NT-proBNP, blood pressure, and cognitive decline in the oldest old: The Leiden 85-plus Study.

abstract：:The authors demonstrate the potential for poststroke return of activation in regions normally involved in touch discrimination in a serial, whole-brain fMRI study of a patient with marked sensory loss followed by good recovery. A return of activation in ipsilesional primary and bilateral secondary somatosensory cortic...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Carey LM,Abbott DF,Puce A,Jackson GD,Syngeniotis A,Donnan GA

更新日期：2002-09-10 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:APOE epsilon4 has been associated with late-onset familial and sporadic AD and delayed recovery from head injury. The authors examined the relationship between functional recovery of patients with head injury and the APOE alleles. METHODS:Thirty-one patients with head injury who had completed the Acute Neuro...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Lichtman SW,Seliger G,Tycko B,Marder K

更新日期：2000-11-28 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 behavioral and anatomic correlates of pure alexia were analyzed in 16 patients. Right homonymous hemianopia failed to appear in three patients, who had right achromatopsia instead. Color anomia and unilateral optic ataxia were seen in six patients. Memory defects were found in two patients. Visual agnosia was note...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Damasio AR,Damasio H

更新日期：1983-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The natural history of succinic semialdehyde dehydrogenase (SSADH) deficiency in adulthood is unknown; we elucidate the clinical manifestations of the disease later in life. METHODS:A 63-year-old man with long-standing intellectual disability was diagnosed with SSADH deficiency following hospitalization for ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Lapalme-Remis S,Lewis EC,De Meulemeester C,Chakraborty P,Gibson KM,Torres C,Guberman A,Salomons GS,Jakobs C,Ali-Ridha A,Parviz M,Pearl PL

更新日期：2015-09-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although phenylketonuria is a treatable disease, patients with late or nonoptimal phenylalanine-restricted diet may experience brain damage. The authors used tridimensional MRI and a voxelwise analysis method to investigate possible volume changes in the brain parenchyma of patients with phenylketonuria. ME...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Pérez-Dueñas B,Pujol J,Soriano-Mas C,Ortiz H,Artuch R,Vilaseca MA,Campistol J

更新日期：2006-04-11 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:We examined the incidence of mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and its potential vascular risk factors in a prospective population-based study. METHODS:An age-stratified random population-based cohort (baseline n = 1,982), followed for up to 4 years, was annually assessed for cognitive and everyday functioning...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Ganguli M,Fu B,Snitz BE,Hughes TF,Chang CC

更新日期：2013-06-04 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate brain amyloid pathology in a dementia-risk population defined as cardiovascular risk factors, aging, and dementia risk (CAIDE) score of at least 6 but with normal cognition and to examine associations between brain amyloid load and cognitive performance and vascular risk factors. METHODS:A sub...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Kemppainen N,Johansson J,Teuho J,Parkkola R,Joutsa J,Ngandu T,Solomon A,Stephen R,Liu Y,Hänninen T,Paajanen T,Laatikainen T,Soininen H,Jula A,Rokka J,Rissanen E,Vahlberg T,Peltoniemi J,Kivipelto M,Rinne JO

更新日期：2018-01-16 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine the contribution of sequence variations in PHOX2B to sudden unexpected death in epilepsy (SUDEP). METHODS:Patients who died of SUDEP were identified in 2 major Australian cohorts, the Epilepsy Genetics research program in Melbourne and postmortem cases at the Department of Forensic Medicine in S...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Bagnall RD,Crompton DE,Cutmore C,Regan BM,Berkovic SF,Scheffer IE,Semsarian C

更新日期：2014-09-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Elevated serum retinol, CSF retinol, and serum retinol binding protein (RBP) levels have been found in some patients with idiopathic intracranial hypertension (IIH), but serum and CSF retinol levels have not been studied in matched serum and CSF samples in patients with IIH. OBJECTIVE:To determine whether s...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Tabassi A,Salmasi AH,Jalali M

更新日期：2005-06-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Although neurophysiologic doctrine has traditionally referred to "the" voltage-gated sodium channel, it is now clear that there are at least nine genes that encode molecularly and physiologically distinct sodium channels. Mutations of sodium channel genes provide a basis for genetic channelopathies. Dysregulated expre...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Waxman SG

更新日期：2001-06-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Age at 1st risk for seizures may predict anomia following dominant anterior temporal lobectomy. We assessed confrontation naming before and 2 to 3 weeks after surgery in 45 right-handed patients grouped by side of focus and presence or absence of early (less than or equal to 5 years) risk factors. After left lobectomy...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Stafiniak P,Saykin AJ,Sperling MR,Kester DB,Robinson LJ,O'Connor MJ,Gur RC

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To study the anti-Schwann cell activity of serum from patients with Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS), we used a 51Cr-release cytotoxicity assay. Specific release of 51Cr mediated by GBS serum did not differ from that with normals or disease controls. Heating sera from GBS patients or controls at 56 or 50 degrees C for 30...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Lisak RP,Kuchmy D,Armati-Gulson PJ,Brown MJ,Sumner AJ

更新日期：1984-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The 1875 publications of Erb and Westphal brought widespread attention to the percussion of muscle stretch reflexes. Although the maneuver may have been observed before 1875, there is little concrete evidence of this. OBJECTIVES:To bring to light an early report of percussion eliciting the muscle stretch re...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Louis ED

更新日期：2008-03-18 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To correlate muscle biopsy findings with prebiopsy and postbiopsy clinical course and response to therapy in polymyositis (PM) and sporadic inclusion body myositis (IBM). BACKGROUND:Existence of pure PM has recently been questioned; subsequently, the definition and criteria for diagnosing PM were debated. M...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Chahin N,Engel AG

更新日期：2008-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The efficacy and safety of donepezil as a treatment for patients with mild to moderate Alzheimer's disease (AD) was investigated in a multicenter, double-blind study. Patients were randomly assigned to treatment with placebo (n = 162), 5 mg/d donepezil (n = 154), or 10 mg/d donepezil (n = 157) for 24 weeks followed by...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Rogers SL,Farlow MR,Doody RS,Mohs R,Friedhoff LT

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate attention deficit in Alzheimer's disease (AD) and its relationship to attention deficits associated with aging and with medications altering alertness. METHODS:Ten patients with probable AD, 10 healthy old controls, and 15 young controls performed a covert orienting of spatial attention task. You...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Oken BS,Kishiyama SS,Kaye JA,Howieson DB

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Five men with degenerative neuromuscular diseases (three with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis [ALS] and two with Duchenne's muscular dystrophy [DMD]) who had respiratory failure were treated with intermittent negative pressure ventilation (NPV). One patient with ALS in severe acute respiratory failure was successfully t...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Braun SR,Sufit RL,Giovannoni R,O'Connor M,Peters H

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of gender in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease (AD) is an important issue that remains controversial. We compared men and women in late-onset familial AD kindreds for the risk of developing AD by studying 26 well-characterized familial AD kindreds from the Oregon Alzheimer Disease Center and, for confir...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Payami H,Montee K,Grimslid H,Shattuc S,Kaye J

更新日期：1996-01-01 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：:Mammalian spinal cord neurons were grown in dissociated cell culture and used to study the effects of the anticonvulsant barbiturates phenobarbital and mephobarbital, and the anesthetic barbiturates pentobarbital, secobarbital, and 1,3-dimethyl-butylethyl barbituric acid on amino acid responses and neuronal membrane p...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Macdonald RL,Barker JL

更新日期：1979-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Brain changes occurring early in HIV infection are not well characterized. The Chicago Early HIV Infection Study aimed to evaluate the presence and extent of structural brain alterations using quantitative MRI. METHODS:Forty-three HIV and 21 control subjects were enrolled. Mean length of infection was estima...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Ragin AB,Du H,Ochs R,Wu Y,Sammet CL,Shoukry A,Epstein LG

更新日期：2012-12-11 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：:Four adolescents had basilar migraine, infrequent cerebral seizures, and severe EEG abnormalities. The clinical course was benign, with normal personality, mentation, and neurologic examination. Almost continuous EEG abnormalities, consisting of rhythmic temporo-occipital sharp and slow wave discharges, or generalized...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Camfield PR,Metrakos K,Andermann F

更新日期：1978-06-01 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:(1)H-MRS studies have shown abnormalities in brain levels of myo-inositol (mI) and N-acetyl aspartate (NAA) in AD, but the relation of these abnormalities with dementia severity was not examined. The authors sought to determine whether altered brain levels of mI and other metabolites occur in mild AD and whet...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Huang W,Alexander GE,Chang L,Shetty HU,Krasuski JS,Rapoport SI,Schapiro MB

更新日期：2001-08-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The majority of patients with traumatic brain injury (TBI) are classified as having a mild TBI. Despite being categorized as mild, these individuals report ongoing and complex symptoms, which negatively affect their ability to complete activities of daily living and overall quality of life. Some of the major symptoms ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Elenberger J,Kim B,de Castro-Abeger A,Rex TS

更新日期：2020-11-03 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Small-cell lung carcinoma (SCLC) and limbic encephalitis are recognized γ-aminobutyric acid-B receptor (GABABR) autoantibody accompaniments. We sought to determine in a diagnostic serology laboratory the frequency and accompaniments (neurologic, oncologic, and serologic) of GABABR-immunoglobulin G (IgG). MET...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Jeffery OJ,Lennon VA,Pittock SJ,Gregory JK,Britton JW,McKeon A

更新日期：2013-09-03 00:00:00

abstract：:IV immunoglobulin therapy can lead to vascular events through increased serum viscosity and possibly other mechanisms. The authors describe the successful use of tissue plasminogen activator in three of four patients who developed cerebral and peripheral arterial thrombosis after treatment with IV immunoglobulin. ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Okuda D,Flaster M,Frey J,Sivakumar K

更新日期：2003-06-10 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The Quality Standards Subcommittee of the American Academy of Neurology and the Practice Committee of the Child Neurology Society develop practice parameters as strategies for patient management based on analysis of evidence. For this parameter, the authors reviewed available evidence on the evaluation of the...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Lewis DW,Ashwal S,Dahl G,Dorbad D,Hirtz D,Prensky A,Jarjour I,Quality Standards Subcommittee of the American Academy of Neurology.,Practice Committee of the Child Neurology Society.

更新日期：2002-08-27 00:00:00