Serial MRI of extrapontine myelinolysis of the basal ganglia: a case report.

abstract：:Auditory vocal hallucinations are sometimes observed in temporal-lobe epilepsy, but are a frequent sign of psychosis and may rarely be mistaken for the latter. Here we report two patients who suffered from auditory vocal hallucinations, described as unintelligible human voices perceived at their left side during epile...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Hug A,Bartsch A,Gutschalk A

更新日期：2011-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Tacrolimus, also known as FK506, is an immunosuppressive agent widely used for the prevention of acute allograft rejection in organ transplantation and for the treatment of immunological diseases. This study reports two male patients who underwent solid organ transplantation (liver and kidney). After transplant, the p...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Vattemi G,Marini M,Di Chio M,Colpani M,Guglielmi V,Tomelleri G

更新日期：2014-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Cranial dystonia is normally considered as a pure movement disorder. Sensory symptoms have not received much attention, but we found ill-defined pain, discomfort, distortion of sensory modalities, 'phantom' kinetic or postural sensations in the orofacial areas subsequently involved by the dyskinesia in all of 11 conse...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Ghika J,Regli F,Growdon JH

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To identify and characterize cup to disc ratio (CDR) and related optic nerve head abnormalities in multiple sclerosis (MS) using spectral domain optical coherence tomography (OCT). BACKGROUND:While CDR is routinely assessed by ophthalmologists in the evaluation of glaucoma, CDR and related optic nerve head m...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Syc SB,Warner CV,Saidha S,Farrell SK,Conger A,Bisker ER,Wilson J,Frohman TC,Frohman EM,Balcer LJ,Calabresi PA

更新日期：2011-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We herein report a 12-year-old girl with a basal ganglia germinoma who presented with right-sided hemiparesis after a minor head trauma. Magnetic resonance (MR) imaging revealed a minimally enhanced lesion involving the left putamen, thalamus, and corona radiata. The lesion showed low-signal intensity on T1-, and high...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Fujii Y,Saito Y,Ogawa T,Fujii S,Kamitani H,Kondo S,Horie Y,Togawa M,Senda M,Maegaki Y,Ohno K

更新日期：2008-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Perampanel (PER) is a selective non-competitive α-amino-3-hydroxy-5-methyl-4-isoxazole propionic acid (AMPA) receptor antagonist, licensed as adjunctive therapy in focal epilepsy and primary generalized tonic-clonic seizures (pGTCSs). We performed a retrospective study on highly refractory adult patients taking PER, w...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Morano A,Fattouch J,Albini M,Casciato S,Fanella M,Basili LM,Viganò A,Manfredi M,Giallonardo AT,Di Bonaventura C

更新日期：2018-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Myasthenia gravis (MG) is the autoimmune disorder in which the thymus is considered the pathogenic organ. Thymectomy (TE) is a therapeutic option for MG and often ameliorates clinical symptoms. METHODS:We evaluated clinical features and outcomes after TE in patients without thymoma and the influence of TE w...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Jakubíková M,Piťha J,Marečková H,Týblová M,Nováková I,Schutzner J

更新日期：2015-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Despite the strong evidence for the efficacy of surgery to treat temporal lobe epilepsy, the number of such surgeries has plateaued in western countries. This study examined trends in the number of epilepsy cases diagnosed, number of surgeries performed, and certain characteristics of surgery patients in west...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Qiu X,Lai W,Kinoshita M,Zhang L,Li H,Peng A,Li W,Chen L

更新日期：2019-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The stereotyped, episodic abnormal behaviour manifested by a child and her mother on exposure to a particular sort of sunlight is described in detail. The child is the first fully documented patient with this so-called "self-induced" form of photosensitive epilepsy in whom for several years no electroencephalographic ...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Ames FR,Saffer D

更新日期：1983-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In rabbits subjected to bicuculline (BC)- or pentylenetetrazole (PTZ)-seizures of 3 or 20 min duration or to adrenaline-induced hypertension, specific gravity (SG) was measured bilaterally in 15 regional brain areas in order to detect possible associations between the regionally limited blood-brain barrier openings du...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Nitsch C,Fujiwara K,Kuroiwa T,Klatzo I

更新日期：1984-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Relative contributions of two potential pathogenetic factors for cognitive impairments among patients with multi-infarct dementia (MID) are reported. Cognitive test scores were correlated with measures of cerebral hypoperfusion and loss of brain parenchyma. Local cerebral blood flow values were determined utilizing st...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Kawamura J,Meyer JS,Terayama Y,Weathers S

更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Impairment of nervous function and thiamine metabolism were studied in 40 patients suffering from pernicious anaemia, 20 of whom had not been treated and the other 20 were on hydroxocobalamin therapy. Of the untreated patients 13 (65%) showed signs of peripheral nerve dysfunction with reduced conduction velocities, as...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Cox-Klazinga M,Endtz LJ

更新日期：1980-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Brain imaging studies as well as neuropsychological case studies suggest an important role for basal ganglia in arithmetic processing. Aim of this study was to assess possible numerical deficits in PD and functional relations between numerical and other cognitive deficits. Fifteen non-demented patients with early PD (...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Zamarian L,Visani P,Delazer M,Seppi K,Mair KJ,Diem A,Poewe W,Benke T

更新日期：2006-10-25 00:00:00

abstract：:A Finnish family is described with 9 cases of presenile dementia in 3 generations. The mean age at onset was 52 years (range 46--62 years). Progressive dementia, upper motor neuron signs, muscular rigidity, and twitching, irregular tremors were consistent features in the 6 clinically investigated patients and were ass...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Haltia M,Kovanen J,Van Crevel H,Bots GT,Stefanko S

更新日期：1979-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of synergist tenotomy have been studied on rat soleus muscles after denervation and after interference with sciatic axoplasmic flow with colchicine. The results suggest that neural, as well as muscular, factors cause compensatory hypertrophy (CH) of soleus. The myogenic factor may be mild depolarization of...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Hofmann WW

更新日期：1980-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Swallowing function in myasthenia gravis (MG) was investigated by videofluoroscopy (VF). A total of 23 VF examinations were performed on 11 MG patients at various time points over the exacerbation and remission stages of disease. The assessment parameters on VF examination are set as follows: bolus transport from the ...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Higo R,Nito T,Tayama N

更新日期：2005-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The Trembler mouse suffers from a dominantly inherited hypertrophic neuropathy. Electron microscopy, including a quantitative analysis of myelination was performed on the nerves of Trembler mice from birth to senility and compared with the findings in control mice. Axons in adult Trembler nerves were thinly myelinated...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Low PA

更新日期：1976-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cerebral autosomal dominant arteriopathy with subcortical infarcts and leukoencephalopathy (CADASIL) is a hereditary disorder caused by NOTCH3 mutations, usually localized to exons 3 and 4, and characterized by recurrent subcortical infarctions, dementia and leukoencephalopathy. So far, there has been only l...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Lee YC,Yang AH,Liu HC,Wong WJ,Lu YC,Chang MH,Soong BW

更新日期：2006-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We recorded saccadic, pursuit and fixation eye movements in patients (n = 5) with moderately advanced Huntington's disease (HD), offspring of HD patients (n = 22) and control subjects (n = 15), using the scleral sensor coil technique. Saccadic slowing was seen in all patients, no controls and (marginally) in a few at-...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Collewijn H,Went LN,Tamminga EP,Vegter-Van der Vlis M

更新日期：1988-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Six children with clinical and pathological features of Batten-Vogt syndrome showed autofluorescent material in bone marrow cells and in 5 of them sea-blue histiocytes were seen. It is suggested that bone marrow examination for sea-blue histiocytes and autofluorescenceis a useful screening test for ceroid-lipofuscinos...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Gadoth N,O'Croinin P,Butler IJ

更新日期：1975-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It was the aim of this study to determine the associations of clinical and laboratory data with plasma homocyst(e)ine levels in patients with transient ischemic attack (TIA) or minor stroke (MS), with special reference to their 677C to T mutation status in the 5,10-methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase (5,10-MTHFR) gene...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Lalouschek W,Aull S,Korninger L,Mannhalter C,Pabinger-Fasching I,Schmid RW,Schnider P,Zeiler K

更新日期：1998-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Depression and cognitive impairment are both common conditions in old age, and frequently occur together. However, accurate figures of the co-occurrence are not available. The inter-relationship between the two clinical entities is still complex and not well understood. Clearly depression can be a psychological reacti...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Korczyn AD,Halperin I

更新日期：2009-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:MS and psoriasis are both autoimmune diseases putatively mediated mainly by T cells. OBJECTIVE:We conducted a case control study to investigate whether patients with MS have a high rate of comorbid psoriasis. METHODS:The cohort consisted of 214 consecutive MS patients and a control group of 192 consecutive...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Fellner A,Dano M,Regev K,Mosek A,Karni A

更新日期：2014-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Increased concentrations of the nervous-system-specific proteins neuron-specific enolase (NSE) and S-100 protein (S-100) have been measured with lesions in the CNS. Elevated levels of serum NSE (s-NSE) have been found in status epilepticus, but also after single epileptic seizures. Because larger studies addres...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Palmio J,Peltola J,Vuorinen P,Laine S,Suhonen J,Keränen T

更新日期：2001-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE:To study what comorbid conditions were present at baseline and 3years later in a cohort of Spanish Parkinson's disease (PD) patients, to compare comorbidity with both Alzheimer's disease (AD) and control groups and to analyze the role of comorbidity as predictor of mortality. METHODS:One hundr...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Santos García D,Suárez Castro E,Expósito I,de Deus T,Tuñas C,Aneiros A,López Fernández M,Núñez Arias D,Bermúdez Torres M

更新日期：2017-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic linkage studies were performed in 12 British families with von Hippel-Lindau disease (VHL) using RFLPs at three loci (DNF15S2, THRB, RAF1) on the short arm of chromosome 3. Linkage was detected between the VHL disease locus and RAF1 with a maximum lod score of 3.88 at a recombination fraction of 0.05 (confiden...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Maher ER,Bentley E,Yates JR,Barton D,Jennings A,Fellows IW,Ponder MA,Ponder BA,Benjamin C,Harris R

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study is to compare the therapeutic effects between autologous and allogenic bone-marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cell (MSC) transplantation in experimentally-induced spinal cord injury (SCI) of dogs. Thirty adult Beagle dogs (control group=10, autologous group=10, and allogenic group=10) were used...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Jung DI,Ha J,Kang BT,Kim JW,Quan FS,Lee JH,Woo EJ,Park HM

更新日期：2009-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We have monitored the cell surface phenotypic changes occurring in T, B and NK cells of chronic progressive multiple sclerosis (MS) patients after total lymphoid irradiation (TLI) plus low-dose prednisone (TLI-LDP) therapy in comparison to sham TLI-LDP. TLI-LDP resulted in a marked reduction in the relative and absolu...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Rohowsky-Kochan C,Molinaro D,Devereux C,Troiano R,Bansil S,Zito G,Wolansky L,Jotkowitz A,Denny T,Oleske J,Dowling P,Cook SD

更新日期：1997-11-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The activation-flow coupling describes a mechanism, which adapts local cerebral blood flow in accordance with the underlying neuronal activity. It was suggested that the mechanism helps in differentiation between Alzheimer and vascular type of dementia. We combined EEG and Doppler techniques and assessed integrity of ...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Rosengarten B,Paulsen S,Molnar S,Kaschel R,Gallhofer B,Kaps M

更新日期：2007-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The internodal length of remyelinated internodes was examined by observations on teased CNS nerve fibres following primary demyelination induced by intraspinal injections of lysolecithin into the white matter of cats. A remyelinated internode was identified as a thinly-myelinated internode, where a node of Ranvier was...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Blakemore WF,Murray JA

更新日期：1981-02-01 00:00:00