervorden-Spatz syndrome is a neurodegenerative disease, autosomic recessive with two clinical features: early and late onset. Psychiatric, pyramidal and extrapyramidal signs are present in the late subtype. We report the case of a 41-old woman with extrapyramidal signs. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) showed the ...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Farage L,Castro MA,Macedo TA,Assis MC,Souza LP,Freitas LO

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To describe anticoagulation characteristics in patients with cardiac complications from Chagas disease and compare participants with and without cardioembolic ischemic stroke (CIS). A retrospective cohort of patients with Chagas disease, using anticoagulation, conducted from January 2011 to December 2014. Forty-two pa...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Monteiro JMC,San-Martin DL,Silva BCG,Jesus PAP,Oliveira Filho J

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Tonic spasms have been most commonly associated with multiple sclerosis. To date, few reports of series of patients with neuromyelitis optica and tonic spasms have been published. METHODS:We analyzed the characteristics and frequency of tonic spasms in 19 subjects with neuromyelitis optica. Data was collect...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Abaroa L,Rodríguez-Quiroga SA,Melamud L,Arakaki T,Garretto NS,Villa AM

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy (CIDP) is a peripheral nerve disorder probably due to an immunological disturb. It evolves either in a steadily progressive or in a relapsing and fluctuating course. Weakness is mainly in the lower limbs proximally and distally. The electromyography is demyelin...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Freitas MR,Nascimento OJ,Soares CN,Brito AR,Domingues RC

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To describe developmental characteristics, morphological aspects and incidence of temporal sharp transients (TST) in normal preterm and term newborns at matched conceptional ages (CA). METHOD:Neonatal EEGs from two groups of normal newborns were evaluated in order to identify and characterize TST. Group I (n...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Nunes ML,Gameleira FT,Oliveira AJ,da Costa JC

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurosarcoidosis (NS) more commonly occurs in the setting of systemic disease. The diagnosis is based on a clinical history suggestive of NS, presence of noncaseating granulomas, and supportive evidence of sarcoid pathology, laboratory, and imaging studies. NS could involve any part of the nervous system and often dem...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Dutra LA,Braga-Neto P,Oliveira RA,Pedroso JL,Abrahão A,Barsottini OG

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:The aim of this study was to compare qualitative visual analysis with semi-quantitative analysis in the diagnosis of mesial temporal sclerosis (MTS) using FDG-PET. METHODS:This study included 21 patients with histopathological confirmation of MTS. FDG-PET visual analysis data were based on clinical reports ...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Duarte PS,Zhuang H,Couturier O,Alavi A

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurocysticercosis (NC) is an endemic condition in several areas of Brazil. It is most likely the major responsible for the high prevalence of epilepsy in our country, estimated in 1-2% of general population. We performed a study to evaluate NC as aetiology of epilepsy in the west of Santa Catarina. This state belong ...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Trevisol-Bittencourt PC,da Silva NC,Figueredo R

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Surgery for space occupying lesions of the brain associated with intractable epilepsy represents a special problem because relief of the epilepsy in as much an operative goal as excision of the space occupying lesion itself. This study concerns 32 patients with space occupying lesions and intractable epilepsy who unde...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Brainer-Lima PT,Rao S,Cukiert A,Yacubian EM,Gronich G,Marino Júnior R

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interactions with antiepileptic drugs are common and may have important clinical consequences. The physician should always consider carefully the need for and the implications of adding a new drug to any therapeutic regime and should be prepared to think about the possibility of an interaction whenever an unusual resp...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Perucca E

更新日期：1980-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Emphasis is placed in the difficulty in conceptualizing sexuality as a complex and controversial subject. This is a presentation of a concept based on freudian psychoanalysis. With this in mind, many of Freud's references are collected from the Brazilian Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund ...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Bearzoti P

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pudendo-anal reflex was studied in a sample of 31 normal women. Responses were obtained after bilateral independent stimulation of the clitoris, with surface recordings from both sides of the external anal sphincter. Responses were elicited with double-pulses of 0.2 ms duration with a interstimulus interval of 5 m...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Cavalcanti Gde A,Manzano GM,Bruschini H,Giuliano LM,Srougi M,Nóbrega JA

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Unilateral internuclear ophthalmoplegia become manifest by homolateral paralysis of ocular adduction and contralateral nystagmus. Principal causes are multiple sclerosis and vertebro-basilar insufficiency. We report a case in which this signal appeared as the first clinical manifestation of bacterial endocarditis and ...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Werneck AL,Gonçalves AJ,Bezerra JM

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To contribute our experience with surgical treatment of patients with mesial temporal lobe epilepsy (mTLE) undergoing anterior temporal lobectomy (ATL) or selective amygdalohippocampectomy (SelAH). METHOD:This is a retrospective observational study. The sample included patients with medically refractory mTLE...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Nascimento FA,Gatto LA,Silvado C,Mäder-Joaquim MJ,Moro MS,Araujo JC

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors review the literature about the cronic nervous form of Chagas' disease, directing their attention toward peripheral neurological aspects. Specifically, they analyse the results obtained from a "bind" research realized in a small community in the countryside of the state of Bahia, Brazil, where a high frequ...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Fortes-Rêgo J,Macedo VO,Prata A

更新日期：1980-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To study the reasons for referral to electrodiagnostic evaluation, 490 patients referred for electrodiagnostic evaluation to two laboratories (UNIFESP and UNEF) answered the following question: "What was the reason that brought you to look for a physician and that led him to ask this examination?" Paresthesia and/or p...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： de Campos CC,Manzano GM,Castelo Filho A,Nóbrega JA

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Complex and mixed atypical absences and tonic epileptic seizures of 12 patients with the Lennox-Gastaut syndrome with onset after age 6 were studied. By complexes seizures we mean the associations of two elementary epileptics phenomena and by mixed that of three or more. Complex and mixed epileptic seizures already re...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Barreira AA,Lison MP,Speciali JG

更新日期：1982-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We conducted a 320 year retrospective survey of the history and genealogy of a large Brazilian family with SCA7. The ancestral couple was from the State of Ceará, Brazil, and the genealogical tree was composed of 577 individuals, including 217 males (37.6%), 255 females (44.1%) and 105 individuals of unknown sex (18.1...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： da Cunha Linhares S,Horta WG,Marques Júnior W

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Intrathoracic meningocele is a rare pathology, almost always associated with neurofibromatosis type I and with a few cases related in the literature. In the majority of cases cysts are small or asymptomatic, and the surgery is indicated when big or symptomatic cysts are present. We report a case of giant int...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： de Andrade GC,Braga OP,Hisatugo MK,de Paiva Neto MA,Succi E,Braga FM

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 cavernous sinus is most frequently involved by septic thrombosis. The common sites of primary infection are the medial face, orbits, tonsils, soft palate, sphenoid and ethmoid sinuses. The usual clinical presentation begins with fever and periorbital edema followed by headache, ptosis and ocular muscles palsy. The...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Dini LI,Sonda I,Saraiva GA,Corso RJ,de Almeida FO,Gallo P

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hemimegalencephaly (HME) is a rare congenital brain malformation of unknown etiology. Patients with HME can present with an early onset epileptic syndrome which is often refractory to medical treatment and associated to impaired neurological development. Functional hemispherectomy (FH) has proven to be a valuable trea...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Fonseca LF,Melo RP,Cukiert A,Burattini JA,Mariani PP,Brandão R,Ceda L,Baldauf CM,Argentoni M,Forster C,Baise C

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00