Hackathon as a way to raise awareness and foster innovation for stroke.

abstract：:The objective of this study was to analyze different immunoglobulins classes (IgG, IgM, IgE and IgA) against Cysticercus cellulosae in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), through enzyme linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA), correlating them to clinical and tomographic profiles in patients with neurocysticercosis (NCC). Eight...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Odashima NS,Takayanagui OM,Figueiredo JF

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy (CIDP) is a peripheral nerve disorder probably due to an immunological disturb. It evolves either in a steadily progressive or in a relapsing and fluctuating course. Weakness is mainly in the lower limbs proximally and distally. The electromyography is demyelin...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Freitas MR,Nascimento OJ,Soares CN,Brito AR,Domingues RC

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Antiepileptic drugs (AED) may cause body weight changes. OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the dietary habits and body weight associated with AED in epileptic patients. METHOD:Sixty-six patients were subjected to two interviews, and had their weight and body mass index calculated and compared at both times, interval b...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Gaspari CN,Guerreiro CA

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Primary lateral sclerosis (PLS) is a neurodegenerative disease with progressive corticospinal involvement and characterized by lower limbs spasticity followed by upper limbs involvement,rare cranial nerve involvement, typical sparing of all sensory modalities, sphincteric function and eventually mild cognitive changes...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Arruda WO,Coelho Neto M

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Stroke often leads to abnormalities in muscle tone, posture, and motor control that may compromise voluntary motor function, thus affecting the motor control required for maintaining the synergy of both peripheral and respiratory muscles. To evaluate respiratory muscle strength, pulmonary function, trunk cont...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Santos RSD,Dall'alba SCF,Forgiarini SGI,Rossato D,Dias AS,Forgiarini Junior LA

更新日期：2019-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty-five non-Hodgkin's adult patients of a cohort studied for detection of neurologic involvement were evaluated on the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) protein profile. CSF and serum were collected in the same occasion. Blood-brain barrier and local synthesis of IgG were studied. There was an incidence of neurologic sign...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Mielli SR,Beitler B,Galperin C,Palou VB,Livramento JA,Machado Ldos R,Gomes HR

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Hormonal fluctuation is responsible for worsening of epileptic seizures during the menstrual cycle. OBJECTIVE:To identify irregularities in the menstrual cycles of women with mesial temporal lobe epilepsy (MTLE) and extratemporal focal epilepsy (ETFE) and correlate the frequency of seizures during the men...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Bazán AC,Montenegro MA,Cendes F,Min LL,Guerreiro CA

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The best clinical treatment for spinal metastases requires an integrated approach with input from an interdisciplinary cancer team. The principle goals of treatment are maintenance or improvement in neurologic function and ambulation, spinal stability, durable tumor control, and pain relief. The past decade has witnes...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Joaquim AF,Powers A,Laufer I,Bilsky MH

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate the effects of galantamine on the performance of patients with mild to moderate Alzheimer's disease (AD) in a computerized neuropsychological test battery (CNTB). METHOD:Thirty-three patients with probable AD were treated with galantamine for three months and evaluated in a prospective, open-l...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Caramelli P,Chaves ML,Engelhardt E,Machado JC,Schultz RR,Vale FA,Charchat-Fichman H,Brazilian Multi-Center Galantamine Study (GAL-BRA-01).

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This work aimed to compare performances on the Timed Up and Go (TUG) test and its subtasks between faller and non-faller older adults with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and mild Alzheimer's disease (AD). A prospective study was conducted, with 38 older adults with MCI and 37 with mild AD. Participants underwent an a...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Ansai JH,Andrade LP,Nakagawa TH,Rebelatto JR

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of eosinophilic granuloma of the cervical spine in a ten year-old white boy is reported. The patient complained of posterior cervical pain at the level of C5-C6 and right hemiparesis that progressed to mixed tetraparesis (lower motor neuron in upper limbs and upper motor neuron in lower limbs). Examination of t...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Reed UC,Bresolin AU,Lefévre AB

更新日期：1975-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), the most known human prion disease, is usually sporadic but approximately 15% of the cases are familial. To date, seven CJD cases with codon 210 mutation (GTT to ATT) have been reported in the literature. We describe a case of a 57 year-old woman who presented gait disturbances and rap...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Huang N,Marie SK,Kok F,Nitrini R

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated a relationship between the FLAIR signal found in mesial temporal sclerosis (MTS) and inflammation. Twenty nine patients were selected through clinical and MRI analysis and submitted to cortico-amygdalo-hippocampectomy to seizure control. Glutamate, TNFα, IL1, nitric oxide (NO) levels and immunostaining...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Varella PP,Santiago JF,Carrete H Jr,Higa EM,Yacubian EM,Centeno RS,Caboclo LO,Castro Neto EF,Canzian M,Amado D,Cavalheiro EA,Naffah-Mazzacoratti Mda G

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The hemolytic-uremic syndrome is a pathology characterized by a triad consisting of acute renal failure, microangiopathic hemolytic anemia and thrombocytopenia, with complications of the central nervous system arising in a considerable number of cases. Altered cranial computerized tomography examinations usually revea...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Santos AC,Siqueira Neto JI,Fabio SR

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pterional craniotomy is one of the most frequently surgical approaches used in neurosurgery and currently it has become a mainsteam. It allows excellent microsurgical exposure of anterior and posterior regions of the arterial circle of Willis, supra and paraselar regions, the superior orbital fissure of sphenoid b...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Figueiredo EG,Oliveira AM,Plese JP,Teixeira MJ

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurosonological studies, specifically transcranial Doppler (TCD) and transcranial color-coded duplex (TCCD), have high level of specificity and sensitivity and they are used as complementary tests for the diagnosis of brain death (BD). A group of experts, from the Neurosonology Department of the Brazilian Academy of ...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Lange MC,Zétola VH,Miranda-Alves M,Moro CH,Silvado CE,Rodrigues DL,Gregorio EG,Silva GS,Oliveira-Filho J,Perdatella MT,Pontes-Neto OM,Fábio SR,Avelar WM,Freitas GR,Task Force Group of the Neurosonology Department, Brazilian A

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An 81-year-old woman developed left hemiplegia and coma due to a right hemisphere infarct and died 6 days later. When first seen in coma she had the classical signs of descending central herniation in the diencephalic stage. The CT scan of the third day showed a large hypodense area occupying the superficial and deep ...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： De Oliveira-Souza R,Benchimol M

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thalamic hand is one of the clinical expressions of the painful thalamic syndrome. This paper relates on a case of a patient with a syndrome of central post-stroke and supra-thalamic pain who also presents a thalamic hand. The authors emphasize the notion that in the syndrome of central post-stroke pain a direct or in...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： de Castro-Costa CM,do Vale OC,Siqueira Neto JI

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess the functional capacity and to determine the difference between the means of functional capacity (basic and instrumental activities of daily living) and the age groups of elderly residents in an outlying area in the hinterland of Bahia/Northeast of Brazil. METHOD:Analytical study with cross-section...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Torres Gde V,Reis LA,Reis LA

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES:Surgical treatment of cervical radiculopathy with or without myelopathy is a controversy issue, although anterior discectomy is the most common form of treatment. METHOD:We present the evaluation of the arthrodesis' rate and cervical alignment in 48 patients with cervical degenerative disease...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Mudo ML,Amantea AV,Joaquim AF,Prandini MN,Cavalheiro S

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four hundred thirty one epileptic patients, aged 10 years or more old, have been studied in the neurology clinic of Hospital das Clínicas da Faculdade de Medicina de Ribeirão Preto da U.S.P., from February to July, 1981. The authors selected 119 patients aged between 13 to 45 years, that presented periodic menstrual b...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Schelp AO,Speciali JG

更新日期：1983-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The spinal trauma related to civilian gunshot missile still remains a serious neurological event that carries a dismal prognosis almost in all cases. Its surgical indication also is a matter of discussion. Our goal is to identify the aspects that could influence the prognosis after surgery to this kind of lesions. We ...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Flores LP,Nascimento Filho Jde S,Pereira Neto A,Suzuki K

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:With the increase in life expectancy in Brazil, concerns have grown about the most prevalent diseases in elderly people. Among these diseases are neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases. Protein deposits related to the development of these diseases can pre-date the symptomatic phases b...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Oliveira FH,Rodrigues Neto E,Fonseca MK,Costa AS,Rockenbach MA,Padilha Rdos S,Fernandez LL,Hilbig A

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Basilar tip aneurysms (BTAs) have a complex anatomy, making them difficult to treat. We describe our surgical results for BTAs. METHODS:From 2004 to 2015 (12 years), a total of 25 small BTAs and two giant BTAs were treated in the Hospital do Servidor Público Estadual de São Paulo. RESULTS:In 23 patients har...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Pahl FH,Oliveira MF,Rotta JM

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine frequency, etiology, site and clinical and laboratory findings of ventriculoperitoneal shunt (VPS) infections in children and adolescents with hydrocephalus managed in Hospital Governador João Alves Filho, Aracaju SE, Brazil. METHOD:A non-controlled prospective observational study comprising 50 ...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Lima MM,Pereira CU,Silva AM

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present our experience with 36 cases of nonfunctional pituitary adenomas. These tumors were divided into non reactive and inactive in agreement with the immunohistochemical study. They present with visual symptoms, mainly bitemporal hemianopsia; they were macroadenomas, either invasive or non invasive, in both grou...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Tella OI Jr,Herculano MA,Delcello R,Aguiar PH

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alternative surgical procedures to treat unclippable aneurysms of the intracavernous carotid artery include proximal vessel occlusion and trapping. Those techniques, even in patients with rich collateral vessels, are associated with risk of hemodynamic compromise and ischemic complications. Therefore, a safe treatment...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Azevedo Filho H,Martins C,Carvalho A,Geraldo S,Grassi G,Cardoso C,Vilaça G,Rodrigues C

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:More than 80 years after its introduction by Hans Berger, the electroencephalogram (EEG) remains as an important supplementary examination in the investigation of neurological disorders and gives valuable and accurate information about cerebral function. Abnormal EEG findings may include ictal patterns, interictal epi...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Andraus ME,Alves-Leon SV

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Changes in cardiac rhythm may occur during epileptic seizures and this has been suggested as a possible mechanism for sudden unexpected death amongst patients with chronic epilepsy (SUDEP). We have studied ECG changes during 61 complex partial seizures of temporal lobe origin in 20 patients. Tachycardia was observed i...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Li LM,Roche J,Sander JW

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients with epilepsy face innumerable obstacles in daily life, related to work, permission to drive and interpersonal relationships, which require medical guidance. This paper reports a literature review based on scientific articles and civil and traffic system, as a way to resolve doubts about medical obligations i...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Ferreira Neto Segundo A,Silva MME,Mercer PBS,Reinert C,Borges EF,Siqueira JM,Bomediano MP,Witt MCZ

更新日期：2019-10-24 00:00:00