Medial plantar neuropathy.

abstract：:The Finnish Twin Cohort includes all Finnish same-sexed twins born before 1958 and alive in 1967; the number of individuals alive in 1975 was 33,247. We performed a search for cases with Parkinson's disease among this cohort by linking the Twin Cohort Register with the Finnish Hospital Discharge Register and the Finni...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Marttila RJ,Kaprio J,Koskenvuo M,Rinne UK

更新日期：1988-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Current medical educational theory encourages the development of competency-based curricula. The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education's 6 core competencies for resident education (medical knowledge, patient care, professionalism, interpersonal and communication skills, practice-based learning, and syst...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Merlin LR,Horak HA,Milligan TA,Kraakevik JA,Ali II

更新日期：2014-07-29 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the effect of a single oral intake of 30 to 40 grams of alcohol in 4 consecutive patients presenting with Ramsay Hunt syndrome, the most common type of degenerative progressive myoclonic epilepsy (PME) encountered in southern Europe. Clinical and polygraphic monitoring demonstrated abatement of myoclonus in...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Genton P,Guerrini R

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The rate of spontaneous resolution of a recently diagnosed solitary cerebral cysticercus granuloma as visualized on CT scan was prospectively studied in 210 patients presenting with seizures. The proportion of granulomas that had resolved completely at different time intervals after the index scan was 18.8% at 3 month...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Rajshekhar V

更新日期：2001-12-26 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess the effects of gabapentin on sensory and motor symptoms in patients with restless legs syndrome (RLS). METHODS:Patients with RLS (22 idiopathic, 2 secondary to iron deficiency) were randomized and treated for 6 weeks with either gabapentin or placebo. After a 1-week washout they crossed over to the...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Garcia-Borreguero D,Larrosa O,de la Llave Y,Verger K,Masramon X,Hernandez G

更新日期：2002-11-26 00:00:00

abstract：:We performed a randomized double-blind crossover therapeutic bioequivalency study of a generic (Epitol) versus a brand name (Tegretol) carbamazepine product under steady-state conditions in 40 epileptic patients. Each patient received 90-day supplies of Epitol or Tegretol and placebo, which replaced the usual dosage o...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Oles KS,Penry JK,Smith LD,Anderson RL,Dean JC,Riela AR

更新日期：1992-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors identified a novel mtDNA mutation (T9176G) in the ATPase 6 gene in a family in which a 10-year-old girl had a severe neurodegenerative disorder, her elder sister had died of Leigh syndrome (LS), and a maternal uncle had a spinocerebellar disorder. Biochemical studies disclosed a reduced rate of ATP synthes...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Carrozzo R,Tessa A,Vázquez-Memije ME,Piemonte F,Patrono C,Malandrini A,Dionisi-Vici C,Vilarinho L,Villanova M,Schägger H,Federico A,Bertini E,Santorelli FM

更新日期：2001-03-13 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Carotid endarterectomy (CEA) is frequently performed based solely on noninvasive vascular imaging (NVI) results (duplex ultrasound, DU; magnetic resonance angiography, MRA; CT angiography, CTA). The authors determined how often intra-arterial contrast angiography (ANGIO) alters a CEA decision as compared to N...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Johnston DC,Goldstein LB

更新日期：2001-04-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Expert knowledge may compensate for age-related declines in basic cognitive and sensory-motor abilities in some skill domains. We investigated the influence of age and aviation expertise (indexed by Federal Aviation Administration pilot ratings) on longitudinal flight simulator performance. METHODS:Over a 3...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Taylor JL,Kennedy Q,Noda A,Yesavage JA

更新日期：2007-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To describe and analyze etiologies, clinical presentations, therapeutic management, and outcomes of patients with acute encephalitis and identify outcome predictors. METHODS:We conducted a retrospective review of patients diagnosed with acute encephalitis at Mayo Clinic Rochester between January 2000 and Dec...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Singh TD,Fugate JE,Rabinstein AA

更新日期：2015-01-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Morphologic findings of thymuses from 32 anti-acetylcholine receptor (AChR)-negative myasthenia gravis patients, 12 with and 20 without antibodies against the muscle-specific kinase (MuSK), were compared with those from 30 AChR-positive subjects. In contrast with the high frequency of thymic hyperplastic changes in AC...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Lauriola L,Ranelletti F,Maggiano N,Guerriero M,Punzi C,Marsili F,Bartoccioni E,Evoli A

更新日期：2005-02-08 00:00:00

abstract：:To gain insight into the historical features relevant to the diagnosis of cardiac embolic strokes, we studied the 1,290 patients with cerebral infarcts in the NINCDS Stroke Data Bank. Based solely on the presence of cardiac sources of embolism, we divided the patients into groups of high (n = 250), medium (n = 166), a...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Kittner SJ,Sharkness CM,Price TR,Plotnick GD,Dambrosia JM,Wolf PA,Mohr JP,Hier DB,Kase CS,Tuhrim S

更新日期：1990-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Abnormal insulin metabolism may contribute to the clinical symptoms and pathophysiology of AD. In vitro studies show that insulin enhances the release of beta-amyloid protein (Abeta) or inhibits its degradation, either of which might increase amyloid burden. METHODS:On separate mornings, 16 healthy older ad...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Watson GS,Peskind ER,Asthana S,Purganan K,Wait C,Chapman D,Schwartz MW,Plymate S,Craft S

更新日期：2003-06-24 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：:Diffusion-weighted MRI (DWI) was used in three patients with autopsy-proven sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) to provide a rapid noninvasive way to make this sometimes confusing diagnosis. DWI prompted the diagnosis of CJD at an early stage and appears to be particularly useful for monitoring the progression of...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Demaerel P,Heiner L,Robberecht W,Sciot R,Wilms G

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine neurofilament (Nf) concentrations according to symptom onset and clinical diagnostic certainty categories of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). METHODS:We measured Nf light chain (NfL) and phosphorylated Nf heavy chain (pNfH) CSF and NfL serum levels in patients with ALS with first symptom onset...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Feneberg E,Oeckl P,Steinacker P,Verde F,Barro C,Van Damme P,Gray E,Grosskreutz J,Jardel C,Kuhle J,Koerner S,Lamari F,Amador MDM,Mayer B,Morelli C,Muckova P,Petri S,Poesen K,Raaphorst J,Salachas F,Silani V,Stuben

更新日期：2018-01-02 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To report the CNS syndromes of patients ≥60 years of age with antibodies against neuronal surface antigens but no evidence of brain MRI and CSF inflammatory changes. METHODS:This was a retrospective clinical analysis of patients with antibodies against neuronal surface antigens who fulfilled 3 criteria: age ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Escudero D,Guasp M,Ariño H,Gaig C,Martínez-Hernández E,Dalmau J,Graus F

更新日期：2017-10-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Although not approved by the US Food and Drug Administration for the treatment of status epilepticus (SE), valproic acid (VPA) is an emerging option for this purpose. The authors reviewed 63 patients (30 men) with SE treated with IV VPA (average dose, 31.5 mg/kg). Analysis of demographic, clinical, and treatment infor...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Limdi NA,Shimpi AV,Faught E,Gomez CR,Burneo JG

更新日期：2005-01-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Intramedullary cysticercosis of the spinal cord is rare; there have been only 26 previous cases. We describe a patient with low back pain, paraparesis, lumbosacral sensory loss, and signs of meningeal irritation. The clinical diagnosis was spinal cord tumor, but at surgery there was a cysticercus cyst within the lumbo...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Akiguchi I,Fujiwara T,Matsuyama H,Muranaka H,Kameyama M

更新日期：1979-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two patients with visual agnosia underwent visual recognition and neuropsychological tests to characterize their perceptual functioning. Both had an initial "apperceptive profile" and evolved from cortical blindness. One had carbon monoxide intoxication and incidental agenesis of the splenium of the corpus callosum; t...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Mendez MF

更新日期：1988-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epilepsia partialis continua (EPC) may occur during nonketotic hyperglycemia but has not been described with diabetic ketoacidosis. The authors report a patient with EPC associated with ketotic hyperglycemia. Brain MRI showed two areas of abnormal signal intensity in the left precentral gyrus and in the right cerebell...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Placidi F,Floris R,Bozzao A,Romigi A,Baviera ME,Tombini M,Izzi F,Sperli F,Marciani MG

更新日期：2001-08-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Pathologic changes and distribution of lesions of the spinal cord were studied in 16 patients who suffered from "anoxic" episodes. The lesions were symmetrical and limited to the gray matter. The vulnerability of the spinal cord was most marked in the lumbosacral region, although almost every nucleus throughout the sp...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Azzarelli B,Roessmann U

更新日期：1977-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 64-year-old man with diffuse atherosclerosis developed an organic mental syndrome, followed by hypothalamic symptoms. Autopsy showed an old large cystic infarct involving the left temporal lobe including the hippocampus, and atrophy of the ipsilateral fornix, mammillary body, hypothalamus, mammillothalamic tract, an...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Torch WC,Hirano A,Solomon S

更新日期：1977-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:We hypothesized that cardiac electrical instability and abnormal autonomic tone result from cumulative cardiac injury sustained in recurrent seizures. We tested this hypothesis by comparing T-wave alternans (TWA) and heart rate variability (HRV), both established markers of sudden cardiac death (SCD) risk, in...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Pang TD,Nearing BD,Krishnamurthy KB,Olin B,Schachter SC,Verrier RL

更新日期：2019-09-03 00:00:00

abstract：:We review adjunctive ketogenic diet (KD) and modified Atkins diet (MAD) treatment of refractory epilepsy in adults. Only a few studies have been published, all open-label. Because of the disparate, uncontrolled nature of the studies, we analyzed all studies individually, without a meta-analysis. Across all studies, 32...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Klein P,Tyrlikova I,Mathews GC

更新日期：2014-11-18 00:00:00

abstract：:People with AD have deficient contrast sensitivity and impaired face discrimination. The authors presented photographs of unfamiliar faces of three different sizes to enhance the low, middle, or high facial frequency information (cycles per face). Patients with AD demonstrated normal discrimination of small faces only...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Cronin-Golomb A,Cronin-Golomb M,Dunne TE,Brown AC,Jain K,Cipolloni PB,Auerbach SH

更新日期：2000-06-27 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To combine MRI-based cortical morphometry and diffusion white matter tractography to describe the anatomical correlates of repetition deficits in patients with primary progressive aphasia (PPA). METHODS:The traditional anatomical model of language identifies a network for word repetition that includes Wernic...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Forkel SJ,Rogalski E,Drossinos Sancho N,D'Anna L,Luque Laguna P,Sridhar J,Dell'Acqua F,Weintraub S,Thompson C,Mesulam MM,Catani M

更新日期：2020-02-11 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine the diagnostic accuracy and prognostic value of ¹⁸FDG-PET in a recent series of patients operated for intractable partial epilepsy associated with histologically proven Taylor-type focal cortical dysplasia (TTFCD) and negative MRI. METHODS:Of 23 consecutive patients (12 male, 7-38 years old) wit...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Chassoux F,Rodrigo S,Semah F,Beuvon F,Landre E,Devaux B,Turak B,Mellerio C,Meder JF,Roux FX,Daumas-Duport C,Merlet P,Dulac O,Chiron C

更新日期：2010-12-14 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：OBJECTIVE:To determine quantitative size thresholds for enlargement of the optic nerve, chiasm, and tract in children with neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1). METHODS:Children 0.5-18.6 years of age who underwent high-resolution T1-weighted MRI were eligible for inclusion. This consisted of children with NF1 with or withou...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Avery RA,Mansoor A,Idrees R,Biggs E,Alsharid MA,Packer RJ,Linguraru MG

更新日期：2016-06-14 00:00:00