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abstract：:Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic inflammatory disease of the central nervous system (CNS). These patients suffer from various comorbidities, including sexual dysfunction (SD). The lesions of MS may affect regions of the CNS along the pathway of sexual response. The Multiple Sclerosis Intimacy and Sexuality Questio...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Silva RA,Olival GS,Stievano LP,Toller VB,Jordy SS,Eloi M,Tilbery CP

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alternative surgical procedures to treat unclippable aneurysms of the intracavernous carotid artery include proximal vessel occlusion and trapping. Those techniques, even in patients with rich collateral vessels, are associated with risk of hemodynamic compromise and ischemic complications. Therefore, a safe treatment...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Azevedo Filho H,Martins C,Carvalho A,Geraldo S,Grassi G,Cardoso C,Vilaça G,Rodrigues C

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fatigue is one of the most common disabling symptoms in multiple sclerosis (MS). The aim of this study was to evaluate the fatigability on patients with MS by the application of hand grip isotonic and isometric exercises with dynamometer. As results the fatigability, the isometric strength and time were statistically ...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Pavan K,Schmidt K,de Ambrosio Ariça T,Mendes MF,Tilbery CP,Lianza S

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The existence of a benign multiple sclerosis (BMS) form is a controversial subject. Recent studies of these patients reveal different levels of cognitive impairment, despite the apparent preservation of motor function. The objective of this study was to review and analyze a number of publications that discuss the gene...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Ton AMM,Vasconcelos CCF,Alvarenga RMP

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It should take into account the psychopatologic context and the child's development moment to evaluate the baby alarm distress from a standardized instrument. We present the BADS questionnaire validation by its application in 90 children, from 0 to 2 years-old, obtaining a K=0.783 to p<0.01, with a Spearman coefficien...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Assumpcao FB Jr,Kuczynski E,Rego MG,Rocca CC

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The risk/benefit ratio of acute anticoagulation in ischaemic cerebro-vascular disease is not clearly established. A simple and safe intermittent intravenous heparin regimen (20000 IU daily) was used prospectively in 50 patients of 57 +/- 14 (m +/- sd) years of age whose blood pressures ranged from normal to severe hyp...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Bittencourt PR,Padilha S,Mazer S

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Jean-Martin Charcot, the father of Neurology, a very austere and reserved man that did not express affection freely for human being, had a profound affection to animals, particularly to a small female monkey, called "Rosalie", which came from Brazil and was a gift of Dom Pedro II to Charcot. ...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Teive HA,Arruda WO,Werneck LC

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gaspar Vianna is considered one of the great names in Medicine and Science in Brazil. Yet, little prominence has been given to his studies in Neuropathology. He was the first to describe, in 1911, the histopathology and pathogenesis of chagasic encephalitis in the acute phase of Chagas disease, as well as the intracel...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Pittella JEH

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:West syndrome (WS) is a severe epileptic encephalopathy of childhood, characterized by spasms, developmental deterioration and hipsarhythymia. OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the safety and efficacy of vigabatrin (VGB) in the treatment of WS. METHOD:We evaluated every patient diagnosed with WS seen at the pediatric ...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Moraes MH,Montenegro MA,Franzon RC,Avila JO,Guerreiro MM

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the case of a 41-year-old man with iatrogenic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) acquired after the use of growth hormone (GH) obtained from a number of pituitary glands sourced from autopsy material. The incubation period of the disease (from the midpoint of treatment to the onset of clinical symptoms) was rat...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Caboclo LO,Huang N,Lepski GA,Livramento JA,Buchpiguel CA,Porto CS,Nitrini R

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Tonic spasms have been most commonly associated with multiple sclerosis. To date, few reports of series of patients with neuromyelitis optica and tonic spasms have been published. METHODS:We analyzed the characteristics and frequency of tonic spasms in 19 subjects with neuromyelitis optica. Data was collect...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Abaroa L,Rodríguez-Quiroga SA,Melamud L,Arakaki T,Garretto NS,Villa AM

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The many kinds of complication that have been observed following operations of basilar impression and/or malformation of Arnold-Chiari are analysed. Two surgical techniques were adopted in the treatment of the patients. In the first 64 cases, the operation consisted in the craniectomy of the posterior fossa and high c...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Gonçalves da Silva JA,Gonçalves da Silva CE

更新日期：1981-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an inflammatory, autoimmune, demyelinating, and degenerative central nervous system disease. Even though the etiology of MS has not yet been fully elucidated, there is evidence that genetic and environmental factors interact to cause the disease. Among the main environmental factors studied,...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Brum DG,Comini-Frota ER,Vasconcelos CC,Dias-Tosta E

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The rat sciatic nerve is a well-established model for the study of recovery from peripheral nerve injuries. Traditional methods of assessing nerve regeneration after nerve injury and repair, such as electrophysiology and histomorphometry, despite widely used in neural regeneration experiments, do not necessarily corre...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Martins RS,Siqueira MG,da Silva CF,Plese JP

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Epileptic manifestations of Neurocysticercosis (NC) appear to depend on number and localization of the cysts. The objective of this study was to investigate the relationship between CT findings, number of parasites and the evolutive stage of the cysts, and the prognosis of epilepsy in children with NC. ME...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Ferreira LS,Zanardi VA,Li ML,Guerreiro MM

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The frequency of epilepsy in Down syndrome (DS) has been reported in literature varying from 6 to 17%. A typical electroencephalographic (EEG) pattern has not been established for this condition. There is a great variation on EEG abnormalities and most of them are not associated to behavior alterations or neurological...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： da Nóbrega AM,Nunesmaia HG,Viana Nde O,Filgueiras MA

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuromyelitis of cyanocobalamin deficiency (group 1) post vaccination myelopathy (group 2), multiple sclerosis and neuromyelitis optica (group 3) are studied comparatively as to the respective cerebrospinal fluid changes on cytology, proteins and gamma globulins. Changes were found to be more intense and frequent in t...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Limongi JC,Machado LR,Spina-França A

更新日期：1981-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:This study aimed to analyze the frequency of GSTP1-Alw26I polymorphism and to estimate its association with toxic substances in Parkinson's disease (PD). METHODS:A study group with 154 patients - subdivided into familial and sporadic PD groups - and 158 elderly individuals without the disease (control group)...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Longo GS,Pinhel MS,Sado CL,Gregório ML,Amorim GS,Florim GS,Mazeti CM,Martins DP,Oliveira FN,Tognola WA,Nakazone MA,Souza DR

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intravenous rt-PA is an effective recanalizing treatment for ischemic stroke within 4 and half hours from its onset (Onset-to-Treatment [OTT]), with the best result seen in those treated within 90 minutes OTT. Yet few patients currently are treated in this time frame. From the standpoint of process improvement or a le...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Li LM,Johnson S

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pulmonary involvement in HTLV-I patients has been identified by several authors in Africa, Japan and Brazil. The objective of this controlled study is to establish an association between HAM and lymphocytosis in the bronchoalveolar fluid (BAL). Thirty-five adult patients with non-traumatic and non-tumoral myelopathy f...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Mattos K,Melo A,Queiroz C,Publio L,Peçanha-Martins AC,Freitas V,Gomes I

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this paper is to introduce compliance concept and to classify technicals, biologicas, socials and mixed factors that may influence compliance. The importance of conscious attitudes in a good patient compliance is emphasized. ...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Alonso NB,Da Silva DF,de Campos CJ

更新日期：1991-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ketogenic diet (KD) is a high fat and low carbohydrate diet, which controls refractory epilepsy. We analyzed the KD effects on 54 children of the Children's Institute of the University of São Paulo. Efficacy, tolerability, and adverse effects were studied. Response to KD was effective (E) if seizure control was >75%, ...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Freitas A,Paz JA,Casella EB,Marques-Dias MJ

更新日期：2007-06-01 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

authors： Ansai JH,Andrade LP,Nakagawa TH,Rebelatto JR

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors report the clinical and angiographical findings of two cases of familial hemifacial spasm. This is the fifth description in the literature and presents mother and daughter at the ages of 76 and 51 respectively, in whom the left side was affected. They underwent exams of angioresonance that showed dolichoba...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Barbosa ER,da Costa Mdo D,Staut CC,Bacheschi LA,Bittar MS

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Mechanical thrombectomy as an adjunctive to intravenous thrombolysis is now the standard treatment for acute ischemic stroke (AIS) due to large vessel occlusions. However, the best management of acute carotid tandem occlusions (CTO) remains controversial. METHOD:Twenty patients underwent endovascular treatm...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Lucena AF,Castro-Afonso LH,Monsignore LM,Nakiri GS,Fábio SR,Pontes Neto O,Abud DG

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Studies which have investigated muscular performance during the initial stages of Parkinson's disease (PD) without L-dopa treatments were not found. OBJECTIVE:to assess whether muscular performance, work and power, of the trunk and lower limbs in L-dopa naïve patients in the early stages of PD was lower tha...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Lima LO,Cardoso F,Teixeira-Salmela LF,Rodrigues-de-Paula F

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors report 6 cases of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) examinations in which malignant cells were found. In 5 cases the finding was incidental: medulloblastoma (case 1); malignant melanoma (case 2); adenocarcinoma (case 3); meningitis carcinomatosa (case 4) and neuroleukaemia (case 5). In only one case neuroleukaemia...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： De Moraes-Rêgo SF,De Moraes-Rêgo KG

更新日期：1986-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The results obtained in a casuistic of 170 patients with mental diseases and behavior disturbances treated by neurosurgical procedures are reported. The authors call attention to the advantages of the atraumatic stereotaxic psychosurgery over the major surgical procedures on the frontal lobes for the treatment of psyc...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Grnés RR,Torres DR,Reis AL

更新日期：1977-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A study of the teratogenic activity of an antiepileptic drug - lamotrigine - was carried out in the brain of fetuses of rats who had received the drug. The dosage levels studied corresponded to four times the median effective dose (ED50) in rats. The drug was administered during the organogenesis period. Rats were sac...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Marchi NS,Azoubel R,Tognola WA

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is much controversy about the importance of the electroencephalogram (EEG) in assessing the attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). The objective of this study was to assess the use of EEG and quantitative EEG (qEEG) in ADHD children. Thirty ADHD children and 30 sex- and age-matched controls with no neu...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Fonseca LC,Tedrus GM,Moraes Cd,Vicente Machado Ad,Almeida MP,Oliveira DO

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00