Primary hyperparathyroidism and ALS: is there a relation?

abstract：:In a 24-week, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, multicenter study of rivastigmine, 487 patients with dementia associated with Parkinson disease underwent assessment of attention on the Cognitive Drug Research computerized cognitive assessment system before dosing and 16 and 24 weeks later. Significant bene...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Wesnes KA,McKeith I,Edgar C,Emre M,Lane R

更新日期：2005-11-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Immitation synkinesia is usually associated with thalamic or parietal lesions. Analysis of three cases shows that the lesions may affect the posterior columns of the spinal cord or even the peripheral nervous system. In our cases, two facts stand out, a large measure of integrity of motor activity and predominant dist...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Cambier J,Dehen H

更新日期：1977-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the effects of mitoxantrone (Mx) in progressive multiple sclerosis (MS) on MRI. METHODS:A total of 194 patients with worsening relapsing-remitting or secondary progressive MS were treated with Mx 12 mg/m2 (n = 34), Mx 5 mg/m2 (n = 40), or placebo (n = 36) at 3-month intervals IV over a 2-year per...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Krapf H,Morrissey SP,Zenker O,Zwingers T,Gonsette R,Hartung HP,MIMS Study Group.

更新日期：2005-09-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Retraction of the lower eyelid is a useful sign of disease. It is an early manifestation of weakness of the facial muscles, occurring with myopathies, myasthenia, and upper and lower motor neuron facial paresis. Rarely, lower and upper lid retraction occur without proptosis in patients with Graves disease. Lower lid r...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Cohen MM,Lessell S

更新日期：1979-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Methionine-enkephalin, substance P, and homovanillic acid concentrations were measured in the CSF of subjects not affected by neurologic disorders (group 1), and in parkinsonian patients who had a slight or moderate (group 2) or severe (group 3) disability. Homovanillic acid and substance P concentrations in the CSF o...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Pezzoli G,Panerai AE,Di Giulio A,Longo A,Passerini D,Carenzi A

更新日期：1984-04-01 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：OBJECTIVE:To explore the incidence of depression and anxiety and to measure quality of life in women with idiopathic intracranial hypertension (IIH), a matched group cross-sectional study was conducted. Women with IIH (n = 28) were compared with control groups of weight- and age-matched women not diagnosed with IIH (n ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Kleinschmidt JJ,Digre KB,Hanover R

更新日期：2000-01-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Ten patients with refractory temporal lobe epilepsy performed a word-position association learning task every 24 hours during video EEG monitoring. On 55 occasions recall performance was tested 30 minutes and 24 hours after the initial learning phase. Patients with left- but not right-sided temporal lobe epilepsy exhi...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Jokeit H,Daamen M,Zang H,Janszky J,Ebner A

更新日期：2001-07-10 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The primary objective of this research was to characterize the movement disorders associated with FOXG1 mutations. METHODS:We identified patients with FOXG1 mutations who were referred to either a tertiary movement disorder clinic or tertiary epilepsy service and retrospectively reviewed medical records, cli...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Papandreou A,Schneider RB,Augustine EF,Ng J,Mankad K,Meyer E,McTague A,Ngoh A,Hemingway C,Robinson R,Varadkar SM,Kinali M,Salpietro V,O'Driscoll MC,Basheer SN,Webster RI,Mohammad SS,Pula S,McGowan M,Trump N,Jenkin

更新日期：2016-05-10 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To summarize current and emerging imaging techniques that can be used to assess neuroprotection and repair in multiple sclerosis (MS), and to provide a consensus opinion on the potential utility of each technique in clinical trial settings. METHODS:Clinicians and scientists with expertise in the use of MRI i...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Oh J,Ontaneda D,Azevedo C,Klawiter EC,Absinta M,Arnold DL,Bakshi R,Calabresi PA,Crainiceanu C,Dewey B,Freeman L,Gauthier S,Henry R,Inglese M,Kolind S,Li DKB,Mainero C,Menon RS,Nair G,Narayanan S,Nelson F,Pelleti

更新日期：2019-03-12 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied 35 patients with nonseptic cardiogenic cerebral emboli. In 28 cases, there was sudden onset with maximal neurologic deficit within 1 hour; in 7 cases, there was progression in 24 hours. In six cases, neurologic abnormality worsened in the first week after an initial period of stabilization. CT showed eviden...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Weisberg LA

更新日期：1985-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a clinical and morphological study concerning a kindred with slowly progressive X-linked muscular dystrophy (Becker type). Five males were affected; one died of heart failure at age 16. Severe and early cardiac disorder is unusual in this type of muscular dystrophy, and death at such an early age had not be...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Kuhn E,Fiehn W,Schröder JM,Assmus H,Wagner A

更新日期：1979-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The incidence of contrast-induced nephropathy was examined in 1,075 patients receiving routine CT angiography and CT perfusion brain imaging at a single institution. Fifty-two patients had a creatinine rise of > or =0.5 mg/dL. In four patients (0.37%), the administration of IV contrast medium possibly contributed to r...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Josephson SA,Dillon WP,Smith WS

更新日期：2005-05-24 00:00:00

abstract：:We evaluated the therapeutic efficacy of gamma aminobutyric acid (GABA) system stimulation in four patients with classical Huntington's disease and one with the hypokinetic-rigid form. Orally administered THIP (4,5,6,7-tetrahydroisoxazolo-[5,4,-c] pyridin-3-ol), a novel GABA receptor agonist, failed to improve motor o...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Foster NL,Chase TN,Denaro A,Hare TA,Tamminga CA

更新日期：1983-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To report outcomes of pregnancies that occurred during the fingolimod clinical development program. METHODS:Pregnancy outcomes from phase II, phase III, and phase IV clinical studies (with optional extensions) were reported by clinical trial investigators. Fingolimod exposure in utero was defined as fingolim...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Karlsson G,Francis G,Koren G,Heining P,Zhang X,Cohen JA,Kappos L,Collins W

更新日期：2014-02-25 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To elucidate the phenotype, genotype, and MRI findings of Korean patients with cerebral autosomal dominant arteriopathy with subcortical infarcts and leukoencephalopathy (CADASIL) and mutation carriers. METHODS:The authors studied 40 members of nine unrelated Korean CADASIL families. After genetic analysis o...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Kim Y,Choi EJ,Choi CG,Kim G,Choi JH,Yoo HW,Kim JS

更新日期：2006-05-23 00:00:00

abstract：:We evaluated the neuroprotective effect of MK-801, a noncompetitive, selective N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor antagonist, in a neonatal hypoxic-ischemic animal model. Seven-day-old rats underwent bilateral ligation of the carotid arteries followed by exposure to an 8% oxygen atmosphere for 1 hr. We sacrificed the anima...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Hattori H,Morin AM,Schwartz PH,Fujikawa DG,Wasterlain CG

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Antiplatelets (APL), angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors (ACEI), and statins (STAT) are commonly used for stroke prevention. The authors examined whether combination therapy with these agents has additive protective effects in reducing ischemic stroke severity. METHODS:The authors retrospectively...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Kumar S,Savitz S,Schlaug G,Caplan L,Selim M

更新日期：2006-04-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Serum from 35 cases of naturally occurring acquired canine myasthenia gravis (MG) were assayed for patterns of autoantibody specificities against canine acetylcholine receptor (AChR) using monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) and antiserum against defined regions of the AChR as competitive inhibitors of autoantibody binding. ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Shelton GD,Cardinet GH,Lindstrom JM

更新日期：1988-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We established the frequency of Horner's syndrome (HS) in 248 elective patients after coronary artery bypass surgery. Patients were evaluated neurologically pre- and post-operatively and 6 months after surgery. Nineteen patients (7.7%) developed unilateral HS postoperatively, 12 involving the left eye. The finding per...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Barbut D,Gold JP,Heinemann MH,Hinton RB,Trifiletti RR

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To report the assessment of a patient exhibiting gustatory agnosia. METHODS:Preoperative and postoperative neuropsychological, neuroimaging, and chemosensory evaluations were performed in a 39-year-old woman undergoing surgical treatment for intractable epilepsy. RESULTS:Preoperative MRIs showed bilateral (...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Small DM,Bernasconi N,Bernasconi A,Sziklas V,Jones-Gotman M

更新日期：2005-01-25 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：: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：BACKGROUND:Using a stereologic approach, the density of nerve fibers innervating sweat gland (SG) fragments in patients with diabetes mellitus (DM) and healthy controls using protein gene product (PGP), tyrosine hydroxylase (TH), and vasoactive intestinal peptide (VIP) was measured to determine which marker best detect...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Liu Y,Billiet J,Ebenezer GJ,Pan B,Hauer P,Wei J,Polydefkis M

更新日期：2015-04-21 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess the frequency of this finding in patients with minor stroke and TIAs compared to those with stroke mimics and to evaluate the level of agreement between examiners to detect an upgoing thumb sign. METHODS:We previously reported an upgoing thumb sign as a subtle clinical finding in patients with tran...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Hachinski V,Alsubaie R,Azarpazhooh MR

更新日期：2017-07-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Expert knowledge may compensate for age-related declines in basic cognitive and sensory-motor abilities in some skill domains. We investigated the influence of age and aviation expertise (indexed by Federal Aviation Administration pilot ratings) on longitudinal flight simulator performance. METHODS:Over a 3...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Taylor JL,Kennedy Q,Noda A,Yesavage JA

更新日期：2007-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:In families with autosomal dominant partial epilepsy with auditory features (ADPEAF) with mutations in the LGI1 gene, we evaluated clustering of mutations within the gene and associations of penetrance and phenotypic features with mutation location and predicted effect (truncation or missense). METHODS:We ab...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Ho YY,Ionita-Laza I,Ottman R

更新日期：2012-02-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors describe diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) and magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) changes in the hippocampus within 48 hours of acute symptomatic seizures or status epilepticus in 12 patients. DWI showed increased signal and a decreased apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) in all patients, with correspon...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Parmar H,Lim SH,Tan NC,Lim CC

更新日期：2006-06-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Medical therapy is the mainstay for epilepsy, with most patients well controlled on a single antiepileptic drug (AED). In this non-refractory group, many patients have medication side effects and occasional seizures. Approximately 30% of patients with partial epilepsy and 25% of patients with generalized epilepsy are ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Nadkarni S,LaJoie J,Devinsky O

更新日期：2005-06-28 00:00:00

abstract：:We surveyed 297 patients with Parkinson disease (PD) with systematic screens and rigorous definitional criteria. Pathologic hypersexuality lifetime prevalence was 2.4%. Compulsive shopping was 0.7%. Combined with our pathologic gambling data, the lifetime prevalence of these behaviors was 6.1% and increases to 13.7% i...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Voon V,Hassan K,Zurowski M,de Souza M,Thomsen T,Fox S,Lang AE,Miyasaki J

更新日期：2006-10-10 00:00:00