Arterial spin labeling demonstrates that focal amygdalar glutamatergic agonist infusion leads to rapid diffuse cerebral activation.

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To replicate the treatment study by Behan et al. (1990) using current research criteria for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS). METHOD:Fifty patients who fulfilled the Oxford Criteria for CFS were randomly allocated to treatment with either Efamol Marine or placebo for 3 months. They were seen monthly and comple...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Warren G,McKendrick M,Peet M

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The present study focused on human leukocyte antigen (HLA) DQB1, DQA1 and DRB1 allelic variation according to ethnicity and analyzed whether susceptibility to multiple sclerosis (MS) depends on population characteristics. METHODS:Eighty-eight healthy African-Brazilians and 92 healthy white Brazilians living ...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Alves-Leon SV,Papais-Alvarenga R,Magalhães M,Alvarenga M,Thuler LC,Fernández y Fernandez O

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Botulinum toxin serotype A (BoNT/A) was originally used in neurology for the treatment of dystonia and blepharospasms, but is now clinically used worldwide for the treatment of chronic migraine. Still, the possible mode of action of BoNT/A in migraine is not fully known. However, the mode of action of BoNT/A has been ...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Do TP,Hvedstrup J,Schytz HW

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cerebral blood flow (CBF) was studied in 4 patients with acute reversible ischemia (RIND). To test the ischemic areas' vasoreactivity, CBF was measured by the Xenon-133 inhalation method, before and after acetazolamide injected intravenously. At the baseline CBF study, 3 patients presented hypoperfused areas while one...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Di Piero V,Pozzilli C,Pantano P,Grasso MG,Fieschi C

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One cause of ischemic brain injury is free radical formation during recirculation. Allopurinol inhibits xanthine oxidase, an important source of free oxygen radicals. It is known that allopurinol pre-treatment has a protective action during cerebral ischemia. In the present study we exposed slices from the rat hippoca...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Hegstad E,Berg-Johnsen J,Langmoen IA

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:50 open-heart patients were investigated using simultaneous clinical, electroencephalographical (EEG) and neuropsychological evaluation in order to assess the possibilities of predicting the postoperative outcome with preoperative measures. The presence of one or more of the following indices was prognostically unfavo...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Sotaniemi K

更新日期：1982-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To describe clinical, electrophysiological and genetic data of five unrelated Sicilian pedigrees harbouring a heterozygous Ser78Leu mutation in the myelin protein zero (MPZ) extracellular domain. MATERIALS AND METHODS:Clinical, electrophysiological and genetic findings of 16 patients were reported. Polymorp...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Mazzeo A,Muglia M,Rodolico C,Toscano A,Patitucci A,Quattrone A,Messina C,Vita G

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A CSF Poly(C)-avid ribonuclease (RNase) activity was determined in serum and CSF of 11 controls and 75 neurological patients (34 multiple sclerosis (MS), 18 infectious processes and 23 other neurological diseases (OND]. In controls, the blood-CSF ratio of RNase activity is low. This fact and the absence of correlation...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Allinquant B,Musenger C,Schuller E

更新日期：1984-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cerebral blood flow and cerebral oxygen uptake were studied during severe arterial hypoxia in anesthetized dogs. It was shown that the hypoxic vasodilatation in the brain reaches a limit at an arterial oxygen saturation at about 25% and that this vasodilatation is less than that which may be induced by hypercapnia. A ...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Ekström-Jodal B,Elfverson J,von Essen C

更新日期：1979-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirty-eight demented patients were clinically investigated and classified into a multi-infarct dementia (MID) and senile dementia (SD) group. Total protein, albumin, immunoglobulin G, agar gel electrophoretic protein and iso-electric focusing pattern were determined in CSF and serum as well as the lactate dehydrogena...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Wikkelsø C,Blomstrand C,Nordquist P

更新日期：1981-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three-hundred and eighty-one children born with forceps delivery and 372 with normal delivery were followed up for 4-7 years. More children in the forceps group developed seizures than in normal group, i.e. 22:10. This was statistically significant (P less than 0.05). A prolonged follow-up is necessary for further obs...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Maheshwari MC

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:With the macrophage electrophoretic mobility (MEM) test of Field & Caspary, lymphocyte sensitization to thyroid antigen (F1-fraction) is demonstrable in all subjects--multiple sclerosis (MS) patients, those with other (destructive) neurological diseases (OND) and normals. The MEM-LAD test enables a further differentia...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Jenssen HL,Meyer-Rienecker HJ,Köhler H,Günther JK

更新日期：1976-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Post-stroke cognitive impairment (PSCI) has considerable impact on patients and society. However, long-term studies on PSCI are scarce and may be influenced by assessment methods and selection bias. We aimed to (i) assess the prevalence of long-term PSCI; (ii) compare two common cognitive assessment instrume...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Delavaran H,Jönsson AC,Lövkvist H,Iwarsson S,Elmståhl S,Norrving B,Lindgren A

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To evaluate pain, cervical range of motion (CROM) and cognitive symptoms as predictors for poor prognosis defined as sick leave 3 years later. MATERIAL AND METHODS:In 97 patients CROM, pain intensity and cognitive symptoms were measured immediately following trauma, at 6 months and 3 years. Patients were al...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Borenstein P,Rosenfeld M,Gunnarsson R

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:The aim of this study was to examine the coping strategies of 49 patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and their relationships with medical and demographic data. METHODS:A total of 49 subjects were asked to fill out a document that would provide their demographic and medical data. Then, each o...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Montel S,Albertini L,Spitz E

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:63 patients with alcoholic-nutritional peripheral neuropathy were given neurologic, electrophysiologic and nutritional examinations. 24 of these patients were reexamined later in the course of their disease, after from 2 to 72 months (mean 33). Alcoholic-nutritional neuropathy appeared and worsened after bouts of heav...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Hawley RJ,Kurtzke JF,Armbrustmacher VW,Saini N,Manz H

更新日期：1982-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Sweden, the annual incidence of surgery for hydrocephalus was 3.4 per 100,000 adults between the years 1996 and 1998. The most common indication for surgery was normal pressure hydrocephalus (NPH; 47%), followed by high-pressure hydrocephalus (27%). Seventy-three percent of the patients had communicating hydrocepha...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Tisell M,Höglund M,Wikkelsø C

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four patients presented with a distinctive syndrome of "numb, clumsy hand" and tactile agnosia. Myelography and computed tomographic myelography (CTM) of the cervical spine documented major spondylotic compressive lesions mainly between the C3 and C5 levels. The cortical responses of dermatomal somatosensory evoked po...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Chang MH,Liao KK,Cheung SC,Kong KW,Chang SP

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate the prevalence of G88C, G209A and any other mutation(s) in exons 3 and 4 of the alpha-synuclein gene in Indian patients with Parkinson's disease (PD). METHODS:A total of 169 PD patients comprising 18 familial, 3 juvenile, 48 early onset and 100 sporadic cases were included in this study. Genom...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Nagar S,Juyal RC,Chaudhary S,Behari M,Gupta M,Rao SN,Thelma BK

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been suggested that nitric oxide could be implicated in the neuronal degeneration of substantia nigra compacta in patients with Parkinson's disease. Recently, it has been reported decreased CSF nitrate levels (oxidation product that provides an indirect estimation of nitric oxide) in Parkinson's disease patient...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Molina JA,Jiménez-Jiménez FJ,Navarro JA,Vargas C,Gómez P,Benito-León J,Ortí-Pareja M,Cisneros E,Arenas J

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The activity of 7 mitochondrial enzymes, fumarase, NAD-malate dehydrogenase (MDH), citrate synthase (CS), valine dehydrogenase (VDH), succinate dehydrogenase (SDH), glutamate dehydrogenase (GDH), pyruvate dehydrogenase complex (PDHC) has been measured in platelet preparations from patients affected by Friedreich's ata...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Sorbi S,Piacentini S,Fani C,Tonini S,Marini P,Amaducci L

更新日期：1989-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Existence of clinical subgroups among cases of Wilson's disease has long been postulated and various classifications suggested but none statistically tested. This study analyses, by means of pattern recognition techniques, 400 cases from 4 series including our own (n = 195). Factor analysis (to summarise variables) an...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Dening TR,Berrios GE

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 100 MS patients, BAEP and tibial SEP abnormality rates increased significantly with disease duration and clinical disability. VEP correlated non-linearly with disease duration, and median nerve SEP correlated with disability. In multifactorial analysis, however, BAEP correlated significantly only with clinical brai...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Sand T,Sulg IA

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Persons with multiple sclerosis (MS) engage in substantially less overall physical activity than healthy controls, but there is little information on public health rates of physical activity necessary for health benefits. PURPOSE:This study examined the rates of insufficient, moderate, and sufficient physic...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Motl RW,McAuley E,Sandroff BM,Hubbard EA

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Debate about the lesion site in the Miller Fisher syndrome is still going on. We studied a patient with features of the Miller Fisher syndrome in whom arguments for both central and peripheral nervous system dysfunction were found. ...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Taphoorn MJ,Lanting P,Hazenberg GJ,Uitdehaag BJ,Kaiser MC

更新日期：1989-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Myotonic dystrophy type 1 (DM1) is the most common adult-onset muscular dystrophy. It is associated with motor symptoms but patients also display non-motor symptoms such as particular personality traits. Studies have reported mixed results about personality characteristics which may be attributable to small ...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Bertrand JA,Jean S,Laberge L,Gagnon C,Mathieu J,Gagnon JF,Richer L

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Variants in genes encoding enzymes involved in production, aggregation or degradation of beta-amyloid are potential risk factors for sporadic Alzheimer's disease (AD). METHODS:Meta-analyses on AD association with BACE1 exon 5, BACE1 intron 5, FE65 intron 13, CYP46 intron 2, alpha(1)-antichymotrypsine Ala17T...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Llorca J,Rodríguez-Rodríguez E,Dierssen-Sotos T,Delgado-Rodríguez M,Berciano J,Combarros O

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:In this study the frequency of inherited thrombophilic risk factors in a population of German CVT patients and their influence on clinical outcome were evaluated. MATERIAL AND METHODS:Twenty-five patients (age 37.1 +/- 16.3 years) with CVT were screened for inherited coagulation disorders. All participants ...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Stolz E,Kemkes-Matthes B,Pötzsch B,Hahn M,Kraus J,Wirbartz A,Kaps M

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Botulinum neurotoxin (BoNT) injections in the salivary glands and radiotherapy (RT) on these glands are commonly used to alleviate severe drooling in patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). This study compares BoNT type A with RT based on patient-rated evaluations. MATERIALS & METHODS:A prospecti...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Weikamp JG,Schinagl DA,Verstappen CC,Schelhaas HJ,de Swart BJ,Kalf JG

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The aetiological role of common genetic mutations was analysed in a subgroup of stroke patients. MATERIAL AND METHODS:A total of 406 patients were examined because of ischaemic stroke. After a detailed clinical scrutiny, 5 were found who did not exhibit any of the classical clinical risk factors. In this cl...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Szolnoki Z,Somogyvári F,Szabó M,Fodor L

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00