Patients with unresponsive wakefulness syndrome respond to the pain cries of other people.

abstract：:In a retrospective study of 103 corticosteroid-treated MS patients, the average rate of fracture events was 3.2% of the patients per year over 7.1 (+/- 5.7 SD) years at risk. Fractures of the ribs, pelvis, hip, or vertebrae occurred in 11 patients and became most common 5 years after starting steroids. Relatively high...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Troiano RA,Jotkowitz A,Cook SD,Bansil S,Zito G

更新日期：1992-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 14-year-old boy survived for 7 years after the initial diagnosis and treatment of acute lymphocytic leukemia. Neurologic deterioration occured repeatedly throughout his complicated clinical course but it was most severe and only partially reversible following orally administered pyrimethamine. The neuropathologic le...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Devivo DC,Malas D,Nelson JS,Land VJ

更新日期：1977-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To define the natural history of asymptomatic meningioma found incidentally on a neuroimaging study, we performed a retrospective analysis of 35 such patients. There were 32 women and three men, with a mean age of 67 years and a mean follow-up of 74 months. Four tumors had progressed on subsequent imaging, and one pat...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Go RS,Taylor BV,Kimmel DW

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:CSF does not normally contain motile cells within flagella or cilia. When motile cells are seen in the CSF, they may be incorrectly assumed to be amebae. We studied a patient with a traumatic mucocele, in whom motile ciliated respiratory epithelial cells were seen in the CSF and within a frontal lobe brain abscess. ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Davis LE,Visvesvara GS,McLaren DL,Randell R,Fenoglio CC,McLaren LC,Purdy M,Cooper V,Healy GR

更新日期：1985-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the scalp distribution of auditory event-related potentials (P300), using simultaneously a cephalic (linked ears) and a noncephalic (balanced sternovertebra) reference. The recordings with noncephalic reference showed that infrequent, attended auditory stimuli evoke a negative bitemporal component (N300) as...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Neshige R,Lüders H

更新日期：1988-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the role of ceruloplasmin in the antioxidative process in the brain in a patient with hereditary ceruloplasmin deficiency (HCD). Immunohistochemistry revealed an accumulation of Nepsilon-(carboxymethyl) lysine (CML) in basal ganglia of the HCD brain. In vitro study disclosed that ceruloplasmin inhibite...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Tajima K,Kawanami T,Nagai R,Horiuchi S,Kato T

更新日期：1999-08-11 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The authors investigated chronic cerebellar reorganization following unilateral cortical lesions in children and adults using PET to measure benzodiazepine receptor (BZR) binding with [11C]flumazenil (FMZ) and glucose metabolism with 2-deoxy-2[18F]fluoro-D-glucose (FDG). BACKGROUND:Crossed cerebellar diaschi...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Niimura K,Chugani DC,Muzik O,Chugani HT

更新日期：1999-03-10 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Causes of benign positional vertigo (BPV) are mostly unknown. The aim of this study was to elucidate an association of osteoporosis with idiopathic BPV. METHODS:Two hundred nine consecutive patients with a confirmed diagnosis of idiopathic BPV underwent bone mineral densitometry of anterior-posterior lumbar ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Jeong SH,Choi SH,Kim JY,Koo JW,Kim HJ,Kim JS

更新日期：2009-03-24 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, we examined the topographic involvement of the putaminal projection neurons and their axons in the globus pallidus and substantia nigra, which we visualized by calcineurin immunostaining, in the basal ganglia of patients with striatonigral degeneration (SND). In all cases examined, there was a marked de...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Goto S,Matsumoto S,Ushio Y,Hirano A

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Idiopathic REM sleep behavior disorder is a parasomnia characterized by dream enactment and is commonly a prediagnostic sign of parkinsonism and dementia. Since risk factors have not been defined, we initiated a multicenter case-control study to assess environmental and lifestyle risk factors for REM sleep be...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Postuma RB,Montplaisir JY,Pelletier A,Dauvilliers Y,Oertel W,Iranzo A,Ferini-Strambi L,Arnulf I,Hogl B,Manni R,Miyamoto T,Mayer G,Stiasny-Kolster K,Puligheddu M,Ju Y,Jennum P,Sonka K,Santamaria J,Fantini ML,Zucconi

更新日期：2012-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Cell-based therapies are being investigated as an adjunct to IV thrombolysis or mechanical thrombectomy in ischemic stroke. This review summarizes the potential applications as well as challenges of intravascular cell delivery in ischemic stroke. METHOD:We conducted a search of Medline as well as the clinica...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Misra V,Ritchie MM,Stone LL,Low WC,Janardhan V

更新日期：2012-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine the relation of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) to incident Alzheimer disease (AD), change in cognition, and AD pathology. METHODS:Participants were 1,019 older Catholic clergy followed up annually for up to 12 years (mean baseline age = 75.0 years, education = 18.1 years, Mini-Menta...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Arvanitakis Z,Grodstein F,Bienias JL,Schneider JA,Wilson RS,Kelly JF,Evans DA,Bennett DA

更新日期：2008-06-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasma levels of six short-chain fatty acids (SCFA) were measured in 23 Reye's syndrome patients. In sequential measurements, only propionic acid correlated closely with neurologic severity. Although admission SCFA levels were slightly elevated, there were no significant differences between patients grouped by severit...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： McArthur B,Sarnaik AP,Mitchell RA

更新日期：1984-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors report an unusual case of venous infarction of the spinal cord associated with endoscopic sclerotherapy for esophageal varices. MR imaging findings included signal abnormalities and abnormal enhancement of the affected spinal cord and T-8 vertebral body. A review of the hemodynamic changes associated with ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Heller SL,Meyer JR,Russell EJ

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The American Academy of Neurology (AAN) ALS Practice Parameter was published in April 1999. The ALS CARE Database has been collecting data on the management of patients with ALS in North America since 1996. OBJECTIVE:To compare the management of patients with ALS in North America as recorded in the ALS CARE...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Bradley WG,Anderson F,Bromberg M,Gutmann L,Harati Y,Ross M,Miller RG,ALS CARE Study Group.

更新日期：2001-08-14 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The aim of this study was to review 4 patients with encephalomyeloradiculoneuropathy (EMRN) and assess for autoantibodies against neutral glycolipids. METHODS:We studied the progression of clinical, radiologic, neurophysiologic, and CSF findings, as well as anti-neutral glycolipid antibodies in sera. RESULT...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Shima S,Kawamura N,Ishikawa T,Masuda H,Iwahara C,Niimi Y,Ueda A,Iwabuchi K,Mutoh T

更新日期：2014-01-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The frequency, patterns of inheritance and clinical phenotypes of inherited myopathies with histologic features of rimmed vacuoles, tubulofilamentous inclusions and absence of inflammation (familial and hereditary inclusion body myopathy [f-IBM]) are poorly defined. Quadriceps sparing is a characteristic of f-IBM seen...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Sivakumar K,Dalakas MC

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Significant evidence has accrued suggesting that antibodies to voltage-gated calcium channel are observed in at least some patients with sporadic ALS (SALS) and that such antibodies alter the function of these ion channels in vitro and in vivo. Further, passive transfer of these immunoglobulin-containing fractions int...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Smith RG,Siklos L,Alexianu ME,Engelhardt JI,Mosier DR,Colom L,Habib Mohamed A,Appel SH

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:MRI and CSF investigations revealed meningeal involvement in a 29-year-old patient with biopsy-confirmed Wegener's granulomatosis. The intracranial manifestation of Wegener's granulomatosis was supported by the detection of pathologic circulating antineutrophil cytoplasm (c-ANCA) in the CSF. We monitored disease activ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Spranger M,Schwab S,Meinck HM,Tischendorf M,Sis J,Breitbart A,Andrassy K

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We reviewed the clinical course of nine patients with neuro-Behçet's disease to assess difficulties in making this diagnosis. Factors delaying proper diagnosis included lack of accurate history and physical examination, lack of recognition of an underlying systemic syndrome and its relationship to the neurologic sympt...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Devlin T,Gray L,Allen NB,Friedman AH,Tien R,Morgenlander JC

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report on the prevalence of dementia in Canadians age 85 years and older. The purpose of this study was to determine whether the prevalence of dementia continued to increase in the very old, and to define the types of dementia and their relative proportions in this age group. We collected data as part of the Canadi...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Ebly EM,Parhad IM,Hogan DB,Fung TS

更新日期：1994-09-01 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：:Visual hallucinations (VHs) occur frequently in Parkinson's disease (PD). VHs occur more frequently in elderly patients with longer duration of illness, cognitive impairment, and sleep disturbances. The relationship between the use of antiparkinsonian drugs and VHs is complicated, but most drugs used to treat parkinso...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Kulisevsky J,Roldan E

更新日期：2004-10-26 00:00:00

abstract：:A 52-year-old steelworker displayed a consistent defect in leftward voluntary gaze across the midline. Both fast (saccadic) and slow (pursuit) eye movements were affected. Neuro-ophthalmologic evaluation revealed no additional neurologic or ophthalmologic deficit. Pupilary miosis occurred during leftward gaze attempt,...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Troost BT,Troost EG

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To validate the Narcolepsy Severity Scale (NSS), a brief clinical instrument to evaluate the severity and consequences of symptoms in patients with narcolepsy type 1 (NT1). METHODS:A 15-item scale to assess the frequency and severity of excessive daytime sleepiness, cataplexy, hypnagogic hallucinations, slee...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Dauvilliers Y,Beziat S,Pesenti C,Lopez R,Barateau L,Carlander B,Luca G,Tafti M,Morin CM,Billiard M,Jaussent I

更新日期：2017-04-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Current concepts suggest that avoidance of pulsatile stimulation of dopamine receptors in Parkinson's disease (PD) can prevent the onset of dyskinesia. In MPTP-treated primates, repeated administration of levodopa or other short-acting dopamine agonist drugs leads to the onset of marked involuntary movements. In contr...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Jenner P

更新日期：2004-01-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Deep brain stimulation of the internal global pallidus (GPi) and the subthalamic nucleus (STN) has become a treatment alternative in advanced PD. Although the effects of GPi stimulation have been examined recently, little is known about STN stimulation effects on motor cortex excitability. METHODS:The effec...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Däuper J,Peschel T,Schrader C,Kohlmetz C,Joppich G,Nager W,Dengler R,Rollnik JD

更新日期：2002-09-10 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the safety, tolerability, and efficacy of glatiramer acetate (GA) 40 mg daily vs the approved 20-mg formulation in relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis. METHODS:Eligibility criteria included clinically definite multiple sclerosis, Expanded Disability Status Scale score 0 to 5.0, no previous use...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Cohen JA,Rovaris M,Goodman AD,Ladkani D,Wynn D,Filippi M,9006 Study Group.

更新日期：2007-03-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Since the first development of diagnostic criteria for multiple sclerosis (MS), there have been regular revisions of disease definitions and diagnostic thresholds aimed at improving specificity while maintaining sensitivity. The central requirements for diagnosis of MS are dissemination in space (DIS) and disseminatio...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Selchen D,Bhan V,Blevins G,Devonshire V,Duquette P,Grand'Maison F,Kremenchutzky M,Lapierre Y,Li D,von Riedemann SJ,Freedman M

更新日期：2012-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Antiretroviral therapy has improved survival for HIV-1-infected individuals. The neuroepidemiologic implications of HIV-1 in an aging population are not well known, particularly the prevalence of HIV-associated dementia (HAD). METHODS:The authors report a baseline cross-sectional analysis of 202 HIV-1-serop...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Valcour V,Shikuma C,Shiramizu B,Watters M,Poff P,Selnes O,Holck P,Grove J,Sacktor N

更新日期：2004-09-14 00:00:00