Cerebrospinal fluid monoamine markers are decreased in dementia of the Alzheimer type with extrapyramidal features.

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The assessment of behavioral disturbances in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is important because of the overlap with the behavioral variant of frontotemporal dementia (ALS-bvFTD). Motor symptoms and dysarthria are not taken into account in currently used behavioral questionnaires. We examined the clinime...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Raaphorst J,Beeldman E,Schmand B,Berkhout J,Linssen WH,van den Berg LH,Pijnenburg YA,Grupstra HF,Weikamp JG,Schelhaas HJ,Papma JM,van Swieten JC,de Visser M,de Haan RJ

更新日期：2012-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the past 5 years, and especially within the last year, there has been a rapid expansion of vagus nerve stimulation (VNS)-related preclinical research, as well as clinical studies in indications other than epilepsy. The research advances in understanding VNS are occurring in the midst of a blossoming of other form...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： George MS,Nahas Z,Bohning DE,Kozel FA,Anderson B,Chae JH,Lomarev M,Denslow S,Li X,Mu C

更新日期：2002-09-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Functional decline for each decade at symptom onset and need for cane, walker, or wheelchair were assessed in 78 biopsy-proved patients with sporadic inclusion body myositis. Patients with disease onset between 40 and 59 years used a walker after 10.2 +/- 5.8 years, whereas those with disease onset between 60 and 79 y...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Peng A,Koffman BM,Malley JD,Dalakas MC

更新日期：2000-07-25 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：:Rapsyn mutations in 16 unrelated patients with a congenital/hereditary myasthenic syndrome were identified, and a mutation (N88K) common to each of them was found. Two distinct phenotypes were noted: early and late onset. The former is frequently associated with arthrogryposis multiplex congenita and life-threatening ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Burke G,Cossins J,Maxwell S,Owens G,Vincent A,Robb S,Nicolle M,Hilton-Jones D,Newsom-Davis J,Palace J,Beeson D

更新日期：2003-09-23 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Kennedy disease (KD), or spinobulbomuscular atrophy, is a slowly progressive inherited neurodegenerative disorder, marked by prominent fasciculations that typically precede the development of other symptoms. Although the genetic basis of KD relates to triplet (CAG) repeat expansion in the androgen receptor (A...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Vucic S,Kiernan MC

更新日期：2007-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:While neuropsychological deficits have been reported in healthy individuals who use street cannabis, data in patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) are lacking. Given that MS is associated with cognitive deterioration, the aim of this study was to determine the neuropsychological effects of cannabis use in th...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Honarmand K,Tierney MC,O'Connor P,Feinstein A

更新日期：2011-03-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently published reports have suggested that multiple sclerosis (MS) may be associated with human retrovirus infection. Indeed, an autonomously proliferating T-cell clone was isolated from the CSF of an MS patient, an observation interpreted as indicating an infection with human T lymphotropic virus I (HTLV I). In v...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Birnbaum G,Aubitz S,Kotilinek L

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Pompe disease (acid maltase deficiency, glycogen storage disease type II; OMIM 232300) is an autosomal recessive lysosomal storage disorder characterized by acid alpha-glucosidase deficiency due to mutations in the GAA gene. Progressive skeletal muscle weakness affects motor and respiratory functions and is ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Kroos MA,Pomponio RJ,Hagemans ML,Keulemans JL,Phipps M,DeRiso M,Palmer RE,Ausems MG,Van der Beek NA,Van Diggelen OP,Halley DJ,Van der Ploeg AT,Reuser AJ

更新日期：2007-01-09 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examined the frequency of epilepsy in a consecutive series of patients who received a definitive diagnosis of psychogenic nonepileptic seizures (PNES) after completing inpatient video-EEG (VEEG) monitoring. Of the 1,590 patients receiving definitive diagnosis, 514 (32.3%) were diagnosed with PNES. Twenty-ni...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Martin R,Burneo JG,Prasad A,Powell T,Faught E,Knowlton R,Mendez M,Kuzniecky R

更新日期：2003-12-23 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：:Two cases of giant-cell arteritis with cerebral arteritis are presented. The clinical situation and the suggestive but nonspecific angiographic features make the antemortem diagnosis possible. Greater awareness of this entity will facilitate its diagnosis and the institution of effective steroid therapy. ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Enzmann D,Scott WR

更新日期：1977-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 64-year-old man with diffuse atherosclerosis developed an organic mental syndrome, followed by hypothalamic symptoms. Autopsy showed an old large cystic infarct involving the left temporal lobe including the hippocampus, and atrophy of the ipsilateral fornix, mammillary body, hypothalamus, mammillothalamic tract, an...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Torch WC,Hirano A,Solomon S

更新日期：1977-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The NIH Toolbox for Assessment of Neurological and Behavioral Function (NIH Toolbox) is a comprehensive battery of brief assessment tools. The purpose of this article is to describe plans to establish normative reference values for the NIH Toolbox measures. METHODS:A large sample will be obtained from the US...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Beaumont JL,Havlik R,Cook KF,Hays RD,Wallner-Allen K,Korper SP,Lai JS,Nord C,Zill N,Choi S,Yost KJ,Ustsinovich V,Brouwers P,Hoffman HJ,Gershon R

更新日期：2013-03-12 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Current prehospital scales used to detect large vessel occlusion reveal very low endovascular thrombectomy (EVT) rates among selected patients. We developed a novel prehospital scale, the Madrid-Direct Referral to Endovascular Center (M-DIRECT), to identify EVT candidates for direct transfer to EVT-capable ce...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Rodríguez-Pardo J,Riera-López N,Fuentes B,Alonso de Leciñana M,Secades-García S,Álvarez-Fraga J,Busca-Ostolaza P,Carneado-Ruiz J,Díaz-Guzmán J,Egido-Herrero J,Gil-Núñez A,Masjuan-Vallejo J,Real-Martínez V,Vivancos-Mora J,Díez

更新日期：2020-02-25 00:00:00

abstract：:CSF lymphocyte subpopulations of eight patients with neurosarcoidosis were examined. CSF or CT was abnormal in all. The CSF T4/T8 (helper/suppressor) ratio was elevated at 6.8 and 7.6 in two patients; in one, there were only CSF T4 cells. The ratio was normal in five patients. ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Stern BJ,Griffin DE,Luke RA,Krumholz A,Johns CJ

更新日期：1987-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Nonmotor symptoms (sleep dysfunction, sensory symptoms, autonomic dysfunction, mood disorders, and cognitive abnormalities) in Parkinson disease (PD) are a major cause of morbidity, yet are often underrecognized. This evidence-based practice parameter evaluates treatment options for the nonmotor symptoms of P...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Zesiewicz TA,Sullivan KL,Arnulf I,Chaudhuri KR,Morgan JC,Gronseth GS,Miyasaki J,Iverson DJ,Weiner WJ,Quality Standards Subcommittee of the American Academy of Neurology.

更新日期：2010-03-16 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To study the brain activation pattern of coexisting experimental ongoing pain and brush-evoked allodynia (pain evoked by innocuous brush) with the use of PET. BACKGROUND:Neuropathic pain usually has two essential phenomena: ongoing pain and brush-evoked allodynia, which coexist and may influence each other. ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Witting N,Kupers RC,Svensson P,Arendt-Nielsen L,Gjedde A,Jensen TS

更新日期：2001-11-27 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To analyze the frequency of neurologic events during commercial airline flights and to assess whether onboard emergency medical kits are adequate for in-flight neurologic emergencies. METHODS:Collaboration of the Mayo Clinic's Departments of Emergency Medicine and Medical Transportation Service and the Divis...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Sirven JI,Claypool DW,Sahs KL,Wingerchuk DM,Bortz JJ,Drazkowski J,Caselli R,Zanick D

更新日期：2002-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously reported a large Charcot-Marie-Tooth family not linked to the Duffy blood group marker, supporting the existence of genetic heterogeneity in this neuropathy. In order to investigate the possibility of another disease locus on chromosome 1, we analyzed this family further, using DNA polymorphisms of 6 gen...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Raeymaekers P,De Jonghe P,Backhovens H,Wehnert A,De Winter G,Swerts L,Gheuens J,Martin JJ,Vandenberghe A,Van Broeckhoven C

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We compared the neurologic and cognitive performance of 15 young veterans who suffered unilateral penetrating missile wounds to the basal forebrain 15 years ago in the Vietnam War with uninjured controls and patients with lesions elsewhere in the brain. The subjects performed worse on tests of episodic memory, reasoni...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Salazar AM,Grafman J,Schlesselman S,Vance SC,Mohr JP,Carpenter M,Pevsner P,Ludlow C,Weingartner H

更新日期：1986-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We administered a battery of cognitive tests to 41 recently diagnosed Parkinson patients and 41 controls to assess the early neuropsychological changes associated with Parkinson's disease (PD). Parkinson subjects did as well as controls on tasks assessing attention and select language and visuospatial measures. Howeve...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Levin BE,Llabre MM,Weiner WJ

更新日期：1989-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To describe factors associated with survival in Alzheimer disease (AD) in a multiethnic, population-based longitudinal study. METHODS:AD cases were identified in the Washington Heights Inwood Columbia Aging Project, a longitudinal, community-based study of cognitive aging in Northern Manhattan. The sample co...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Helzner EP,Scarmeas N,Cosentino S,Tang MX,Schupf N,Stern Y

更新日期：2008-11-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Regional cerebral glucose metabolism was studied in 16 patients with idiopathic torticollis, using positron emission tomography. Analysis of subcortical regions revealed no consistent focal abnormality of cerebral metabolic rate for glucose, but there was a bilateral breakdown of the normal relationships between the t...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Stoessl AJ,Martin WR,Clark C,Adam MJ,Ammann W,Beckman JH,Bergstrom M,Harrop R,Rogers JG,Ruth TJ

更新日期：1986-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 3-year 8-month-old girl died after 14 months of illness characterized by episodes of intermittent ataxia associated with oculomotor palsy, hypotonia, mental confusion, and disturbances of consciousness. In the last 4 months of life, there were signs of liver dysfunction. Pyruvate dehydrogenase and alpha-ketoglutarat...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： DiDonato S,Rimoldi M,Moise A,Bertagnoglio B,Uziel G

更新日期：1979-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine whether pergolide, a mixed D1/D2/D3 dopamine agonist, is efficacious and safe in the treatment of children with chronic tic disorders and Tourette syndrome. BACKGROUND:Neuroleptics, which block dopamine transmission, are currently used to treat children with severe tics, but major side effects a...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Gilbert DL,Dure L,Sethuraman G,Raab D,Lane J,Sallee FR

更新日期：2003-02-25 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate the long-term outcome of patients with spinal cord infarct (SCI) and identify prognostic predictors. METHODS:We reviewed 115 patients with SCI treated between 1990 and 2007. Severity of impairment was defined using the American Spinal Injury Association (ASIA) scoring. Functional outcome endpo...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Robertson CE,Brown RD Jr,Wijdicks EF,Rabinstein AA

更新日期：2012-01-10 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a case of uncontrolled temporal lobe epilepsy due to a focal left temporal neuronal heterotopia associated with the nevoid-basal-cell carcinoma syndrome. This is the first pathologically described lesion associated with temporal lobe epilepsy in this syndrome. Because the patient's seizures resolved after a...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Hogan RE,Tress B,Gonzales MF,King JO,Cook MJ

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine associations of average and change in late-life blood pressure (BP) with cerebrovascular and Alzheimer disease (AD) neuropathology in a large group of decedents followed longitudinally in vivo. METHODS:This clinical-pathologic study was derived from prospective, community-based cohort studies of a...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Arvanitakis Z,Capuano AW,Lamar M,Shah RC,Barnes LL,Bennett DA,Schneider JA

更新日期：2018-08-07 00:00:00

abstract：:High plasma levels of 3-O-methyldopa (OMD) were found in parkinsonian patients chronically treated with levodopa, particularly in those with on-off phenomenon. However, no relation could be established between circulating levels of the levodopa metabolite and the presence of motor response fluctuations at any stage of...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Fabbrini G,Juncos JL,Mouradian MM,Serrati C,Chase TN

更新日期：1987-05-01 00:00:00