Gender, cognitive decline, and risk of AD in older persons.

abstract：:The malformation of inverse cerebellum and occipital encephalocele is situated morphologically between the Arnold-Chiari and Dandy-Walker malformations. In the three reported cases, hydrocephalus was not present, concomitant malformations of the lamina terminalis were present in two, and polymicrogyria was found in al...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Smith MT,Huntington HW

更新日期：1977-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, the 24-hour pattern of blood pressure (BP), heart rate, and urinary catecholamine (CA) excretion and the response of BP and plasma CA to the tilt test have been investigated in 13 untreated patients affected by Parkinson's disease (PD) and in 11 age-matched healthy controls. Seven of the 13 PD subjects ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Micieli G,Martignoni E,Cavallini A,Sandrini G,Nappi G

更新日期：1987-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eighty-eight multiple sclerosis case-friend pairs were interviewed by telephone to elicit information about early-life exposures. Available mothers were also interviewed. Risk factors included childhood diseases, exposures to animals, and residence. We found a positive association between MS and having measles at a la...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Sullivan CB,Visscher BR,Detels R

更新日期：1984-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine possible effects of prolonged marijuana use on the cerebrovascular system during a month of monitored abstinence and to assess how the intensity of current use might have influenced cerebrovascular perfusion in these marijuana users. METHOD:The authors recorded blood flow velocity in the anterio...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Herning RI,Better WE,Tate K,Cadet JL

更新日期：2005-02-08 00:00:00

abstract：:We evaluated 85 patients with serologic evidence of Borrelia burgdorferi infection. Manifestations included encephalopathy (41), neuropathy (27), meningitis (2), multiple sclerosis (MS) (6), and psychiatric disorders (3). We performed lumbar punctures in 53, brain MRI in 33, and evoked potentials (EPs) in 33. Only pat...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Halperin JJ,Luft BJ,Anand AK,Roque CT,Alvarez O,Volkman DJ,Dattwyler RJ

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pathologic changes and distribution of lesions of the spinal cord were studied in 16 patients who suffered from "anoxic" episodes. The lesions were symmetrical and limited to the gray matter. The vulnerability of the spinal cord was most marked in the lumbosacral region, although almost every nucleus throughout the sp...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Azzarelli B,Roessmann U

更新日期：1977-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Posterior cortical atrophy (PCA) is a progressive dementia characterized by prominent disorders of higher visual processing, affecting both dorsal and ventral streams to cause Balint's syndrome, alexia, and visual agnosia. OBJECTIVE:To define the cognitive profile of PCA and compare to the typical, primary ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： McMonagle P,Deering F,Berliner Y,Kertesz A

更新日期：2006-02-14 00:00:00

abstract：:We present an 11-year-old girl in whom high field strength MRI performed 2 1/2 years and 6 months before her death showed prominent hypointensity in the globus pallidus and substantia nigra consistent with iron deposition. This finding suggested Hallervorden-Spatz disease, which was confirmed at autopsy. ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Schaffert DA,Johnsen SD,Johnson PC,Drayer BP

更新日期：1989-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We sought to determine whether geriatric patients with late-life-onset major depression have more subcortical hyperintensities on MRI and greater cognitive impairment than age-matched geriatric patients with early-life-onset major depression, suggesting that subcortical disease may be etiologic in late-life depression...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Salloway S,Malloy P,Kohn R,Gillard E,Duffy J,Rogg J,Tung G,Richardson E,Thomas C,Westlake R

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors reviewed the incidence of cancer, repetitive nerve stimulation findings, and response to treatment in 73 patients with Lambert-Eaton myasthenic syndrome. Thirty-one patients (42%) had lung cancer, 29 small cell. Doubling of the compound motor action potential amplitude in three tested distal muscles was se...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Tim RW,Massey JM,Sanders DB

更新日期：2000-06-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Serum levels of creatine phosphokinase (CPK) and pyruvic kinase (PK) were determined in 42 controls, 57 patients with various neuromuscular disorders, and 23 female relatives of Duchenne dystrophy patients. CPK and PK enzyme activities were increased in comparable numbers of muscle disease patients and female carriers...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Seay AR,Ziter FA,Wu LH,Wu JT

更新日期：1978-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:MRI and CSF investigations revealed meningeal involvement in a 29-year-old patient with biopsy-confirmed Wegener's granulomatosis. The intracranial manifestation of Wegener's granulomatosis was supported by the detection of pathologic circulating antineutrophil cytoplasm (c-ANCA) in the CSF. We monitored disease activ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Spranger M,Schwab S,Meinck HM,Tischendorf M,Sis J,Breitbart A,Andrassy K

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The incidence of acquired demyelination of the CNS (acquired demyelinating syndromes [ADS]) in children is unknown. It is important that physicians recognize the features of ADS to facilitate care and to appreciate the future risk of multiple sclerosis (MS). OBJECTIVE:To determine the incidence, clinical fe...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Banwell B,Kennedy J,Sadovnick D,Arnold DL,Magalhaes S,Wambera K,Connolly MB,Yager J,Mah JK,Shah N,Sebire G,Meaney B,Dilenge ME,Lortie A,Whiting S,Doja A,Levin S,MacDonald EA,Meek D,Wood E,Lowry N,Buckley D,Yim

更新日期：2009-01-20 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine whether blood-based biomarkers can differentiate older veterans with and without traumatic brain injury (TBI) and cognitive impairment (CogI). METHODS:We enrolled 155 veterans from 2 veterans' retirement homes: 90 without TBI and 65 with TBI history. Participants were further separated into CogI...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Peltz CB,Kenney K,Gill J,Diaz-Arrastia R,Gardner RC,Yaffe K

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The purpose of this study was to develop an algorithm incorporating MRI metrics to classify patients with mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) and controls. METHODS:This was an institutional review board-approved, Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act-compliant prospective study. We recruited pat...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Lui YW,Xue Y,Kenul D,Ge Y,Grossman RI,Wang Y

更新日期：2014-09-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Minor head trauma precipitated oculomotor nerve palsies in two patients who subsequently were discovered to have ipsilateral posterior communicating artery aneurysms. A history of minor trauma should not dissuade investigation for underlying causes of oculomotor nerve palsy, including intracranial aneurysm. ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Walter KA,Newman NJ,Lessell S

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors describe the outcome of five patients with a cardiac thrombus selected among 183 patients with stroke (2.7 %) who were given IV tissue plasminogen activator (tPA). No early systemic or cerebral embolism occurred. Two patients made a complete recovery at 3 months. Two patients had a moderate outcome. One pa...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Derex L,Nighoghossian N,Perinetti M,Honnorat J,Trouillas P

更新日期：2001-12-11 00:00:00

abstract：:A 33-year-old man with complex partial seizures developed de novo hypertension after the initiation of carbamazepine, which resolved on discontinuation. Although rare, a variety of cardiovascular effects including hypertension have been reported with carbamazepine. Numerous mechanisms may be responsible; however, shar...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Jette N,Veregin T,Guberman A

更新日期：2002-07-23 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Functional or psychogenic movement disorders (FMD) present a diagnostic challenge. To diagnose FMD, clinicians must have experience with signs typical of FMD and distinguishing features from other hyperkinetic disorders. The aim of this study was to clarify the decision-making process of expert clinicians whi...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： van der Salm SM,van Rootselaar AF,Cath DC,de Haan RJ,Koelman JH,Tijssen MA

更新日期：2017-01-10 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To investigate whether the human sciatic nerve might have a consistent somatotopic organization according to proximal fascicle input by spinal nerves. METHODS:Twelve patients (55.3 ± 15.5 years) with confirmed lesions of either the L5 or S1 spinal nerve root underwent magnetic resonance neurography of sciat...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Bäumer P,Weiler M,Bendszus M,Pham M

更新日期：2015-04-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors evaluated response, time to progression (TTP), survival, prognostic factors, and toxicity in 63 patients with a recurrent glioblastoma multiforme treated with procarbazine, lomustine, and vincristine (PCV) chemotherapy. Complete and partial response was observed in two (3%) and five patients (8%). In 16 pa...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Kappelle AC,Postma TJ,Taphoorn MJ,Groeneveld GJ,van den Bent MJ,van Groeningen CJ,Zonnenberg BA,Sneeuw KC,Heimans JJ

更新日期：2001-01-09 00:00:00

abstract：:We administered Ro 40-7592, an inhibitor of the enzyme catechol-O-methyltransferase (COMT) that crosses the blood-brain barrier, to rats and monitored extracellular catecholamine levels in the corpus striatum before and after the intraperitoneal administration of a bolus of l-dopa. Acute administration of Ro 40-7592 i...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Brannan T,Martínez-Tica J,Yahr MD

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To compare the effectiveness of upper extremity virtual reality rehabilitation training (VR) to time-matched conventional training (CT) in the subacute phase after stroke. METHODS:In this randomized, controlled, single-blind phase III multicenter trial, 120 participants with upper extremity motor impairment ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Brunner I,Skouen JS,Hofstad H,Aßmus J,Becker F,Sanders AM,Pallesen H,Qvist Kristensen L,Michielsen M,Thijs L,Verheyden G

更新日期：2017-12-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In acute cerebral ischemia, two variables characterize the extent of hypoperfusion: the volume of hypoperfused tissue and the intensity of hypoperfusion within these regions. We evaluated the determinants of the intensity of hypoperfusion within oligemic regions among patients who were eligible for recanaliz...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Bang OY,Saver JL,Alger JR,Starkman S,Ovbiagele B,Liebeskind DS,UCLA Collateral Investigators.

更新日期：2008-11-25 00:00:00

abstract：:An emerging issue in stroke prevention and stroke treatment is that therapies shown to be effective in clinical trials are not being used or are being used suboptimally. One of many explanations relates to cost, ranging from concerns about inappropriate use of societal resources to more immediate concerns of organizat...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Matchar DB

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Learning and memory impairments are prevalent among persons with multiple sclerosis (MS); however, such deficits are only weakly associated with MS disease severity (brain atrophy). The cognitive reserve hypothesis states that greater lifetime intellectual enrichment lessens the negative impact of brain disea...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Sumowski JF,Wylie GR,Chiaravalloti N,DeLuca J

更新日期：2010-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine the diagnostic accuracy of nerve ultrasound in a prospective cohort of consecutive patients with a clinical suspicion of chronic inflammatory neuropathies, including chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy, Lewis-Sumner syndrome, and multifocal motor neuropathy, and to determine the added...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Herraets IJT,Goedee HS,Telleman JA,van Eijk RPA,van Asseldonk JT,Visser LH,van den Berg LH,van der Pol WL

更新日期：2020-04-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Localization of sign language production and comprehension in deaf people has been described as similar to that of spoken language aphasia. However, sign language employs a visuospatial modality through visual information. We present the first report of a deaf signer who showed substantial sign language aphasia with s...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Saito K,Otsuki M,Ueno S

更新日期：2007-10-02 00:00:00

abstract：:A patient received an overdose of intravascular contrast medium and experienced protracted seizures associated with radiographic evidence of prolonged retention of the contrast agent in the cerebral cortex, basal ganglia, and thalami. This is only the second report and the first survivor of a similar neurologic syndro...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： May EF,Ling GS,Geyer CA,Jabbari B

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Magnetic resonance images (MRI), evoked responses (ER), and CSF findings were compared in 39 patients with possible, probable, or definite MS. MRI disclosed multiple lesions (72%) more often than ERs (55%) in the total group of patients. In possible MS, MRI showed multiple lesions in 71%, and ER abnormalities were fou...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Farlow MR,Markand ON,Edwards MK,Stevens JC,Kolar OJ

更新日期：1986-06-01 00:00:00