Comparison of Phenotypic Characteristics and Prognosis Between Black and White Patients in a Tertiary ALS Clinic.

abstract：:We studied the interrater variability among three neurologists of the diagnosis of a seizure in 100 patients evaluated for a possible "first seizure." We found that use of simple descriptive diagnostic criteria and discussion among the neurologists themselves improved the diagnostic agreement. ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： van Donselaar CA,Geerts AT,Meulstee J,Habbema JD,Staal A

更新日期：1989-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the effectiveness of opicapone as add-on to levodopa and the effects of switching from entacapone over 1 year of treatment in patients with fluctuating Parkinson disease. METHODS:After completion of a placebo- and entacapone-controlled double-blind study of opicapone (5, 25, or 50 mg), 495 patien...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Ferreira JJ,Lees AJ,Poewe W,Rascol O,Rocha JF,Keller B,Soares-da-Silva P

更新日期：2018-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To test the hypothesis that accelerated peripheral blood mononuclear cell recovery after alemtuzumab treatment of multiple sclerosis is associated with recurrent disease activity and to investigate the claim that CD4 counts greater than 388.5 × 10(6) cells/mL at 12 months can be used to identify patients who ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Kousin-Ezewu O,Azzopardi L,Parker RA,Tuohy O,Compston A,Coles A,Jones J

更新日期：2014-06-17 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：:T, B, and "null" lymphocytes were determined in peripheral blood obtained from 24 control subjects and 15 multiple sclerosis patients. The total number of lymphocytes and T lymphocytes were reduced significantly in multiple sclerosis patients as compared with those of controls. Although the percentage of B lymphocytes...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Reddy MM,Goh KO

更新日期：1976-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the usefulness of a mismatch between the severity of acute clinical manifestations and the diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) lesion in predicting early stroke outcome and infarct volume. METHODS:One hundred sixty-six patients with a hemispheric ischemic stroke of <12 hours' duration were studied. ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Dávalos A,Blanco M,Pedraza S,Leira R,Castellanos M,Pumar JM,Silva Y,Serena J,Castillo J

更新日期：2004-06-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:While neuropsychological deficits have been reported in healthy individuals who use street cannabis, data in patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) are lacking. Given that MS is associated with cognitive deterioration, the aim of this study was to determine the neuropsychological effects of cannabis use in th...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Honarmand K,Tierney MC,O'Connor P,Feinstein A

更新日期：2011-03-29 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate whether baseline concentrations of plasma total tau (t-tau) and neurofilament light (NfL) chain proteins are associated with annual percent change (APC) of the basal forebrain cholinergic system (BFCS) in cognitively intact older adults at risk for Alzheimer disease (AD). METHODS:This was a la...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Cavedo E,Lista S,Houot M,Vergallo A,Grothe MJ,Teipel S,Zetterberg H,Blennow K,Habert MO,Potier MC,Dubois B,Hampel H,INSIGHT-preAD Study Group.,Alzheimer Precision Medicine Initiative

更新日期：2020-01-07 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To investigate capacity to consent to medical treatment (competency) in cognitively impaired patients with PD. BACKGROUND:Although competency has been studied empirically in patients with cortical dementia (AD), no empirical studies have examined competency in patients with PD or other subcortical neurodege...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Dymek MP,Atchison P,Harrell L,Marson DC

更新日期：2001-01-09 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：OBJECTIVE:To perform an open-label, long-term efficacy and safety/tolerability study of vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) of 454 patients with refractory epilepsy. METHODS:Subjects were enrolled from five clinical trials of VNS between 1988 and 1995 after undergoing an implantation of a pulse generator in the chest and a ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Morris GL 3rd,Mueller WM

更新日期：1999-11-10 00:00:00

abstract：:A physically and intellectually normally developed boy had a resection of a lumbar myelomeningocele shortly after birth and a shunt was inserted for hydrocephalus. He died at age 12 years after a traffic accident. Autopsy disclosed a hyperplasia of the cerebellar vermis. An abnormal median-sagittal triangular fiber tr...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Friede RL,Briner J

更新日期：1978-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:We determined whether Gram-negative bacterial molecules are associated with Alzheimer disease (AD) neuropathology given that previous studies demonstrate Gram-negative Escherichia coli bacteria can form extracellular amyloid and Gram-negative bacteria have been reported as the predominant bacteria found in no...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Zhan X,Stamova B,Jin LW,DeCarli C,Phinney B,Sharp FR

更新日期：2016-11-29 00:00:00

abstract：:We observed acute onset of delayed psychosis in 8 patients 1 month to 11 years after right temporoparietooccipital (TPO) stroke or trauma. The psychotic disorder included hallucinations and, in some patients delusions and agitation. All patients had spatioconstructional difficulties. None had an earlier psychiatric di...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Levine DN,Finklestein S

更新日期：1982-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Over 50% of persons with idiopathic REM sleep behavior disorder (RBD) will develop Parkinson disease (PD) or dementia. At present, there is no way to predict who will develop disease. Since polysomnography is performed in all patients with idiopathic RBD at diagnosis, there is an opportunity to analyze if ba...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Postuma RB,Gagnon JF,Rompré S,Montplaisir JY

更新日期：2010-01-19 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine whether whole-brain, event-related fMRI can distinguish healthy older adults with known Alzheimer disease (AD) risk factors (family history, APOE epsilon4) from controls using a semantic memory task involving discrimination of famous from unfamiliar names. METHODS:Sixty-nine cognitively asymptom...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Seidenberg M,Guidotti L,Nielson KA,Woodard JL,Durgerian S,Antuono P,Zhang Q,Rao SM

更新日期：2009-08-25 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess whether exon deletions or duplications in CLCN1 are associated with recessive myotonia congenita (MC). METHODS:We performed detailed clinical and electrophysiologic characterization in 60 patients with phenotypes consistent with MC. DNA sequencing of CLCN1 followed by multiplex ligation-dependent p...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Raja Rayan DL,Haworth A,Sud R,Matthews E,Fialho D,Burge J,Portaro S,Schorge S,Tuin K,Lunt P,McEntagart M,Toscano A,Davis MB,Hanna MG

更新日期：2012-06-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Using transcranial Doppler (TCD) ultrasonography in patients with high-grade (> or = 70%) internal carotid artery (ICA) stenosis, we examined the relation between the rate of TCD-detected silent microembolism of the ipsilateral middle cerebral artery and a history of recent (< 121 days) ischemic symptoms attributable ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Siebler M,Kleinschmidt A,Sitzer M,Steinmetz H,Freund HJ

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate topiramate as monotherapy in adults and children with recently diagnosed, localization-related epilepsy, comparing two dosages of topiramate in a multicenter, randomized, double-blind study. METHODS:Adults and children (>/=3 years of age) were eligible if the maximum interval since epilepsy diagn...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Gilliam FG,Veloso F,Bomhof MA,Gazda SK,Biton V,Ter Bruggen JP,Neto W,Bailey C,Pledger G,Wu SC

更新日期：2003-01-28 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To develop a simple imaging rule to predict neurodevelopmental outcomes at 4.5 years in a cohort of preterm neonates with white matter injury (WMI) based on lesion location and examine whether clinical variables enhance prediction. METHODS:Sixty-eight preterm neonates born 24-32 weeks' gestation (median 27.7...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Cayam-Rand D,Guo T,Grunau RE,Benavente-Fernández I,Synnes A,Chau V,Branson H,Latal B,McQuillen P,Miller SP

更新日期：2019-09-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Seronegative (SN) patients with myasthenia gravis (MG) have clinical and electrophysiologic features similar to those of seropositive (SP) patients, and they respond to the same therapeutic measures. However, because SN patients lack detectable (by standard radioimmunoassays) serum antibodies to acetylcholine receptor...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Karni A,Zisman E,Katz-Levy Y,Paas-Rozner M,Dayan M,Brautbar C,Abramsky O,Sela M,Mozes E

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although phenylketonuria is a treatable disease, patients with late or nonoptimal phenylalanine-restricted diet may experience brain damage. The authors used tridimensional MRI and a voxelwise analysis method to investigate possible volume changes in the brain parenchyma of patients with phenylketonuria. ME...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Pérez-Dueñas B,Pujol J,Soriano-Mas C,Ortiz H,Artuch R,Vilaseca MA,Campistol J

更新日期：2006-04-11 00:00:00

abstract：:In seven of eight patients with progressive multiple sclerosis subjected to long-term plasmapheresis in combination with azathioprine and pulsed prednisone therapy, we found modest improvement of neurologic function. There was no change in auditory and visual evoked responses or serum demyelinating activity. In six of...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Dau PC,Petajan JH,Johnson KP,Panitch HS,Bornstein MB

更新日期：1980-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) may slow the progression of Krabbe disease (KD) if performed early in the disease. The authors' studies indicate that more than 90% of patients with KD have severe abnormalities in peripheral nerve conduction. OBJECTIVE:To assess the effect of HSCT on nerve con...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Siddiqi ZA,Sanders DB,Massey JM

更新日期：2006-07-25 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To investigate whether (1) there were differences between HLA-DRB1*15-positive and -negative patients at baseline, and (2) HLA-DRB1*15-positive patients showed a greater development of brain and spinal cord damage, as assessed by MRI, and greater progression of disability, during a 5-year follow-up, compared...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Tur C,Ramagopalan S,Altmann DR,Bodini B,Cercignani M,Khaleeli Z,Miller DH,Thompson AJ,Ciccarelli O

更新日期：2014-11-04 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess the clinical, urodynamic, and neurophysiologic features of patients with persisting bladder, bowel, and sexual dysfunction after transverse myelitis in myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein antibody (MOG-Ab) disease. METHODS:Patients with a history of MOG-Ab disease-related transverse myelitis seen p...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Li V,Malladi P,Simeoni S,Pakzad M,Everett R,Satukijchai C,Leite MI,Palace J,Panicker JN

更新日期：2020-11-24 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To make evidence-based treatment recommendations for patients with Parkinson disease (PD) with dementia, depression, and psychosis based on these questions: 1) What tools are effective to screen for depression, psychosis, and dementia in PD? 2) What are effective treatments for depression and psychosis in PD?...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Miyasaki JM,Shannon K,Voon V,Ravina B,Kleiner-Fisman G,Anderson K,Shulman LM,Gronseth G,Weiner WJ,Quality Standards Subcommittee of the American Academy of Neurology.

更新日期：2006-04-11 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To describe the diagnosis and management of a 49-year-old woman with multiple sclerosis (MS) developing a progressive hemiparesis and expanding MRI lesion suspicious of progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML) 19 months after starting natalizumab. RESULTS:Polyomavirus JC (JCV)-specific qPCR in CSF wa...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Kuhle J,Gosert R,Bühler R,Derfuss T,Sutter R,Yaldizli O,Radue EW,Ryschkewitsch C,Major EO,Kappos L,Frank S,Hirsch HH

更新日期：2011-12-06 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The Stenting and Aggressive Medical Management for Preventing Recurrent Stroke in Intracranial Stenosis (SAMMPRIS) study is the first stroke prevention trial to include protocol-driven intensive management of multiple risk factors. In this prespecified analysis, we aimed to investigate the relationship betwee...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Turan TN,Nizam A,Lynn MJ,Egan BM,Le NA,Lopes-Virella MF,Hermayer KL,Harrell J,Derdeyn CP,Fiorella D,Janis LS,Lane B,Montgomery J,Chimowitz MI

更新日期：2017-01-24 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the scalp distribution of auditory event-related potentials (P300), using simultaneously a cephalic (linked ears) and a noncephalic (balanced sternovertebra) reference. The recordings with noncephalic reference showed that infrequent, attended auditory stimuli evoke a negative bitemporal component (N300) as...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Neshige R,Lüders H

更新日期：1988-11-01 00:00:00