Should the Babinski sign be part of the routine neurologic examination?

abstract：:We evaluated the therapeutic efficacy and toxicity of high-dose monotherapy, using carbamazepine or phenytoin, in patients with previously uncontrolled seizures. Treatment with a single drug was equal to or better than polypharmacy, but only a few patients became free of seizures. Toxicity was mild and associated with...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Lesser RP,Pippenger CE,Lüders H,Dinner DS

更新日期：1984-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Large prospective epidemiologic studies have linked the consumption of coffee and other caffeinated beverages to a reduced risk of subsequently developing PD. Caffeine as well as more specific antagonists of the adenosine A(2A) receptor have also now been found to attenuate neurotoxicity in a mouse model of PD. The co...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Schwarzschild MA,Chen JF,Ascherio A

更新日期：2002-04-23 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a 43-year-old neurologically intact patient who reported episodes of diplopia and oscillopsia associated with a right-beating nystagmus and a skew deviation. These symptoms and signs were related to a left posterior epileptic EEG discharge. We suggest that these ocular motor signs derived from an ictal act...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Galimberti CA,Versino M,Sartori I,Manni R,Martelli A,Tartara A

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine the relationship of migraine and other severe headaches with panic disorder. METHODS:Representative samples of persons with migraine, non-migrainous severe headaches, and controls with no history of severe headaches, identified by a telephone survey, were interviewed in person, using a standardize...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Breslau N,Schultz LR,Stewart WF,Lipton R,Welch KM

更新日期：2001-02-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Self-reported versus informant-reported memory problems in nondemented elderly adults and in individuals with very mild and mild dementia of the Alzheimer type (DAT) were correlated with cognitive outcomes. No significant correlations were found between self-reported memory complaints and cognitive performance or (in ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Carr DB,Gray S,Baty J,Morris JC

更新日期：2000-12-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Serum ratios of monoclonal immunoglobulin (Ig) to total protein, monoclonal immunoglobulin to albumin, CSF/serum Ig-albumin index, and CSF to serum monoclonal immunoglobulin were obtained in 21 patients with multiple myeloma and 2 with Waldenström's macroglobulinemia. Twelve patients (3 with CNS complications) showed ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Hansotia P,Gani K,Friedenberg W

更新日期：1983-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES:A number of familial temporal lobe epilepsies (TLE) have been recently recognized. Mutations in LGI1 (leucine-rich, glioma-inactivated 1 gene) have been found in a few families with the syndrome of autosomal dominant partial epilepsy with auditory features (ADPEAF). The authors aimed to determ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Berkovic SF,Izzillo P,McMahon JM,Harkin LA,McIntosh AM,Phillips HA,Briellmann RS,Wallace RH,Mazarib A,Neufeld MY,Korczyn AD,Scheffer IE,Mulley JC

更新日期：2004-04-13 00:00:00

abstract：:We used [18F]-2-fluoro-2-deoxy-D-glucose (FDG) and PET to study regional cerebral glucose utilization in seven patients with fatal familial insomnia (FFI), an inherited prion disease with a mutation at codon 178 of the prion protein gene. Four patients were methionine/methionine homozygotes at codon 129 (symptom durat...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Cortelli P,Perani D,Parchi P,Grassi F,Montagna P,De Martin M,Castellani R,Tinuper P,Gambetti P,Lugaresi E,Fazio F

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ischemic stroke subtype distribution was compared between Mexican Americans (MAs) and non-Hispanic whites (NHWs) in a community-based stroke surveillance study in Nueces County, TX. There was no difference in the distribution of stroke subtype by ethnicity (p = 0.19). There was a similar proportion of small-vessel and...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Uchino K,Risser JM,Smith MA,Moyé LA,Morgenstern LB

更新日期：2004-08-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Primary angiitis of the CNS (PACNS) is a diagnostically challenging disorder. In patients whose diagnosis is ascertained solely by cerebral angiography without histologic verification, a benign monophasic clinical course with favorable response to a brief course of immunosuppressive therapy is often reported...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Woolfenden AR,Tong DC,Marks MP,Ali AO,Albers GW

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We detected large numbers of HLA-DR-positive reactive microglia (macrophages), along with Lewy bodies and free melanin, in the substantia nigra of all cases studied with Parkinson's disease (5) and parkinsonism with dementia (PD) (5). We found similar, but less extensive, pathology in the substantia nigra of six of ni...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： McGeer PL,Itagaki S,Boyes BE,McGeer EG

更新日期：1988-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The childhood type fo dermatomyositis, which occurs in children and young adults, shows a specific constellation of pathologic changes in muscle. Capillary necrosis leads to capillary loss, generally starting on the periphery of muscle fascicles. Electron microscopy discloses undulating tubules in endothelial cells, l...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Carpenter S,Karpati G,Rothman S,Watters G

更新日期：1976-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To study the brain activation pattern of coexisting experimental ongoing pain and brush-evoked allodynia (pain evoked by innocuous brush) with the use of PET. BACKGROUND:Neuropathic pain usually has two essential phenomena: ongoing pain and brush-evoked allodynia, which coexist and may influence each other. ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Witting N,Kupers RC,Svensson P,Arendt-Nielsen L,Gjedde A,Jensen TS

更新日期：2001-11-27 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To characterize patterns of cognitive functioning in a well-defined group of patients with MRI-identified coexisting left temporal lobe developmental malformations (TLDM) and mesial temporal sclerosis (MTS), and to examine neuropsychological outcome in this dual-pathology group following epilepsy surgery. ME...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Martin R,Dowler R,Gilliam F,Faught E,Morawetz R,Kuzniecky R

更新日期：1999-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate the efficacy and safety of aceneuramic acid extended-release (Ace-ER), a treatment intended to replace deficient sialic acid, in patients with GNE myopathy. METHODS:UX001-CL301 was a phase 3, double-blind, placebo-controlled, randomized, international study evaluating the efficacy and safety o...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Lochmüller H,Behin A,Caraco Y,Lau H,Mirabella M,Tournev I,Tarnopolsky M,Pogoryelova O,Woods C,Lai A,Shah J,Koutsoukos T,Skrinar A,Mansbach H,Kakkis E,Mozaffar T

更新日期：2019-04-30 00:00:00

abstract：:A subset of human B lymphocytes expresses Leu-1 (CD5), a pan-T cell marker, which is the equivalent of the murine Lyt-1 molecule. CD5+ B cells produce autoantibodies in vitro; therefore, they may play a role in the pathogenesis of autoimmune disorders. In myasthenia gravis (MG), autoantibodies are directed against the...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Ragheb S,Lisak RP

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alzheimer disease (AD) has a significant impact on caregivers. Administering and managing medications is one of their many daily tasks. More effective modes of drug administration may benefit patient and caregiver, and may improve compliance. A prospective outcome of the IDEAL (Investigation of TransDermal Exelon in A...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Blesa R,Ballard C,Orgogozo JM,Lane R,Thomas SK

更新日期：2007-07-24 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：:The most consistent electroencephalographic finding in 16 cases of Sturge-Weber syndrome was a unilateral reduction of background amplitude in the waking record. Comparable asymmetries were noted in those patients in whom sleep recording also was done. Physiologic responses (to hyperventilation and photic driving) usu...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Brenner RP,Sharbrough FW

更新日期：1976-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To cross-sectionally compare the regional white matter fractional anisotropy (FA) of cognitively normal (CN) older individuals and patients with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and Alzheimer disease (AD), separately focusing on the normal-appearing white matter (NAWM) and white matter hyperintensities (WMH), ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Lee DY,Fletcher E,Martinez O,Ortega M,Zozulya N,Kim J,Tran J,Buonocore M,Carmichael O,DeCarli C

更新日期：2009-11-24 00:00:00

abstract：:We tested the efficacy of coenzyme Q10 (ubidecarenone, CoQ10) therapy in patients with Kearns-Sayre syndrome and other mitochondrial myopathies with chronic progressive external ophthalmoplegia (CPEO). We treated seven patients for 1 year with daily oral administration of 120 mg of CoQ10. Throughout the treatment most...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Bresolin N,Bet L,Binda A,Moggio M,Comi G,Nador F,Ferrante C,Carenzi A,Scarlato G

更新日期：1988-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors found serum immunoglobulin M (IgM) autoantibody in a patient with typical acute cerebellar ataxia (ACA) and identified the antigen molecule as triosephosphate isomerase (TPI). TPI antigenicity to the patient's antibody was the highest in the cerebellar tissue. Eight of 23 patients with ACA had increased Ig...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Uchibori A,Sakuta M,Kusunoki S,Chiba A

更新日期：2005-10-11 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：: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：:The authors examined the neural function of a postmeningitic deaf-blind patient who regained his hearing with a multichannel cochlear implant. Auditory stimuli activated the temporal cortices of both sides in a manner similar to that of controls, reflecting the successful recruitment of the auditory cortex after impla...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Osaki Y,Takasawa M,Doi K,Nishimura H,Iwaki T,Imaizumi M,Oku N,Hatazawa J,Kubo T

更新日期：2006-09-12 00:00:00

abstract：:A 71-year-old man developed severe limb, bulbar, and respiratory weakness over 18 months. A muscle biopsy showed only a moderate degree of type 2 atrophy, but immunocytochemistry showed absence of chondroitin sulfate C glycosaminoglycan in the endomysium. Prednisone produced a marked increase in strength. Diffuse loss...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： al-Lozi MT,Hemelt VB,Pestronk A

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirteen consecutive patients with thalamic deep brain stimulation (DBS) were examined serially for 3 to 5 years. Initially, all demonstrated at least 50% improvement in contralateral tremor. At last follow-up, three of eight patients with Parkinson disease no longer used DBS because tremor had markedly improved, and ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Kumar R,Lozano AM,Sime E,Lang AE

更新日期：2003-12-09 00:00:00

abstract：:An infant with Pena-Shokeir phenotype was born to a cocaine-using mother. The pathologic findings included polyhydramnios, facial anomalies, arthrogryposis, camptodactyly, pulmonary hypoplasia, and tetralogy of Fallot. The neuropathologic findings were diffuse brainstem and spinal cord neuronal degeneration and focal ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Lavi E,Montone KT,Rorke LB,Kliman HJ

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The triad of normal-pressure hydrocephalus, parkinsonism, and primary empty sella appeared in a 70-year-old woman. There was dramatic resolution of the extrapyramidal signs and symptoms on treatment with levodopa-carbidopa and ventriculojugular shunt. The syndrome may be the result of several mechanisms, but an altera...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Spagna VA,Maeder MC,Johnson JC,Mazzaferri EL

更新日期：1978-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Despite convenience, accessibility, and strong correlation to severity of Alzheimer disease (AD) pathology, medial temporal lobe atrophy (MTA) has not been used as a criterion in the diagnosis of prodromal and probable AD. METHODS:Using a newly validated visual rating system, mean MTA scores of three bilate...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Duara R,Loewenstein DA,Potter E,Appel J,Greig MT,Urs R,Shen Q,Raj A,Small B,Barker W,Schofield E,Wu Y,Potter H

更新日期：2008-12-09 00:00:00