Erratum.

abstract：UNLABELLED:Cognitive assessment in advanced stages of Alzheimer's disease (AD) is limited by the imprecision of most instruments. OBJECTIVE:To determine objective cognitive responses in moderate and severe AD patients by way of the Severe Mini-Mental State Examination (SMMSE), and to correlate performances with Mini-M...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Wajman JR,Oliveira FF,Schultz RR,Marin Sde M,Bertolucci PH

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Apnea test is a crucial requirement for determining the diagnosis of brain death (BD). There are few reports considering clinical complications during this procedure. We describe a major complication during performing the apnea test. We also analyse their practical and legal implications, and review the complications ...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Saposnik G,Rizzo G,Deluca JL

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pulmonary involvement in HTLV-I patients has been identified by several authors in Africa, Japan and Brazil. The objective of this controlled study is to establish an association between HAM and lymphocytosis in the bronchoalveolar fluid (BAL). Thirty-five adult patients with non-traumatic and non-tumoral myelopathy f...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Mattos K,Melo A,Queiroz C,Publio L,Peçanha-Martins AC,Freitas V,Gomes I

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To contribute our experience with surgical treatment of patients with mesial temporal lobe epilepsy (mTLE) undergoing anterior temporal lobectomy (ATL) or selective amygdalohippocampectomy (SelAH). METHOD:This is a retrospective observational study. The sample included patients with medically refractory mTLE...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Nascimento FA,Gatto LA,Silvado C,Mäder-Joaquim MJ,Moro MS,Araujo JC

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To compare gross motor development of preterm infants (PT) without cerebral palsy with healthy full-term (FT) infants, according to Alberta Infant Motor Scale (AIMS); to compare the age of walking between PT and FT; and whether the age of walking in PT is affected by neonatal variables. METHODS:Prospective s...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Restiffe AP,Gherpelli JL

更新日期：2012-08-01 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：OBJECTIVE:The aim of this study was to examine the relationship of compulsive hoarding with dengue. METHOD:Fifty two adults notified by health vigilance authorities because of inappropriate trash accumulation in vacant lots in Goiânia, Central Brazil, completed a questionnaire regarding the presence and severity of ho...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Caixeta L,Azevedo PV,Caixeta M,Reimer CH

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a frequent condition in school-age children and commonly presents in comorbidity with other psychiatric diseases. In Brazil, there are few studies concerning non-clinical samples. PURPOSE:The present study aims to calculate the prevalence of this disorder a...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Pastura G,Mattos P,Araújo AP

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Unilateral internuclear ophthalmoplegia become manifest by homolateral paralysis of ocular adduction and contralateral nystagmus. Principal causes are multiple sclerosis and vertebro-basilar insufficiency. We report a case in which this signal appeared as the first clinical manifestation of bacterial endocarditis and ...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Werneck AL,Gonçalves AJ,Bezerra JM

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gerstmann-Sträussler-Scheinker is a genetic prion disease and the most common mutation is p.Pro102Leu. We report clinical, molecular and neuropathological data of seven individuals, belonging to two unrelated Brazilian kindreds, carrying the p.Pro102Leu. Marked differences among patients were observed regarding age at...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Smid J,Studart A Neto,Landemberger MC,Machado CF,Nóbrega PR,Canedo NHS,Schultz RR,Naslavsky MS,Rosemberg S,Kok F,Chimelli L,Martins VR,Nitrini R

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Complex and mixed atypical absences and tonic epileptic seizures of 12 patients with the Lennox-Gastaut syndrome with onset after age 6 were studied. By complexes seizures we mean the associations of two elementary epileptics phenomena and by mixed that of three or more. Complex and mixed epileptic seizures already re...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Barreira AA,Lison MP,Speciali JG

更新日期：1982-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The case of a young female patient with acute symmetrical ascending polyneuropathy as a manifestation of systemic lupus erythematosus is reported. There was involvement of several cranial nerves and the cerebrospinal fluid showed albuminocytologic dissociation. Pathologic examination of the sural nerve showed degenera...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Moreira Filho PF,Nascimento OJ,Cinnicinatus D,Porto FJ,Freitas MR,Santos PC

更新日期：1980-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Augmenting/reducing (A/R) of visual evoked potentials (VEP) has been repeatedly observed in central derivations, with some subjects increasing, and others decreasing, VEP amplitude with increasing intensity of stimulation. Central derivations also exhibit hemispheric lateralization regarding A/R. This paper explores c...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Etcheberrigaray R,Lolas F,Camposano S,Elgueta D

更新日期：1988-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present the cytologic aspects of 137 tumors operated by neurosurgeons, including 12 astrocytomas, 4 anaplastic astrocytomas, 26 glioblastomas, 7 oligodendrogliomas, 5 medulloblastomas, 8 schwannomas, 17 meningiomas, 13 pituitary adenomas, 20 metastatic tumors and 18 assorted tumors and nonneoplastic lesions. We hav...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Campos Ide S,Chimelli L

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Analysis of 52 pediatric patients with head trauma assisted at Intensive Care Unit; to present considerations about epidemiologic factors of trauma, clinical presentation, tomografic aspects, hemodynamic changes and treatment options of intracranial hypertension; to present considerations about the intracran...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Maldaun MV,Zambelli HJ,Dantas VP,Fabiani RM,Martins AM,Brandão MB,Lopes CE,Honorato DC

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The rat sciatic nerve is a well-established model for the study of recovery from peripheral nerve injuries. Traditional methods of assessing nerve regeneration after nerve injury and repair, such as electrophysiology and histomorphometry, despite widely used in neural regeneration experiments, do not necessarily corre...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Martins RS,Siqueira MG,da Silva CF,Plese JP

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alzheimer disease (AD) is usually associated with cognitive, language and behavioral impairments, which can get more and more serious as the disease progresses. The aim of this study is to verify language disorders in the early stages of this disease. Twelve patients meeting criteria for problable AD were evaluated by...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Ortiz KZ,Bertolucci PH

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report on the clinical characteristics of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) in Fortaleza (Northeastern Brazil). For this, we analyzed retrospectively (from 1980 to 1999) 78 cases of ALS from the Service of Neurology of the University Hospital of Fortaleza diagnosed clinically and laboratorially (EMG, muscle biops...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： de Castro-Costa CM,Oriá RB,Machado-Filho JA,Franco MT,Diniz DL,Giffoni SD,Santos TJ,da Cunha FM,de Bruin VS,Teixeira CA

更新日期：1999-09-01 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：OBJECTIVE:the aim of this report is to warn that sodium valproate used during pregnancy can produce craniosynostosis in the newborn, particularly trigonocephaly. METHOD:we describe a case of trigonocephaly in a six month-old girl, daughter of a young non-smoker couple, whose mother had used phenobarbital 100 mg daily ...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Assencio-Ferreira VJ,Abraham R,Veiga JC,Santos KC

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stroke mortality rates are higher in Brazil when compared to other countries. The city of São Paulo has a good system of mortality surveillance that allow us to describe the epidemiology of the stroke in the city. Our aim was to describe the stroke mortality pattern by gender and age characterizing the ischemic/ hemor...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Lotufo PA,Bensenor IM

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate the correlation between facial sensory abnormalities and lesional topography in eight patients with lateral medullary infarcts (LMIs). METHOD:We reviewed eight sequential cases of LMIs admitted to the Neurology Division of Hospital das Clínicas/São Paulo University between July, 2001 and Augus...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Conforto AB,Yamamoto FI,Leite Cda C,Scaff M,Marie SK

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We tested the degree of dyslogia in the narrative of ten schizophrenic non-medicated outpatients while they narrated emotionally-loaded or neutral facts. The "emotional narratives" were much more dyslogic than the "neutral narratives". In order to explain these facts we evoke: 1. A fronto-temporo-limbic connection dys...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Caixeta M,Chaves M,Caixeta L,Reis O

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The author gives a brief overview of the career of Professor Octávio da Silveira, the first neurologist and professor of neurology in the State of Paraná, as well as the first full professor of clinical neurology in the Federal University of Paraná. ...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Teive HA

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We carried out a cross-sectional study with a sample of 106 normal full-term newborns examined within 24 to 72 hours of birth. The following findings were evaluated: head and chest measurements, muscle strength, tone, tendon reflexes, superficial reflexes, primitive reflexes, and cranial nerves. All 106 newborns were ...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Pedroso FS,Rotta NT

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:We preliminarily investigated the relevance of performing digital subtraction angiography (DSA) in addition to magnetic resonance angiography (MRA) in definition of ischemic stroke etiology in young patients. METHOD:DSAs and MRAs from 17 young patients with nonlacunar ischemic stroke were blindly analyzed and ...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Conforto AB,Fregni F,Puglia P Jr,Leite Cda C,Yamamoto FI,Coracini KF,Scaff M

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the period March to May 1979, 6 patients with trigeminal neuralgia were operated on, neurovascular decompression being carried out in the posterior fossa. In 5 cases an arterial loop was found compressing the root of the V nerve at its apparent origin in the protuberance, and in one case a large calibrous twisted v...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Niemeyer Filho P

更新日期：1980-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose was to describe the main features of headache incidence in a hospital community, its frequency and the most requested medical investigation. Due to the stressful work environment, hospital is considered to hold a high-risk population. Interviews and questionnaires were utilized. Of a 1006 files, which were...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Zétola VH,Nóvak EM,Luiz A,Branco BO,Sato BK,Nita CS,Bubna MH,Prado Rde A,Werneck LC

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors present the results of the treatment with methylphenidate in 24 children with attention deficit disorder based on DSM-III. The prescribed dose was 5 to 10 mg per day, once or twice a day. The results were good in 79.1% of the patients and poor in 16.6%. The drug was withdrawn in one patient because of side...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Guerreiro MM,Montenegro MA,Piva RT,Moura-Ribeiro MV

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eosinophilic granuloma (EG) is a benign condition of histocytes proliferation localized or multifocal. It is presents in the cervical spine in 1.5%-20% of the cases of EG. We report the case of a seven-year-old girl that presented with a one month history of cervical pain, persistent wryneck and vicious posture of the...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Leal Filho MB,Aguiar Ade A,de Almeida BR,Dantas Kda S,Vieira MA,de Morais RK

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00