Traumatic brain injury preceding clinically diagnosed α-synucleinopathies: A case-control study.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Several lines of evidence suggest that inflammatory mechanisms contribute to AD. OBJECTIVE:To examine whether several markers of inflammation are associated with cognitive decline in African-American and white well-functioning elders. METHODS:The authors studied 3,031 African-American and white men and wom...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Yaffe K,Lindquist K,Penninx BW,Simonsick EM,Pahor M,Kritchevsky S,Launer L,Kuller L,Rubin S,Harris T

更新日期：2003-07-08 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the role of ceruloplasmin in the antioxidative process in the brain in a patient with hereditary ceruloplasmin deficiency (HCD). Immunohistochemistry revealed an accumulation of Nepsilon-(carboxymethyl) lysine (CML) in basal ganglia of the HCD brain. In vitro study disclosed that ceruloplasmin inhibite...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Tajima K,Kawanami T,Nagai R,Horiuchi S,Kato T

更新日期：1999-08-11 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Optical coherence tomography (OCT) noninvasively quantifies retinal nerve fiber layer (RNFL) thickness. Studies show RNFL thinning in multiple sclerosis (MS), and we assessed its association with brain atrophy. METHODS:RNFL thickness was measured in 40 patients with MS and 15 controls. Brain parenchymal frac...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Gordon-Lipkin E,Chodkowski B,Reich DS,Smith SA,Pulicken M,Balcer LJ,Frohman EM,Cutter G,Calabresi PA

更新日期：2007-10-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of our study was to assess the 5-year risk of and prognostic factors for the development of clinically definite multiple sclerosis (CDMS) following optic neuritis. In a prospective cohort study design, 388 patients, who did not have probable or definite MS at study entry enrolled in the Optic Neuritis Tr...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Optic Neuritis Study Group.

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To localize a gene predisposing to benign epilepsy of childhood with centrotemporal spikes (BECTS). BACKGROUND:BECTS, or rolandic epilepsy, is the most prevalent idiopathic epilepsy syndrome in childhood. Functional relevant defects in the alpha 4 subunit of the neuronal nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (ACh...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Neubauer BA,Fiedler B,Himmelein B,Kämpfer F,Lässker U,Schwabe G,Spanier I,Tams D,Bretscher C,Moldenhauer K,Kurlemann G,Weise S,Tedroff K,Eeg-Olofsson O,Wadelius C,Stephani U

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Proximal myotonic myopathy (PROMM) is an autosomal dominantly inherited multisystemic disorder characterized by myotonia, proximal muscle weakness, and cataracts. This disorder is not linked to the gene locus of myotonic dystrophy (DM). We describe three new families with PROMM. In all patients, CTG repeats of the DM ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Hund E,Jansen O,Koch MC,Ricker K,Fogel W,Niedermaier N,Otto M,Kuhn E,Meinck HM

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine whether blast exposure alone and blast-associated concussion result in similar neurologic and mental health symptoms. METHODS:A 14-item questionnaire was administered to male US Marines on their return from deployment in Iraq and/or Afghanistan. RESULTS:A total of 2,612 Marines (median age 22 yea...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Tsao JW,Stentz LA,Rouhanian M,Howard RS,Perry BN,Haran FJ,Pasquina PF,Wolde M,Taylor CE,Lizardo R,Liu S,Flores E 3rd,Creason AH,Sher K

更新日期：2017-11-07 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Idiopathic REM sleep behavior disorder is a parasomnia characterized by dream enactment and is commonly a prediagnostic sign of parkinsonism and dementia. Since risk factors have not been defined, we initiated a multicenter case-control study to assess environmental and lifestyle risk factors for REM sleep be...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Postuma RB,Montplaisir JY,Pelletier A,Dauvilliers Y,Oertel W,Iranzo A,Ferini-Strambi L,Arnulf I,Hogl B,Manni R,Miyamoto T,Mayer G,Stiasny-Kolster K,Puligheddu M,Ju Y,Jennum P,Sonka K,Santamaria J,Fantini ML,Zucconi

更新日期：2012-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:We tested the hypothesis that admission serum magnesium levels are associated with hematoma volume, hematoma growth, and functional outcomes in patients with intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH). METHODS:Patients presenting with spontaneous ICH were enrolled in an observational cohort study that prospectively coll...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Liotta EM,Prabhakaran S,Sangha RS,Bush RA,Long AE,Trevick SA,Potts MB,Jahromi BS,Kim M,Manno EM,Sorond FA,Naidech AM,Maas MB

更新日期：2017-08-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease was studied among Libyan-born Israelis, in whom the disease appears with unusual frequency. Interviews with relatives of deceased victims revealed statistically significant clustering within families. The results suggest either a common source of exposure or a genetic influence on susceptibil...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Neugut RH,Neugut AI,Kahana E,Stein Z,Alter M

更新日期：1979-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Primary angiitis of the CNS (PACNS) is a diagnostically challenging disorder. In patients whose diagnosis is ascertained solely by cerebral angiography without histologic verification, a benign monophasic clinical course with favorable response to a brief course of immunosuppressive therapy is often reported...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Woolfenden AR,Tong DC,Marks MP,Ali AO,Albers GW

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The incidence of MS in the Orkney Islands has been updated from 1941 to September 21, 1983. Since 1965, MS incidence rates have fallen significantly when compared with those for 1941 to 1964. Alterations in age-specific prevalence, mean duration of illness, and mean age of the MS population are consistent with the dec...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Cook SD,Cromarty JI,Tapp W,Poskanzer D,Walker JD,Dowling PC

更新日期：1985-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two cases of giant-cell arteritis with cerebral arteritis are presented. The clinical situation and the suggestive but nonspecific angiographic features make the antemortem diagnosis possible. Greater awareness of this entity will facilitate its diagnosis and the institution of effective steroid therapy. ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Enzmann D,Scott WR

更新日期：1977-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We compared the effect of metrizamide and its parent compound glucosamine on the kinetics of dog brain hexokinase. The Michaelis constant (Km) for glucose rose from 0.065 to 0.15 to 0.28 mM in the presence of 0, 16, and 32 mM metrizamide, respectively. For 0, 1.5, and 3.7 mM glucosamine, the Km values were 0.065, 0.4,...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Bertoni JM,Steinman CG

更新日期：1982-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:MRI and CSF investigations revealed meningeal involvement in a 29-year-old patient with biopsy-confirmed Wegener's granulomatosis. The intracranial manifestation of Wegener's granulomatosis was supported by the detection of pathologic circulating antineutrophil cytoplasm (c-ANCA) in the CSF. We monitored disease activ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Spranger M,Schwab S,Meinck HM,Tischendorf M,Sis J,Breitbart A,Andrassy K

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cabergoline, a new ergoline derivative, is a D2-specific dopaminergic agonist that is more potent and longer-acting than other agonist agents. We conducted a randomized, double-blind study of increasing doses of cabergoline taken once a day. Twenty-five patients with Parkinson's disease taking stable doses of levodopa...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Hutton JT,Morris JL,Brewer MA

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hippocampal formation atrophy (HFA) developed in an adult, who did not have epilepsy previously, after the occurrence of new-onset partial seizures from acute thrombosis of an ipsilateral parietal venous angioma. There was no evidence of hippocampal injury, and the patient had only one brief, generalized tonic-clonic ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Worrell GA,Sencakova D,Jack CR,Flemming KD,Fulgham JR,So EL

更新日期：2002-05-28 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To develop evidence-based recommendations for complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) in multiple sclerosis (MS). METHODS:We searched the literature (1970-March 2011; March 2011-September 2013 MEDLINE search), classified articles, and linked recommendations to evidence. RESULTS AND RECOMMENDATIONS:Clin...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Yadav V,Bever C Jr,Bowen J,Bowling A,Weinstock-Guttman B,Cameron M,Bourdette D,Gronseth GS,Narayanaswami P

更新日期：2014-03-25 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate the relationship between temporal discrimination threshold (TDT) and "off" period gait freezing (OGF) in patients with fluctuating Parkinson disease (PD). METHODS:TDT values were measured at the dorsum of the toes in 11 control subjects and 22 patients with PD with a wearing-off phenomenon (16...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Lee MS,Kim HS,Lyoo CH

更新日期：2005-02-22 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the production rate of CSF in patients with differing disease states. METHODS:The authors measured the production rate of CSF in three groups of patients: five patients with PD below age 60 (aged 51 +/- 4 years, mean +/- SD), nine with PD over age 60 (aged 69 +/- 6 years, mean +/- SD), and seven ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Silverberg GD,Heit G,Huhn S,Jaffe RA,Chang SD,Bronte-Stewart H,Rubenstein E,Possin K,Saul TA

更新日期：2001-11-27 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Spinal cord (SC) lesions are frequently found in multiple sclerosis (MS), but are rare in healthy aging and cerebrovascular patients. Our aim was to analyze the contribution of SC involvement in clinically isolated syndrome (CIS) in diagnosing MS according the McDonald 2010 criteria and in predicting conversi...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Sombekke MH,Wattjes MP,Balk LJ,Nielsen JM,Vrenken H,Uitdehaag BM,Polman CH,Barkhof F

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Diagnostic criteria from 2002 classify transverse myelitis (TM) as idiopathic or disease associated but predate the discovery of aquaporin-4 (AQP4)-immunoglobulin G (IgG) and myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein (MOG)-IgG, which associate with TM. Prior incidence estimates of idiopathic TM (ITM) range from 1 t...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Sechi E,Shosha E,Williams JP,Pittock SJ,Weinshenker BG,Keegan BM,Zalewski NL,Lopez-Chiriboga AS,Jitprapaikulsan J,Flanagan EP

更新日期：2019-07-23 00:00:00

abstract：:A 11-year-old boy of short stature had recurrent right temporal pounding headaches of 7 months' duration, and progressive visual loss for 3 days. There was a left hemianopia, alexia without agraphia, and diffuse muscle weakness. Investigation established the presence of a mitochondrial myopathy with pyruvate and lacti...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Skoglund RR

更新日期：1979-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using data from the compulsory Medical Birth Registry of Norway, the authors investigated the effect of maternal multiple sclerosis (MS) on pregnancy, delivery, and birth outcome in 649 births by MS mothers and 2.1 million control births. The mothers with MS had a higher proportion of neonates small for gestational ag...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Dahl J,Myhr KM,Daltveit AK,Hoff JM,Gilhus NE

更新日期：2005-12-27 00:00:00

abstract：:A patient developed an amnesic syndrome after cardiopulmonary arrest. Neuropathologic examination revealed pronounced anoxic injury to both hippocampi with little damage to other hemisphere structures. The clinical and pathologic findings suggest that lesions limited to the hippocampus can cause profound amnesia. ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Cummings JL,Tomiyasu U,Read S,Benson DF

更新日期：1984-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Concentrations of cyclic adenosine 3',5' monophosphate (cAMP) were significantly lower in parkinsonian patients than in controls, but concentrations of guanosine 3',5' monophosphate (cGMP) were not altered. Both cAMP and cGMP levels were lower in patients with more severe symptoms on the left side of the body. Somatos...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Volicer L,Beal MF,Direnfeld LK,Marquis JK,Albert ML

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Central nervous system disorders may cause obstructive sleep apnea, but this sleep-related breathing disorder is rarely associated with a structural abnormality of the medulla. We present a patient with obstructive apnea resulting from autopsy-proven syringobulbia-myelia. ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Haponik EF,Givens D,Angelo J

更新日期：1983-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 14-year-old boy with exercise-related myalgia and cramps had several episodes of myoglobinuria since early childhood. An episode at 2 years of age caused acute renal failure. Histochemical and biochemical analysis of muscle showed a combined defect of phosphofructokinase (PFK) and adenosine monophosphate (AMP) deami...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Bruno C,Minetti C,Shanske S,Morreale G,Bado M,Cordone G,DiMauro S

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To study the safety of off-label IV thrombolysis in patients with very severe stroke (NIH Stroke Scale [NIHSS] scores >25) compared with severe stroke (NIHSS scores 15-25), where treatment is within European regulations. METHODS:Data were analyzed from 57,247 patients with acute ischemic stroke receiving IV ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Mazya MV,Lees KR,Collas D,Rand VM,Mikulik R,Toni D,Wahlgren N,Ahmed N

更新日期：2015-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Phenotypic heterogeneity of sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) has been linked to biochemically distinct types of the protease-resistant form of the prion protein (type 1 and type 2 PrP(Sc)). We investigated 14 cases of sporadic CJD and found that both type 1 and type 2 PrP(Sc) coexisted in 5 subjects. The disti...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Puoti G,Giaccone G,Rossi G,Canciani B,Bugiani O,Tagliavini F

更新日期：1999-12-10 00:00:00