[Excessive daytime sleepiness after traumatic brain injury: association with periodic limb movements and REM behavior disorder: case report].

abstract：:We attempt to correlate the patient's disability and serum enzymes (creatinekinase, lactic dehydrogenase, aldolase, glutamic oxalacetic and glutamic piruvic transaminase) in several neuromuscular disorders using the Vignos and Archibald scale (V&A). In 806 cases we studied, serum enzyme levels and the V&A disability u...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Werneck LC

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To report a Brazilian series of spontaneous cervical arterial dissections, risk factors, warning symptoms, clinical manifestations, diagnostic tests, treatment and prognosis. METHOD:We performed the retrospective analysis of clinical and neuroradiological records (MRI, A-MRI and Angiography) of patients with...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Campos CR,Evaristo EF,Yamamoto FI,Puglia P Jr,Lucato LT,Scaff M

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to evaluate the long-term effect of botulinum toxin type A (BTX) in the treatment of hemifacial spasm (HFS), a retrospective analysis of patients treated at the Movement Disorders Unit of the Division of Neurology, Clinical Hospital, University of São Paulo, School of Medicine from 1993 to 2004 was made. A to...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Barbosa ER,Takada LT,Gonçalves LR,Costa RM,Silveira-Moriyama L,Chien HF

更新日期：2010-08-01 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：:The choline/N-acetyl-aspartate (Cho/NAA) ratio, obtained by the multivoxel spectroscopy with short echo time (TE), was evaluated, in the histological grading of the brain astrocytomas (grades I, II and III-IV) in comparison with the normal cerebral parenchyma. A significant increase (p<0.05) in the average ratios of C...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Aragão Mde F,Otaduy MC,Melo RV,Azevedo Filho HR,Victor EG,Silva JL,Araújo N,Leite Cda C,Valença MM

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The study is based on 371 cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) samples and 324 serum samples from 40 patients with neurocysticercosis (NC) submitted to treatment with praziquantel. The aim of the study is a critical evaluation on humoral immunity in CSF NC syndrome. The analysis of NC patients at diagnosis and in the follow-up p...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Livramento JA

更新日期：1987-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epilepsy was surveyed in the largest psychiatric hospital in the Santa Catarina State, southern Brazil. This establishment was designed for one thousand long-term beds but at the time of the survey there were 1126 inpatients. Diagnosis ranged from anxiety neurosis to schizophrenia although patients with epilepsy, with...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Trevisol-Bittencourt PC,Becker N,Pozzi CM,Sander JW

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Significant advances in the understanding and management of Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) took place since international guidelines were published in 2010. Our objective was to provide an evidence-based national consensus statement for multidisciplinary care of DMD in Brazil. A combination of the Delphi technique ...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Araujo APQC,Carvalho AAS,Cavalcanti EBU,Saute JAM,Carvalho E,França MC Junior,Martinez ARM,Navarro MMM,Nucci A,Resende MBD,Gonçalves MVM,Gurgel-Giannetti J,Scola RH,Sobreira CFDR,Reed UC,Zanoteli E

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Case report of a 12 years old female child who developed in the last seven months focal neurological signs and progressive intracranial hypertension. CT scan showed a giant cystic tumor, and cerebral hydatidosis has been diagnosed. The hydatic cyst was surgically removed without complications. Cerebral hydatidosis is ...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Guillén D,Campos P,Aguirre I,Porturas D,Noriega P,Alva M,Fuentes-Dávila A,Alaba W

更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of a 10-year-old patient with a benign congenital myopathy, suddenly aggravated because of an accentuated deficit in respiratory muscles is reported. The institution of assisted respiration at night allowed the patient to return to her daily activities. Examination of muscular biopsy with ultra-microscope permi...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Levy JA,Tsanaclis AM,Saraiva PA,Mion CC,Salum PN

更新日期：1983-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated a relationship between the FLAIR signal found in mesial temporal sclerosis (MTS) and inflammation. Twenty nine patients were selected through clinical and MRI analysis and submitted to cortico-amygdalo-hippocampectomy to seizure control. Glutamate, TNFα, IL1, nitric oxide (NO) levels and immunostaining...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Varella PP,Santiago JF,Carrete H Jr,Higa EM,Yacubian EM,Centeno RS,Caboclo LO,Castro Neto EF,Canzian M,Amado D,Cavalheiro EA,Naffah-Mazzacoratti Mda G

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The basal encephaloceles refer to rare entities and they correspond to herniation of brain tissue through defects of skull along the cribiform plate or the sphenoid bone. A rare morning glory syndrome, with characteristic retinal defect has been reported in association with basal encephaloceles. Hypophysis hormonal de...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Minotto I,Abdala N,Miachon AA,Spinola e Castro AM,Imamura P,Nogueira RG

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The main objectives of this study are to evaluate the resistance rates of Streptococcus pneumonia to penicillin G, ceftriaxone and vancomycin in patients with meningitis; to analyze possible risk factors to the antimicrobian resistance; to describe the serotypes detected and to suggest an initial empirical treatment f...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Rossoni AM,Dalla Costa LM,Berto DB,Farah SS,Gelain M,Brandileone MC,Ramos VH,Almeida SM

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate spectral analysis of electroencephalograms (EEG) for the alpha frequency band during rest and cognitive stimulation in healthy adults and individuals with mild cognitive impairment. METHOD:We analyzed 56 EEGs from 28 patients, 7 men and 21 women, 12 of whom (40%) were controls, 16 patients wit...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Schmidt MT,Anghinah R,Basile LF,Forlenza O,Gattaz WF

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：Methods:This retrospective and descriptive study evaluated the clinical characteristics and outcomes of patients with CA-GAD-ab. Result:Three patients with cerebellar ataxia, high GAD-ab titers and autoimmune endocrine disease were identified. Patients 1 and 2 had classic stiff person syndrome and insidious-onset cere...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Aguiar TS,Fragoso A,Albuquerque CR,Teixeira PF,Souza MV,Zajdenverg L,Alves-Leon SV,Rodacki M,Lima MA

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:West syndrome (WS) is a severe epileptic encephalopathy of childhood, characterized by spasms, developmental deterioration and hipsarhythymia. OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the safety and efficacy of vigabatrin (VGB) in the treatment of WS. METHOD:We evaluated every patient diagnosed with WS seen at the pediatric ...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Moraes MH,Montenegro MA,Franzon RC,Avila JO,Guerreiro MM

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To establish whether vascular aphasic syndromes can predict stroke outcomes. METHOD:Thirty-seven adults were evaluated for speech and language within 72 hours after a single first-ever ischemic brain lesion, in blind association to CT and/or MR. RESULTS:Speech or language disabilities were found in seven (8...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Oliveira FF,Damasceno BP

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurodegeneration with brain iron accumulation (NBIA) represents a heterogeneous and complex group of inherited neurodegenerative diseases, characterized by excessive iron accumulation, particularly in the basal ganglia. Common clinical features of NBIA include movement disorders, particularly parkinsonism and dystoni...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Salomão RP,Pedroso JL,Gama MT,Dutra LA,Maciel RH,Godeiro-Junior C,Chien HF,Teive HA,Cardoso F,Barsottini OG

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To study the brain areas which are activated when normal subjects make moral judgments. METHOD:Ten normal adults underwent BOLD functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) during the auditory presentation of sentences that they were instructed to silently judge as either "right" or "wrong". Half of the sent...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Moll J,Eslinger PJ,Oliveira-Souza R

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to investigate the association between headache and alcohol consumption among medical students. 480 medical students were submitted to a questionnaire about headaches and drinking alcohol. Headache was assessed by ID-Migraine and functional disability was evaluated with MIDAS. The evaluation ...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Domingues RB,Domingues SA

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Movement disorders, mostly dystonia, sometimes occur in heterozygotes for Wilson's disease (WD). A patient with metabolic abnormalities suggestive of heterozygote for WD and dystonia is reported. His niece showed the typical neurological and metabolic abnormalities of WD. This rare coincidence and the etiopathogenic m...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Barbosa ER,Kostow UP,Hirsch R,Cançado ER,Scaff M,Canelas HM

更新日期：1990-12-01 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：:Epilepsy is one of the most dreaded and terrifying human afflictions. One of the many names it has received was Sacred Disease, during Greek times. Heracles served as a source of the divine connotation that epilepsy received in ancient times, as he was one of the most important demigods in Greek mythology. However, se...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Orrego-GonzÁlez E,Peralta-GarcÍa A,Palacios-SÁnchez L

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Normal pressure hydrocephalus (NPH) is characterized by gait disturbance, dementia and/or urinary incontinence associated with dilation of ventricular system with normal opening cerebrospinal fluid pressure. Wide scientifical evidence confirms association between NPH and psychiatric symptoms. We selected 35 patients w...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Oliveira MF,Oliveira JR,Rotta JM,Pinto FC

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To evaluate with 1H-magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) the metabolites rations of the foramen of Monro's region in patients with tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC). METHOD:Twelve patients with TSC and an age and gender-matched control group underwent MR imaging at a 1.5T scanner, and 1H-MRS at the foramen of ...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Carvalho-Neto Ad,Bruck I,Antoniuk SA,Marchiori E,Gasparetto EL

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The peripheral nervous system is frequently involved in systemic vasculitis and it may be helpful in the disease diagnosis. We report on eight patients: seven women and one man; five white, two black and one yellow; age mean 55.9 years; four had polyarteritis nodosa, one had systemic lupus erythematosus, one had isola...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Lino AM,Hirata MT,Baêta AM,Tsanaclis AM,Scaff M,Marchiori PE

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Literature on the anatomy of the human vertebral column characterizes the shape of the lumbar vertebral canal as triangular. The purpose of the present study was to determine the precise shape of the lumbar vertebral canal. Ten lumbar vertebral columns of adult male cadavers were dissected. Two transverse sections wer...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Zarzur E

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors report the clinical and angiographical findings of two cases of familial hemifacial spasm. This is the fifth description in the literature and presents mother and daughter at the ages of 76 and 51 respectively, in whom the left side was affected. They underwent exams of angioresonance that showed dolichoba...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Barbosa ER,da Costa Mdo D,Staut CC,Bacheschi LA,Bittar MS

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Paroxysmal choreoathetosis (PC) is a rare entity, and professionals who study movement disorders do not find it easily. Paroxysmal occurrence of dystonic, choreic, athetosic movements is the typical feature of this syndrome. The onset is always subtle and the attacks can last from few seconds to hours. Sporadic cases ...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Carrilho PE,Barbosa ER,Haddad MS,Comerlatti LR,Limongi JC,Scaff M

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Febrile seizures (FS) affect almost 2-5% of children and factors related to an increase susceptibility of children to FS may involve an imbalance of inflammatory cytokines and genetic factors. FS had low morbidity, but may be associated with the occurrence of late chronic epilepsy. Here we describe factors related to ...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Terra VC,Machado HR,Sakamoto AC,Arida RM,Scorza FA

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00