[Intracranial saccular aneurysm: report of 3 cases in a same family].

abstract：:Digital EEG (DEEG) and quantitative EEG (QEEG) are recently developed tools present in many clinical situations. Besides showing didactic and research utility, they may also have a clinical role. Although a considerable amount of scientific literature has been published related to QEEG, many controversies still subsis...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Luccas FJ,Anghinah R,Braga NI,Fonseca LC,Frochtengarten ML,Jorge MS,Kanda PA

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 38 year-old man presented fever and a clinical picture of intracranial hypertension and ataxic syndrome. A CT-scan disclosed an expanding lesion of the cerebellum. Surgical excision of the lesion was performed and pathological examination made the diagnosis of an actinomycotic abscess. The probable primary source of...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Tsubouchi MH,Arruda WO,Pedrozo AA,Meneses MS,Ramina R,Bleggi-Torres LF

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A protocol for testing cerebrospinal fluid specimens using a range of PCR assays for the diagnosis of central nervous system infection was developed and used to test prospectively 383 specimens. PCR assays were used for the detection of adenovirus, Borrelia burgdorferi, enteroviruses, Epstein Barr virus, cytomegalovir...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Chesky M,Scalco R,Failace L,Read S,Jobim LF

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since the last decades of the past century there have been several reports in the medical literature describing patients with dystonia. The clinical and phenomenological concepts of dystonic movements have been debated. Presently, dystonia is defined as a syndrome of sustained muscle contractions, frequently causing t...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Papaterra Limongi JC

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This review describes therapeutically relevant mechanisms of action of botulinum toxin (BT). BT's molecular mode of action includes extracellular binding to glycoproteine structures on cholinergic nerve terminals and intracellular blockade of the acetylcholine secretion. BT affects the spinal stretch reflex by blockad...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Dressler D,Saberi FA,Barbosa ER

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To assess the outcome of patients with epilepsy treated at primary care health units under the framework of the demonstration project on epilepsy in Brazil, part of the WHO/ILAE/IBE Global Campaign Against Epilepsy. METHOD:We assessed the outcome of patients treated at four primary health units. The staff of t...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Li LM,Fernandes PT,Noronha AL,Marques LH,Borges MA,Borges K,Cendes F,Guerreiro CA,Zanetta DM,de Boer HM,Espíndola J,Miranda CT,Prilipko L,Sander JW

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirty-two children (21 female and 11 male), between 7 and 14 years old, with chronic daily headache (CDH) were consecutively included in a prospective, randomized, double blind, placebo controlled crossover study. The patients were divided in group I (fluoxetine vs. placebo), with 17 patients and group II (placebo vs...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Gherpelli JL,Esposito SB

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The involvement of the central nervous system in cysticercosis was demonstrate as an incidental finding in a frequence of 0,3% in 4000 autopsied cases. Most of the 12 patients came from rural areas of the State of Bahia. The low frequence compared to other sites reported in Brasil shows that the neurcysticercosis does...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： De Queiroz AC,Martinez AM

更新日期：1979-03-01 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：:Mitochondrial myopathy, Encephalopathy, Lactic Acidosis, and Stroke-like episodes (MELAS) is a rare mitochondrial disorder. Diagnostic criteria for MELAS include typical manifestations of the disease: stroke-like episodes, encephalopathy, evidence of mitochondrial dysfunction (laboratorial or histological) and known m...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Lorenzoni PJ,Werneck LC,Kay CS,Silvado CE,Scola RH

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:[This corrects the article doi: 10.1590/0004-282x20180071]. ...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors：

更新日期：2018-12-01 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 authors present a case of acute subdural haematoma evacuated in the presence of a coagulopathy. Some elements necessary for the understanding of the etiopathogenesis of the disease are discussed. ...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Cavalcanti CE,Jansen E

更新日期：1985-09-01 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

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：OBJECTIVE:To investigate the correlation between facial sensory abnormalities and lesional topography in eight patients with lateral medullary infarcts (LMIs). METHOD:We reviewed eight sequential cases of LMIs admitted to the Neurology Division of Hospital das Clínicas/São Paulo University between July, 2001 and Augus...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Conforto AB,Yamamoto FI,Leite Cda C,Scaff M,Marie SK

更新日期：2005-12-01 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：OBJECTIVE:To present the magnetic resonance (MR) imaging findings of 78 patients with meningiomas diagnosed in a single institution. METHOD:78 patients with histological proven intracranial meningioma were studied. There were 52 female and 26 male patients (median=56 years). All MR imaging examinations were performed ...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Gasparetto EL,Leite Cda C,Lucato LT,Barros CV,Marie SK,Santana P,Aguiar PH,Rosemberg S

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The existence of a benign multiple sclerosis (BMS) form is a controversial subject. Recent studies of these patients reveal different levels of cognitive impairment, despite the apparent preservation of motor function. The objective of this study was to review and analyze a number of publications that discuss the gene...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Ton AMM,Vasconcelos CCF,Alvarenga RMP

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Learning disability is common in epileptic children. Epilepsy has been associated with disorders of intelligence. Cognitive potential (P300) is considered to be a clinical aid in the neurophysiological measurement of the cognitive process. Ninety-nine children between the ages of 10 years and 11 years and 11 months fo...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Visioli-Melo JF,Rotta NT

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To compare neuromotor development between patients who did and those who did not undergo intrauterine myelomeningocele repair. METHODS:Children with myelomeningocele aged between 3.5 and 6 years who did undergo intrauterine repair (Group A, n=6) or not (Group B; n=7) were assessed for neuromotor development ...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Faria TC,Cavalheiro S,Hisaba WJ,Moron AF,Torloni MR,Oliveira AL,Borges CP

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：Objective::To evaluate the microRNA-219 and NMDA expression in brain tissue and blood of animals subjected to cerebral ischemia associated with alcoholism. Methods::Fifty Wistar rats were divided into groups: control, sham, ischemic, alcoholic, and ischemic plus alcoholic. The expression of microRNA-219 and NMDA were ...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Silva CI,Novais PC,Rodrigues AR,Carvalho CA,Colli BO,Carlotti CG Jr,Tirapelli LF,Tirapelli DP

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:According to the definition of disease, epilepsy shall not be considered neither a symptom nor a syndrome. Epilepsy is a generic term for a group of diseases characterized by seizures. It implies a state quite distinct from health. Therefore it seems worthy to keep epilepsy as such in the International Classification ...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Arruda WO

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four hundred thirty one epileptic patients, aged 10 years or more old, have been studied in the neurology clinic of Hospital das Clínicas da Faculdade de Medicina de Ribeirão Preto da U.S.P., from February to July, 1981. The authors selected 119 patients aged between 13 to 45 years, that presented periodic menstrual b...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Schelp AO,Speciali JG

更新日期：1983-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The many kinds of complication that have been observed following operations of basilar impression and/or malformation of Arnold-Chiari are analysed. Two surgical techniques were adopted in the treatment of the patients. In the first 64 cases, the operation consisted in the craniectomy of the posterior fossa and high c...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Gonçalves da Silva JA,Gonçalves da Silva CE

更新日期：1981-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：CONTEXT:The precise function of sleep in animals and human beings is still unknown, and any sort of physical, social or psychological variation may change the normal sleep-wake cycle. PURPOSE:This research aims is to determine the sleep disorders (SD) for each of the three trimesters of the pregnancy comparing them to...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Lopes EA,Carvalho LB,Seguro PB,Mattar R,Silva AB,Prado LB,Prado GF

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to verify which instrument better identifies recurrent falls in the elderly. Ninety-eight old people, with an average age of 80 ± 4 years, were submitted to an assessment of balance and fall risk by means of the Berg Balance Scale (BBS) and the posturographic Balance Stability System (BSS...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Pereira VV,Maia RA,Silva SM

更新日期：2013-01-01 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：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：:Through information gathered at the statistical and medical register service it was done a descriptive study of some epidemiologic aspects of neurosyphilis at the Juliano Moreira Hospital (Bahia) in a period of 50 years (1930 - 1979). Coeficients of specific mortality were stablished . The distribution of the disease ...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Costa GF

更新日期：1984-03-01 00:00:00