APOE epsilon4 and the cognitive genetics of multiple sclerosis.

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To characterize a kindred with a distinctive autosomal dominant neuromuscular disorder. BACKGROUND:The authors studied a large Italian family affected by a progressive neuromyopathy. Ten individuals over three generations were affected. The disease was characterized by onset from the late teens to early 50s ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Servidei S,Capon F,Spinazzola A,Mirabella M,Semprini S,de Rosa G,Gennarelli M,Sangiuolo F,Ricci E,Mohrenweiser HW,Dallapiccola B,Tonali P,Novelli G

更新日期：1999-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：:There is evidence that treatment with an antibody to tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF alpha) improves an animal model of multiple sclerosis (MS) and is beneficial in two systemic inflammatory disease in humans, but there are no reports about anti-TNF treatment of MS. Therefore, we treated two rapidly progressive MS pa...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： van Oosten BW,Barkhof F,Truyen L,Boringa JB,Bertelsmann FW,von Blomberg BM,Woody JN,Hartung HP,Polman CH

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:IV immunoglobulin therapy can lead to vascular events through increased serum viscosity and possibly other mechanisms. The authors describe the successful use of tissue plasminogen activator in three of four patients who developed cerebral and peripheral arterial thrombosis after treatment with IV immunoglobulin. ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Okuda D,Flaster M,Frey J,Sivakumar K

更新日期：2003-06-10 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To comprehensively assess neurobiological effects of the protective APOE2 allele in the aged brain using a cross-sectional multimodal neuroimaging approach. METHODS:Multimodal neuroimaging data were obtained from a total of 572 older individuals without dementia (cognitively normal and mild cognitive impairm...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Grothe MJ,Villeneuve S,Dyrba M,Bartrés-Faz D,Wirth M,Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative.

更新日期：2017-02-07 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To describe and analyze etiologies, clinical presentations, therapeutic management, and outcomes of patients with acute encephalitis and identify outcome predictors. METHODS:We conducted a retrospective review of patients diagnosed with acute encephalitis at Mayo Clinic Rochester between January 2000 and Dec...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Singh TD,Fugate JE,Rabinstein AA

更新日期：2015-01-27 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine the prevalence of AD and other dementias in a rural elderly Hindi-speaking population in Ballabgarh in northern India. DESIGN:The authors performed a community survey of a cohort of 5,126 individuals aged 55 years and older, 73.3% of whom were illiterate. Hindi cognitive and functional screening...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Chandra V,Ganguli M,Pandav R,Johnston J,Belle S,DeKosky ST

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We identified seven patients with refractory partial epilepsy and sleep apnea. Treatment of the sleep apnea with nasal continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP), protriptyline, trazodone, acetazolamide, or tracheostomy reduced seizure frequency and severity in six patients. Success with CPAP depended largely on compl...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Devinsky O,Ehrenberg B,Barthlen GM,Abramson HS,Luciano D

更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We conducted a case-control study to assess possible factors associated with Alzheimer's disease (AD) with 70 clinically diagnosed AD patients and 140 age- and sex-matched nondemented neighborhood controls in China. Factors significantly associated with AD cases were family history of dementia in first-degree relative...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Li G,Shen YC,Li YT,Chen CH,Zhau YW,Silverman JM

更新日期：1992-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cerebrovascular disease (CVD) may contribute to mild cognitive impairment (MCI). We sought to determine the relation of white matter hyperintensity (WMH) volume and infarcts in brain MRI to MCI in a community-based sample. METHODS:A total of 679 elderly persons without dementia underwent brain MRI. WMH and ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Luchsinger JA,Brickman AM,Reitz C,Cho SJ,Schupf N,Manly JJ,Tang MX,Small SA,Mayeux R,DeCarli C,Brown TR

更新日期：2009-08-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cross-sectional studies suggest gender differences in cognitive function and risk of AD in older persons. However, longitudinal studies comparing change in cognitive function and risk of AD in men and women have had mixed results. The authors investigated gender differences in rate of decline for different c...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Barnes LL,Wilson RS,Schneider JA,Bienias JL,Evans DA,Bennett DA

更新日期：2003-06-10 00:00:00

abstract：:As the substantia nigra degenerates in Parkinson's disease (PD), the nigrostriatal pathway is disrupted, reducing striatal dopamine and producing PD symptoms. Although dopamine does not readily cross the blood-brain barrier, its precursor, levodopa, does. Levodopa is absorbed in the small bowel and is rapidly cataboli...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Koller WC,Rueda MG

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Manipulation of afferent inputs may temporarily modulate dystonic spasms. Ten patients with writer's cramp were enrolled in a double-blind, randomized, crossover study in which the effects of transcutaneous electrical stimulation (TENS) and placebo treatment were compared. Patients were evaluated using four measures o...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Tinazzi M,Farina S,Bhatia K,Fiaschi A,Moretto G,Bertolasi L,Zarattini S,Smania N

更新日期：2005-06-14 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the effects of estrogen replacement therapy (ERT) on the risk of development of dementia in 87 women with Parkinson's disease without dementia (PDND), 80 women with Parkinson's disease with dementia (PDD), and 989 nondemented healthy women from the same community. ERT was protective for the development...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Marder K,Tang MX,Alfaro B,Mejia H,Cote L,Jacobs D,Stern Y,Sano M,Mayeux R

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Unusual late-onset complications of brain irradiation, characterized by reversible neurologic focal signs, seizures, and MRI alterations, have recently been reported and classified as stroke-like migraine attacks after radiation therapy (SMART)(1) and peri-ictal pseudoprogression (PIPG).(2.) ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Di Stefano AL,Berzero G,Vitali P,Galimberti CA,Ducray F,Ceroni M,Bastianello S,Colombo AA,Simoncelli A,Brunelli MC,Giometto B,Diamanti L,Gaviani P,Salmaggi A,Silvani A,Marchioni E

更新日期：2013-09-10 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To describe two symptomatic dysferlin gene mutation carriers. METHODS:One patient had limb girdle weakness. His brother was diagnosed with limb girdle muscular dystrophy 2B with two mutations in the dysferlin gene (D625Y and E1734G). The second patient had distal weakness. He had two sons with Miyoshi myopat...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Illa I,De Luna N,Domínguez-Perles R,Rojas-García R,Paradas C,Palmer J,Márquez C,Gallano P,Gallardo E

更新日期：2007-04-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Hereditary neuralgic amyotrophy (HNA) is an autosomal-dominant disorder associated with recurrent, episodic, painful, brachial neuropathy. The gene for HNA has been mapped to chromosome 17q25. Characteristic features including hypotelorism, short stature, and cleft palate occur in some patients. OBJECTIVE:T...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Jeannet PY,Watts GD,Bird TD,Chance PF

更新日期：2001-12-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Heterozygous PAX6 mutation is associated with an absent or hypoplastic anterior commissure and a reduction in the area of the corpus callosum. The authors found deficient auditory interhemispheric transfer in a 53-year-old woman with a PAX6 mutation who had an absent anterior commissure but normal callosal volume. ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Bamiou DE,Musiek FE,Sisodiya SM,Free SL,Mitchell TN,Davies RA

更新日期：2004-02-10 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To evaluate the effect of intensive care unit continuous EEG (cEEG) monitoring on inpatient mortality, hospital charges, and length of stay. METHODS:A retrospective cross-sectional study was conducted using the Nationwide Inpatient Sample, a dataset representing 20% of inpatient discharges in nonfederal US ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Ney JP,van der Goes DN,Nuwer MR,Nelson L,Eccher MA

更新日期：2013-12-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Motor axons supplying lumbrical muscles are less severely affected than axons supplying thenar muscles in the carpal tunnel syndrome; sometimes lumbrical motor fibers are less affected than digit 2 sensory fibers. This pattern is consistent with compression of both the anterior and posterior aspects of the median nerv...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Logigian EL,Busis NA,Berger AR,Bruyninckx F,Khalil N,Shahani BT,Young RR

更新日期：1987-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied a family in which the father and 7 of 10 children had episodes of Bell's palsy. Five of the eight affected family members also had ocular motor palsies. Facial nerve and blink reflex studies in four affected siblings demonstrated asymmetrically reduced amplitude of evoked responses without delayed conductio...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Aldrich MS,Beck RW,Albers JW

更新日期：1987-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We aimed to determine the incidence of electrographic seizures in children in the pediatric intensive care unit who underwent EEG monitoring, risk factors for electrographic seizures, and whether electrographic seizures were associated with increased odds of mortality. METHODS:Eleven sites in North America ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Abend NS,Arndt DH,Carpenter JL,Chapman KE,Cornett KM,Gallentine WB,Giza CC,Goldstein JL,Hahn CD,Lerner JT,Loddenkemper T,Matsumoto JH,McBain K,Nash KB,Payne E,Sánchez SM,Fernández IS,Shults J,Williams K,Yang A,Dlu

更新日期：2013-07-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Imaging determinations of the spatial extent of diffuse low-grade gliomas (DLGGs) are of paramount importance in evaluating the risk-to-benefit ratio of surgical resection. However, it is not clear how accurately preoperative conventional MRI can delineate DLGGs. METHODS:We report a retrospective histologic...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Pallud J,Varlet P,Devaux B,Geha S,Badoual M,Deroulers C,Page P,Dezamis E,Daumas-Duport C,Roux FX

更新日期：2010-05-25 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To assess the extent of demyelination in cervical spondylotic myelopathy (CSM) using myelin water imaging (MWI) and electrophysiologic techniques. METHODS:Somatosensory evoked potentials (SSEPs) and MWI were acquired in 14 patients with CSM and 18 age-matched healthy controls. MWI was performed on a 3.0T whole...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Liu H,MacMillian EL,Jutzeler CR,Ljungberg E,MacKay AL,Kolind SH,Mädler B,Li DKB,Dvorak MF,Curt A,Laule C,Kramer JLK

更新日期：2017-08-08 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied brain sections from 10 patients with the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) and progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML) by in situ hybridization with a biotin-labeled JC virus (JCV) DNA probe and by immunohistochemistry using antibody against the JCV capsid antigen. We compared the results w...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Aksamit AJ,Gendelman HE,Orenstein JM,Pezeshkpour GH

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Combined infusion of high doses of lidocaine and thiopental in a comatose patient induced major latency and amplitude BAEP changes, which progressed to complete BAEP abolition. Responses returned to normal after drugs were discontinued. EEGs during the episodes showed long-lasting periods of activity suppression, but ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： García-Larrea L,Artru F,Bertrand O,Pernier J,Mauguière F

更新日期：1988-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate patients with early HIV-cognitive motor complex (HIV-CMC) for possible regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF) abnormalities on perfusion MRI (pMRI). BACKGROUND:Nuclear medicine techniques have demonstrated global and focal cerebral perfusion abnormalities in patients with HIV dementia. Ultrafast pMR...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Chang L,Ernst T,Leonido-Yee M,Speck O

更新日期：2000-01-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Serum levels of creatine phosphokinase (CPK) and pyruvic kinase (PK) were determined in 42 controls, 57 patients with various neuromuscular disorders, and 23 female relatives of Duchenne dystrophy patients. CPK and PK enzyme activities were increased in comparable numbers of muscle disease patients and female carriers...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Seay AR,Ziter FA,Wu LH,Wu JT

更新日期：1978-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The aim of this study was to apply the HIV-associated neurocognitive disorders (HAND) criteria for diagnosing HAND in HIV-infected adults, in a cohort of HIV-infected youth to thus establish whether this system is able to detect a spectrum of neurocognitive disorders (ND) in HIV-infected youth. METHODS:We us...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Hoare J,Phillips N,Joska JA,Paul R,Donald KA,Stein DJ,Thomas KG

更新日期：2016-07-05 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine the clinical value of JC virus (JCV) detection in various anatomic compartments for the diagnosis of progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML). METHODS:CSF, peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC), plasma, and urine samples were evaluated from HIV-infected and uninfected individuals. JC...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Koralnik IJ,Boden D,Mai VX,Lord CI,Letvin NL

更新日期：1999-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine the frequency of Lewy bodies (LB) in progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP). BACKGROUND:LB are characteristic of PD, but are also found in normal controls and in other neurodegenerative diseases, especially AD. METHOD:The authors evaluated the brains of 72 consecutive cases of pathologically conf...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Tsuboi Y,Ahlskog JE,Apaydin H,Parisi JE,Dickson DW

更新日期：2001-11-13 00:00:00