Antiepileptic drug treatment following temporal lobectomy.

abstract：:We report a patient with unusual MRI abnormalities that had the physical characteristics of ferromagnetic artifact. We believe that the MRI artifacts were due to microscopic embolic metal fragments, most likely from a mechanical heart valve prosthesis. Potential sources of metal emboli should be considered in patients...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Wingerchuk DM,Krecke KN,Fulgham JR

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:This study examines the anatomical correlates of naming vs recognizing faces using a novel measure that utilizes culturally relevant and age-appropriate items, the Northwestern University Famous Faces (NUFFACE) Test, in primary progressive aphasia (PPA), a syndrome characterized by progressive language defic...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Gefen T,Wieneke C,Martersteck A,Whitney K,Weintraub S,Mesulam MM,Rogalski E

更新日期：2013-08-13 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To quantify the associations of peripapillary retinal nerve fiber layer (pRNFL) thickness and macular ganglion cell layer (mGCL) volume with cognitive functioning and to investigate how demographic and vascular health factors affect these associations in a population-based sample of adults. METHODS:The sampl...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Ward DD,Mauschitz MM,Bönniger MM,Merten N,Finger RP,Breteler MMB

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE:Human herpesvirus 8 (HHV-8) has been found in association with Kaposi's sarcomas in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-positive and -negative patients, primary effusion lymphomas (PELs), multicentric Castleman's disease, and multiple myeloma. The PELs share several features with acquired immuno...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Corboy JR,Garl PJ,Kleinschmidt-DeMasters BK

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A right-handed woman with independent left- and right-sided temporal lobe discharges was studied by continuous EEG and videotape monitoring for 3 weeks. Changes in affect were noted in the immediate and extended postictal periods and varied with the side of discharge. After a left-sided discharge, she became globally ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Hurwitz TA,Wada JA,Kosaka BD,Strauss EH

更新日期：1985-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors interviewed 53 cluster headache patients who had used psilocybin or lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) to treat their condition. Twenty-two of 26 psilocybin users reported that psilocybin aborted attacks; 25 of 48 psilocybin users and 7 of 8 LSD users reported cluster period termination; 18 of 19 psilocybin ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Sewell RA,Halpern JH,Pope HG Jr

更新日期：2006-06-27 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess the effects of levodopa on resting-state brain metabolism in PD. BACKGROUND:In previous studies the authors used [18F] fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) and PET to quantify regional metabolic abnormalities in PD. They found that this disease is characterized reproducibly by a specific abnormal PD-related pa...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Feigin A,Fukuda M,Dhawan V,Przedborski S,Jackson-Lewis V,Mentis MJ,Moeller JR,Eidelberg D

更新日期：2001-12-11 00:00:00

abstract：:In "Dark Victory," released in theaters in 1939, the diagnosis and management of a progressive brain tumor was a central part of the screenplay, and this film marked the beginnings of the depiction of neurologic disease in cinema. Bette Davis' cinematic portrayal of a young woman dying from a brain tumor is close to t...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Wijdicks EFM

更新日期：2016-04-12 00:00:00

abstract：:A 64-year-old man with diffuse atherosclerosis developed an organic mental syndrome, followed by hypothalamic symptoms. Autopsy showed an old large cystic infarct involving the left temporal lobe including the hippocampus, and atrophy of the ipsilateral fornix, mammillary body, hypothalamus, mammillothalamic tract, an...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Torch WC,Hirano A,Solomon S

更新日期：1977-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While intracranial tuberculomas have become uncommon in industrial nations, 12 patients with signs and symptoms of an intracranial mass lesion were recently found to have tuberculomas. Clinical findings suggestive of tuberculosis were frequently subtle or absent. Five patients did not have extracranial tuberculosis. T...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Mayers MM,Kaufman DM,Miller MH

更新日期：1978-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a woman with a chronic inflammatory myopathy who developed muscle stiffness and dystonic postures of both upper extremities. Electromyography demonstrated that involuntary complex repetitive discharges of muscle caused the posture. Rare cases of dystonic posturing may be of peripheral, and not central system...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Preston DC,Finkleman RS,Munsat TL

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate to what extent subjective memory complaints and APOE-epsilon4 allele carriage predict future cognitive decline in cognitively intact elderly persons, by evaluating both their separate and combined effects. METHODS:We selected 1,168 subjects from the population-based Longitudinal Aging Study Am...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Dik MG,Jonker C,Comijs HC,Bouter LM,Twisk JW,van Kamp GJ,Deeg DJ

更新日期：2001-12-26 00:00:00

abstract：:We report two patients with unique homonymous hemianopias from occipital lobe infarctions. One patient had vertical meridian sparing, and the other displayed horizontal meridian sparing. MRI correlation with the visual field defects confirmed that the vertical hemianopic meridian was represented along the border of th...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Gray LG,Galetta SL,Schatz NJ

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine if progressive brain atrophy could be detected over 1- and 2-year intervals in relapsing MS, based on annual MR studies from the Multiple Sclerosis Collaborative Research Group (MSCRG) trial of interferon beta-1a (Avonex). METHODS:All subjects had mild to moderate disability, with baseline expan...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Simon JH,Jacobs LD,Campion MK,Rudick RA,Cookfair DL,Herndon RM,Richert JR,Salazar AM,Fischer JS,Goodkin DE,Simonian N,Lajaunie M,Miller DE,Wende K,Martens-Davidson A,Kinkel RP,Munschauer FE 3rd,Brownscheidle CM

更新日期：1999-07-13 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess whether hippocampal sclerosis (HS) severity is mirrored at the level of large-scale networks. METHODS:We studied preoperative high-resolution anatomical and diffusion-weighted MRI of 44 temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) patients with histopathologic diagnosis of HS (n = 25; TLE-HS) and isolated gliosis ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Bernhardt BC,Fadaie F,Liu M,Caldairou B,Gu S,Jefferies E,Smallwood J,Bassett DS,Bernasconi A,Bernasconi N

更新日期：2019-05-07 00:00:00

abstract：:A collector is a person who collects things on purpose, either as a hobby or business, or for personal satisfaction, e.g., stamp, coin, or art collector. In such instances, the act of collecting things represents voluntary, controlled, goal-directed, selective searching. Pathologic patterns of collecting have been obs...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Volle E,Beato R,Levy R,Dubois B

更新日期：2002-02-12 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To cross-sectionally compare the regional white matter fractional anisotropy (FA) of cognitively normal (CN) older individuals and patients with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and Alzheimer disease (AD), separately focusing on the normal-appearing white matter (NAWM) and white matter hyperintensities (WMH), ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Lee DY,Fletcher E,Martinez O,Ortega M,Zozulya N,Kim J,Tran J,Buonocore M,Carmichael O,DeCarli C

更新日期：2009-11-24 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine the frequency of subjective sleep problems in spinocerebellar ataxia type 6 (SCA6), the authors surveyed 25 patients and 25 age-matched controls with the Epworth Sleepiness Scale (ESS) and Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI). The ESS was higher in patients with SCA6 (9.12 +/- 5.80; CI: 2.28) than in con...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Howell MJ,Mahowald MW,Gomez CM

更新日期：2006-05-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Postmortem studies of patients with progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP) have demonstrated loss of cholinergic neurons in the striatum, nucleus basalis of Meynert, and the pedunculopontine nucleus. These findings suggest that cholinergic drugs might be an effective treatment for this disease. We studied the efficacy o...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Foster NL,Aldrich MS,Bluemlein L,White RF,Berent S

更新日期：1989-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The urinary excretion of some important phenylethylamines, catecholamines, their metabolites, amphetamine, and methamphetamine were measured in parkinsonian patients on Sinemet (L-dopa plus carbidopa, a peripheral dopadecarboxylase inhibitor) and depressed patients after chronic (-) deprenyl treatment. Deprenyl was ef...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Karoum F,Chuang LW,Eisler T,Calne DB,Liebowitz MR,Quitkin FM,Klein DF,Wyatt RJ

更新日期：1982-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Coma is rare in temporal arteritis (TA). We describe a patient with TA who suddenly developed coma with a triphasic EEG pattern that resolved after initiation of steroid treatment. Although the arterial lesions in TA are segmental in nature, TA may present with signs of diffuse neurologic deficit; early treatment can ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Tomer Y,Neufeld MY,Shoenfeld Y

更新日期：1992-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have discovered a new Italian pedigree with autosomal-dominant ALS. The pedigree, at present, comprises 75 members distributed in five generations. ALS was diagnosed in eight patients. The mean +/- SD age of onset of the disease was 46.8 +/- 13.5 years, with a range of 29 to 63 years. The mean +/- SD duration of th...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Rainero I,Pinessi L,Tsuda T,Vignocchi MG,Vaula G,Calvi L,Cerrato P,Rossi B,Bergamini L,McLachlan DR

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To empirically validate the expanded concept of mild cognitive impairment (MCI), which differentiates between four clinical subtypes-amnestic MCI-single domain, amnestic MCI-multiple domains, nonamnestic MCI-single domain, and nonamnestic MCI-multiple domains-and to examine the prevalence, course, and outcome...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Busse A,Hensel A,Gühne U,Angermeyer MC,Riedel-Heller SG

更新日期：2006-12-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Muscle channelopathies such as paramyotonia, hyperkalemic periodic paralysis, and potassium-aggravated myotonia are caused by gain-of-function Na+ channel mutations. METHODS:Methods: Implementation of a three-dimensional radial 23Na magnetic resonance (MR) sequence with ultra-short echo times allowed the au...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Weber MA,Nielles-Vallespin S,Essig M,Jurkat-Rott K,Kauczor HU,Lehmann-Horn F

更新日期：2006-10-10 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To estimate the lifetime cumulative incidence of dementia and its subtypes from a community-dwelling elderly population in Japan. METHODS:A total of 1,193 community-dwelling Japanese individuals without dementia, aged 60 years or older, were followed up prospectively for 17 years. The cumulative incidence of...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Yoshida D,Ohara T,Hata J,Shibata M,Hirakawa Y,Honda T,Furuta Y,Oishi E,Sakata S,Kanba S,Kitazono T,Ninomiya T

更新日期：2020-08-04 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:In the work-up of patients presenting with a clinically isolated syndrome (CIS), 3T MRI might offer a higher lesion detection than 1.5T, but it remains unclear whether this affects the fulfilment of the diagnostic criteria for multiple sclerosis (MS). METHODS:We recruited 66 patients with CIS within 6 months...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Hagens MHJ,Burggraaff J,Kilsdonk ID,de Vos ML,Cawley N,Sbardella E,Andelova M,Amann M,Lieb JM,Pantano P,Lissenberg-Witte BI,Killestein J,Oreja-Guevara C,Ciccarelli O,Gasperini C,Lukas C,Wattjes MP,Barkhof F,MAGNIMS St

更新日期：2018-07-17 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：:The ability of two noninvasive diagnostic methods--oculoplethysmography-carotid phonoangiography (OPG/CPA) and directional Doppler ultrasonography--to detect extracranial cerebrovascular disease was examined in 400 consecutive studies. Cerebral arteriography was performed in 74 patients. Transient ischemic attack was ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Ginsberg MD,Greenwood SA,Goldberg HI

更新日期：1979-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:This study assessed the strength of military-related concussion-, psychological-, and behavioral-related measures to predict neurobehavioral symptom (NBS) reporting in order to help clarify the extent to which persistent NBS reflect lingering effects of concussion vs other psychological/behavioral factors amo...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Andrews RJ,Fonda JR,Levin LK,McGlinchey RE,Milberg WP

更新日期：2018-08-21 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Glucocerebrosidase (GBA) gene mutations represent a strong risk factor for Parkinson disease (PD). PD penetrance in GBA mutation carriers, which represents a key issue for genetic counseling, especially for relatives of patients with Gaucher disease (GD), is unknown. Our objective was to estimate PD penetranc...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Anheim M,Elbaz A,Lesage S,Durr A,Condroyer C,Viallet F,Pollak P,Bonaïti B,Bonaïti-Pellié C,Brice A,French Parkinson Disease Genetic Group.

更新日期：2012-02-07 00:00:00