High cervical myelopathy presenting with the numb clumsy hand syndrome.

abstract：:Neurocysticercosis commonly presents with seizures, raised intracranial tension and dementia. The unusual location of the cysts may result in uncommon manifestations mimicking a host of neurological disorders. Ten patients with neurocysticercosis with rare clinical presentations have been described in this series. The...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Sawhney IM,Singh G,Lekhra OP,Mathuriya SN,Parihar PS,Prabhakar S

更新日期：1998-01-21 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To describe additional cases of subacute encephalopathy with seizures in alcoholics (SESA) syndrome, and to question the clinical and radiological course. METHODS:We retrospectively analyzed the clinical characteristics, electroencephalography (EEG), MRI studies at the admission and over the following 6 months...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Duwicquet C,Biberon J,Corcia P,De Toffol B,Limousin N

更新日期：2019-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of specific IgM antibodies and direct electron-microscopic examination of brain biopsies or vesicle fluid was tested as means of raped diagnosis in 6 cases of herpes simplex encephalitis seen consecutively in Montreal. In 2 of 3 biopsies herpes viruses were seen by negative staining of a cell extract within 1 ...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Joncas JH,Berthiaume L,McLaughlin B,Granger-Julien M

更新日期：1976-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We measured the magnetization transfer (MT) ratios in white matter lesions of Binswanger's disease (BD) and compared them with BD and with similar-appearing changes in non-demented elderly subjects and cerebral infarction. Four subject groups were studied: 30 patients with BD and periventricular hyperintensity (PVH) o...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

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

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To elucidate the T helper 1 (Th1)/T helper 2 (Th2) balance in various inflammatory neuropathies, we measured the ratio of intracellular interferon-gamma (IFN-gamma)-positive to IL-4-positive cells (intracellular IFN-gamma/IL-4 ratio) by flow cytometry in peripheral blood CD4(+) T cells of 14 patients with mononeuritis...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Horiuchi I,Ochi H,Murai H,Osoegawa M,Minohara M,Furuya H,Kira J

更新日期：2001-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:To elucidate a possible role of vitamin A in the pathogenesis of Parkinson's disease (PD) we compared serum levels of retinol (vitamin A), measured by HPLC, and the vitamin A/retinol binding protein (RBP) ratio of 42 PD patients (22 males and 20 females, mean age 67.3 +/- 1.34 years) and their respective spouses as co...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Jiménez-Jiménez FJ,Molina JA,Fernández-Calle P,Vázquez A,Pondal M,del Ser T,Gómez-Pastor A,Codoceo R

更新日期：1992-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A monoclonal antibody (ML30), previously shown to identify a human mitochondrial protein epitope homologous with the groEL heat-shock protein of bacteria (hsp60), was used in an immunohistochemical survey of the central nervous system in patients dying with no evidence of neurological disease and in tissue from patien...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Martin JE,Swash M,Mather K,Leigh PN

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Histone deacetylases (HDACs), or lysine deacetylases (KDAC), are epigenetic regulators that catalyze the removal of acetyl moieties from the tails of lysine residues of histones and other proteins. To date, eighteen HDAC family members (HDAC1-11 and SIRT1-7) have been identified and grouped into four classes according...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Li G,Jiang H,Chang M,Xie H,Hu L

更新日期：2011-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:For over a decade, four immunomodulatory therapies have been available for the treatment of relapsing remitting multiple sclerosis. However, few direct comparative data were available to facilitate the choice of treatment. This choice has been influenced by the perception that interferon-beta preparations have greater...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Achiron A,Fredrikson S

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The accumulation of toxic free radicals plays a pivotal role in the early molecular cascades of blood-brain barrier (BBB) disruption mediated by matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) activation in ischemic stroke. Theoretically, it is expected that early blockade of activation of MMPs may provide protective effec...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Jang JW,Lee JK,Lee MC,Piao MS,Kim SH,Kim HS

更新日期：2012-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To introduce the combination of suction thrombectomy (ST) and balloon maceration (BM) for the management of dural venous sinus thrombosis (DVST). MATERIALS AND METHODS:Ten consecutive patients (average age, 53±15years; range, 30 to 73years) with DVST treated by ST after BM were evaluated including location of ...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Lee CW,Liu HM,Chen YF,Lin YH,Wang JL

更新日期：2016-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Forty-seven spinal cords from subjects between 13 and 95 years of age have been examined; in the majority death occurred suddenly or rapidly from a state of previous good health. The limb motor neurons in the lumbospinal segments have been estimated by counting nucleoli in characeteristic cells in every fifth group of...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Tomlinson BE,Irving D

更新日期：1977-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Paradoxical embolism to the cerebral circulation is often difficult to diagnose clinically. We report a case that illustrates the usefulness of transesophageal echocardiography in the detection of paradoxical embolism. An 84-year-old woman presented with bilateral hemispheric strokes. Despite the presence of atrial fi...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Iwanaga T,Iguchi Y,Shibazaki K,Inoue T,Kimura K

更新日期：2007-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Somatoform Disorders (SFMD) were recently described in Parkinson Disease (PD) and Dementia with Lewy Bodies (DLB). The present paper updates the observations in our cohort of patients and further details clinical phenomenology. Of 3178 patients consecutively referred to our Institutions from 1999, 1572 subjects had ne...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Onofrj M,Thomas A,Tiraboschi P,Wenning G,Gambi F,Sepede G,Di Giannantonio M,Di Carmine C,Monaco D,Maruotti V,Ciccocioppo F,D'Amico MC,Bonanni L

更新日期：2011-11-15 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：:Anti-ganglioside antibodies were investigated in plasma exchange solutions (PEs) from two patients with acute and chronic inflammatory demyelinating neuropathies (AIDP and CIDP). Both cases show markedly elevated antibody titers against the lacto-series gangliosides, GM3, GD3, and GT3. In the CIDP patient, the IgG ant...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Usuki S,Sanchez J,Ariga T,Utsunomiya I,Taguchi K,Rivner MH,Yu RK

更新日期：2005-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the clinical features, electrophysiological findings and genetic characteristics of the first two Taiwanese siblings ever reported with sialidosis type I. We also provide a 10-year follow-up result. Enzymological analysis revealed a primary sialidase deficit. The back-averaged electroencephalography demonstr...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Chen CM,Lai SC,Chen IC,Hsu KC,Lyu RK,Ro LS,Chang HS

更新日期：2006-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The notion that there is an association between essential tremor (ET) and higher ethanol consumption has crept into the literature; however, the data are limited and conflicted. A total of 354 ET cases and 370 matched controls were enrolled in a clinical-epidemiological study. Average current daily ethanol consumption...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Louis ED,Michalec M

更新日期：2014-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:This study describes the electrophysiological responses of endoneurial preparations derived from rat sciatic nerve to acute hypoxia in vitro. Preparations from control rats exhibited a 40% decline in compound action potential (CAP) amplitude after 40 min exposure to medium gassed with 8% O2. In preparations from 4 wee...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Calcutt NA,Carrington AL,Ettlinger CB,Tomlinson DR

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Around 70% of Charcot-Marie-Tooth 1 (CMT1) cases are caused by a dominantly inherited 1.5-Mb duplication at 17p11.2-12 (CMT1A). Using photostimulated luminescence (PSL) imaging of MspI Southern blots, hybridization signals of the probe pVAW409R3a in relation to cohybridized probe SF85a, were densitometrically quantifi...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Aarskog NK,Aadland S,Gjerde IO,Vedeler CA

更新日期：2001-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Muscle biopsies were obtained from the vastus lateralis of 14 male subjects: 3 long distance runners, 2 world class power lifters and 9 active, although not highly trained, individuals used as controls. The fibers were investigated by electron microscopy and the mitochondrial volume percent, lipid volume percent and Z...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Prince FP,Hikida RS,Hagerman FC,Staron RS,Allen WH

更新日期：1981-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitric oxide (NO) may be involved in myelin and oligodendrocyte injury associated with multiple sclerosis (MS), a demyelinating disease of unknown etiology. The cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) from MS patients may provide an important signal inducing a pathologic process within the central nervous system (CNS). To investiga...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Xiao BG,Zhang GX,Ma CG,Link H

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study explores the severity of depression and anxiety experienced by patients suffering from motor neurone disease and seeks to link this to illness progression, recent life events and personality factors. The 18 patients who participated in the study were assessed for the presence of psychiatric symptoms using t...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Moore MJ,Moore PB,Shaw PJ

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE:The majority of studies on neuropsychological complications after cardiac surgery used the raw variation of selective tests scores to define the occurrence of cognitive decline. We prospectively estimated the frequency of cognitive impairment after cardiac surgery, with a particular emphasis on p...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Di Carlo A,Perna AM,Pantoni L,Basile AM,Bonacchi M,Pracucci G,Trefoloni G,Bracco L,Sangiovanni V,Piccini C,Palmarini MF,Carbonetto F,Biondi E,Sani G,Inzitari D

更新日期：2001-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The specificity of anatomo-clinical observations were investigated on 776 out of 982 consecutive persons hospitalized at the University Psychiatric Clinic of Geneva. Discriminant function analysis shows that most of the anatomical classes (no dementia, senile dementia, Alzheimerized senile dementia and Alzheimer's pre...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Todorov AB,Go RC,Constantinidis J,Elston RC

更新日期：1975-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Paraneoplastic neurological syndromes (PNS) are poorly described in patients without onconeural antibodies and in patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). We compared the clinical characteristics of PNS in lung cancer patients with and without onconeural antibodies. METHODS:Medical records from pat...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Raspotnig M,Vedeler C,Storstein A

更新日期：2015-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Ultrastructural changes in cerebral tissue subjected to temporary occlusion on the right middle cerebral artery for intervals of 30 min, 1, 2, 3, and 4 hr were studied after daily injections of 10% glycerol in saline. These changes were compared with previously reported data from untreated animals. The extent of tiss...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Dodson RF,Tagashira Y,Wai-Fong Chu L

更新日期：1975-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peripheral blood lymphocytes from patients with multiple sclerosis (MS), other neurological diseases and healthy controls were investigated for the presence of cell-mediated hypersensitivity to brain gangliosides and myelin basic protein using an active E-rosette assay. Sensitivity to myelin basic protein and ganglios...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Ilyas AA,Davison AN

更新日期：1983-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is a fatal X-linked recessive disorder of muscle in children. The DMD gene product, "dystrophin", is absent from DMD, while the allelic disease, Becker muscular dystrophy (BMD), exhibits dystrophin of abnormal size and/or quantity. But we are still uncertain about the scenario that in...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Arahata K,Beggs AH,Honda H,Ito S,Ishiura S,Tsukahara T,Ishiguro T,Eguchi C,Orimo S,Arikawa E

更新日期：1991-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Functional and metabolic recovery of a female cat is described which survived for 1 year following 1 hour global cerebro-circulatory arrest at normothermia. Ischemia was produced by intrathoracal occlusion of the innominate, the left subclavian and both mammary arteries. Following ischemia the animal was kept under in...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Hossmann KA,Schmidt-Kastner R,Grosse Ophoff B

更新日期：1987-02-01 00:00:00