Evaluation of arthrodesis and cervical alignment in the surgical results of cervical discectomy using polymethylmetacrylate.

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Studies have established higher prevalence of psychiatric disorders in diabetic patients. OBJECTIVE:To describe the socio-demographic and clinic characteristics and to compare the frequency of them in the diabetic and non-diabetic populations. METHOD:Transversal study with comparing groups. Eighty four d...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Clavijo M,Carvalho JJ,Rios M,de Oliveira IR

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The main objectives of this study are to evaluate the resistance rates of Streptococcus pneumonia to penicillin G, ceftriaxone and vancomycin in patients with meningitis; to analyze possible risk factors to the antimicrobian resistance; to describe the serotypes detected and to suggest an initial empirical treatment f...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Rossoni AM,Dalla Costa LM,Berto DB,Farah SS,Gelain M,Brandileone MC,Ramos VH,Almeida SM

更新日期：2008-09-01 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：:The authors review papers and researches about skull growth in newborns and infants: they analysed and correlated anthropometric data with maternal biological and social factors. ...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Rosado ML,Barbieri MA,Bettiol H,Gomes UA,Moura-Ribeiro MV

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To keep up to date with new advances in medical care and in the understanding of the disease process which affects their specific patients neurologists need to develop strategies for continuing education. They must be learners throughout their careers and the learning must be self-directed, active and independent. The...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Lana-Peixoto MA

更新日期：1992-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Event-related potentials (ERP) constitute an heterogeneous group of brain electrical signals time-locked to sensory stimulation, motor responses, and associative processes, recorded using computer averaging. Several kinds of brain electric activity are encompassed by the generic term "event related potentials": sensor...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Lolas F

更新日期：1979-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic inflammatory disease of the central nervous system (CNS). These patients suffer from various comorbidities, including sexual dysfunction (SD). The lesions of MS may affect regions of the CNS along the pathway of sexual response. The Multiple Sclerosis Intimacy and Sexuality Questio...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Silva RA,Olival GS,Stievano LP,Toller VB,Jordy SS,Eloi M,Tilbery CP

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To report the clinical and neuroimaging findings in a case series of vascular parkinsonism (VP). METHODS:Seventeen patients with VP were evaluated with motor, cognitive, and neuroimaging standardized tests and scales. RESULTS:All patients had arterial hypertension. Ten patients were male and the mean age of...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Vale TC,Caramelli P,Cardoso F

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There are few descriptions about middle-aged patients who have nonconvulsive status epilepticus, absence status. We reported the clinical case of a woman, 52-year-old, diabetic, referred to the emergency room in a confusional state. Initial electroencephalogram showed continuous typical, bilateral, symmetric and synch...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Tedrus GM,Fonseca LC,De Tella LM,Viana MA

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is associated with school failure. Inattention has been mainly implicated for this association. Oppositional-defiant disorder's (ODD) impact on academic performance remains controversial, because of the high comorbidity between ODD and ADHD. OBJECTIVE:To under...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Serra-Pinheiro MA,Mattos P,Regalla MA,de Souza I,Paixão C

更新日期：2008-12-01 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 determine the survival rate according to the main findings of emergency electroencephalography (EEGs) of patients treated in a tertiary hospital. METHOD:In this prospective study, the findings of consecutive emergency EEGs performed on inpatients in Hospital de Base in São José do Rio Preto, Brazil were c...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Borges MA,Botós HJ,Bastos RF,Godoy MF,Marchi NS

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Unilateral internuclear ophthalmoplegia become manifest by homolateral paralysis of ocular adduction and contralateral nystagmus. Principal causes are multiple sclerosis and vertebro-basilar insufficiency. We report a case in which this signal appeared as the first clinical manifestation of bacterial endocarditis and ...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Werneck AL,Gonçalves AJ,Bezerra JM

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The case of a young female patient with acute symmetrical ascending polyneuropathy as a manifestation of systemic lupus erythematosus is reported. There was involvement of several cranial nerves and the cerebrospinal fluid showed albuminocytologic dissociation. Pathologic examination of the sural nerve showed degenera...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Moreira Filho PF,Nascimento OJ,Cinnicinatus D,Porto FJ,Freitas MR,Santos PC

更新日期：1980-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate spectral analysis of electroencephalograms (EEG) for the alpha frequency band during rest and cognitive stimulation in healthy adults and individuals with mild cognitive impairment. METHOD:We analyzed 56 EEGs from 28 patients, 7 men and 21 women, 12 of whom (40%) were controls, 16 patients wit...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Schmidt MT,Anghinah R,Basile LF,Forlenza O,Gattaz WF

更新日期：2009-06-01 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：:The authors describe a rare case of increased intracranial hypertension consequent to a spinal cervical glioblastoma multiforme in a young patient. They analyse the physiopathology of intracranial hypertension in spinal tumors and the rarity of such kind of tumor in this location, and its clinico-pathological aspects....

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： de Castro-Costa CM,de Araújo RW,de Arruda MA,de Araújo PM,de Figueiredo EG

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:This study aimed to analyze the frequency of GSTP1-Alw26I polymorphism and to estimate its association with toxic substances in Parkinson's disease (PD). METHODS:A study group with 154 patients - subdivided into familial and sporadic PD groups - and 158 elderly individuals without the disease (control group)...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Longo GS,Pinhel MS,Sado CL,Gregório ML,Amorim GS,Florim GS,Mazeti CM,Martins DP,Oliveira FN,Tognola WA,Nakazone MA,Souza DR

更新日期：2013-07-01 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：:Whipple disease (WD) is a rare systemic infection caused by Tropheryma whippelii. Neurological involvement has been recognised in 40% of patients, either as initial manifestations or during the course of the disease. We report on a 45 years-old man with WD with initial, persistent and irresistible episodes of daytime ...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Maia LF,Marta M,Lopes V,Rocha N,Lopes C,Martins-da-Silva A,Monteiro L

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cerebellar glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is a rare tumor. This is the third case published in Brazilian literature and, the last one has been described more than 15 years ago. The aggressive behavior of GBM prompts for fast treatment, which can be hampered by the fact that the diagnosis of GBM requires a high degree o...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Mattos JP,Marenco HA,Campos JM,Faria AV,Queiroz LS,Borges G,Oliveira Ed

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Percutaneous vertebroplasty (PV) is a minimally invasive procedure used to treat focal pain from compressive vertebral fracture. The PV is indicated for the treatment of debilitating vertebral pain from osteoporotic vertebral fractures, metastatic disease (osteolytic), myeloma and hemagioma. We analyzed the results of...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Figueiredo N,Amaral Filho JC,Serra Ada R,Nogueira AM,Garcia VC,Weissheimer FL

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The indication for thymectomy in myasthenia gravis still is controversial, and it is uncommon to find in the present days studies comparing conservative treatments, due to the widespread surgical treatment adopted in most centers. We studied 65 cases divided into three groups of patients: (1) 15 thymectomized patients...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Werneck LC,Moreira PR

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Hereditary spastic paraplegias (HSP) are a group of genetic diseases characterized by lower limb spasticity with or without additional neurological features. Swallowing dysfunction is poorly studied in HSP and its presence can lead to significant respiratory and nutritional complications. The aim of this stu...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Jacinto-Scudeiro LA,Machado GD,Ayres A,Burguêz D,Polese-Bonatto M,González-Salazar C,Siebert M,França Junior MC,Olchik MR,Saute JAM

更新日期：2019-12-01 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：:We tested the degree of dyslogia in the narrative of ten schizophrenic non-medicated outpatients while they narrated emotionally-loaded or neutral facts. The "emotional narratives" were much more dyslogic than the "neutral narratives". In order to explain these facts we evoke: 1. A fronto-temporo-limbic connection dys...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Caixeta M,Chaves M,Caixeta L,Reis O

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Meningiomas correspond to 1% - 4% of primary intracranial tumors in pediatric group, with their incidence raising according to age. There is not gender prevalence, in spite of some authors describe a male tendency opposed to female one in adulthood. At present study we describe two cases of pediatric meningiomas revie...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Hanel RA,Tatsui CE,Araujo JC,Grande CV,Antoniuk A,Gasparetto EL,Torres LF

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The aim of this study is to determine if the University of Pennsylvania's Smell Identification Test (UPSIT) is an accurate diagnostic tool for olfactory dysfunction in Parkinson's disease (PD). METHOD:We included 138 non-demented PD subjects and 175 control subjects matched by gender. Smell identification wa...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Rodríguez-Violante M,Gonzalez-Latapi P,Camacho-Ordoñez A,Martínez-Ramírez D,Morales-Briceño H,Cervantes-Arriaga A

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:HTLV-I has been associated with a chronic idiopathic spastic paraparesis (CHISPA) in man; however, a complete understanding of this association is still debated. We selected the most comprehensible papers on this topic between 1985 and 1996, and found that 1261 out of 2811 patients (44.9%) reported, throughout the wor...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Leon-S FE,Costa CM,Gaffga N

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a seven year time period (July 1984 to June 1991) were studied CSF samples of 36,216 new patients, 470 of them infected by HIV. Number of AIDS patients represents 1.30% of total cases examined in the laboratory during this time period. Normal CSF was observed in only 16 cases (3.4%). Associated pathologies occurred...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Livramento JA,Machado LR,Gomes HR,Vianna LS,Spina-França A

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00