Abstract:
:The recent history of clinical trials in ALS is marked by a great diversity in trial design. This has limited the comparability of the trial results, and has resulted in intense discussions about which parameters should or should not be evaluated when testing a new drug for ALS. This article discusses, without any claim to completeness, some aspects of trial design in relation to past, ongoing and future ALS trials, including: choice of endpoints, measurement of disease progression, assessment of quality of life, placebo-controlled trials, open-label trials, collaboration with the industry, and methods for investigating mechanisms of action of experimental drugs.
journal_name
J Neurol Scijournal_title
Journal of the neurological sciencesauthors
Borasio GDdoi
10.1016/s0022-510x(97)00240-2subject
Has Abstractpub_date
1997-10-01 00:00:00pages
S23-8eissn
0022-510Xissn
1878-5883pii
S0022-510X(97)00240-2journal_volume
152 Suppl 1pub_type
杂志文章,评审abstract:BACKGROUND:Headache burden is not adequately explored in Africa. Here, we measured weighted migraine prevalence from community-based studies in Africa. METHODS:PubMed search was employed using terms 'headache in Africa' AND/OR 'migraine in Africa' for published literature from 1970 until January 31, 2014. PRISMA was a...
journal_title:Journal of the neurological sciences
pub_type: 杂志文章,meta分析,评审
doi:10.1016/j.jns.2014.04.019
更新日期:2014-07-15 00:00:00
abstract::To clarify the current status of treatments and outcomes of patients with myasthenia gravis (MG) in Japan, a total of 470 patients (164 men and 306 women; mean age 41 years) were recruited from 19 Japanese tertiary medical centers in 1999-2000. Thymectomy was performed in 319 (68%) of the patients. Patients who receiv...
journal_title:Journal of the neurological sciences
pub_type: 杂志文章,多中心研究
doi:10.1016/j.jns.2003.09.016
更新日期:2004-09-15 00:00:00
abstract::We report a 67-year-old man who developed yes/yes head tremor without appendicular tremor six weeks after right occipital and bilateral cerebellar infarction. The tremor was resting-postural. Its activity increased with excitement, decreased either after ethanol, lateroflexion or rest and stopped at sleep. Four-vessel...
journal_title:Journal of the neurological sciences
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:1996-08-01 00:00:00
abstract::Using EMG equipment with time locked recording and standard averaging facilities we were able to record a previously poorly defined skin potential. The potential, termed by us the peripheral autonomic surface potential (PASP), was recorded from the palmar surface of the hand and the plantar surface of the foot in 30 n...
journal_title:Journal of the neurological sciences
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/0022-510x(85)90120-0
更新日期:1985-02-01 00:00:00
abstract::A low virulence strain of herpes simplex type 1 was microinjected into the hippocampus of BALB/c mice. Intense replication of virus at the inoculum site was followed by spread of viral antigen to the afferent connections of the hippocampus. Surviving animals showed focal damage of limbic structures and specific behavi...
journal_title:Journal of the neurological sciences
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/0022-510x(86)90018-3
更新日期:1986-02-01 00:00:00
abstract::An epidemic of subacute bilateral visual failure has affected large numbers of teenagers and young adult Africans in coastal Tanzania since 1988. Previous work had indicated that many patients had sensory symptoms, but the nature of the neurological involvement was uncertain. The primary objective of this study was to...
journal_title:Journal of the neurological sciences
pub_type: 临床试验,杂志文章
doi:10.1016/s0022-510x(96)00162-1
更新日期:1997-02-12 00:00:00
abstract:INTRODUCTION:Encephalitis is a rare complication of primary varicella-zoster virus (VZV) infection in immunocompetent children. METHODS:The clinical and laboratory findings of two girls with VZV-related encephalitis are reported. RESULTS:Both children presented with focal epileptic seizures, corresponding to cortical...
journal_title:Journal of the neurological sciences
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/s0022-510x(02)00017-5
更新日期:2002-03-30 00:00:00
abstract::Diabetic nerve reveals a peculiar paradox between its physiological resistance to ischemia, in conducting impulses for longer than control nerve during ischemia, and its morphological liability to more severe pathological changes of nerve fiber when rendered ischemic. These paradoxical phenomena, however, have never b...
journal_title:Journal of the neurological sciences
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/0022-510x(93)90129-m
更新日期:1993-11-01 00:00:00
abstract::The stereotyped, episodic abnormal behaviour manifested by a child and her mother on exposure to a particular sort of sunlight is described in detail. The child is the first fully documented patient with this so-called "self-induced" form of photosensitive epilepsy in whom for several years no electroencephalographic ...
journal_title:Journal of the neurological sciences
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/0022-510x(83)90076-x
更新日期:1983-04-01 00:00:00
abstract::Hitherto published results on the impact of brain atrophy on the neurological and psychopathological sympion of this problem without risk of complications. We investigated 173 parkinsonian patients (89 men, 84 women) aged 37--83 years. Besides CT in all patients a standardized neurological and psychopathological inves...
journal_title:Journal of the neurological sciences
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/0022-510x(79)90050-9
更新日期:1979-07-01 00:00:00
abstract::In order to compare the effects of total catecholamine (CA) or noradrenaline (NA) depletions on cholinergic systems, and the mechanisms of receptor regulation in various brain regions, the regional changes in the levels of acetylcholine (ACh), M1-receptor (M1-R) binding, and M1-R messenger RNA (mRNA) were mainly exami...
journal_title:Journal of the neurological sciences
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/0022-510x(92)90029-k
更新日期:1992-07-01 00:00:00
abstract::Fingerprint inclusions were identified in the skeletal muscle of a child with severe hypotonia. The mean Z-line and M-line widths from each of 19 muscle fibers containing the fingerprint inclusions were calculated. The mean Z-line widths were 85-99 nm, and the mean M-line widths were 75-101 nm. According to out presen...
journal_title:Journal of the neurological sciences
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/0022-510x(77)90216-7
更新日期:1977-04-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:Single cases with hemispheric, cortical or subcortical, ischemic lesions presenting with rotational vertigo (RV), that challenge the notion of infratentorial or peripheral generation of RV have been published, but the incidence of this symptom in a larger series is unknown. The aim of this study was to inves...
journal_title:Journal of the neurological sciences
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.jns.2009.11.015
更新日期:2010-03-15 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:The Oxfordshire Community Stroke Project (OCSP) classification is a simple tool to categorize clinical stroke syndromes. We compared the outcomes of stroke patients after intravenous thrombolysis stratified by the baseline National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) score or by the OCSP classification...
journal_title:Journal of the neurological sciences
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.jns.2012.10.003
更新日期:2013-01-15 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:The treatment of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is still disappointing. Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) has been suggested to modify the rate of disease progression in ALS. OBJECTIVE:In a pilot controlled study, we tested the effect of 5-Hz rTMS on motor performance, fatigue and qua...
journal_title:Journal of the neurological sciences
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.jns.2008.01.011
更新日期:2008-07-15 00:00:00
abstract::Few data exist on the effects of specific Alzheimer's disease (AD)-related mutations on cognitive function. We present neuropsychological test results in eight members of a large kindred with variant Alzheimer's disease (VarAD) due to a deletion of the presenilin 1 (PS-1) gene, encompassing exon 9. The disease was neu...
journal_title:Journal of the neurological sciences
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.jns.2003.10.020
更新日期:2004-03-15 00:00:00
abstract::Vascular dementia (VaD) has a great deal of overlap (in terms of features and symptoms) with Alzheimer's disease (AD). Mixed dementia, or AD with concomitant cerebrovascular disease (AD with CVD), is increasingly being recognized as a distinct clinical condition that occurs with substantial frequency. The robust evide...
journal_title:Journal of the neurological sciences
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1016/s0022-510x(02)00267-8
更新日期:2002-11-15 00:00:00
abstract::Long-term fluctuations of the heart rate have an important prognostic impact after myocardial infarction, in patients with chronic heart failure and even in elderly subjects. Autonomic dysfunction is a common complication in patients with Guillain-Barré syndrome, and particularly vagally-mediated bradyarrhythmias requ...
journal_title:Journal of the neurological sciences
pub_type: 临床试验,杂志文章
doi:10.1016/s0022-510x(99)00096-9
更新日期:1999-06-01 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECT:The aim of this study is to identify pre-operative clinical and/or radiological predictors of clinical failure of decompressive hemicraniectomy (DH) in the setting of malignant hemispheric infarction. These predictors could guide the decision for adjunctive internal brain decompression (e.g. strokectomy) at the ...
journal_title:Journal of the neurological sciences
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.jns.2015.05.012
更新日期:2015-08-15 00:00:00
abstract::The effect of intravenous infusion of progesterone and Mebumal (ACO, Sweden; penotobarbital, INN) on the frequency and amplitude of the spontaneous interictal spikes from a penicillin focus in the cerebral cortex was investigated in ovariectomized cats anaesthetized with chloralose. The plasma concentration of progest...
journal_title:Journal of the neurological sciences
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/0022-510x(78)90166-1
更新日期:1978-03-01 00:00:00
abstract::In Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), there are prominent ultrastructural alterations of the plasma membrane, which contains many glycolipids and glycoproteins. Glycosidases can degrade glycolipids and glycoproteins. Gangliosides, a subset of glycolipids, are decreased in amount at the terminal stages of CJD, and CJD in...
journal_title:Journal of the neurological sciences
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/0022-510x(88)90178-5
更新日期:1988-03-01 00:00:00
abstract::Cranial dystonia is normally considered as a pure movement disorder. Sensory symptoms have not received much attention, but we found ill-defined pain, discomfort, distortion of sensory modalities, 'phantom' kinetic or postural sensations in the orofacial areas subsequently involved by the dyskinesia in all of 11 conse...
journal_title:Journal of the neurological sciences
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/0022-510x(93)90318-s
更新日期:1993-06-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:Although adoption of new clinical criteria for dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) leads to an increase in the proportion of patients diagnosed with probable DLB, the sensitivity of clinical diagnostic criteria of DLB is low, and there are no generally accepted clinical or imaging biomarkers to distinguish DLB f...
journal_title:Journal of the neurological sciences
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.jns.2015.07.025
更新日期:2015-10-15 00:00:00
abstract::Non-substance addictive behaviors may involve repetitive rewarding behaviors including gambling, gaming, sexual activities, internet-use, and buying-shopping. In addictions, there exists diminished control over participation in the behaviors and continuation of the behaviors despite experiencing negative consequences....
journal_title:Journal of the neurological sciences
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1016/j.jns.2020.116952
更新日期:2020-08-15 00:00:00
abstract::Fatiguability is a determining characteristic of different muscle fibre types. An important aspect, indirectly related to fatiguability, gluconeogenesis, was investigated by observing fructose-1,6-diphosphatase (FDP) activity in experimental models prepared in rabbits by cross-reinnervation of the fatigue-resistant m....
journal_title:Journal of the neurological sciences
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/0022-510x(76)90250-1
更新日期:1976-11-01 00:00:00
abstract::Cathepsin B (CB) activity was measured in aqueous extracts of frozen autopsy specimens of centrum semiovale from three MS patients, five control patients with other neurological diseases, and five normal individuals. Mean activity was significantly increased in the MS tissue compared with controls. The mean activity i...
journal_title:Journal of the neurological sciences
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/0022-510x(95)00039-5
更新日期:1995-07-01 00:00:00
abstract::This case-control study investigated the associations of a history of hypertension, hypercholesterolemia, and diabetes mellitus with the risk of Parkinson's disease (PD) in Japan. Included were 249 cases within 6 years of onset of PD. Controls were 368 inpatients and outpatients without a neurodegenerative disease. Da...
journal_title:Journal of the neurological sciences
pub_type: 杂志文章,多中心研究
doi:10.1016/j.jns.2010.03.002
更新日期:2010-06-15 00:00:00
abstract::In this study, we investigated the dose-effect relationship and safety of tissue plasminogen activator (tPA) for the treatment of intraventricular hemorrhage/hematoma (IVH) in rats. Adult male Sprague-Dawley rats were injected with autologous blood into the left lateral ventricle to establish IVH. Two hours later, Rin...
journal_title:Journal of the neurological sciences
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/s0022-510x(02)00243-5
更新日期:2002-10-15 00:00:00
abstract::Hypnic headache (HH) is a rare benign disorder described initially by Raskin in 1988. It is characterized by recurrent nocturnal episodes of headache that periodically awaken the sleeping patient and usually occur in the elderly. This review aimed to describe the clinical features of the HH cases published in the lite...
journal_title:Journal of the neurological sciences
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1016/j.jns.2019.04.028
更新日期:2019-06-15 00:00:00
abstract::We describe detailed clinical, biochemical, neuroimaging and neuropathological features in adult-onset leukoencephalopathy with axonal spheroids and pigmented glia (ALSP), encompassing hereditary diffuse leukoencephalopathy with axonal spheroids (HDLS) and pigmentary orthochromatic leukodystrophy (POLD), linked to col...
journal_title:Journal of the neurological sciences
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.jns.2014.12.021
更新日期:2015-02-15 00:00:00