Basal encephalocele associated with morning glory syndrome: case report.

abstract：:Aplasia cutis congenita is a rare condition characterized by the absence of skin layers. It is most common on the scalp, middle line, and it can be seen as a congenital ulcer involving periosteum, skull and dura. We present the case of a female newborn infant with a dysmorphic facies, a large scalp and skull defect ex...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Henriques JG,Pianetti Filho G,Giannetti AV,Henriques KS

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chédiak-Higashi syndrome is a rare hematological disease characterized by increased fusion of cytoplasmatic granules. Neurological symptoms occur in approximately half of the patients. We describe the clinical, eletrophysiological, hematological and radiological findings in a girl who had Chédiak-Higashi syndrome and ...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： De Freitas GR,De Oliveira CP,Reis RS,Sarmento MR,Gaspar NK,Fialho M,Praxedes H

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Of the many risk factors suggested for sudden unexpected death in epilepsy (SUDEP), higher frequency of seizures is a very consistent issue. Following this reasoning, it has been established that hemodialysis-associated seizure is a complication of dialysis procedure. Based on these facts, this study investigated a po...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Gomes RA,Kesrouani S,Cruz J,Silva AL,Henriques TM,Albuquerque Md,Arida RM,Sonoda EY,Cysneiros RM,Terra VC,Scorza CA,Cavalheiro EA,Scorza FA

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epilepsy and syncope are clinical conditions with high prevalence rates in the general population, and the differential diagnosis between them is difficult. Objective To assess the frequency of syncope in patients diagnosed with drug-resistant epilepsy (DRE) without appa-rent heart disease, to investigate the relation...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Alves-Leon SV,Pinto MP,Andraus ME,Pereira VC,Meira ID,Oliveira Rde C,Villas Boas S,Rêgo CC,Souza JP,Pedrosa RC

更新日期：2013-12-01 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：BACKGROUND:Few studies have explored the coexistence of migraine and disordered eating attitudes. Furthermore, the underlying pathophysiological mechanisms of migraine and disordered eating attitude comorbidity are not clearly understood. OBJECTIVE:This study aimed to investigate the association between migraine and d...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Hamamci M,Karasalan Ö,İnan LE

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The attitudes toward people with epilepsy are influenced by the degree of knowledge of the condition. Teachers usually do not receive any formal instruction on epilepsy during their training. This study was done to access three hundred teachers' knowledge and attitudes toward epilepsy by answering a questionnaire in o...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Dantas FG,Cariri GA,Cariri GA,Ribeiro Filho AR

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The aim of this study was to examine the relationship of compulsive hoarding with dengue. METHOD:Fifty two adults notified by health vigilance authorities because of inappropriate trash accumulation in vacant lots in Goiânia, Central Brazil, completed a questionnaire regarding the presence and severity of ho...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Caixeta L,Azevedo PV,Caixeta M,Reimer CH

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The study of CSF fistulae, and especially those involving otolaryngological anomalies, must be based on the search for the causative problem of recurrent meningitis. Congenital malformations, post-traumatic and post-operative situations or even diseases involving the cranial bones are basic causes that should be studi...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Moura-Ribeiro MV,Anselmo-Lima WT,De Oliveira JA

更新日期：1992-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To characterize neurological involvement in juvenile systemic lupus erythe-matosus. METHOD:The charts of all patients with the diagnosis of systemic lupus erythematosus before the age of 16 years, followed at the Rheumatology Unit of Pequeno Príncipe Hospital, from January 1992 to January 2006, were retrospe...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Spinosa MJ,Bandeira M,Liberalesso PB,Vieira SC,Janz LL Jr,Sá EG,Löhr A Jr

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Major depression have been associated with cortisol and dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) changes in old depressed patients. We examined the association between depression, cortisol, and DHEA, correcting for confounding variables, including physical capacity. In addition, the association between hormone levels an...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Moraes H,Deslandes A,Maciel-Pinheiro Pde T,Corrêa H,Laks J

更新日期：2016-06-01 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：: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：:The link between various air pollutants and hospitalization for epilepsy has come under scrutiny. We have proposed that exposure to air pollution and specifically the pervasive agricultural air pollutant and greenhouse gas, nitrous oxide (N2O), may provoke susceptibility to neurodevelopmental disorders. Evidence suppo...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Fluegge K,Fluegge K

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ketogenic diet (KD) is a high fat and low carbohydrate diet, which controls refractory epilepsy. We analyzed the KD effects on 54 children of the Children's Institute of the University of São Paulo. Efficacy, tolerability, and adverse effects were studied. Response to KD was effective (E) if seizure control was >75%, ...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Freitas A,Paz JA,Casella EB,Marques-Dias MJ

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Argentinian author Silvina Ocampo (1903-1993) left us a vast body of works which are considered outstanding in many ways. In 1960, she published a short story, entitled "El médico encantador" (The Charming Physician), in the renowned literary magazine Sur. The central character of this piece is a family doctor nam...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Delgado-García G,Rodríguez-Návarez C,Estañol B

更新日期：2017-11-01 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：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：:Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), the most known human prion disease, is usually sporadic but approximately 15% of the cases are familial. To date, seven CJD cases with codon 210 mutation (GTT to ATT) have been reported in the literature. We describe a case of a 57 year-old woman who presented gait disturbances and rap...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Huang N,Marie SK,Kok F,Nitrini R

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

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:Adolescence is a period in which youngsters have to make choices such as applying for university. The selection process is competitive, and it brings distress and anxiety, risk factors for the appearance of sleep disorders. OBJECTIVE:To verify the occurrence of sleep disorders in third-year high school and ...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Rocha CR,Rossini S,Reimão R

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alternative surgical procedures to treat unclippable aneurysms of the intracavernous carotid artery include proximal vessel occlusion and trapping. Those techniques, even in patients with rich collateral vessels, are associated with risk of hemodynamic compromise and ischemic complications. Therefore, a safe treatment...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Azevedo Filho H,Martins C,Carvalho A,Geraldo S,Grassi G,Cardoso C,Vilaça G,Rodrigues C

更新日期：2001-03-01 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：OBJECTIVE:To establish nerve conduction parameters for carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) electrodiagnosis in the elderly. METHOD:Thirty healthy subjects (65-86 years), 9 male and 21 female, were studied. Routine median and ulnar sensory and motor nerve conduction studies, median mixed palmar latency, comparative latency te...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Naves TG,Kouyoumdjian JA

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pulmonary involvement in HTLV-I patients has been identified by several authors in Africa, Japan and Brazil. The objective of this controlled study is to establish an association between HAM and lymphocytosis in the bronchoalveolar fluid (BAL). Thirty-five adult patients with non-traumatic and non-tumoral myelopathy f...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Mattos K,Melo A,Queiroz C,Publio L,Peçanha-Martins AC,Freitas V,Gomes I

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The post-polio syndrome (PPS) is an entity characterized for an episode of muscular weakness and/or abnormal muscular fatigue in individuals that had presented acute polio years before. We report the case of PPS in a patient, 40 years, that thirty-five years after had had paralytic poliomyelitis, developed new symptom...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Neves MA,Mello MP,Santos VV,Nascimento OJ,Antonioli Rde S,Freitas GR,Freitas MR

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirteen alcoholic male patients that developed delirium tremens (DT) after admission in a psychiatric hospital for treatment of alcoholism (group I) had their clinical and laboratorial records examined. The laboratory samples were taken during the phase previous at the DT. Data on this group were compared to those of...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Borini P,da Silva CO

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a 36 years old female, with a 8 years history of "paraplegia", who was admitted to our department to have "some needles withdrawn" from her back. She referred previous admittances to general and psychiatric hospitals in order to treat several episodes of renal failure, combined with other clinical condition...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Arteaga-Rodríguez C,Hernández-Fustes OJ,da Silva LF,Aguiar LR,Teixeira MA

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The psychologist, Alfred Binet, who worked under the supervision of Prof. Charcot at the end of the 19th century, made several important contributions to neuropsychology, in partnership with Théodore Simon. Most notable among these was the development of intelligence testing scales. ...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Teive HAG,Teive GMG,Dallabrida N,Gutierrez L

更新日期：2017-09-01 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