Is poststroke depression a vascular depression?

abstract：:Facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD) is one of the most frequent forms of muscular dystrophy. The aims of this study were: 1) to evaluate the prevalence of sleep disordered breathing (SDB) in patients with FSHD; 2) to define the sleep-related respiratory patterns in FSHD patients with SDB; and 3) to find the ...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Della Marca G,Frusciante R,Dittoni S,Vollono C,Buccarella C,Iannaccone E,Rossi M,Scarano E,Pirronti T,Cianfoni A,Mazza S,Tonali PA,Ricci E

更新日期：2009-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Two groups of "mdx" mice, totalling 36 animals of both sexes aged between 8 and 30 weeks, have been studied. In the first group of 10 males and 10 females, 8 males (at 8, 12, 20 and 30 weeks) and 4 females (at 12 and 30 weeks) showed severe limb muscle degeneration and inflammation with prominent regeneration and cent...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Bridges LR

更新日期：1986-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an inflammatory disease of the central nervous system, predominantly, but not exclusively, involving the normal appearing white matter. Until very recently we believed that nervous dysfunction in MS was completely depending on the accumulation of lesions in the white matter of the CNS. As a ...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Comi G

更新日期：2008-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Ischemic stroke is the end phenotype of a complex interaction between various genetic and environmental factors. OBJECTIVE:We aimed to explore association of two lipid-relevant genetic variants and conventional risk factors with risk of having ischemic stroke in Northern Han Chinese. METHODS:Genotyping was...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Wang B,Zhao H,Zhou L,Dai X,Wang D,Cao J,Niu W

更新日期：2009-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Diagnosis of Parkinson's disease (PD) is mainly based on clinical features. Accurate neurological examination is required but dopamine transporter (DaT) single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) could be perfomed to support the diagnosis in ambiguous cases. The aim of this work is to describe the ...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Coarelli G,Garcin B,Roze E,Vidailhet M,Degos B

更新日期：2019-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Fingolimod is the first oral disease-modifying therapy approved for relapsing forms of multiple sclerosis (MS). Following phosphorylation in vivo, the active agent, fingolimod phosphate (fingolimod-P), acts as a sphingosine 1-phosphate (S1P) receptor modulator, binding with high affinity to four of the five known S1P ...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Groves A,Kihara Y,Chun J

更新日期：2013-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:High plasma homocysteine (tHcy) is a risk factor for cardiovascular disease and stroke and Alzheimer's disease (AD). An inverse relationship has been reported between tHcy and plasma B12 and folate levels. Seventy-nine AD patients and 156 controls from three Arab villages in northern Israel participated. Plasma tHcy, ...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Mizrahi EH,Bowirrat A,Jacobsen DW,Korczyn AD,Traore F,Petot GJ,Lerner AJ,Debanne SM,Adunsky A,Dibello PM,Friedland RP

更新日期：2004-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Neuromyotonia (NMT) has been postulated to be an autoimmune channelopathy, probably by affecting voltage gated potassium channels (VGKC) leading to excitation and abnormal discharges [Sinha et al., Lancet 338 (1991) 75]. OBJECTIVE:To report three patients with NMT who had other associated immune-mediated co...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Hayat GR,Kulkantrakorn K,Campbell WW,Giuliani MJ

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two siblings are presented with late onset, rapidly progressive truncal ataxia, paralysis of down-gaze and loss of up-gaze saccades in association with other oculomotor dysfunctions as well as dementia. Electron microscopic muscle studies revealed abnormal distribution and form of the mitochondria, probably being the ...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： al-Din AS,al-Zuhair AG,al-Salem MK,al-Nassar KE,Rudwan MA,Khafaja S,Hamawi T

更新日期：1989-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A monoclonal antibody (MAb) raised against central nervous system (CNS) myelin (212) and a MAb (308) raised against brain with Semliki Forest virus (SFV) were both found to react against the same CNS glycolipids. Both these MAbs were also found to react strongly with SFV and against certain brain glycolipid fractions ...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Khalili-Shirazi A,Gregson N,Webb HE

更新日期：1986-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Increased resistance to ischemic nerve conduction failure (RINCF) has been demonstrated in the spontaneously diabetic BB Wistar rat as well as in non-insulin dependent but hyperglycemic litter-mates. There is marked variability in the severity of the ischemic resistance in insulin dependent rats but not in the non-ins...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Parry GJ,Kohzu H

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Glucosamine (UDP-N-acetyl)-2-epimerase/N-acetylmannosamine kinase (GNE) myopathy, also called distal myopathy with rimmed vacuoles (DMRV) or hereditary inclusion body myopathy (HIBM), is a rare, progressive autosomal recessive disorder caused by mutations in the GNE gene. Here, we examined the relationship b...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Mori-Yoshimura M,Monma K,Suzuki N,Aoki M,Kumamoto T,Tanaka K,Tomimitsu H,Nakano S,Sonoo M,Shimizu J,Sugie K,Nakamura H,Oya Y,Hayashi YK,Malicdan MC,Noguchi S,Murata M,Nishino I

更新日期：2012-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the localization and extent of beta-amyloid precursor protein (APP) immunoreactivity as a sensitive marker for impairment of fast axonal transport in the spinal cords of patients with HTLV-I-associated myelopathy (HAM)/tropical spastic paraparesis (TSP). The results from this study show that APP, used ...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Umehara F,Abe M,Koreeda Y,Izumo S,Osame M

更新日期：2000-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:In five patients with cerebral manifestation of Wilson's disease, copper was measured in CSF, serum, urine and liver, and ceruloplasmin was determined in CSF and serum. CSF copper was found to be elevated in all cases, especially in the four examined before therapy. Two patients were followed up for a period of 3 year...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Weisner B,Hartard C,Dieu C

更新日期：1987-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intellectual problems are a recognized feature of neurofibromatosis 1 (NF1) but their aetiology is unknown. We investigated the frequency, nature, severity and cause of intellectual impairment in NF1. We undertook neurological and psychometric assessments on 103 patients with NF1 and 105 controls equated for age, sex ...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Ferner RE,Hughes RA,Weinman J

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The neuropathological findings in two siblings with Menkes' disease were compared with representative material obtained from lambs suffering from swayback (enzootic ataxia). The aim of the study was to demonstrate the similarity of lesions in a genetic and a nutritional form of copper deficiency in support of the view...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Tan N,Urich H

更新日期：1983-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The sternocleidomastoid muscle is located in the neck and is both a neck rotator and flexor. Cervical dystonia, a focal dystonia disorder, is characterized by forceful involuntary contraction of a group of neck muscles, usually including the sternocleidomastoid. Little is known about the fiber type composition, fiber ...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： McLoon LK

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Theory of Mind is an important concept within social cognition and refers to the ability to attribute mental states to oneself and others. Other terms for this concept include mentalizing and mind reading. Deficits in Theory of Mind may contribute to behavioral abnormalities, such as paranoia and delusions that are co...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Freedman M,Stuss DT

更新日期：2011-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Ten unmedicated patients with Parkinson's disease received sub-threshold 5-Hz repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) over the primary motor hand area (M1(HAND)) contralaterally to the more affected upper limb. Compared to a midfrontal sham-rTMS, real-rTMS over M1(HAND) was associated with a significant de...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Siebner HR,Rossmeier C,Mentschel C,Peinemann A,Conrad B

更新日期：2000-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to clarify whether or not marked changes in the social environment during the past 50 years in Japan may have altered the clinical phenotypes of multiple sclerosis (MS), we retrospectively analyzed 143 consecutive patients with clinically definite MS who developed the disease between 1950 and 1997. Fifty-two ...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Kira J,Yamasaki K,Horiuchi I,Ohyagi Y,Taniwaki T,Kawano Y

更新日期：1999-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Calcification of the perineurium in sural nerves occurs in human adults. Deposits of calcium salts can be found focally in the middle and outer layers of the perineurium. Evidence indicates that this calcification is related to nerve fibre breakdown and to the local presence of lipids in the perineurium. The origin of...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Van Lis JM,Jennekens FG,Veldman H

更新日期：1979-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The muscle provocation test (MPT: 40 min of strenuous exercise on a bicycle ergometer) is a sensitive method for the detection of carriers of Duchenne muscular dystrophy. The diagnostic applicability of MPT for carrier detection in X-linked Becker muscular dystrophy is demonstrated. Obligate carriers with mean creatin...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Herrmann FH,Spiegler AW

更新日期：1983-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We performed post-mortem examinations of three patients with progressive neurogenic amyotrophy of long duration. One patient had been clinically diagnosed as having sporadic amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and two had been diagnosed with progressive spinal muscular atrophy (PSMA). The disease durations were 10, 17...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Iwanaga K,Hayashi S,Oyake M,Horikawa Y,Hayashi T,Wakabayashi M,Kondo H,Tsuji S,Takahashi H

更新日期：1997-03-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Superficial siderosis (SS) of the central nervous system is a rare disorder caused by chronic or recurrent hemorrhages into the subarachnoid space with hemosiderin and ferritin deposition, which leads to neuronal damage. The source of bleeding remains unknown in 50% of cases. Recently, attention has been focused on fl...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Boncoraglio GB,Ballabio E,Erbetta A,Prada F,Savoiardo M,Parati EA

更新日期：2012-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Hemichorea associated with carotid artery occlusive disease is extremely rare. It has been recently suggested that carotid artery stenosis should be considered in the differential diagnosis of chorea, even in the absence of a preceding stroke or transient ischemic attack. Although the pathophysiology of this condition...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Pareés I,Pujadas F,Hernández-Vara J,Lorenzo-Bosquet C,Cuberas G,Munuera J,Alvarez-Sabín J

更新日期：2011-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Visual function was studied in a group of 15 patients with hereditary motor and sensory neuropathy (HMSN). Psychophysical measures of luminance and chromatic threshold and temporal contrast sensitivity were undertaken, together with visual evoked potentials (VEPs), visual fields and clinical neuro-ophthalmological exa...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Honan WP,Heron JR,Foster DH,Edgar GK,Scase MO

更新日期：1993-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in the gene encoding 27-kDa small heat-shock protein B1 (HSPB1) have been reported in association with Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease type 2F or dHMN type II. We describe an Italian patient with wasting and weakness of distal muscles, involving primarily and mostly the lower limbs and later the upper limbs, in ...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Luigetti M,Fabrizi GM,Madia F,Ferrarini M,Conte A,Del Grande A,Tasca G,Tonali PA,Sabatelli M

更新日期：2010-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Data on recent stroke trends in the context of rapidly deteriorating risk profile of populations within Africa is very limited. We investigated the admission trend for stroke and related outcomes in a major referral hospital in Cameroon. METHODS:Admission and discharge registries, and patient files for the ...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Lekoubou A,Nkoke C,Dzudie A,Kengne AP

更新日期：2015-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy, caused by oligodendrocyte lytic infection by JCVirus, is a growing concern for patients undergoing immune modulatory therapies for treatment of autoimmune diseases, such as multiple sclerosis (MS). The objective of JEMS was to describe the prevalence of anti-JCV an...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： da Silva AM,Santos ME,Portuguese JEMS Study Investigators.

更新日期：2014-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Gait impairment is one of the most frequent and life-altering consequences of Multiple sclerosis (MS), frequently associated with lower limb spasticity. Focal muscle vibration (fMV) is a technique that applies a vibratory stimulus to a specific muscle or its tendon, reducing spasticity. The aim of our study is to eval...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Camerota F,Celletti C,Di Sipio E,De Fino C,Simbolotti C,Germanotta M,Mirabella M,Padua L,Nociti V

更新日期：2017-01-15 00:00:00