Inhibitory cytokines and cytokine inhibitors.

abstract：:The medical records of all children at our hospital with International Classification of Diseases 9th revision (ICD-9) codes 342, 433 to 438, or 767 from May 1999 to May 2004 were reviewed to assess whether they had stroke (any type) or, specifically, arterial ischemic stroke (AIS). Code accuracy ranged from 37 to 88%...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Golomb MR,Garg BP,Saha C,Williams LS

更新日期：2006-12-12 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate the temporal relationship between inflammation and cerebral atrophy in a longitudinal study of 19 patients with relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis (RRMS) using serial monthly contrast enhanced MRI examinations and monthly measurements of brain fractional volume (BFV) for an average of 4 (ra...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Richert ND,Howard T,Frank JA,Stone R,Ostuni J,Ohayon J,Bash C,McFarland HF

更新日期：2006-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess the association of early morning serum cortisol with cognitive performance and brain structural integrity in community-dwelling young and middle-aged adults without dementia. METHODS:We evaluated dementia-free Framingham Heart Study (generation 3) participants (mean age 48.5 years, 46.8% men) who u...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Echouffo-Tcheugui JB,Conner SC,Himali JJ,Maillard P,DeCarli CS,Beiser AS,Vasan RS,Seshadri S

更新日期：2018-11-20 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：:Clinical presentation of carotid artery dissection (CAD) is variable, including acute or subacute headache, cervical pain, or focal neurologic deficit that occurs spontaneously, after a high-speed neck manipulation, or trauma. Isolated lower cranial nerve palsy in carotid dissection is uncommon. ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Pongmoragot J,Bharatha A,Saposnik G

更新日期：2013-03-12 00:00:00

abstract：:An improved agarose gel electrophoretic technique was used to fractionate serum and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) proteins in patients with presenile dementia. The CSF electrophoretic patterns demonstrated three abnormal bands in the gamma-globulin region in five out of eight of these patients. ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Williams A,Papadopoulos N,Chase TN

更新日期：1980-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:We evaluated the clinicoradiologic characteristics of patients with branch occlusive disease (BOD)-type intracranial atherosclerotic stroke (ICAS) compared with those of patients with non-BOD-type ICAS or with small artery disease (SAD). METHODS:We analyzed 201 consecutive patients with acute infarcts withi...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Ryoo S,Park JH,Kim SJ,Kim GM,Chung CS,Lee KH,Kim JS,Bang OY

更新日期：2012-03-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Eighty-five healthy elderly subjects were prospectively evaluated for 3 years to determine motor differences between those who remain cognitively intact and those who developed cognitive impairment during prospective follow-up. The 18 subjects who developed cognitive impairment had slower finger tapping and took longe...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Camicioli R,Howieson D,Oken B,Sexton G,Kaye J

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine the relation of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) to incident Alzheimer disease (AD), change in cognition, and AD pathology. METHODS:Participants were 1,019 older Catholic clergy followed up annually for up to 12 years (mean baseline age = 75.0 years, education = 18.1 years, Mini-Menta...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Arvanitakis Z,Grodstein F,Bienias JL,Schneider JA,Wilson RS,Kelly JF,Evans DA,Bennett DA

更新日期：2008-06-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Dementia occurs infrequently in patients with giant cell (temporal) arteritis (GCA). Three elderly women with biopsy-proven GCA showed abrupt cognitive decline during periods of clinically active GCA, 1 to 6 months after diagnostic temporal artery biopsy, during periods of corticosteroid taper. One patient had additio...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Caselli RJ

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We established the frequency of Horner's syndrome (HS) in 248 elective patients after coronary artery bypass surgery. Patients were evaluated neurologically pre- and post-operatively and 6 months after surgery. Nineteen patients (7.7%) developed unilateral HS postoperatively, 12 involving the left eye. The finding per...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Barbut D,Gold JP,Heinemann MH,Hinton RB,Trifiletti RR

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lafora disease is a teenage onset progressive myoclonus epilepsy caused by mutations in the EPM2A gene. In this report, we describe new mutations within EPM2A, review the known mutations to date to identify the most common, and describe three simple tests for prenatal and carrier screening. ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Minassian BA,Ianzano L,Delgado-Escueta AV,Scherer SW

更新日期：2000-01-25 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess the inpatient hospitalization burden and costs of patients with autoimmune encephalitis (AE) at a tertiary care institution. METHODS:Adult inpatients with AE were identified retrospectively from July 1, 2005, to June 30, 2015. Demographic and clinical data were collected and analyzed. Billing data ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Cohen J,Sotoca J,Gandhi S,Yeshokumar AK,Gordon-Lipkin E,Geocadin RG,Frick KD,Probasco JC,Venkatesan A

更新日期：2019-02-26 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined correlates of depression in patients whose onset of Parkinson's disease (PD) began before age 55 (early-onset group) compared with patients whose onset was after age 55 (late-onset group). The early-onset group showed a significantly higher frequency of depression than the late-onset group. When both group...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Starkstein SE,Berthier ML,Bolduc PL,Preziosi TJ,Robinson RG

更新日期：1989-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute chorea in a child followed ingestion of pemoline mesylate. In guinea pigs, in an experimental model of chorea, chronic administration of pemoline induced behavioral supersensitivity to other dopaminergic agonists. Pemoline is similar to both d-amphetamine and methylphenidate in altering central dopaminergic sens...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Nausieda PA,Koller WC,Weiner WJ,Klawans HL

更新日期：1981-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasma levels of six short-chain fatty acids (SCFA) were measured in 23 Reye's syndrome patients. In sequential measurements, only propionic acid correlated closely with neurologic severity. Although admission SCFA levels were slightly elevated, there were no significant differences between patients grouped by severit...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： McArthur B,Sarnaik AP,Mitchell RA

更新日期：1984-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a 74-year-old woman with opsoclonus, myoclonus, ataxia, and encephalopathy who had small-cell lung cancer and high titers of anti-Hu antibody in her serum. At autopsy, there were perivascular inflammatory infiltrates in the brainstem, putamen, and meninges overlying the orbital frontal cortex. Immunohistoche...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Hersh B,Dalmau J,Dangond F,Gultekin S,Geller E,Wen PY

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Because hereditary hyperekplexia results from a defect in the glycine receptor, we studied in five patients several spinal inhibitory pathways that are thought to use either glycine or gamma-aminobutyric acid as a neurotransmitter. Three patients had a mutation in the alpha1 subunit of the glycine receptor, whereas tw...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Floeter MK,Andermann F,Andermann E,Nigro M,Hallett M

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Behavioral psychophysical techniques were used to obtain strength-duration curves for the ulnar nerve at both threshold and suprathreshold levels. The functions well match those obtained with electrophysiologic procedures, but overcome many of the difficulities associated with traditional electrodiagnosis. An alternat...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Rollman GB

更新日期：1975-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To measure changes in psychometric state, neural activation, brain volume (BV), and cerebral metabolite concentrations during treatment of minimal hepatic encephalopathy. METHODS:As proof of principle, 22 patients with well-compensated, biopsy-proven cirrhosis of differing etiology and previous minimal hepat...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： McPhail MJ,Leech R,Grover VP,Fitzpatrick JA,Dhanjal NS,Crossey MM,Pflugrad H,Saxby BK,Wesnes K,Dresner MA,Waldman AD,Thomas HC,Taylor-Robinson SD

更新日期：2013-03-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Lubag (X-linked dystonia-parkinsonism) has been considered a sex-linked recessive trait and has been mapped to the pericentromeric region of the X chromosome. We studied a 54-year-old man with lubag and two of his female first cousins. Genetic typing was carried out using X chromosome markers. Fluorodopa PET was perfo...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Waters CH,Takahashi H,Wilhelmsen KC,Shubin R,Snow BJ,Nygaard TG,Moskowitz CB,Fahn S,Calne DB

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Progressive thoracic myelopathy occurred in a patient with AIDS. Concurrent opportunistic infections included disseminated systemic cytomegalovirus, aspergillosis, and cutaneous herpes simplex virus (HSV). At autopsy, immune stains indicated that the myelopathy was caused by HSV type 2 infection of the spinal cord. ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Britton CB,Mesa-Tejada R,Fenoglio CM,Hays AP,Garvey GG,Miller JR

更新日期：1985-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We performed a prospective clinical and electrophysiologic study of common peroneal (CP) neuropathy to evaluate the extent of involvement of the muscles and cutaneous areas supplied by this nerve. In 22 patients, seven had more weakness clinically in muscles innervated by the deep peroneal nerve than in those innervat...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Sourkes M,Stewart JD

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Open clinical trials indicate that low doses of pergolide, a long-acting D1 and D2 dopamine agonist, lead to a reduction in the symptoms of restless legs syndrome (RLS) with subjective improvement in sleep quality. OBJECTIVE:To assess the therapeutic efficacy of pergolide in improving sleep and subjective m...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Wetter TC,Stiasny K,Winkelmann J,Buhlinger A,Brandenburg U,Penzel T,Medori R,Rubin M,Oertel WH,Trenkwalder C

更新日期：1999-03-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In cerebral small vessel disease, the core MRI findings include white matter lesions (WML) and lacunar infarcts. While the clinical significance of WML is better understood, the contribution of lacunes to the rate of cognitive decline has not been established. This study investigated whether incident lacunes...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Jokinen H,Gouw AA,Madureira S,Ylikoski R,van Straaten EC,van der Flier WM,Barkhof F,Scheltens P,Fazekas F,Schmidt R,Verdelho A,Ferro JM,Pantoni L,Inzitari D,Erkinjuntti T,LADIS Study Group.

更新日期：2011-05-31 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors found serum immunoglobulin M (IgM) autoantibody in a patient with typical acute cerebellar ataxia (ACA) and identified the antigen molecule as triosephosphate isomerase (TPI). TPI antigenicity to the patient's antibody was the highest in the cerebellar tissue. Eight of 23 patients with ACA had increased Ig...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Uchibori A,Sakuta M,Kusunoki S,Chiba A

更新日期：2005-10-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) is frequently associated with hippocampal sclerosis (HS) and a history of febrile convulsions (HFC). The authors investigated 292 patients with TLE due to HS. Left HS occurred more frequently (57%) than right HS (43%, p = 0.01). Forty-seven percent of the patients had HFC. In patients with...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Janszky J,Woermann FG,Barsi P,Schulz R,Halász P,Ebner A

更新日期：2003-04-08 00:00:00

abstract：:When 251 relapsing-remitting patients with multiple sclerosis were randomized to receive daily subcutaneous injections of glatiramer acetate, previously called copolymer 1 (Copaxone; n = 125) or placebo (n = 126) for 24 months, there were no laboratory abnormalities associated with glatiramer acetate treatment and it ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Johnson KP,Brooks BR,Cohen JA,Ford CC,Goldstein J,Lisak RP,Myers LW,Panitch HS,Rose JW,Schiffer RB,Vollmer T,Weiner LP,Wolinsky JS

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To describe factors associated with survival in Alzheimer disease (AD) in a multiethnic, population-based longitudinal study. METHODS:AD cases were identified in the Washington Heights Inwood Columbia Aging Project, a longitudinal, community-based study of cognitive aging in Northern Manhattan. The sample co...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Helzner EP,Scarmeas N,Cosentino S,Tang MX,Schupf N,Stern Y

更新日期：2008-11-04 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate topiramate as monotherapy in adults and children with recently diagnosed, localization-related epilepsy, comparing two dosages of topiramate in a multicenter, randomized, double-blind study. METHODS:Adults and children (>/=3 years of age) were eligible if the maximum interval since epilepsy diagn...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Gilliam FG,Veloso F,Bomhof MA,Gazda SK,Biton V,Ter Bruggen JP,Neto W,Bailey C,Pledger G,Wu SC

更新日期：2003-01-28 00:00:00