Abstract:
:Unilateral internuclear ophthalmoplegia become manifest by homolateral paralysis of ocular adduction and contralateral nystagmus. Principal causes are multiple sclerosis and vertebro-basilar insufficiency. We report a case in which this signal appeared as the first clinical manifestation of bacterial endocarditis and turned up to be the only neurological finding.
journal_name
Arq Neuropsiquiatrjournal_title
Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatriaauthors
Werneck AL,Gonçalves AJ,Bezerra JMsubject
Has Abstractpub_date
1990-03-01 00:00:00pages
116-8issue
1eissn
0004-282Xissn
1678-4227journal_volume
48pub_type
杂志文章abstract::Fifty AIDS patients were studied. All patients had anti-HIV antibodies (ELISA) present and met OPAS/Caracas punctuation criteria for AIDS cases in adults. Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) analysis included pressure, cytology (number of cytomorphological aspects), total protein and electrophoresis, glucose and chloride concen...
journal_title:Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1590/s0004-282x1996000200009
更新日期:1996-06-01 00:00:00
abstract::Neurocysticercosis is a serious public health problem that predominantly affects places with poor sanitary and hygiene conditions. The Piaui State is out of the neurocysticercosis map in Brazil but, as this study illustrates, it is just by lack of epidemiologic data. We demonstrate the presence of this pathology in th...
journal_title:Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1590/s0004-282x2006000200030
更新日期:2006-06-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disorder characterized by progressive and irreversible loss of cognitive function. The presence of senile plaques is one of the pathological markers of the disease and is associated with the onset of neuroinflammatory mechanisms. The exact pathophysiology of AD...
journal_title:Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1590/0004-282X20200010
更新日期:2020-06-08 00:00:00
abstract::A case of calvarial meningeoma in a 42 year old female is reported. Arising from the inner table of the skull, it projected a extracranial mass without neurological simptomatology. The surgical procedure give good results. Some aspects of the literature and radiologics finds are commented. The infrequency of this path...
journal_title:Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1590/s0004-282x1982000200009
更新日期:1982-06-01 00:00:00
abstract::After brief comments about the angiographic findings on 298 consecutive cases of isquemic or hemorrhagic cerebral vascular strokes, cerebral angiography is emphasized as the main diagnostic method, owing to the variety of physiopathogenic and ethiologic factors involved in the genesis of this syndromes. The results of...
journal_title:Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1590/s0004-282x1977000100002
更新日期:1977-03-01 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
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1590/0004-282X20170158
更新日期:2017-11-01 00:00:00
abstract::Multiple sclerosis (MS) prevalence is higher in Caucasian (CA) populations, narrowing the analysis of the impact of Afro-descendant (AD) populations in disease outcomes. Even so, recent studies observed that AD patients have a more severe course. The main objective of this study is to confirm and discuss, through a sy...
journal_title:Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1590/0004-282X20160118
更新日期:2016-10-01 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
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1590/s0004-282x2008000100008
更新日期:2008-03-01 00:00:00
abstract::Forty-five newborn infants with hyperexcitability lasting more than 72 hours were studied in the neonatal period. The association with metabolic disturbances, mainly hypocalcemia, was observed in 53% of cases. Neonatal asphyxia was observed in 21 cases (46%), although all infants had 5 minutes Apgar scores above 6. On...
journal_title:Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1590/s0004-282x1993000100008
更新日期:1993-03-01 00:00:00
abstract:CONTEXT:The precise function of sleep in animals and human beings is still unknown, and any sort of physical, social or psychological variation may change the normal sleep-wake cycle. PURPOSE:This research aims is to determine the sleep disorders (SD) for each of the three trimesters of the pregnancy comparing them to...
journal_title:Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1590/s0004-282x2004000200005
更新日期:2004-06-01 00:00:00
abstract::Four cases of familial spastic paraplegia with amyotrophy in siblings from a consanguineous married are reported. The routine laboratory examination were normal. The electromiography and muscle biopsy processed by histochemistry showed signs of denervation with reinervation. The motor nerve conduction velocity was dec...
journal_title:Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1590/s0004-282x1979000200004
更新日期:1979-06-01 00:00:00
abstract::A 42 year-old woman developed paraplegia that resolved in six months, followed by sudden right hemiparesis and dysphasia two years later. The clinical work-up, including CT and MR scans, visual evoked potential, CSF examination and cerebral biopsy suggested the possibility of either multiple sclerosis or multiphasic d...
journal_title:Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1590/s0004-282x1996000300024
更新日期:1996-09-01 00:00:00
abstract::Literature on the anatomy of the human vertebral column characterizes the shape of the lumbar vertebral canal as triangular. The purpose of the present study was to determine the precise shape of the lumbar vertebral canal. Ten lumbar vertebral columns of adult male cadavers were dissected. Two transverse sections wer...
journal_title:Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1590/s0004-282x1996000300014
更新日期:1996-09-01 00:00:00
abstract::Sixty-three patients with dermatopolymyositis were evaluated from the clinical, laboratory and therapeutical aspects during a period of 15 years: 39 are women and 24 men. The mean age was 36.8 +/- 15.6 years. No correlation was observed between clinical and isolated therapeutics employed; when corticosteroids and cyto...
journal_title:Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1590/s0004-282x1987000200006
更新日期:1987-06-01 00:00:00
abstract::Objective The aim of this study was to obtain data on phrenic neuroconduction and electromyography of the diaphragm muscle in difficult-to-treat asthmatic patients and compare the results to those obtained in controls. Methods The study consisted of 20 difficult-to-treat asthmatic patients compared with 27 controls. S...
journal_title:Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1590/0004-282x20180010
更新日期:2018-03-01 00:00:00
abstract::The pterional craniotomy is one of the most frequently surgical approaches used in neurosurgery and currently it has become a mainsteam. It allows excellent microsurgical exposure of anterior and posterior regions of the arterial circle of Willis, supra and paraselar regions, the superior orbital fissure of sphenoid b...
journal_title:Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1590/s0004-282x2010000300020
更新日期:2010-06-01 00:00:00
abstract::Myotonia is the phenomenon of decrease of muscular relaxation rate, after either a contraction or a mechanical or electrical stimulus. Congenital myotonias are hereditary affections and do not present muscular dystrophy. The current trend is to group them as ionic channels diseases, together with the periodic paralysi...
journal_title:Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1590/s0004-282x1996000400008
更新日期:1996-12-01 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVE:To assess the functional capacity and to determine the difference between the means of functional capacity (basic and instrumental activities of daily living) and the age groups of elderly residents in an outlying area in the hinterland of Bahia/Northeast of Brazil. METHOD:Analytical study with cross-section...
journal_title:Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1590/s0004-282x2010000100009
更新日期:2010-02-01 00:00:00
abstract:UNLABELLED:Psychiatric disorders are frequent among patients with epilepsy. Data in the literature have shown a heterogeneous clinical presentation of psychiatric disorders in patients with epilepsy. Interictal dysphoric disorder could be a specific psychiatric comorbidity associated with epilepsy, primarily in patient...
journal_title:Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1590/0004-282X20130165
更新日期:2013-11-01 00:00:00
abstract::This work aimed to compare performances on the Timed Up and Go (TUG) test and its subtasks between faller and non-faller older adults with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and mild Alzheimer's disease (AD). A prospective study was conducted, with 38 older adults with MCI and 37 with mild AD. Participants underwent an a...
journal_title:Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1590/0004-282X20180055
更新日期:2018-06-01 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
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1590/s0004-282x2005000200030
更新日期:2005-06-01 00:00:00
abstract::Although fatigue is an expressive symptom of Parkinson's disease (PD), few studies have investigated the association between fatigue, mobility and walking capacity of these patients. OBJECTIVE:To investigate whether fatigue is an independent factor associated with mobility and the walking capacity in patients with PD...
journal_title:Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1590/0004-282X20190136
更新日期:2020-02-01 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVE:To determine frequency, etiology, site and clinical and laboratory findings of ventriculoperitoneal shunt (VPS) infections in children and adolescents with hydrocephalus managed in Hospital Governador João Alves Filho, Aracaju SE, Brazil. METHOD:A non-controlled prospective observational study comprising 50 ...
journal_title:Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1590/s0004-282x2007000100024
更新日期:2007-03-01 00:00:00
abstract::We report on 15 cases of medulloblastoma of adult onset (8 male and 7 female) operated upon posterior fossa approach from February 1988 to October 1995. Tumors were localized in cerebellar hemisphere in 7 cases (one with extension to supratentorial notch and another case reaching the cerebello-pontine angle cistern), ...
journal_title:Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1590/s0004-282x1999000600014
更新日期:1999-12-01 00:00:00
abstract::Since the last decades of the past century there have been several reports in the medical literature describing patients with dystonia. The clinical and phenomenological concepts of dystonic movements have been debated. Presently, dystonia is defined as a syndrome of sustained muscle contractions, frequently causing t...
journal_title:Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria
pub_type: 历史文章,杂志文章,评审
doi:
更新日期:1996-03-01 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVE:To report a case of childhood cerebral X-linked adrenoleukodystrophy (X-ADL), emphasizing the magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) findings at initial evaluation and at the follow-up. CASE REPORT:Five year-old boy, who was asymptomatic, presented with diagnosis of X-ADL for MRI evaluation. The initial brain MRI ...
journal_title:Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1590/s0004-282x2006000600030
更新日期:2006-12-01 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVE:Because of the need for a standardized and accurate method for detecting multiple sclerosis (MS) inflammatory activity, different magnetic resonance (MR) acquisitions should be compared in order to choose the most sensitive sequence for clinical routine. To compare the sensitivity of a T1-weighted image to a ...
journal_title:Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1590/0004-282X20190082
更新日期:2019-07-29 00:00:00
abstract::Emphasis is placed in the difficulty in conceptualizing sexuality as a complex and controversial subject. This is a presentation of a concept based on freudian psychoanalysis. With this in mind, many of Freud's references are collected from the Brazilian Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund ...
journal_title:Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1590/s0004-282x1994000100024
更新日期:1994-03-01 00:00:00
abstract::Complex and mixed atypical absences and tonic epileptic seizures of 12 patients with the Lennox-Gastaut syndrome with onset after age 6 were studied. By complexes seizures we mean the associations of two elementary epileptics phenomena and by mixed that of three or more. Complex and mixed epileptic seizures already re...
journal_title:Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1590/s0004-282x1982000400002
更新日期:1982-12-01 00:00:00
abstract::The intracranial aneurysms of the posterior circulation have been reported between 5 and 10% of all cerebral aneurysms and the aneurysms of the anterior inferior cerebellar artery (AICA) are considered rare, can cause cerebello pontine angle (CPA) syndrome with or without subarachnoid hemorrhage. Since 1948 few cases ...
journal_title:Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1590/s0004-282x2002000600026
更新日期:2002-12-01 00:00:00