Psychosocial aspects of Parkinson's disease.

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To model the temporal trajectory of β-amyloid accumulation using serial amyloid PET imaging. METHODS:Participants, aged 70-92 years, were enrolled in either the Mayo Clinic Study of Aging (n = 246) or the Mayo Alzheimer's Disease Research Center (n = 14). All underwent 2 or more serial amyloid PET examinatio...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Jack CR Jr,Wiste HJ,Lesnick TG,Weigand SD,Knopman DS,Vemuri P,Pankratz VS,Senjem ML,Gunter JL,Mielke MM,Lowe VJ,Boeve BF,Petersen RC

更新日期：2013-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency (CCSVI) was proposed as the causal trigger for developing multiple sclerosis (MS). However, current data are contradictory and a gold standard for venous flow assessment is missing. OBJECTIVE:To compare structural magnetic resonance venography (MRV) and dynamic ext...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Doepp F,Würfel JT,Pfueller CF,Valdueza JM,Petersen D,Paul F,Schreiber SJ

更新日期：2011-11-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Use of neuroleptic medications is common among elderly patients. Using multivariate models, the authors found that use of antipsychotic medications, age, and disability were strong predictors of developing self-reported Parkinson disease (PD) in the subsequent year among 1992 to 2000 Medicare Current Beneficiary Surve...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Noyes K,Liu H,Holloway RG

更新日期：2006-03-28 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To test efficacy and safety of atorvastatin in subjects with clinically isolated syndrome (CIS). METHODS:Subjects with CIS were enrolled in a phase II, double-blind, placebo-controlled, 14-center randomized trial testing 80 mg atorvastatin on clinical and brain MRI activity. Brain MRIs were performed quarter...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Waubant E,Pelletier D,Mass M,Cohen JA,Kita M,Cross A,Bar-Or A,Vollmer T,Racke M,Stüve O,Schwid S,Goodman A,Kachuck N,Preiningerova J,Weinstock-Guttman B,Calabresi PA,Miller A,Mokhtarani M,Iklé D,Murphy S,Kopetskie

更新日期：2012-04-10 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The relationship between relapses and long-term disability in multiple sclerosis (MS) remains to be fully elucidated. Current literature is conflicting and focused on early relapses. We investigated the effects of relapses at different stages on disability progression. METHODS:We conducted a retrospective re...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Tremlett H,Yousefi M,Devonshire V,Rieckmann P,Zhao Y,UBC Neurologists.

更新日期：2009-11-17 00:00:00

abstract：:We administered a battery of cognitive tests to 41 recently diagnosed Parkinson patients and 41 controls to assess the early neuropsychological changes associated with Parkinson's disease (PD). Parkinson subjects did as well as controls on tasks assessing attention and select language and visuospatial measures. Howeve...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Levin BE,Llabre MM,Weiner WJ

更新日期：1989-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) appeared in four patients 1 to 2 weeks after epidural anesthesia. In all patients, clinical diagnosis was confirmed by CSF findings and nerve conduction velocity studies. Although epidural anesthesia has not been listed as an antecedent event in GBS, evidence for the relationship has been...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Steiner I,Argov Z,Cahan C,Abramsky O

更新日期：1985-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated blood-brain barrier (BBB) function in relation to Alzheimer's disease (AD) and vascular dementia (VAD) in the very elderly. Sixty-five 85-year-old persons from a population-based sample were followed for 3 years; 29 were demented at age 85 (13 with AD, 14 with VAD, and 2 with other dementias), 7 develo...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Skoog I,Wallin A,Fredman P,Hesse C,Aevarsson O,Karlsson I,Gottfries CG,Blennow K

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated levodopa intravenous infusion rates, plasma concentrations, and clinical responses in 23 parkinsonian patients with a fluctuating response to the drug. There was a linear relationship between rate of levodopa infusion and plasma concentration when carbidopa was coadministered. Minimum-therapeutically e...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Nutt JG,Woodward WR

更新日期：1986-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the usefulness of ocular motor information in the early diagnosis of corticobasal degeneration (CBD) and progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP). METHODS:Seven PSP patients, six CBD patients, and three atypical CBD patients were followed longitudinally with repeated electrooculographic (EOG) recordi...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Rivaud-Péchoux S,Vidailhet M,Gallouedec G,Litvan I,Gaymard B,Pierrot-Deseilligny C

更新日期：2000-03-14 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine the diagnostic value of high-resolution ultrasound (HRUS) for detection of chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP), Lewis-Sumner syndrome (LSS), and multifocal motor neuropathy (MMN). METHODS:Between January 2013 and January 2015, we enrolled 75 consecutive treatment-naive patie...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Goedee HS,van der Pol WL,van Asseldonk JH,Franssen H,Notermans NC,Vrancken AJ,van Es MA,Nikolakopoulos S,Visser LH,van den Berg LH

更新日期：2017-01-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of bilateral frontal leukotomy on motor function was evaluated by neurologic examination, tests of praxis, and appropriate neuropsychologic tests administered to five groups of subjects. Postleukotomy schizophrenic patients were subdivided into three degrees of recovery. Two nonleukotomized groups served as...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Benson DF,Stuss DT

更新日期：1982-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cabergoline, a new ergoline derivative, is a D2-specific dopaminergic agonist that is more potent and longer-acting than other agonist agents. We conducted a randomized, double-blind study of increasing doses of cabergoline taken once a day. Twenty-five patients with Parkinson's disease taking stable doses of levodopa...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Hutton JT,Morris JL,Brewer MA

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Primary deficiency of merosin is the cause of the classic form of congenital muscular dystrophy (CMD) accompanied by brain white matter abnormalities. We report a female infant with dystrophinopathy who was deficient in merosin in skeletal muscle. The patient had a phenotype of typical CMD and white matter abnormaliti...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Tachi N,Ohya K,Chiba S,Matsuo M,Patria SY,Matsumura K

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess the surgical and hardware complications in a series of 81 consecutive patients undergoing subthalamic (STN) deep brain stimulation (DBS) for Parkinson disease (PD). METHODS:The authors prospectively documented surgical and hardware complications occurring at the time of surgery and at subsequent ne...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Lyons KE,Wilkinson SB,Overman J,Pahwa R

更新日期：2004-08-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Hippocampal sclerosis dementia (HSD) is a disease of unknown etiology and pathogenesis. To determine whether HSD cases could be reclassified as variants of frontotemporal dementia (FTD), a heterogeneous group of disorders, 18 brain autopsy cases previously diagnosed as HSD were re-evaluated. In 11 cases, ubiquitinated...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Hatanpaa KJ,Blass DM,Pletnikova O,Crain BJ,Bigio EH,Hedreen JC,White CL 3rd,Troncoso JC

更新日期：2004-08-10 00:00:00

abstract：:A randomized trial was completed to assess the feasibility of a 2-year education rehabilitation program for students with sickle cell disease and memory deficits. Eleven students were assigned to tutoring with or without memory training for 2 years. Eighty-two percent completed the program. Evidence of improvement in ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： King AA,White DA,McKinstry RC,Noetzel M,Debaun MR

更新日期：2007-06-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Of 49 patients with nonconvulsive seizures studied with continuous EEG monitoring, the overall mortality was 33% (16/49). Of the 23 patients with nonconvulsive status epilepticus (NCSE), 13 died (mortality 57%). Individual variables significantly associated with mortality were age, presence of NCSE, seizure duration, ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Young GB,Jordan KG,Doig GS

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess resting cerebral blood flow (CBF) in the whole-brain and cerebral white matter (WM) and gray matter (GM) of adults with Fabry disease (FD), using arterial spin labeling (ASL) MRI, and to investigate CBF correlations with WM hyperintensity (WMH) volume and the circulating biomarker lyso-Gb3. METHODS...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Phyu P,Merwick A,Davagnanam I,Bolsover F,Jichi F,Wheeler-Kingshott C,Golay X,Hughes D,Cipolotti L,Murphy E,Lachmann RH,Werring DJ

更新日期：2018-04-17 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Determine the frequency of and the predictive factors for abnormal ocular fundus findings among emergency department (ED) headache patients. METHODS:Cross-sectional study of prospectively enrolled adult patients presenting to our ED with a chief complaint of headache. Ocular fundus photographs were obtained...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Thulasi P,Fraser CL,Biousse V,Wright DW,Newman NJ,Bruce BB

更新日期：2013-01-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Methionine-enkephalin, substance P, and homovanillic acid concentrations were measured in the CSF of subjects not affected by neurologic disorders (group 1), and in parkinsonian patients who had a slight or moderate (group 2) or severe (group 3) disability. Homovanillic acid and substance P concentrations in the CSF o...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Pezzoli G,Panerai AE,Di Giulio A,Longo A,Passerini D,Carenzi A

更新日期：1984-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The childhood type fo dermatomyositis, which occurs in children and young adults, shows a specific constellation of pathologic changes in muscle. Capillary necrosis leads to capillary loss, generally starting on the periphery of muscle fascicles. Electron microscopy discloses undulating tubules in endothelial cells, l...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Carpenter S,Karpati G,Rothman S,Watters G

更新日期：1976-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gulf War illness (GWI), which afflicts at least 25% of veterans who served in the 1990-1991 war in the Persian Gulf, is thought to be caused by deployment exposures to various neurotoxicants, including pesticides, anti-nerve gas pills, and low-level nerve agents including sarin/cyclosarin. GWI is a multisymptom disord...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Qiang L,Rao AN,Mostoslavsky G,James MF,Comfort N,Sullivan K,Baas PW

更新日期：2017-05-16 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To identify phenotypic features of febrile seizures that can be used to reduce heterogeneity and thereby increase power in linkage analysis. BACKGROUND:Despite exciting discoveries in several rare pedigrees, the genetic basis of common febrile seizures remains a mystery. The major drawback of studying common...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Pal DK,Kugler SL,Mandelbaum DE,Durner M

更新日期：2003-02-11 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine the mechanism of ictal downbeat nystagmus in Ménière disease (MD), we compared the head impulse gain of the vestibulo-ocular reflex (VOR) for each semicircular canal between patients with (n = 7) and without (n = 70) downbeat nystagmus during attacks of MD. METHODS:We retrospectively analyzed th...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Lee SU,Kim HJ,Choi JY,Kim JS

更新日期：2020-10-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:New immigrants to North America, most of whom are under age 50 years, exhibit fewer risk factors for cardiovascular disease than their native-born counterparts, yet the stress of resettlement may conceivably place them at higher risk of stroke. We determined the risk of acute stroke associated with recency o...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Saposnik G,Redelmeier DA,Lu H,Lonn E,Fuller-Thomson E,Ray JG

更新日期：2010-02-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Mammalian spinal neurons grown in tissue culture were used to study the effects of the four convulsants-penicillin, pentylenetetrazol, picrotoxin, and bicuculline-on these neurons' responses to amino acids. Bath application of all four convulsants produced paroxysmal depolarizing events in the neurons; iontophoresis o...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Macdonald RL,Barker JL

更新日期：1978-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We compared the ability of molecular biomarkers for Alzheimer disease (AD), including amyloid imaging and CSF biomarkers (Aβ42, tau, ptau181, tau/Aβ42, ptau181/Aβ42), to predict time to incident cognitive impairment among cognitively normal adults aged 45 to 88 years and followed for up to 7.5 years. METHOD...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Roe CM,Fagan AM,Grant EA,Hassenstab J,Moulder KL,Maue Dreyfus D,Sutphen CL,Benzinger TL,Mintun MA,Holtzman DM,Morris JC

更新日期：2013-05-07 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a family with Machado-Joseph disease (MJD) that was previously diagnosed with dentatorubral-pallidoluysian atrophy (DRPLA), on the basis of the neuropathologic findings. Because the clinical and pathologic reevaluation strongly suggested a diagnosis of MJD, we conducted a genetic study in the family. Two pat...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Sakai T,Antoku Y,Kawakami H,Maruyama H,Nakamura S,Tanaka K

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lyme borreliosis (LB) causes a range of neurologic manifestations, the most common of which is facial nerve paralysis. To evaluate nervous system LB, we organized a neurologic collaborative study group in Suffolk County, NY, a region of high LB incidence. Between July and September 1989, LB serologies were performed o...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Halperin JJ,Golightly M

更新日期：1992-07-01 00:00:00