Detection of Duchenne and Becker muscular dystrophy carriers by quantitative multiplex polymerase chain reaction analysis.

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate the causal relevance of current tobacco smoking for the risk of Parkinson disease (PD). METHODS:We compared the risks of death from PD with smoking habits in 30,000 male doctors in the British Doctors cohort study in 1951 and in survivors who had been resurveyed periodically for 5 decades. Cau...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Mappin-Kasirer B,Pan H,Lewington S,Kizza J,Gray R,Clarke R,Peto R

更新日期：2020-05-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The authors previously reported on the development of thyroid dysfunction and autoimmunity during 1-year treatment of patients with MS with interferon-beta 1b (IFN beta-1b). OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the evolution of incident thyroid disease and the possible development of more thyroid disease during longer ter...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Monzani F,Caraccio N,Casolaro A,Lombardo F,Moscato G,Murri L,Ferrannini E,Meucci G

更新日期：2000-08-22 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the interrater variability among three neurologists of the diagnosis of a seizure in 100 patients evaluated for a possible "first seizure." We found that use of simple descriptive diagnostic criteria and discussion among the neurologists themselves improved the diagnostic agreement. ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： van Donselaar CA,Geerts AT,Meulstee J,Habbema JD,Staal A

更新日期：1989-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hippocampal formation atrophy (HFA) developed in an adult, who did not have epilepsy previously, after the occurrence of new-onset partial seizures from acute thrombosis of an ipsilateral parietal venous angioma. There was no evidence of hippocampal injury, and the patient had only one brief, generalized tonic-clonic ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Worrell GA,Sencakova D,Jack CR,Flemming KD,Fulgham JR,So EL

更新日期：2002-05-28 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate attention deficit in Alzheimer's disease (AD) and its relationship to attention deficits associated with aging and with medications altering alertness. METHODS:Ten patients with probable AD, 10 healthy old controls, and 15 young controls performed a covert orienting of spatial attention task. You...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Oken BS,Kishiyama SS,Kaye JA,Howieson DB

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Kennedy disease (KD), or spinobulbomuscular atrophy, is a slowly progressive inherited neurodegenerative disorder, marked by prominent fasciculations that typically precede the development of other symptoms. Although the genetic basis of KD relates to triplet (CAG) repeat expansion in the androgen receptor (A...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Vucic S,Kiernan MC

更新日期：2007-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:We performed a longitudinal cohort study of infants with tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC), with the overarching goal of defining early clinical, behavioral, and biological markers of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in this high-risk population. METHODS:Infants with TSC and typically developing controls were r...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Spurling Jeste S,Wu JY,Senturk D,Varcin K,Ko J,McCarthy B,Shimizu C,Dies K,Vogel-Farley V,Sahin M,Nelson CA 3rd

更新日期：2014-07-08 00:00:00

abstract：:We used the Mayo Clinic medical records linkage system to detect all cases of intracranial vascular malformation (IVM) among residents of Olmsted County, Minnesota from 1965 to 1992 and found 48 IVMs over the 27-year period, including four patients with IVM detected at autopsy, without prior symptoms. Twenty-nine of 4...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Brown RD Jr,Wiebers DO,Torner JC,O'Fallon WM

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This review summarizes evidence, primarily from recent human studies, indirectly supporting a novel hypothesis: that the assessment of healthy individuals' responses to standardized noxious stimuli in a controlled laboratory environment has important implications for the later risk of developing a broad spectrum of ch...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Edwards RR

更新日期：2005-08-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent years have seen major changes in our understanding of Parkinson disease (PD), challenging conventional wisdom, much of which was established during the Decade of the Brain. In this article, we highlight important changes in our understanding of PD in six general categories: definition, etiology, pathology, path...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Marras C,Lang A

更新日期：2008-05-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Between 1982 and 1989, 197 patients with Parkinson's disease were treated with selegiline and levodopa for at least 0.3 years. Two groups of patients were included: a group of 65 patients (stage 2 or 3 on the Hoehn and Yahr Scale) who recently had been started on levodopa and were not experiencing response fluctuation...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Lieberman A

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To validate the ability of a specifically developed cognitive risk score to identify patients at risk of poststroke neurocognitive disorders (NCDs) who are eligible for a comprehensive cognitive assessment. METHODS:After assessing 404 patients (infarct 91.3%) in the Groupe de Réflexion pour l'Evaluation Cogn...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Godefroy O,Yaïche H,Taillia H,Bompaire F,Nédélec-Ciceri C,Bonnin C,Varvat J,Vincent-Grangette F,Diouf M,Mas JL,Canaple S,Lamy C,Arnoux A,Leclercq C,Tasseel-Ponche S,Roussel M,Barbay M,GRECogVASC Study Group.

更新日期：2018-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Trigeminal neuralgia is an uncommon but troublesome symptom of multiple sclerosis that can be refractory to conventional treatments. Misoprostol, a long-acting prostaglandin E1 analogue, relieved pain in six of seven patients who had failed to respond to conventional pharmacologic therapy. ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Reder AT,Arnason BG

更新日期：1995-06-01 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：:Prostaglandins B1 and B2 were topically applied to the pial vessels of mice and arteriolar constriction was observed. This constriction could be significantly increased if serotonin was added to B1, but not when norepinephrine was added. Response to B2 was not enhanced by the simultaneous addition of either serotonin ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Rosenblum WI

更新日期：1975-12-01 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：:We report the cases of three siblings homozygous for a mutated transthyretin (TTR) gene that causes type I familial amyloidotic polyneuropathy (FAP), in whom we made the diagnosis by identifying both the mutated TTR gene and a variant TTR in their sera. Their serum levels for the variant TTR are twice those of patient...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Yoshinaga T,Nakazato M,Ikeda S,Ohnishi A

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several recent autopsy studies suggest that senile dementia of Lewy body type (SDLT) may be the second most common neuropathologic cause of dementia in the elderly, accounting for 7 to 30% of all cases. Operational criteria for the antemortem clinical diagnosis of SDLT have already been proposed by our group. The perf...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： McKeith IG,Fairbairn AF,Bothwell RA,Moore PB,Ferrier IN,Thompson P,Perry RH

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four patients with disabling action tremor in the setting of MS were treated with isoniazid (800 to 1200 mg per day). All patients showed significant improvement of the tremor, allowing more functional use of their extremities. To the best of our knowledge, this is the only medical treatment for this type of tremor. ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Sabra AF,Hallett M,Sudarsky L,Mullally W

更新日期：1982-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate specificity and significance of dynamic changes of the cervical dural sac and spinal cord during neck flexion in juvenile muscular atrophy of the distal upper extremity. BACKGROUND:The disorder affects young people-predominantly men-and is progressive for several years. One autopsy case showed...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Hirayama K,Tokumaru Y

更新日期：2000-05-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:While stable xenon CT (Xe-CT) cerebral blood flow (CBF) is an accepted standard for quantitative assessment of cerebral hemodynamics, the accuracy of magnetic resonance perfusion-weighted imaging (PWI-MRI) is unclear. The Improved PWI Methodology in Acute Clinical Stroke Study compares PWI findings with Xe-C...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Olivot JM,Mlynash M,Zaharchuk G,Straka M,Bammer R,Schwartz N,Lansberg MG,Moseley ME,Albers GW

更新日期：2009-03-31 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors compared the transcranial color-coded duplex pattern of the middle cerebral arteries (MCAs) before and after IV and combined IV-intra-arterial (IV-IA) thrombolysis in consecutive first-ever stroke patients. Patients receiving combined IV-IA thrombolysis showed greater improvement in flow signal and higher ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Perren F,Loulidi J,Graves R,Yilmaz H,Rüfenacht D,Landis T,Sztajzel R

更新日期：2006-07-25 00:00:00

abstract：:We treated 64 emergency room patients with a primary vascular headache with dihydroergotamine (DHE), meperidine, or butorphanol. Post-treatment pain scores were lowest in the DHE group (p less than 0.01). Eight of 21 patients receiving DHE had greater than 90% reduction in pain compared with three of 19 patients recei...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Belgrade MJ,Ling LJ,Schleevogt MB,Ettinger MG,Ruiz E

更新日期：1989-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An infant with transient neonatal myasthenia gravis had a double-blood-volume exchange transfusion because of maternal-fetal blood group incompatibility. This seemed to accelerate both decline in antiacetylcholine antibody titer and clinical improvement. ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Donat JF,Donat JR,Lennon VA

更新日期：1981-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To conduct a validation study of 123I-N-fluoropropyl-2b-carbomethoxy-3b-(4-iodophenyl) nortropane (123I-FP-CIT) SPECT dopaminergic imaging in the clinical diagnosis of dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) with autopsy as the gold standard. METHODS:Patients >60 years of age with dementia who had undergone 123I-FP-...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Thomas AJ,Attems J,Colloby SJ,O'Brien JT,McKeith I,Walker R,Lee L,Burn D,Lett DJ,Walker Z

更新日期：2017-01-17 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To study the difference in risk for dementing diseases between men and women. BACKGROUND:Previous studies suggest women have a higher risk for dementia than men. However, these studies include small sample sizes, particularly in the older age groups, when the incidence of dementia is highest. METHODS:Pooled...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Andersen K,Launer LJ,Dewey ME,Letenneur L,Ott A,Copeland JR,Dartigues JF,Kragh-Sorensen P,Baldereschi M,Brayne C,Lobo A,Martinez-Lage JM,Stijnen T,Hofman A

更新日期：1999-12-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Confusion, speech arrest, automatic behavior, and amnesia characterize the prolonged twilight states of both petit mal and psychomotor status. However, in psychomotor status two electroclinical phases were differentiated: (1) A continuous twilight state with partial responsiveness and reactive automatisms interrupted ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Belafsky MA,Rosman NP,Miller P,Waddell G,Boxley-Johnson J,Delgado-Escueta AV

更新日期：1978-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:New data suggest that glioma stem-like cells (GSCs) and neural stem/progenitor cells (NSCs) may share common origins. GSCs drive tumor proliferation and appear to be resistant to classic chemotherapy, while the effects of chemotherapy on NSCs are not well studied. As the role of NSCs in learning and memory i...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Gong X,Schwartz PH,Linskey ME,Bota DA

更新日期：2011-03-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Inclusion-body myositis (IBM) is an inflammatory muscle disease that has proven resistant to treatment. Tumor necrosis factor molecules have been detected in muscle biopsies from patients with IBM. Etanercept is a TNFalpha receptor fusion protein that binds and inactivates tumor necrosis factor. Nine patients were tre...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Barohn RJ,Herbelin L,Kissel JT,King W,McVey AL,Saperstein DS,Mendell JR

更新日期：2006-01-24 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To clarify the possible relation between the extent of involvement of catecholaminergic neurons and the presence of alveolar hypoventilation in patients with myotonic dystrophy (MyD). BACKGROUND:Respiratory insufficiency has been reported frequently in MyD patients. Recent data support the hypothesis that th...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Ono S,Takahashi K,Jinnai K,Kanda F,Fukuoka Y,Kurisaki H,Mitake S,Inagaki T,Yamano T,Shimizu N,Nagao K

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00