Auditory and tactile processing in a postmeningitic deaf-blind patient with a cochlear implant.

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Eleven genetic loci have reached genome-wide significance in a recent meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies in Parkinson disease (PD) based on populations of Caucasian descent. The extent to which these genetic effects are consistent across different populations is unknown. METHODS:Investigators f...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Sharma M,Ioannidis JP,Aasly JO,Annesi G,Brice A,Van Broeckhoven C,Bertram L,Bozi M,Crosiers D,Clarke C,Facheris M,Farrer M,Garraux G,Gispert S,Auburger G,Vilariño-Güell C,Hadjigeorgiou GM,Hicks AA,Hattori N,Jeon B,

更新日期：2012-08-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Weight gain has been recognized as an adverse effect of valproic acid therapy, but there are are no data about serum leptin levels in patients receiving this drug. To evaluate if valproic acid treatment in epileptic patients in whom obesity develops modifies serum levels of insulin and leptin, 40 female patients with ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Verrotti A,Basciani F,Morresi S,de Martino M,Morgese G,Chiarelli F

更新日期：1999-07-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors performed serial transcranial Doppler (TCD) and carbon dioxide reactivity (CO2R) testing in 20 aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage patients to determine whether impaired cerebrovascular reactivity was associated with symptomatic vasospasm. Symptomatic vasospasm occurred in 9 of 14 patients with abnormal CO2...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Frontera JA,Rundek T,Schmidt JM,Claassen J,Parra A,Wartenberg KE,Temes RE,Mayer SA,Mohr JP,Marshall RS

更新日期：2006-03-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Levodopa is the most effective drug treatment for Parkinson's disease (PD). However, its chronic use is associated with dyskinesia, motor fluctuations, and hallucinations. There are various approaches to the management of levodopa complications. Motor fluctuations can be treated with a long-acting levodopa preparation...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Jankovic J

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate whether the fornix and mamillary bodies, being part of the limbic system, are abnormal in patients with mesial temporal lobe epilepsy (MTLE). BACKGROUND:The limbic system comprises the hippocampal formation, fornix, mamillary bodies, thalamus, and other integrated structures. This system is im...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Kuzniecky R,Bilir E,Gilliam F,Faught E,Martin R,Hugg J

更新日期：1999-08-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Basic issues regarding factors influencing progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP) patient caregiver burden remain unresolved, including whether and how disease severity and duration influence caregiver burden. OBJECTIVE:To examine the relation between PSP patient caregiver burden and disease severity, describ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Uttl B,Santacruz P,Litvan I,Grafman J

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To test the hypothesis that brain pathology is associated with total daily physical activity proximate to death in older adults. METHODS:We studied brain autopsies from 428 decedents of the Rush Memory and Aging Project. The quantity of all physical activity was measured continuously for up to 10 days with a...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Buchman AS,Dawe RJ,Yu L,Lim A,Wilson RS,Schneider JA,Bennett DA

更新日期：2018-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Deep brain stimulation of the internal global pallidus (GPi) and the subthalamic nucleus (STN) has become a treatment alternative in advanced PD. Although the effects of GPi stimulation have been examined recently, little is known about STN stimulation effects on motor cortex excitability. METHODS:The effec...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Däuper J,Peschel T,Schrader C,Kohlmetz C,Joppich G,Nager W,Dengler R,Rollnik JD

更新日期：2002-09-10 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine whether pergolide, a mixed D1/D2/D3 dopamine agonist, is efficacious and safe in the treatment of children with chronic tic disorders and Tourette syndrome. BACKGROUND:Neuroleptics, which block dopamine transmission, are currently used to treat children with severe tics, but major side effects a...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Gilbert DL,Dure L,Sethuraman G,Raab D,Lane J,Sallee FR

更新日期：2003-02-25 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Alzheimer disease (AD) risk factors are present throughout the lifespan. This randomized controlled trial evaluated the effectiveness of various online education strategies concerning AD risk reduction and brain health in younger populations. METHOD:High school and college students were recruited via social ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Saif N,Niotis K,Dominguez M,Hodes JF,Woodbury M,Amini Y,Sadek G,Scheyer O,Caesar E,Hristov H,Knowlton N,Lee P,McInnis M,Isaacson RS

更新日期：2020-10-20 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine the association between traumatic brain injury (TBI) and any clinically diagnosed α-synucleinopathy including Parkinson disease (PD), dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB), PD dementia (PDD), and multiple system atrophy (MSA). METHODS:Using the medical records-linkage system of the Rochester Epidemiol...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Hasan S,Mielke MM,Turcano P,Ahlskog JE,Bower JH,Savica R

更新日期：2020-02-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The concept of earlier diagnosis of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) requires in-depth investigation of its benefits and consequences. First, how good must a treatment be before ALS is determined to be a treatable condition? Analogy with cancer therapy suggests that a good quality of life after treatment is an esse...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Brooks BR

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To compare access to caregiving between men and women with Parkinson disease (PD). METHODS:This was a cross-sectional and longitudinal study among participants with PD enrolled in the National Parkinson Foundation Parkinson's Outcomes Project from 2009 to 2014 at 21 international sites. The primary outcome m...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Dahodwala N,Shah K,He Y,Wu SS,Schmidt P,Cubillos F,Willis AW

更新日期：2018-01-02 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a woman with a chronic inflammatory myopathy who developed muscle stiffness and dystonic postures of both upper extremities. Electromyography demonstrated that involuntary complex repetitive discharges of muscle caused the posture. Rare cases of dystonic posturing may be of peripheral, and not central system...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Preston DC,Finkleman RS,Munsat TL

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stenosis or occlusion of the major arteries of the head and neck may cause hemodynamic impairment of the distal cerebral circulation. Hemodynamic factors may play an important role in the pathogenesis of ischemic stroke for patients with cerebrovascular disease. Several neuroimaging methods are currently available for...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Derdeyn CP,Grubb RL Jr,Powers WJ

更新日期：1999-07-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Fasciculations and cramps may occur in motor neuron disease or as part of a more benign syndrome. A man with apparently benign fasciculations and cramps for 4 years developed progressive muscle weakness and wasting. Such a previously undocumented evolution of benign fasciculations and cramps to motor neuron disease ma...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Fleet WS,Watson RT

更新日期：1986-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To perform a meta-analysis of 4 core CSF biomarkers (β-amyloid [Aβ]42, Aβ40, total tau [t-tau], and phosphorylated tau [p-tau]) to assess which of these are most altered in sporadic cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA). METHODS:We systematically searched PubMed for eligible studies reporting data on CSF biomark...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Charidimou A,Friedrich JO,Greenberg SM,Viswanathan A

更新日期：2018-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：:A kindred is described with a dominantly inherited "pure" cerebellar ataxia in which the currently known spinocerebellar ataxias have been excluded. In the eight subjects studied, a notable clinical feature is slow progression, with the three least affected having only a mild degree of gait ataxia after three or more ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Storey E,Gardner RJ,Knight MA,Kennerson ML,Tuck RR,Forrest SM,Nicholson GA

更新日期：2001-11-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:According to widely used criteria (Bohan and Peter criteria, 1975), dermatomyositis (DM) is differentiated from polymyositis (PM) only by skin changes. More recent criteria also include histopathologic characteristics enabling the distinction between PM and DM and the differentiation of sporadic inclusion bo...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： van der Meulen MF,Bronner IM,Hoogendijk JE,Burger H,van Venrooij WJ,Voskuyl AE,Dinant HJ,Linssen WH,Wokke JH,de Visser M

更新日期：2003-08-12 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：BACKGROUND:Few population-based studies with long-term follow-up have compared risk of recurrent stroke and cardiac events after first ischemic stroke. The relative risk of these two outcomes may inform treatment decisions. METHODS:In the population-based Northern Manhattan Study, first ischemic stroke patients age 40...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Dhamoon MS,Sciacca RR,Rundek T,Sacco RL,Elkind MS

更新日期：2006-03-14 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To describe the effects of the anti-tumor necrosis factor neutralizing antibody, infliximab, and the antiproliferative immunosuppressant, mycophenolate mofetil, in refractory neurosarcoidosis. METHODS:We treated patients with biopsy-proven sarcoidosis and CNS involvement, who had failed treatment with steroi...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Moravan M,Segal BM

更新日期：2009-01-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) is widely used in clinical practice, few norms exist for healthy populations covering a broad range of ages. OBJECTIVE:To obtain MMSE norms specific for age, gender, and education in healthy adults. METHODS:From the population registers of seven communities...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Grigoletto F,Zappalà G,Anderson DW,Lebowitz BD

更新日期：1999-07-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Ullrich disease is a form of congenital muscular dystrophy characterized clinically by generalized muscle weakness, contractures of the proximal joints, and hyperflexibility of the distal joints from birth or early infancy. Recently, mutations of the collagen VI gene have been associated with Ullrich disease. The auth...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Ishikawa H,Sugie K,Murayama K,Ito M,Minami N,Nishino I,Nonaka I

更新日期：2002-09-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The Finnish Twin Cohort includes all Finnish same-sexed twins born before 1958 and alive in 1967; the number of individuals alive in 1975 was 33,247. We performed a search for cases with Parkinson's disease among this cohort by linking the Twin Cohort Register with the Finnish Hospital Discharge Register and the Finni...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Marttila RJ,Kaprio J,Koskenvuo M,Rinne UK

更新日期：1988-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Studies have suggested that mood status is associated with an increased risk of stroke, though mostly based on measures of depression defined by symptoms alone rather than diagnostic criteria representative of clinically important distress and impairment. We investigated this association based upon a large p...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Surtees PG,Wainwright NW,Luben RN,Wareham NJ,Bingham SA,Khaw KT

更新日期：2008-03-04 00:00:00

abstract：:In thymomas associated with myasthenia gravis (MG), the authors found that perivascular infiltrates of memory lymphocytes and mature dendritic cells (DCs) were more frequent in patients with early improvement after thymectomy than in patients without response to thymectomy. Although these findings may be limited to pa...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Nagane Y,Utsugisawa K,Akutsu H,Sato Y,Terayama Y

更新日期：2005-09-13 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate whether subthalamic nucleus (STN) stimulation has an effect on the orthostatic regulation of patients with Parkinson disease (PD), we studied cardiovascular regulation during on and off phases of STN stimulation. METHODS:We examined 14 patients with PD (mean age 58.1 +/- 5.8 years, 4 women, 10 me...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Stemper B,Beric A,Welsch G,Haendl T,Sterio D,Hilz MJ

更新日期：2006-11-28 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the cerebral effects of oxygen-derived free radicals generated from the xanthine oxidase/hypoxanthine/ADP-Fe3+ system. Xanthine oxidase/hypoxanthine/ADP-Fe3+ solution (0.1 ml) was infused into caudate putamen, and brain was frozen rapidly in situ. Brain water and sodium content increased concomitant with de...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Chan PH,Schmidley JW,Fishman RA,Longar SM

更新日期：1984-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To study the anti-Schwann cell activity of serum from patients with Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS), we used a 51Cr-release cytotoxicity assay. Specific release of 51Cr mediated by GBS serum did not differ from that with normals or disease controls. Heating sera from GBS patients or controls at 56 or 50 degrees C for 30...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Lisak RP,Kuchmy D,Armati-Gulson PJ,Brown MJ,Sumner AJ

更新日期：1984-09-01 00:00:00