Regional cortical thinning in preclinical Huntington disease and its relationship to cognition.

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP) is characterized by immune-mediated peripheral demyelination. Although corticosteroid, IV immunoglobulin (IVIg) and plasma exchange have been established as the most effective therapeutics, subpopulations of patients show little or no response to either...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Iijima M,Tomita M,Morozumi S,Kawagashira Y,Nakamura T,Koike H,Katsuno M,Hattori N,Tanaka F,Yamamoto M,Sobue G

更新日期：2009-10-27 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To describe four patients with temporal lobe epilepsy with limbic encephalitis unrelated to neoplasm. METHODS:The authors performed a retrospective evaluation of patient data obtained during presurgical evaluation, with additional CSF analyses, serum analyses, and histopathologic investigations. RESULTS:The...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Bien CG,Schulze-Bonhage A,Deckert M,Urbach H,Helmstaedter C,Grunwald T,Schaller C,Elger CE

更新日期：2000-12-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors report two cases of patients with word deafness. The word deafness occurred after a head injury for the first patient and after an arterio venous malformation embolization for the second patient. MRI demonstrated bilateral lesions of the inferior colliculi but brainstem auditory-evoked potentials (BAEP) we...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Vitte E,Tankéré F,Bernat I,Zouaoui A,Lamas G,Soudant J

更新日期：2002-03-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A European (EU) and a North American (NA) placebo-controlled study with interferon beta-1b (IFNB-1b) in secondary progressive multiple sclerosis (SPMS) showed divergent results with regard to their primary outcome of sustained Expanded Disability Status Scale (EDSS) progression, while effects were similar on...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Kappos L,Weinshenker B,Pozzilli C,Thompson AJ,Dahlke F,Beckmann K,Polman C,McFarland H,European (EU-SPMS) Interferon beta-1b in Secondary Progressive Multiple Sclerosis Trial Steering Committee and Independent Advisory Board.,North Ame

更新日期：2004-11-23 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the effects of acute ethanol intoxication on platelet function, coagulation factors, and fibrinolytic activity in 12 healthy men. During the ethanol session, 10 of the 12 developed a transient decrease in fibrinolytic activity. Ethanol ingestion increased factor VIII coagulant activity. VIII-related antigen...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Hillbom M,Kaste M,Rasi V

更新日期：1983-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the efficacy of remote nonpainful electrical upper arm skin stimulation in reducing migraine attack pain. METHODS:This is a prospective, double-blinded, randomized, crossover, sham-controlled trial. Migraineurs applied skin electrodes to the upper arm soon after attack onset for 20 minutes, at va...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Yarnitsky D,Volokh L,Ironi A,Weller B,Shor M,Shifrin A,Granovsky Y

更新日期：2017-03-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Functional decline for each decade at symptom onset and need for cane, walker, or wheelchair were assessed in 78 biopsy-proved patients with sporadic inclusion body myositis. Patients with disease onset between 40 and 59 years used a walker after 10.2 +/- 5.8 years, whereas those with disease onset between 60 and 79 y...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Peng A,Koffman BM,Malley JD,Dalakas MC

更新日期：2000-07-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Physicians are often asked to predict outcome after acute stroke. Very little information is available that can reliably predict the likelihood of severe disability or death. OBJECTIVE:To develop a practical method for predicting a poor outcome after acute ischemic stroke. METHODS:Data from the placebo arm...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Frankel MR,Morgenstern LB,Kwiatkowski T,Lu M,Tilley BC,Broderick JP,Libman R,Levine SR,Brott T

更新日期：2000-10-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The epsilon 4 isoform of apolipoprotein E (Apo-E) may confer genetic susceptibility for familial and sporadic Alzheimer's disease (AD). Because dementia in AD and Parkinson's disease (PD) share many biologic and clinical features, we determined the Apo-E genotypes for 79 patients with PD, 22 of whom were demented, and...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Marder K,Maestre G,Cote L,Mejia H,Alfaro B,Halim A,Tang M,Tycko B,Mayeux R

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two siblings and a third child exhibited a syndrome of progressive muscular weakness and wasting, closely resembling Werdnig-Hoffmann's disease. Autopsy of one of the siblings and the third child showed nearly total absence of myelin sheaths in the cranial and spinal nerve roots, relative preservation of axons, and no...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Kasman M,Bernstein L,Schulman S

更新日期：1976-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate the relationships between structural damage in the whole brain, the temporal lobes, and the frontal lobes and cognitive decline at old age. The authors hypothesized that widespread brain damage as quantified using magnetization transfer imaging (MTI) is related to global cognitive decline, wher...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Van Der Flier WM,Van Den Heuvel DM,Weverling-Rijnsburger AW,Spilt A,Bollen EL,Westendorp RG,Middelkoop HA,Van Buchem MA

更新日期：2002-09-24 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To explore an association with survival of modifying the current standard of care for patients with newly diagnosed glioblastoma of surgery followed by radiotherapy plus concurrent and 6 cycles of maintenance temozolomide chemotherapy (TMZ/RT → TMZ) by extending TMZ beyond 6 cycles. METHODS:The German Glioma...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Gramatzki D,Kickingereder P,Hentschel B,Felsberg J,Herrlinger U,Schackert G,Tonn JC,Westphal M,Sabel M,Schlegel U,Wick W,Pietsch T,Reifenberger G,Loeffler M,Bendszus M,Weller M

更新日期：2017-04-11 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate the role of intragenic deletions of ALDH7A1 in patients with clinical and biochemical evidence of pyridoxine-dependent epilepsy but only a single identifiable mutation in ALDH7A1. METHODS:We designed a custom oligonucleotide array with high-density probe coverage across the ALDH7A1 gene. We pe...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Mefford HC,Zemel M,Geraghty E,Cook J,Clayton PT,Paul K,Plecko B,Mills PB,Nordli DR Jr,Gospe SM Jr

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report two patients with unique homonymous hemianopias from occipital lobe infarctions. One patient had vertical meridian sparing, and the other displayed horizontal meridian sparing. MRI correlation with the visual field defects confirmed that the vertical hemianopic meridian was represented along the border of th...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Gray LG,Galetta SL,Schatz NJ

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Article abstract Depressive disorders (DDs) are the most common type of psychiatric co-morbidity in patients with epilepsy. They are more likely to occur in patients with partial seizure disorders of temporal and frontal lobe origin and are more frequent among patients with poorly controlled seizures. Despite their re...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Kanner AM,Balabanov A

更新日期：2002-04-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Dapsone produces a potentially reversible toxic neuropathy, with its primary effect on the soma and axons of motor neurons as opposed to myelin. There is very little evidence to suggest involvement of sensory axons in most cases; if present, it would appear minimal. A "dying back" of motor axons is postulated to produ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Gutmann L,Martin JD,Welton W

更新日期：1976-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The clinical and electroencephalographic (EEG) effects of sodium valproate were studied in four patients by means of serial 24-hour EEG recordings and simultaneous hourly determinations of serum drug concentrations. The patients all had frequent clinical seizures and generalized spike-wave discharges. Valproate appear...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Rowan AJ,Binnie CD,de Beer-Pawlikowski NK,Goedhart DM,Gutter T,van der Geest P,Meinardi H,Meijer JW

更新日期：1979-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To analyze the relationship between retinal thinning and nigral dopaminergic loss in de novo Parkinson disease (PD). METHODS:Forty-nine patients with PD and 54 age-matched controls were analyzed. Ophthalmologic examination and macula optical coherence tomography scans were performed with additional microperi...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Ahn J,Lee JY,Kim TW,Yoon EJ,Oh S,Kim YK,Kim JM,Woo SJ,Kim KW,Jeon B

更新日期：2018-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated levodopa intravenous infusion rates, plasma concentrations, and clinical responses in 23 parkinsonian patients with a fluctuating response to the drug. There was a linear relationship between rate of levodopa infusion and plasma concentration when carbidopa was coadministered. Minimum-therapeutically e...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Nutt JG,Woodward WR

更新日期：1986-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rapsyn mutations in 16 unrelated patients with a congenital/hereditary myasthenic syndrome were identified, and a mutation (N88K) common to each of them was found. Two distinct phenotypes were noted: early and late onset. The former is frequently associated with arthrogryposis multiplex congenita and life-threatening ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Burke G,Cossins J,Maxwell S,Owens G,Vincent A,Robb S,Nicolle M,Hilton-Jones D,Newsom-Davis J,Palace J,Beeson D

更新日期：2003-09-23 00:00:00

abstract：:In a retrospective study of 103 corticosteroid-treated MS patients, the average rate of fracture events was 3.2% of the patients per year over 7.1 (+/- 5.7 SD) years at risk. Fractures of the ribs, pelvis, hip, or vertebrae occurred in 11 patients and became most common 5 years after starting steroids. Relatively high...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Troiano RA,Jotkowitz A,Cook SD,Bansil S,Zito G

更新日期：1992-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fibromyalgia (FM) and transformed migraine (TM) are common chronic pain disorders. The authors estimated the prevalence of FM in 101 patients with TM, and analyzed its relationship to depression, anxiety, and insomnia. FM was diagnosed in 35.6% of cases. Patients with FM had more insomnia, were older, and had headache...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Peres MF,Young WB,Kaup AO,Zukerman E,Silberstein SD

更新日期：2001-10-09 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To identify modifying factors that preserve functional independence among individuals at high dementia risk. METHODS:Health and Retirement Study participants aged 65 years or older without baseline activities of daily living (ADL) limitations (n = 4,922) were interviewed biennially for up to 12 years. Dement...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Rist PM,Capistrant BD,Wu Q,Marden JR,Glymour MM

更新日期：2014-04-29 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Structural and functional lesion localization in patients with hemispatial neglect. DESIGN:Location and severity of brain damage on CT and SPECT correlated with neglect performance as assessed with a battery of drawings, line bisection, and line and shape cancellation subtests. PATIENTS:Participants include...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Leibovitch FS,Black SE,Caldwell CB,Ebert PL,Ehrlich LE,Szalai JP

更新日期：1998-04-01 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：:The intrathecal humoral immune response was analyzed in 83 patients with MS and 35 patients with acute CNS infections. CSF free kappa chains and CSF free lambda chains were quantified by radioimmunoassay; CSF IgG and albumin were measured by electroimmunodiffusion. The MS patients were characterized by higher levels o...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： DeCarli C,Menegus MA,Rudick RA

更新日期：1987-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:After Pokémon viewing triggered an epidemic of seizures in Japan, many efforts have been made to design safety guidelines and systems to protect subjects with photosensitivity. The authors developed a new method based upon nonlinear diffusion techniques capable of filtering the epileptogenic content of a vid...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Parra J,Kalitzin SN,Stroink H,Dekker E,de Wit C,Lopes da Silva FH

更新日期：2005-03-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Previously, hyperoxia and blood volume increase were reported in the red nucleus and substantia nigra during spontaneous migraine with aura. OBJECTIVE:To further understand the pathophysiologic role of these centers, activation of brainstem structures was investigated in patients with visually triggered mig...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Cao Y,Aurora SK,Nagesh V,Patel SC,Welch KM

更新日期：2002-07-09 00:00:00

abstract：:A patient with glioblastoma of the rostral brainstem and hypothalamus exhibited bilateral internuclear ophthalmoplegia and vertical nystagmus; he suffered episodes of cataplexy, narcolepsy, and sleep paralysis. A peculiar fluctuation of posture and tone ("limp man syndrome") proved to be a manifestation of continuous ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Stahl SM,Layzer RB,Aminoff MJ,Townsend JJ,Feldon S

更新日期：1980-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:People with AD have deficient contrast sensitivity and impaired face discrimination. The authors presented photographs of unfamiliar faces of three different sizes to enhance the low, middle, or high facial frequency information (cycles per face). Patients with AD demonstrated normal discrimination of small faces only...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Cronin-Golomb A,Cronin-Golomb M,Dunne TE,Brown AC,Jain K,Cipolloni PB,Auerbach SH

更新日期：2000-06-27 00:00:00