Latency and duration of the muscle silent period following transcranial magnetic stimulation in multiple sclerosis, cerebral ischemia, and other upper motoneuron lesions.

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine the association between Miller Fisher syndrome (MFS) and antecedent Haemophilus influenzae infection. BACKGROUND:Little is known about agents in prior respiratory tract infection of MFS, whereas antecedent upper respiratory symptoms are frequent. H. influenzae is a major pathogen that can cause hu...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Koga M,Yuki N,Tai T,Hirata K

更新日期：2001-08-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Babinski sign is a well-known sign of upper motor neuron dysfunction that is widely considered an essential element of a complete neurologic examination. Little is known about reliability and validity of this sign. A less well-known sign of upper motor neuron dysfunction, decreased speed of foot tapping,...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Miller TM,Johnston SC

更新日期：2005-10-25 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Hospital readmission is an important quality improvement measure that has not been well-studied in pediatric neurology. We examined predictors of 7-day and 30-day readmissions for pediatric patients hospitalized with a neurologic diagnosis. METHODS:This was a retrospective study of hospital readmission rates...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Hong A,Shah Y,Singh K,Karkare S,Kothare S

更新日期：2019-04-16 00:00:00

abstract：:A seismic shift in our understanding of the ability to diagnose Alzheimer disease (AD) is occurring. For the last several decades, AD has been a clinical-pathologic diagnosis, and this conceptualization of the disease has served the field well. Typically, the clinician would identify a syndrome such as mild cognitive ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Petersen RC

更新日期：2018-08-28 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To define the prevalence, time course, and associated factors of periodic limb movements during sleep (PLMS) in patients with ischemic stroke or TIA. METHODS:Patients enrolled in the prospective Sleep-Disordered Breathing in Transient Ischemia Attack (TIA)/Ischemic Stroke and Continuous Positive Airway Press...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Manconi M,Fanfulla F,Ferri R,Miano S,Haba-Rubio J,Heinzer R,Horvath T,Proserpio P,Young P,Moschovitis G,Seiler A,Cereda C,Nobili L,Wiest R,Ott SR,Bassetti CL

更新日期：2018-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To describe the clinical features, neuropathology, and genetic studies in a family with autosomal dominant frontotemporal dementia (FTD). BACKGROUND:Clinical Pick's disease, or FTD with parkinsonism, has been described in several families linked to chromosome 17 (FTDP-17). Most of these have shown tau protei...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Kertesz A,Kawarai T,Rogaeva E,St George-Hyslop P,Poorkaj P,Bird TD,Munoz DG

更新日期：2000-02-22 00:00:00

abstract：:We evaluated 14 patients with idiopathic optic neuritis, 50 years of age or older, within 1 month of symptomatic onset from 1980 through 1985. We obtained follow-up information from case records an average of 13 months after initial examination and from telephone interviews an average of 57 months after initial evalua...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Jacobson DM,Thompson HS,Corbett JJ

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was undertaken to determine the amount and histologic appearance of the persistent thymic tissue removed post mortem from 20 patients over 60 years of age with myasthenia gravis. One patient died several days after thymectomy. No recognizable thymic tissue on gross examination was seen in any patient. On mi...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Perlo VP,Arnason B,Castleman B

更新日期：1975-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In monkey extraocular muscles (EOM), a battery of histochemical reactions delineates three muscle fiber types, coarse, fine, and granular. Normal EOM are compared with EOM denervated by intracranial oculomotor nerve section. The experimentally denervated EOM fibers did not show the constellation of histologic response...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Ringel SP,Engel WK,Bender AN,Peters ND,Yee RD

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The intrathecal humoral immune response was analyzed in 83 patients with MS and 35 patients with acute CNS infections. CSF free kappa chains and CSF free lambda chains were quantified by radioimmunoassay; CSF IgG and albumin were measured by electroimmunodiffusion. The MS patients were characterized by higher levels o...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： DeCarli C,Menegus MA,Rudick RA

更新日期：1987-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Idiopathic REM sleep behavior disorder (RBD) is characterized by loss of atonia during REM sleep, resulting in motor activity during dreams. Studies estimate that approximately half of patients with RBD will eventually develop Parkinson disease (PD), so RBD may be an indicator of presymptomatic PD. Several p...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Postuma RB,Lang AE,Massicotte-Marquez J,Montplaisir J

更新日期：2006-03-28 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the effect of acetazolamide on plasma potassium in normals and in two patients with hyperkalemic periodic paralysis. Administration of acetazolamide for 48 hours lowered mean plasma potassium in normals from 4.01 to 3.56 mEq per liter (p less than 0.001) and in the patients from 4.55 to 4.00 mEq per liter (...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Riggs JE,Griggs RC,Moxley RT 3rd,Lewis ED

更新日期：1981-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Unusual late-onset complications of brain irradiation, characterized by reversible neurologic focal signs, seizures, and MRI alterations, have recently been reported and classified as stroke-like migraine attacks after radiation therapy (SMART)(1) and peri-ictal pseudoprogression (PIPG).(2.) ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Di Stefano AL,Berzero G,Vitali P,Galimberti CA,Ducray F,Ceroni M,Bastianello S,Colombo AA,Simoncelli A,Brunelli MC,Giometto B,Diamanti L,Gaviani P,Salmaggi A,Silvani A,Marchioni E

更新日期：2013-09-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Postexercise facilitation (PEF) with clinical reflexes, H-reflex, and T-reflexes at the ankle and knee was systematically studied in 16 patients with Lambert-Eaton myasthenic syndrome (LEMS). PEF was observed in ankle and knee deep tendon reflexes in five patients, in H-reflex in three patients, and in T-reflexes in s...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Odabasi Z,Demirci M,Kim DS,Lee DK,Ryan HF,Claussen GC,Tseng A,Oh SJ

更新日期：2002-10-08 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:1) To reassess the prevalence of migraine in the United States; 2) to assess patterns of migraine treatment in the population; and 3) to contrast current patterns of preventive treatment use with recommendations for use from an expert headache panel. METHODS:A validated self-administered headache questionna...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Lipton RB,Bigal ME,Diamond M,Freitag F,Reed ML,Stewart WF,AMPP Advisory Group.

更新日期：2007-01-30 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe the MR images of a patient with juvenile ALS. MRI of the brain showed bilateral hyperintensities along the corticospinal tracts extending from the corona radiata to the brainstem on T2-weighted images. These findings should be differentiated from the slight hyperintensities seen in the posterior limbs of t...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Midani H,Truwit CL,Parry GJ

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Radiation rhombencephalopathy and radiation myelopathy may occur in patients months or years after radiotherapy for malignancy of the head and neck. We obtained multimodal evoked potentials longitudinally in 26 patients with proven nasopharyngeal carcinoma. Recordings were made before radiotherapy and at 1 week, 3 mon...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Tang LM,Chen ST,Hsu WC,Leung WM

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hippocampal formation atrophy (HFA) developed in an adult, who did not have epilepsy previously, after the occurrence of new-onset partial seizures from acute thrombosis of an ipsilateral parietal venous angioma. There was no evidence of hippocampal injury, and the patient had only one brief, generalized tonic-clonic ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Worrell GA,Sencakova D,Jack CR,Flemming KD,Fulgham JR,So EL

更新日期：2002-05-28 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a 78-year-old man with right hemiballism as the presenting symptom of a metastatic occult adenocarcinoma of the lung. CT demonstrated two contrast-enhancing lesions: one in the left subthalamic region and the other in the left parietal region. Metastatic tumor was confirmed at autopsy. ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Glass JP,Jankovic J,Borit A

更新日期：1984-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied 20 patients with an acute parietal stroke with hemisensory disturbances but no visual field deficit and no or only slight motor weakness, without thalamic involvement on CT or MRI and found three main sensory syndromes. (1) The pseudothalamic sensory syndrome consists of a faciobrachiocrural impairment of e...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Bassetti C,Bogousslavsky J,Regli F

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Visual hallucinations (VHs) occur frequently in Parkinson's disease (PD). VHs occur more frequently in elderly patients with longer duration of illness, cognitive impairment, and sleep disturbances. The relationship between the use of antiparkinsonian drugs and VHs is complicated, but most drugs used to treat parkinso...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Kulisevsky J,Roldan E

更新日期：2004-10-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Normal human quadriceps muscle was transplanted into nude mice subcutaneously for periods of 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, and 8 weeks. At 1 week, there was myoblast and myotube formation with thin and thick filaments. After 2 weeks, there was myotube formation with partially cross-striated myofilaments, and formation of dyads or tr...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Wakayama Y,Schotland DL,Bonilla E

更新日期：1980-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the occurrence, treatment, and outcome of subdural empyema complicating community-acquired bacterial meningitis in adults. METHODS:Case series from a prospective nationwide cohort study from Dutch hospitals from 2006 to 2011. RESULTS:Subdural empyema was diagnosed in 28 of 1,034 episodes (2.7%),...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Jim KK,Brouwer MC,van der Ende A,van de Beek D

更新日期：2012-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Five women are presented with a subacute pure pancerebellar syndrome of ataxia and dysarthria to emphasize that this illness may occur without anti-Purkinje-cell or anti-Yo antibodies, or associated systemic cancer. The syndrome evolved over weeks or less and stabilized in four of the patients. Three had had a precedi...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Ropper AH

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cross-sectional studies have not adequately resolved the question of whether subjects infected with HIV-1 may suffer cognitive decline during the early, asymptomatic stages of the infection. We studied longitudinally 238 asymptomatic healthy HIV-1-infected homosexual/bisexual men (CDC groups 2 and 3) and 170 uninfecte...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Selnes OA,Miller E,McArthur J,Gordon B,Muñoz A,Sheridan K,Fox R,Saah AJ

更新日期：1990-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Bee sting therapy is increasingly used to treat patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) in the belief that it can stabilize or ameliorate the disease. However, there are no clinical studies to justify its use. METHODS:In a randomized, crossover study, we assigned 26 patients with relapsing-remitting or relaps...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Wesselius T,Heersema DJ,Mostert JP,Heerings M,Admiraal-Behloul F,Talebian A,van Buchem MA,De Keyser J

更新日期：2005-12-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There is evidence that angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors (ACEIs) reduce the risk of stroke. However, it is unclear whether ACEI use before stroke provides a vasoprotective effect resulting in less severe stroke. METHODS:We ascertained all strokes occurring in a defined population in Melbourne, Austra...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Chitravas N,Dewey HM,Nicol MB,Harding DL,Pearce DC,Thrift AG

更新日期：2007-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To identify the source of delayed visual evoked potential (VEP) latencies in the fellow eyes of patients with optic neuritis (ON) and determine whether these latencies stem from clinically silent demyelination or reflect an adaptive process for synchronization with the affected eyes. METHODS:The study sample...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Raz N,Chokron S,Ben-Hur T,Levin N

更新日期：2013-08-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the ultimate diagnosis of multiple sclerosis (MS) still remains clinical, confirmatory laboratory aids can be of marked assistance, especially in early and atypical cases. Whereas numerous tests have been described, the only ones to withstand scrutiny in numerous laboratories have been various immunoglobulin ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Johnson KP

更新日期：1980-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD) encompasses a variety of clinicopathologic entities. The antemortem prediction of the underlying pathologic lesions is reputed to be difficult. This study sought to characterize correlations between 1) the different clinical variants of primary progressive language and...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Deramecourt V,Lebert F,Debachy B,Mackowiak-Cordoliani MA,Bombois S,Kerdraon O,Buée L,Maurage CA,Pasquier F

更新日期：2010-01-05 00:00:00