Long-term neuropsychological effects and MRI findings in patients with CS2 poisoning.

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The common prion protein gene (PRNP) codon 129 polymorphism modifies the susceptibility to and the phenotype of prion diseases. However, no truly representative normal population-based data, or data stratified according to age or gender are available on the distribution of this polymorphism. MATERIAL AND ME...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Nurmi MH,Bishop M,Strain L,Brett F,McGuigan C,Hutchison M,Farrell M,Tilvis R,Erkkilä S,Simell O,Knight R,Haltia M

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:The basal ganglia are thought to be involved in the primary dystonias, largely because of the repeated demonstration of neuropathological changes in these nuclei in the secondary dystonias. A hyperactivity of a network involving basal ganglia has been suggested in experimental animal dystonia. To test this h...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Galardi G,Perani D,Grassi F,Bressi S,Amadio S,Antoni M,Comi GC,Canal N,Fazio F

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 54 year-old woman showed the unusual association of a Guillain-Barré syndrome and opsoclonus, a rare eye movement characterized by involuntary bursts of jerking, ataxic and multidirectional saccades, without an intersaccadic interval. Since opsoclonus is a phenomenon described exclusively in CNS diseases, the case r...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Nicolai A,Lazzarino LG

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The prevalence of probable multiple sclerosis (MS) in Caltanissetta city, Sicily, is at least 51 per 100,000. If possible multiple sclerosis patients are included, it is 54 per 100,000. This value is similar to that found in other cities in Sicily: Enna, Monreale and Agrigento. The high prevalence of multiple sclerosi...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Savettieri G,Elian M,Giordano D,Grimaldi G,Ventura A,Dean G

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty-seven patients with CT-scan-diagnosed arachnoid cysts in the middle cranial fossa were studied. Five (18%) presented with progressive symptoms related to raised intracranial pressure which had developed after minor trauma and secondary bleeding, 12 (44%) presented with non-progressive symptoms, and 10 (37%) exh...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Passero S,Filosomi G,Cioni R,Venturi C,Volpini B

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) is the most important inhibitory transmitter, quantitatively, in the CNS. Evidence exists that decreased GABAergic neurotransmission may play a role in some forms of epilepsy. Consequently, manipulating the GABA system may be a therapeutic possibility in the treatment of this disease. In...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Gram L

更新日期：1988-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To investigate the effect of caudal zona incerta-deep brain stimulation (cZi-DBS) on word-level speech intelligibility in patients with Parkinson's disease, under both an optimal listening condition and a simulated more naturalistic listening condition. MATERIALS AND METHODS:Spoken single words were extract...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Johansson L,Möller S,Olofsson K,Linder J,Nordh E,Blomstedt P,van Doorn J,Karlsson F

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiple sclerosis (MS) is associated with autoimmune disorders (AIDs) in individual patients, and limited data suggest a possible familial association of MS and AIDs; however, no systematic study has been conducted on the occurrence of AIDs in the families of MS patients. Using a standardized interview focused on AID...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Heinzlef O,Alamowitch S,Sazdovitch V,Chillet P,Joutel A,Tournier-Lasserve E,Roullet E

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This report describes a multiple sclerosis (MS)-like disorder in a male patient with Leber's hereditary optic neuropathy (LHON) harbouring the mitochondrial DNA 11778 base pair mutation. Given the population frequencies of MS and LHON, coincidental occurrence is unlikely. Hypothetically the mitochondrial mutation unde...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Olsen NK,Hansen AW,Nørby S,Edal AL,Jørgensen JR,Rosenberg T

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The concentrations of sulfur-containing amino acids (taurine, methionine, cystine, cystathionine, homocystine) in lumbar CSF from patients with consciousness disturbances and controls were measured, and it was investigated whether there was any correlation between the sequential changes of these amino acid concentrati...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Yanai Y,Shibasaki T,Kohno N,Mitsui T,Nakajima H

更新日期：1983-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:As part of a door-to-door survey of neurologic diseases, we investigated the prevalence of lumbosacral radiculopathy (LR) in two Sicilian municipalities (N = 14,540, as of November 1, 1987). MATERIAL & METHODS:During phase 1, we administered a brief screening instrument to subjects in the study population. ...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Savettieri G,Salemi G,Rocca WA,Meneghini F,D'Arpa A,Morgante L,Coraci MA,Reggio A,Grigoletto F,Di Perri R

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thermal tests were performed in 117 healthy subjects on the face, wrist and leg; 32 were tested on the legs with different rates of cooling and warming. Additionally 2 groups of diabetics (37 patients) were tested. Thermotesting was most sensitive on the legs using a rate of temperature change of 2.5-2.8 oC/s. Warm an...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Claus D,Hilz MJ,Hummer I,Neundörfer B

更新日期：1987-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The composition of the free amino acid pools in various brain tumors and in normal brains obtained at surgery or at autopsy is determined with an automatic amino acid analyzer and the results statistically evaluated. The tumors have lower ratios of GABA in the pools than the normal brain; tumors with higher GABA ratio...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Shibasaki T,Uki J,Kanoh T,Kawafuchi J

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a case of a cystic lesion in the left cerebellopontine (CP) angle cistern. The magnetic resonance (MR) imaging features closely resembled an epidermoid inclusion cyst, and was interpreted as such. However, at surgery and on histopathological examination the lesion was found to be a cysticercus cyst. It may b...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Singh S,Gibikote SV,Bannur U,Chacko G,Korah IP,Rajshekhar V

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Demented patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) (n = 67), multi-infarct dementia (MID) (n = 77) and probable vascular dementia (PVD) (n = 45) were studied with electroencephalography (EEG). All patients underwent a routine EEG examination and quantitative EEG was recorded from 14 patients with AD, 20 with MID, and 12 ...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Erkinjuntti T,Larsen T,Sulkava R,Ketonen L,Laaksonen R,Palo J

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The main metabolites of the neurotransmitters noradrenaline, dopamine, and serotonin, methoxy-hydroxyphenylglycol (MHPG), homovanillic acid (HVA), and 5-hydroxyindoleacetic acid (5HIAA) respectively, were estimated by HPLC with electrochemical detection in CSF samples from 24 patients in coma after head injury, 1 to 1...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Markianos M,Seretis A,Kotsou S,Baltas I,Sacharogiannis H

更新日期：1992-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stroke although rare in children, is an important cause of morbidity in the paediatric age group. Over a period of 8 years, 43 children (17 boys and 26 girls) in the age groups of 1-16 years (mean 8.02 yrs) presented with stroke which constituted 10% of all strokes in the young and 0.7% of all paediatric admissions. T...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Nagaraja D,Verma A,Taly AB,Kumar MV,Jayakumar PN

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to approach the mechanism of chronic or relapsing course in human chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy, we established a chronic model of experimental allergic neuritis (EAN) in juvenile guinea pigs, and investigated the underlying cellular immune phenomenon in comparison with acute EAN i...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Suzumura A,Sobue G,Sugimura K,Matsuoka Y,Sobue I

更新日期：1985-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One cause of ischemic brain injury is free radical formation during recirculation. Allopurinol inhibits xanthine oxidase, an important source of free oxygen radicals. It is known that allopurinol pre-treatment has a protective action during cerebral ischemia. In the present study we exposed slices from the rat hippoca...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Hegstad E,Berg-Johnsen J,Langmoen IA

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:It has been suggested that polymorphisms in the WT1 gene modulate the effect of IFN-β treatment in multiple sclerosis (MS) through regulation of the relationship between IFN-β and vitamin D. OBJECTIVE:To examine whether WT1 modulates the relationship between IFN-β and vitamin D in a longitudinal study with ...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Holmøy T,Esbensen QY,Torkildsen Ø,Wergeland S,Bjerve KS,Beiske AG,Midgard R,Šaltytė-Benth J,Hovdal H,Myhr KM

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:EEG data obtained from 27 patients with presenile Alzheimer's disease (AD) and 28 patients with senile dementia of the Alzheimer type (SDAT) were compared with data from 30 age- and sex-matched controls. Both patient groups exhibited more pronounced delta and theta activity and less prominent alpha and beta activity t...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Miyauchi T,Hagimoto H,Ishii M,Endo S,Tanaka K,Kajiwara S,Endo K,Kajiwara A,Kosaka K

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To examine through a meta-analysis whether a treatment strategy of surgery plus the routine medical management saves lives and reduces disability in survivors of primary supratentorial intracerebral hematoma compared to routine medical management alone. MATERIAL AND METHODS:Computerized bibliographic search...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Prasad K,Browman G,Srivastava A,Menon G

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The dibenzazepines particularly carbamazepine are associated with known adverse effects (AEs) and drug to drug interactions. Eslicarbazepine acetate (ESL) is structurally distinct from other members of the dibenzazepine family and has the advantage of once daily dosing. Observational and trial data report successful s...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Watkins L,O'Dwyer M,Oak K,Lawthom C,Maguire M,Thomas R,Shankar R

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The influence of the rheological properties of the blood on cerebral perfusion is still unresolved. Data on normal subjects are lacking and difficulties arise regarding the effect of blood viscosity owing to its close relationship with hematocrit. For these reasons we have studied the relationship between two rheologi...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Cavestri R,Radice L,Ferrarini F,Longhini M,Longhini E

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report 20 cases of right unilateral spatial neglect caused by lesions in the left cerebral hemisphere. Differences in neuropsychological symptoms and lesions sites are discussed in connection with handedness. Of the right-handed patients, 6 had severe aphasia, 4 had Gerstmann's syndrome, and 1 had pure agraphia, bu...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Maeshima S,Shigeno K,Dohi N,Kajiwara T,Komai N

更新日期：1992-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) pressure-volume compensation may change over time as part of normal ageing, where the resistance to CSF outflow increases and the formation of CSF decreases with age. Is CSF compensation dependent on duration of symptoms in idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus (iNPH)? METHODS:We...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Czosnyka Z,Owler B,Keong N,Santarius T,Baledent O,Pickard JD,Czosnyka M

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To describe clinical features of a patient with secretions of atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP) and brain natriuretic peptide (BNP) during an epileptic attack. PATIENT:A 65-year-old woman experienced frequent bouts of polyuria, pyrexia and general fatigue after several years of a cerebral contusion involving ...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Obi T,Takatsu M,Konishi T,Mizoguchi K,Nishimura Y

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The visual, somatosensory, and vestibular systems are critical for establishing a sensorimotor set for postural control and orientation. The goal of this study was to assess how individuals with a vestibular-related disorder keep their balance following prolonged stance on an inclined surface. We hypothesize...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Chong R,Berl B,Cook B,Turner P,Walker K

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 24 asymptomatic HIV-infected patients (CDC II/III) and 27 HIV-negative controls were tested for speed of reaction and for general neuropsychological functioning. Reaction time was assessed with two computerized tests with differing levels of cognitive complexity. The results show that the asymptomatic HIV-p...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Karlsen NR,Reinvang I,Frøland SS

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To characterise a Swedish family with a rare hereditary myopathy with unique sarcoplasmic inclusion bodies in the muscle biopsy. MATERIALS AND METHODS:Part of the pedigree was described in 1980. Nine new members of the included and the phenotype further characterised through clinical, neurophysiological and...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Engvall M,Ahlberg G,Hedberg B,Edström L,Ansved T

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00