Calcification of the basal ganglia as a cause of levodopa-resistant parkinsonism.

abstract：:The incidence of MS was assessed in a nationwide cohort study of 31,990 employees of Danish utility companies between 1900 and 1993. Overall, 32 cases of MS were diagnosed, as compared with 23.7 expected from national incidence rates, to yield a standardized incidence ratio of 1.35 (95% confidence interval, 0.92 to 1....

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Johansen C,Koch-Henriksen N,Rasmussen S,Olsen JH

更新日期：1999-04-12 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe the MR images of a patient with juvenile ALS. MRI of the brain showed bilateral hyperintensities along the corticospinal tracts extending from the corona radiata to the brainstem on T2-weighted images. These findings should be differentiated from the slight hyperintensities seen in the posterior limbs of t...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Midani H,Truwit CL,Parry GJ

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To explore alterations in gray matter volume in patients with functional movement disorders. METHODS:We obtained T1-weighted MRI on 48 patients with clinically definite functional movement disorders, a subset of functional neurologic symptom disorder characterized by abnormal involuntary movements, and on 55...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Maurer CW,LaFaver K,Limachia GS,Capitan G,Ameli R,Sinclair S,Epstein SA,Hallett M,Horovitz SG

更新日期：2018-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Sphingosine 1-phosphate receptors (S1PRs) are G protein-coupled receptors expressed by many cell types, including immune and neural cells. These receptors are promising targets for immunomodulatory and possibly neuromodulatory therapies. Fingolimod (FTY720) is a sphingosine analog that, when phosphorylated, becomes a ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Soliven B,Miron V,Chun J

更新日期：2011-02-22 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine the relationship between carotid artery stenosis, other risk factors, and lacunar stroke. BACKGROUND:Carotid artery stenosis in patients presenting with lacune stroke may be coincidental or causal. The distinction by risk factor profile is uncertain. The risk and cause of subsequent stroke, and be...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Inzitari D,Eliasziw M,Sharpe BL,Fox AJ,Barnett HJ

更新日期：2000-02-08 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To replicate the beneficial effect of brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) in 1,135 ALS patients in a multicenter trial. BACKGROUND:In a phase I through II study, BDNF appeared to increase survival and retard loss of pulmonary function in ALS patients. METHODS:Patients were randomized to placebo, or 25 ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors：

更新日期：1999-04-22 00:00:00

abstract：:We present four patients with typical neonatal onset non-ketotic hyperglycinemia (NKH) who developed hydrocephalus requiring shunting in early infancy. Brain imaging revealed acute hydrocephalus, a megacisterna magna or posterior fossa cyst, pronounced atrophy of the white matter, and an extremely thin corpus callosum...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Van Hove JL,Kishnani PS,Demaerel P,Kahler SG,Miller C,Jaeken J,Rutledge SL

更新日期：2000-02-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Measurements of cerebral metabolism in patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) using PET are artifactually depressed due to partial volume averaging of brain tissue activity with enlarged CSF spaces. To investigate the effects of correction for the expansion of CSF spaces on regional metabolic measures, as well as the ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Meltzer CC,Zubieta JK,Brandt J,Tune LE,Mayberg HS,Frost JJ

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To perform a psychometric evaluation of the inflammatory neuropathy cause and treatment (INCAT) sensory sumscore (ISS) in sensory-motor immune-mediated polyneuropathies. This new sensory scale was evaluated to strive for uniformity in assessing sensory deficit in these disorders. METHODS:The ISS comprises vi...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Merkies IS,Schmitz PI,van der Meché FG,van Doorn PA

更新日期：2000-02-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Natalizumab is an antibody directed against integrin alpha4 that reduces disease activity in patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) by blocking migration of T and B cells into the CNS. The goal of this study was to characterize the effects of natalizumab treatment on cytokine production and expression of acti...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Kivisäkk P,Healy BC,Viglietta V,Quintana FJ,Hootstein MA,Weiner HL,Khoury SJ

更新日期：2009-06-02 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To describe risk and risk factors of epilepsy after hospitalization for brain infection in adults in Sweden. METHODS:This was a matched retrospective cohort study based on the comprehensive National Patient and Cause of Death Registers. All individuals age >18 without prior epilepsy who received inpatient ca...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Zelano J,Westman G

更新日期：2020-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To further investigate the basis of abnormal neuromuscular transmission in two patients with congenital myasthenic syndrome associated with episodic ataxia type 2 (EA2) using stimulated single fiber EMG (SFEMG) and in vitro microelectrode studies. METHODS:Two patients with genetically characterized EA2 previ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Maselli RA,Wan J,Dunne V,Graves M,Baloh RW,Wollmann RL,Jen J

更新日期：2003-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors describe two novel mutations of the acid alpha-glucosidase gene, P361L and R437C, which define the juvenile-onset glycogen storage disease type II (GSDII) in a 16-year-old Chinese patient. The asymptomatic 13-year-old brother of the proband is also a compound heterozygote of the two mutations. These result...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Lam CW,Yuen YP,Chan KY,Tong SF,Lai CK,Chow TC,Lee KC,Chan YW,Martiniuk F

更新日期：2003-02-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There is controversy over whether seizures, the most common manifestation of neonatal brain injury, may themselves damage the developing brain. OBJECTIVE:To determine if neonatal seizures are independently associated with brain injury in newborns with perinatal asphyxia. METHODS:Ninety term neonates were s...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Miller SP,Weiss J,Barnwell A,Ferriero DM,Latal-Hajnal B,Ferrer-Rogers A,Newton N,Partridge JC,Glidden DV,Vigneron DB,Barkovich AJ

更新日期：2002-02-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Spinal cord compression by extramedullary hemopoietic tissue is a rare complication of hemolytic anemias. This is the first report of this complication in hemolytic anemia caused by pyruvate-kinase deficiency. Indium scan, computed tomography (CT) scan, and myelography were helpful in diagnosis. Surgery and radiothera...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Rutgers MJ,van der Lugt PJ,van Turnhout JM

更新日期：1979-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Physician prediction of outcome in critically ill neurologic patients impacts treatment decisions and goals of care. In this observational study, we prospectively compared predictions by neurointensivists to patient outcomes at 6 months. METHODS:Consecutive neurologic patients requiring mechanical ventilatio...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Finley Caulfield A,Gabler L,Lansberg MG,Eyngorn I,Mlynash M,Buckwalter MS,Venkatasubramanian C,Wijman CA

更新日期：2010-04-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Three patients presented with unilateral progressive optic neuropathy. None of these patients had signs of symptoms referable to the chiasm or eye, thus confining their decline in vision to the optic nerve. Clinical and neuroradiographic evidence suggested a meningioma involving the optic nerve at the orbital-canalicu...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Gudeman SK,Selhorst JB,Susac JO,Waybright EA

更新日期：1982-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Demyelination alone may not explain the progressive disability that frequently develops in MS. An alternative explanation for irreversible disability assumes a contribution from axonal injury or loss. In theory, axonal injury may occur in the focal areas characterized by early inflammation, or can be more di...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Simon JH,Kinkel RP,Jacobs L,Bub L,Simonian N

更新日期：2000-03-14 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To characterize a large family with X-linked Charcot-Marie-Tooth (CMT) neuropathy without mutations in the gap junction protein B1 (GJB1) gene, which has an unusual phenotype that is different in some aspects from classic CMTX1. METHODS:We tested CMT families consistent with X-linked inheritance for GJB1 mut...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Huttner IG,Kennerson ML,Reddel SW,Radovanovic D,Nicholson GA

更新日期：2006-12-12 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the effects of botulinum toxin A in 12 patients with spasticity and in eight patients with rigidity. The study design was a double-blind, placebo-controlled crossover trial with botulinum toxin A versus saline. Using the Ashworth Scale for spasticity and the Unified Parkinson's Disease Rating Scale for rigi...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Grazko MA,Polo KB,Jabbari B

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Five women are presented with a subacute pure pancerebellar syndrome of ataxia and dysarthria to emphasize that this illness may occur without anti-Purkinje-cell or anti-Yo antibodies, or associated systemic cancer. The syndrome evolved over weeks or less and stabilized in four of the patients. Three had had a precedi...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Ropper AH

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To survey US physicians involved in acute stroke care to determine the proportion of hospitals that currently meet the recommended Brain Attack Coalition (BAC) criteria for Primary Stroke Centers (PSC) and obtain opinions regarding the value of stroke centers. METHODS:A survey regarding the BAC guidelines f...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Kidwell CS,Shephard T,Tonn S,Lawyer B,Murdock M,Koroshetz W,Alberts M,Hademenos GJ,Saver JL

更新日期：2003-05-13 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：: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：BACKGROUND:There is evidence that angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors (ACEIs) reduce the risk of stroke. However, it is unclear whether ACEI use before stroke provides a vasoprotective effect resulting in less severe stroke. METHODS:We ascertained all strokes occurring in a defined population in Melbourne, Austra...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Chitravas N,Dewey HM,Nicol MB,Harding DL,Pearce DC,Thrift AG

更新日期：2007-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied imagery for learned, skilled movements (praxis imagery) in a patient with severe ideomotor apraxia and intact language abilities. This patient, who made predominantly spatial and movement errors when performing transitive movements demonstrating the use of tools (transitive gestures), was also impaired in h...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Ochipa C,Rapcsak SZ,Maher LM,Rothi LJ,Bowers D,Heilman KM

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:We aimed to create an index to stratify cryptogenic stroke (CS) patients with patent foramen ovale (PFO) by their likelihood that the stroke was related to their PFO. METHODS:Using data from 12 component studies, we used generalized linear mixed models to predict the presence of PFO among patients with CS, a...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Kent DM,Ruthazer R,Weimar C,Mas JL,Serena J,Homma S,Di Angelantonio E,Di Tullio MR,Lutz JS,Elkind MS,Griffith J,Jaigobin C,Mattle HP,Michel P,Mono ML,Nedeltchev K,Papetti F,Thaler DE

更新日期：2013-08-13 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：BACKGROUND:In the setting of severe immunosuppression, the polyomavirus JC (JCV) can cause a lytic infection of oligodendrocytes. This demyelinating disease of the CNS white matter (WM) is called progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML). JCV has a very narrow host-cell range and productive infection of neurons ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Du Pasquier RA,Corey S,Margolin DH,Williams K,Pfister LA,De Girolami U,Mac Key JJ,Wüthrich C,Joseph JT,Koralnik IJ

更新日期：2003-09-23 00:00:00

abstract：:We performed an open-label study testing the effects of GM1 ganglioside on 10 Parkinson's disease (PD) patients. Patients received 1,000 mg of GM1 by IV infusion after the last of three baseline functional assessments. Patients then self-administered GM1 at a dose of 200 mg/d, by subcutaneous injection, for 18 weeks. ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Schneider JS,Roeltgen DP,Rothblat DS,Chapas-Crilly J,Seraydarian L,Rao J

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00