Intellectual enrichment lessens the effect of brain atrophy on learning and memory in multiple sclerosis.

abstract：:A new cerebral disorder, described in three unrelated children, has recognizable clinical, radiologic, and neuropathologic findings. The onset occurs from early infancy to adolescence with slowing of cognitive performance, rare convulsive seizures, and a mixture of extrapyramidal, cerebellar, and pyramidal signs. CT s...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Labrune P,Lacroix C,Goutières F,de Laveaucoupet J,Chevalier P,Zerah M,Husson B,Landrieu P

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We evaluated cognitive outcome in a group of 37 patients who had undergone surgery for rupture and repair of a single intracranial aneurysm at least 6 months previously. We compared outcome--assessed by tests of intelligence, attention, executive functions sensitive to frontal lobe lesions, memory, neglect, and mood, ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Tidswell P,Dias PS,Sagar HJ,Mayes AR,Battersby RD

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:This study examines the anatomical correlates of naming vs recognizing faces using a novel measure that utilizes culturally relevant and age-appropriate items, the Northwestern University Famous Faces (NUFFACE) Test, in primary progressive aphasia (PPA), a syndrome characterized by progressive language defic...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Gefen T,Wieneke C,Martersteck A,Whitney K,Weintraub S,Mesulam MM,Rogalski E

更新日期：2013-08-13 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine serial MRI and CT abnormalities around calcified cysts due to cysticercosis in previously treated patients during periods of seizure activity. BACKGROUND:Some patients with calcified lesions due to cysticercosis have seizures. How and why seizures occur in this setting are unknown. METHODS:Thre...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Nash TE,Patronas NJ

更新日期：1999-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine the effect of interferon-beta-1b (IFNbeta-1b) treatment on total contrast-enhancing lesions (CEL), white matter lesion load (WMLL), and cerebral atrophy (CA) in patients with relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis (RRMS) using serial monthly MRI. METHODS:An open-label baseline-vs-treatment cross...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Frank JA,Richert N,Bash C,Stone L,Calabresi PA,Lewis B,Stone R,Howard T,McFarland HF

更新日期：2004-03-09 00:00:00

abstract：:A marked decrease in the amplitude of the evoked thenar compound muscle action potential followed brief exercise at room temperature in two patients with paramyotonia congenita. This decline was more rapid and pronounced in our patient with coexistent thyrotoxicosis. The prolonged recovery period in paramyotonia conge...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Gutmann L,Riggs JE,Brick JF

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Galantamine is a reversible, competitive cholinesterase inhibitor that also allosterically modulates nicotinic acetylcholine receptors. These mechanisms of action provided the rationale for a therapeutic trial of galantamine in AD. METHODS:A 6-month, multicenter, double-blind trial was undertaken in 636 pat...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Raskind MA,Peskind ER,Wessel T,Yuan W

更新日期：2000-06-27 00:00:00

abstract：:To test interphysician agreement on the diagnosis of subtype of ischemic stroke, we sent subtype definitions and 18 case summaries (clinical features and pertinent laboratory data) to 24 neurologists who have a special interest in stroke, and asked them to determine the most likely subtype diagnosis. The overall agree...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Gordon DL,Bendixen BH,Adams HP Jr,Clarke W,Kappelle LJ,Woolson RF

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors sought to determine in a retrospective analysis whether carotid plaque soft TD on CT is associated with recent ischemic neurologic events. Among 141 patients (99 asymptomatic), 106 plaques with more than 50% stenosis were selected for density measurements. They found an odds ratio for neurologic events ass...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Serfaty JM,Nonent M,Nighoghossian N,Rouhart F,Derex L,Rotaru C,Chirossel P,Thabut G,Guias B,Heautot JF,Gouny P,de la Vega A,Pachai C,Ecochard R,Villard J,Douek PC,CARMEDAS Study Group.

更新日期：2006-01-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Factors affecting osmotic fragility were studied in red blood cells of patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy. The mean osmotic fragility (MOF), operationally defined as the NaCl concentration for 50% hemolysis, was found to be higher by 3.63 +/- 0.51 mM in Duchenne cells than in normal cells having an MOF of 60.1 ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Kim HD,Luthra MG,Watts RP,Stern LZ

更新日期：1980-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess whether lifetime physical activity during work and leisure time is associated with an increased risk of developing ALS and to determine the association between physical activity and duration or age at onset of disease. METHODS:Patients referred to our clinic during the 1-year period 2001 to 2002 wh...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Veldink JH,Kalmijn S,Groeneveld GJ,Titulaer MJ,Wokke JH,van den Berg LH

更新日期：2005-01-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) were assessed, and a metabolic profile associated with conversion to AD at 18-month follow-up was sought. As compared with nonconverters (n = 10), converters (n = 7) had lower fluorodeoxyglucose uptake in the right temporoparietal cortex (p = 0.02, corrected for cluster si...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Chételat G,Desgranges B,de la Sayette V,Viader F,Eustache F,Baron JC

更新日期：2003-04-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Dementia occurs infrequently in patients with giant cell (temporal) arteritis (GCA). Three elderly women with biopsy-proven GCA showed abrupt cognitive decline during periods of clinically active GCA, 1 to 6 months after diagnostic temporal artery biopsy, during periods of corticosteroid taper. One patient had additio...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Caselli RJ

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To perform a psychometric evaluation of the inflammatory neuropathy cause and treatment (INCAT) sensory sumscore (ISS) in sensory-motor immune-mediated polyneuropathies. This new sensory scale was evaluated to strive for uniformity in assessing sensory deficit in these disorders. METHODS:The ISS comprises vi...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Merkies IS,Schmitz PI,van der Meché FG,van Doorn PA

更新日期：2000-02-22 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To characterize disease severity and distribution of disability in pediatric-onset multiple sclerosis (POMS) and to develop an optimized modeling scale for measuring disability, we performed a multicenter retrospective analysis of disability scores in 873 persons with POMS over time and compared this to previ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Santoro JD,Waltz M,Aaen G,Belman A,Benson L,Gorman M,Goyal MS,Graves JS,Harris Y,Krupp L,Lotze T,Mar S,Moodley M,Ness J,Rensel M,Rodriguez M,Schreiner T,Tillema JM,Waubant E,Weinstock-Guttman B,Hurtubise BF,Roal

更新日期：2020-09-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:PD was associated with increased mortality before levodopa therapy became available. There have been conflicting reports of PD mortality in the modern era. OBJECTIVE:To assess current mortality rates in a large unselected population receiving treatment for parkinsonism (PKM) followed for up to 6 years. MET...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Guttman M,Slaughter PM,Theriault ME,DeBoer DP,Naylor CD

更新日期：2001-12-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Ten patients are presented with severe dysarthria from a right hemisphere stroke, 4 with autopsies, emphasizing that this lesion alone is compatible with severely slurred speech. Most had oropharyngeal weakness; the accompanying hemiparesis was of variable severity. Superficial or deep infarctions were responsible, th...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Ropper AH

更新日期：1987-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent genetic studies show that the apolipoprotein E epsilon 4 allele (ApoE-epsilon 4) is a risk factor for Alzheimer's disease (AD). If ApoE-epsilon 4 individuals develop AD as they get older, we would expect a decrease in ApoE-epsilon 4 allele frequency with increasing age. We found a marked decline in ApoE-epsilon...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Rebeck GW,Perls TT,West HL,Sodhi P,Lipsitz LA,Hyman BT

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Creatine monohydrate has been shown to increase strength in studies of young healthy subjects and in a few studies with patients. Creatine monohydrate (10 g daily for 5 days to 5 g daily for 5 days) was administered to patients with neuromuscular disease in a pilot study (Study 1; n = 81), followed by a single-blinded...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Tarnopolsky M,Martin J

更新日期：1999-03-10 00:00:00

abstract：:(-)Deprenyl, a specific monoamine oxidase subtype B inhibitor (MAOI-B), has been reported to be a safe and valuable adjunct to conventional treatment of parkinsonism. A double-blind, clinical comparison of (-)deprenyl with placebo was undertaken in 11 parkinsonian patients; the efficacy of 10 mg daily was studied over...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Eisler T,Teräväinen H,Nelson R,Krebs H,Weise V,Lake CR,Ebert MH,Whetzel N,Murphy DL,Kopin IJ,Calne DB

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess pathologic changes in prospectively characterized subjects with essential tremor (ET). METHODS:Subjects enrolled in the Sun Health Research Institute Brain and Body Donation Program were examined annually by a movement disorders neurologist, and semiannually by a behavioral neurologist and neuropsy...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Shill HA,Adler CH,Sabbagh MN,Connor DJ,Caviness JN,Hentz JG,Beach TG

更新日期：2008-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We administered 3 commonly employed tests of mental status (the Information-Memory-Concentration test [IMC], the Mini-Mental State Examination [MMSE], and the Dementia Rating Scale [DRS]) to 92 patients with probable dementia of the Alzheimer type. The 3 tests were readministered to 55 of the patients (2-year subgroup...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Salmon DP,Thal LJ,Butters N,Heindel WC

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fourteen patients with Alzheimer's disease were evaluated by psychometric testing, fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography (PET), and EEG. They were divided into two groups according to the EEG findings. Group A (seven patients) had normal alpha backgrounds and group B (seven patients) had decreased alpha back...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Sheridan PH,Sato S,Foster N,Bruno G,Cox C,Fedio P,Chase TN

更新日期：1988-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examined the frequency of epilepsy in a consecutive series of patients who received a definitive diagnosis of psychogenic nonepileptic seizures (PNES) after completing inpatient video-EEG (VEEG) monitoring. Of the 1,590 patients receiving definitive diagnosis, 514 (32.3%) were diagnosed with PNES. Twenty-ni...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Martin R,Burneo JG,Prasad A,Powell T,Faught E,Knowlton R,Mendez M,Kuzniecky R

更新日期：2003-12-23 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：OBJECTIVE:To investigate whether cognitive function is related to incidence of stroke. METHODS:A population-based cohort of 1551 subjects with no clinical history or signs of stroke, age 75 years and over at baseline, were followed up for 3 years. Individuals with a first-ever stroke event that was recorded in the Sto...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Zhu L,Fratiglioni L,Guo Z,Winblad B,Viitanen M

更新日期：2000-06-13 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To clarify the relationship between depressive symptoms and the clinical and neuropathologic manifestations of dementia. METHODS:In a clinical-pathologic cohort study, 1,764 older persons without cognitive impairment at enrollment completed annual clinical evaluations for a mean of 7.8 years. The evaluations...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Wilson RS,Capuano AW,Boyle PA,Hoganson GM,Hizel LP,Shah RC,Nag S,Schneider JA,Arnold SE,Bennett DA

更新日期：2014-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Of 58 consecutive patients with spontaneous CSF leaks, nine exhibited features of connective tissue disorder. One had Marfan's syndrome. Five additional patients had hyperflexible joints, of whom four had arachnodactyly, four were tall and slender, two had hyperextensible skin, and one had a strong family history of a...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Mokri B,Maher CO,Sencakova D

更新日期：2002-03-12 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To prospectively evaluate the effect of pump-infused intrathecal baclofen infusion (ITB) in therapeutic doses on sleep quality and on daytime and nighttime respiratory function in patients with severe spasticity. METHODS:We prospectively evaluated 20 consecutive patients (mean +/- SD age 45 +/- 13 years). We...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Bensmail D,Quera Salva MA,Roche N,Benyahia S,Bohic M,Denys P,Bussel B,Lofaso F

更新日期：2006-10-24 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess the expression of heat shock proteins (HSP) in glioma cells in vitro and in vivo and to examine their role in resistance to apoptosis. BACKGROUND:HSP are expressed in response to various forms of stress. Constitutive HSP expression may confer resistance to cytotoxic stimuli in human cancers. METHO...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Hermisson M,Strik H,Rieger J,Dichgans J,Meyermann R,Weller M

更新日期：2000-03-28 00:00:00