Hippocampal atrophy rates in Alzheimer disease: added value over whole brain volume measures.

abstract：:Machado-Joseph disease is a dominantly inherited, multisystem, degenerative disorder that lacks a proven genetic marker. Peripheral nerve conduction-refractory period, sensory evoked potentials, and quantified oculomotor recordings were studied in nine patients affected with this disease to look for a potential physio...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Hotson JR,Langston EB,Louis AA,Rosenberg RN

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When 251 relapsing-remitting patients with multiple sclerosis were randomized to receive daily subcutaneous injections of glatiramer acetate, previously called copolymer 1 (Copaxone; n = 125) or placebo (n = 126) for 24 months, there were no laboratory abnormalities associated with glatiramer acetate treatment and it ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Johnson KP,Brooks BR,Cohen JA,Ford CC,Goldstein J,Lisak RP,Myers LW,Panitch HS,Rose JW,Schiffer RB,Vollmer T,Weiner LP,Wolinsky JS

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine the prevalence, incidence, and predictors of epilepsy among older adults in the Cardiovascular Health Study (CHS). METHODS:We analyzed data prospectively collected in CHS and merged with data from outpatient Medicare administrative claims. We identified cases with epilepsy using self-report, ant...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Choi H,Pack A,Elkind MS,Longstreth WT Jr,Ton TG,Onchiri F

更新日期：2017-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Bee sting therapy is increasingly used to treat patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) in the belief that it can stabilize or ameliorate the disease. However, there are no clinical studies to justify its use. METHODS:In a randomized, crossover study, we assigned 26 patients with relapsing-remitting or relaps...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Wesselius T,Heersema DJ,Mostert JP,Heerings M,Admiraal-Behloul F,Talebian A,van Buchem MA,De Keyser J

更新日期：2005-12-13 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate clinical and economic consequences following generic substitution of one vs multiple generics of topiramate (Topamax; Ortho-McNeil Neurologics, Titusville, NJ). METHODS:Medical and pharmacy claims data of Régie de l'Assurance-Maladie du Québec from January 2006 to October 2007 were used. Patie...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Duh MS,Paradis PE,Latrémouille-Viau D,Greenberg PE,Lee SP,Durkin MB,Wan GJ,Rupnow MF,LeLorier J

更新日期：2009-06-16 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To compare the proportion of APOE ε4 genotype carriers in aphasic vs amnestic variants of Alzheimer disease (AD). METHOD:The proportion of APOE ε4 carriers was compared among the following 3 groups: (1) 42 patients with primary progressive aphasia (PPA) and AD pathology (PPA/AD) enrolled in the Northwestern ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Weintraub S,Teylan M,Rader B,Chan KCG,Bollenbeck M,Kukull WA,Coventry C,Rogalski E,Bigio E,Mesulam MM

更新日期：2020-02-11 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To analyze the associations between cardiovascular fitness at age 18 years and future risk of epilepsy. METHODS:Population-based cohort study of Swedish male conscripts (n = 1,173,079) born in 1950-1987, who were followed for up to 40 years. Data on cardiovascular fitness were collected during conscription e...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Nyberg J,Aberg MA,Torén K,Nilsson M,Ben-Menachem E,Kuhn HG

更新日期：2013-09-17 00:00:00

abstract：:We measured the duration and amplitude of saccades in three normal subjects, eight patients with myasthenia gravis, and eight patients with nonmyasthenic ocular palsies. Saccades were examined at the start of a repetitive saccade task, after 3 minutes of activity, and 1 minute after administration of edrophonium. The ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Barton JJ,Jama A,Sharpe JA

更新日期：1995-11-01 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：OBJECTIVES:Assuming the involvement of homocysteine in a generalized small-vessel disease, we investigated the association of homocysteine levels with progression of white matter lesions, lacunar infarcts, and kidney disease. METHODS:Within the SMART-MR (Second Manifestations of ARTerial disease-Magnetic Resonance) St...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Kloppenborg RP,Geerlings MI,Visseren FL,Mali WP,Vermeulen M,van der Graaf Y,Nederkoorn PJ,SMART Study Group.

更新日期：2014-03-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Because Hughlings Jackson directed that his personal documents be destroyed upon his death, none of his own clinical records are known. However, we have discovered several pages of notes in the Royal London Hospital Archive written in 1893 by Jackson to his House Physician at Queen Square concerning his proposals for ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Swash M,Evans J

更新日期：2006-08-22 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a Jewish family of Yemenite origin in which three brothers born from a consanguineous marriage had juvenile parkinsonism. The DNA samples from three affected brothers and one healthy brother were analyzed for the linkage to markers covering the autosomal-recessive juvenile parkinsonism (AR-JP) locus. A perfe...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Nisipeanu P,Inzelberg R,Blumen SC,Carasso RL,Hattori N,Matsumine H,Mizuno Y

更新日期：1999-10-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Abnormal insulin metabolism may contribute to the clinical symptoms and pathophysiology of AD. In vitro studies show that insulin enhances the release of beta-amyloid protein (Abeta) or inhibits its degradation, either of which might increase amyloid burden. METHODS:On separate mornings, 16 healthy older ad...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Watson GS,Peskind ER,Asthana S,Purganan K,Wait C,Chapman D,Schwartz MW,Plymate S,Craft S

更新日期：2003-06-24 00:00:00

abstract：:About one-third of patients with acoustic tumor (AT) initially seek medical attention for nonaudiologic complaints. The nonspecific early symptoms of AT require the inclusion of AT in many neurologic differential diagnoses. Advances in electrophysiologic and radiographic tests have allowed earlier diagnosis of AT at a...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Hart RG,Gardner DP,Howieson J

更新日期：1983-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a longitudinal follow-up study on six patients with chronic manganese-induced parkinsonism following cessation of manganese exposure. Compared with the 1987 study, their parkinsonian symptoms showed a slow progression, particularly in gait disturbances such as freezing during turning and walking backward wit...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Huang CC,Lu CS,Chu NS,Hochberg F,Lilienfeld D,Olanow W,Calne DB

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pathologic substrate of essential tremor (ET) remains unknown. The authors studied 10 patients with ET and 10 volunteers using a multislice MR spectroscopy imaging sequence. Left and right cerebellar hemisphere NAA/CR and NAA/Cho ratios were significantly smaller in the ET patients than healthy subjects. The autho...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Pagan FL,Butman JA,Dambrosia JM,Hallett M

更新日期：2003-04-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The frequency of recurrent cerebral ischemia and death was determined prospectively in 36 patients who presented with ischemic stroke and had atrial fibrillation. Patients were followed an average of 2.3 months (range, 3 weeks to 9 months). The recurrence rate for cerebral ischemia was 33%, and the mortality rate was ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Kelley RE,Berger JR,Alter M,Kovacs AG

更新日期：1984-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To report long-term safety and efficacy outcomes of a large cohort of patients with medically refractory isolated dystonia treated with subthalamic nucleus (STN) deep brain stimulation (DBS). METHODS:Twenty patients (12 male, 8 female; mean age 49 ± 16.3 years) with medically refractory isolated dystonia wer...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Ostrem JL,San Luciano M,Dodenhoff KA,Ziman N,Markun LC,Racine CA,de Hemptinne C,Volz MM,Heath SL,Starr PA

更新日期：2017-01-03 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the utility of "clinic room" case presentation in the ambulatory care setting. BACKGROUND:Neurology is increasingly an outpatient specialty. The transition from ward to clinic presents challenges for student and resident education. Interaction between attending physician and trainee is limited by...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Smith AG,Bromberg MB,Singleton JR,Forshew DA

更新日期：1999-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the clinical and neuroimaging findings of a mother and daughter with seizure disorders and band heterotopias seen on magnetic resonance imaging studies. These clinicoradiologic findings simulate those for a diagnosis of tuberous sclerosis complex. Clinicians should be aware of this migrational anomaly and it...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： DiMario FJ Jr,Cobb RJ,Ramsby GR,Leicher C

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 47 patients with Parkinson's disease, we studied the visual evoked potential (VEP) using the pattern-reversal checkerboard (CBVEP) and the grating (GVEP) stimuli before and after 3 months of L-dopa therapy. The P100 latency in both CBVEP and GVEP was prolonged before L-dopa therapy, usually commensurate with the de...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Bhaskar PA,Vanchilingam S,Bhaskar EA,Devaprabhu A,Ganesan RA

更新日期：1986-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To test the hypothesis that physical activity modifies the association between white matter hyperintensity (WMH) burden and motor function in healthy older persons without dementia. METHODS:Total daily activity (exercise and nonexercise physical activity) was measured for up to 11 days with actigraphy (Actic...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Fleischman DA,Yang J,Arfanakis K,Arvanitakis Z,Leurgans SE,Turner AD,Barnes LL,Bennett DA,Buchman AS

更新日期：2015-03-31 00:00:00

abstract：:The intracarotid amobarbital test (IAT) examines hemispheric memory and language. We set out to determine whether memory performance on the IAT correlated with seizure relief after anterior temporal lobectomy in 117 patients with refractory epilepsy. The IAT assessed recognition memory performance for nine items with ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Sperling MR,Saykin AJ,Glosser G,Moran M,French JA,Brooks M,O'Connor MJ

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:We sought to identify rare variants influencing brain imaging phenotypes in the Framingham Heart Study by performing whole genome sequence association analyses within the Trans-Omics for Precision Medicine Program. METHODS:We performed association analyses of cerebral and hippocampal volumes and white matter...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Sarnowski C,Satizabal CL,DeCarli C,Pitsillides AN,Cupples LA,Vasan RS,Wilson JG,Bis JC,Fornage M,Beiser AS,DeStefano AL,Dupuis J,Seshadri S,NHLBI Trans-Omics for Precision Medicine (TOPMed) Consortium.,TOPMed Neurocognitive W

更新日期：2018-01-16 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To accurately define the electroclinical features of absence seizures in children with newly diagnosed, untreated childhood absence epilepsy (CAE). METHODS:The authors searched an EEG database for absence seizures in normal children with new onset untreated absence epilepsy. Seventy consecutive children were...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Sadleir LG,Farrell K,Smith S,Connolly MB,Scheffer IE

更新日期：2006-08-08 00:00:00

abstract：:In seven of eight patients with progressive multiple sclerosis subjected to long-term plasmapheresis in combination with azathioprine and pulsed prednisone therapy, we found modest improvement of neurologic function. There was no change in auditory and visual evoked responses or serum demyelinating activity. In six of...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Dau PC,Petajan JH,Johnson KP,Panitch HS,Bornstein MB

更新日期：1980-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Unilateral temporoparietal injury may result in an attentional deficit for stimuli presented in contralesional space. Thus, bilateral temporoparietal degeneration associated with Alzheimer disease (AD) might result in a bilateral attentional disturbance. Tests for hemispatial neglect, however, primarily asses...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Kim EJ,Lee BH,Seo SW,Moon SY,Jung DS,Park KH,Heilman KM,Na DL

更新日期：2007-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine whether groups of surrogates for patients with severe acute brain injury (SABI) with poor prognosis can be identified based on their prioritization of goals-of-care (GOC) decisional concerns, an online survey of 1,588 adults recruited via a probability-based panel representative of the US populat...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Hwang DY,Knies AK,Mampre D,Kolenikov S,Schalk M,Hammer H,White DB,Holloway RG,Sheth KN,Fraenkel L

更新日期：2020-05-12 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To test the diagnostic accuracy of the horizontal head impulse test (h-HIT) of vestibulo-ocular reflex (VOR) function in distinguishing acute peripheral vestibulopathy (APV) from stroke. Most patients with acute vertigo, nausea/vomiting, and unsteady gait have benign APV (vestibular neuritis or labyrinthitis)...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Newman-Toker DE,Kattah JC,Alvernia JE,Wang DZ

更新日期：2008-06-10 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To characterize children with new-onset seizures presenting as status epilepticus at a tertiary care children's hospital. METHODS:Prospectively collected data were reviewed from a database derived from a mandated critical care pathway. A total of 1,382 patients presented with new-onset seizures between 2001 ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Singh RK,Stephens S,Berl MM,Chang T,Brown K,Vezina LG,Gaillard WD

更新日期：2010-02-23 00:00:00