Practice parameter: pharmacologic treatment of spasticity in children and adolescents with cerebral palsy (an evidence-based review): report of the Quality Standards Subcommittee of the American Academy of Neurology and the Practice Committee of the Child

abstract：:First-degree relatives of narcoleptic subjects (probands) may have sleep pathology related to the transmission of the disorder through their family members. The authors examined four groups: probands (n = 96), first-degree relative (n = 337), environmental reference (n = 85), and general population (n = 6,694) groups....

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Ohayon MM,Okun ML

更新日期：2006-08-22 00:00:00

abstract：:A 25-year-old man with the skin lesions of malignant atrophic papulosis had clinical and electrodiagnostic evidence of a multifocal asymmetric myelomalacia or polyradiculopathy in association with elevated CSF protein and hypoglycorrhachia. Autopsy findings included widespread infarctions and necrosis of brain, brains...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Label LS,Tandan R,Albers JW

更新日期：1983-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We carried out a door-to-door-survey to screen a community of 14,010 people (Parsis living in colonies in Bombay, India) for possible neurologic diseases, and used defined diagnostic criteria to evaluate people who tested positive on the screening survey. There were three clinically definite cases of multiple sclerosi...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Bharucha NE,Bharucha EP,Wadia NH,Singhal BS,Bharucha AE,Bhise AV,Kurtzke JF,Schoenberg BS

更新日期：1988-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine whether quantitative whole-brain MR diffusion histograms in patients with MS differ from those of normal control subjects. BACKGROUND:MRI detects macroscopic cerebral lesions in MS, but the white matter lesion burden on MRI correlates imperfectly to clinical disability. Previous reports have fur...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Nusbaum AO,Tang CY,Wei T,Buchsbaum MS,Atlas SW

更新日期：2000-04-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:To assess the temporal trend in multiple sclerosis (MS) onset during the last 50 years in Sardinia, Italy. METHODS:The authors used a cohort study to assess age at onset in 1,513 MS patients at the MS clinic in Cagliari, all born and living in Sardinia. They also assessed age at onset in 41 pairs of familia...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Cocco E,Sardu C,Lai M,Spinicci G,Contu P,Marrosu MG

更新日期：2004-05-25 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To incorporate standardized documentation into an epilepsy clinic and to use these standardized data to compare patients' perception of epilepsy diagnosis to provider documentation. METHODS:Using quality improvement methodology, we implemented interventions to increase documentation of epilepsy diagnosis, se...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Jones FJS,Smith JR,Ayub N,Herman ST,Buchhalter JR,Fureman BE,Cash SS,Hoch DB,Moura LMVR

更新日期：2020-07-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Two women with myasthenia gravis became apneic immediately after IV injection of iodinated contrast material for CT. Aggravation of myasthenia continued for days after this initial reaction. ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Chagnac Y,Hadani M,Goldhammer Y

更新日期：1985-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Restless legs syndrome (RLS) is a common neurologic disorder that affects 5 to 10% of the population and increases in prevalence with aging. The clinical hallmarks of RLS include dysesthesias or paresthesias in the legs and sometimes the arms, occurring primarily at rest, which are usually worse in the evening and are...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Comella CL

更新日期：2002-02-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Butyrylcholinesterase is implicated in the pathology of AD. Selective inhibitors increase acetylcholine and improve cognitive function in animal models. In dementia with Lewy bodies, cholinergic activities are more affected than in AD. The authors report a highly significant association between temporal cortex butyryl...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Perry E,McKeith I,Ballard C

更新日期：2003-06-10 00:00:00

abstract：:In the current medical climate, medical education is at risk of being de-emphasized, leading to less financial support and compensation for faculty. A rise in compensation plans that reward clinical or research productivity fails to incentivize and threatens to erode the educational missions of our academic institutio...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Weber D,Sarva H,Weaver J,Wang F,Chou J,Cornes S,Nickels K,Safdieh JE,Poncelet A,Stern BJ

更新日期：2019-07-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Whether autoimmune mechanisms play a role in the pathogenesis of inclusion body myositis (IBM) is unknown. Human leukocyte antigen (HLA) analysis in 52 patients, including 17 with autoimmune disorders (AIDs), showed that patients were more likely to have antigens from the autoimmune-prone HLA-B8-DR3 ancestral haplotyp...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Badrising UA,Schreuder GM,Giphart MJ,Geleijns K,Verschuuren JJ,Wintzen AR,Maat-Schieman ML,van Doorn P,van Engelen BG,Faber CG,Hoogendijk JE,de Jager AE,Koehler PJ,de Visser M,van Duinen SG,Dutch IBM Study Group.

更新日期：2004-12-28 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：:A patient presented with bilateral brachial plexus neuropathy which 2 weeks later evolved into a polyneuropathy involving all four extremities. On further investigation, the patient was found to have systemic lupus erythematosus. Treatment with steroids was accompanied by complete resolution of the neurologic findings...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Bloch SL,Jarrett MP,Swerdlow M,Grayzel AI

更新日期：1979-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Icelandic pedigrees a cystatin C mutation, glutamine 68 (L68Q), causes autosomal dominant cerebral amyloid angiopathy-related hemorrhage (CAAH). We examined 33 patients with sporadic CAAH for this mutation. None carried L68Q and, including this report, only one of 52 published cases of sporadic CAAH has had the cys...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： McCarron MO,Nicoll JA,Stewart J,Ironside JW,Mann DM,Love S,Graham DI,Grubb A

更新日期：2000-01-11 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 used the Mayo Clinic medical records linkage system to detect all cases of intracranial vascular malformation (IVM) among residents of Olmsted County, Minnesota from 1965 to 1992 and found 48 IVMs over the 27-year period, including four patients with IVM detected at autopsy, without prior symptoms. Twenty-nine of 4...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Brown RD Jr,Wiebers DO,Torner JC,O'Fallon WM

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To measure white matter (WM) and gray matter (GM) atrophy and lesion load in a large population of patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) using a fully automated, operator-independent, multiparametric segmentation method. METHODS:The study population consisted of 597 patients with MS and 104 control subjects....

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Tedeschi G,Lavorgna L,Russo P,Prinster A,Dinacci D,Savettieri G,Quattrone A,Livrea P,Messina C,Reggio A,Bresciamorra V,Orefice G,Paciello M,Brunetti A,Coniglio G,Bonavita S,Di Costanzo A,Bellacosa A,Valentino P,Quar

更新日期：2005-07-26 00:00:00

abstract：:A randomized trial was completed to assess the feasibility of a 2-year education rehabilitation program for students with sickle cell disease and memory deficits. Eleven students were assigned to tutoring with or without memory training for 2 years. Eighty-two percent completed the program. Evidence of improvement in ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： King AA,White DA,McKinstry RC,Noetzel M,Debaun MR

更新日期：2007-06-05 00:00:00

abstract：:In many parkinsonian syndromes, neuromelanin (NM)-containing dopaminergic neurons of the substantia nigra (SN) are selectively targeted by the noxius pathogens. Studies of the constitutional and functional features of human NM allow the formulation of a logical hypothesis on its role in parkinsonian syndromes. In the ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Zecca L,Zucca FA,Albertini A,Rizzio E,Fariello RG

更新日期：2006-10-10 00:00:00

abstract：:A 38-year-old man from southeastern Connecticut developed a diffuse encephalopathy with partial complex seizures, followed weeks later by arthritis, cryoglobulinemia, and increased serum IgM. CT showed confluent low-density lesions in the deep cerebral white matter consistent with demyelination. Neither the encephalop...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Reik L Jr,Smith L,Khan A,Nelson W

更新日期：1985-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Brodmann brain maps, assembled in 1909, are still in use, but understanding of their animal-human homology is uncertain. Furthermore, in 1909, Brodmann did not identify human area 12 (BA12), a location now important to understanding of frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD). METHODS:We re-examined Brodman...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Kawamura M,Miller MW,Ichikawa H,Ishihara K,Sugimoto A

更新日期：2011-05-03 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the occurrence of neurologic complications in 23 patients who underwent gastric restriction surgery for the treatment of morbid obesity. Complications occurred 3 to 20 months after surgery. All the patients had had protracted vomiting for the first 3 months after the operation. The following syndromes were f...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Abarbanel JM,Berginer VM,Osimani A,Solomon H,Charuzi I

更新日期：1987-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Autonomic functions were studied after withdrawal of all medication in parkinsonian out-patients with short and long duration of disease and in age-matched healthy control subjects. Vagal heart control and noradrenergic response to standing were impaired and related to duration of symptoms of idiopathic parkinsonism. ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Orskov L,Jakobsen J,Dupont E,de Fine Olivarius B,Christensen NJ

更新日期：1987-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the effects of low-frequency transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) on motor cortex excitability in humans. TMS at 0.1 Hz for 1 hour did not change cortical excitability. Stimulation at 0.9 Hz for 15 minutes (810 pulses), similar to the parameters used to induce long-term depression (LTD) in cortical slice...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Chen R,Classen J,Gerloff C,Celnik P,Wassermann EM,Hallett M,Cohen LG

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We reviewed the outcome (developmental, neurologic, and seizure) and prognostic factors of 57 cases of infantile spasms (17 cryptogenic, 40 symptomatic). The mean developmental score of the cryptogenic group (71.2 +/- 24.2) was significantly higher than that of the symptomatic group (48.4 +/- 24.5), as assessed by the...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Koo B,Hwang PA,Logan WJ

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The study aims to examine α-synuclein in the CSF of patients with severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) and its relationship with clinical characteristics and long-term outcomes. METHODS:This prospective case-control study enrolled patients with severe TBI (Glasgow Coma Score ≤ 8) who underwent ventriculostomy...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Mondello S,Buki A,Italiano D,Jeromin A

更新日期：2013-04-30 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：:This cross-sectional mail survey evaluated the prevalence and predictors of unconventional therapy (UT) utilization among 569 community-based people with MS. One-third reported having visited a UT practitioner in the last 6 months. Utilizers tended to report at least one medical comorbidity, earn at least $50,000 a ye...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Schwartz CE,Laitin E,Brotman S,LaRocca N

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate possible leptomeningeal contrast enhancement using postcontrast fluid-attenuated inversion recovery (FLAIR) MRI as an additional marker of inflammation in patients with multiple sclerosis (MS). METHODS:A cohort of 112 patients (73 women) with clinically definitive MS or a clinically isolated s...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Eisele P,Griebe M,Szabo K,Wolf ME,Alonso A,Engelhardt B,Hennerici MG,Gass A

更新日期：2015-02-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Glycine encephalopathy, also known as nonketotic hyperglycinemia (NKH), is an autosomal recessive disorder caused by a defect in the glycine cleavage system. NKH is classically associated with neonatal apnea, lethargy, hypotonia, and seizures, followed by severe psychomotor retardation in those who survive. ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Hoover-Fong JE,Shah S,Van Hove JL,Applegarth D,Toone J,Hamosh A

更新日期：2004-11-23 00:00:00