Vascular lesions in Chinese patients with transient ischemic attacks.

abstract：:The scanning electronmicroscope was used to study the development of anencephaly in an experimental model. Anencephaly was produced consistently, using vitamin A as the teratogen. Embryos destined to become anencephalic displayed failure of opposing sides of the rostral neural tube to fuse. Subsequently, the neural fo...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Smith MT,Wood LR,Honig SR

更新日期：1982-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 32-year-old patient with seizures experienced decreased right-ear hearing during electrocortical stimulation mapping of the left lateral superior temporal gyrus. Audiometric testing under headphones confirmed a reversible, moderate unilateral hearing loss. Under binaural listening conditions, auditory comprehension ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Sinha SR,Crone NE,Fotta R,Lenz F,Boatman DF

更新日期：2005-01-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Sensory disturbance in the unilateral hand and ipsilateral mouth region, the cheiro-oral syndrome, may be due to cortical, thalamic, or brainstem lesions. We report five patients with this syndrome due to infarction at the border of the posterior limb of the internal capsule and the corona radiata. The sensory fibers ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Isono O,Kawamura M,Shiota J,Araki S,Hirayama K

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The presence of cranial autonomic symptoms often leads to a misdiagnosis of "sinus headache" in adult migraineurs, leading to unnecessary treatments and delaying appropriate migraine therapy. In this study, we examined the frequency of cranial autonomic symptoms in pediatric/adolescent patients with migraine....

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Gelfand AA,Reider AC,Goadsby PJ

更新日期：2013-07-30 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To update the 1997 American Academy of Neurology (AAN) practice parameter regarding sports concussion, focusing on 4 questions: 1) What factors increase/decrease concussion risk? 2) What diagnostic tools identify those with concussion and those at increased risk for severe/prolonged early impairments, neurolo...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Giza CC,Kutcher JS,Ashwal S,Barth J,Getchius TS,Gioia GA,Gronseth GS,Guskiewicz K,Mandel S,Manley G,McKeag DB,Thurman DJ,Zafonte R

更新日期：2013-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Only a small percentage of patients with acute stroke are treated with recombinant tissue plasminogen activator (rt-PA). OBJECTIVE:To investigate why patients with right-hemisphere strokes seem at high risk of not receiving rt-PA. METHODS:This study includes two phases. Phase 1: the authors compared demogr...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Di Legge S,Fang J,Saposnik G,Hachinski V

更新日期：2005-07-12 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To correlate muscle biopsy findings with prebiopsy and postbiopsy clinical course and response to therapy in polymyositis (PM) and sporadic inclusion body myositis (IBM). BACKGROUND:Existence of pure PM has recently been questioned; subsequently, the definition and criteria for diagnosing PM were debated. M...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Chahin N,Engel AG

更新日期：2008-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) pressure was measured in four groups of patients: 116 with acute pseudotumor cerebri, 18 with chronic pseudotumor cerebri, 41 obese and 15 nonobese normal patients undergoing spinal anesthesia. Spinal fluid pressure between 200 and 250 mm H2O was found in members of each group. This suggests ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Corbett JJ,Mehta MP

更新日期：1983-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although people with migraine are aware of their headaches they are often not aware that they have migraine. This can lead to inappropriate or ineffective use of treatments, delays in seeking appropriate care, and miscommunication during clinical encounters. This article assesses self-recognition of migraine and ident...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Lipton RB,Stewart WF,Liberman JN

更新日期：2002-05-14 00:00:00

abstract：:We used riboflavin to treat a patient with lipid myopathy, reduced exercise capacity, intolerance to fasting, and reduced concentrations of carnitine in muscle and serum. Although carnitine concentrations did not change, exercise capacity doubled, and response to fasting improved. Muscle enzyme assay showed that palmi...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Carroll JE,Shumate JB,Brooke MH,Hagberg JM

更新日期：1981-12-01 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：:Call-Fleming syndrome is a reversible segmental vasoconstriction of cerebral arteries manifested by a "thunderclap" headache and focal neurologic symptoms. Although of unknown etiology, it has been reported in association with vasoactive sympathomimetic drugs. The authors report Call-Fleming syndrome in two patients w...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Noskin O,Jafarimojarrad E,Libman RB,Nelson JL

更新日期：2006-07-11 00:00:00

abstract：:T, B, and "null" lymphocytes were determined in peripheral blood obtained from 24 control subjects and 15 multiple sclerosis patients. The total number of lymphocytes and T lymphocytes were reduced significantly in multiple sclerosis patients as compared with those of controls. Although the percentage of B lymphocytes...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Reddy MM,Goh KO

更新日期：1976-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In patients with spatial neglect, contralesional reflexive saccades toward suddenly appearing targets show direction-specific deficits. We examined whether these deficits also occur during free exploration of space. Neglect patients' voluntary eye movements showed reduced amplitudes for saccades in all directions but ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Niemeier M,Karnath HO

更新日期：2000-01-25 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine whether whole-brain, event-related fMRI can distinguish healthy older adults with known Alzheimer disease (AD) risk factors (family history, APOE epsilon4) from controls using a semantic memory task involving discrimination of famous from unfamiliar names. METHODS:Sixty-nine cognitively asymptom...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Seidenberg M,Guidotti L,Nielson KA,Woodard JL,Durgerian S,Antuono P,Zhang Q,Rao SM

更新日期：2009-08-25 00:00:00

abstract：:"Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have."-Sir Winston Churchill. ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Sharma M

更新日期：2014-01-28 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a 74-year-old woman with opsoclonus, myoclonus, ataxia, and encephalopathy who had small-cell lung cancer and high titers of anti-Hu antibody in her serum. At autopsy, there were perivascular inflammatory infiltrates in the brainstem, putamen, and meninges overlying the orbital frontal cortex. Immunohistoche...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Hersh B,Dalmau J,Dangond F,Gultekin S,Geller E,Wen PY

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pergolide, a long-acting central dopamine agonist, was used as monotherapy in 16 parkinsonian patients. A mean daily dose of 6.3 mg resulted in 73% improvement of parkinsonian disability. Clinical improvement after acute administration of one dose of pergolide was similar to that observed after levodopa plus a periphe...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Mear JY,Barroche G,de Smet Y,Weber M,Lhermitte F,Agid Y

更新日期：1984-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors evaluated how history of concussion affects symptom reporting prior to and after sustaining a concussion. At baseline, athletes with a positive concussion history reported more current symptomatology than athletes who had never been concussed. At 2 hours postinjury, concussed athletes with a history of pre...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Bruce JM,Echemendia RJ

更新日期：2004-10-26 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:In families with autosomal dominant partial epilepsy with auditory features (ADPEAF) with mutations in the LGI1 gene, we evaluated clustering of mutations within the gene and associations of penetrance and phenotypic features with mutation location and predicted effect (truncation or missense). METHODS:We ab...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Ho YY,Ionita-Laza I,Ottman R

更新日期：2012-02-21 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examined the frequency of epilepsy in a consecutive series of patients who received a definitive diagnosis of psychogenic nonepileptic seizures (PNES) after completing inpatient video-EEG (VEEG) monitoring. Of the 1,590 patients receiving definitive diagnosis, 514 (32.3%) were diagnosed with PNES. Twenty-ni...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Martin R,Burneo JG,Prasad A,Powell T,Faught E,Knowlton R,Mendez M,Kuzniecky R

更新日期：2003-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate whether cognitive function is related to incidence of stroke. METHODS:A population-based cohort of 1551 subjects with no clinical history or signs of stroke, age 75 years and over at baseline, were followed up for 3 years. Individuals with a first-ever stroke event that was recorded in the Sto...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Zhu L,Fratiglioni L,Guo Z,Winblad B,Viitanen M

更新日期：2000-06-13 00:00:00

abstract：:We have discovered a new Italian pedigree with autosomal-dominant ALS. The pedigree, at present, comprises 75 members distributed in five generations. ALS was diagnosed in eight patients. The mean +/- SD age of onset of the disease was 46.8 +/- 13.5 years, with a range of 29 to 63 years. The mean +/- SD duration of th...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Rainero I,Pinessi L,Tsuda T,Vignocchi MG,Vaula G,Calvi L,Cerrato P,Rossi B,Bergamini L,McLachlan DR

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To use a combined neurogenetic-neuroimaging approach to examine the functional consequences of preclinical dopaminergic nigrostriatal dysfunction in the human motor system. Specifically, we examined how a single heterozygous mutation in different genes associated with recessively inherited Parkinson disease a...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： van Nuenen BF,Weiss MM,Bloem BR,Reetz K,van Eimeren T,Lohmann K,Hagenah J,Pramstaller PP,Binkofski F,Klein C,Siebner HR

更新日期：2009-03-24 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To investigate whether the human sciatic nerve might have a consistent somatotopic organization according to proximal fascicle input by spinal nerves. METHODS:Twelve patients (55.3 ± 15.5 years) with confirmed lesions of either the L5 or S1 spinal nerve root underwent magnetic resonance neurography of sciat...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Bäumer P,Weiler M,Bendszus M,Pham M

更新日期：2015-04-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The association between migraine and cervical artery dissection (CAD) was explored in a hospital-based case-control study. Migraine was present in 49.1% (23/47) of patients with CAD and in 21% (11/52) of patients hospitalized for a cerebral ischemic event not related to a CAD (adjusted odds ratio = 3.6; 1.5 to 8.6, p ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Tzourio C,Benslamia L,Guillon B,Aïdi S,Bertrand M,Berthet K,Bousser MG

更新日期：2002-08-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Educators of the next generation of neurologists will face several challenges, including changes in academic medical centers and hospitals, changes in the scope and practice of neurology itself, and changes in trainees, related to both access to information technology and professional goals. This article, which origin...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Elkind MS

更新日期：2009-02-17 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine the role of oxidative stress in mediating HIV dementia and to identify novel therapeutic compounds that may block this oxidative stress. METHODS:Brain tissue from patients with HIV encephalitis and macaques with simian immune deficiency virus encephalitis was immunostained for lipid peroxidation...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Turchan J,Pocernich CB,Gairola C,Chauhan A,Schifitto G,Butterfield DA,Buch S,Narayan O,Sinai A,Geiger J,Berger JR,Elford H,Nath A

更新日期：2003-01-28 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To define the clinical and radiologic features of brainstem gliomas (BSGs) in children with neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1). METHODS:We performed a retrospective cross-sectional study of 133 children with NF1 and concurrent BSGs cared for at 4 NF1 referral centers. BSG was determined using radiographic criter...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Mahdi J,Shah AC,Sato A,Morris SM,McKinstry RC,Listernick R,Packer RJ,Fisher MJ,Gutmann DH

更新日期：2017-04-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The epsilon 4 allele of the APOE gene (APOE) is more frequent in patients with AD than in the general population, but studies are inconclusive as to whether it affects rate of progression or survival. Because survival in AD is generally longer in women than in men, the authors investigated whether APOE affec...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Dal Forno G,Carson KA,Brookmeyer R,Troncoso J,Kawas CH,Brandt J

更新日期：2002-04-09 00:00:00