[Prevalence of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and its comorbidities in a sample of school-aged children].

abstract：:We aimed to determine whether there is an association between cognition and the results of echocardiography and angiography, based on neuropsychological assessments. METHODS:We assessed the cognition of 85 patients who had recently undergone coronary artery angiography. We calculated the Gensini score for the coronar...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Hashemi M,Jervekani ZT,Mortazavi S,Maracy MR,Barekatain M

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) occurs in up to 66% of Parkinson's disease (PD) patients, higher than in the general population. Although it is more prevalent, the relationship between OSA and PD remains controversial, with some studies confirming and others denying the relationship of OSA with some risk factors and sym...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Sobreira-Neto MA,Pena-Pereira MA,Sobreira EST,Chagas MHN,Almeida CMO,Fernandes RMF,Tumas V,Eckeli AL

更新日期：2019-09-23 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：:The author establishes an analogy between the control mechanism and regulation of the cerebral blood flow and of protection of the vascular wall of the internal carotid constituted by the conjunction "internal carotid-cavernous sinus" with the group represented by the system "vertebro basilar-transverse occipital sinu...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Moreira MB

更新日期：1982-12-01 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：OBJECTIVE:Elderly people are at a high risk of developing vitamin D (VitD) deficiency due to both decreased intake and cutaneous synthesis. Most of the biological actions of VitD are mediated by the vitamin D receptor (VDR), which is present in neurons and glial cells of the hippocampus, and in the cortex and subcortic...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Oliveira ACR,Magalhães CA,Loures CMG,Fraga VG,de Souza LC,Guimarães HC,Cintra MTG,Bicalho MA,Sousa MCR,Silveira JN,Silva IFO,Caramelli P,Carvalho MG,Gomes KB

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Because of the need for a standardized and accurate method for detecting multiple sclerosis (MS) inflammatory activity, different magnetic resonance (MR) acquisitions should be compared in order to choose the most sensitive sequence for clinical routine. To compare the sensitivity of a T1-weighted image to a ...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Amaral LLFD,Fragoso DC,Rocha AJD

更新日期：2019-07-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this study was to analyze different immunoglobulins classes (IgG, IgM, IgE and IgA) against Cysticercus cellulosae in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), through enzyme linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA), correlating them to clinical and tomographic profiles in patients with neurocysticercosis (NCC). Eight...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Odashima NS,Takayanagui OM,Figueiredo JF

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this paper is to introduce compliance concept and to classify technicals, biologicas, socials and mixed factors that may influence compliance. The importance of conscious attitudes in a good patient compliance is emphasized. ...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Alonso NB,Da Silva DF,de Campos CJ

更新日期：1991-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:By the neurological, electromyographic, anatomopathological and bacterioscopic examinations of 100 pacients with leprosy the following conclusions have been drawn: There was a high incidence of reflex abnormalities. The proprioceptive reflexes were abnormal in 64.5% and the superficial reflexes in 70.8% of the cases. ...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Sena PG

更新日期：1976-03-01 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

abstract：:The authors discuss the protocol of the Optimal Neuropsychological Evaluation of Dementias of Montreal and its possible application in Brazil. This protocol is important for evaluation in neuropsychological evolution of dementia of the Alzheimer type and for bringing to the fore distinct affected cognitive profiles as...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： de Brito-Marques PR,Joanette Y,Poissant A,Ska B

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To describe the etiologies of West syndrome (WS) among children followed in a rehabilitation center. METHOD:Retrospective study with emphasis in the following items: gender, age at the diagnosis of WS and its etiology. The etiologies were divided into three categories: symptomatic, cryptogenic and idiopathic...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Matta AP,Chiacchio SV,Leyser M

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To describe the clinical outcome and the complications of bacterial meningitis according to birth weight of out born neonates admitted in intensive care unit during an 11 year-period. METHOD:Eighty-seven newborns were studied. Thirty-four infants were low birth weight newborn and 53 presented birth weight >o...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Krebs VL,Costa GA

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interactions with antiepileptic drugs are common and may have important clinical consequences. The physician should always consider carefully the need for and the implications of adding a new drug to any therapeutic regime and should be prepared to think about the possibility of an interaction whenever an unusual resp...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Perucca E

更新日期：1980-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 33-year-old female with neurofibromatosis and intracranial vascular lesions of the Moya-Moya type is reported. Clinical and angiographic aspects of both syndromes are discussed with respect to earlier reports of this rare association, with the conclusion that it produces slow intellectual and motor deterioration in ...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Gracia CM,Bittencourt PC,Mazer S,Bittencourt PR

更新日期：1986-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present the cytologic aspects of 137 tumors operated by neurosurgeons, including 12 astrocytomas, 4 anaplastic astrocytomas, 26 glioblastomas, 7 oligodendrogliomas, 5 medulloblastomas, 8 schwannomas, 17 meningiomas, 13 pituitary adenomas, 20 metastatic tumors and 18 assorted tumors and nonneoplastic lesions. We hav...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Campos Ide S,Chimelli L

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The case of a 24 years-old woman with weakness since the teens and progressive loss of muscle strength is reported. The muscle biopsy showed increased number of mitochondria. In two occasions the respiratory chain enzymes showed important reduction of the succinate-cytochrome-C-reductase, suggesting a possible defect ...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Werneck LC,DiMauro S

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thymomas are tumors characterized by a remarkable morphological heterogeneity and variable clinical behavior. This tumor has unique clinical associations, most notably with hematological abnormalities and myasthenia gravis. According with the Müller-Hermelink criteria, there are significant differences between the his...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Reis Filho JS,Milanezi MF,Moreira CG,Werneck LC,Boscardin P,Ioshii SO,Schmitt FC

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study has tested the validity and reliability of the Portuguese version of the Confusion Assessment Method (CAM), a diagnostic assessment instrument for delirium developed by Inouye et al. (1990). The sample was formed by 100 patients with 60 and more years of age, admitted at the emergency service of Santa Casa ...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Fabbri RM,Moreira MA,Garrido R,Almeida OP

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The effect of gastrointestinal system disorders on Restless Legs Syndrome/Willis-Ekbom disease (RLS/WED) has been previously demonstrated by using serological tests. However, this association has not been supported by histopathological studies so far. OBJECTIVE:To investigate the relationship between RLS/WE...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Çam M,Kutluana U

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:West syndrome is a peculiar form of epilepsy of infancy and childhood characterized by spasms or massive myoclonus, regression neuropsychomotor development, and EEG abnormalities referred as hipsarrhythmia. We report nine cases of West syndrome discussing clinical, etiological, evolutive and therapeutic features. ...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Kamiyama MA,Yoshinaga L,Tonholo-Silva ER

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the case of a 32-year-old woman who complained of dull and compressing occipital pain, with unilateral radiation to the left frontal and supraorbital areas (of the sickening type). The radiological, clinical, neurosurgical and neuropathologic investigation disclosed a medulloblastoma bulging and tickening th...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Piovesan EJ,Werneck LC,Teive HA,Navarro F,Kówacs PA

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Congenital muscle dystrophy (CMD) is a heterogeneous group of autosomal recessive myopathies. It is known that CMD may affect the central nervous system (CNS). Some authors have shown that merosin-negative CMD patients may have encephalic metabolic disturbances. In order to study metabolic changes within the brain, th...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Matta AP,Gonsalves Mde C

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Objective To describe and analyze cognitive aspects in patients with chronic pain and a control group without pain. Method A case-control study was conducted on 45 patients with chronic pain and on 45 control subjects. Data including pain diagnosis, comorbidities and medication used, were evaluated. Cognitive tests, s...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Ferreira Kdos S,Oliver GZ,Thomaz DC,Teixeira CT,Foss MP

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cerebellar ataxias comprise a wide range of etiologies leading to central nervous system-related motor and non-motor symptoms. Recently, a large body of evidence has demonstrated a high frequency of non-motor manifestations in cerebellar ataxias, specially in autosomal dominant spinocerebellar ataxias (SCA). Among the...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Pedroso JL,Braga-Neto P,Felício AC,Aquino CC,Prado LB,Prado GF,Barsottini OG

更新日期：2011-04-01 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：: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：:The neurological manifestations of eight patients with osseous fibrous dysplasia of skull were retrospectively studied. In this series, the frontal bone was involved in 75% of the patients, the sphenoid or temporal bones in 37.5%, and the parietal in 25%. It was observed that cranial deformities occurred in all but on...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Freitas PE,Ribeiro TR,Coutinho MF,Anicet A

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:The 'Time is Brain" concept has been a major focus in the World Stroke Awareness Campaign. OBJECTIVE:We describe our experience with a Hackathon (junction of hack+marathon), a 24 hour event of innovation- and technology-based project development, focused around detecting stroke. METHOD:The Hackathon was he...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Li LM,Johnson S

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00