Sensory neuronopathy and Sjögren's syndrome: clinical and immunologic study of two patients.

abstract：:A 78-year-old woman presented with a right basal ganglia infarct 6 weeks after a left herpes zoster ophthalmicus. MR angiography showed focal segmental stenosis of the proximal segments of the anterior, middle, and posterior cerebral arteries. Varicella DNA was detected in the CSF by polymerase chain reaction (PCR). T...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Melanson M,Chalk C,Georgevich L,Fett K,Lapierre Y,Duong H,Richardson J,Marineau C,Rouleau GA

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 47 patients with Parkinson's disease, we studied the visual evoked potential (VEP) using the pattern-reversal checkerboard (CBVEP) and the grating (GVEP) stimuli before and after 3 months of L-dopa therapy. The P100 latency in both CBVEP and GVEP was prolonged before L-dopa therapy, usually commensurate with the de...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Bhaskar PA,Vanchilingam S,Bhaskar EA,Devaprabhu A,Ganesan RA

更新日期：1986-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Despite many neuropsychological studies to differentiate subcortical vascular dementia (SVaD) from Alzheimer disease (AD), previous studies did not eliminate confounding effects of mixed Alzheimer and vascular pathology. We aimed to investigate neuropsychological differences between patients with Pittsburgh ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Yoon CW,Shin JS,Kim HJ,Cho H,Noh Y,Kim GH,Chin JH,Oh SJ,Kim JS,Choe YS,Lee KH,Lee JH,Seo SW,Na DL

更新日期：2013-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：:A national survey, based on a probability sample of patients admitted to short-term hospitals in the United States during 1973 to 1974 with a discharge diagnosis of an intracranial neoplasm, was conducted in 157 hospitals. The annual incidence was estimated at 17,000 for primary intracranial neoplasms and 17,400 for s...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Walker AE,Robins M,Weinfeld FD

更新日期：1985-02-01 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：PURPOSE:To understand the role of the angiopoietin-like 6 gene (ANGPTL6) in intracranial aneurysms (IAs), we investigated its role in a large cohort of familial IAs. METHODS:Individuals with family history of IA were recruited to the Genetic and Observational Subarachnoid Haemorrhage (GOSH) study. The ANGPTL6 gene was...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Hostettler IC,O'Callaghan B,Bugiardini E,O'Connor E,Vandrovcova J,Davagnanam I,Alg V,Bonner S,Walsh D,Bulters D,Kitchen N,Brown MM,Grieve J,Werring DJ,Houlden H,Genetics and Observational Subarachnoid Haemorrhage (GOSH) Stu

更新日期：2020-10-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Quantitative studies of the afferent pathways from hollow viscera have been limited by the lack of an easily controlled, reproducible visceral stimulus. We adapted a slow distention device to allow for rapid distention to study the afferent pathways from the rectum. The device produced a pressure increase of 10 mm Hg ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Loening-Baucke V,Anderson RH,Yamada T,Zhu YX

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The one-and-a-half syndrome is a clinical disorder of extraocular movements characterized by a conjugate horizontal gaze palsy in one direction plus an internuclear ophthalmoplegia in the other. The syndrome is usually due to a single unilateral lesion of the paramedian pontine reticular formation or the abducens nucl...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Wall M,Wray SH

更新日期：1983-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in NOTCH3 are the cause of cerebral autosomal dominant arteriopathy with subcortical infarcts and leukoencephalopathy (CADASIL), a hereditary angiopathy causing stroke and vascular dementia. All CADASIL mutations identified so far result in the loss or gain of one cysteine residue within epidermal growth fac...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Dichgans M,Herzog J,Gasser T

更新日期：2001-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To prospectively evaluate the effect of pump-infused intrathecal baclofen infusion (ITB) in therapeutic doses on sleep quality and on daytime and nighttime respiratory function in patients with severe spasticity. METHODS:We prospectively evaluated 20 consecutive patients (mean +/- SD age 45 +/- 13 years). We...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Bensmail D,Quera Salva MA,Roche N,Benyahia S,Bohic M,Denys P,Bussel B,Lofaso F

更新日期：2006-10-24 00:00:00

abstract：:There are multiple difficulties in evaluating new treatments for multiple sclerosis (MS). The clinical diagnosis is imprecise, and the correlation between lesion and clinical dysfunction is incomplete. The neurologic evaluation is complex and lacks full precision. The course of MS is complex and has limited predictabi...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Brown JR

更新日期：1980-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Migrainous infarction is considered a rare complication of migraine. Although several studies reported silent brain lesions on neuroimaging in patients with migraine with aura, knowledge about lesion patterns in acute migrainous infarction is scarce. We investigated clinical and MRI characteristics in a serie...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Wolf ME,Szabo K,Griebe M,Förster A,Gass A,Hennerici MG,Kern R

更新日期：2011-05-31 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To identify regional metabolic brain networks related specifically to the presence of tremor in PD. BACKGROUND:The pathophysiology of parkinsonian tremor is unknown. Because tremor in PD occurs mainly in repose, we used resting state PET with 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) to identify specific metabolic brain ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Antonini A,Moeller JR,Nakamura T,Spetsieris P,Dhawan V,Eidelberg D

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four adolescents had basilar migraine, infrequent cerebral seizures, and severe EEG abnormalities. The clinical course was benign, with normal personality, mentation, and neurologic examination. Almost continuous EEG abnormalities, consisting of rhythmic temporo-occipital sharp and slow wave discharges, or generalized...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Camfield PR,Metrakos K,Andermann F

更新日期：1978-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the efficacy of divalproex sodium in patients with complex partial seizures taking concomitant carbamazepine or phenytoin as monotherapy. Patients were selected because of inadequate seizure control by current therapy. The primary efficacy measure was median reduction of seizure frequency during add-on trea...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Willmore LJ,Shu V,Wallin B

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Virtually all adult studies of APOE genotypes and cognition have included individuals over 60. In older adults, epsilon 4 carriers may manifest greater cognitive asymmetries than non-epsilon 4 carriers even in the absence of overall mean differences. General cognitive ability may also be affected by aging an...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Schultz MR,Lyons MJ,Franz CE,Grant MD,Boake C,Jacobson KC,Xian H,Schellenberg GD,Eisen SA,Kremen WS

更新日期：2008-05-06 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To clinically characterize the temporal relationship between dyskinesia and the antiparkinsonian response when dyskinesia first emerges during long-term levodopa therapy and to determine if it is consistent with the hypothesized mechanism by which dyskinesia develops. METHODS:Dyskinesia and the antiparkinson...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Nutt JG,Chung KA,Holford NH

更新日期：2010-04-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors investigated the PRNP Met129Val polymorphism in 1,393 subjects including 482 patients with Alzheimer disease (AD) and two independent control groups. In patients, PRNP Met homozygosity conferred increasing risk with decreasing age at onset (onset: 61 to 70 years, n = 151, p = 0.02, odds ratio [OR] = 1.72, ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Riemenschneider M,Klopp N,Xiang W,Wagenpfeil S,Vollmert C,Müller U,Förstl H,Illig T,Kretzschmar H,Kurz A

更新日期：2004-07-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Glucocorticoid therapy slows the progression of Duchenne muscular dystrophy. In muscle cultures, the addition of the glucocorticoid methylprednisolone increases myogenesis in most normal mixed and clonal cultures. Conversely, in some normal clonal and most dystrophic cultures, methylprednisolone inhibits fusion. Howev...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Hardiman O,Sklar RM,Brown RH Jr

更新日期：1993-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:This study investigated the sex difference in prevalence of depression at 90 days after first-ever stroke. METHODS:Patients with first-ever stroke (n = 786) were identified from the population-based Brain Attack Surveillance in Corpus Christi project (2011-2016). Poststroke depressive symptoms were assessed ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Dong L,Sánchez BN,Skolarus LE,Stulberg E,Morgenstern LB,Lisabeth LD

更新日期：2020-05-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors report the neuropathologic findings in a case of Sneddon's syndrome. There were multiple small, predominantly cortical, infarcts, with focal hyperplasia and fibrotic occlusion of arterial vessels in the superficial white matter, cortex, and leptomeninges. A very occasional arterial thrombus was seen. These...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Hilton DA,Footitt D

更新日期：2003-04-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In cerebral small vessel disease, the core MRI findings include white matter lesions (WML) and lacunar infarcts. While the clinical significance of WML is better understood, the contribution of lacunes to the rate of cognitive decline has not been established. This study investigated whether incident lacunes...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Jokinen H,Gouw AA,Madureira S,Ylikoski R,van Straaten EC,van der Flier WM,Barkhof F,Scheltens P,Fazekas F,Schmidt R,Verdelho A,Ferro JM,Pantoni L,Inzitari D,Erkinjuntti T,LADIS Study Group.

更新日期：2011-05-31 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate the association between urinary hormone levels and migraine, with particular reference to rising and falling levels of estrogen across the menstrual cycle in women with menstrual and menstrually related migraine. METHODS:Women with regular menstrual cycles, who were not using hormonal contrace...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： MacGregor EA,Frith A,Ellis J,Aspinall L,Hackshaw A

更新日期：2006-12-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:On proton magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging ((1)H MRSI), there is a decrease in cerebellar N-acetylaspartate/total creatine (NAA/tCr) in essential tremor (ET), signifying cerebellar neuronal dysfunction or degeneration. Harmane, which is present in the human diet, is a potent tremor-producing neurotox...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Louis ED,Zheng W,Mao X,Shungu DC

更新日期：2007-08-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Elevated serum retinol, CSF retinol, and serum retinol binding protein (RBP) levels have been found in some patients with idiopathic intracranial hypertension (IIH), but serum and CSF retinol levels have not been studied in matched serum and CSF samples in patients with IIH. OBJECTIVE:To determine whether s...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Tabassi A,Salmasi AH,Jalali M

更新日期：2005-06-14 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess the genetic contribution of TBK1, a gene implicated in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), frontotemporal dementia (FTD), and FTD-ALS, in Belgian FTD and ALS patient cohorts containing a significant part of genetically unresolved patients. METHODS:We sequenced TBK1 in a hospital-based cohort of 48...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Gijselinck I,Van Mossevelde S,van der Zee J,Sieben A,Philtjens S,Heeman B,Engelborghs S,Vandenbulcke M,De Baets G,Bäumer V,Cuijt I,Van den Broeck M,Peeters K,Mattheijssens M,Rousseau F,Vandenberghe R,De Jonghe P,Cras P

更新日期：2015-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To assess the association of primary retinal inflammation, namely retinal periphlebitis (RP) and microcystic macular edema, with clinical, brain, and retinal imaging biomarkers of multiple sclerosis (MS) severity. METHODS:One hundred patients with MS underwent a neurologic and ophthalmic examination, MRI, a...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Ortiz-Pérez S,Martínez-Lapiscina EH,Gabilondo I,Fraga-Pumar E,Martínez-Heras E,Saiz A,Sanchez-Dalmau B,Villoslada P

更新日期：2013-09-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors describe the outcome of five patients with a cardiac thrombus selected among 183 patients with stroke (2.7 %) who were given IV tissue plasminogen activator (tPA). No early systemic or cerebral embolism occurred. Two patients made a complete recovery at 3 months. Two patients had a moderate outcome. One pa...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Derex L,Nighoghossian N,Perinetti M,Honnorat J,Trouillas P

更新日期：2001-12-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Pathology and imaging studies have shown that patients with Parkinson disease (PD) have a prolonged period of uncertain duration when vulnerable neuronal populations are degenerating, but typical motor symptoms have not yet developed. This provides both an opportunity-it may be best to test new medications and, ultima...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Marek K,Jennings D

更新日期：2009-02-17 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