Three-Tesla MRI does not improve the diagnosis of multiple sclerosis: A multicenter study.

abstract：OBJECTIVES:While plasma biomarkers have been proposed to aid in the clinical diagnosis of Alzheimer disease (AD), few biomarkers have been validated in independent patient cohorts. Here we aim to determine plasma biomarkers associated with AD in 2 independent cohorts and validate the findings in the multicenter Alzheim...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Hu WT,Holtzman DM,Fagan AM,Shaw LM,Perrin R,Arnold SE,Grossman M,Xiong C,Craig-Schapiro R,Clark CM,Pickering E,Kuhn M,Chen Y,Van Deerlin VM,McCluskey L,Elman L,Karlawish J,Chen-Plotkin A,Hurtig HI,Siderowf A,Swens

更新日期：2012-08-28 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the potential efficacy of immediate-release methylphenidate (MPH) for treating cognitive deficits in epilepsy. METHODS:This was a double-blind, randomized, single-dose, 3-period crossover study in patients with epilepsy and chronic cognitive complaints comparing the effects of placebo and MPH 10 ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Adams J,Alipio-Jocson V,Inoyama K,Bartlett V,Sandhu S,Oso J,Barry JJ,Loring DW,Meador K

更新日期：2017-01-31 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the safety and efficacy of 60 Hz deep brain stimulation (DBS) of the globus pallidus internus (GPi) in 15 consecutive patients with primary dystonia. METHODS:We conducted a retrospective analysis of clinic charts relative to 15 consecutive patients with medically refractory primary dystonia who u...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Alterman RL,Miravite J,Weisz D,Shils JL,Bressman SB,Tagliati M

更新日期：2007-08-14 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate the genotype-phenotype correlation between neurofibromatosis 1 (NF1) germline mutations and imaging features of neurofibromas on whole-body MRI (WBMRI) by using radiomics image analysis techniques. MATERIALS AND METHODS:Twenty-nine patients with NF1 who had known germline mutations determined ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Liu Y,Jordan JT,Bredella MA,Erdin S,Walker JA,Vangel M,Harris GJ,Plotkin SR,Cai W

更新日期：2020-06-16 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine the rate of relapse occurrence during pregnancy and postpartum. METHODS:In a cross-sectional study using the national multiple sclerosis (MS) registry, pregnant women with relapsing MS were identified. Data on demographics, clinical characteristics, and disease-modifying therapies (DMTs), includ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Alroughani R,Alowayesh MS,Ahmed SF,Behbehani R,Al-Hashel J

更新日期：2018-03-06 00:00:00

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 aim of the study was to perform a third cognitive assessment in our pediatric-onset multiple sclerosis (MS) patient cohort and determine predictors of the individual cognitive outcome. METHODS:After 4.7 ± 0.7 years from baseline evaluation, 48 of 63 patients in the original cohort were reassessed on an e...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Amato MP,Goretti B,Ghezzi A,Hakiki B,Niccolai C,Lori S,Moiola L,Falautano M,Viterbo RG,Patti F,Cilia S,Pozzilli C,Bianchi V,Roscio M,Martinelli V,Comi G,Portaccio E,Trojano M,MS Study Group of the Italian Neurological

更新日期：2014-10-14 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To review clinical and electrodiagnostic features of the medial brachial fascial compartment syndrome, a complication of percutaneous axillary vessel puncture. METHODS:The authors reviewed electrodiagnostic examinations over a 20-year period. RESULTS:This syndrome presents with weakness, pain, and numbness ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Tsao BE,Wilbourn AJ

更新日期：2003-10-28 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：:We report cerebral vasculitis in 2 cocaine users who developed symptoms (transient blindness and persistent headache) while smoking "crack," followed by progressive widespread cerebral dysfunction with focal signs over the next few weeks. One patient had smoked crack exclusively, and the other also used cocaine intrav...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Krendel DA,Ditter SM,Frankel MR,Ross WK

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:CSF does not normally contain motile cells within flagella or cilia. When motile cells are seen in the CSF, they may be incorrectly assumed to be amebae. We studied a patient with a traumatic mucocele, in whom motile ciliated respiratory epithelial cells were seen in the CSF and within a frontal lobe brain abscess. ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Davis LE,Visvesvara GS,McLaren DL,Randell R,Fenoglio CC,McLaren LC,Purdy M,Cooper V,Healy GR

更新日期：1985-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine the prevalence of developmental venous anomaly in adult patients with diffuse glioma. METHODS:We performed a retrospective cohort study (2010-2016) of consecutive adult patients harboring a supratentorial diffuse glioma in 2 centers: Sainte-Anne Hospital (experimental and control sets) and Pitié...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Roux A,Edjlali M,Porelli S,Tauziede-Espariat A,Zanello M,Dezamis E,Zah-Bi G,Sanson M,Puget S,Capelle L,Varlet P,Oppenheim C,Pallud J

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine the surgical outcome and factors of predictive value in patients undergoing reoperation for intractable partial epilepsy. METHODS:The authors retrospectively studied the operative outcome in 64 consecutive patients who underwent reoperation for intractable partial epilepsy. Demographic data, res...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Siegel AM,Cascino GD,Meyer FB,McClelland RL,So EL,Marsh WR,Scheithauer BW,Sharbrough FW

更新日期：2004-12-28 00:00:00

abstract：:We initiated a double-blind, placebo-controlled trial to test the efficacy and safety of branched-chain amino acids (BCAA) (L-leucine 12 g, L-isoleucine 6 g, and L-valine 6 g daily) in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) patients. There was an excess mortality in subjects randomized to active treatment (24 BCAA, 13 pl...

journal_title：Neurology

authors：

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:We aimed to assess sensitivity and specificity of the updated criteria for behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD) based on a large autopsy-confirmed cohort of patients with dementia. METHODS:Two hundred thirty-nine consecutive pathologically confirmed dementia patients, clinically assessed in a s...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Harris JM,Gall C,Thompson JC,Richardson AM,Neary D,du Plessis D,Pal P,Mann DM,Snowden JS,Jones M

更新日期：2013-05-14 00:00:00

abstract：:A 57-year-old chronically immunosuppressed woman with systemic lupus erythematosus developed fulminant meningoencephalitis due to Acanthamoeba castellanii. Amebic trophozoites were also found in the lungs, suggesting a primary pulmonary focus of infection. This case illustrates that Acanthamoeba can cause a fulminant,...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Grunnet ML,Cannon GH,Kushner JP

更新日期：1981-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors examined the influence of APOE and human leukocyte antigen-DRB1-DQB1 polymorphisms on the course of multiple sclerosis in 871 patients, 773 with relapsing and 98 with primary progressive disease, and 348 control subjects. The risk of the primary progressive course was increased (odds ratio = 6.81, p = 0.00...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Cocco E,Sotgiu A,Costa G,Murru MR,Mancosu C,Murru R,Lai M,Contu P,Marrosu MG

更新日期：2005-02-08 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To identify the cause of hypokalemic periodic paralysis (HOKPP) in a family whose disease is not caused by a mutation in the dihydropyridine-sensitive (DHP) receptor alpha1-subunit gene (CACNA1S). BACKGROUND:Hypokalemic periodic paralysis is primarily caused by mutations within CACNA1S. Genetic heterogeneity...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Bulman DE,Scoggan KA,van Oene MD,Nicolle MW,Hahn AF,Tollar LL,Ebers GC

更新日期：1999-12-10 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To characterize prospectively the cognitive profile in ALS. METHODS:Clinically definite ALS patients (11 men, 2 women), age 39.9 to 74.0 years (mean age, 54.2 +/- 9.6 years; mean disease duration, 21.1 +/- 10.5 months) underwent neuropsychologic, language, and speech testing followed by MR 1H spectroscopy (4...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Strong MJ,Grace GM,Orange JB,Leeper HA,Menon RS,Aere C

更新日期：1999-11-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Ninety-seven chronic alcoholics, both impaired and unimpaired, without clinically evident liver disease, showed significantly more cerebral atrophy on computed tomography than age-matched neurologic controls. Age was the variable most highly correlated with cerebral atrophy measurements, and it accounted for most of t...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Carlen PL,Wilkinson DA,Wortzman G,Holgate R,Cordingley J,Lee MA,Huszar L,Moddel G,Singh R,Kiraly L,Rankin JG

更新日期：1981-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four patients with disabling action tremor in the setting of MS were treated with isoniazid (800 to 1200 mg per day). All patients showed significant improvement of the tremor, allowing more functional use of their extremities. To the best of our knowledge, this is the only medical treatment for this type of tremor. ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Sabra AF,Hallett M,Sudarsky L,Mullally W

更新日期：1982-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Patients with arm intention tremor due to multiple sclerosis (MS) often manifest eye movement deficits, illustrating the role of infratentorial brain in both ocular and manual movement control. Our previous study showed that both the amplitude of intention tremor and eye fixational movements were greatly enh...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Feys P,Helsen W,Nuttin B,Lavrysen A,Ketelaer P,Swinnen S,Liu X

更新日期：2008-01-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Several studies indicate semantic fluency more sensitively discriminates patients with Alzheimer disease (AD) from normal elderly persons, with disproportionate impairment of semantic over phonemic fluency. OBJECTIVE:To determine the ability of abbreviated fluency measures in the clinic setting (1-minute le...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Canning SJ,Leach L,Stuss D,Ngo L,Black SE

更新日期：2004-02-24 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To analyze the oral motor, speech, and language phenotype in 20 children and adults with Dravet syndrome (DS) associated with mutations in SCN1A. METHODS:Fifteen verbal and 5 minimally verbal DS patients with SCN1A mutations (aged 15 months-28 years) underwent a tailored assessment battery. RESULTS:Speech w...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Turner SJ,Brown A,Arpone M,Anderson V,Morgan AT,Scheffer IE

更新日期：2017-02-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors report an autosomal dominant episodic ataxia that is clinically distinct from the other episodic ataxias. Vestibular ataxia, vertigo, tinnitus, and interictal myokymia are prominent; attacks are diminished by acetazolamide. Linkage analyses of markers flanking the EA1 and EA2 loci demonstrate genetic exclu...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Steckley JL,Ebers GC,Cader MZ,McLachlan RS

更新日期：2001-10-23 00:00:00

abstract：:There are indications of increasing incidence of MS in Saudi Arabia. Of 806 neurology inpatients, 16 had MS, 21 myasthenia gravis, and 10 amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, with a ratio of 1:1.3:0.6, respectively. The symptomatology and site of lesions are similar to that seen in the West, but the course and evolution mig...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Yaqub BA,Daif AK

更新日期：1988-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although Alzheimer's disease is generally considered a degenerative disease that primarily affects the cerebral cortex, subcortical structures such as the substantia innominata and certain brainstem nuclei may be involved. In 28 patients with progressive dementia and pathologically confirmed Alzheimer's disease, we fo...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： McDuff T,Sumi SM

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Original reports on temporal arteritis and polymyalgia rheumatica were reviewed before and after the introduction of steroid therapy to prevent blindness in temporal arteritis. In some cases, the original data were reworked. There is evidence that both diseases have become more benign. As a result, the perceived risk ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Turnbull J

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In a previous study, the authors found that the risk of AD among mothers who were 35 years or younger when their children with Down syndrome (DS) were born was five times that of mothers of children with other forms of mental retardation. The current study investigated the specificity of the familial aggrega...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Schupf N,Kapell D,Nightingale B,Lee JH,Mohlenhoff J,Bewley S,Ottman R,Mayeux R

更新日期：2001-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：:A 20-year-old woman using an oral diet aid preparation containing phenylpropanolamine presented with an intracerebral hemorrhage and angiographic evidence of cerebral vasculitis. Gas chromatography demonstrated phenylpropanolamine in the urine. Even when used within recommended guidelines, phenylpropanolamine usage sh...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Fallis RJ,Fisher M

更新日期：1985-03-01 00:00:00