Cholinergic enhancement and REM sleep latency in the aged: lecithin does not reproduce physostigmine effect.

abstract：:An infant with transient neonatal myasthenia gravis had a double-blood-volume exchange transfusion because of maternal-fetal blood group incompatibility. This seemed to accelerate both decline in antiacetylcholine antibody titer and clinical improvement. ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Donat JF,Donat JR,Lennon VA

更新日期：1981-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In children with tuberous sclerosis, the PET tracer alpha[11C]methyl-L-tryptophan (AMT) has been shown to be selectively taken up by epileptogenic tubers, thus allowing differentiation from nonepileptogenic tubers in the interictal state. OBJECTIVE:To determine whether cortical areas showing increased AMT u...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Juhász C,Chugani DC,Muzik O,Shah A,Asano E,Mangner TJ,Chakraborty PK,Sood S,Chugani HT

更新日期：2003-03-25 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied 25 patients within 6 hours of acute spinal cord injury using magnetically evoked cortical motor evoked potentials (MEPs). The subjects included 16 quadriplegics with cervical spine injuries and eight paraplegics. MEPs were recorded from abductor digiti minimi (ADM), biceps, flexor hallucis brevis, and tibia...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Macdonell RA,Donnan GA

更新日期：1995-02-01 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：: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 investigate whether arginine methylation is altered in patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and how it affects disease severity, progression, and prognosis. METHODS:We compared the immunoreactivity of protein arginine methyltransferase 1 (PRMT1) and its products, asymmetric dimethylated prote...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Ikenaka K,Atsuta N,Maeda Y,Hotta Y,Nakamura R,Kawai K,Yokoi D,Hirakawa A,Taniguchi A,Morita M,Mizoguchi K,Mochizuki H,Kimura K,Katsuno M,Sobue G

更新日期：2019-04-16 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Many patients with traumatic brain injury (TBI) report chronic fatigue, and previous studies showed a potential relationship between sleepiness and fatigue in these patients. Our study first looked at the impact of objective and subjective sleepiness on fatigue in patients with TBI. We then investigated how ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Chaumet G,Quera-Salva MA,Macleod A,Hartley S,Taillard J,Sagaspe P,Mazaux JM,Azouvi P,Joseph PA,Guilleminault C,Bioulac B,Léger D,Philip P

更新日期：2008-11-11 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To distinguish, in patients with Korsakoff syndrome (KS), the structural brain abnormalities shared with alcoholic patients without KS (AL), from those specific to KS. METHODS:MRI data were collected in 11 alcoholic patients with KS, 34 alcoholic patients without KS, and 25 healthy control subjects (CS). Gra...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Pitel AL,Chételat G,Le Berre AP,Desgranges B,Eustache F,Beaunieux H

更新日期：2012-04-24 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 describe the clinical features, MRI findings, and pathogenesis of strokes producing internuclear ophthalmoplegia (INO) as an isolated or predominant clinical manifestation. METHODS:Thirty patients presenting with INO without (n = 12) or with (n = 18) minimal other neurologic signs were studied. MRI and an...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Kim JS

更新日期：2004-05-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cervical artery dissection is often attributed to an underlying arteriopathy related to a generalized extracellular matrix defect. OBJECTIVE:The authors compared the hemodynamic and morphologic properties of the carotid artery, as assessed noninvasively by ultrasonography, in patients with spontaneous inter...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Guillon B,Tzourio C,Biousse V,Adraï V,Bousser MG,Touboul PJ

更新日期：2000-09-12 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:In this study, we compared a cognition-specific computer-based cognitive training program with a motion-controlled computer sports game that is not cognition-specific for their ability to enhance cognitive performance in various cognitive domains in patients with Parkinson disease (PD). METHODS:Patients with...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Zimmermann R,Gschwandtner U,Benz N,Hatz F,Schindler C,Taub E,Fuhr P

更新日期：2014-04-08 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess the effect of usage of three different versions of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) diagnostic criteria on estimates of CJD incidence. METHODS:A total of 428 patients referred for suspected sporadic CJD between 1991 and 1997 were classified according to different criteria to be compared after analys...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Brandel JP,Delasnerie-Lauprêtre N,Laplanche JL,Hauw JJ,Alpérovitch A

更新日期：2000-03-14 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine how memory-encoding tasks elicit functional perfusion change in subjects with amnestic mild cognitive impairment (aMCI). METHODS:Twelve subjects with aMCI and 14 age-matched cognitively normal (CN) subjects were recruited for this study. Arterial spin-labeling perfusion MRI (ASL-MRI) was employe...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Xu G,Antuono PG,Jones J,Xu Y,Wu G,Ward D,Li SJ

更新日期：2007-10-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A large proportion of survivors of traumatic brain injury (TBI) have persistent cognitive impairments, the profile of which does not always correspond to the size and location of injuries. One possible explanation could be that TBI-induced damage extends beyond obvious lesion sites to affect remote brain net...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Kasahara M,Menon DK,Salmond CH,Outtrim JG,Taylor Tavares JV,Carpenter TA,Pickard JD,Sahakian BJ,Stamatakis EA

更新日期：2010-07-13 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 evaluate the effectiveness of yoga as an adjuvant to conventional medical management on clinical outcomes in patients with migraine. METHODS:CONTAIN was a prospective, randomized, open-label superiority trial with blinded endpoint assessment carried out at a single tertiary care academic hospital in New D...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Kumar A,Bhatia R,Sharma G,Dhanlika D,Vishnubhatla S,Singh RK,Dash D,Tripathi M,Srivastava MVP

更新日期：2020-05-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Timely recruiting and retaining participants into Alzheimer disease (AD) clinical trials is a challenge. We used conjoint analysis to identify how alterations in attributes of clinical trial design improve willingness to participate: risk, home visits, car service, or increased chance of receiving interventi...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Karlawish J,Cary MS,Rubright J,Tenhave T

更新日期：2008-12-02 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：:Despite evidence for the efficacy of thrombolytic therapy in acute ischemic stroke, only 1 to 7% of patients receive this therapy. The authors sought to determine the reasons for exclusion from tissue plasminogen activator (tPA) in an acute setting and found avoidable causes in 18% of patients. Improvements in intraho...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Cocho D,Belvís R,Martí-Fàbregas J,Molina-Porcel L,Díaz-Manera J,Aleu A,Pagonabarraga J,García-Bargo D,Mauri A,Martí-Vilalta JL

更新日期：2005-02-22 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The aim of the current study was, first, to determine the critical causative vestibular areas that in exceptional cases manifest with transient vertigo or dizziness in acute strokes of the middle cerebral artery, and second, to try to explain why in most cases unilateral lesions of these areas manifest witho...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Dieterich M,Brandt T

更新日期：2015-04-21 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess neurodevelopmental outcome after endovascular treatment of vein of Galen malformations (VOGM). METHODS:Outcome of patients who underwent endovascular treatment for VOGM between 1983 and 2002 was assessed by chart review and parental questionnaires. Development was classified as normal, minor delay ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Fullerton HJ,Aminoff AR,Ferriero DM,Gupta N,Dowd CF

更新日期：2003-11-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors studied presymptomatic individuals with the Huntington disease (HD) mutation to determine whether cortical thinning was present. They found thinning that was regionally selective, semi-independent of striatal volume loss, and correlated with cognitive performance. Early, extensive cortical involvement occu...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Rosas HD,Hevelone ND,Zaleta AK,Greve DN,Salat DH,Fischl B

更新日期：2005-09-13 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 perform a systematic review and meta-analysis of studies reporting recurrent intracranial hemorrhage (ICH) and ischemic stroke (IS) in ICH survivors with atrial fibrillation (AF) during long-term follow-up. METHODS:A comprehensive literature search including MEDLINE, EMBASE, Cochrane library, clinical tri...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Korompoki E,Filippidis FT,Nielsen PB,Del Giudice A,Lip GYH,Kuramatsu JB,Huttner HB,Fang J,Schulman S,Martí-Fàbregas J,Gathier CS,Viswanathan A,Biffi A,Poli D,Weimar C,Malzahn U,Heuschmann P,Veltkamp R

更新日期：2017-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Fifty patients underwent superficial temporal lobectomy for intractable temporal lobe epilepsy. Total cure rate was 52%, and significant improvement was achieved in 88%. Cytoarchitectural changes in gray and white tissue were analyzed under light microscopy. Neuronal dysgenesis was correlated with the duration of seiz...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Hardiman O,Burke T,Phillips J,Murphy S,O'Moore B,Staunton H,Farrell MA

更新日期：1988-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Restless legs syndrome (RLS) is a common neurologic disorder that affects 5 to 10% of the population and increases in prevalence with aging. The clinical hallmarks of RLS include dysesthesias or paresthesias in the legs and sometimes the arms, occurring primarily at rest, which are usually worse in the evening and are...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Comella CL

更新日期：2002-02-26 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To quantify the isoprostane 8,12-iso-iPF2alpha-VI in brain tissues obtained from patients with AD, patients with frontotemporal dementia (FTD), and controls. BACKGROUND:Enhanced brain oxidative stress with secondary damage to cellular macromolecules may play a role in the pathogenesis of AD and FTD. The isop...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Yao Y,Zhukareva V,Sung S,Clark CM,Rokach J,Lee VM,Trojanowski JQ,Praticò D

更新日期：2003-08-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The head impulse test (HIT) is a useful bedside test to identify peripheral vestibular deficits. However, such a deficit of the vestibulo-ocular reflex (VOR) may not be diagnosed because corrective saccades cannot always be detected by simple observation. The scleral search coil technique is the gold standar...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： MacDougall HG,Weber KP,McGarvie LA,Halmagyi GM,Curthoys IS

更新日期：2009-10-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The neurofilament is the major cytoskeletal structure of myelinated axons. In this study, CSF levels of the light subunit of the neurofilament protein (NFL) were increased in patients with vascular dementia (VAD), AD, and frontotemporal dementia (FTD) compared with neurologically healthy individuals. Because NFL is lo...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Rosengren LE,Karlsson JE,Sjögren M,Blennow K,Wallin A

更新日期：1999-03-23 00:00:00