Reprogramming cells from Gulf War veterans into neurons to study Gulf War illness.

abstract：:Patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) commonly complain of impaired visual function and difficulty reading, despite normal visual acuity. Although previous studies have evaluated contrast sensitivity, color vision, visuospatial processing, visual hallucinations, and ocular movements, none has systematically evaluated...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Biousse V,Skibell BC,Watts RL,Loupe DN,Drews-Botsch C,Newman NJ

更新日期：2004-01-27 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The objective of this study was to clarify the characteristic brain MRI findings for genetically diagnosed CARASIL (cerebral autosomal recessive arteriopathy with subcortical infarcts and leukoencephalopathy). METHODS:Seven patients with CARASIL carrying HTRA1 mutations (representing 6 Japanese families) we...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Nozaki H,Sekine Y,Fukutake T,Nishimoto Y,Shimoe Y,Shirata A,Yanagawa S,Hirayama M,Tamura M,Nishizawa M,Onodera O

更新日期：2015-08-04 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:We aimed to assess the innervation density of dermal nerves in human skin biopsies by bright-field immunohistochemistry. METHODS:The size of dermal area where nerve length was quantified was validated in 30 skin biopsy sections (5 controls and 5 patients with small-fiber neuropathy [SFN]). It was obtained di...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Lauria G,Cazzato D,Porretta-Serapiglia C,Casanova-Molla J,Taiana M,Penza P,Lombardi R,Faber CG,Merkies IS

更新日期：2011-07-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In cerebral small vessel disease, the core MRI findings include white matter lesions (WML) and lacunar infarcts. While the clinical significance of WML is better understood, the contribution of lacunes to the rate of cognitive decline has not been established. This study investigated whether incident lacunes...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Jokinen H,Gouw AA,Madureira S,Ylikoski R,van Straaten EC,van der Flier WM,Barkhof F,Scheltens P,Fazekas F,Schmidt R,Verdelho A,Ferro JM,Pantoni L,Inzitari D,Erkinjuntti T,LADIS Study Group.

更新日期：2011-05-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Primary deficiency of merosin is the cause of the classic form of congenital muscular dystrophy (CMD) accompanied by brain white matter abnormalities. We report a female infant with dystrophinopathy who was deficient in merosin in skeletal muscle. The patient had a phenotype of typical CMD and white matter abnormaliti...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Tachi N,Ohya K,Chiba S,Matsuo M,Patria SY,Matsumura K

更新日期：1997-08-01 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：:One hundred and eight patients with independent, multifocal, spike discharges in the EEG were studied. The abnormality occurred at all ages but was more frequent between 4 and 7 years. The basic EEG activity in wake tracing was invariably slow for the age of the patient. The majority of the patients with independent m...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Noriega-Sanchez A,Markand ON

更新日期：1976-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES:A number of familial temporal lobe epilepsies (TLE) have been recently recognized. Mutations in LGI1 (leucine-rich, glioma-inactivated 1 gene) have been found in a few families with the syndrome of autosomal dominant partial epilepsy with auditory features (ADPEAF). The authors aimed to determ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Berkovic SF,Izzillo P,McMahon JM,Harkin LA,McIntosh AM,Phillips HA,Briellmann RS,Wallace RH,Mazarib A,Neufeld MY,Korczyn AD,Scheffer IE,Mulley JC

更新日期：2004-04-13 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Genetic variants ε2/ε4 within the APOE gene are established risk factors for lobar intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH). Published preliminary data suggest a potential role for APOE ε4 in risk of nonlobar ICH. We therefore investigated the role of APOE in recurrent nonlobar ICH, and sought to clarify whether effect...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Raffeld MR,Biffi A,Battey TW,Ayres AM,Viswanathan A,Greenberg SM,Rosand J,Anderson CD

更新日期：2015-07-28 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the influence of the single nucleotide polymorphism rs1080985 in the cytochrome P450 2D6 (CYP2D6) gene on the efficacy of donepezil in patients with mild to moderate Alzheimer disease (AD). METHODS:This was a multicenter, prospective cohort study of 127 white patients with AD according to the Nat...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Pilotto A,Franceschi M,D'Onofrio G,Bizzarro A,Mangialasche F,Cascavilla L,Paris F,Matera MG,Pilotto A,Daniele A,Mecocci P,Masullo C,Dallapiccola B,Seripa D

更新日期：2009-09-08 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate trends in atrial fibrillation (AF) prevalence in acute ischemic stroke (AIS) and TIA in the United States. METHODS:We used the Nationwide Inpatient Sample to retrospectively compute weighted prevalence of AF in AIS (n = 4,355,140) and TIA (n = 1,816,459) patients admitted to US hospitals from 200...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Otite FO,Khandelwal P,Chaturvedi S,Romano JG,Sacco RL,Malik AM

更新日期：2016-11-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Hoarding behavior associated with focal brain injury is rarely reported. The authors report a 46-year-old man with pathologic collecting behavior after a left orbitofrontal and caudate injury from an aneurysmal rupture of anterior communicating artery. His hoarding, an impulse control disorder or an ego-syntonic compu...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Hahm DS,Kang Y,Cheong SS,Na DL

更新日期：2001-02-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The endogenous auditory P300 event-related potential (P3) has been used to differentiate functional and organic cognitive disorders in adults. We found that children with organic cognitive impairments (as determined by the Halstead-Reitan [HR] test) had greater P3 latencies than children with normal HR evaluations. Th...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Finley WW,Faux SF,Hutcheson J,Amstutz L

更新日期：1985-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytokines such as interleukin-1 and tumor necrosis factor are involved in the triggering of the immune response, induction of acute inflammatory events, and transition to, or persistence of, chronic inflammation. The action of proinflammatory cytokines is regulated by their receptor expression, downregulation and shed...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Burger D,Dayer JM

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Epidemiologic and laboratory studies suggest that nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) reduce risk of Alzheimer disease (AD). We therefore investigated the association between use of NSAIDs, aspirin, and the non-NSAID analgesic acetaminophen with incidence of dementia and AD. METHODS:Participants in...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Szekely CA,Breitner JC,Fitzpatrick AL,Rea TD,Psaty BM,Kuller LH,Zandi PP

更新日期：2008-01-01 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

abstract：:We report a Japanese boy with muscular dystrophy whose clinical symptoms were intermediate between those usually considered typical of Duchenne and Becker muscular dystrophies. The patient had a large inframe deletion extending from exons 3 to 41 of the dystrophin gene, which would be expected to cause the production ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Takeshima Y,Nishio H,Narita N,Wada H,Ishikawa Y,Ishikawa Y,Minami R,Nakamura H,Matsuo M

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess the expression of heat shock proteins (HSP) in glioma cells in vitro and in vivo and to examine their role in resistance to apoptosis. BACKGROUND:HSP are expressed in response to various forms of stress. Constitutive HSP expression may confer resistance to cytotoxic stimuli in human cancers. METHO...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Hermisson M,Strik H,Rieger J,Dichgans J,Meyermann R,Weller M

更新日期：2000-03-28 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Observational and experimental studies suggest that nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) may protect against Alzheimer disease (AD); however, clinical trials and other observational studies, including the Adult Changes in Thought (ACT) study, show no protection or promotion of AD. The objective of t...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Sonnen JA,Larson EB,Walker RL,Haneuse S,Crane PK,Gray SL,Breitner JC,Montine TJ

更新日期：2010-09-28 00:00:00

abstract：:A comprehensive sequence analysis of 29 exons that code for the functional domains of LRRK2 in 160 nondominant Parkinson disease (PD) patients was performed. Novel variant screening in a further 470 sporadic PD patients and 630 controls revealed two novel variants (R1067Q and IVS33 + 6 T>A), which are likely to be pat...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Skipper L,Shen H,Chua E,Bonnard C,Kolatkar P,Tan LC,Jamora RD,Puvan K,Puong KY,Zhao Y,Pavanni R,Wong MC,Yuen Y,Farrer M,Liu JJ,Tan EK

更新日期：2005-10-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Inclusion-body myositis (IBM) is an inflammatory muscle disease that has proven resistant to treatment. Tumor necrosis factor molecules have been detected in muscle biopsies from patients with IBM. Etanercept is a TNFalpha receptor fusion protein that binds and inactivates tumor necrosis factor. Nine patients were tre...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Barohn RJ,Herbelin L,Kissel JT,King W,McVey AL,Saperstein DS,Mendell JR

更新日期：2006-01-24 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied four patients with neurologic disorders of the lumbosacral plexus. Except for location of symptoms, the disorder confirmed to criteria established for the clinical diagnosis of brachial plexus neuritis. Acute onset of pain in one or both legs was followed by weakness, loss of stretch reflexes, and sometimes...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Sander JE,Sharp FR

更新日期：1981-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To identify regional metabolic brain networks related specifically to the presence of tremor in PD. BACKGROUND:The pathophysiology of parkinsonian tremor is unknown. Because tremor in PD occurs mainly in repose, we used resting state PET with 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) to identify specific metabolic brain ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Antonini A,Moeller JR,Nakamura T,Spetsieris P,Dhawan V,Eidelberg D

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurologic complications of both the central and peripheral nervous systems occur frequently in patients with primary Sjögren's syndrome (primary SS), but the underlying cause of these complications is unknown. We studied the presence of antineuronal antibodies in relation to neurologic complications in a consecutive ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Moll JW,Markusse HM,Pijnenburg JJ,Vecht CJ,Henzen-Logmans SC

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nigrostriatal dopaminergic function and cerebral energy metabolism were measured with PET in two brothers with early-onset parkinsonism caused by mutation of the parkin gene. Energy metabolism did not differ, but the nigrostriatal dopaminergic pattern was clearly different than that of sporadic PD. Thus parkinsonism i...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Portman AT,Giladi N,Leenders KL,Maguire P,Veenma-van der Duin L,Swart J,Pruim J,Simon ES,Hassin-Baer S,Korczyn AD

更新日期：2001-06-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors describe a novel pathogenic G5540A transition in the mitochondrial transfer RNA (tRNA)Trp gene of a sporadic encephalomyopathy characterized by spinocerebellar ataxia. Clinical features also included neurosensorial deafness, peripheral neuropathy, and dementia. Biochemistry revealed a severe reduction of c...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Silvestri G,Mongini T,Odoardi F,Modoni A,deRosa G,Doriguzzi C,Palmucci L,Tonali P,Servidei S

更新日期：2000-04-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors investigated the PRNP Met129Val polymorphism in 1,393 subjects including 482 patients with Alzheimer disease (AD) and two independent control groups. In patients, PRNP Met homozygosity conferred increasing risk with decreasing age at onset (onset: 61 to 70 years, n = 151, p = 0.02, odds ratio [OR] = 1.72, ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Riemenschneider M,Klopp N,Xiang W,Wagenpfeil S,Vollmert C,Müller U,Förstl H,Illig T,Kretzschmar H,Kurz A

更新日期：2004-07-27 00:00:00

abstract：:We report imaging and clinical findings of leukoencephalopathy occurring after levamisole. The lesions were hypoattenuating on CT and appeared as multifocal oval or elliptical foci in the white matter or along the subependymal veins on MRI. Most lesions resolve after prompt withdrawal of levamisole. Detailed history t...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Liu HM,Hsieh WJ,Yang CC,Wu VC,Wu KD

更新日期：2006-09-26 00:00:00

abstract：:A collector is a person who collects things on purpose, either as a hobby or business, or for personal satisfaction, e.g., stamp, coin, or art collector. In such instances, the act of collecting things represents voluntary, controlled, goal-directed, selective searching. Pathologic patterns of collecting have been obs...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Volle E,Beato R,Levy R,Dubois B

更新日期：2002-02-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Expert knowledge may compensate for age-related declines in basic cognitive and sensory-motor abilities in some skill domains. We investigated the influence of age and aviation expertise (indexed by Federal Aviation Administration pilot ratings) on longitudinal flight simulator performance. METHODS:Over a 3...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Taylor JL,Kennedy Q,Noda A,Yesavage JA

更新日期：2007-02-27 00:00:00