Apolipoprotein E gene and sporadic frontal lobe dementia.

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess the contribution of microstructural normal-appearing white matter (NAWM) damage to social cognition impairment, specifically in the theory of mind (ToM), in multiple sclerosis (MS). METHODS:We enrolled consecutively 60 patients with MS and 60 healthy controls (HC) matched on age, sex, and education...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Batista S,Alves C,d'Almeida OC,Afonso A,Félix-Morais R,Pereira J,Macário C,Sousa L,Castelo-Branco M,Santana I,Cunha L

更新日期：2017-07-04 00:00:00

abstract：:We present an 11-year-old girl in whom high field strength MRI performed 2 1/2 years and 6 months before her death showed prominent hypointensity in the globus pallidus and substantia nigra consistent with iron deposition. This finding suggested Hallervorden-Spatz disease, which was confirmed at autopsy. ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Schaffert DA,Johnsen SD,Johnson PC,Drayer BP

更新日期：1989-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Precise genetic analyses were conducted with ring finger protein 213 (RNF213) in relation to a particular clinical phenotype in Chinese patients with moyamoya disease (MMD) to determine whether heterozygosity is responsible for the early-onset and severe form of this disease. METHODS:A case-control study for...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Wang Y,Zhang Z,Wei L,Zhang Q,Zou Z,Yang L,Li D,Shang M,Han C,Mambiya M,Bao X,Li Q,Hao F,Zhang K,Wang H,Liu S,Liu M,Zeng F,Nie F,Wang K,Liu W,Duan L

更新日期：2020-02-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Normal human quadriceps muscle was transplanted into nude mice subcutaneously for periods of 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, and 8 weeks. At 1 week, there was myoblast and myotube formation with thin and thick filaments. After 2 weeks, there was myotube formation with partially cross-striated myofilaments, and formation of dyads or tr...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Wakayama Y,Schotland DL,Bonilla E

更新日期：1980-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To compare the effects of carbamazepine and lamotrigine monotherapy for people with partial onset seizures or generalized onset tonic-clonic seizures. METHODS:A systematic review and meta-analysis using data on individual patients from randomized trials comparing lamotrigine with carbamazepine monotherapy. T...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Gamble C,Williamson PR,Chadwick DW,Marson AG

更新日期：2006-05-09 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied four patients with neurologic disorders of the lumbosacral plexus. Except for location of symptoms, the disorder confirmed to criteria established for the clinical diagnosis of brachial plexus neuritis. Acute onset of pain in one or both legs was followed by weakness, loss of stretch reflexes, and sometimes...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Sander JE,Sharp FR

更新日期：1981-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the clinical efficacy of a standardized special root extract from the plant Petasites hybridus as a preventive therapy for migraine. METHODS:This is a three-arm, parallel-group, randomized trial comparing Petasites extract 75 mg bid, Petasites extract 50 mg bid, or placebo bid in 245 patients wit...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Lipton RB,Göbel H,Einhäupl KM,Wilks K,Mauskop A

更新日期：2004-12-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients with "reflex sympathetic dystrophy" or "causalgia" underwent sympathetic blocks. In protocol A (77 patients), we infused placebo (saline) for 30 minutes followed by phentolamine (35 mg). In protocol B (23 patients), the saline phase was followed by double-blind infusion of phentolamine or phenylephrine (500 m...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Verdugo RJ,Ochoa JL

更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Functional neuroimaging has shown that the absence of externally observable signs of consciousness and cognition in severely brain-injured patients does not necessarily indicate the true absence of such abilities. However, relative to traumatic brain injury, nontraumatic injury is known to be associated with...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Cruse D,Chennu S,Chatelle C,Fernández-Espejo D,Bekinschtein TA,Pickard JD,Laureys S,Owen AM

更新日期：2012-03-13 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To validate, examine the internal validity, and adapt to children the electronic version of the composite cerebellar functional severity (CCFS) score. METHODS:In this multicenter study, we compared the validated manual device with the new electronic version (n = 46) and analyzed its kinetics in 146 patients ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Filipovic Pierucci A,Mariotti C,Panzeri M,Giunti P,Boesch S,Schulz JB,Pandolfo M,Durr A,Tezenas du Montcel S,EFACTS Study Group.

更新日期：2015-03-24 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess the clinical relevance of a positive voltage-gated potassium channel (VGKC) test in patients lacking antibodies to LGI1 and Caspr2. METHODS:VGKC-positive patients were tested for LGI1 and Caspr2 antibodies. Patients lacking both antibodies were matched (1:2) to VGKC-negative patients. Clinical and ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： van Sonderen A,Schreurs MW,de Bruijn MA,Boukhrissi S,Nagtzaam MM,Hulsenboom ES,Enting RH,Thijs RD,Wirtz PW,Sillevis Smitt PA,Titulaer MJ

更新日期：2016-05-03 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied 20 patients with an acute parietal stroke with hemisensory disturbances but no visual field deficit and no or only slight motor weakness, without thalamic involvement on CT or MRI and found three main sensory syndromes. (1) The pseudothalamic sensory syndrome consists of a faciobrachiocrural impairment of e...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Bassetti C,Bogousslavsky J,Regli F

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A patient with PD who exhibited disabling tremor and prominent dyskinesia underwent deep brain stimulation (DBS) of the left thalamic ventral intermediate nucleus. The electrode migrated and was replaced but with suboptimal clinical response. Two years later, postmortem analysis found the second electrode tip had ente...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Henderson JM,O'Sullivan DJ,Pell M,Fung VS,Hely MA,Morris JG,Halliday GM

更新日期：2001-06-12 00:00:00

abstract：:A model of latent infection by varicella-zoster virus (VZV) was obtained in the adult rat. Inoculation of VZV-infected cells in the skin led to infection of the peripheral nervous system. Latency was characterized by a long-lasting presence of the viral genome, of selected viral gene transcripts, and of at least one v...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Sadzot-Delvaux C,Debrus S,Nikkels A,Piette J,Rentier B

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine whether exposure to repetitive head impacts over a single season negatively affects cognitive performance in collegiate contact sport athletes. METHODS:This is a prospective cohort study at 3 Division I National Collegiate Athletic Association athletic programs. Participants were 214 Division I ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： McAllister TW,Flashman LA,Maerlender A,Greenwald RM,Beckwith JG,Tosteson TD,Crisco JJ,Brolinson PG,Duma SM,Duhaime AC,Grove MR,Turco JH

更新日期：2012-05-29 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Patients surviving retinopathy-positive cerebral malaria (CM) are at high risk for the development of epilepsy, developmental disabilities, and behavioral abnormalities. We aimed to establish whether retinopathy-negative CM is also a risk factor for these outcomes. METHODS:Between 2005 and 2007, survivors o...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Postels DG,Taylor TE,Molyneux M,Mannor K,Kaplan PW,Seydel KB,Chimalizeni YF,Kawaza K,Birbeck GL

更新日期：2012-09-18 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The aim of the current study was, first, to determine the critical causative vestibular areas that in exceptional cases manifest with transient vertigo or dizziness in acute strokes of the middle cerebral artery, and second, to try to explain why in most cases unilateral lesions of these areas manifest witho...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Dieterich M,Brandt T

更新日期：2015-04-21 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To estimate the US commercially insured multiple sclerosis (MS) annual prevalence from 2008 to 2012. METHODS:The study was a retrospective analysis using PharMetrics Plus, a nationwide claims database for over 42 million covered US representative lives. Annual point prevalence required insurance eligibility ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Dilokthornsakul P,Valuck RJ,Nair KV,Corboy JR,Allen RR,Campbell JD

更新日期：2016-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVE:Neglect has been attributed to sensory-attentional, motor-intentional, and representational disorders. Although patients with neglect may have defective visual exploration, the nature of this exploration deficit has not been entirely elucidated. The purpose of this study is to learn how, compared w...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Kim M,Anderson JM,Heilman KM

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute in-stent thrombosis is a well-known complication of carotid angioplasty and stenting (CAS) and often due to resistance to or inadequate treatment with platelet-inhibiting agents. The authors report three cases of a delayed in-stent thrombosis after more than a week but less than 3 months after CAS. In all cases,...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Buhk JH,Wellmer A,Knauth M

更新日期：2006-05-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Loading doses of 15 to 20 mg per kilogram of both phenobarbital and phenytoin, administered intravenously, are necessary in the newborn to achieve rapid therapeutic plasma anticonvulsant levels. Maintenance doses of 3 to 4 mg per kilogram of both agents will maintain therapeutic levels. Phenytoin is, however, not pred...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Painter MJ,Pippenger C,Wasterlain C,Barmada M,Pitlick W,Carter G,Abern S

更新日期：1981-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pathologic substrate of essential tremor (ET) remains unknown. The authors studied 10 patients with ET and 10 volunteers using a multislice MR spectroscopy imaging sequence. Left and right cerebellar hemisphere NAA/CR and NAA/Cho ratios were significantly smaller in the ET patients than healthy subjects. The autho...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Pagan FL,Butman JA,Dambrosia JM,Hallett M

更新日期：2003-04-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Using a 1.5-tesla GE Signa MR scanner, we imaged the brains of 14 right-handed Tourette's syndrome (TS) patients (11 men, three women), aged 18 to 49 years, who had minimal lifetime neuroleptic exposure. We also studied an equal number of normal controls individually matched for age, sex, and handedness and group-matc...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Peterson B,Riddle MA,Cohen DJ,Katz LD,Smith JC,Hardin MT,Leckman JF

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The blink reflex may be evoked by auditory click or light stimulation, the latter being constantly present in all healthy subjects. The latency and amplitude of the light-stimulus-evoked blink response (L-BR) is influenced by the light intensity, distance between the light stimulus and the eye, attention, and backgrou...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Yates SK,Brown WF

更新日期：1981-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES:A number of familial temporal lobe epilepsies (TLE) have been recently recognized. Mutations in LGI1 (leucine-rich, glioma-inactivated 1 gene) have been found in a few families with the syndrome of autosomal dominant partial epilepsy with auditory features (ADPEAF). The authors aimed to determ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Berkovic SF,Izzillo P,McMahon JM,Harkin LA,McIntosh AM,Phillips HA,Briellmann RS,Wallace RH,Mazarib A,Neufeld MY,Korczyn AD,Scheffer IE,Mulley JC

更新日期：2004-04-13 00:00:00

abstract：:CNS dysfunction occurs frequently in patients with HIV infection. To better define the role of HIV in the pathogenesis of neurologic dysfunction, HIV isolation and antibody studies were investigated from the CSF in 52 seropositive patients, 29 with and 23 without neurologic signs and symptoms, in various stages of dis...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Resnick L,Berger JR,Shapshak P,Tourtellotte WW

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent evidence suggests that the vasopressin analogue desglycinamide-arginine8-vasopressin (DGAVP) might specifically benefit mild brain trauma patients. We investigated the effect of intranasal DGAVP treatment in 32 patients who had sustained a mild head injury for 3 months in a double-blind, placebo-controlled, mat...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Bohnen NI,Twijnstra A,Jolles J

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Spontaneous spinal CSF leaks are an important cause of new-onset headaches. Such leaks are reported to be particularly common at the cervico-thoracic junction. The authors undertook a study to determine the significance of these cervico-thoracic CSF leaks. METHODS:The patient population consisted of a consec...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Schievink WI,Maya MM,Chu RM,Moser FG

更新日期：2015-06-16 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied a family with an extrapyramidal disorder characterized by childhood onset of lower-limb and axial dystonia, followed by parkinsonism. Dramatic response to levodopa therapy and minimal progression in adult life was seen. The family included five generations of affected members of both sexes in an autosomal d...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Nygaard TG,Duvoisin RC

更新日期：1986-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Both mevalonic aciduria, characterized by psychomotor retardation, cerebellar ataxia, recurrent fever attacks, and death in early childhood, and hyper-immunoglobulin D (hyper-IgD) syndrome, with recurrent fever attacks without neurologic symptoms, are caused by a functional deficiency of mevalonate kinase. In a system...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Simon A,Kremer HP,Wevers RA,Scheffer H,De Jong JG,Van Der Meer JW,Drenth JP

更新日期：2004-03-23 00:00:00