The sensitivity and specificity of MRI in stroke.

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine whether objective and quantitative assessment of dysarthria and dysphagia in spinocerebellar ataxia type 2 (SCA2), specifically at pre-ataxic and early disease phases, can act as sensitive disease markers. METHODS:Forty-six individuals (16 with pre-ataxic SCA2, 14 with early-stage ataxic SCA2, a...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Vogel AP,Magee M,Torres-Vega R,Medrano-Montero J,Cyngler MP,Kruse M,Rojas S,Cubillos SC,Canento T,Maldonado F,Vazquez-Mojena Y,Ilg W,Rodríguez-Labrada R,Velázquez-Pérez L,Synofzik M

更新日期：2020-07-14 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To investigate whether severity and progression of periventricular and deep white matter lesions (WML) and lacunar infarcts were associated with progression of brain atrophy. METHODS:Within the SMART-MR study, a prospective cohort on MRI changes in patients with symptomatic atherosclerotic disease, 565 pati...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Kloppenborg RP,Nederkoorn PJ,Grool AM,Vincken KL,Mali WP,Vermeulen M,van der Graaf Y,Geerlings MI,SMART Study Group.

更新日期：2012-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Physician prediction of outcome in critically ill neurologic patients impacts treatment decisions and goals of care. In this observational study, we prospectively compared predictions by neurointensivists to patient outcomes at 6 months. METHODS:Consecutive neurologic patients requiring mechanical ventilatio...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Finley Caulfield A,Gabler L,Lansberg MG,Eyngorn I,Mlynash M,Buckwalter MS,Venkatasubramanian C,Wijman CA

更新日期：2010-04-06 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To report the incidence of prion disease in the United States. METHODS:Prion disease decedents were retrospectively identified from the US national multiple cause-of-death data for 2003-2015 and matched with decedents in the National Prion Disease Pathology Surveillance Center (NPDPSC) database through compa...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Maddox RA,Person MK,Blevins JE,Abrams JY,Appleby BS,Schonberger LB,Belay ED

更新日期：2020-01-14 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine, in a cross-sectional evaluation of nondemented individuals, if age-related memory decline is influenced by apolipoprotein E (apoE) genotype. BACKGROUND:The apoE-4 allele is an important risk factor for AD. PET in cognitively normal apoE-4 carriers (mean age, 56 years) shows reduced cerebral met...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Caselli RJ,Graff-Radford NR,Reiman EM,Weaver A,Osborne D,Lucas J,Uecker A,Thibodeau SN

更新日期：1999-07-13 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined longitudinal disability scores in 54 patients with Parkinson's disease followed for 6 years at UCLA. We sorted data into 3 groups based on age at onset of symptoms: group A, onset under 50 years; group B, 50 to 59 years; group C, 60 years or older. There were no significant differences between groups initi...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Diamond SG,Markham CH,Hoehn MM,McDowell FH,Muenter MD

更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The visual system has often been described to be sensitized in migraineurs, with light being perceived as aversive or even painful. One possible explanation for this altered perception is crosslinks between the visual and the trigeminonociceptive system. Visual stimulation in chronic migraineurs on the level ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Schulte LH,Allers A,May A

更新日期：2018-05-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Sphingosine 1-phosphate receptors (S1PRs) are G protein-coupled receptors expressed by many cell types, including immune and neural cells. These receptors are promising targets for immunomodulatory and possibly neuromodulatory therapies. Fingolimod (FTY720) is a sphingosine analog that, when phosphorylated, becomes a ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Soliven B,Miron V,Chun J

更新日期：2011-02-22 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the cerebral effects of oxygen-derived free radicals generated from the xanthine oxidase/hypoxanthine/ADP-Fe3+ system. Xanthine oxidase/hypoxanthine/ADP-Fe3+ solution (0.1 ml) was infused into caudate putamen, and brain was frozen rapidly in situ. Brain water and sodium content increased concomitant with de...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Chan PH,Schmidley JW,Fishman RA,Longar SM

更新日期：1984-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evidence suggests that untreated obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) can lead to hypertension, cardiovascular disease, and stroke. Conversely, the systemic effects of a wide variety of critical illnesses can lead to CNS dysfunction, which can precipitate respiratory failure. Reported is a patient in whom an acute encephalop...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Dyken ME,Yamada T,Berger HA

更新日期：2003-05-27 00:00:00

abstract：:We tested the hypothesis that an anticardiolipin antibody (aCL) titer of > or = 10 IgG phospholipid (GPL) at the time of an index ischemic stroke is associated with an increased risk of subsequent thrombo-occlusive events or death. First-time ischemic stroke patients from the Antiphospholipid Antibodies and Stroke Stu...

journal_title：Neurology

authors：

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A neurocutaneous syndrome is described in which spastic paraplegia, peroneal neuropathy, and crural hypopigmentation are inherited in a dominant pattern. Spastic paraplegia becomes clinically apparent during adolescence or in childhood and progresses slowly throughout the adult years with a variability in severity of ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Stewart RM,Tunell G,Ehle A

更新日期：1981-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess the available evidence for the diagnostic accuracy of CSF testing for protein 14-3-3 in patients with suspected sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (sCJD). METHODS:The authors performed a systematic review of the available literature from 1995 to January 1, 2011, to identify articles involving patie...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Muayqil T,Gronseth G,Camicioli R

更新日期：2012-10-02 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Functional neuroimaging has shown that the absence of externally observable signs of consciousness and cognition in severely brain-injured patients does not necessarily indicate the true absence of such abilities. However, relative to traumatic brain injury, nontraumatic injury is known to be associated with...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Cruse D,Chennu S,Chatelle C,Fernández-Espejo D,Bekinschtein TA,Pickard JD,Laureys S,Owen AM

更新日期：2012-03-13 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To accurately define the electroclinical features of absence seizures in children with newly diagnosed, untreated childhood absence epilepsy (CAE). METHODS:The authors searched an EEG database for absence seizures in normal children with new onset untreated absence epilepsy. Seventy consecutive children were...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Sadleir LG,Farrell K,Smith S,Connolly MB,Scheffer IE

更新日期：2006-08-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors studied immunoglobulin G (IgG) Fc receptor (FcgammaR) IIA, IIIA, and IIIB polymorphisms in 62 patients with Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) and in 89 healthy controls. The FcgammaR genotypes and allele frequencies did not differ significantly between the patients with GBS and the controls. Patients homozygou...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Vedeler CA,Raknes G,Myhr KM,Nyland H

更新日期：2000-09-12 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:To study the presenting features and value of routine diagnostic procedures in patients with leptomeningeal metastases (LMM) related to the primary malignancy to improve diagnostic assessment. METHODS:The authors studied the presenting features and value of routine diagnostic procedures in relation to the hi...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： van Oostenbrugge RJ,Twijnstra A

更新日期：1999-07-22 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:In patients with MG it may be difficult to determine whether respiratory insufficiency is due to a defect in neuromuscular transmission. We therefore studied the clinical value of repetitive electrical stimulation of the phrenic nerve. METHODS:Repetitive phrenic nerve stimulation at 3 Hz was performed in 25 ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Zifko UA,Nicolle MW,Grisold W,Bolton CF

更新日期：1999-09-22 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine the associations between amyloid-PET, tau-PET, and atrophy with the behavioral/dysexecutive presentation of Alzheimer disease (AD), how these differ from amnestic AD, and how they correlate to clinical symptoms. METHODS:We assessed 15 patients with behavioral/dysexecutive AD recruited from a ter...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Therriault J,Pascoal TA,Savard M,Benedet AL,Chamoun M,Tissot C,Lussier F,Kang MS,Thomas E,Terada T,Rej S,Massarweh G,Nasreddine Z,Vitali P,Soucy JP,Saha-Chaudhuri P,Gauthier S,Rosa-Neto P

更新日期：2021-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To compare the effectiveness of upper extremity virtual reality rehabilitation training (VR) to time-matched conventional training (CT) in the subacute phase after stroke. METHODS:In this randomized, controlled, single-blind phase III multicenter trial, 120 participants with upper extremity motor impairment ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Brunner I,Skouen JS,Hofstad H,Aßmus J,Becker F,Sanders AM,Pallesen H,Qvist Kristensen L,Michielsen M,Thijs L,Verheyden G

更新日期：2017-12-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Using a radioreceptor technique, we assayed serum trihexyphenidyl levels in patients with dystonia being treated chronically with high dosage. We found a significant correlation between total daily dose and the daily lowest (trough) serum levels. There was no relationship between serum levels and therapeutic response ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Burke RE,Fahn S

更新日期：1985-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors have developed an MG activities of daily living (ADL) profile (MG-ADL)-a simple eight-question survey of MG symptoms. In 254 consecutive encounters with established MG patients, the authors compared scores from the MG-ADL to the quantitative MG score (QMG)-a standardized, reliable scale used in clinical tr...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Wolfe GI,Herbelin L,Nations SP,Foster B,Bryan WW,Barohn RJ

更新日期：1999-04-22 00:00:00

abstract：:In 10 patients with chronic autonomic failure, the sympathetic perivascular nerve plexuses from quadriceps muscle biopsies were studied by catecholamine fluorescence and electronmicroscopy. There was almost complete absence of catecholamine fluorescence and fewer than normal numbers of small granular (noradrenergic) v...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Bannister R,Crowe R,Eames R,Burnstock G

更新日期：1981-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inclusion-body myositis (IBM) is an inflammatory muscle disease that has proven resistant to treatment. Tumor necrosis factor molecules have been detected in muscle biopsies from patients with IBM. Etanercept is a TNFalpha receptor fusion protein that binds and inactivates tumor necrosis factor. Nine patients were tre...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Barohn RJ,Herbelin L,Kissel JT,King W,McVey AL,Saperstein DS,Mendell JR

更新日期：2006-01-24 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To critically re-evaluate cases diagnosed as adult neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis (ANCL) in order to aid clinicopathologic diagnosis as a route to further gene discovery. METHODS:Through establishment of an international consortium we pooled 47 unsolved cases regarded by referring centers as ANCL. Clinical a...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Berkovic SF,Staropoli JF,Carpenter S,Oliver KL,Kmoch S,Anderson GW,Damiano JA,Hildebrand MS,Sims KB,Cotman SL,Bahlo M,Smith KR,Cadieux-Dion M,Cossette P,Jedličková I,Přistoupilová A,Mole SE,ANCL Gene Discovery Consortiu

更新日期：2016-08-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The childhood type fo dermatomyositis, which occurs in children and young adults, shows a specific constellation of pathologic changes in muscle. Capillary necrosis leads to capillary loss, generally starting on the periphery of muscle fascicles. Electron microscopy discloses undulating tubules in endothelial cells, l...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Carpenter S,Karpati G,Rothman S,Watters G

更新日期：1976-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have studied one family of a pedigree in which bulbospinal muscular atrophy and protanopia were segregated. Genotypes for these disorders were obtained on three generations, and the maximum likelihood estimate of recombination fraction was 0.4 with the lod score method. The results indicated that the two loci are n...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Mukai E,Yasuma T

更新日期：1987-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Idiopathic REM sleep behavior disorder (RBD) is characterized by loss of atonia during REM sleep, resulting in motor activity during dreams. Studies estimate that approximately half of patients with RBD will eventually develop Parkinson disease (PD), so RBD may be an indicator of presymptomatic PD. Several p...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Postuma RB,Lang AE,Massicotte-Marquez J,Montplaisir J

更新日期：2006-03-28 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a case of Burkitt's cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia presenting with the bilateral numb chin syndrome as the initial symptom of the disease. Postmortem study of the trigeminal nerve showed heavy infiltrations of leukemic cells and destruction of axon and myelin by leukemic cells in the mandibular nerve. ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Kuroda Y,Fujiyama F,Ohyama T,Watanabe T,Endo C,Neshige R,Kakigi R

更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00