Free light chains in multiple sclerosis and infections of the CNS.

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The primary objective of this research was to characterize the movement disorders associated with FOXG1 mutations. METHODS:We identified patients with FOXG1 mutations who were referred to either a tertiary movement disorder clinic or tertiary epilepsy service and retrospectively reviewed medical records, cli...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Papandreou A,Schneider RB,Augustine EF,Ng J,Mankad K,Meyer E,McTague A,Ngoh A,Hemingway C,Robinson R,Varadkar SM,Kinali M,Salpietro V,O'Driscoll MC,Basheer SN,Webster RI,Mohammad SS,Pula S,McGowan M,Trump N,Jenkin

更新日期：2016-05-10 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The purpose of this study was to assess the prevalence of and to identify epidemiologic, genetic, electrophysiologic, and neuroanatomic risk factors for autism spectrum disorders (ASD) in a cohort of patients with tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC). METHODS:A total of 103 patients with TSC were evaluated for A...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Numis AL,Major P,Montenegro MA,Muzykewicz DA,Pulsifer MB,Thiele EA

更新日期：2011-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate the association between early depressive behavior after stroke onset and occurrence of poststroke depression (PSD) at 3- and 12-month follow-up evaluations. METHODS:The study prospectively included 273 patients with first-ever single uncomplicated ischemic stroke. In the stroke unit, nurses sc...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Carota A,Berney A,Aybek S,Iaria G,Staub F,Ghika-Schmid F,Annable L,Guex P,Bogousslavsky J

更新日期：2005-02-08 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied six patients with the clinical, sonographic, CT, and biochemical profile of minimal euthyroid Graves' disease (MEGD). This syndrome was characterized clinically by small but obtrusive and measurable amounts of diplopia related to endocrine ophthalmopathy and the conspicuous absence of systemic or laboratory...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Spector RH,Carlisle JA

更新日期：1987-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Medical therapy is the mainstay for epilepsy, with most patients well controlled on a single antiepileptic drug (AED). In this non-refractory group, many patients have medication side effects and occasional seizures. Approximately 30% of patients with partial epilepsy and 25% of patients with generalized epilepsy are ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Nadkarni S,LaJoie J,Devinsky O

更新日期：2005-06-28 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To describe the epidemiology, etiology, clinical characteristics, treatment, outcome, and prevention of zoonotic bacterial meningitis in human adults. METHODS:We identified 16 zoonotic bacteria causing meningitis in adults. RESULTS:Zoonotic bacterial meningitis is uncommon compared to bacterial meningitis c...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： van Samkar A,Brouwer MC,van der Ende A,van de Beek D

更新日期：2016-09-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Between the years 1964 and 1973, 225 patients with transient ischemic attacks (TIAs) due primarily to atherosclerosis were evaluated and treated. They have now been followed for from 3 to 14 years (average 5.5 years). As of 1976, 82 of the 225 patients were dead, 21 from cerebral infarction, 52 from heart disease and ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Toole JF,Yuson CP,Janeway R,Johnston F,Davis C,Cordell AR,Howard G

更新日期：1978-08-01 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：:In a series of 44 consecutive patients with Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease (CMT), we found restless legs syndrome (RLS) in 10 of 27 CMT type 2 (CMT2) patients (37%) and in none of 17 CMT type 1 patients (p = 0.004). In the CMT2 patients, RLS was associated with positive sensory symptoms (10/10 versus 10/17; p = 0.026). T...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Gemignani F,Marbini A,Di Giovanni G,Salih S,Terzano MG

更新日期：1999-03-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Pharmacologic interventions (e.g., beta blockers) and thalamic lesions have failed to alter the pathophysiology of essential tremor (ET) beyond a reduction in tremor amplitude. Deep brain stimulation (DBS) of the ventral intermediate (VIM) nucleus of the thalamus successfully reduces tremor rating scores. It...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Vaillancourt DE,Sturman MM,Verhagen Metman L,Bakay RA,Corcos DM

更新日期：2003-10-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the past 5 years, and especially within the last year, there has been a rapid expansion of vagus nerve stimulation (VNS)-related preclinical research, as well as clinical studies in indications other than epilepsy. The research advances in understanding VNS are occurring in the midst of a blossoming of other form...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： George MS,Nahas Z,Bohning DE,Kozel FA,Anderson B,Chae JH,Lomarev M,Denslow S,Li X,Mu C

更新日期：2002-09-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Early, intravenous administration of hematin in a patient with acute intermittent porphyria and severe quadriparesis may have produced partial but remarkable improvement of neuropathy, and resulted in simultaneous decline of porphyrin precursors in the blood. Intermittent, biweekly hematin infusions given 1 month afte...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Bosch EP,Pierach CA,Bossenmaier I,Cardinal R,Thorson M

更新日期：1977-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess the clinical implications and the pathophysiologic determinants of interictal bitemporal hypometabolism (BTH) in temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) not associated with bilateral MRI abnormalities or intracranial space-occupying lesions. METHODS:The authors compared the clinical, interictal, and ictal EEG...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Koutroumanidis M,Hennessy MJ,Seed PT,Elwes RD,Jarosz J,Morris RG,Maisey MN,Binnie CD,Polkey CE

更新日期：2000-05-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Nerve root stimulation may be employed in patients with motor neuron disease (MND) to rule out motor neuropathy with conduction block. The diagnostic utility of these studies is unknown, in part because the range of amplitude changes across nerve root segments in patients with active neuronal degeneration has not been...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Raynor EM,Shefner JM,Ross MH,Logigian EL,Hinchey JA

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Physicians are often asked to predict outcome after acute stroke. Very little information is available that can reliably predict the likelihood of severe disability or death. OBJECTIVE:To develop a practical method for predicting a poor outcome after acute ischemic stroke. METHODS:Data from the placebo arm...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Frankel MR,Morgenstern LB,Kwiatkowski T,Lu M,Tilley BC,Broderick JP,Libman R,Levine SR,Brott T

更新日期：2000-10-10 00:00:00

abstract：:To evaluate the potential for clinical application, the reputed protective action of barbiturates in cerebral ischemia was tested in a controlled study after segmental middle cerebral artery occlusion in primates. Surviving treated animals promptly recovered consciousness, locomotion, and feeding behavior despite pers...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Moseley JI,Laurent JP,Molinari GF

更新日期：1975-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:We sought to determine the association of dietary factors and risk of cognitive decline in a population at high risk of cardiovascular disease. METHODS:Baseline dietary intake and measures of the Mini-Mental State Examination were recorded in 27,860 men and women who were enrolled in 2 international parallel...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Smyth A,Dehghan M,O'Donnell M,Anderson C,Teo K,Gao P,Sleight P,Dagenais G,Probstfield JL,Mente A,Yusuf S,ONTARGET and TRANSCEND Investigators.

更新日期：2015-06-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Status epilepticus occurs in more than 50,000 people in the United States each year and should be considered a neurologic emergency. A variety of drugs are used to treat status epilepticus, including i.v. benzodiazepines, phenytoin, and barbiturates. They are all short of being ideal, primarily because of difficulties...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Runge JW,Allen FH

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Proton nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy is a noninvasive technique allowing the localized, in vivo detection of proton-containing brain metabolites. We used this technique to study eight patients with cerebral infarction or ischemia. A stimulated echo-pulse sequence with chemical shift imaging was used to acqui...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Ford CC,Griffey RH,Matwiyoff NA,Rosenberg GA

更新日期：1992-07-01 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:To analyze the relationship between retinal thinning and nigral dopaminergic loss in de novo Parkinson disease (PD). METHODS:Forty-nine patients with PD and 54 age-matched controls were analyzed. Ophthalmologic examination and macula optical coherence tomography scans were performed with additional microperi...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Ahn J,Lee JY,Kim TW,Yoon EJ,Oh S,Kim YK,Kim JM,Woo SJ,Kim KW,Jeon B

更新日期：2018-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Few population-based studies with long-term follow-up have compared risk of recurrent stroke and cardiac events after first ischemic stroke. The relative risk of these two outcomes may inform treatment decisions. METHODS:In the population-based Northern Manhattan Study, first ischemic stroke patients age 40...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Dhamoon MS,Sciacca RR,Rundek T,Sacco RL,Elkind MS

更新日期：2006-03-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Two successive, 6-month, randomized, double-blind, controlled trials of prednisone showed that 0.75 mg/kg/d was the optimal dose to improve strength in boys with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD). We attempted to maintain 93 boys on that dose for an additional 2 years. During the 3 years of observation, the decline in...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Fenichel GM,Florence JM,Pestronk A,Mendell JR,Moxley RT 3rd,Griggs RC,Brooke MH,Miller JP,Robison J,King W

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate botulinum toxin (BTX) effects on central and peripheral motor excitability in writer's cramp. METHODS:Using transcranial magnetic stimulation over the motor cortex and brainstem and peripheral electrical stimulation, the authors investigated measures of motor cortical and peripheral motor exci...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Boroojerdi B,Cohen LG,Hallett M

更新日期：2003-12-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled cross-over study was to test whether valproic acid relieves painful polyneuropathy. Thirty-one patients completed two treatment phases of 4 weeks' duration with valproic acid (1,500 mg daily) and placebo. There was no significant difference between valproic ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Otto M,Bach FW,Jensen TS,Sindrup SH

更新日期：2004-01-27 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Current prehospital scales used to detect large vessel occlusion reveal very low endovascular thrombectomy (EVT) rates among selected patients. We developed a novel prehospital scale, the Madrid-Direct Referral to Endovascular Center (M-DIRECT), to identify EVT candidates for direct transfer to EVT-capable ce...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Rodríguez-Pardo J,Riera-López N,Fuentes B,Alonso de Leciñana M,Secades-García S,Álvarez-Fraga J,Busca-Ostolaza P,Carneado-Ruiz J,Díaz-Guzmán J,Egido-Herrero J,Gil-Núñez A,Masjuan-Vallejo J,Real-Martínez V,Vivancos-Mora J,Díez

更新日期：2020-02-25 00:00:00

abstract：:In patients with spatial neglect, contralesional reflexive saccades toward suddenly appearing targets show direction-specific deficits. We examined whether these deficits also occur during free exploration of space. Neglect patients' voluntary eye movements showed reduced amplitudes for saccades in all directions but ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Niemeier M,Karnath HO

更新日期：2000-01-25 00:00:00

abstract：:A model of latent infection by varicella-zoster virus (VZV) was obtained in the adult rat. Inoculation of VZV-infected cells in the skin led to infection of the peripheral nervous system. Latency was characterized by a long-lasting presence of the viral genome, of selected viral gene transcripts, and of at least one v...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Sadzot-Delvaux C,Debrus S,Nikkels A,Piette J,Rentier B

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Mutations in the early growth response 2 (EGR2) gene have recently been found in patients with congenital hypomyelinating neuropathy and Charcot-Marie-Tooth type 1 (CMT1) disease. OBJECTIVE:To determine the frequency of EGR2 mutations in patients with a diagnosis of CMT1, Dejerine-Sottas syndrome (DSS), or ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Timmerman V,De Jonghe P,Ceuterick C,De Vriendt E,Löfgren A,Nelis E,Warner LE,Lupski JR,Martin JJ,Van Broeckhoven C

更新日期：1999-06-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic factors are important in Alzheimer disease (AD) and Parkinson disease but have not been well characterized in Lewy body dementia (LBD). The authors obtained family history in patients from an autopsy series of AD and LBD and in living healthy controls. A family history of dementia was more common in both LBD a...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Woodruff BK,Graff-Radford NR,Ferman TJ,Dickson DW,DeLucia MW,Crook JE,Arvanitakis Z,Brassler S,Waters C,Barker W,Duara R

更新日期：2006-06-27 00:00:00