Neurologic outcomes in retinopathy-negative cerebral malaria survivors.

abstract：:A 12-year-old girl developed simple partial motor and sensory seizures due to a right perirolandic astrocytoma. Subdural EEG recording and functional stimulation disclosed close correlation between EEG-clinical manifestations of focal seizures and functional responses to cortical stimulation. This case supports the id...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Arroyo S,Krauss GL,Lesser RP,Gordon B,Hart J Jr,Carson BS,Uematsu S

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:We investigated if tau, microtubular binding protein, in serum and ventricular CSF (vCSF) in patients with severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) during the initial posttraumatic days correlated to 1-year outcome. METHODS:Patients with severe TBI (n = 39, Glasgow Coma Scale score

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Ost M,Nylén K,Csajbok L,Ohrfelt AO,Tullberg M,Wikkelsö C,Nellgård P,Rosengren L,Blennow K,Nellgård B

更新日期：2006-11-14 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the usefulness of a mismatch between the severity of acute clinical manifestations and the diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) lesion in predicting early stroke outcome and infarct volume. METHODS:One hundred sixty-six patients with a hemispheric ischemic stroke of <12 hours' duration were studied. ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Dávalos A,Blanco M,Pedraza S,Leira R,Castellanos M,Pumar JM,Silva Y,Serena J,Castillo J

更新日期：2004-06-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Primary angiitis of the CNS (PACNS) is a diagnostically challenging disorder. In patients whose diagnosis is ascertained solely by cerebral angiography without histologic verification, a benign monophasic clinical course with favorable response to a brief course of immunosuppressive therapy is often reported...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Woolfenden AR,Tong DC,Marks MP,Ali AO,Albers GW

更新日期：1998-07-01 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：:Acquired aphasia with convulsive disorder is an unusual condition in childhood, characterized by loss of language function associated with a paroxysmal electroencephalogram. To determine the course and outcome of this disorder, we evaluated nine patients 10 to 28 years after the onset of aphasia. Four patients had rec...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Mantovani JF,Landau WM

更新日期：1980-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) is widely used in clinical practice, few norms exist for healthy populations covering a broad range of ages. OBJECTIVE:To obtain MMSE norms specific for age, gender, and education in healthy adults. METHODS:From the population registers of seven communities...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Grigoletto F,Zappalà G,Anderson DW,Lebowitz BD

更新日期：1999-07-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Gulf War illness (GWI), which afflicts at least 25% of veterans who served in the 1990-1991 war in the Persian Gulf, is thought to be caused by deployment exposures to various neurotoxicants, including pesticides, anti-nerve gas pills, and low-level nerve agents including sarin/cyclosarin. GWI is a multisymptom disord...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Qiang L,Rao AN,Mostoslavsky G,James MF,Comfort N,Sullivan K,Baas PW

更新日期：2017-05-16 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine neurofilament (Nf) concentrations according to symptom onset and clinical diagnostic certainty categories of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). METHODS:We measured Nf light chain (NfL) and phosphorylated Nf heavy chain (pNfH) CSF and NfL serum levels in patients with ALS with first symptom onset...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Feneberg E,Oeckl P,Steinacker P,Verde F,Barro C,Van Damme P,Gray E,Grosskreutz J,Jardel C,Kuhle J,Koerner S,Lamari F,Amador MDM,Mayer B,Morelli C,Muckova P,Petri S,Poesen K,Raaphorst J,Salachas F,Silani V,Stuben

更新日期：2018-01-02 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine the diagnostic accuracy of nerve ultrasound in a prospective cohort of consecutive patients with a clinical suspicion of chronic inflammatory neuropathies, including chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy, Lewis-Sumner syndrome, and multifocal motor neuropathy, and to determine the added...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Herraets IJT,Goedee HS,Telleman JA,van Eijk RPA,van Asseldonk JT,Visser LH,van den Berg LH,van der Pol WL

更新日期：2020-04-07 00:00:00

abstract：:This double-blind, placebo-controlled, crossover study of the acute treatment of migraine investigated the efficacy and tolerability of oral sumatriptan 100 mg (Imitrex) administered for up to nine attacks compared with placebo administered for up to three attacks. Patients were randomized to receive oral sumatriptan ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Rederich G,Rapoport A,Cutler N,Hazelrigg R,Jamerson B

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To investigate clinical, imaging, and pathologic associations of the cingulate island sign (CIS) in dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB). METHODS:We retrospectively identified and compared patients with a clinical diagnosis of DLB (n=39); patients with Alzheimer disease (AD) matched by age, sex, and education (n...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Graff-Radford J,Murray ME,Lowe VJ,Boeve BF,Ferman TJ,Przybelski SA,Lesnick TG,Senjem ML,Gunter JL,Smith GE,Knopman DS,Jack CR Jr,Dickson DW,Petersen RC,Kantarci K

更新日期：2014-08-26 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：:The American Academy of Neurology Workforce Task Force (WFTF) report predicts a future shortfall of neurologists in the United States. The WFTF data also suggest that for most states, the current demand for neurologist services already exceeds the supply, and by 2025 the demand for neurologists will be even higher. Th...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Freeman WD,Vatz KA,Griggs RC,Pedley T

更新日期：2013-07-30 00:00:00

abstract：:In patients with spatial neglect, contralesional reflexive saccades toward suddenly appearing targets show direction-specific deficits. We examined whether these deficits also occur during free exploration of space. Neglect patients' voluntary eye movements showed reduced amplitudes for saccades in all directions but ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Niemeier M,Karnath HO

更新日期：2000-01-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the ultimate diagnosis of multiple sclerosis (MS) still remains clinical, confirmatory laboratory aids can be of marked assistance, especially in early and atypical cases. Whereas numerous tests have been described, the only ones to withstand scrutiny in numerous laboratories have been various immunoglobulin ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Johnson KP

更新日期：1980-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ten patients with refractory temporal lobe epilepsy performed a word-position association learning task every 24 hours during video EEG monitoring. On 55 occasions recall performance was tested 30 minutes and 24 hours after the initial learning phase. Patients with left- but not right-sided temporal lobe epilepsy exhi...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Jokeit H,Daamen M,Zang H,Janszky J,Ebner A

更新日期：2001-07-10 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate whether sex and race differences exist in dementia diagnosis risk associated with traumatic brain injury (TBI) among older veterans. METHODS:Using Fine-Gray regression models, we investigated incident dementia diagnosis risk with TBI exposure by sex and race. RESULTS:After the exclusion of ba...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Kornblith E,Peltz CB,Xia F,Plassman B,Novakovic-Apopain T,Yaffe K

更新日期：2020-09-29 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To relate signs and symptoms to morphologic changes and presence of multiple mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) deletions in a patient with autosomal dominant progressive external ophthalmoplegia (adPEO) and mitochondrial myopathy. BACKGROUND:An etiologic association between the somatic multiple mtDNA deletions in ad...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Moslemi AR,Melberg A,Holme E,Oldfors A

更新日期：1999-07-13 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To discuss the indications and timing for resective surgery in patients with Sturge-Weber syndrome (SWS) and medication-resistant epilepsy. BACKGROUND:SWS that causes epilepsy severe enough to merit surgery is rare. Because of the variable natural history of the disease, it is difficult to establish clear-cu...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Arzimanoglou AA,Andermann F,Aicardi J,Sainte-Rose C,Beaulieu MA,Villemure JG,Olivier A,Rasmussen T

更新日期：2000-11-28 00:00:00

abstract：:IgM anti-GM1 antibodies occur with increased frequency in the serum of patients with multifocal motor neuropathy (MMN). We tested the ability of serum IgM from patients with MMN to bind to GM1 ganglioside covalently bound to secondary amino groups on ELISA plates (Co-GM1). The Co-GM1 technique detected high titer (> 1...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Pestronk A,Choksi R

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Medical therapy is the mainstay for epilepsy, with most patients well controlled on a single antiepileptic drug (AED). In this non-refractory group, many patients have medication side effects and occasional seizures. Approximately 30% of patients with partial epilepsy and 25% of patients with generalized epilepsy are ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Nadkarni S,LaJoie J,Devinsky O

更新日期：2005-06-28 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied 15 dystonic patients with positron emission tomography (PET) and (18F)-2-fluoro-2-deoxy-D-glucose (FDG). The group comprised patients with focal (n = 5), multifocal (n = 1), and generalized (n = 4) dystonia as well as patients with hemidystonia (n = 5). The age at onset was during childhood in four, during ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Karbe H,Holthoff VA,Rudolf J,Herholz K,Heiss WD

更新日期：1992-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The histopathology of AIDS-associated myelopathy (AM) closely resembles that of myelopathies due to cobalamin or folate deficiency, with white matter vacuolization in the spinal cord. The pathogenesis of AM appears unrelated to direct HIV infection of the spinal cord. There is abnormal trans-methylation meta...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Di Rocco A,Werner P,Bottiglieri T,Godbold J,Liu M,Tagliati M,Scarano A,Simpson D

更新日期：2004-10-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients with myotonic dystrophy often develop respiratory failure caused by alveolar hypoventilation. Abnormalities in the ventilatory response to hypoxia and hypercapnia may explain this phenomenon. Accordingly, hypoxic and hypercapnic responses were measured in seven patients with myotonic dystrophy who had only mi...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Carroll JE,Zwillich CW,Weil JV

更新日期：1977-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Several lines of evidence suggest that pathologic changes underlying Alzheimer disease (AD) begin years prior to the clinical expression of the disease, underscoring the need for studies of cognitively healthy adults to capture these early changes. The overall goal of the current study was to map the cortical...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Rodrigue KM,Kennedy KM,Devous MD Sr,Rieck JR,Hebrank AC,Diaz-Arrastia R,Mathews D,Park DC

更新日期：2012-02-07 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a new benign eating disorder associated with lesions involving parts of the right anterior cerebral hemisphere. This "gourmand" syndrome describes a preoccupation with food and a preference for fine eating. Two exemplary case reports illustrate this new syndrome. Analysis of the clinical and anatomical data...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Regard M,Landis T

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurologists are prescribing intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIg) with increasing frequency to treat many neurologic conditions that have a proven or presumed autoimmune or inflammatory pathogenesis. Although IVIg is not FDA approved for any neurologic condition, physicians can safely prescribe it for several disorders w...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Donofrio PD,Busis NA

更新日期：2002-12-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunomodulating agents have beneficial effects in the treatment of multiple sclerosis (MS), decreasing the frequency of relapses, the progression of disability, and MRI measures of disease activity. Despite the efficacy of these agents, many patients continue to show progression of disability, breakthrough relapses, ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Jeffery DR

更新日期：2004-12-28 00:00:00

abstract：:We compared the electrodiagnostic studies of 40 patients with chronic acquired demyelinative neuropathy and 18 patients with familial demyelinative neuropathy. Patients with acquired neuropathy had differential slowing of conduction velocity when distal latencies were compared with more proximal conduction velocities ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Lewis RA,Sumner AJ

更新日期：1982-06-01 00:00:00