Dementia and dependence: do modifiable risk factors delay disability?

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The purpose of this study was to develop an algorithm incorporating MRI metrics to classify patients with mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) and controls. METHODS:This was an institutional review board-approved, Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act-compliant prospective study. We recruited pat...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Lui YW,Xue Y,Kenul D,Ge Y,Grossman RI,Wang Y

更新日期：2014-09-30 00:00:00

abstract：:We performed an open-label study testing the effects of GM1 ganglioside on 10 Parkinson's disease (PD) patients. Patients received 1,000 mg of GM1 by IV infusion after the last of three baseline functional assessments. Patients then self-administered GM1 at a dose of 200 mg/d, by subcutaneous injection, for 18 weeks. ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Schneider JS,Roeltgen DP,Rothblat DS,Chapas-Crilly J,Seraydarian L,Rao J

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:4-Aminopyridine (4-AP) has a favorable effect on the disability of certain patients with MS. We investigated the effect of 4-AP on neuropsychological performance in 20 MS patients using a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, crossover design. Although there was a trend for improved performance with 4-AP for t...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Smits RC,Emmen HH,Bertelsmann FW,Kulig BM,van Loenen AC,Polman CH

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:(-)Deprenyl, a specific monoamine oxidase subtype B inhibitor (MAOI-B), has been reported to be a safe and valuable adjunct to conventional treatment of parkinsonism. A double-blind, clinical comparison of (-)deprenyl with placebo was undertaken in 11 parkinsonian patients; the efficacy of 10 mg daily was studied over...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Eisler T,Teräväinen H,Nelson R,Krebs H,Weise V,Lake CR,Ebert MH,Whetzel N,Murphy DL,Kopin IJ,Calne DB

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate residual function of the motor cortex corresponding to the hand of the amputated arm (MCamp). METHODS:Focal transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) of MCamp was performed in 10 patients 22 to 52 years after arm amputation to inhibit tonic muscle contraction in the intact hand ipsilateral to co...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Röricht S,Meyer BU

更新日期：2000-02-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The Israeli Teratogen Information Service prospectively followed up 210 pregnancies with first trimester carbamazepine exposure. Pregnancy outcome was compared with that of two overlapping controls, matched and general (n = 629), exposed to nonteratogenic agents. Our study suggests a twofold increase in the rate of ma...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Diav-Citrin O,Shechtman S,Arnon J,Ornoy A

更新日期：2001-07-24 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：:We assessed the severity and temporal profile of distant neuromuscular effects from a single dose (280 units) of botulinum neurotoxin injected into neck muscles for torticollis. We performed single-fiber EMG studies on the biceps brachii of six patients to measure jitter (20 pairs) and fiber density on the initial tre...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Olney RK,Aminoff MJ,Gelb DJ,Lowenstein DH

更新日期：1988-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously described demyelination in the brain and subacute combined degeneration of the spinal cord in a patient with 5,10-methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase deficiency. To assess the role of methionine, S-adenosylmethionine, folate, and neurotransmitter amine metabolism in the demyelination process, we measured...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Hyland K,Smith I,Bottiglieri T,Perry J,Wendel U,Clayton PT,Leonard JV

更新日期：1988-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Posterior cortical atrophy (PCA) is a progressive dementia characterized by prominent disorders of higher visual processing, affecting both dorsal and ventral streams to cause Balint's syndrome, alexia, and visual agnosia. OBJECTIVE:To define the cognitive profile of PCA and compare to the typical, primary ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： McMonagle P,Deering F,Berliner Y,Kertesz A

更新日期：2006-02-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability to deliver enzymatically active human hexosaminidase A across the blood-brain barrier and into brain cells of the normal rat was examined. Following osmotic blood-brain barrier modification in the rat, intraarterially administered human hexosaminidase A and B were shown to cross the barrier and enter brain...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Neuwelt EA,Barranger JA,Pagel MA,Quirk JM,Brady RO,Frenkel EP

更新日期：1984-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The head impulse test (HIT) is a useful bedside test to identify peripheral vestibular deficits. However, such a deficit of the vestibulo-ocular reflex (VOR) may not be diagnosed because corrective saccades cannot always be detected by simple observation. The scleral search coil technique is the gold standar...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： MacDougall HG,Weber KP,McGarvie LA,Halmagyi GM,Curthoys IS

更新日期：2009-10-06 00:00:00

abstract：:An 18-year-old man had noticed increasing difficulty in walking for 4 years. Examination disclosed spastic paraparesis and posterior column signs suggestive of subacute combined degeneration of the spinal cord. Urinalysis, urinary thin-layer chromatography, and intestinal biopsy disclosed typical cystinuria. Perniciou...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： De Myer W,Gebhard RL

更新日期：1975-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine the effects of natalizumab on low-contrast letter acuity as a prespecified tertiary endpoint in two randomized clinical trials and to evaluate the usefulness of low-contrast letter acuity testing as a candidate test of visual function in multiple sclerosis (MS). METHODS:AFFIRM and SENTINEL were ra...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Balcer LJ,Galetta SL,Calabresi PA,Confavreux C,Giovannoni G,Havrdova E,Hutchinson M,Kappos L,Lublin FD,Miller DH,O'Connor PW,Phillips JT,Polman CH,Radue EW,Rudick RA,Stuart WH,Wajgt A,Weinstock-Guttman B,Wynn DR,Lyn

更新日期：2007-04-17 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:It has been suggested that anemia may be a risk factor for dementia, for restless legs syndrome, and for Parkinson disease (PD). Thus, we investigated the association of anemia with the subsequent risk of PD using a case-control study design. METHODS:We used the medical records-linkage system of the Rocheste...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Savica R,Grossardt BR,Carlin JM,Icen M,Bower JH,Ahlskog JE,Maraganore DM,Steensma DP,Rocca WA

更新日期：2009-10-27 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied two families with an unusual variant of neurofibromatosis (NF). The first family had spinal neurofibromas and café au lait spots (CLS), the second spinal neurofibromas without CLS. Other signs of NF1 or NF2, such as cutaneous tumors, Lisch nodules, or acoustic tumors, were absent. The inheritance pattern in...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Pulst SM,Riccardi VM,Fain P,Korenberg JR

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mammalian spinal neurons grown in tissue culture were used to study the effects of the four convulsants-penicillin, pentylenetetrazol, picrotoxin, and bicuculline-on these neurons' responses to amino acids. Bath application of all four convulsants produced paroxysmal depolarizing events in the neurons; iontophoresis o...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Macdonald RL,Barker JL

更新日期：1978-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess the association of early morning serum cortisol with cognitive performance and brain structural integrity in community-dwelling young and middle-aged adults without dementia. METHODS:We evaluated dementia-free Framingham Heart Study (generation 3) participants (mean age 48.5 years, 46.8% men) who u...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Echouffo-Tcheugui JB,Conner SC,Himali JJ,Maillard P,DeCarli CS,Beiser AS,Vasan RS,Seshadri S

更新日期：2018-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied a 55-year-old woman with macrosquare wave jerks and macrosaccadic oscillations with a vertical component. The oscillations almost completely disappeared after administration of diazepam, clonazepam, thiamylal, or phenobarbital. A disorder of GABAergic tonic inhibitory system from the substantia nigra to sup...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Fukazawa T,Tashiro K,Hamada T,Kase M

更新日期：1986-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate to what extent subjective memory complaints and APOE-epsilon4 allele carriage predict future cognitive decline in cognitively intact elderly persons, by evaluating both their separate and combined effects. METHODS:We selected 1,168 subjects from the population-based Longitudinal Aging Study Am...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Dik MG,Jonker C,Comijs HC,Bouter LM,Twisk JW,van Kamp GJ,Deeg DJ

更新日期：2001-12-26 00:00:00

abstract：:We measured plasma norepinephrine levels in patients with familial amyloid polyneuropathy. Patients with orthostatic hypotension had low basal plasma norepinephrine levels, which did not increase after postural change. On the basis of biochemical findings that suggest depletion of peripheral norepinephrine, DL-threo-3...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Suzuki T,Higa S,Sakoda S,Hayashi A,Yamamura Y,Takaba Y,Nakajima A

更新日期：1981-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 11 patients with chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP) and 11 patients with chronic idiopathic axonal polyneuropathy (CIAP), absent myotatic reflexes were significantly associated more often with CIDP than with CIAP, an absent biceps-reflex having the highest sensitivity and specificity for the d...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： van Dijk GW,Wokke JH,Notermans NC,van Gijn J,Franssen H

更新日期：1999-10-22 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To describe the frequency of cervical arterial abnormalities in children with acute arterial ischemic stroke (AIS), to examine predictors of this, and to characterize observed abnormalities in terms of specific diagnoses. METHODS:Review of case notes of children with AIS (2002-2009) and analysis of their ne...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Ganesan V,Cox TC,Gunny R

更新日期：2011-01-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Of 101 patients with benign intracranial hypertension not related to vasculitis, neck stiffness occurred in 31, tinnitus in 27, distal extremity paresthesias in 22, joint pains in 13, low back pain in 5, and gait "ataxia" in 4. Symptoms resolved promptly upon lowering the intracranial pressure by lumbar puncture, and ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Round R,Keane JR

更新日期：1988-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine whether blast exposure alone and blast-associated concussion result in similar neurologic and mental health symptoms. METHODS:A 14-item questionnaire was administered to male US Marines on their return from deployment in Iraq and/or Afghanistan. RESULTS:A total of 2,612 Marines (median age 22 yea...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Tsao JW,Stentz LA,Rouhanian M,Howard RS,Perry BN,Haran FJ,Pasquina PF,Wolde M,Taylor CE,Lizardo R,Liu S,Flores E 3rd,Creason AH,Sher K

更新日期：2017-11-07 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Abnormal high cerebral iron deposition may be implicated in chronic neurologic disorders, including multiple sclerosis (MS). R2* relaxometry has been recently validated in a postmortem study to indicate brain iron accumulation in a quantitative manner. We used this technique to assess brain iron levels in di...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Khalil M,Langkammer C,Ropele S,Petrovic K,Wallner-Blazek M,Loitfelder M,Jehna M,Bachmaier G,Schmidt R,Enzinger C,Fuchs S,Fazekas F

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To verify the previously reported association between long-term use of β2-adrenoreceptor (β2AR) agonist and antagonist with reduced and increased risk of Parkinson disease (PD), respectively. METHODS:We obtained odds ratios (ORs) associating time of β2AR agonist and antagonist use with PD risk in nationwide ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Hopfner F,Wod M,Höglinger GU,Blaabjerg M,Rösler TW,Kuhlenbäumer G,Christensen K,Deuschl G,Pottegård A

更新日期：2019-07-09 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To describe the detection frequency and clinical associations of immunoglobulin G (IgG) targeting dipeptidyl-peptidase-like protein-6 (DPPX), a regulatory subunit of neuronal Kv4.2 potassium channels. METHODS:Specimens from 20 patients evaluated on a service basis by tissue-based immunofluorescence yielded a...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Tobin WO,Lennon VA,Komorowski L,Probst C,Clardy SL,Aksamit AJ,Appendino JP,Lucchinetti CF,Matsumoto JY,Pittock SJ,Sandroni P,Tippmann-Peikert M,Wirrell EC,McKeon A

更新日期：2014-11-11 00:00:00

abstract：:We gave three adult rhesus monkeys seven IV injections of manganese chloride at approximately 1-week intervals. We evaluated neurologic status by serial clinical examinations and performed a levodopa test if the animal developed features of basal ganglia dysfunction. After the animals were killed, we performed neuropa...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Olanow CW,Good PF,Shinotoh H,Hewitt KA,Vingerhoets F,Snow BJ,Beal MF,Calne DB,Perl DP

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A right-handed woman with independent left- and right-sided temporal lobe discharges was studied by continuous EEG and videotape monitoring for 3 weeks. Changes in affect were noted in the immediate and extended postictal periods and varied with the side of discharge. After a left-sided discharge, she became globally ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Hurwitz TA,Wada JA,Kosaka BD,Strauss EH

更新日期：1985-09-01 00:00:00