[Involvement of the central nervous system in cysticercosis].

abstract：:There is much controversy about the importance of the electroencephalogram (EEG) in assessing the attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). The objective of this study was to assess the use of EEG and quantitative EEG (qEEG) in ADHD children. Thirty ADHD children and 30 sex- and age-matched controls with no neu...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Fonseca LC,Tedrus GM,Moraes Cd,Vicente Machado Ad,Almeida MP,Oliveira DO

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic poses a potential threat to patients with autoimmune disorders, including multiple sclerosis (MS) and neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder (NMOSD). Such patients are usually treated with immunomodulatory or immunosuppressive agents, which may tamper wi...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： ApÓstolos-Pereira SL,Silva GD,Disserol CCD,Feo LB,Matos AMB,Schoeps VA,Gomes ABAGR,Boaventura M,Mendes MF,Callegaro D

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Major depression have been associated with cortisol and dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) changes in old depressed patients. We examined the association between depression, cortisol, and DHEA, correcting for confounding variables, including physical capacity. In addition, the association between hormone levels an...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Moraes H,Deslandes A,Maciel-Pinheiro Pde T,Corrêa H,Laks J

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The degree of depression in 88 abandoned children was analysed through a depression rating scale adapted to prepubertal children. The items were grouped into three dimensions: sociological-relational, psychological and biological. In 46 children from this sample it was dosed plasmatic cortisol and the urinary excretio...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Queiroz EA,Lombardi AB,Furtado CR,Peixoto CC,Soares TA,Fabre ZL,Basques JC,Fernandes ML,Lippi JR

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Tonic spasms have been most commonly associated with multiple sclerosis. To date, few reports of series of patients with neuromyelitis optica and tonic spasms have been published. METHODS:We analyzed the characteristics and frequency of tonic spasms in 19 subjects with neuromyelitis optica. Data was collect...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Abaroa L,Rodríguez-Quiroga SA,Melamud L,Arakaki T,Garretto NS,Villa AM

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate spectral analysis of electroencephalograms (EEG) for the alpha frequency band during rest and cognitive stimulation in healthy adults and individuals with mild cognitive impairment. METHOD:We analyzed 56 EEGs from 28 patients, 7 men and 21 women, 12 of whom (40%) were controls, 16 patients wit...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Schmidt MT,Anghinah R,Basile LF,Forlenza O,Gattaz WF

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thromboembolism is the most frequent complication in endovascular treatment of intracranial aneurysms, causing disability and death. As stent retrievers have achieved high rates of arterial recanalization in the management of ischemic stroke, these devices were tested as rescue therapy of thromboembolism during aneury...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Demartini Junior Z,Gatto LAM,Koppe GL,Oliveira TFVH,Francisco AN

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a population of 2307 children, 69 (2.99%) showed in the EEG high-voltage evoked potentials (evoked spikes) elicited by tapping on the feet or hands. Febrile convulsions were mentioned in 226 cases, and 13 of them showed the evoked spikes in the EEG and were otherwise neurologically and psychologically normal. Assoc...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Fonseca LC,Tedrus GM

更新日期：1988-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Idiopathic Parkinson's disease (PD) is characterized by reduced nigrostriatal and cortical dopaminergic influence, with changes in movement and, subsequently, behavioral and cognitive disturbances. We studied cognitive impairment in Parkinson's disease by assessing a group of 30 idiopathic Parkinson's disease patients...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Piovezan MR,Teive HA,Piovesan EJ,Mader MJ,Werneck LC

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A patient who has a nemesis fear as the basic process in his psychoneurosis feels that he is destined to repeat the life course of one of his parents to eventual long-term psychosis, or incapacitating physical illness or death by illness or accident. He feels that this will occur at about the same age as that at which...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Chapman AH,Chapman-Santana M,Vieira e Silva D

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To describe the clinical outcome and the complications of bacterial meningitis according to birth weight of out born neonates admitted in intensive care unit during an 11 year-period. METHOD:Eighty-seven newborns were studied. Thirty-four infants were low birth weight newborn and 53 presented birth weight >o...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Krebs VL,Costa GA

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Changes in cardiac rhythm may occur during epileptic seizures and this has been suggested as a possible mechanism for sudden unexpected death amongst patients with chronic epilepsy (SUDEP). We have studied ECG changes during 61 complex partial seizures of temporal lobe origin in 20 patients. Tachycardia was observed i...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Li LM,Roche J,Sander JW

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The prevalence of excessive daytime sleepiness (EDS) in general population was determined by means of 408 home interviews of adults, in a representative sample of Campo Grande city, Brazil. The random sample was stratified by sex, age and economic social status. EDS was considered in those with indexes 11 or more in t...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Souza JC,Magna LA,Reimao R

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors present a case of acute subdural haematoma evacuated in the presence of a coagulopathy. Some elements necessary for the understanding of the etiopathogenesis of the disease are discussed. ...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Cavalcanti CE,Jansen E

更新日期：1985-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurosonological studies, specifically transcranial Doppler (TCD) and transcranial color-coded duplex (TCCD), have high level of specificity and sensitivity and they are used as complementary tests for the diagnosis of brain death (BD). A group of experts, from the Neurosonology Department of the Brazilian Academy of ...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Lange MC,Zétola VH,Miranda-Alves M,Moro CH,Silvado CE,Rodrigues DL,Gregorio EG,Silva GS,Oliveira-Filho J,Perdatella MT,Pontes-Neto OM,Fábio SR,Avelar WM,Freitas GR,Task Force Group of the Neurosonology Department, Brazilian A

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Paroxysmal choreoathetosis (PC) is a rare entity, and professionals who study movement disorders do not find it easily. Paroxysmal occurrence of dystonic, choreic, athetosic movements is the typical feature of this syndrome. The onset is always subtle and the attacks can last from few seconds to hours. Sporadic cases ...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Carrilho PE,Barbosa ER,Haddad MS,Comerlatti LR,Limongi JC,Scaff M

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alternative surgical procedures to treat unclippable aneurysms of the intracavernous carotid artery include proximal vessel occlusion and trapping. Those techniques, even in patients with rich collateral vessels, are associated with risk of hemodynamic compromise and ischemic complications. Therefore, a safe treatment...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Azevedo Filho H,Martins C,Carvalho A,Geraldo S,Grassi G,Cardoso C,Vilaça G,Rodrigues C

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Stroke often leads to abnormalities in muscle tone, posture, and motor control that may compromise voluntary motor function, thus affecting the motor control required for maintaining the synergy of both peripheral and respiratory muscles. To evaluate respiratory muscle strength, pulmonary function, trunk cont...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Santos RSD,Dall'alba SCF,Forgiarini SGI,Rossato D,Dias AS,Forgiarini Junior LA

更新日期：2019-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Jean-Martin Charcot (1825-1893), recognized as the founder of Neurology and the first formal teacher of nervous system diseases, died on August 16, 1893, from acute pulmonary edema secondary to myocardial infarction. In his last years, there were several descriptions of his gait and posture disorders, suggesting the d...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Teive HA,Germiniani FM,Munhoz RP

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 42 year-old woman developed paraplegia that resolved in six months, followed by sudden right hemiparesis and dysphasia two years later. The clinical work-up, including CT and MR scans, visual evoked potential, CSF examination and cerebral biopsy suggested the possibility of either multiple sclerosis or multiphasic d...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Maranhäo-Filho PA

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Apnea test is a crucial requirement for determining the diagnosis of brain death (BD). There are few reports considering clinical complications during this procedure. We describe a major complication during performing the apnea test. We also analyse their practical and legal implications, and review the complications ...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Saposnik G,Rizzo G,Deluca JL

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of the present investigation was to study the general characteristics of a population of 209 patients with peripheral neuropathies seen at the University Hospital of Ribeirão Preto from March 1985 to February 1987. Few studies have been devoted to the evaluation of patients in order to investigate the fa...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Marques Júnior W,Barreira AA

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this study was to determine the frequency of occurrence and to characterize the typology of dysfluencies in individuals with Parkinson's disease (PD), including the variables age, gender, schooling, disease duration, score on the Hoehn and Yahr scale and cognitive status (score on Mini-Mental State Ex...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Brabo NC,Minett TS,Ortiz KZ

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess the functional capacity and to determine the difference between the means of functional capacity (basic and instrumental activities of daily living) and the age groups of elderly residents in an outlying area in the hinterland of Bahia/Northeast of Brazil. METHOD:Analytical study with cross-section...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Torres Gde V,Reis LA,Reis LA

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES:Surgical treatment of cervical radiculopathy with or without myelopathy is a controversy issue, although anterior discectomy is the most common form of treatment. METHOD:We present the evaluation of the arthrodesis' rate and cervical alignment in 48 patients with cervical degenerative disease...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Mudo ML,Amantea AV,Joaquim AF,Prandini MN,Cavalheiro S

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Emphasis is placed in the difficulty in conceptualizing sexuality as a complex and controversial subject. This is a presentation of a concept based on freudian psychoanalysis. With this in mind, many of Freud's references are collected from the Brazilian Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund ...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Bearzoti P

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A child, who had undergone ventriculoperitoneal shunting, presented with repeated episodes of pneumonia and expectoration of CSF. Chest x-ray demonstrated the presence of the shunt catheter in the base of the left lung. In the present case the distal end of the catheter perforated the diaphragm, entering the thoracic ...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Ferreira NP,Costa DM Jr,Flores JA

更新日期：1980-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We conducted a 320 year retrospective survey of the history and genealogy of a large Brazilian family with SCA7. The ancestral couple was from the State of Ceará, Brazil, and the genealogical tree was composed of 577 individuals, including 217 males (37.6%), 255 females (44.1%) and 105 individuals of unknown sex (18.1...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： da Cunha Linhares S,Horta WG,Marques Júnior W

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:The temporal branch of the facial nerve is particularly vulnerable to traumatic injuries during surgical procedures. It may also be affected in clinical conditions. Electrodiagnostic studies may add additional information about the type and severity of injuries, thus allowing prognostic inferences. The objec...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Silva PF,Lima MC,Figueiroa JN,Lins OG

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is associated with school failure. Inattention has been mainly implicated for this association. Oppositional-defiant disorder's (ODD) impact on academic performance remains controversial, because of the high comorbidity between ODD and ADHD. OBJECTIVE:To under...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Serra-Pinheiro MA,Mattos P,Regalla MA,de Souza I,Paixão C

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00