Magnetic resonance imaging study cannot individually distinguish individuals with mild cognitive impairment, mild Alzheimer's disease, and normal aging.

abstract：:There is a limited choice of psychometric tests for Portuguese speaking people which have been evaluated in well defined groups. A Portuguese version of CERAD neuropsychological battery was applied to a control group of healthy elderly (CG) (mean age 75.1 years/ education 7.9 years), 31 Alzheimer disease (AD) patients...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Bertolucci PH,Okamoto IH,Brucki SM,Siviero MO,Toniolo Neto J,Ramos LR

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirty-two children (21 female and 11 male), between 7 and 14 years old, with chronic daily headache (CDH) were consecutively included in a prospective, randomized, double blind, placebo controlled crossover study. The patients were divided in group I (fluoxetine vs. placebo), with 17 patients and group II (placebo vs...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Gherpelli JL,Esposito SB

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Isolated and painless infraspinatus atrophy and weakness are described in two top-level volleyball players. EMG revealed isolated denervation of the infraspinatus muscle. One athlete continued playing and his clinical features have not changed. The other recovered her muscle bulk and strength after stopping playing. T...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Tengan CH,Oliveira AS,Kiymoto BH,Morita MP,De Medeiros JL,Gabbai AA

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:We preliminarily investigated the relevance of performing digital subtraction angiography (DSA) in addition to magnetic resonance angiography (MRA) in definition of ischemic stroke etiology in young patients. METHOD:DSAs and MRAs from 17 young patients with nonlacunar ischemic stroke were blindly analyzed and ...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Conforto AB,Fregni F,Puglia P Jr,Leite Cda C,Yamamoto FI,Coracini KF,Scaff M

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two cases of Sjögren-Larsson syndrome are reported. In analysing the clinical symptoms and laboratory data the authors established the diagnosis of this rare entity which has an autosomal recessive kind of inheritance. ...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Marques-Dias MJ,Lefèvre AB,Gonzalez CH,Saldanha PH

更新日期：1983-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to characterize a group of patients (n=8) with sickle cell disease (SCD) and ischemic stroke concerning the clinical, neurological, imaging and progressive aspects. Data were collected from records and completed with an interview of patients and their parents. In this study there were 8 patie...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Oliveira CC,Ciasca SM,Moura-Ribeiro MV

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of an isolated tuberculoma of the spinal cord is reported. The 22 years old male patient came to the hospital with paraplegia and had a laminetomy performed for a compression of the spinal cord by a tumor mass. The histopathological study showed the presence of the acid-fast bacili in the tissue. After specific...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： de Queiroz AC,Rizzo A,de Carvalho MS

更新日期：1978-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The aim of the present study was to define normative data of phrenic nerve conduction parameters of a healthy population. METHODS:Phrenic nerve conduction studies were performed in 27 healthy volunteers. RESULTS:The normative limits for expiratory phrenic nerve compound muscle action potential were: amplitu...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Maranhão AA,Carvalho SRDS,Caetano MR,Alamy AH,Peixoto EM,Filgueiras PDEP

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mortality due to epilepsy is of great concern worldwide. Individuals with epilepsy have a two- or three-fold risk of death when compared to the general population. Based on biographical data and Anna Grigoriévna Dostoevskaia's memories, the authors concluded that a prolonged episode of status epilepticus was the culpr...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Amâncio EJ,Kowacs PA,Takeshita BT,Nascimento FA,Teive HA

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The low-educated elderly are a vulnerable population in whom studying the role of white matter integrity on memory may provide insights for understanding how memory declines with aging and disease. METHODS:Thirty-one participants (22 women), 23 cognitively healthy and eight with cognitive impairment-no dementia, aged...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Resende EPF,Tovar-Moll FF,Ferreira FM,Bramati I,de Souza LC,Carmona KC,Guimarães HC,Carvalho VA,Barbosa MT,Caramelli P

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors emphasize the importance of computed tomography (CT) in the diagnosis of neurocysticercosis. Before CT, neurocysticercosis was considered rare in the Northeast Brazil. They reviewed fifteen cases diagnosed as neurocysticercosis by CT at the Institute of Radiology, in Natal. A case of neurocysticercosis dia...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Galhardo I,Coutinho MO,De Albuquerque ES,Medeiros Lde O,Dantas JO

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is extremely difficult to estimate the occurrence of sudden unexpected death in epilepsy (SUDEP). On the other hand, discovering and carefully evaluating new risk factors that may contribute to the onset of cardiovascular abnormalities in people with refractory epilepsy may prevent fatal events in these individuals...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Scorza CA,Calderazzo L,Arida RM,Cavalheiro EA,Scorza FA

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three cases of peritoneal pseudocysts are reported with guidelines for the diagnosis of this type of complication. The authors point out the value of the following signs: 1--increase of ventricular pressure with worsening of the clinical picture; 2--localized pain in the abdomen; 3--difficulty to depress the capsule; ...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： de Figueiredo DG,de Carvalho FF

更新日期：1981-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To study the brain areas which are activated when normal subjects make moral judgments. METHOD:Ten normal adults underwent BOLD functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) during the auditory presentation of sentences that they were instructed to silently judge as either "right" or "wrong". Half of the sent...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Moll J,Eslinger PJ,Oliveira-Souza R

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of present study was to evaluate the number and basophily of cell bodies of myenteric neurons in the ileum of rats with diabetes mellitus induced by streptozotocin. Four groups of rats were used: diabetes was induced in two (D) whereas the other two worked as controls (N). Animals were sacrificed six (6N, 6D) ...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Hernandes L,Bazotte RB,Gama P,Miranda-Neto MH

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using the clinical quantification of the neurologic symptomatology the authors made observations and avaliated the action of Ciba 34.647-Ba, a GABA derivative, in 12 patients suffering from spasticity and motor incapacity due to spinal cord lesions. The results are reported emphasizing the effects of the drug on the m...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Roitman I,Anghinah A

更新日期：1977-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the last few years we have been able to diagnose a larger number of cases of Moebius syndrome, perhaps due to its increased incidence--since a number of environmental factors have been related to the genesis of the syndrome. Out of the cases evaluated in two specialized ambulatory, it is worthwhile to mention one o...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Fontenelle L,Araujo AP,Fontana RS

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors present a retrospective review of 13 patients with the diagnostic of intracranial metastatic malignant melanoma. Their ages ranged from 28 to 84 years. The time interval from diagnosis of primary tumor to development of cerebral metastases ranged from 6 to 60 months. There was preoperative evidence of extr...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Araújo JF,Sperlescu A,Melacci EB,Balbo RJ

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The case of a young female patient with acute symmetrical ascending polyneuropathy as a manifestation of systemic lupus erythematosus is reported. There was involvement of several cranial nerves and the cerebrospinal fluid showed albuminocytologic dissociation. Pathologic examination of the sural nerve showed degenera...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Moreira Filho PF,Nascimento OJ,Cinnicinatus D,Porto FJ,Freitas MR,Santos PC

更新日期：1980-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interactions with antiepileptic drugs are common and may have important clinical consequences. The physician should always consider carefully the need for and the implications of adding a new drug to any therapeutic regime and should be prepared to think about the possibility of an interaction whenever an unusual resp...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Perucca E

更新日期：1980-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Semantic dementia is a clinical syndrome in the spectrum of frontotemporal lobar degeneration group. We report on a 63 years old man who presented with memory disorder of semantic nature for visual and mainly verbal material when he was 57 years old. Mild behavior impairment was present and related to exaggerated resp...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Caixeta L,Mansur LL

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The neurological involvement in Manson's Schistosomiasis is rarely reported in the literature. The authors describe a case of a 23 years old patient born in São Francisco-MG. She presented with headache, vomiting, fever and stupor. The neurological examination showed stiffness of the neck, paresis with bilateral muscu...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Ferreira MS,Costa-Cruz JM,Gomes MA

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：Objective:The aim of this study was to evaluate the results of the endoscopic transsphenoidal technique for growth hormone (GH)-secreting adenomas. Methods:A retrospective analysis based on medical records of 23 acromegalic patients submitted to endoscopic transsphenoidal surgery. Biochemical control was defined as ba...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Leopoldo CMDS,Leopoldo FMDS,Santos ARLD,Veiga JCE,Lima JV Junior,Scalissi NM,Lazarini PR,Dolci RLL

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Through information gathered at the statistical and medical register service it was done a descriptive study of some epidemiologic aspects of neurosyphilis at the Juliano Moreira Hospital (Bahia) in a period of 50 years (1930 - 1979). Coeficients of specific mortality were stablished . The distribution of the disease ...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Costa GF

更新日期：1984-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To assess the association between child growth and teacher-reported behavior and academic standing, and neuropsychological performance. METHOD:The heights of 344 public-school children were measured using standard procedures. Teachers were requested to complete two behavioral and one academic performance rating sc...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Brito GN,Onis Md

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Hereditary spastic paraplegias (HSP) are a group of genetic diseases characterized by lower limb spasticity with or without additional neurological features. Swallowing dysfunction is poorly studied in HSP and its presence can lead to significant respiratory and nutritional complications. The aim of this stu...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Jacinto-Scudeiro LA,Machado GD,Ayres A,Burguêz D,Polese-Bonatto M,González-Salazar C,Siebert M,França Junior MC,Olchik MR,Saute JAM

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The choline/N-acetyl-aspartate (Cho/NAA) ratio, obtained by the multivoxel spectroscopy with short echo time (TE), was evaluated, in the histological grading of the brain astrocytomas (grades I, II and III-IV) in comparison with the normal cerebral parenchyma. A significant increase (p<0.05) in the average ratios of C...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Aragão Mde F,Otaduy MC,Melo RV,Azevedo Filho HR,Victor EG,Silva JL,Araújo N,Leite Cda C,Valença MM

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Five patients with a tumefactive lesion were clinically followed from 1992 to 1993. Four patients were female; age ranged from 32 to 57 years, the duration of symptoms varied from 3 days to 3 years. Neurological examination disclosed dementia in two patients, aphasia in three, hemiparesis in four, hemihypoaesthesia in...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Silva HC,Callegaro D,Marchiori PE,Scaff M,Tsanaclis AM

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Significant advances in the understanding and management of Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) have occurred since the publication of international guidelines for DMD care in 2010. Our objective was to provide an evidence-based national consensus statement for multidisciplinary care of DMD in Brazil. A combination of t...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Araujo APQC,Nardes F,Fortes CPDD,Pereira JA,Rebel MF,Dias CM,Barbosa RCGA,Lopes MVR,Langer AL,Neves FR,Reis EF

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The aim of this study was to examine the relationship of compulsive hoarding with dengue. METHOD:Fifty two adults notified by health vigilance authorities because of inappropriate trash accumulation in vacant lots in Goiânia, Central Brazil, completed a questionnaire regarding the presence and severity of ho...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Caixeta L,Azevedo PV,Caixeta M,Reimer CH

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00