A prion protein missense variant is integrated in kuru plaque cores in patients with Gerstmann-Sträussler syndrome.

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Evidence of a relation between use of lipid lowering drugs and cognitive outcomes is mixed. This study aimed to test the association between use of statins and incidence of dementia and cognitive impairment without dementia (CIND) over 5 years of follow-up. METHODS:Data were from a population-based cohort st...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Cramer C,Haan MN,Galea S,Langa KM,Kalbfleisch JD

更新日期：2008-07-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Huntington's disease (HD) is a fatal and progressive neurodegenerative disease that is accompanied by involuntary movements, cognitive dysfunction, and psychiatric symptoms. Although progressive striatal degeneration is known to occur, little is known about how the disease affects the cortex, including which...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Rosas HD,Liu AK,Hersch S,Glessner M,Ferrante RJ,Salat DH,van der Kouwe A,Jenkins BG,Dale AM,Fischl B

更新日期：2002-03-12 00:00:00

abstract：:We applied quantitative methods to measure extrapyramidal signs in 50 Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients and 40 age-matched control subjects. We measured tremor using accelerometers, bradykinesia using computer-detected reaction times (RTs) and movement times (MTs), and rigidity using a strain gauge linked to a movable...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Kischka U,Mandir AS,Ghika J,Growdon JH

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a series of 100 patients exhibiting clinical and molecular features of facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHMD), five patients had conduction defects or arrhythmia in the absence of cardiovascular risk factors--namely, intraventricular conduction delay and supraventricular arrhythmia induced by electrophysiol...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Laforêt P,de Toma C,Eymard B,Becane HM,Jeanpierre M,Fardeau M,Duboc D

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine the usefulness of the 14-3-3 test in patients with dementia of various causes. BACKGROUND:Recent reports have suggested that the detection of the 14-3-3 protein in the CSF of patients with Creutzfeldt--Jakob disease is a highly sensitive and specific marker of the disease that might be used as a...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Burkhard PR,Sanchez JC,Landis T,Hochstrasser DF

更新日期：2001-06-12 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine the patterns of diffusivity associated with cognitive domain functions in older adults without dementia. METHODS:We studied older adults without dementia (n = 220) who underwent neuropsychometric testing and a diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) examination at 3 T in a cross-sectional study. Memory, ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Kantarci K,Senjem ML,Avula R,Zhang B,Samikoglu AR,Weigand SD,Przybelski SA,Edmonson HA,Vemuri P,Knopman DS,Boeve BF,Ivnik RJ,Smith GE,Petersen RC,Jack CR Jr

更新日期：2011-07-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The goal of pharmacologic therapy for patients with epilepsy is to suppress seizures without side effects. There is growing interest in developing antiepileptogenic drugs capable of preventing the onset of seizures in patients at high risk and inducing a permanent remission of seizures in patients with epilepsy, i.e.,...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Schachter SC

更新日期：2002-11-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurologic complications of brain tissue-derived rabies vaccine may be chronic or progressive. Lymphocytes and serum from three patients with this form of encephalitis were studied. Two patients had positive lymphoproliferation to purified myelin, two had antibody to white matter, and one had antibody to myelin basic ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Hemachudha T,Griffin DE,Johnson RT,Giffels JJ

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Motivationally responsive motor deficits may occur in isolation or as part of more general neglect syndromes. We describe three patients with two discrete syndromes of isolated motor neglect, differentiated primarily by their performance in motor tasks enacted within or toward the contralesional hemispace. The lesions...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Simon ES,Hegarty AM,Mehler MF

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The objective of the present work is to examine images of the brain dissection by Flemish-born anatomist Andreas Vesalius (1514-1564) as originally represented in the Fabrica (1543), and later copied without Vesalius' permission by Spanish anatomist Juan Valverde de Hamusco (c1525-c1587) in Historia de la com...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Lanska DJ,Lanska JR

更新日期：2013-02-26 00:00:00

abstract：:We identified the cytokines interleukin-1 beta (IL-1 beta), tumor necrosis factor (TNF), and interleukin-6 (IL-6) by specific radioimmunoassays in the CSF of patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) and other neurologic diseases (OND). There was a high incidence of detectable IL-1 beta in patients with active MS compared...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Hauser SL,Doolittle TH,Lincoln R,Brown RH,Dinarello CA

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The state-of-the-art tools of neurology, in particular modern neuroimaging techniques, have yet to benefit from the revolution in mobile technologies that provide new insights into the mechanisms underlying clinical syndromes. This study demonstrates the manner in which mobile technologies may provide informa...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Lassalle-Lagadec S,Allard M,Dilharreguy B,Schweitzer P,Swendsen J,Sibon I

更新日期：2012-01-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Anti-Leu 7 antibody reacts with determinants on a subset of natural killer (NK) cells and myelin-associated glycoprotein (MAG). In a patient patient with peripheral neuropathy and IgM autoantibodies against MAG, we found the distribution and functions of NK cells to be normal. ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Sriram S,Lanier L

更新日期：1986-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine the incidence of spinocerebellar ataxia (SCA) types 1, 2, 3, 6, and 7 and Friedreich's ataxia (FA) among a large panel of ataxia families. BACKGROUND:The ataxias are a clinically and genetically heterogeneous group of neurodegenerative diseases that variably affect the cerebellum, brainstem, and...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Moseley ML,Benzow KA,Schut LJ,Bird TD,Gomez CM,Barkhaus PE,Blindauer KA,Labuda M,Pandolfo M,Koob MD,Ranum LP

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the aftermath of an acute cardiovascular event such as stroke, patients and families frequently ask whether preceding circumstances such as viral illnesses, stress, and other medical or surgical events brought on the disease. Although it seems intuitive to patients and families that acute precipitants or disease tr...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Jeerakathil T,Lo W

更新日期：2014-03-18 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:We conducted a nationwide case-control study in Sweden to test the hypothesis that specific clinical characteristics are associated with increased risk of sudden unexpected death in epilepsy (SUDEP). METHODS:The study included 255 SUDEP cases (definite and probable) and 1,148 matched controls. Clinical infor...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Sveinsson O,Andersson T,Mattsson P,Carlsson S,Tomson T

更新日期：2020-01-28 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：:Vasospasm is the leading cause of death and disability in patients with aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH). Transcranial Doppler ultrasonography (TCD) can detect the arterial narrowing noninvasively, but the sensitivity and specificity of this technique have not been reported in a population of patients with a h...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Sloan MA,Haley EC Jr,Kassell NF,Henry ML,Stewart SR,Beskin RR,Sevilla EA,Torner JC

更新日期：1989-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To reassess the evidence for management issues related to the care of women with epilepsy (WWE) during pregnancy, including preconceptional folic acid use, prenatal vitamin K use, risk of hemorrhagic disease of the newborn, clinical implications of placental and breast milk transfer of antiepileptic drugs (AE...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Harden CL,Pennell PB,Koppel BS,Hovinga CA,Gidal B,Meador KJ,Hopp J,Ting TY,Hauser WA,Thurman D,Kaplan PW,Robinson JN,French JA,Wiebe S,Wilner AN,Vazquez B,Holmes L,Krumholz A,Finnell R,Shafer PO,Le Guen C,Americ

更新日期：2009-07-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Since the introduction of computed tomography (CT), there have been numerous reports of brain abscess treated successfully without surgery. Because pathologic confirmation was lacking in these patients, diagnosis was based on CT abnormalities, usually ring enhancement. However, our recent clinical experience and the e...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Dobkin JF,Healton EB,Dickinson PC,Brust JC

更新日期：1984-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Elevated serum retinol, CSF retinol, and serum retinol binding protein (RBP) levels have been found in some patients with idiopathic intracranial hypertension (IIH), but serum and CSF retinol levels have not been studied in matched serum and CSF samples in patients with IIH. OBJECTIVE:To determine whether s...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Tabassi A,Salmasi AH,Jalali M

更新日期：2005-06-14 00:00:00

abstract：:There was a report of spongiform encephalopathy transmitted to Syrian hamsters by intracerebral inoculation with the blood buffy coat of patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) and their unaffected first-degree relatives. We attempted to verify that report, taking measures to reduce the risk of contaminating samples wi...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Godec MS,Asher DM,Kozachuk WE,Masters CL,Rubi JU,Payne JA,Rubi-Villa DJ,Wagner EE,Rapoport SI,Schapiro MB

更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the relationship between the rate of motor response after a standard levodopa oral dose and drug dynamic variables and disease-related factors in 66 patients with Parkinson's disease. Time to maximum finger tapping effect was positively correlated with matched duration of levodopa dose response and fel...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Contin M,Riva R,Martinelli P,Triggs EJ,Albani F,Baruzzi A

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The Quality Standards Subcommittee of the American Academy of Neurology and the Practice Committee of the Child Neurology Society develop practice parameters as strategies for patient management based on analysis of evidence. For this parameter, the authors reviewed available evidence on the evaluation of the...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Lewis DW,Ashwal S,Dahl G,Dorbad D,Hirtz D,Prensky A,Jarjour I,Quality Standards Subcommittee of the American Academy of Neurology.,Practice Committee of the Child Neurology Society.

更新日期：2002-08-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasma levels of six short-chain fatty acids (SCFA) were measured in 23 Reye's syndrome patients. In sequential measurements, only propionic acid correlated closely with neurologic severity. Although admission SCFA levels were slightly elevated, there were no significant differences between patients grouped by severit...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： McArthur B,Sarnaik AP,Mitchell RA

更新日期：1984-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Behavioral testing following division of the corpus callosum has shown that the anterior commissure can transfer information related to visual tasks interhemispherically in nonhuman primates but not in humans. We have found that the ratio of anterior commissure cross-sectional area to total neocortical commissural are...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Foxman BT,Oppenheim J,Petito CK,Gazzaniga MS

更新日期：1986-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To characterize comorbid chronic conditions, describe health services use, and estimate health care costs among community-dwelling older adults with prior stroke. METHODS:This is a retrospective cohort study using administrative data from Ontario, Canada. We identified all community-dwelling individuals aged...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Gruneir A,Griffith LE,Fisher K,Panjwani D,Gandhi S,Sheng L,Patterson C,Gafni A,Ploeg J,Markle-Reid M

更新日期：2016-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To define a clinical syndrome associated with active drug abuse in HIV-infected individuals. METHODS:We performed a retrospective review to identify individuals treated at the Johns Hopkins Hospital from 1993 to 2008 who were HIV-infected and were actively abusing drugs and had bilateral basal ganglia lesion...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Newsome SD,Johnson E,Pardo C,McArthur JC,Nath A

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess dyskinesia frequency in a population-based cohort of patients with Parkinson disease (PD). Dyskinesia complicates levodopa treatment and affects quality of life. METHODS:Utilizing the 1991-2010 population-based, parkinsonism-incident cohort of Olmsted County, MN (n = 669), accessed via the Rocheste...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Turcano P,Mielke MM,Bower JH,Parisi JE,Cutsforth-Gregory JK,Ahlskog JE,Savica R

更新日期：2018-12-11 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To conduct a validation study of 123I-N-fluoropropyl-2b-carbomethoxy-3b-(4-iodophenyl) nortropane (123I-FP-CIT) SPECT dopaminergic imaging in the clinical diagnosis of dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) with autopsy as the gold standard. METHODS:Patients >60 years of age with dementia who had undergone 123I-FP-...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Thomas AJ,Attems J,Colloby SJ,O'Brien JT,McKeith I,Walker R,Lee L,Burn D,Lett DJ,Walker Z

更新日期：2017-01-17 00:00:00