Positron emission tomography demonstrates frontal cortex and basal ganglia hypometabolism in dystonia.

abstract：OBJECTIVE:We aimed to assess sensitivity and specificity of the updated criteria for behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD) based on a large autopsy-confirmed cohort of patients with dementia. METHODS:Two hundred thirty-nine consecutive pathologically confirmed dementia patients, clinically assessed in a s...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Harris JM,Gall C,Thompson JC,Richardson AM,Neary D,du Plessis D,Pal P,Mann DM,Snowden JS,Jones M

更新日期：2013-05-14 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a family with an X-linked recessive disorder characterized by muscle cramps and myalgia. Nine affected male family members had high resting serum levels of creatine kinase, and well-developed musculature with calf hypertrophy but no evidence of muscular weakness. Symptoms began in childhood and did not progr...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Gospe SM Jr,Lazaro RP,Lava NS,Grootscholten PM,Scott MO,Fischbeck KH

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine the incidence and predictors of acute cerebral ischemia and neurologic deterioration in intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) patients after an institutional protocol change in systolic blood pressure (SBP) target from <160 to <140 mm Hg. METHODS:We retrospectively compared persons admitted with primar...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Buletko AB,Thacker T,Cho SM,Mathew J,Thompson NR,Organek N,Frontera JA,Uchino K

更新日期：2018-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：:A population-based case-control study in western Washington state was performed to assess the relation between head trauma and meningioma. Based on 200 case and 400 control subjects, head trauma was associated with an increased risk of meningioma (odds ratio = 1.83; 95% CI = 1.28, 2.62), especially head traumas occurr...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Phillips LE,Koepsell TD,van Belle G,Kukull WA,Gehrels JA,Longstreth WT Jr

更新日期：2002-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：:A 11-year-old boy of short stature had recurrent right temporal pounding headaches of 7 months' duration, and progressive visual loss for 3 days. There was a left hemianopia, alexia without agraphia, and diffuse muscle weakness. Investigation established the presence of a mitochondrial myopathy with pyruvate and lacti...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Skoglund RR

更新日期：1979-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clinical trials have demonstrated that risk of cardiovascular events may be reduced in patients with stroke, using blood pressure (BP) reduction and statin therapy, independently of the presence of specific risk factors. These results suggest an alternative approach to secondary stroke prevention, focused more on glob...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Elkind MS

更新日期：2005-07-12 00:00:00

abstract：:A term neonate was being treated with intravenous phenytoin. To maintain a serum level above 10 micrograms per milliliter and abolish seizure activity, it was necessary to carry out repeated serum concentration measurements, administer several loading doses, and administer an unusually large maintenance dose (25 mg pe...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Whelan HT,Hendeles L,Haberkern CM,Neims AH

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Antiretroviral therapy has improved survival for HIV-1-infected individuals. The neuroepidemiologic implications of HIV-1 in an aging population are not well known, particularly the prevalence of HIV-associated dementia (HAD). METHODS:The authors report a baseline cross-sectional analysis of 202 HIV-1-serop...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Valcour V,Shikuma C,Shiramizu B,Watters M,Poff P,Selnes O,Holck P,Grove J,Sacktor N

更新日期：2004-09-14 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a case of West Nile virus (WNV) infection in an HIV-infected patient who presented with an isolated flaccid monoparesis of the right upper extremity. To our knowledge, this is the first reported case of flaccid paralysis caused by WNV infection in an HIV-infected patient. We then review the medical literat...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Torno M,Vollmer M,Beck CK

更新日期：2007-02-13 00:00:00

abstract：:We analyzed EEGs performed over a 6-month period on patients with impaired consciousness following acute hypoxia or anoxia. There were 17 EEGs performed on 14 patients. Nine of the 17 records contained spindle activity. Spindles were present in 6/8 EEGs in stuporous patients, in 3/9 EEGs in comatose patients, in 6/10 ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Hulihan JF Jr,Syna DR

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To learn caregivers' preferences for the treatment of AD with a disease-slowing therapy, and to identify relationships between these preferences and the characteristics of caregivers and patients. METHODS:A structured interview with 40 caregivers of patients with AD. Preferences were measured for an AD-slow...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Karlawish JH,Klocinski JL,Merz J,Clark CM,Asch DA

更新日期：2000-10-10 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：BACKGROUND:The 1875 publications of Erb and Westphal brought widespread attention to the percussion of muscle stretch reflexes. Although the maneuver may have been observed before 1875, there is little concrete evidence of this. OBJECTIVES:To bring to light an early report of percussion eliciting the muscle stretch re...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Louis ED

更新日期：2008-03-18 00:00:00

abstract：:We followed 21 patients with sensory neuronopathy without evidence of cancer for up to 23 years. All were seronegative for type 1 antineuronal nuclear antibodies (ANNA-1, also called "anti-Hu"). We additionally studied 67 seropositive patients with sensory neuropathy or a related neurologic syndrome. Ninety-one percen...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Chalk CH,Lennon VA,Stevens JC,Windebank AJ

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three neuropathologists evaluated brain sections from 43 aged subjects for the presence of Alzheimer's disease. Moderate-to-substantial agreement was obtained. After discussion of disparate diagnoses, agreement was almost perfect for standardized and substantial for personal criteria. We conclude that reproducibility ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Paulus W,Bancher C,Jellinger K

更新日期：1992-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Co-morbid conditions frequently occur in childhood epilepsy and may significantly affect epilepsy and its treatment. Similarly, epilepsy and antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) may affect these associated conditions. Co-morbidities that have a significant association with childhood epilepsy include attention-deficit/hyperactiv...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Pellock JM

更新日期：2004-03-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The American Academy of Neurology Workforce Task Force (WFTF) report predicts a future shortfall of neurologists in the United States. The WFTF data also suggest that for most states, the current demand for neurologist services already exceeds the supply, and by 2025 the demand for neurologists will be even higher. Th...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Freeman WD,Vatz KA,Griggs RC,Pedley T

更新日期：2013-07-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic factors are important in Alzheimer disease (AD) and Parkinson disease but have not been well characterized in Lewy body dementia (LBD). The authors obtained family history in patients from an autopsy series of AD and LBD and in living healthy controls. A family history of dementia was more common in both LBD a...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Woodruff BK,Graff-Radford NR,Ferman TJ,Dickson DW,DeLucia MW,Crook JE,Arvanitakis Z,Brassler S,Waters C,Barker W,Duara R

更新日期：2006-06-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of phenytoin (PHT) concentration on the elimination rate of PHT was evaluated in infants, children, and young adults ranging in age from 1 day to 22 years. As PHT concentration increased, the effective half-life (t50%) increased. In eight children, age 7 months to 4.83 years with initial concentrations betw...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Dodson WE

更新日期：1980-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A patient with thymoma-associated neuromyotonia and voltage-gated potassium channel (Kv1.2 and Kv1.6) antibodies by immunoprecipitation and rat brain immunolabeling was treated successfully with immunoadsorption and cyclophosphamide. Curiously, glutamic acid decarboxylase antibodies, absent at onset, appeared later. S...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Antozzi C,Frassoni C,Vincent A,Regondi MC,Andreetta F,Bernasconi P,Ciano C,Chang T,Cornelio F,Spreafico R,Mantegazza R

更新日期：2005-04-12 00:00:00

abstract：:We retrospectively evaluated the neurologic complications in 425 patients who underwent bone marrow transplant (BMT) (310 allogeneic, 115 autologous) for leukemia. Forty-six patients (11%) developed 47 central and three peripheral neurologic complications. The most common complications were cerebral hemorrhage (3.8%),...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Graus F,Saiz A,Sierra J,Arbaiza D,Rovira M,Carreras E,Tolosa E,Rozman C

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To describe a clinical syndrome of cerebellar ataxia associated with muscle coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10) deficiency. BACKGROUND:Muscle CoQ10 deficiency has been reported only in a few patients with a mitochondrial encephalomyopathy characterized by 1) recurrent myoglobinuria; 2) brain involvement (seizures, ataxia, ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Musumeci O,Naini A,Slonim AE,Skavin N,Hadjigeorgiou GL,Krawiecki N,Weissman BM,Tsao CY,Mendell JR,Shanske S,De Vivo DC,Hirano M,DiMauro S

更新日期：2001-04-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Lymphocyte subpopulations ("active' T cells, total T cells, and B cells), leukocyte migration, lymphocyte transformation, complements (CH50, C3, and C4), and immune complexes in serum and cerebrospinal fluid were studied in 23 patients with subacute sclerosing panencephalitis. The percentage of active T cells was norm...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Derakhshan I,Massoud A,Foroozanfar N,Nikbin B,Lotfi J,Shakib N,Ala F

更新日期：1981-02-01 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：:We performed a prospective study of neuroimaging studies and temporal lobe pathology in 13 patients with facial asymmetry and intractable partial epilepsy of temporal lobe origin. The 13 patients, derived from 50 consecutive patients with nonlesional medically refractory partial epilepsy, were deemed appropriate candi...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Cascino GD,Luckstein RR,Sharbrough FW,Jack CR Jr

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) is characterized by nerve infiltration of leukocytes and autoantibodies of the immunoglobulin G (IgG) isotype directed against nerve constituents. Leukocyte receptors for IgG (FcgammaR) constitute an important link between the humoral and cellular parts of the immune system and c...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： van der Pol WL,van den Berg LH,Scheepers RH,van der Bom JG,van Doorn PA,van Koningsveld R,van den Broek MC,Wokke JH,van de Winkel JG

更新日期：2000-04-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Over 50% of persons with idiopathic REM sleep behavior disorder (RBD) will develop Parkinson disease (PD) or dementia. At present, there is no way to predict who will develop disease. Since polysomnography is performed in all patients with idiopathic RBD at diagnosis, there is an opportunity to analyze if ba...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Postuma RB,Gagnon JF,Rompré S,Montplaisir JY

更新日期：2010-01-19 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the validity of data derived from magnetic source imaging (MSI) regarding cerebral dominance for language in patients with intractable seizure disorder. METHOD:The authors performed functional imaging of the receptive language cortex using a whole-head neuromagnetometer in 26 consecutive epilepsy...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Breier JI,Simos PG,Zouridakis G,Wheless JW,Willmore LJ,Constantinou JE,Maggio WW,Papanicolaou AC

更新日期：1999-09-22 00:00:00

abstract：:To assess reversibility of focal cerebral ischemia, we performed a neurologic and pathologic study of 27 monkeys subjected to temporary middle cerebral artery occlusion. An implanted snare ligature occluded the artery in awake monkeys for 30 minutes, 4 hours, 8 hours, 16 hours, 24 hours, or permanently. Serial neurolo...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Crowell RM,Marcoux FW,DeGirolami U

更新日期：1981-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present an 11-year-old girl in whom high field strength MRI performed 2 1/2 years and 6 months before her death showed prominent hypointensity in the globus pallidus and substantia nigra consistent with iron deposition. This finding suggested Hallervorden-Spatz disease, which was confirmed at autopsy. ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Schaffert DA,Johnsen SD,Johnson PC,Drayer BP

更新日期：1989-03-01 00:00:00