The remarkable pioneering contribution of Gaspar Vianna to the study of the neuropathology of Chagas disease.

abstract：:The authors describe the extraordinary contribution to science made by José Dantas de Souza Leite, who graduated from the Bahia School of Medicine and trained in Prof. Charcot's Neurology Service under the supervision of Charcot's most able pupil, Dr. Pierre Marie. Souza Leite presented his doctoral thesis on acromega...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Teive HA,Lima PM,Germiniani FM,Boguszewski CL

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To describe the clinical activities at the Neuroimmunology Clinic of the Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP) from 1994 to 2013. METHOD:The final diagnosis of all patients that attended the center was reviewed and established upon specific guidelines for each disease. The number of total appointments ...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Bichuetti DB,Falcão AB,Boulos Fde C,Morais MM,Lotti CB,Fragomeni Mde O,Campos MF,Souza NA,Oliveira EM

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Hormonal fluctuation is responsible for worsening of epileptic seizures during the menstrual cycle. OBJECTIVE:To identify irregularities in the menstrual cycles of women with mesial temporal lobe epilepsy (MTLE) and extratemporal focal epilepsy (ETFE) and correlate the frequency of seizures during the men...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Bazán AC,Montenegro MA,Cendes F,Min LL,Guerreiro CA

更新日期：2005-09-01 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：:Cachexia, ageing and disuse and their effects on the human and animals neuromuscular system are reviewed. Disuse induces reduction of muscle fibers (mainly II) diameter with peripheral myofibrils lost; there is no core-targetoid or even reduction on myophosphorilase activity, both typical of denervation; the acetylcho...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Kouyoumdjian JA

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:It was to analyze clinical aspects of patients with blepharospasm, including outcomes of botulinum toxin treatment. Additionally, clinical characteristics of isolated blepharospasm were compared to those of blepharospasm plus other movement disorders. METHODS:Clinical data recorded during 17 years were revie...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Aquino CC,Felício AC,Castro PC,Oliveira RA,Silva SM,Borges V,Ferraz HB

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Medulloblastoma is the most common childhood malignant tumor of central nervous system, but it may also occur in adults. It presents high invasive growth with spreading of tumor cells into the leptomeningeal space along the neuroaxis early in the course of the disease. Extraneural metastases are rare but frequently le...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Muoio VM,Shinjo SO,Matushita H,Rosemberg S,Teixeira MJ,Marie SK

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurocysticercosis (NC) is an endemic condition in several areas of Brazil. It is most likely the major responsible for the high prevalence of epilepsy in our country, estimated in 1-2% of general population. We performed a study to evaluate NC as aetiology of epilepsy in the west of Santa Catarina. This state belong ...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Trevisol-Bittencourt PC,da Silva NC,Figueredo R

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To report a Brazilian series of spontaneous cervical arterial dissections, risk factors, warning symptoms, clinical manifestations, diagnostic tests, treatment and prognosis. METHOD:We performed the retrospective analysis of clinical and neuroradiological records (MRI, A-MRI and Angiography) of patients with...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Campos CR,Evaristo EF,Yamamoto FI,Puglia P Jr,Lucato LT,Scaff M

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Listeria monocytogenes shows a special attraction to infect the central nervous system and its meningeals coats. It affects newborn as well as elderly people, patients with deficiencies in their cellular immune systems, and healthy adults. It presents most commonly as an acute meningitis, although it can p...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Salamano R,Braselli A,Hoppe A,Monteghirfo R,Silva T

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The appearance of unilateral papilledema in the fundus photos of 6 women with pseudotumor cerebri is presented. Associated findings included obesity in 5 and a partially empty sella in 2. The possible explanations for the development of unilateral papilledema in pseudotumor cerebri are reviewed and favor a mechanism t...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Monteiro ML,Hoyt WF,Imes RK,Narahara M

更新日期：1985-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ketogenic diet (KD) is a high fat and low carbohydrate diet, which controls refractory epilepsy. We analyzed the KD effects on 54 children of the Children's Institute of the University of São Paulo. Efficacy, tolerability, and adverse effects were studied. Response to KD was effective (E) if seizure control was >75%, ...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Freitas A,Paz JA,Casella EB,Marques-Dias MJ

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors report the clinical and angiographical findings of two cases of familial hemifacial spasm. This is the fifth description in the literature and presents mother and daughter at the ages of 76 and 51 respectively, in whom the left side was affected. They underwent exams of angioresonance that showed dolichoba...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Barbosa ER,da Costa Mdo D,Staut CC,Bacheschi LA,Bittar MS

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Therapeutic plasmapheresis (plasma exchange) in neurology is a matter of discussion. We review the main articles on clinical trials, both controlled and uncontrolled, trying to establish the efficacy and safety of the procedure. Humoral aspects involved in the genesis of the disorder play an important role for its ind...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Seggia JC,Abreu P

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Huntington disease (HD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder with autosomal dominant inheritance, characterized by choreiform movements and cognitive impairment. Onset of symptoms is around 40 years of age and progression to death occurs in approximately 10 to 15 years from the time of disease onset. HD is asso...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Lima E Silva TC,Serra HG,Bertuzzo CS,Lopes-Cendes I

更新日期：2000-03-01 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：:The post-polio syndrome (PPS) is an entity characterized for an episode of muscular weakness and/or abnormal muscular fatigue in individuals that had presented acute polio years before. We report the case of PPS in a patient, 40 years, that thirty-five years after had had paralytic poliomyelitis, developed new symptom...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Neves MA,Mello MP,Santos VV,Nascimento OJ,Antonioli Rde S,Freitas GR,Freitas MR

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dystonia may be classified by age of onset (childhood, adolescence, adult onset), body distribution of the abnormal movements (focal, segmental, unilateral, multifocal and generalized) and etiology (idiopathic and symptomatic). We studied 76 patients with idiopathic dystonia among 122 cases of dystonic syndrome (62.3%...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Andrade LA,Ferraz HB

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epilepsy was surveyed in the largest psychiatric hospital in the Santa Catarina State, southern Brazil. This establishment was designed for one thousand long-term beds but at the time of the survey there were 1126 inpatients. Diagnosis ranged from anxiety neurosis to schizophrenia although patients with epilepsy, with...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Trevisol-Bittencourt PC,Becker N,Pozzi CM,Sander JW

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Ubiquitin C-terminal Hydrolase-L1 (UCH-L1) enzyme levels were investigated in patients with epilepsy, epileptic seizure, remission period, and healthy individuals. METHODS:Three main groups were evaluated, including epileptic seizure, patients with epilepsy in the non-seizure period, and healthy volunteers. ...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Yasak IH,Yilmaz M,GÖnen M,Atescelik M,Gurger M,Ilhan N,Goktekin MC

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the occipital inter-hemispheric coherence of Electroencephalogram (electrodes O1-O2) for alpha band (alpha1--8.0 to 10.0 Hz and alpha2--10.1 to 12.5 Hz) in two groups of healthy individuals (young adults and subjects older than 50 years-old), to assess if there is significant difference between this two age...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Anghinah R,Caramelli P,Takahashi DY,Nitrini R,Sameshima K

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the case of a child with myotonic dystrophy (DM) with symptoms beginning at the age of seven, whose genetic study showed an additional DNA fragment, greater than of his father, an asymptomatic carrier. The clinical and molecular analysis of this parent-child pair are probably the first described in Brazil, s...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Reed UC,Passos-Bueno MR,Nagahashi-Marie SK,Cerqueira A,Mendonça LI,Levy JA,Diament A,Zatz M

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Movement disorders, mostly dystonia, sometimes occur in heterozygotes for Wilson's disease (WD). A patient with metabolic abnormalities suggestive of heterozygote for WD and dystonia is reported. His niece showed the typical neurological and metabolic abnormalities of WD. This rare coincidence and the etiopathogenic m...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Barbosa ER,Kostow UP,Hirsch R,Cançado ER,Scaff M,Canelas HM

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tumours of central nervous system (CNS) represent the second most frequent malignancy in children under 15 years of age but are the commonest cause of death. The authors present the epidemiologic and histopathologic analysis of 623 primary tumours of CNS occurring during the period 1990 to 1996 in paediatric patients....

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Torres LF,Jacob GV,Reis-Filho JS,de Noronha L

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:This study was thought to characterized clinical and laboratory findings of a narcoleptic patients in an out patients unit at São Paulo, Brazil. METHOD:28 patients underwent polysomnographic recordings (PSG) and Multiple Sleep Latency Test (MSLT) were analyzed according to standard criteria. The analysis of...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Coelho FM,Pradella-Hallinan M,Pedrazzoli M,Soares CA,Fernandes GB,Gonçalves AL,Tufik S,Bittencourt LR

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The differential diagnosis of Parkinsonism based on clinical features, sometimes may be difficult. Diagnostic tests in these cases might be useful, especially magnetic resonance imaging, a noninvasive exam, not as expensive as positron emission tomography, and provides a good basis for anatomical analysis. The magneti...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Vasconcellos LF,Novis SA,Moreira DM,Rosso AL,Leite AC

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Laryngeal dystonia (spasmodic dysphonia) is a movement disorder characterized by involuntary contractions of laryngeal muscles involved with vocalization. The introduction of botulinum toxin in the treatment of laryngeal dystonia had a major clinical impact due to the striking improvement of symptoms. We report the pr...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Teive HA,Scola RH,Werneck LC,Quadros Ad,Gasparetto EL,Sá DS,Brandi IV,Macedo Filho ED

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Considering the genetical peculiarity of Charcot-Marie-Tooth's muscular atrophy, a family with three affected brothers was investigated, in which beginning date was discovered to be progressively antedated. Afterwards, this possible variant of anticipation is discussed, because such condition is quite ununsual, not on...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Gonçalves A,da Salva JB

更新日期：1977-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The degree of depression in 88 abandoned children was analysed through a depression rating scale adapted to prepubertal children. The items were grouped into three dimensions: sociological-relational, psychological and biological. In 46 children from this sample it was dosed plasmatic cortisol and the urinary excretio...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Queiroz EA,Lombardi AB,Furtado CR,Peixoto CC,Soares TA,Fabre ZL,Basques JC,Fernandes ML,Lippi JR

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:HTLV-1 antibodies were investigated in serum and in CSF of 150 patients with neurologic disorders mainly myelopathies. The patients were considered into three groups according to the possible relationship of their disease to the presence of HTLV-1 antibodies: no relationship risk (control group), occasional risk group...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Spina-França A,Livramento JA,Machado LR,Gomes HR,Vianna LS,Castro LH,Nóbrega JP,Bacheschi LA

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00