Computerized tomography findings in Fahr's syndrome.

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate the potential relationship between the human leukocyte antigen (HLA) type (class I and II) and the response to several disease-modifying therapies (DMTs) in patients with multiple sclerosis (MS). METHODS:We analyzed clinical data of 87 patients with MS at the beginning and end of each type of ...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Werneck LC,Lorenzoni PJ,Kay CSK,Scola RH

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the possible association between celiac disease (CD) and/or gluten sensitivity (GS) and autism spectrum disorder (ASD). METHODS:Occurrences of CD were determined in a group of children and adolescents affected by ASD and, conversely, occurrences of ASD were assessed in a group of biopsy-proven ce...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Batista IC,Gandolfi L,Nobrega YK,Almeida RC,Almeida LM,Campos Junior D,Pratesi R

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since the first report addressing quantification of cerebral blood flow (CBF), concomitant assessment of cerebral oxygen consumption was also carried out. Over the years, however, some investigators have emphatically and mistakenly addressed cerebral ischemia in comatose patients, on the basis of CBF measurements alon...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Cruz J

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a retrospective study we assessed the outcome of the criptogenic and symptomatic forms of West syndrome and evaluated the efficacy of adrenocorticotropic hormone, vigabatrin, prednisone, valproate and nitrazepam in the spasms control. Seventy patients were follwed up by 2 years. Twelve (17%) were criptogenics and 5...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Antoniuk SA,Bruck I,Spessatto A,Halick SM,de Bruyn LR,Meister E,de Paola D

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty one cases of schistosomal meningomyeloradiculopathy due to Schistosoma mansoni are reported. This result was attained after a 4- year research period based on a "Clinical and Laboratory Investigation Protocol" applied on 212 patients in Itabuna, a city of Southeast region of Bahia state in the Northeast of Braz...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Peregrino AJ,de Oliveira SP,Porto CA,Santos LA,de Menezes EE,Silva AP,Brito AL,Pinheiro SP,Pinheiro S,Dias AB

更新日期：1988-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:With the increase in life expectancy in Brazil, concerns have grown about the most prevalent diseases in elderly people. Among these diseases are neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases. Protein deposits related to the development of these diseases can pre-date the symptomatic phases b...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Oliveira FH,Rodrigues Neto E,Fonseca MK,Costa AS,Rockenbach MA,Padilha Rdos S,Fernandez LL,Hilbig A

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of an isolated tuberculoma of the spinal cord is reported. The 22 years old male patient came to the hospital with paraplegia and had a laminetomy performed for a compression of the spinal cord by a tumor mass. The histopathological study showed the presence of the acid-fast bacili in the tissue. After specific...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： de Queiroz AC,Rizzo A,de Carvalho MS

更新日期：1978-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The diagnosis of primary intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) and subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) has become easier with the advent of modern imaging techniques. The incidence of ICH has declined, while SAH has remained relatively constant. The prognosis for both disorders remains dismal and the mortality rate is substantiall...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Fisher M

更新日期：1991-09-01 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：:Social-economic factors influence sleep habits. This research analyzes characteristics of nocturnal sleep in Brazilian Native Terena adults. Sixty-four adults (31 M; 33 F) from 18 to 75 years, with a mean age of 37.0, from the Indian Reservation village of Córrego do Meio, in the central region of Mato Grosso do Sul, ...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Reimão R,Souza JC,Gaudioso CE,Guerra HD,Alves AD,Oliveira JC,Gnobie NC,Silvério DC

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is much controversy about the importance of the electroencephalogram (EEG) in assessing the attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). The objective of this study was to assess the use of EEG and quantitative EEG (qEEG) in ADHD children. Thirty ADHD children and 30 sex- and age-matched controls with no neu...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Fonseca LC,Tedrus GM,Moraes Cd,Vicente Machado Ad,Almeida MP,Oliveira DO

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study used MRI to define preoperative imaging criteria for cavernous sinus invasion (CSI) by pituitary adenoma (PA). MR images of 103 patients with PA submitted to surgery (48 with CSI) were retrospectively reviewed. The following MR signs were studied and compared to intraoperative findings (the latter were cons...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Vieira JO Jr,Cukiert A,Liberman B

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The study aimed to find out how frequent is brain tissue aspiration and if brain tissue heterotopia could be found in the lung of human neural tube defect cases. Histological sections of each lobe of both lungs of 22 fetuses and newborn with neural tube defect were immunostained for glial fibrillary acidic protein (GF...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Peres LC,Barbosa GH

更新日期：2005-09-01 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：OBJECTIVE:To assess the long-term efficacy of percutaneous vertebroplasty for the treatment of pain resulting from osteoporotic vertebral fractures. METHOD:26 percutaneous vertebroplasty procedures were performed for osteoporotic vertebral fractures in 15 patients during the period between July 2001 and May 2004. Befo...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Astacio GS,Marchiori E,Gasparetto EL,Azevedo F

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Investigate the auditory pathway in the brainstem of children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia submitted to chemotherapy (by intravenous or intrathecal infusion). METHODS:Fourteen children aged between 2 and 12 years with diagnosis of acute lymphoid leukemia were evaluated. The following procedures were use...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Leite RA,Vosgrau JS,Cortez Neto L,Santos NP,Matas SLA,Odone Filho V,Matas CG

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using the clinical quantification of the neurologic symptomatology the authors made observations and avaliated the action of Ciba 34.647-Ba, a GABA derivative, in 12 patients suffering from spasticity and motor incapacity due to spinal cord lesions. The results are reported emphasizing the effects of the drug on the m...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Roitman I,Anghinah A

更新日期：1977-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Calf enlargement following sciatica is a rare condition. It is reported the case of a 28-year-old woman who complained of repeated episodes of lower back pain radiating into the left buttock and foot. One year after the beginning of her symptoms, she noticed enlargement of her left calf. X-ray studies disclosed L5-S1 ...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Nascimento OJ,De Freitas MR,Hahn MD,Araújo AQ

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to investigate the cardiovascular risk profile of the participants recruited from stroke awareness campaigns in Santa Maria RS, Brazil, from 2012 to 2016, using the simplified version of the Framingham Risk Score (FRS). Questionnaires were used to evaluate 1,061 participants from 20 to 74 yea...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Rissardo JP,Caprara ALF,Prado ALC,Leite MTB

更新日期：2018-04-01 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：: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：:We studied the clinical aspects of 100 consecutive premature newborns with and without intraventricular and periventricular hemorrhage (IPVH). The diagnosis of IPVH was obtained by ultrasonic scans of the skull during the first week of life and at the age of one month. Forty eight percent of newborns with IPVH had abn...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Sanchez-Stopiglia M,Moura-Ribeiro MV,Marba S

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Idiopathic Parkinson's disease (PD) is characterized by reduced nigrostriatal and cortical dopaminergic influence, with changes in movement and, subsequently, behavioral and cognitive disturbances. We studied cognitive impairment in Parkinson's disease by assessing a group of 30 idiopathic Parkinson's disease patients...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Piovezan MR,Teive HA,Piovesan EJ,Mader MJ,Werneck LC

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of the present investigation was to study the general characteristics of a population of 209 patients with peripheral neuropathies seen at the University Hospital of Ribeirão Preto from March 1985 to February 1987. Few studies have been devoted to the evaluation of patients in order to investigate the fa...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Marques Júnior W,Barreira AA

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We reviewed 444 EEGs of 62 women with medically refractory epilepsy, followed up for at least 5 years and that had 5 or more EEGs. According to our definitions we found 18 patients (29%) with frequent seizures, 16 (25.8%) with very frequent seizures, 16 (25.8%) with controlled seizures and 12 (19.3%) with occasional s...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Azoubel AC,Silveira DC,Guerreiro CA

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is a limited choice of psychometric tests for Portuguese speaking people which have been evaluated in well defined groups. A Portuguese version of CERAD neuropsychological battery was applied to a control group of healthy elderly (CG) (mean age 75.1 years/ education 7.9 years), 31 Alzheimer disease (AD) patients...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Bertolucci PH,Okamoto IH,Brucki SM,Siviero MO,Toniolo Neto J,Ramos LR

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationship between depression and epilepsy has been known since ancient times, however, to date, it is not fully understood. The prevalence of psychiatric disorders in persons with epilepsy is high compared to general population. It is assumed that the rate of depression ranges from 20 to 55% in patients with re...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Valente KD,Busatto Filho G

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate the correlation between cardiorespiratory fitness and mood state in individuals with temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE). METHOD:Individuals with TLE (n = 20) and healthy control subjects (C, n = 20) were evaluated. Self-rating questionnaires were used to assess mood (POMS) and habitual physical acti...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Vancini RL,Lira CA,Andrade Mdos S,Lima Cd,Arida RM

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many studies have suggested that caring for patients with dementia may be associated with increased burden, particularly when subjects present with prominent behavioural problems. The present work aimed to review studies appearing on MedLine between 1990 and January 1998 that included the following keywords: 'burden o...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Garrido R,Almeida OP

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the clinical records of 280 patients admitted to our Hospital between 1985 and 1988, with a positive Elisa test for HIV-related antibodies: 15.71% (44) of these patients exhibited clinical abnormalities related to disease of the CNS. In 6 (13.6%) patients the neurological complication was the first manifest...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Puccioni M,Favoreto AC,André C,Peixoto CA,Novis SA

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00