[Actinomycotic abscess of the cerebellum: a case report].

abstract：:The author establishes an analogy between the control mechanism and regulation of the cerebral blood flow and of protection of the vascular wall of the internal carotid constituted by the conjunction "internal carotid-cavernous sinus" with the group represented by the system "vertebro basilar-transverse occipital sinu...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Moreira MB

更新日期：1982-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The degree of depression in 88 abandoned children was analysed through a depression rating scale adapted to prepubertal children. The items were grouped into three dimensions: sociological-relational, psychological and biological. In 46 children from this sample it was dosed plasmatic cortisol and the urinary excretio...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Queiroz EA,Lombardi AB,Furtado CR,Peixoto CC,Soares TA,Fabre ZL,Basques JC,Fernandes ML,Lippi JR

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To study the reasons for referral to electrodiagnostic evaluation, 490 patients referred for electrodiagnostic evaluation to two laboratories (UNIFESP and UNEF) answered the following question: "What was the reason that brought you to look for a physician and that led him to ask this examination?" Paresthesia and/or p...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： de Campos CC,Manzano GM,Castelo Filho A,Nóbrega JA

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Motor functional neurological disorder (mFND) is a common and disabling condition. There are no evidence-based guidelines for treatment. Long-term outcome is often poor. This study describes the epidemiological profile, symptom pattern and outcome of patients admitted to the Belo Horizonte unit of the SARAH ...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Theuer RV,Neves SVN,Champs APS

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the possible association between celiac disease (CD) and/or gluten sensitivity (GS) and autism spectrum disorder (ASD). METHODS:Occurrences of CD were determined in a group of children and adolescents affected by ASD and, conversely, occurrences of ASD were assessed in a group of biopsy-proven ce...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Batista IC,Gandolfi L,Nobrega YK,Almeida RC,Almeida LM,Campos Junior D,Pratesi R

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 42 year-old woman developed paraplegia that resolved in six months, followed by sudden right hemiparesis and dysphasia two years later. The clinical work-up, including CT and MR scans, visual evoked potential, CSF examination and cerebral biopsy suggested the possibility of either multiple sclerosis or multiphasic d...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Maranhäo-Filho PA

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors review the literature about the cronic nervous form of Chagas' disease, directing their attention toward peripheral neurological aspects. Specifically, they analyse the results obtained from a "bind" research realized in a small community in the countryside of the state of Bahia, Brazil, where a high frequ...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Fortes-Rêgo J,Macedo VO,Prata A

更新日期：1980-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To report a case of childhood cerebral X-linked adrenoleukodystrophy (X-ADL), emphasizing the magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) findings at initial evaluation and at the follow-up. CASE REPORT:Five year-old boy, who was asymptomatic, presented with diagnosis of X-ADL for MRI evaluation. The initial brain MRI ...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Gasparetto EL,Rosa JM,Davaus T,de Carvalho Neto A

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Medulloblastoma is the most common childhood malignant tumor of central nervous system, but it may also occur in adults. It presents high invasive growth with spreading of tumor cells into the leptomeningeal space along the neuroaxis early in the course of the disease. Extraneural metastases are rare but frequently le...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Muoio VM,Shinjo SO,Matushita H,Rosemberg S,Teixeira MJ,Marie SK

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epilepsy is one of the most dreaded and terrifying human afflictions. One of the many names it has received was Sacred Disease, during Greek times. Heracles served as a source of the divine connotation that epilepsy received in ancient times, as he was one of the most important demigods in Greek mythology. However, se...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Orrego-GonzÁlez E,Peralta-GarcÍa A,Palacios-SÁnchez L

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess the long-term efficacy of percutaneous vertebroplasty for the treatment of pain resulting from osteoporotic vertebral fractures. METHOD:26 percutaneous vertebroplasty procedures were performed for osteoporotic vertebral fractures in 15 patients during the period between July 2001 and May 2004. Befo...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Astacio GS,Marchiori E,Gasparetto EL,Azevedo F

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To evaluate with 1H-magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) the metabolites rations of the foramen of Monro's region in patients with tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC). METHOD:Twelve patients with TSC and an age and gender-matched control group underwent MR imaging at a 1.5T scanner, and 1H-MRS at the foramen of ...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Carvalho-Neto Ad,Bruck I,Antoniuk SA,Marchiori E,Gasparetto EL

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The treatment of patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) with immunomodulatory drugs, and more recently, with immunosuppressive drugs, have modified the natural history of the disease in the last years. The conclusions and recommendations elaborated by several authors based upon multicenter studies make us review and up...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Academia Brasileira de Neurologia. Departamento Científico de Neuroimunologia.

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The industrialization process and nervous system cancer (NSC) mortality in a urban region of Brazil. METHOD:From registries of the State System of Data Analysis Foundation (SEADE), 103 males deaths by NSC (ICD-9) in Baixada Santista (BS), from 1980 to 1993 were selected. Mortality ratios were calculated com...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Medrado-Faria MD,de Almeida JW,Zanetta DM,Gattás GJ

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The indication for thymectomy in myasthenia gravis still is controversial, and it is uncommon to find in the present days studies comparing conservative treatments, due to the widespread surgical treatment adopted in most centers. We studied 65 cases divided into three groups of patients: (1) 15 thymectomized patients...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Werneck LC,Moreira PR

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 33-year-old female with neurofibromatosis and intracranial vascular lesions of the Moya-Moya type is reported. Clinical and angiographic aspects of both syndromes are discussed with respect to earlier reports of this rare association, with the conclusion that it produces slow intellectual and motor deterioration in ...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Gracia CM,Bittencourt PC,Mazer S,Bittencourt PR

更新日期：1986-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Subacute progressive panencephalitis is usually a progressive and fatal disease, being uncommon temporary or definitive remissions. A three years old boy, previously vaccinated against measles, developed trembling, progressive and severe mental deterioration, partial seizures and myoclonic jerks. The electroencephalog...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Villaca LM,de Macedo DD

更新日期：1979-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since the last decades of the past century there have been several reports in the medical literature describing patients with dystonia. The clinical and phenomenological concepts of dystonic movements have been debated. Presently, dystonia is defined as a syndrome of sustained muscle contractions, frequently causing t...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Papaterra Limongi JC

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess cognition in major depressed (MD), Alzheimer's disease (AD), and depression in AD elderly. METHOD:Subjects were evaluated by Mini Mental, Rey Auditory Verbal Learning Test, Rey Complex Figure, Digit Span, Similarities, Trail Making A/B, Verbal Fluency and Stroop. One-way ANOVA and multivariate mode...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Araujo NB,Moraes HS,Silveira H,Arcoverde C,Vasques PE,Barca ML,Knapskog AB,Engedal K,Coutinho ES,Deslandes AC,Laks J

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intracranial lipoma are usually localized in the corpus callosum and rarely extends to the subgaleal region. Only eight cases of lipoma of the corpus callosum with extracranial extension were reported in the literature. Seizures and mental retardation were the most common clinical findings in these patients. Data from...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Martins RS,Ciquini Júnior O,Matushita H,Plese JP

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurosonological studies, specifically transcranial Doppler (TCD) and transcranial color-coded duplex (TCCD), have high level of specificity and sensitivity and they are used as complementary tests for the diagnosis of brain death (BD). A group of experts, from the Neurosonology Department of the Brazilian Academy of ...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Lange MC,Zétola VH,Miranda-Alves M,Moro CH,Silvado CE,Rodrigues DL,Gregorio EG,Silva GS,Oliveira-Filho J,Perdatella MT,Pontes-Neto OM,Fábio SR,Avelar WM,Freitas GR,Task Force Group of the Neurosonology Department, Brazilian A

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two syndromatic forms of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease are illustrated with data from two cases confirmed by necropsy and studied by means of electroencephalogram, evoked potential recording and neuropathological techniques. One of the cases presented the typical hypersynchronous periodic discharges through to be characte...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Ferrer S,Cartier L,Lolas F,Perez M

更新日期：1982-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two cases of partial Klüver-Bucy syndrome developed after probable herpes simplex meningoencephalitis are reported. Clinical, pathological, diagnostic and therapeutic aspects of herpes simplex encephalitis and Klüver-Bucy syndrome are discussed. ...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Montanha EV,Coral LC

更新日期：1986-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The effect of gastrointestinal system disorders on Restless Legs Syndrome/Willis-Ekbom disease (RLS/WED) has been previously demonstrated by using serological tests. However, this association has not been supported by histopathological studies so far. OBJECTIVE:To investigate the relationship between RLS/WE...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Çam M,Kutluana U

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Myotonia is the phenomenon of decrease of muscular relaxation rate, after either a contraction or a mechanical or electrical stimulus. Congenital myotonias are hereditary affections and do not present muscular dystrophy. The current trend is to group them as ionic channels diseases, together with the periodic paralysi...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Azevedo HC,Mendonça LI,Salum PN,Carvalho MS,Nagahashi-Marie SK,Siqueira-Carvalho AA,Cerqueira MA,Reed UC,Levy JA

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Significant advances in the understanding and management of Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) have occurred since the publication of international guidelines for DMD care in 2010. Our objective was to provide an evidence-based national consensus statement for multidisciplinary care of DMD in Brazil. A combination of t...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Araujo APQC,Nardes F,Fortes CPDD,Pereira JA,Rebel MF,Dias CM,Barbosa RCGA,Lopes MVR,Langer AL,Neves FR,Reis EF

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The hemolytic-uremic syndrome is a pathology characterized by a triad consisting of acute renal failure, microangiopathic hemolytic anemia and thrombocytopenia, with complications of the central nervous system arising in a considerable number of cases. Altered cranial computerized tomography examinations usually revea...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Santos AC,Siqueira Neto JI,Fabio SR

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：Objective::To evaluate the microRNA-219 and NMDA expression in brain tissue and blood of animals subjected to cerebral ischemia associated with alcoholism. Methods::Fifty Wistar rats were divided into groups: control, sham, ischemic, alcoholic, and ischemic plus alcoholic. The expression of microRNA-219 and NMDA were ...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Silva CI,Novais PC,Rodrigues AR,Carvalho CA,Colli BO,Carlotti CG Jr,Tirapelli LF,Tirapelli DP

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To observe postpartum migraine recurrence among migraine sufferers before pregnancy, its classifications and associated factors and to compare women, who were exclusively breastfeeding, with those that used other forms of infant feeding. METHODS:Out of 686 consecutively assisted women, at the first postnata...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Serva WA,Serva VM,Caminha Mde F,Figueiroa JN,Serva GB,Valença MM

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the case of a 32-year-old woman who complained of dull and compressing occipital pain, with unilateral radiation to the left frontal and supraorbital areas (of the sickening type). The radiological, clinical, neurosurgical and neuropathologic investigation disclosed a medulloblastoma bulging and tickening th...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Piovesan EJ,Werneck LC,Teive HA,Navarro F,Kówacs PA

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00