Disorders of cognition.

abstract：:Hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (HIE) is a manifestation of perinatal asphyxial insult that continues to evolve over days to weeks following the initial injury. Therapeutic hypothermia has demonstrated that a proportion of this secondary brain injury may indeed be preventable. However, therapeutic hypothermia has also...

journal_title：Seminars in neurology

authors： Goswami I,Guillot M,Tam EWY

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) is a neurodegenerative disease associated with repetitive head impacts (RHI), such as those received in contact/collision sports, blast injury in military veterans, and domestic violence. Currently, CTE can only be diagnosed following death. Although the clinical features of form...

journal_title：Seminars in neurology

authors： Mariani M,Alosco ML,Mez J,Stern RA

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pregnancy and the postpartum period confer an increased risk of stroke. The risk appears to be increased for all strokes during the puerperium and for hemorrhagic strokes during pregnancy. During pregnancy, physiologic systems are under increased stress to accommodate the growing fetus, which results in substantial he...

journal_title：Seminars in neurology

authors： Sells CM,Feske SK

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:I argue that there is no mind-brain problem but rather that there are irreducible subjective-objective problems. These include the difference between "inside" and "outside" perspectives on neural states, the creation of subjective neural states with objectified outside objects, and awareness of the self as an object i...

journal_title：Seminars in neurology

authors： Feinberg TE

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The growth of bioethics as a practical, meaningful player in the arena of health care has paralleled that of clinical neurology not only in time but also in interaction between the two disciplines. Almost every advance in neurology has spawned an ethical dilemma, the unraveling of which has brought new insights to bot...

journal_title：Seminars in neurology

authors： McQuillen MP

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clinicians commonly encounter patients with cerebrovascular disorders in the hospital. Now, as never before, there are many effective diagnostic and therapeutic modalities. Several examples of typical cases of stroke and transient ischemic attack are presented in order to illustrate a rational approach to diagnosis an...

journal_title：Seminars in neurology

authors： Demaerschalk BM

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Improved disease control is critical for enhancing the lives of those living with multiple sclerosis. With specific immunologic targets, monoclonal antibody (mAb) treatments are highly effective options for relapsing forms of multiple sclerosis. The mechanism, efficacy, and current safety profiles are detailed for the...

journal_title：Seminars in neurology

authors： Singer BA

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients who suffer from neuromuscular diseases often have complications from respiratory insufficiencies. Some neuromuscular diseases, for example Landry Guillain-Barré syndrome, may only require temporary tracheal intubation; patients with other neuromuscular diseases, such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, may deci...

journal_title：Seminars in neurology

authors： Gelinas DF

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dopamine agonists provide an effective means of treating early, middle, and late stages of Parkinson's disease. This article outlines the advantages and disadvantages of dopamine agonists as compared with levodopa therapy. The features and costs of the four Food and Drug Administration-approved agonists (bromocriptine...

journal_title：Seminars in neurology

authors： Tuite P,Ebbitt B

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Osteoporosis is a debilitating disease that occurs in epidemic proportions in Western societies and has a large economic impact. Percutaneous vertebroplasty is successful in alleviating subacute and chronic pain caused by osteoporotic compression fractures and pathological vertebral fractures from tumor infiltration. ...

journal_title：Seminars in neurology

authors： Ng PP,Caragine LP Jr,Dowd CF

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of technology in neurology education has revolutionized many aspects of medical teaching, addressing some important challenges of modern education such as information overload and the unique needs of millennial learners. However, it also has inherent problems, such as depersonalization and high development cos...

journal_title：Seminars in neurology

authors： Lau KHV,Lakhan SE,Achike F

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH), which constitutes 10 to 15% of all strokes and affects approximately 65,000 people each year in the United States, has the highest mortality rate of all stroke subtypes. Hypertension, cerebral amyloid angiopathy, and anticoagulation underlie the majority of cases of ICH. Warfarin not on...

journal_title：Seminars in neurology

authors： Towfighi A,Greenberg SM,Rosand J

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The catecholamines dopamine and norepinephrine are key central neurotransmitters that participate in many neurobehavioral processes and disease states. Norepinephrine is also the main neurotransmitter mediating regulation of the circulation by the sympathetic nervous system. Several neurodegenerative disorders feature...

journal_title：Seminars in neurology

authors： Goldstein DS

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Environmental circumstances that result in ambiguity or conflict with the patterns of sensory stimulation may adversely affect the vestibular system. The effect of this conflict in sensory information may be dizziness, a sense of imbalance, nausea, and motion sickness sometimes even to seemingly minor daily head movem...

journal_title：Seminars in neurology

authors： Bronstein AM,Golding JF,Gresty MA

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Establishing an open and honest physician-patient relationship is essential for the proper evaluation and management of headache disorders. Obtaining a complete headache and medical history is the most important part of the initial diagnostic evaluation. This history should include information about headache onset, pa...

journal_title：Seminars in neurology

authors： Marks DR,Rapoport AM

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Physician-hastened-death remains a controversial topic for patients and those who care for them. It is a particularly relevant topic for neurologists who currently, or will in the future, reside in jurisdictions where physician-hastened-death is legal. In this article, I attempt to provide a comprehensive and contempo...

journal_title：Seminars in neurology

authors： Russell JA

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiple sclerosis (MS) affects more than 500,000 Americans, and it is commonly on the differential diagnosis associated with patient referrals to neurology offices. Diagnostically, there are several nuances to the established criteria. Understanding the usefulness of various tests and the potential diagnoses that can...

journal_title：Seminars in neurology

authors： Frohman EM,Greenberg BM

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The optic nerve is our most important cranial nerve. As it courses from the eyeball to the brain, it is divided into four segments: intraocular, intraorbital, intracanalicular, and intracranial. Four tests are primarily used to assess its functional integrity and detect optic nerve disorders. These tests are described...

journal_title：Seminars in neurology

authors： Selhorst JB,Chen Y

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite decades of basic and clinical research, treatments to improve outcomes after traumatic brain injury (TBI) are limited. However, based on the recent recognition of the prevalence of mild TBI, and its potential link to neurodegenerative disease, many new and exciting secondary injury mechanisms have been identif...

journal_title：Seminars in neurology

authors： Kochanek PM,Jackson TC,Ferguson NM,Carlson SW,Simon DW,Brockman EC,Ji J,Bayır H,Poloyac SM,Wagner AK,Kline AE,Empey PE,Clark RS,Jackson EK,Dixon CE

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Myelopathy refers to a spinal cord disorder that presents with motor and/or sensory deficits. Infectious agents that cause myelopathy do so by either direct infection of neural structures (e.g., polio), a parainfectious mechanism (with a presumed autoimmune pathogenesis), or as a result of involvement of structures ad...

journal_title：Seminars in neurology

authors： Ho EL

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitochondrial diseases are multiorgan system disorders and the brain is the most commonly affected organ. The high-energy requirement of the brain leaves it vulnerable to energy failure. All components of the neuraxis including muscle, the neuromuscular junction, peripheral nerve, spinal cord, and brain can be affecte...

journal_title：Seminars in neurology

authors： Haas RH,Zolkipli Z

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Idiopathic intracranial hypertension (IIH), also known as pseudotumor cerebri, is a disease primarily affecting obese women of child-bearing age, typically presenting with positional headaches, diplopia from abducens nerve palsies, pulse-synchronous tinnitus, and visual disturbances related to papilledema, including t...

journal_title：Seminars in neurology

authors： Dinkin M,Oliveira C

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The vast majority of people living with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection reside in resource-limited settings. As compared with resource-rich settings, there are important differences in the epidemiology and outcomes of HIV infection in resource-limited settings. Nonetheless, little HIV neurology research o...

journal_title：Seminars in neurology

authors： Meyer AC

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:With the increasing acceptance of the right of patients to refuse life-sustaining treatment, some have argued that terminally ill patients have a corollary right to physician-assisted suicide (PAS) on request. However, there are important moral and legal distinctions between patients' refusals of therapy and requests ...

journal_title：Seminars in neurology

authors： Bernat JL

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Magnetic resonance imaging plays a key role in diagnosis and treatment monitoring of brain tumors. Novel imaging techniques that specifically interrogate aspects of underlying tumor biology and biochemical pathways have great potential in neuro-oncology. This review focuses on the emerging role of 2-hydroxyglutarate-t...

journal_title：Seminars in neurology

authors： Kickingereder P,Andronesi OC

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the past decade, there has been a dramatic evolution of genetic methodologies that can be used to identify genes contributing to disease. Initially, the focus was primarily on classical linkage analysis; more recently, genomewide association studies, and high-throughput whole genome and whole exome sequencing hav...

journal_title：Seminars in neurology

authors： Farlow JL,Foroud T

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Delusions may be the most prominent manifestations of brain dysfunction, and a host of medical and neurologic conditions can present with or produce delusions. Recognition of the underlying disorder frequently aids in successful treatment. Comparison of organic delusional syndromes with schizophrenia suggests that lim...

journal_title：Seminars in neurology

authors： Gorman DG,Cummings JL

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The muscular dystrophies are disorders of progressive muscular degeneration and weakness. As a group they display clinical heterogeneity that reflects the heterogeneity of molecular mechanisms responsible for them, and range from congenital to adulthood onset. Recent advances in the field include improved methods of d...

journal_title：Seminars in neurology

authors： Flanigan KM

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The fields of neurology and psychiatry were originally practiced as a unitary model. As the fields dichotomized patients into "organic" and "functional," patients with medically unexplained symptoms fell between the borderlands. Despite their significant prevalence, somatoform disorders (SDs) are grossly under-recogni...

journal_title：Seminars in neurology

authors： LaFrance WC Jr

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Carotid endarterectomy is an established surgical procedure to prevent stroke. The indications, preoperative evaluation, surgical timing, technical details, complications, and special circumstances for the use of this operation are reviewed. Future developments in the surgical reconstruction of the extracranial caroti...

journal_title：Seminars in neurology

authors： Pritz MB

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00