Plasmapheresis in acute episodes of fulminant CNS inflammatory demyelination.

abstract：:In a 24-week, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, multicenter study of rivastigmine, 487 patients with dementia associated with Parkinson disease underwent assessment of attention on the Cognitive Drug Research computerized cognitive assessment system before dosing and 16 and 24 weeks later. Significant bene...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Wesnes KA,McKeith I,Edgar C,Emre M,Lane R

更新日期：2005-11-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The visual-motor adaptation to lateral displacement of vision by prism glasses was studied in normal individuals and patients with cerebellar dysfunction, Parkinson's disease, right or left cerebral hemisphere lesions, Alzheimer's disease, or Korsakoff's syndrome. Adaptation was analyzed in two phases, the return to n...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Weiner MJ,Hallett M,Funkenstein HH

更新日期：1983-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Confusion, speech arrest, automatic behavior, and amnesia characterize the prolonged twilight states of both petit mal and psychomotor status. However, in psychomotor status two electroclinical phases were differentiated: (1) A continuous twilight state with partial responsiveness and reactive automatisms interrupted ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Belafsky MA,Rosman NP,Miller P,Waddell G,Boxley-Johnson J,Delgado-Escueta AV

更新日期：1978-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is now increasing use of dopamine agonists as effective early monotherapy in the treatment of Parkinson's disease (PD). Dopamine agonists can induce an antiparkinsonian effect through actions on either D(1)-like or D(2)-like dopamine receptors, and the multiple receptor subtypes present in the brain may provide ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Jenner P

更新日期：2002-02-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The intracarotid amobarbital test (IAT) is used to lateralize language function and assess hemispheric memory. In this study 23 non-lesional epileptic patients were evaluated. The magnitude of the difference in IAT scores between the two hemispheres was significantly greater in the patients whose seizures lateralized ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Swearer JM,Kane KJ,Phillips CA,Weaver JP,Anderson TD,Lavoie MS

更新日期：1999-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Trigeminal neuralgia is an uncommon but troublesome symptom of multiple sclerosis that can be refractory to conventional treatments. Misoprostol, a long-acting prostaglandin E1 analogue, relieved pain in six of seven patients who had failed to respond to conventional pharmacologic therapy. ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Reder AT,Arnason BG

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:This study was conducted to determine the relationship of frontal lobe cortical thickness and basal ganglia volumes to measures of cognition in adults with sickle cell anemia (SCA). METHODS:Participants included 120 adults with SCA with no history of neurologic dysfunction and 33 healthy controls (HCs). Part...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Mackin RS,Insel P,Truran D,Vichinsky EP,Neumayr LD,Armstrong FD,Gold JI,Kesler K,Brewer J,Weiner MW,Neuropsychological Dysfunction and Neuroimaging Adult Sickle Cell Anemia Study Group.

更新日期：2014-03-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Generic substitution is practiced widely in both hospital and community settings. There have been several reports of reduced serum concentrations and seizure exacerbation following generic substitution of Tegretol. We describe the first 2 cases of carbamazepine toxicity resulting from the substitution of Tegretol with...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Gilman JT,Alvarez LA,Duchowny M

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Bevacizumab has been shown to be effective in the treatment of recurrent glioblastoma in combination with chemotherapy compared with historic controls but not in randomized trials. METHODS:We conducted a retrospective analysis of patients treated for recurrent glioblastoma with bevacizumab vs a control group...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Nghiemphu PL,Liu W,Lee Y,Than T,Graham C,Lai A,Green RM,Pope WB,Liau LM,Mischel PS,Nelson SF,Elashoff R,Cloughesy TF

更新日期：2009-04-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The association between migraine and cervical artery dissection (CAD) was explored in a hospital-based case-control study. Migraine was present in 49.1% (23/47) of patients with CAD and in 21% (11/52) of patients hospitalized for a cerebral ischemic event not related to a CAD (adjusted odds ratio = 3.6; 1.5 to 8.6, p ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Tzourio C,Benslamia L,Guillon B,Aïdi S,Bertrand M,Berthet K,Bousser MG

更新日期：2002-08-13 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To further investigate the basis of abnormal neuromuscular transmission in two patients with congenital myasthenic syndrome associated with episodic ataxia type 2 (EA2) using stimulated single fiber EMG (SFEMG) and in vitro microelectrode studies. METHODS:Two patients with genetically characterized EA2 previ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Maselli RA,Wan J,Dunne V,Graves M,Baloh RW,Wollmann RL,Jen J

更新日期：2003-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：:In 1810, two British ships, HMS Triumph and HMS Phipps, salvaged a large load of elemental mercury from a wrecked Spanish vessel near Cadiz, Spain. The bladders containing the mercury soon ruptured. The element spread about the ships in liquid and vapor forms. The sailors presented with neurologic compromises: tremor,...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Doherty MJ

更新日期：2004-03-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Large prospective epidemiologic studies have linked the consumption of coffee and other caffeinated beverages to a reduced risk of subsequently developing PD. Caffeine as well as more specific antagonists of the adenosine A(2A) receptor have also now been found to attenuate neurotoxicity in a mouse model of PD. The co...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Schwarzschild MA,Chen JF,Ascherio A

更新日期：2002-04-23 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine the association of change in body mass index (BMI) with risk of Alzheimer disease (AD). METHODS:Nine hundred eighteen older Catholic clergy participating in the Religious Orders Study without dementia at baseline were studied. Outcome measures were the clinical diagnosis of AD and change in cognit...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Buchman AS,Wilson RS,Bienias JL,Shah RC,Evans DA,Bennett DA

更新日期：2005-09-27 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine whether quantitative whole-brain MR diffusion histograms in patients with MS differ from those of normal control subjects. BACKGROUND:MRI detects macroscopic cerebral lesions in MS, but the white matter lesion burden on MRI correlates imperfectly to clinical disability. Previous reports have fur...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Nusbaum AO,Tang CY,Wei T,Buchsbaum MS,Atlas SW

更新日期：2000-04-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Four patients with disabling action tremor in the setting of MS were treated with isoniazid (800 to 1200 mg per day). All patients showed significant improvement of the tremor, allowing more functional use of their extremities. To the best of our knowledge, this is the only medical treatment for this type of tremor. ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Sabra AF,Hallett M,Sudarsky L,Mullally W

更新日期：1982-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Only a small percentage of patients with acute stroke are treated with recombinant tissue plasminogen activator (rt-PA). OBJECTIVE:To investigate why patients with right-hemisphere strokes seem at high risk of not receiving rt-PA. METHODS:This study includes two phases. Phase 1: the authors compared demogr...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Di Legge S,Fang J,Saposnik G,Hachinski V

更新日期：2005-07-12 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied a 55-year-old woman with macrosquare wave jerks and macrosaccadic oscillations with a vertical component. The oscillations almost completely disappeared after administration of diazepam, clonazepam, thiamylal, or phenobarbital. A disorder of GABAergic tonic inhibitory system from the substantia nigra to sup...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Fukazawa T,Tashiro K,Hamada T,Kase M

更新日期：1986-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To report on the benefits of noninvasive vagus nerve stimulation (nVNS) on acute vestibular migraine (VM) treatment. METHODS:This was a retrospective chart review of patients with VM treated with nVNS in a single tertiary referral center between November 2017 and January 2019. Eighteen patients (16 women) we...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Beh SC,Friedman DI

更新日期：2019-10-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors evaluated four patients with schizencephaly who underwent subtraction ictal SPECT coregistered to MRI (SISCOM) prior to epilepsy surgery. Three patients had a SISCOM alteration that was concordant with the epileptic brain tissue. Two of these patients were rendered seizure-free and one individual experienc...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Cascino GD,Buchhalter JR,Sirven JI,So EL,Drazkowski JF,Zimmerman RS,Raffel C

更新日期：2004-12-28 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The aim of this study was to apply the HIV-associated neurocognitive disorders (HAND) criteria for diagnosing HAND in HIV-infected adults, in a cohort of HIV-infected youth to thus establish whether this system is able to detect a spectrum of neurocognitive disorders (ND) in HIV-infected youth. METHODS:We us...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Hoare J,Phillips N,Joska JA,Paul R,Donald KA,Stein DJ,Thomas KG

更新日期：2016-07-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite recent advances in the molecular genetics of Alzheimer's disease (AD), several fundamental questions concerning risk of illness are unresolved, namely, if Mendelian factors account for the incidence of the disease, and if AD is an inevitable consequence of the aging process. This study was designed to address ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Lautenschlager NT,Cupples LA,Rao VS,Auerbach SA,Becker R,Burke J,Chui H,Duara R,Foley EJ,Glatt SL,Green RC,Jones R,Karlinsky H,Kukull WA,Kurz A,Larson EB,Martelli K,Sadovnick AD,Volicer L,Waring SC,Growdon JH,Fa

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Autonomic symptoms may occur frequently in diabetic and other neuropathies. There is a need to develop a simple instrument to measure autonomic symptoms in subjects with neuropathy and to test the validity of the instrument. METHODS:The Survey of Autonomic Symptoms (SAS) consists of 11 items in women and 12 ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Zilliox L,Peltier AC,Wren PA,Anderson A,Smith AG,Singleton JR,Feldman EL,Alexander NB,Russell JW

更新日期：2011-03-22 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To address the role of cell death regulatory genes of the bcl-2 and caspase families in the neuropathology of human epilepsy using tissue extracted from patients undergoing temporal lobectomy for intractable seizures. METHODS:Using Western blotting and immunohistochemistry, the authors investigated the expre...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Henshall DC,Clark RS,Adelson PD,Chen M,Watkins SC,Simon RP

更新日期：2000-07-25 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To study and provide an update on the state of clinical research in neurology in the United States. METHODS:US American Academy of Neurology members and chairs of departments of neurology were surveyed regarding clinical research in 2016. NIH data on the neuroscience pipeline and extramural grant funding wer...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Hall DA,Ramos AR,Gelfand JM,Videnovic A,Benatar M,Cahill C,Kluger BM,Goldman M

更新日期：2018-04-10 00:00:00

abstract：:We tested three serotonin antagonists--lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), 2-bromolysergic acid diethylamide (BOL), and cinanserin--for effects on experimental spinal cord ischemia in the rabbit. Blood flow to spinal cord was obstructed. Drugs were administered before or after initiation of occlusion, and flow was later...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Zivin JA,Venditto JA

更新日期：1984-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We tested the hypothesis that asymptomatic carriers of dopa-responsive dystonia (DRD) have increased dopamine D2 receptors in the striatum that protect them from the clinical manifestations of dopaminergic deficiency. We examined striatal D2-receptor binding in (1) symptomatic subjects (treated and untreated) and (2) ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Kishore A,Nygaard TG,de la Fuente-Fernandez R,Naini AB,Schulzer M,Mak E,Ruth TJ,Calne DB,Snow BJ,Stoessl AJ

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report two patients with unique homonymous hemianopias from occipital lobe infarctions. One patient had vertical meridian sparing, and the other displayed horizontal meridian sparing. MRI correlation with the visual field defects confirmed that the vertical hemianopic meridian was represented along the border of th...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Gray LG,Galetta SL,Schatz NJ

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We surveyed 297 patients with Parkinson disease (PD) with systematic screens and rigorous definitional criteria. Pathologic hypersexuality lifetime prevalence was 2.4%. Compulsive shopping was 0.7%. Combined with our pathologic gambling data, the lifetime prevalence of these behaviors was 6.1% and increases to 13.7% i...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Voon V,Hassan K,Zurowski M,de Souza M,Thomsen T,Fox S,Lang AE,Miyasaki J

更新日期：2006-10-10 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To study the effect of pregnancy on the frequency of neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder (NMOSD) relapse and evaluate rates of pregnancy-related complications in an international multicenter setting. METHODS:We administered a standardized survey to 217 women with NMOSD from 7 medical centers and reviewed ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Klawiter EC,Bove R,Elsone L,Alvarez E,Borisow N,Cortez M,Mateen F,Mealy MA,Sorum J,Mutch K,Tobyne SM,Ruprecht K,Buckle G,Levy M,Wingerchuk D,Paul F,Cross AH,Jacobs A,Chitnis T,Weinshenker B

更新日期：2017-11-28 00:00:00