Cerebral arteriovenous malformation diagnosis and management.

abstract：:Over the past decade, there has been a dramatic evolution of genetic methodologies that can be used to identify genes contributing to disease. Initially, the focus was primarily on classical linkage analysis; more recently, genomewide association studies, and high-throughput whole genome and whole exome sequencing hav...

journal_title：Seminars in neurology

authors： Farlow JL,Foroud T

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Environmental circumstances that result in ambiguity or conflict with the patterns of sensory stimulation may adversely affect the vestibular system. The effect of this conflict in sensory information may be dizziness, a sense of imbalance, nausea, and motion sickness sometimes even to seemingly minor daily head movem...

journal_title：Seminars in neurology

authors： Bronstein AM,Golding JF,Gresty MA

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Idiopathic intracranial hypertension (IIH), also known as pseudotumor cerebri, is a disease primarily affecting obese women of child-bearing age, typically presenting with positional headaches, diplopia from abducens nerve palsies, pulse-synchronous tinnitus, and visual disturbances related to papilledema, including t...

journal_title：Seminars in neurology

authors： Dinkin M,Oliveira C

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The fields of neurology and psychiatry were originally practiced as a unitary model. As the fields dichotomized patients into "organic" and "functional," patients with medically unexplained symptoms fell between the borderlands. Despite their significant prevalence, somatoform disorders (SDs) are grossly under-recogni...

journal_title：Seminars in neurology

authors： LaFrance WC Jr

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is a very common condition in patients with stroke and is found in over half of stroke patients. There is a complex relationship between OSA and stroke, attributable to shared risk factors. There are numerous mechanisms by which OSA may contribute to increased stroke risk, including promo...

journal_title：Seminars in neurology

authors： Brown DL

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rasmussen encephalitis (RE) is a rare, devastating, progressive pediatric epilepsy. First described 60 years ago, RE continues to present challenges in diagnosis and management. RE causes a unilateral focal epilepsy in children that typically becomes medically refractory, results in significant hemiparesis, and causes...

journal_title：Seminars in neurology

authors： Cay-Martinez KC,Hickman RA,McKhann Ii GM,Provenzano FA,Sands TT

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of technology in neurology education has revolutionized many aspects of medical teaching, addressing some important challenges of modern education such as information overload and the unique needs of millennial learners. However, it also has inherent problems, such as depersonalization and high development cos...

journal_title：Seminars in neurology

authors： Lau KHV,Lakhan SE,Achike F

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As the population ages, the prevalence of many neurologic diseases is increasing. At the same time, older patients are undergoing more surgical procedures. This confluence of events puts neurohospitalists in a unique position to provide both pre- and postoperative guidance to minimize complications, improve clinical o...

journal_title：Seminars in neurology

authors： Hudson KA,Greene JG

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dizziness is a common chief complaint with an extensive differential diagnosis that includes both benign and serious conditions. Physicians must distinguish the majority of patients who suffer from self-limiting conditions from those with serious illnesses that require acute treatment. The preferred approach to the di...

journal_title：Seminars in neurology

authors： Gurley KL,Edlow JA

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuroimaging is commonly utilized in the evaluation of post-cardiac arrest patients, providing a unique ability to visualize and quantify structural brain injury that can complement clinical and electrophysiologic data. Despite its lack of validation, we would advocate that neuroimaging is a valuable prognostication t...

journal_title：Seminars in neurology

authors： Greer DM,Wu O

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clinical guidelines for the determination of brain death in children were first published in 1987. These guidelines were revised in 2011 under the auspices of the Society of Critical Care Medicine, the American Academy of Pediatrics, and the Child Neurology Society, and provide the minimum standards that must be satis...

journal_title：Seminars in neurology

authors： Mathur M,Ashwal S

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Small fiber neuropathy (SFN) is common, and can be associated with many medical conditions. The majority of the patients with SFN suffer from painful paresthesia which can negatively impact their quality of life. Skin biopsy with intraepidermal nerve fiber density evaluation is the gold standard diagnostic test. Auton...

journal_title：Seminars in neurology

authors： Zhou L

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Before the AIDS epidemic, progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML) was a rare disorder occurring most often in association with leukemia and lymphoma. Current estimates indicate that PML ultimately develops in up to 5% of all patients with AIDS. This demyelinating disease results from infection with JC virus, ...

journal_title：Seminars in neurology

authors： Berger JR,Major EO

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common form of dementia in elderly individuals. Although the diagnosis of AD requires pathological confirmation, several common clinical features of AD have been identified. These include insidious onset, gradual progression, medial temporal atrophy, temporoparietal hypoperfusion, ...

journal_title：Seminars in neurology

authors： Kramer JH,Miller BL

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy (EDMD) is the third most common X-linked muscular dystrophy. This disorder is characterized by childhood onset of early contractures, humeroperoneal muscle atrophy, and cardiac conduction abnormalities. Weakness is slowly progressive, but there is a broad spectrum of clinical severity...

journal_title：Seminars in neurology

authors： Zacharias AS,Wagener ME,Warren ST,Hopkins LC

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Severe spastic tone and/or spastic hypertonia can be the most disabling consequences of a neurologic insult, resulting from an excess of muscle tone. Baclofen, a GABA-B agonist, is one of the most widely used drugs in treating abnormal or disabling spastic tone. However, the effectiveness of baclofen taken orally is o...

journal_title：Seminars in neurology

authors： Furr-Stimming E,Boyle AM,Schiess MC

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stroke in the distribution of the posterior circulation may present as acute onset spontaneous vertigo and imbalance. Although vertigo due to posterior circulation stroke is usually associated with other neurologic symptoms or signs, small infarcts in the cerebellum or brainstem can present with vertigo without other ...

journal_title：Seminars in neurology

authors： Kim JS,Lee H

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Status epilepticus is a neurological emergency with an outcome that is highly associated with the initial pharmacotherapy management that must be administered in a timely fashion. Beyond first-line therapy of status epilepticus, treatment is not guided by robust evidence. Optimal pharmacotherapy selection for individu...

journal_title：Seminars in neurology

authors： Der-Nigoghossian C,Tesoro EP,Strein M,Brophy GM

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients who suffer from neuromuscular diseases often have complications from respiratory insufficiencies. Some neuromuscular diseases, for example Landry Guillain-Barré syndrome, may only require temporary tracheal intubation; patients with other neuromuscular diseases, such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, may deci...

journal_title：Seminars in neurology

authors： Gelinas DF

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Delusions may be the most prominent manifestations of brain dysfunction, and a host of medical and neurologic conditions can present with or produce delusions. Recognition of the underlying disorder frequently aids in successful treatment. Comparison of organic delusional syndromes with schizophrenia suggests that lim...

journal_title：Seminars in neurology

authors： Gorman DG,Cummings JL

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lightning and electrical injuries have widespread manifestations involving almost all organ systems of the body, including the central nervous system (CNS) and the eye. This article considers the neuro-ophthalmologic effects of lightning and electrical injury. ...

journal_title：Seminars in neurology

authors： Grover S,Goodwin J

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infective endocarditis (IE) is a systemic disease with many potential neurologic manifestations including ischemic and hemorrhagic strokes, cerebral microbleeding, infectious intracranial aneurysms, meningitis, brain abscesses, and encephalopathy. The majority of left-sided (heart) IE patients have brain lesions that ...

journal_title：Seminars in neurology

authors： Carneiro TS,Awtry E,Dobrilovic N,Fagan MA,Kimmel S,Weinstein ZM,Cervantes-Arslanian AM

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH), which constitutes 10 to 15% of all strokes and affects approximately 65,000 people each year in the United States, has the highest mortality rate of all stroke subtypes. Hypertension, cerebral amyloid angiopathy, and anticoagulation underlie the majority of cases of ICH. Warfarin not on...

journal_title：Seminars in neurology

authors： Towfighi A,Greenberg SM,Rosand J

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Headache is one of the more common reasons for adults to visit an emergency department. Most of these visits are for primary headache disorders, most commonly migraine headache. The authors discuss management options for patients presenting to the emergency department with prolonged, severe, or refractory migraine hea...

journal_title：Seminars in neurology

authors： Robertson CE,Black DF,Swanson JW

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Behavioral interventions such as biofeedback training, relaxation training, and cognitive-behavior stress management therapy have been identified as efficacious treatments for migraine headache. These treatments, and the formats (clinic-based, limited-contact, and home-based) in which they are taught, are described in...

journal_title：Seminars in neurology

authors： Holroyd KA,Drew JB

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A recent development in the evaluation of peripheral neuropathy patients has been the identification of autoantibodies directed against various peripheral nerve antigens. For some conditions, assay for the antibodies can be very helpful in confirming a diagnosis. In others, an antibody may be associated with clinical ...

journal_title：Seminars in neurology

authors： Kissel JT

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:I argue that there is no mind-brain problem but rather that there are irreducible subjective-objective problems. These include the difference between "inside" and "outside" perspectives on neural states, the creation of subjective neural states with objectified outside objects, and awareness of the self as an object i...

journal_title：Seminars in neurology

authors： Feinberg TE

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Psychoanalysis emerged out of Freud's neuropsychologic studies of consciousness and cognition. This article describes the historical development of neuropsychodynamic theories of consciousness and personality, and traces their application to several neuropsychiatric syndromes of intense contemporary clinical interest....

journal_title：Seminars in neurology

authors： Miller L

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leptomeningeal metastasis occurs in ~5% of all patients with cancer and is the third most common metastatic complication of the central nervous system. Staging of leptomeningeal metastasis includes contrast-enhanced brain and spine magnetic resonance imaging and radionuclide cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) flow study. Treat...

journal_title：Seminars in neurology

authors： Chamberlain MC

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fungal central nervous system infections present in a myriad of clinical manifestation and remain a significant diagnostic challenge. Presenting symptoms, cerebrospinal fluid analysis, conventional fungal serum markers and imaging correlates of disease are seldom sensitive or specific; fungal culture growth or histopa...

journal_title：Seminars in neurology

authors： Jia DT,Thakur K

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00