Syncope in patients with drug-resistant epilepsy without apparent cardiovascular disease.

abstract：:Event-related potentials (ERP) constitute an heterogeneous group of brain electrical signals time-locked to sensory stimulation, motor responses, and associative processes, recorded using computer averaging. Several kinds of brain electric activity are encompassed by the generic term "event related potentials": sensor...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Lolas F

更新日期：1979-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Subthalamic nucleus deep brain stimulation (STN-DBS) is a surgical technique to treat motor symptoms in patients with Parkinson's disease (PD). Studies have shown that STN-DBS may cause a decline in verbal fluency performance. We aimed to verify the effects of STN-DBS on the performance of phonemic verbal fluency in B...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Romann AJ,Beber BC,Olchik MR,Rieder CRM

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of radiofrequency trigeminal rhizotomy in treating 135 patients harboring trigeminal neuralgia, and to introduce a technical modification to guide the puncture of the foramen ovale. A hundred and one (74.8%) patients were treated with a single surgical procedure w...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Gusmão S,Magaldi M,Arantes A

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:The temporal branch of the facial nerve is particularly vulnerable to traumatic injuries during surgical procedures. It may also be affected in clinical conditions. Electrodiagnostic studies may add additional information about the type and severity of injuries, thus allowing prognostic inferences. The objec...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Silva PF,Lima MC,Figueiroa JN,Lins OG

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuroradiologic, neuropathologic and immunohistochemical features are reported in a young man with a impairment of the central nervous system mimicking an acute diffuse encephalomyelitis. A white male, 17 years old, healthy till 4 months before, when developed a right hemiparesis and after 2 months a bilateral hemipar...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Lancellotti CL,Amary MF,Barbastefano AM,Tilbery CP

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to verify which instrument better identifies recurrent falls in the elderly. Ninety-eight old people, with an average age of 80 ± 4 years, were submitted to an assessment of balance and fall risk by means of the Berg Balance Scale (BBS) and the posturographic Balance Stability System (BSS...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Pereira VV,Maia RA,Silva SM

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a case of Streptococcus pyogenes meningitis in a 18 days year-old-girl with clinical course complicated by sagittal sinus thrombosis. Some aspects of the pathogenesis, treatment and follow-up of the disease are discussed. The world increase of serious streptococcal infections in the last 10 years, probably w...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Krebs VL,Chieffi LN,Jurfest ME,Ceccon R,Diniz EM,Feferbaum R,Takeuchi CA,Marques-Dias MJ,Carneiro JD,Vaz FA

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Primary headaches, and particularly migraine and tension-type headache (TTH) as well as hypothyroidism are common medical conditions. To date, numerous studies have suggested a possible bidirectional relationship between migraine and hypothyroidism, although certain studies had contradictory results. OBJECT...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Spanou I,Christidi F,Liakakis G,Rizonaki K,Bougea A,Anagnostou E,Kararizou E

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty-five non-Hodgkin's adult patients of a cohort studied for detection of neurologic involvement were evaluated on the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) protein profile. CSF and serum were collected in the same occasion. Blood-brain barrier and local synthesis of IgG were studied. There was an incidence of neurologic sign...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Mielli SR,Beitler B,Galperin C,Palou VB,Livramento JA,Machado Ldos R,Gomes HR

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The case of a young female patient with acute symmetrical ascending polyneuropathy as a manifestation of systemic lupus erythematosus is reported. There was involvement of several cranial nerves and the cerebrospinal fluid showed albuminocytologic dissociation. Pathologic examination of the sural nerve showed degenera...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Moreira Filho PF,Nascimento OJ,Cinnicinatus D,Porto FJ,Freitas MR,Santos PC

更新日期：1980-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We analyzed computerized tomography (CT) findings in six patients with Fahr's syndrome. They presented calcifications in basal ganglia, dentate nucleus, subcortical region and semioval center, due to alteration in calcium metabolism or due to senile relative hypoxemic state. The image pattern was not strictly related ...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Faria AV,Pereira IC,Nanni L

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:According to the definition of disease, epilepsy shall not be considered neither a symptom nor a syndrome. Epilepsy is a generic term for a group of diseases characterized by seizures. It implies a state quite distinct from health. Therefore it seems worthy to keep epilepsy as such in the International Classification ...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Arruda WO

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:It was to analyze clinical aspects of patients with blepharospasm, including outcomes of botulinum toxin treatment. Additionally, clinical characteristics of isolated blepharospasm were compared to those of blepharospasm plus other movement disorders. METHODS:Clinical data recorded during 17 years were revie...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Aquino CC,Felício AC,Castro PC,Oliveira RA,Silva SM,Borges V,Ferraz HB

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:The 'Time is Brain" concept has been a major focus in the World Stroke Awareness Campaign. OBJECTIVE:We describe our experience with a Hackathon (junction of hack+marathon), a 24 hour event of innovation- and technology-based project development, focused around detecting stroke. METHOD:The Hackathon was he...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Li LM,Johnson S

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:The anatomical characterization of the orbitofrontal cortex in human is limited in literature instead of many functional and clinical studies involving it. OBJECTIVE:Anatomically define the orbitofrontal region aiming to possible neurosurgical treatments and unify the scientific nomenclature as well. METHO...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Rodrigues TP,Rodrigues MA,Paz Dde A,Costa MD,Centeno RS,Chaddad Neto FE,Cavalheiro S

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the clinical, epidemiological and pathological findings of 28 patients with medulloblastoma: 22 were male; age ranged from 1 to 50 years, with a mean of 15 years. The most frequent symptoms and signs were headache (64%) and vomiting (64%). Only one patient showed a desmoplastic medulloblastoma variant, the o...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Reis Filho JS,Gasparetto EL,Faoro LN,Araújo JC,Torres LF

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the case of a 32-year-old woman who complained of dull and compressing occipital pain, with unilateral radiation to the left frontal and supraorbital areas (of the sickening type). The radiological, clinical, neurosurgical and neuropathologic investigation disclosed a medulloblastoma bulging and tickening th...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Piovesan EJ,Werneck LC,Teive HA,Navarro F,Kówacs PA

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Rheumatic chorea (RC) has recently been linked to an antibody-mediated immune mechanism. OBJECTIVE/METHOD:To verify if this knowledge reflected in management changes we conceived a descriptive study. RESULTS:The medical charts of 20 children (13 females) aged 6 to 12 years (mean 8 years), diagnosed as RC f...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Araujo AP,Padua PA,Maia Filho HS

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Classifications for neurological disorders have evolved from following the theory of the humors to modern anatomical pathology and, recently, to the germ theory that stared the etiological era, as seen in book content lists. The symptomatic approach towards neuronosology was widely used until the middle of the 19(th) ...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Gomes Mda M

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serum samples were analysed for interleukin-2 receptors levels (sIL-2R) in 26 patients with definite multiple sclerosis as defined by Poser and col. Three groups of patients form the basis of this study: group I, with 14 patients with clinical evidence of active disease; group II, with 12 patients with clinically stab...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Tilbery CP,Felipe E,Mota IM,Scheinberg MA

更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate spectral analysis of electroencephalograms (EEG) for the alpha frequency band during rest and cognitive stimulation in healthy adults and individuals with mild cognitive impairment. METHOD:We analyzed 56 EEGs from 28 patients, 7 men and 21 women, 12 of whom (40%) were controls, 16 patients wit...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Schmidt MT,Anghinah R,Basile LF,Forlenza O,Gattaz WF

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A Developmental Gerstmann syndrome in a 7 years-old-boy with hyperactivity, short attention span, acalculia, agraphia, right-left confusion, finger agnosia and constructional apraxia is reported. An initial trial with methylphenidate was done with good improvement regarding hyperactivity, attention span and constructi...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Werneck LC

更新日期：1975-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors report the cases of three patients from the same family, all with intracranial saccular aneurysm (left carotid artery, anterior communicating artery, and middle cerebral artery). All three patients were operated on with good recovery and no complications. The authors call attention for some etiopathogenic ...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Pinto JR,Godoy JM,Telles CR,Faria CS,Avelar MV,Nicaretta DH

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：Methods:This retrospective and descriptive study evaluated the clinical characteristics and outcomes of patients with CA-GAD-ab. Result:Three patients with cerebellar ataxia, high GAD-ab titers and autoimmune endocrine disease were identified. Patients 1 and 2 had classic stiff person syndrome and insidious-onset cere...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Aguiar TS,Fragoso A,Albuquerque CR,Teixeira PF,Souza MV,Zajdenverg L,Alves-Leon SV,Rodacki M,Lima MA

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Myelomeningocele is the most common congenital malformation of the nervous system and despite its complexity and involvement of multiple organs is compatible with long survival. The peculiar characteristics of this malformation expose myelomeningocele patients to acute and chronic care problems with effects in quality...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Salomão JF,Leibinger RD,Carvalho JG,Pinheiro JA,Lucchesi GL,Bomfim V

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess the long-term efficacy of percutaneous vertebroplasty for the treatment of pain resulting from osteoporotic vertebral fractures. METHOD:26 percutaneous vertebroplasty procedures were performed for osteoporotic vertebral fractures in 15 patients during the period between July 2001 and May 2004. Befo...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Astacio GS,Marchiori E,Gasparetto EL,Azevedo F

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many studies have suggested that caring for patients with dementia may be associated with increased burden, particularly when subjects present with prominent behavioural problems. The present work aimed to review studies appearing on MedLine between 1990 and January 1998 that included the following keywords: 'burden o...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Garrido R,Almeida OP

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to investigate the association between headache and alcohol consumption among medical students. 480 medical students were submitted to a questionnaire about headaches and drinking alcohol. Headache was assessed by ID-Migraine and functional disability was evaluated with MIDAS. The evaluation ...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Domingues RB,Domingues SA

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This review describes therapeutically relevant mechanisms of action of botulinum toxin (BT). BT's molecular mode of action includes extracellular binding to glycoproteine structures on cholinergic nerve terminals and intracellular blockade of the acetylcholine secretion. BT affects the spinal stretch reflex by blockad...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Dressler D,Saberi FA,Barbosa ER

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The neurological involvement in Manson's Schistosomiasis is rarely reported in the literature. The authors describe a case of a 23 years old patient born in São Francisco-MG. She presented with headache, vomiting, fever and stupor. The neurological examination showed stiffness of the neck, paresis with bilateral muscu...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Ferreira MS,Costa-Cruz JM,Gomes MA

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00