Pseudoseizures caused by hyperventilation resembling absence epilepsy.

abstract：:The aim of this study was to investigate the alteration of the gait pattern in 25 children with Duchenne muscular dystrophy, using body-worn inertial sensors during a long walking distance. Normalized spatiotemporal gait parameters and their variability were extracted from the angular velocity of the shanks; the smoot...

journal_title：Journal of child neurology

authors： Ganea R,Jeannet PY,Paraschiv-Ionescu A,Goemans NM,Piot C,Van den Hauwe M,Aminian K

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We retrospectively identified 15 children ages 12 years and under with anticonvulsant resistant epilepsy who underwent a temporal lobectomy at Children's Hospital, Boston, between 1978 and 1993. Our aim was to study the long-term seizure outcome. Data pertaining to preoperative evaluation, electroencephalography (EEG)...

journal_title：Journal of child neurology

authors： Sotero de Menezes MA,Connolly M,Bolanos A,Madsen J,Black PM,Riviello JJ Jr

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:After an initial patient with cerebral palsy had an apparent dramatic reduction in spasticity when placed on modafinil, a pilot study was undertaken in 10 pediatric patients to confirm or refute the benefit of modafinil in cerebral palsy. Nine of 10 patients completed the 1-month treatment period. The study patients w...

journal_title：Journal of child neurology

authors： Hurst DL,Lajara-Nanson W

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Subacute necrotizing encephalomyelopathy (Leigh syndrome) refers to a nebulous disease entity characterized by lactic acidosis, a wide variety a clinical manifestations, and a consistent conglomeration of pathologic findings. Several abnormalities in metabolism have been delineated in association with Leigh syndrome, ...

journal_title：Journal of child neurology

authors： Gingold MK,Bodensteiner JB,Schochet SS,Jaynes M

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Macrocephaly-capillary malformation syndrome is characterized by cutaneous vascular malformations with associated anomalies as macrocephaly, macrosomia, hemihypertrophy, hypotonia, developmental delay, lax joints, loose skin, polysyndactyly, and neuroimaging abnormalities. We present a newborn with a prenatal diagnosi...

journal_title：Journal of child neurology

authors： Ercan TE,Oztunc F,Celkan T,Bor M,Kizilkilic O,Vural M,Perk Y,Islak C,Tuysuz B

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Klonopin (clonazepam; Genentech Inc, South San Francisco, California) oral wafers are benzodiazepines with anticonvulsive and anxiolytic properties. Our institution has been prescribing clonazepam wafers for acute treatment of prolonged seizures for years. Patients' size determined dosing at 0.25, 0.5, 1, or 2 mg wafe...

journal_title：Journal of child neurology

authors： Troester MM,Hastriter EV,Ng YT

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Generalized edema can occur during the course of juvenile dermatomyositis. In this article, a 4-year-old boy with generalized nonpitting edema and proximal weakness is reported. Characteristic cutaneous lesions, laboratory tests, results of electromyography, and magnetic resonance imaging findings resulted in a diagno...

journal_title：Journal of child neurology

authors： Saygi S,Alehan F,Baskin E,Bayrakci US,Ulu EM,Ozbek N

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Corpus callosum agenesis, retardation, adducted thumbs, spastic paraparesis, and hydrocephalus (CRASH syndrome) is an X-linked recessive disorder caused by mutations in the neuronal cell adhesion molecule L1 (LICAM) gene. L1 plays a key role in axon outgrowth and pathfinding during the development of the nervous syste...

journal_title：Journal of child neurology

authors： Sztriha L,Frossard P,Hofstra RM,Verlind E,Nork M

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The prognosis in infants with brain tumors has historically been very poor. This study reviews 16 infants under the age of 12 months with brain tumors who presented to our institution between 1988 and 1999. The aim was to describe the clinical presentation, diagnosis, and management of these patients and to establish ...

journal_title：Journal of child neurology

authors： Young HK,Johnston H

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vigabatrin is an antiepileptic drug that results in higher gamma-aminobutyrate levels in the brain and retina. Vigabatrin-induced visual field defects are usually asymptomatic and only detectable by perimetry. Further, perimetry requires good cooperation, and children aged under 10 years cannot do it. Electroretinogra...

journal_title：Journal of child neurology

authors： Bakhshandeh Bali MK,Otaghsara SM,Soltansanjari M,Sadighi N,Nasehi MM,Ashrafi MR,Karimzadeh P,Taghdiri MM,Ghofrani M

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Motor speed and accuracy are both affected in childhood dystonia. Thus, deriving a speed-accuracy function is an important metric for assessing motor impairments in dystonia. Previous work in dystonia studied the speed-accuracy trade-off during point-to-point tasks. To achieve a more relevant measurement of functional...

journal_title：Journal of child neurology

authors： Lunardini F,Bertucco M,Casellato C,Bhanpuri N,Pedrocchi A,Sanger TD

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Intravenous immunoglobulin and plasma exchange are proven treatments for Guillain-Barré syndrome. Despite these treatments, the prognosis for severe Guillain-Barré syndrome is still not satisfactory. This article seeks for a logical timing for plasma exchange-intravenous immunoglobulin synergy, which may impr...

journal_title：Journal of child neurology

authors： Kesici S,Tanyıldız M,Yetimakman F,Bayrakci B

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a fatal case of mumps virus-associated acute encephalopathy. In terms of the clinical course and cytokine as well as chemokine profiles, the pathogenesis in our case was different from that of mumps meningoencephalitis but was similar to that of influenza virus-associated acute encephalopathy. ...

journal_title：Journal of child neurology

authors： Watanabe M,Suyama K,Hashimoto K,Sato M,Ohara S,Abe Y,Kawasaki Y,Yamaguchi S,Saijo M,Hosoya M

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Five children presented in the first months of life with progressive megalencephaly and leukodystrophy characterized by diffuse swelling of the white matter, cystic cavitations in frontal and temporal lobes, and a slow progressive course contrasting with the intensity of the leukodystrophic process. Four had epilepsy....

journal_title：Journal of child neurology

authors： Goutières F,Boulloche J,Bourgeois M,Aicardi J

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mercury poisoning is a rare but fatal toxicologic emergency. Neurologic manifestations involving the central nervous system are seen usually with chronic mercury intoxication. The most commonly seen complaints are headache, tremor, impaired cognitive skills, weakness, muscle atrophy, and paresthesia. Here, we present ...

journal_title：Journal of child neurology

authors： Gençpınar P,Büyüktahtakın B,İbişoğlu Z,Genç Ş,Yılmaz A,Mıhçı E

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigated the efficacy and tolerability of potassium bromide in 113 patients (aged, 1-20 years) with severe epilepsy and generalized tonic-clonic seizures. Potassium bromide was started at 45 mg/kg and raised to 70 mg/kg (median). Steady-state blood level was reached after a median of 28 days (range, 5-9...

journal_title：Journal of child neurology

authors： Korinthenberg R,Burkart P,Woelfle C,Moenting JS,Ernst JP

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sydenham's chorea, the neurological manifestation of rheumatic fever, is the most common acquired chorea of childhood. In this retrospective study, the authors aim to present the clinical and laboratory findings of 65 Sydenham's chorea patients, followed up in a clinic over less than 7 years. The mean age at the onset...

journal_title：Journal of child neurology

authors： Demiroren K,Yavuz H,Cam L,Oran B,Karaaslan S,Demiroren S

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute necrotizing encephalopathy is a novel disease entity, proposed by Mizuguchi et al in 1995, that shows a characteristic selective and symmetric involvement of the thalamus, brain stem, and cerebellum. It usually leaves sequelae. The etiology of acute necrotizing encephalopathy is unknown. We describe here six pat...

journal_title：Journal of child neurology

authors： Yoshikawa H,Watanabe T,Abe T,Oda Y

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two boys, aged 7 and 12 years, with nondominant (right) hemispheric acquired vascular lesions and left visual-field disturbances had right spatial constructional disabilities, contralateral to that which would be expected. These unusual disturbances may represent the previously unreported phenomena of ipsilateral negl...

journal_title：Journal of child neurology

authors： Lewis DW,Geller T

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using quantitative magnetic resonance imaging morphometry, we report that the whole brain volumes of patients with neurofibromatosis-1 are significantly larger than normal, confirm the prevalence of macrocephaly as about 50%, and report that macrocephaly in patients with neurofibromatosis-1 does not appear to be relat...

journal_title：Journal of child neurology

authors： Cutting LE,Koth CW,Burnette CP,Abrams MT,Kaufmann WE,Denckla MB

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Weight gain occurs with most neuroleptic drugs used to treat tics. Tetrabenazine, a vesicular monoamine transporter type 2 inhibitor, inhibits dopamine release. It is used to treat a variety of hyperkinetic movement disorders, including tics. Weight gain over time was compared in a group of pediatric tic patients taki...

journal_title：Journal of child neurology

authors： Ondo WG,Jong D,Davis A

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A patient who has been declared brain dead is considered to be both legally and clinically dead. However, we report 2 pediatric cases in which the patients demonstrated clinical signs of brain stem function that are not recognized or tested in current Canadian or US guidelines. ...

journal_title：Journal of child neurology

authors： Hansen G,Joffe AR

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article describes a case of pyruvate dehydrogenase deficiency in a 3-year-old boy who presented generalized hypotonia, severe psychomotor development delay, and generalized and partial seizures and was refractory to antiepileptic drugs. After the diagnosis, the patient was put on a ketogenic diet. Six months late...

journal_title：Journal of child neurology

authors： Di Pisa V,Cecconi I,Gentile V,Di Pietro E,Marchiani V,Verrotti A,Franzoni E

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fifty-three (5%) of 1064 consecutively imaged children showed an arterial vascular pattern on magnetic resonance images, accounting for 12% of all abnormal studies. Signal abnormalities on T2-weighted scans persisted years after the clinical stroke occurrence. Ipsilateral atrophy of the pons or midbrain was found in 2...

journal_title：Journal of child neurology

authors： Smith CD,Baumann RJ

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using diffusion tensor imaging tractography and color-coded anisotropy map quantification, we investigated asymmetry of the arcuate fasciculus to determine language laterality in children and compared it with the Wada test. Arcuate fasciculus volume and fractional anisotropy were measured after tractography. We also q...

journal_title：Journal of child neurology

authors： Tiwari VN,Jeong JW,Asano E,Rothermel R,Juhasz C,Chugani HT

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationship between somatic growth and neurocognitive outcome was studied in a cohort of 136 children with intrauterine growth retardation. The children were followed up from birth to 9 to 10 years of age by annual measurements of growth parameters, neurodevelopmental evaluations, and IQ. The rate of catch-up for...

journal_title：Journal of child neurology

authors： Fattal-Valevski A,Toledano-Alhadef H,Leitner Y,Geva R,Eshel R,Harel S

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cerebral vasculitis and clinically important myocardial inflammation are rare in juvenile dermatomyositis. We report a previously healthy 6-year-old girl with dermatomyositis who died after a fulminating clinical deterioration. Postmortem examination of the heart revealed characteristic endothelial tubuloreticular agg...

journal_title：Journal of child neurology

authors： Jimenez C,Rowe PC,Keene D

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Magnetic resonance imaging is an important tool in the evaluation of patients with seizures. Frequently, abnormalities are found that lead to further, invasive testing. The first child with transient abnormal findings on magnetic resonance imaging during a time of frequent partial seizures is presented. This lesion di...

journal_title：Journal of child neurology

authors： Riela AR,Sires BP,Penry JK

更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The geographic distribution of multiple sclerosis (MS) may relate to the age of initial exposure and degree of sensitization to common viruses or bacteria which have proteins with epitopes (antigenic determinants) which are homologous with potentially encephalitogenic peptides in central myelin proteins, such as basic...

journal_title：Journal of child neurology

authors： Alvord EC Jr,Jahnke U,Fischer EH,Kies MW,Driscoll BF,Compston DA

更新日期：1987-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute necrotizing encephalopathy is characterized by fever, seizures, acute encephalopathy, and rapid progression to coma. It is usually associated with viral illness and shows characteristic brain magnetic resonance imaging features, including symmetrical involvement of bilateral thalami, brain stem, white matter, an...

journal_title：Journal of child neurology

authors： Lee JH,Lee M,Lee J

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00