Disordered swallowing due to a syrinx: correction by shunting.

abstract：:We compared the neurologic and cognitive performance of 15 young veterans who suffered unilateral penetrating missile wounds to the basal forebrain 15 years ago in the Vietnam War with uninjured controls and patients with lesions elsewhere in the brain. The subjects performed worse on tests of episodic memory, reasoni...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Salazar AM,Grafman J,Schlesselman S,Vance SC,Mohr JP,Carpenter M,Pevsner P,Ludlow C,Weingartner H

更新日期：1986-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies reported that a 2- to 3-week course of IV cyclophosphamide plus adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH) induction can temporarily halt progressive MS for a period of 12 months in the majority of patients treated, after which reprogression occurs. The Northeast Cooperative Multiple Sclerosis Treatment Group...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Weiner HL,Mackin GA,Orav EJ,Hafler DA,Dawson DM,LaPierre Y,Herndon R,Lehrich JR,Hauser SL,Turel A

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We performed a prospective study of neuroimaging studies and temporal lobe pathology in 13 patients with facial asymmetry and intractable partial epilepsy of temporal lobe origin. The 13 patients, derived from 50 consecutive patients with nonlesional medically refractory partial epilepsy, were deemed appropriate candi...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Cascino GD,Luckstein RR,Sharbrough FW,Jack CR Jr

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The NIH Stroke Scale (NIHSS) may not appropriately assess the spectrum of posterior circulation (PC)-related neurologic deficits. We determined the cutoff baseline NIHSS score that predicts independent daily life activity during the chronic stage in anterior circulation (AC) vs PC ischemic strokes. METHODS:A...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Sato S,Toyoda K,Uehara T,Toratani N,Yokota C,Moriwaki H,Naritomi H,Minematsu K

更新日期：2008-06-10 00:00:00

abstract：:After superficial temporal artery-middle cerebral artery bypass, cerebral blood flow (CBF) in the operated hemisphere increased in 6 of 17 patients. Preoperatively, the symptomatic hemisphere showed lower CBF in all six, lower oxygen metabolism in five, higher blood volume in four, and higher oxygen extraction in two....

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Powers WJ,Martin WR,Herscovitch P,Raichle ME,Grubb RL Jr

更新日期：1984-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a 51-year-old woman with vitamin B12 deficiency who presented with slight megaloblastic anemia and severe neurologic deficits associated with multiple focal and confluent T2-weighted white matter hyperintensities on brain MRI. Forty-four months after initiation of hydroxocobalamin therapy, there was clinical...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Stojsavljević N,Lević Z,Drulović J,Dragutinović G

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors used 1H-MRS to investigate hypothalamic metabolism in 26 patients with cluster headache (CH) and 12 healthy subjects. Hypothalamic N-acetylaspartate/creatine was reduced in patients with CH vs controls (p < 0.01). Dividing the patients into episodic CH outside- and in-cluster periods and chronic CH, the hy...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Lodi R,Pierangeli G,Tonon C,Cevoli S,Testa C,Bivona G,Magnifico F,Cortelli P,Montagna P,Barbiroli B

更新日期：2006-04-25 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To quantify disease progression in individuals with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) using magnetic resonance biomarkers of leg muscles. METHODS:MRI and magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) biomarkers were acquired from 104 participants with DMD and 51 healthy controls using a prospective observational stu...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Rooney WD,Berlow YA,Triplett WT,Forbes SC,Willcocks RJ,Wang DJ,Arpan I,Arora H,Senesac C,Lott DJ,Tennekoon G,Finkel R,Russman BS,Finanger EL,Chakraborty S,O'Brien E,Moloney B,Barnard A,Sweeney HL,Daniels MJ,Walter

更新日期：2020-04-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Migraine is a frequent familial disorder that, in common with most multifactorial disorders, has an unknown etiology. The authors identified several families with multiple individuals affected by typical migraine using a single set of diagnostic criteria and studied these families for cosegregation between the disorde...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Nyholt DR,Lea RA,Goadsby PJ,Brimage PJ,Griffiths LR

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The prevalence and psychopathologic features of psychiatric adverse events (PAE) in 517 patients taking levetiracetam (LEV) were investigated. Fifty-three (10.1%) patients developed PAE. A significant association was found with previous psychiatric history, history of febrile convulsions, and history of status epilept...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Mula M,Trimble MR,Yuen A,Liu RS,Sander JW

更新日期：2003-09-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In a recent study, the authors found that blinks in healthy volunteers always triggered ocular torsion quick phases during dynamic roll movements of the head. On the basis of this observation, they hypothesized that blinks in patients with a vestibular tone imbalance would also trigger torsional quick phases...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Schneider E,Glasauer S,Dieterich M,Kalla R,Brandt T

更新日期：2004-10-12 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess the potential relationship of ultraviolet B radiation (UVB) and Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) exposure in explaining the period prevalence of multiple sclerosis (MS) in England. METHODS:English national Hospital Episode Statistics covering all admissions to National Health Service hospitals in England i...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Ramagopalan SV,Handel AE,Giovannoni G,Rutherford Siegel S,Ebers GC,Chaplin G

更新日期：2011-04-19 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To estimate the prevalence and examine the course of mild cognitive impairment (MCI), amnestic type, using current criteria, within a representative community sample. METHODS:Retroactive application of MCI criteria to data collected during a prospective epidemiologic study was performed. The subjects were dr...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Ganguli M,Dodge HH,Shen C,DeKosky ST

更新日期：2004-07-13 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the effect of simulation-based mastery learning (SBML) on internal medicine residents' lumbar puncture (LP) skills, assess neurology residents' acquired LP skills from traditional clinical education, and compare the results of SBML to traditional clinical education. METHODS:This study was a prete...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Barsuk JH,Cohen ER,Caprio T,McGaghie WC,Simuni T,Wayne DB

更新日期：2012-07-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Serial determinations of spinal fluid homovanillic acid (HVA) and 5-hydroxyindoleacetic acid (5-HIAA) were made in four patients with the Lesch-Nyhan syndrome over a 5-year period. Control spinal fluids for age-matched comparison were obtained from 194 neurologic and nonneurologic pediatric patients. A rapid decline i...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Silverstein FS,Johnston MV,Hutchinson RJ,Edwards NL

更新日期：1985-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess pathologic changes in prospectively characterized subjects with essential tremor (ET). METHODS:Subjects enrolled in the Sun Health Research Institute Brain and Body Donation Program were examined annually by a movement disorders neurologist, and semiannually by a behavioral neurologist and neuropsy...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Shill HA,Adler CH,Sabbagh MN,Connor DJ,Caviness JN,Hentz JG,Beach TG

更新日期：2008-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Loading doses of 15 to 20 mg per kilogram of both phenobarbital and phenytoin, administered intravenously, are necessary in the newborn to achieve rapid therapeutic plasma anticonvulsant levels. Maintenance doses of 3 to 4 mg per kilogram of both agents will maintain therapeutic levels. Phenytoin is, however, not pred...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Painter MJ,Pippenger C,Wasterlain C,Barmada M,Pitlick W,Carter G,Abern S

更新日期：1981-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To revise the 1999 Airlie House consensus guidelines for the design and implementation of preclinical therapeutic studies and clinical trials in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). METHODS:A consensus committee comprising 140 key members of the international ALS community (ALS researchers, clinicians, patie...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： van den Berg LH,Sorenson E,Gronseth G,Macklin EA,Andrews J,Baloh RH,Benatar M,Berry JD,Chio A,Corcia P,Genge A,Gubitz AK,Lomen-Hoerth C,McDermott CJ,Pioro EP,Rosenfeld J,Silani V,Turner MR,Weber M,Brooks BR,Miller

更新日期：2019-04-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The initial decision in the management of idiopathic parkinsonism is whether any pharmacotherapy is indicated. There is no conclusive evidence that treatment is helpful before symptoms start to affect the patient's life, although some neurologists believe that deprenyl, also known as selegiline, could be useful. Once ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Calne DB

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To assess the role of current weekly alcohol consumption as a risk factor for cerebral infarction, we administered a pretested questionnaire to 205 middle-aged and elderly acute ischemic stroke patients and 410 outpatient controls matched by age, sex, race, and method of hospital payment. The frequency of hypertension...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Gorelick PB,Rodin MB,Langenberg P,Hier DB,Costigan J

更新日期：1989-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a family with an X-linked recessive disorder characterized by muscle cramps and myalgia. Nine affected male family members had high resting serum levels of creatine kinase, and well-developed musculature with calf hypertrophy but no evidence of muscular weakness. Symptoms began in childhood and did not progr...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Gospe SM Jr,Lazaro RP,Lava NS,Grootscholten PM,Scott MO,Fischbeck KH

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pramipexole is a new, selective, nonergoline dopamine agonist that acts on D2 and preferentially on D3 dopamine receptors. Phase II and III clinical trials have shown this drug to be useful in treating both early and advanced Parkinson's disease (PD) patients. A double-blind, randomized, multicenter study was performe...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Guttman M

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To present the current terminology and natural history of neurofibromatosis 1 (NF1) cutaneous neurofibromas (cNF). METHODS:NF1 experts from various research and clinical backgrounds reviewed the terms currently in use for cNF as well as the clinical, histologic, and radiographic features of these tumors usin...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Ortonne N,Wolkenstein P,Blakeley JO,Korf B,Plotkin SR,Riccardi VM,Miller DC,Huson S,Peltonen J,Rosenberg A,Carroll SL,Verma SK,Mautner V,Upadhyaya M,Stemmer-Rachamimov A

更新日期：2018-07-10 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To identify the genetic and physiologic basis for recessive myasthenic congenital myopathy in 2 families, suggestive of a channelopathy involving the sodium channel gene, SCN4A. METHODS:A combination of whole exome sequencing and targeted mutation analysis, followed by voltage-clamp studies of mutant sodium ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Elia N,Palmio J,Castañeda MS,Shieh PB,Quinonez M,Suominen T,Hanna MG,Männikkö R,Udd B,Cannon SC

更新日期：2019-03-26 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：BACKGROUND:While stable xenon CT (Xe-CT) cerebral blood flow (CBF) is an accepted standard for quantitative assessment of cerebral hemodynamics, the accuracy of magnetic resonance perfusion-weighted imaging (PWI-MRI) is unclear. The Improved PWI Methodology in Acute Clinical Stroke Study compares PWI findings with Xe-C...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Olivot JM,Mlynash M,Zaharchuk G,Straka M,Bammer R,Schwartz N,Lansberg MG,Moseley ME,Albers GW

更新日期：2009-03-31 00:00:00

abstract：:In 17 patients with cough syncope, electroencephalograms showed normal interictal recordings in 12 patients, minimally abnormal recordings in 4, and a moderately abnormal recording in 1. Fourteen episodes of cough syncope (six patients) were recorded, with the EEGs showing diffuse theta and delta slowing during the ep...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： DeMaria AA Jr,Westmoreland BF,Sharbrough FW

更新日期：1984-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We attempted to define the role of subtle changes in the normal-appearing white matter (NAWM) in the development of disability in multiple sclerosis (MS). Twenty-seven clinically definite MS patients with either relapsing-remitting or chronic-progressive courses and 10 sex- and age-matched controls entered the study. ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Filippi M,Campi A,Dousset V,Baratti C,Martinelli V,Canal N,Scotti G,Comi G

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To characterize brain functional connectivity in subjects with prechiasmatic visual system damage and relate functional connectivity features to extent of vision loss. METHODS:In this case-control study, resting-state, eyes-closed EEG activity was recorded in patients with partial optic nerve damage (n = 15)...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Bola M,Gall C,Moewes C,Fedorov A,Hinrichs H,Sabel BA

更新日期：2014-08-05 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To describe the clinical features and outcome of anti-NMDA receptor (NMDAR) encephalitis in patients ≥45 years old. METHOD:Observational cohort study. RESULTS:In a cohort of 661 patients with anti-NMDAR encephalitis, we identified 31 patients ≥45 years old. Compared with younger adults (18-44 years), older ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Titulaer MJ,McCracken L,Gabilondo I,Iizuka T,Kawachi I,Bataller L,Torrents A,Rosenfeld MR,Balice-Gordon R,Graus F,Dalmau J

更新日期：2013-09-17 00:00:00