Gustatory agnosia.

abstract：:Using a radioreceptor technique, we assayed serum trihexyphenidyl levels in patients with dystonia being treated chronically with high dosage. We found a significant correlation between total daily dose and the daily lowest (trough) serum levels. There was no relationship between serum levels and therapeutic response ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Burke RE,Fahn S

更新日期：1985-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dementia occurs infrequently in patients with giant cell (temporal) arteritis (GCA). Three elderly women with biopsy-proven GCA showed abrupt cognitive decline during periods of clinically active GCA, 1 to 6 months after diagnostic temporal artery biopsy, during periods of corticosteroid taper. One patient had additio...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Caselli RJ

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We measured monoamine metabolites and biopterin in the CSF of 37 patients with dementia of the Alzheimer type (DAT), with or without extrapyramidal signs, and in 14 age-matched healthy controls. Compared with concentrations in DAT and controls, the concentrations of homovanillic acid (HVA) and biopterin were significa...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Kaye JA,May C,Daly E,Atack JR,Sweeney DJ,Luxenberg JS,Kay AD,Kaufman S,Milstien S,Friedland RP

更新日期：1988-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Proximal myotonic myopathy (PROMM) is an autosomal dominantly inherited multisystemic disorder characterized by myotonia, proximal muscle weakness, and cataracts. This disorder is not linked to the gene locus of myotonic dystrophy (DM). We describe three new families with PROMM. In all patients, CTG repeats of the DM ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Hund E,Jansen O,Koch MC,Ricker K,Fogel W,Niedermaier N,Otto M,Kuhn E,Meinck HM

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:It is known that muscle phosphorylase deficiency restricts carbohydrate utilization, but the implications for muscle fat metabolism have not been studied. We questioned whether patients with McArdle disease can compensate for the blocked muscle glycogen breakdown by enhancing fat oxidation during exercise. M...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Ørngreen MC,Jeppesen TD,Andersen ST,Taivassalo T,Hauerslev S,Preisler N,Haller RG,van Hall G,Vissing J

更新日期：2009-02-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Eighty-five healthy elderly subjects were prospectively evaluated for 3 years to determine motor differences between those who remain cognitively intact and those who developed cognitive impairment during prospective follow-up. The 18 subjects who developed cognitive impairment had slower finger tapping and took longe...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Camicioli R,Howieson D,Oken B,Sexton G,Kaye J

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute myopathy and myoglobinuria with markedly elevated creatine kinase (CK) activity developed in an 18-year-old boy on two occasions after gasoline sniffing. No signs of CNS involvement were seen, and the symptoms receded in a few days. The amount of lead in blood and urine exceeded the reference value for subjects ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Kovanen J,Somer H,Schroeder P

更新日期：1983-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Among patients with a patent foramen ovale (PFO) and a prior cryptogenic ischemic stroke or TIA, the absolute and relative risk of recurrent events is unclear. METHODS:We conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis of clinical studies in any language published up to February 2008. We included studies re...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Almekhlafi MA,Wilton SB,Rabi DM,Ghali WA,Lorenzetti DL,Hill MD

更新日期：2009-07-14 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Idiopathic REM sleep behavior disorder is a parasomnia characterized by dream enactment and is commonly a prediagnostic sign of parkinsonism and dementia. Since risk factors have not been defined, we initiated a multicenter case-control study to assess environmental and lifestyle risk factors for REM sleep be...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Postuma RB,Montplaisir JY,Pelletier A,Dauvilliers Y,Oertel W,Iranzo A,Ferini-Strambi L,Arnulf I,Hogl B,Manni R,Miyamoto T,Mayer G,Stiasny-Kolster K,Puligheddu M,Ju Y,Jennum P,Sonka K,Santamaria J,Fantini ML,Zucconi

更新日期：2012-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To compare the accuracy of Alberta Stroke Program Early Computed Tomography Score (ASPECTS) and CT perfusion to detect established infarction in acute anterior circulation stroke. METHODS:We performed an observational study in 59 acute anterior circulation ischemic stroke patients who underwent brain noncont...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Demeestere J,Garcia-Esperon C,Garcia-Bermejo P,Ombelet F,McElduff P,Bivard A,Parsons M,Levi C

更新日期：2017-06-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In patients with active epilepsy, adverse medication effects and severity of depression are correlated with health-related quality of life, but seizure frequency is not. We sought to examine if the same pattern exists in patients with psychogenic nonepileptic seizures (PNES). METHODS:We administered seizure...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： LaFrance WC Jr,Syc S

更新日期：2009-08-04 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To demonstrate whether the cerebral hemispheres (language dominant versus nondominant) affect immune function differentially in humans by delineating the effects of resections for epilepsy surgery on T-cell indices. BACKGROUND:Cerebral lateralization has been postulated to affect immunomodulation. Differenti...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Meador KJ,De Lecuona JM,Helman SW,Loring DW

更新日期：1999-04-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors evaluated education attainment and neuropsychological deficits in children with sickle cell disease (SCD) and silent cerebral infarcts. Children with silent infarcts had twice the rate of school difficulties as children without infarcts. Eighty percent of silent infarct cases had clinically significant cog...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Schatz J,Brown RT,Pascual JM,Hsu L,DeBaun MR

更新日期：2001-04-24 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:We examined the incidence of mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and its potential vascular risk factors in a prospective population-based study. METHODS:An age-stratified random population-based cohort (baseline n = 1,982), followed for up to 4 years, was annually assessed for cognitive and everyday functioning...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Ganguli M,Fu B,Snitz BE,Hughes TF,Chang CC

更新日期：2013-06-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Estrogen have been reported in animal studies to both enhance and block central dopaminergic activity and in one clinical report to improve tardive dyskinesia. In the present study estrogen (Premarin, 2.5 mg per day) administration caused varying degrees of improvement in less than one-third of 21 patients with chorea...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Koller WC,Barr A,Biary N

更新日期：1982-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a 74-year-old woman with opsoclonus, myoclonus, ataxia, and encephalopathy who had small-cell lung cancer and high titers of anti-Hu antibody in her serum. At autopsy, there were perivascular inflammatory infiltrates in the brainstem, putamen, and meninges overlying the orbital frontal cortex. Immunohistoche...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Hersh B,Dalmau J,Dangond F,Gultekin S,Geller E,Wen PY

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To test the safety and efficacy of recombinant human insulin-like growth factor-I (rhIGF-I) in ALS, 183 patients from eight European centers were randomized to receive double-blind placebo (n = 59) or rhIGF-I 0.1 mg/kg/day (n = 124) subcutaneously for 9 months. At study completion, the primary efficacy outcome measure...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Borasio GD,Robberecht W,Leigh PN,Emile J,Guiloff RJ,Jerusalem F,Silani V,Vos PE,Wokke JH,Dobbins T

更新日期：1998-08-01 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：OBJECTIVES:More than a decade has passed since the last major workforce survey of child neurologists in the United States; thus, a reassessment of the child neurology workforce is needed, along with an inaugural assessment of a new related field, neurodevelopmental disabilities. METHODS:The American Academy of Pediatr...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Kang PB,Bale JF Jr,Mintz M,Joshi SM,Gilbert DL,Radabaugh C,Ruch-Ross H,Section on Neurology Executive Committee of the American Academy of Pediatrics, and the Board of Directors of the Child Neurology Society.

更新日期：2016-09-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Abnormal insulin metabolism may contribute to the clinical symptoms and pathophysiology of AD. In vitro studies show that insulin enhances the release of beta-amyloid protein (Abeta) or inhibits its degradation, either of which might increase amyloid burden. METHODS:On separate mornings, 16 healthy older ad...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Watson GS,Peskind ER,Asthana S,Purganan K,Wait C,Chapman D,Schwartz MW,Plymate S,Craft S

更新日期：2003-06-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytolytic T lymphocyte precursors (CTL-p) and natural killer precursors (NK-p) in the CSF of 15 MS patients and 11 patients with other neurologic disorders (OND) were quantitatively assessed, using a T-lymphocyte microculture system that allows clonal expansion of all human T cells. CSF CTL-p and NK-p frequencies were...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Weber WE,Buurman WA,Vandermeeren MM,Medaer RH,Raus JC

更新日期：1987-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although motor fibers in the sural nerve were already described in three individuals, this nerve is considered purely sensory. We investigated the occurrence of motor fibers in 331 sural nerves of 207 individuals. We found motor fibers in 15 nerves (4.5%) or in 13 individuals (6.2%). The identification of motor fibers...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Amoiridis G,Schöls L,Ameridis N,Przuntek H

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The excitability of the corticospinal system was studied in 23 healthy subjects in sleep stages NREM2, NREM4, REM, and wakefulness using transcranial magnetic stimulation. Assessment of motor thresholds, stimulus-response curves, and latencies of motor evoked potentials shows activation of the fast-conducting corticos...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Grosse P,Khatami R,Salih F,Kühn A,Meyer BU

更新日期：2002-12-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Of 101 patients with benign intracranial hypertension not related to vasculitis, neck stiffness occurred in 31, tinnitus in 27, distal extremity paresthesias in 22, joint pains in 13, low back pain in 5, and gait "ataxia" in 4. Symptoms resolved promptly upon lowering the intracranial pressure by lumbar puncture, and ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Round R,Keane JR

更新日期：1988-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Of 49 patients with nonconvulsive seizures studied with continuous EEG monitoring, the overall mortality was 33% (16/49). Of the 23 patients with nonconvulsive status epilepticus (NCSE), 13 died (mortality 57%). Individual variables significantly associated with mortality were age, presence of NCSE, seizure duration, ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Young GB,Jordan KG,Doig GS

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We detected crossed cerebellar as well as uncrossed basal ganglia and thalamic diaschisis in Alzheimer's disease by positron emission tomography (PET) using 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose. We studied a series of 26 consecutive, clinically diagnosed Alzheimer cases, including 6 proven by later autopsy, and compared them with 9...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Akiyama H,Harrop R,McGeer PL,Peppard R,McGeer EG

更新日期：1989-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Apraxia is the loss of the ability to perform learned skilled movements correctly. In right-handers, apraxia and aphasia are most frequently associated with left-hemisphere lesions. When they are dissociated, however, aphasia is more common in the absence of apraxia than vice versa. There are two hypotheses that can a...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Foundas AL,Henchey R,Gilmore RL,Fennell EB,Heilman KM

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Both AD and normal aging cause brain atrophy, limiting the ability of MRI to distinguish between AD and age-related brain tissue loss. MRS imaging (MRSI) measures the neuronal marker N-acetylaspartate (NAA), which could help assess brain change in AD and aging. OBJECTIVES:To determine the effects of AD on c...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Schuff N,Capizzano AA,Du AT,Amend DL,O'Neill J,Norman D,Kramer J,Jagust W,Miller B,Wolkowitz OM,Yaffe K,Weiner MW

更新日期：2002-03-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Following commissurotomy, it is usually the case that information presented to the left hemisphere can be named and described, while information presented to the mute, right hemisphere cannot be spoken about. In the present study, it was discovered that under special test conditions, an MRI-verified, callosally sectio...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Gazzaniga MS,Holtzman JD,Smylie CS

更新日期：1987-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article presents the findings relating to the European subgroup of 91 patients in an international survey of the current diagnosis and treatment of patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). The mean time between first symptoms and first consultation with a physician was 4.9 months, and mean delay in seei...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Dengler R

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00