Usefulness of prolonged video-EEG monitoring in the elderly.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Molecular diagnosis of hereditary spastic paraplegias (HSP) is a difficult task due to great clinical and genetic heterogeneity. We aimed to characterize clinical and molecular findings of HSP families from Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil; and to evaluate the diagnostic yield of a next-generation sequencing (NGS) ...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Burguez D,Polese-Bonatto M,Scudeiro LAJ,Björkhem I,Schöls L,Jardim LB,Matte U,Saraiva-Pereira ML,Siebert M,Saute JAM

更新日期：2017-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:3',5'-Cyclic nucleotide phosphodiesterase (PDE) is known to play an important role in the regulation of cyclic nucleotide levels in various tissues including the muscle. Previous studies have estimated the level of this enzyme in several neuromuscular disorders but the results have been variable. Moreover, there was n...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Mishra SK,Menon NK,Roman D,Kumar S

更新日期：1992-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leucine-rich repeats and immunoglobulin-like domains (LRIG) 3 gene is mapped to chromosome 12q13.2, a region that is frequently deleted in a subset of glioblastoma multiforme (GBM). It has been reported that perinuclear LRIG3 staining correlated with low WHO grade of glioma and better survival of the patients. However...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Guo D,Yang H,Guo Y,Xiao Q,Mao F,Tan Y,Wan X,Wang B,Lei T

更新日期：2015-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Platelet aggregation (PA) induced by (-)-epinephrine and adenosine diphosphate (ADP) was studied in 16 patients with myotonic dystrophy (MyD) and 14 healthy subjects. Plasma beta-thromboglobulin level (beta-TG), a useful marker of in vivo platelet release reaction, as well as in vitro 5-[14C]hydroxytryptamine (5-HT) r...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Bornstein NM,Zahavi M,Korczyn AD,Zahavi J

更新日期：1988-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mice were inoculated with herpes simplex virus (HSV) type 1 by gently scraping the skin of the nose with a fine needle. About 80% of the animals developed latent inapparent HSV infections in trigeminal ganglia. Virus was demonstrable for at least 6 months post inoculation (p.i.) by cocultivation of ganglionic tissue w...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Kristensson K,Svennerholm B,Persson L,Vahlne A,Lycke E

更新日期：1979-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose was to assess otologic symptoms, and audiologic and vestibular findings in fibromyalgia (FM) syndrome. Twenty-four female patients with FM syndrome (FMS) were included in the study. The assessments were based on history, physical examination, audiometry, bithermal caloric testing and auditory brainstem res...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Bayazit YA,Gürsoy S,Ozer E,Karakurum G,Madenci E

更新日期：2002-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Paroxysmal kinesigenic dyskinesia (PKD) is a rare movement disorder. The underlying neural mechanisms have not been fully understood. This study aimed to examine the alteration of resting-state functional connectivity (RSFC) between interhemispheric homotopic regions in PKD using a technique called "voxel-mirro...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Ren J,Lei D,Yang T,An D,Xiao F,Li L,Huang X,Gong Q,Zhou D

更新日期：2015-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The pathogenesis of PD remains elusive. The renin-angiotensin-system (RAS) has recently been implicated in the degeneration of dopaminergic neurons. This study aimed to compare plasma levels of components of the RAS of individuals with PD with controls. We also investigated the association between these circ...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Rocha NP,Scalzo PL,Barbosa IG,de Campos-Carli SM,Tavares LD,de Souza MS,Christo PP,Reis HJ,Simões E Silva AC,Teixeira AL

更新日期：2016-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Forty-three patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) and thirty-seven normal volunteers were subjected to clinical, neuropsychological, neurophysiological (P300 component of the event-related potentials ERP) and radiological (cranial computerized tomographic scanning CCT) evaluation. Intentional memory was more impaired...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Elwan OH,Baradah OH,Madkour O,Elwan H,Hassan AA,Elwan F,Mahfouz M,Ali A,Fahmy M

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The effects of smoking on clinical outcomes following acute stroke remain controversial. METHODS:We evaluated the influence of smoking on 90-day outcomes after acute atherothrombotic stroke in 292 Japanese men extracted from the database of the Edaravone and Argatroban Stroke Therapy for Acute Ischemic Stro...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Kumagai N,Okuhara Y,Iiyama T,Fujimoto Y,Takekawa H,Origasa H,Kawanishi Y,Yamaguchi T

更新日期：2013-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Adenylate kinase 5 (AK5) is one member of the AK family and plays a critical role in maintaining cellular homeostasis. Different from the other AKs, AK5 is almost exclusively expressed in the brain. However, its exact biological functions remain unclear. The aim of the present study is to explore the expression patter...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Lai Y,Hu X,Chen G,Wang X,Zhu B

更新日期：2016-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Transgenic mice that express the G93A mutation of human Cu,Zn superoxide dismutase (SOD1(G93A)), found in familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (FALS), showed clinical symptoms and histopathological changes of sporadic ALS, including fragmentation of the neuronal Golgi apparatus (GA). The finding of fragmented neuron...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Stieber A,Gonatas JO,Gonatas NK

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Neural tube defects (NTD) are complex malformations rare in black Americans and Japanese. The incidence related to births or community-based studies have not been published in Cameroon or in black sub-Saharan countries, except one study in the Nigerian middle belt [Airede KI. Neural tube defects in the middl...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Njamnshi AK,Djientcheu Vde P,Lekoubou A,Guemse M,Obama MT,Mbu R,Takongmo S,Kago I

更新日期：2008-07-15 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

authors： Jöbsis AC,Meijer AE,Vloedman AH

更新日期：1976-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Predicting clinical outcome is one of the major and most interesting issues in MS patients. If the global evolution of disability (usually chosen levels on the Kurtzke's Disability Status Scale) has been widely studied, much less is known about the progression of disability during the secondary progressive phase of th...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Vukusic S,Confavreux C

更新日期：2003-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Administration of retinoic acid (RA) prevented the development of experimental allergic encephalomyelitis (EAE) in Lewis rats. RA suspended in corn oil was given for 3 days before the expected onset of the disease to rats immunized with myelin and to controls. The drug suppressed the neurological symptoms as well as t...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Massacesi L,Abbamondi AL,Giorgi C,Sarlo F,Lolli F,Amaducci L

更新日期：1987-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The activities of the two polyamine biosynthetic decarboxylases (PBD), L-ornithine decarboxylase (ODC) and S-adenosyl-L-methionine decarboxylase (SAMD), have been measured in quadriceps femoris of rats killed at different times after the induction of calciphylaxis- or serotonin(5-HT)-induced myopathy. Decreases in bot...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Lorenzini EC,Colombo B,Ferioli ME,Scalabrino G,Canal N

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Depression is frequently associated with Parkinson disease (PD) but neural basis is still unclear. In previous studies white matter changes present as signal hyperintesities on T2-wighted MRI studies (WMHs) commonly observed in older adults have been associated with depressive symptomatology. In this study we investig...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Petrovic IN,Stefanova E,Kozic D,Semnic R,Markovic V,Daragasevic NT,Kostic VS

更新日期：2012-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Recently, PRRT2 gene mutations have been identified as a causative factor of paroxysmal kinesigenic dyskinesia (PKD). However, evidence is still lacking with respect to the genotype to phenotype correlation in PKD patients. METHODS:We recruited a cohort of PKD patients with or without PRRT2 mutations for th...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Mao CY,Shi CH,Song B,Wu J,Ji Y,Qin J,Li YS,Wang JJ,Shang DD,Sun SL,Xu YM

更新日期：2014-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Nerve conduction is often regarded as more sensitive than ultrasonography (US) for diagnosing carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS). The diagnostic value of US derives from median nerve enlargement occurring at both ends of the carpal tunnel resulting in a dumbbell-like swelling from carpal tunnel pressure. An impo...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Paliwal PR,Therimadasamy AK,Chan YC,Wilder-Smith EP

更新日期：2014-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of synergist tenotomy have been studied on rat soleus muscles after denervation and after interference with sciatic axoplasmic flow with colchicine. The results suggest that neural, as well as muscular, factors cause compensatory hypertrophy (CH) of soleus. The myogenic factor may be mild depolarization of...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Hofmann WW

更新日期：1980-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to clarify whether or not marked changes in the social environment during the past 50 years in Japan may have altered the clinical phenotypes of multiple sclerosis (MS), we retrospectively analyzed 143 consecutive patients with clinically definite MS who developed the disease between 1950 and 1997. Fifty-two ...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Kira J,Yamasaki K,Horiuchi I,Ohyagi Y,Taniwaki T,Kawano Y

更新日期：1999-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated structural changes of the corpus callosum in patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) using sagittal diffusion-weighted (DW) and magnetization transfer (MT) imaging. Patients with AD (n=23) had a significantly decreased area only in the posterior portion of the corpus callosum. Apparent diffusion coeffic...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Hanyu H,Asano T,Sakurai H,Imon Y,Iwamoto T,Takasaki M,Shindo H,Abe K

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two siblings are presented with late onset, rapidly progressive truncal ataxia, paralysis of down-gaze and loss of up-gaze saccades in association with other oculomotor dysfunctions as well as dementia. Electron microscopic muscle studies revealed abnormal distribution and form of the mitochondria, probably being the ...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： al-Din AS,al-Zuhair AG,al-Salem MK,al-Nassar KE,Rudwan MA,Khafaja S,Hamawi T

更新日期：1989-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Selenoprotein N-related myopathy (SEPN1-RM) is an early-onset muscle disorder that can manifest clinically as congenital muscular dystrophy with spinal rigidity and can result in specific pathological entities such as multiminicore disease, desmin-related myopathy with Mallory body-like inclusions, and congenital fibe...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Cagliani R,Fruguglietti ME,Berardinelli A,D'Angelo MG,Prelle A,Riva S,Napoli L,Gorni K,Orcesi S,Lamperti C,Pichiecchio A,Signaroldi E,Tupler R,Magri F,Govoni A,Corti S,Bresolin N,Moggio M,Comi GP

更新日期：2011-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To evaluate the performance of a machine learning method based on texture parameters in conventional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in differentiating glioblastoma (GB) from brain metastases (METs). MATERIALS AND METHODS:In this retrospective study conducted between November 2008 and July 2017, we included 7...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Tateishi M,Nakaura T,Kitajima M,Uetani H,Nakagawa M,Inoue T,Kuroda JI,Mukasa A,Yamashita Y

更新日期：2020-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Demonstration of lesion dissemination in space (DIS) and time (DIT) is necessary for the diagnosis of multiple sclerosis (MS) in clinically isolated syndromes (CIS). The McDonald criteria accepted two methods to demonstrate DIS. The fulfillment of at least three of four MRI Barkhof criteria (MRI-BC) or, alternatively,...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Villar LM,García-Barragán N,Sádaba MC,Espiño M,Gómez-Rial J,Martínez-San Millán J,González-Porqué P,Alvarez-Cermeño JC

更新日期：2008-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated possible neurotoxic components in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) of patients with bacterial meningitis. On murine cerebellar neuronal cell cultures, CSF exerted a dose-dependent toxic effect, which was attenuated by the NMDA receptor antagonist MK-801. Glutamate concentrations in the CSF of patients wit...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Spranger M,Krempien S,Schwab S,Maiwald M,Bruno K,Hacke W

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：IMPORTANCE:Natalizumab was approved in 2004 by the US Food and Drug Administration (US-FDA) for treatment of multiple sclerosis (MS), however it was temporarily withdrawn after its use was associated with progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML). Other reported adverse events have included melanoma, primary cen...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Valenzuela RM,Pula JH,Garwacki D,Cotter J,Kattah JC

更新日期：2014-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Primary adult-onset dystonia is thought to be partly genetic, but families large enough for a genome wide search are difficult to find. We examined the first-degree relatives of 76 primary adult-onset dystonia patients to assess the feasibility of model-free nonparametric methods that allow either screening of candida...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Defazio G,Martino D,Aniello MS,Masi G,Gigante A,Bhatia K,Livrea P,Berardelli A

更新日期：2006-12-21 00:00:00