A placebo-controlled trial of insulin-like growth factor-I in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. European ALS/IGF-I Study Group.

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To use a historical placebo control design to determine whether lithium carbonate slows progression of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). METHODS:A phase II trial was conducted at 10 sites in the Western ALS Study Group using similar dosages (300-450 mg/day), target blood levels (0.3-0.8 mEq/L), outcome me...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Miller RG,Moore DH,Forshew DA,Katz JS,Barohn RJ,Valan M,Bromberg MB,Goslin KL,Graves MC,McCluskey LF,McVey AL,Mozaffar T,Florence JM,Pestronk A,Ross M,Simpson EP,Appel SH,WALS Study Group.

更新日期：2011-09-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Seizures in a transplant candidate or recipient raise complicated management issues, but there are no results from controlled drug trials to guide their pharmacologic treatment. Most seizures in the transplant population are isolated events that do not require long-term antiseizure therapy. Short-term therapy, however...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Chabolla DR,Wszolek ZK

更新日期：2006-12-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Ten patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis were given intrathecal injections of natural interferon alpha, 1 million units weekly for 7 to 24 weeks. Six patients completed the trial. Four voluntarily withdrew after 7 to 13 injections. The slopes of deterioration for 40 quantitative tests of neuromuscular function ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Mora JS,Munsat TL,Kao KP,Finison LJ,Hedlund W,Bradley GA,Scheife R,Georgiades JA

更新日期：1986-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To investigate whether severity and progression of periventricular and deep white matter lesions (WML) and lacunar infarcts were associated with progression of brain atrophy. METHODS:Within the SMART-MR study, a prospective cohort on MRI changes in patients with symptomatic atherosclerotic disease, 565 pati...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Kloppenborg RP,Nederkoorn PJ,Grool AM,Vincken KL,Mali WP,Vermeulen M,van der Graaf Y,Geerlings MI,SMART Study Group.

更新日期：2012-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To quantify the effects of cognitive training (CT) on cognitive and behavioral outcome measures in patients with Parkinson disease (PD). METHODS:We systematically searched 5 databases for randomized controlled trials (RCTs) of CT in patients with PD reporting cognitive or behavioral outcomes. Efficacy was me...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Leung IH,Walton CC,Hallock H,Lewis SJ,Valenzuela M,Lampit A

更新日期：2015-11-24 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine the association between Miller Fisher syndrome (MFS) and antecedent Haemophilus influenzae infection. BACKGROUND:Little is known about agents in prior respiratory tract infection of MFS, whereas antecedent upper respiratory symptoms are frequent. H. influenzae is a major pathogen that can cause hu...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Koga M,Yuki N,Tai T,Hirata K

更新日期：2001-08-28 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine the relationship of migraine and other severe headaches with panic disorder. METHODS:Representative samples of persons with migraine, non-migrainous severe headaches, and controls with no history of severe headaches, identified by a telephone survey, were interviewed in person, using a standardize...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Breslau N,Schultz LR,Stewart WF,Lipton R,Welch KM

更新日期：2001-02-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In epilepsy as in other disorders, family history information is often obtained by asking patients about the medical histories of their relatives rather than interviewing or examining the relatives directly. The accuracy of this type of information for epilepsy and other seizure disorders is unclear. METHOD...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Ottman R,Barker-Cummings C,Leibson CL,Vasoli VM,Hauser WA,Buchhalter JR

更新日期：2011-01-25 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To describe the phenotypic spectrum and genetics of periventricular nodular heterotopia (PNH) caused by FLN1 mutations in four men. BACKGROUND:X-linked PNH caused by FLN1 mutations (MIM #300049) implies prenatal or early postnatal lethality in boys and 50% recurrence risk in daughters of affected women. MET...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Guerrini R,Mei D,Sisodiya S,Sicca F,Harding B,Takahashi Y,Dorn T,Yoshida A,Campistol J,Krämer G,Moro F,Dobyns WB,Parrini E

更新日期：2004-07-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In a previous study, the authors found that the risk of AD among mothers who were 35 years or younger when their children with Down syndrome (DS) were born was five times that of mothers of children with other forms of mental retardation. The current study investigated the specificity of the familial aggrega...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Schupf N,Kapell D,Nightingale B,Lee JH,Mohlenhoff J,Bewley S,Ottman R,Mayeux R

更新日期：2001-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the ultimate diagnosis of multiple sclerosis (MS) still remains clinical, confirmatory laboratory aids can be of marked assistance, especially in early and atypical cases. Whereas numerous tests have been described, the only ones to withstand scrutiny in numerous laboratories have been various immunoglobulin ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Johnson KP

更新日期：1980-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To evaluate the frequency, clinical and etiologic features, and short- and long-term outcomes of early recurrent TIA. METHODS:This prospective observational cohort study enrolled all consecutive patients with TIA referred to our emergency department and diagnosed by a vascular neurologist. Expedited assessm...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Foschi M,Pavolucci L,Rondelli F,Spinardi L,Favaretto E,Filippini M,Degli Esposti D,Strocchi E,Faggioli G,Cortelli P,Guarino M,Bologna TIA Study-Group.

更新日期：2020-09-22 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To demonstrate whether the cerebral hemispheres (language dominant versus nondominant) affect immune function differentially in humans by delineating the effects of resections for epilepsy surgery on T-cell indices. BACKGROUND:Cerebral lateralization has been postulated to affect immunomodulation. Differenti...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Meador KJ,De Lecuona JM,Helman SW,Loring DW

更新日期：1999-04-12 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Asians who carry the HLA-B*1502 allele have an elevated risk of developing Stevens-Johnson syndrome (SJS) and toxic epidermal necrolysis (TEN) when treated with the antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) carbamazepine (CBZ) and phenytoin (PHT). With a focus on Singapore, this analysis identifies circumstances in which ge...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Dong D,Sung C,Finkelstein EA

更新日期：2012-09-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Ocular motor performance was significantly impaired in familial ataxia patients as compared with normal controls. Ataxic patients showed prolonged saccadic latencies, longer saccadic refixation times, reduced visual tracking performance, and increased hypermetria. Cutoff values were derived and applied to 15 subjects ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Hutton JT,Albrecht JW,Kuskowski M,Schut LJ

更新日期：1987-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate the effect of postoperative delirium on longitudinal brain microstructural changes, as measured by diffusion tensor imaging. METHODS:We studied a subset of the larger Successful Aging after Elective Surgery (SAGES) study cohort of older adults (≥70 years) without dementia undergoing elective s...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Cavallari M,Dai W,Guttmann CRG,Meier DS,Ngo LH,Hshieh TT,Fong TG,Schmitt E,Press DZ,Travison TG,Marcantonio ER,Jones RN,Inouye SK,Alsop DC,SAGES Study Group.

更新日期：2017-09-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:We previously studied the occurrence of muscle tone reduction (MTR), sawtooth waves (STW), and REM in sleep, and found a stereotypical sequence of these events in normal subjects. Patients with the postpolio syndrome may have involvement of the reticular formation in the brainstem, an area known to mediate i...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Siegel H,McCutchen C,Dalakas MC,Freeman A,Graham B,Alling D,Sato S

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous reports and the Physicians' Desk Reference caution against the use of levodopa in Parkinson's disease (PD) patients with melanoma. A critical review of the literature reveals only anecdotal evidence to support a link between levodopa and melanoma. In fact, levodopa has an antitumor effect on melanoma. We repo...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Weiner WJ,Singer C,Sanchez-Ramos JR,Goldenberg JN

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Co-occurrence of Parkinson disease (PD) and melanoma has been reported in numerous studies. If this was due to common genetic mechanisms, a positive family history of melanoma would be associated with an excessive PD risk, independent of environmental risk factors for PD. METHODS:We prospectively examined a...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Gao X,Simon KC,Han J,Schwarzschild MA,Ascherio A

更新日期：2009-10-20 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine associations of average and change in late-life blood pressure (BP) with cerebrovascular and Alzheimer disease (AD) neuropathology in a large group of decedents followed longitudinally in vivo. METHODS:This clinical-pathologic study was derived from prospective, community-based cohort studies of a...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Arvanitakis Z,Capuano AW,Lamar M,Shah RC,Barnes LL,Bennett DA,Schneider JA

更新日期：2018-08-07 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine the usefulness of the 14-3-3 test in patients with dementia of various causes. BACKGROUND:Recent reports have suggested that the detection of the 14-3-3 protein in the CSF of patients with Creutzfeldt--Jakob disease is a highly sensitive and specific marker of the disease that might be used as a...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Burkhard PR,Sanchez JC,Landis T,Hochstrasser DF

更新日期：2001-06-12 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To describe clinical-radiologic characteristics in a prospective series of patients having both confirmed reversible cerebral vasoconstriction syndrome (RCVS) and cervical artery dissection (CeAD). METHODS:From January 2004 to December 2011, from our prospective cohorts of RCVS and CeAD, we studied patients...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Mawet J,Boukobza M,Franc J,Sarov M,Arnold M,Bousser MG,Ducros A

更新日期：2013-08-27 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Several lines of evidence suggest that pathologic changes underlying Alzheimer disease (AD) begin years prior to the clinical expression of the disease, underscoring the need for studies of cognitively healthy adults to capture these early changes. The overall goal of the current study was to map the cortical...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Rodrigue KM,Kennedy KM,Devous MD Sr,Rieck JR,Hebrank AC,Diaz-Arrastia R,Mathews D,Park DC

更新日期：2012-02-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Bapineuzumab, a humanized anti-amyloid-beta (Abeta) monoclonal antibody for the potential treatment of Alzheimer disease (AD), was evaluated in a multiple ascending dose, safety, and efficacy study in mild to moderate AD. METHODS:The study enrolled 234 patients, randomly assigned to IV bapineuzumab or place...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Salloway S,Sperling R,Gilman S,Fox NC,Blennow K,Raskind M,Sabbagh M,Honig LS,Doody R,van Dyck CH,Mulnard R,Barakos J,Gregg KM,Liu E,Lieberburg I,Schenk D,Black R,Grundman M,Bapineuzumab 201 Clinical Trial Investigator

更新日期：2009-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Mild parkinsonian signs (MPS) are associated with prevalent and incident dementia but it is not known whether they are associated with mild cognitive impairment (MCI). OBJECTIVE:To determine whether MPS and specific MPS (changes in axial function, rigidity, tremor) are associated with MCI in nondemented com...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Louis ED,Schupf N,Manly J,Marder K,Tang MX,Mayeux R

更新日期：2005-04-12 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine if there is abnormal phenylalanine and biopterin metabolism in patients with dopa-responsive dystonia (DRD), we measured plasma levels of phenylalanine, tyrosine, biopterin, and neopterin at baseline, and 1, 2, 4, and 6 hours after an oral phenylalanine load (100 mg/kg). Seven adults with DRD, two severel...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Hyland K,Fryburg JS,Wilson WG,Bebin EM,Arnold LA,Gunasekera RS,Jacobson RD,Rost-Ruffner E,Trugman JM

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied a family in which the father and 7 of 10 children had episodes of Bell's palsy. Five of the eight affected family members also had ocular motor palsies. Facial nerve and blink reflex studies in four affected siblings demonstrated asymmetrically reduced amplitude of evoked responses without delayed conductio...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Aldrich MS,Beck RW,Albers JW

更新日期：1987-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The aim of this prospective study was to survey our patients about their experience with our clinic's telemedicine program to better understand telemedicine's utility for families, and to improve patient satisfaction and ultimately patient care. METHODS:This was a prospective survey study of patients and the...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Qubty W,Patniyot I,Gelfand A

更新日期：2018-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The rate of spontaneous resolution of a recently diagnosed solitary cerebral cysticercus granuloma as visualized on CT scan was prospectively studied in 210 patients presenting with seizures. The proportion of granulomas that had resolved completely at different time intervals after the index scan was 18.8% at 3 month...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Rajshekhar V

更新日期：2001-12-26 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Cerebral cavernous malformations (CCM) occur in familial and sporadic forms that cannot be distinguished by phenotype. Mutations in Krit1, a gene located at the CCM1 locus on chromosome 7q21, account for the majority of familial CCM cases. The authors investigated the role that mutations at the CCM1 locus pla...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Reich P,Winkler J,Straube A,Steiger HJ,Peraud A

更新日期：2003-04-08 00:00:00