Vestibular function assessment using the NIH Toolbox.

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：OBJECTIVE:In patients with MG it may be difficult to determine whether respiratory insufficiency is due to a defect in neuromuscular transmission. We therefore studied the clinical value of repetitive electrical stimulation of the phrenic nerve. METHODS:Repetitive phrenic nerve stimulation at 3 Hz was performed in 25 ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Zifko UA,Nicolle MW,Grisold W,Bolton CF

更新日期：1999-09-22 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine the diagnostic accuracy and prognostic value of ¹⁸FDG-PET in a recent series of patients operated for intractable partial epilepsy associated with histologically proven Taylor-type focal cortical dysplasia (TTFCD) and negative MRI. METHODS:Of 23 consecutive patients (12 male, 7-38 years old) wit...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Chassoux F,Rodrigo S,Semah F,Beuvon F,Landre E,Devaux B,Turak B,Mellerio C,Meder JF,Roux FX,Daumas-Duport C,Merlet P,Dulac O,Chiron C

更新日期：2010-12-14 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:As ALS progresses, extensive supportive care is required, including multidisciplinary outpatient care and hospitalization. The authors studied the causes, health care utilization, and outcomes for hospitalized patients with ALS. METHODS:With use of the 1996 Nationwide Inpatient Sample, an administrative data...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Lechtzin N,Wiener CM,Clawson L,Chaudhry V,Diette GB

更新日期：2001-03-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty-seven patients with static or worsening chronic inflammatory-demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy were randomly assigned to alternate day decremental prednisone therapy alone or with azathioprine (2 mg/kg) for 9 months. No statistically significant alterations were demonstrated between these treatment schedules...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Dyck PJ,O'Brien P,Swanson C,Low P,Daube J

更新日期：1985-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine the current best practice for treatment of infantile spasms in children. METHODS:Database searches of MEDLINE from 1966 and EMBASE from 1980 and searches of reference lists of retrieved articles were performed. Inclusion criteria were the documented presence of infantile spasms and hypsarrhythmi...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Mackay MT,Weiss SK,Adams-Webber T,Ashwal S,Stephens D,Ballaban-Gill K,Baram TZ,Duchowny M,Hirtz D,Pellock JM,Shields WD,Shinnar S,Wyllie E,Snead OC 3rd,American Academy of Neurology.,Child Neurology Society.

更新日期：2004-05-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Relating the onset of clinical attacks as recorded on a videotape to surface and depth electrographic events improves our ability to define the local or diffuse origin of seizures. In two patients with complex partial seizures, all 14 attacks appeared 3 to 6 seconds after focal discharges began in the amygdala or hipp...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Delgado-Escueta AV,Nashold B,Freedman M,Keplinger C,Waddell G,Miller P,Carwille S

更新日期：1979-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We administered Ro 40-7592, an inhibitor of the enzyme catechol-O-methyltransferase (COMT) that crosses the blood-brain barrier, to rats and monitored extracellular catecholamine levels in the corpus striatum before and after the intraperitoneal administration of a bolus of l-dopa. Acute administration of Ro 40-7592 i...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Brannan T,Martínez-Tica J,Yahr MD

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hippocampal sulcal cavities are usually considered incidental findings on brain MRI. In a group of 92 elderly volunteers, the authors graded the number and size of hippocampal sulcal cavities with brain MRI to obtain a cavity score. Cavity scores increased with age, and were higher in subjects carrying the APOE epsilo...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Barboriak DP,Doraiswamy PM,Krishnan KR,Vidyarthi S,Sylvester J,Charles HC

更新日期：2000-06-13 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：:To evaluate the potential for clinical application, the reputed protective action of barbiturates in cerebral ischemia was tested in a controlled study after segmental middle cerebral artery occlusion in primates. Surviving treated animals promptly recovered consciousness, locomotion, and feeding behavior despite pers...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Moseley JI,Laurent JP,Molinari GF

更新日期：1975-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a familial disorder consisting of sleep apnea, anosmia, colorblindness, partial complex seizures, and cognitive dysfunction. The phenotypic expression of the syndrome suggests an autosomal dominant inheritance with incomplete penetrance. ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Manon-Espaillat R,Gothe B,Adams N,Newman C,Ruff R

更新日期：1988-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate the risk factors of neutralizing antibody (NAB)-induced complete secondary treatment failure (cSTF) during long-term botulinum neurotoxin (BoNT) treatment in various neurologic indications. METHODS:This monocenter retrospective cohort study analyzed the data of 471 patients started on BoNT the...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Walter U,Mühlenhoff C,Benecke R,Dressler D,Mix E,Alt J,Wittstock M,Dudesek A,Storch A,Kamm C

更新日期：2020-05-19 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate the association between EVT start time in acute ischemic stroke (AIS) and mid-term functional outcome. METHODS:This retrospective cohort study included all AIS cases treated with EVT from two stroke center registries from January 2012 to December 2018. The primary outcome was the score on the ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Hajdu SD,Kaesmacher J,Michel PP,Sirimarco G,Knebel JF,Bartolini B,Kurmann CC,Puccinelli F,Mosimann PJ,Bonvin C,Arnold PM,Niederhäuser J,Eskandari A,Mordasini P,Gralla PJ,Fischer PU,Saliou PG

更新日期：2021-01-04 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate topiramate as monotherapy in adults and children with recently diagnosed, localization-related epilepsy, comparing two dosages of topiramate in a multicenter, randomized, double-blind study. METHODS:Adults and children (>/=3 years of age) were eligible if the maximum interval since epilepsy diagn...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Gilliam FG,Veloso F,Bomhof MA,Gazda SK,Biton V,Ter Bruggen JP,Neto W,Bailey C,Pledger G,Wu SC

更新日期：2003-01-28 00:00:00

abstract：:A two-octapeptide repeat deletion of the prion protein gene has been recently observed in a patient with a 2-year history of dementia and a clinical diagnosis of possible Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD). The authors report a similar deletion in a patient with a definitive diagnosis of CJD. Since the two-repeat deletio...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Capellari S,Parchi P,Wolff BD,Campbell J,Atkinson R,Posey DM,Petersen RB,Gambetti P

更新日期：2002-11-26 00:00:00

abstract：:A clinical procedure for determining contrast sensitivity was performed on patients with suspected sella area masses. The test consisted of a series of six plates, each containing a bar pattern of fixed sinusoidal spatial frequency in which contrast varies along the length of the bar. Patients with compressive lesions...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Kupersmith MJ,Siegel IM,Carr RE

更新日期：1981-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One hundred and eight multiple sclerosis (MS) patients and 108 matched controls were studied for antibody levels and cellular immune responses to several viruses. There were significant increases in the mean titers of complement fixation (CF) or hemagglutination inhibition (HI), and complement-mediated cytotoxicity (C...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Fuccillo DA,Madden DL,Castellano GA,Uhlig L,Traub RG,Mattson J,Krezlewicz A,Sever JL

更新日期：1978-06-01 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：:Motivationally responsive motor deficits may occur in isolation or as part of more general neglect syndromes. We describe three patients with two discrete syndromes of isolated motor neglect, differentiated primarily by their performance in motor tasks enacted within or toward the contralesional hemispace. The lesions...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Simon ES,Hegarty AM,Mehler MF

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Monocytes are recruited to active sites of multiple sclerosis (MS) demyelination and may promote local tissue injury by generating an inflammatory response, mediated in part by the production of toxic oxygen metabolites. Corticosteroids are frequently and effectively used to ameliorate MS exacerbations, despite inadeq...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Fisher M,Levine PH,Doyle EM,Arpano MM,Bergeron DA,Cohen RA,Hoogasian JJ

更新日期：1991-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two adult brothers became ill within 48 hours of each other, and both had severe myoglobinuria. One brother died of oliguric renal failure. The other did not have renal failure and survived. Acute influenza A infection was documented serologically and from throat washings in the surviving brother, and by isolation of ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Zamkoff K,Rosen N

更新日期：1979-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:HIV infection is associated with a painful distal sensory polyneuropathy (DSP) that can severely limit the quality of life of affected subjects. The pathogenesis of DSP is unknown, although both HIV proteins and products of immune activation triggered by HIV infection have been implicated. OBJECTIVE:To asse...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Schifitto G,McDermott MP,McArthur JC,Marder K,Sacktor N,McClernon DR,Conant K,Cohen B,Epstein LG,Kieburtz K,NEAD Consortium.

更新日期：2005-03-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Recent studies demonstrated an excess of winter births in children with brain tumors and in adults with various neurologic or psychiatric diseases relative to the general population. OBJECTIVE:To investigate a possible association between month of birth and risk of brain tumors in adults using data from a l...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Brenner AV,Linet MS,Shapiro WR,Selker RG,Fine HA,Black PM,Inskip PD

更新日期：2004-07-27 00:00:00

abstract：:There are reports that patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) and Alzheimer's disease (AD) have reduced levels of thiolmethyltransferase (TMT) in erythrocyte membranes. TMT methylates thiols and thiocarbamates, thereby reducing their toxicity. We examined TMT levels in erythrocytes from patients with PD and AD and fro...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Hurwitz A,Hubble JP,Glatt SL,Koller WC,Pollack J

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We used [18F]-2-fluoro-2-deoxy-D-glucose (FDG) and PET to study regional cerebral glucose utilization in seven patients with fatal familial insomnia (FFI), an inherited prion disease with a mutation at codon 178 of the prion protein gene. Four patients were methionine/methionine homozygotes at codon 129 (symptom durat...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Cortelli P,Perani D,Parchi P,Grassi F,Montagna P,De Martin M,Castellani R,Tinuper P,Gambetti P,Lugaresi E,Fazio F

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Natalizumab is an antibody directed against integrin alpha4 that reduces disease activity in patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) by blocking migration of T and B cells into the CNS. The goal of this study was to characterize the effects of natalizumab treatment on cytokine production and expression of acti...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Kivisäkk P,Healy BC,Viglietta V,Quintana FJ,Hootstein MA,Weiner HL,Khoury SJ

更新日期：2009-06-02 00:00:00

abstract：:A term neonate was being treated with intravenous phenytoin. To maintain a serum level above 10 micrograms per milliliter and abolish seizure activity, it was necessary to carry out repeated serum concentration measurements, administer several loading doses, and administer an unusually large maintenance dose (25 mg pe...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Whelan HT,Hendeles L,Haberkern CM,Neims AH

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although the APOE epsilon 4 allele increases the risk of developing AD, the effects of the epsilon 4 allele on brain atrophy in clinical AD patients are controversial. OBJECTIVE:To investigate a possible relationship between the genetic variants of APOE and brain atrophy in patients with AD. METHODS:Using ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Hashimoto M,Yasuda M,Tanimukai S,Matsui M,Hirono N,Kazui H,Mori E

更新日期：2001-10-23 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess cortical inhibitory and excitatory mechanisms in obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). BACKGROUND:Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) studies have found decreased neuronal inhibition and a reduced cortical silent period in the primary motor area in Tourette's syndrome, focal dystonia, and other ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Greenberg BD,Ziemann U,Corá-Locatelli G,Harmon A,Murphy DL,Keel JC,Wassermann EM

更新日期：2000-01-11 00:00:00