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abstract：BACKGROUND:According to the International Classification of Headache Disorders (ICHD)-2, primary daily headaches unremitting from onset are classified as new daily-persistent headache (NDPH) only if migraine features are absent. When migraine features are present, classification is problematic. METHODS:We developed a ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Robbins MS,Grosberg BM,Napchan U,Crystal SC,Lipton RB

更新日期：2010-04-27 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To report the development of CNS vasculitis in a patient with multiple sclerosis (MS) treated with daclizumab. METHODS:This report includes clinical, MRI, immunologic, and pathology data and CSF analysis. RESULTS:After completing a phase II daclizumab monotherapy study with an optimal response as evidenced ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Ohayon J,Oh U,Richert N,Martin J,Vortmeyer A,McFarland H,Bielekova B

更新日期：2013-01-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Neutralizing antibodies (NAB) to interferon beta (IFNbeta) occur in about one-third of MS patients treated with IFNbeta-1b and there is an association with a loss of clinical and MRI efficacy. However, there are no data regarding the bioavailability of IFNbeta-1b in patients with and without NAB. METHODS:Th...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Deisenhammer F,Reindl M,Harvey J,Gasse T,Dilitz E,Berger T

更新日期：1999-04-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Manipulation of afferent inputs may temporarily modulate dystonic spasms. Ten patients with writer's cramp were enrolled in a double-blind, randomized, crossover study in which the effects of transcutaneous electrical stimulation (TENS) and placebo treatment were compared. Patients were evaluated using four measures o...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Tinazzi M,Farina S,Bhatia K,Fiaschi A,Moretto G,Bertolasi L,Zarattini S,Smania N

更新日期：2005-06-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Previous studies have examined the role of APOE variation in multiple sclerosis (MS), but have lacked the statistical power to detect modest genetic influences on risk and disease severity. The meta- and pooled analyses presented here utilize the largest collection, to date, of MS cases, controls, and famili...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Burwick RM,Ramsay PP,Haines JL,Hauser SL,Oksenberg JR,Pericak-Vance MA,Schmidt S,Compston A,Sawcer S,Cittadella R,Savettieri G,Quattrone A,Polman CH,Uitdehaag BM,Zwemmer JN,Hawkins CP,Ollier WE,Weatherby S,Enzinger C

更新日期：2006-05-09 00:00:00

abstract：:As the substantia nigra degenerates in Parkinson's disease (PD), the nigrostriatal pathway is disrupted, reducing striatal dopamine and producing PD symptoms. Although dopamine does not readily cross the blood-brain barrier, its precursor, levodopa, does. Levodopa is absorbed in the small bowel and is rapidly cataboli...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Koller WC,Rueda MG

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the effects of estrogen replacement therapy (ERT) on the risk of development of dementia in 87 women with Parkinson's disease without dementia (PDND), 80 women with Parkinson's disease with dementia (PDD), and 989 nondemented healthy women from the same community. ERT was protective for the development...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Marder K,Tang MX,Alfaro B,Mejia H,Cote L,Jacobs D,Stern Y,Sano M,Mayeux R

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 17 patients with cough syncope, electroencephalograms showed normal interictal recordings in 12 patients, minimally abnormal recordings in 4, and a moderately abnormal recording in 1. Fourteen episodes of cough syncope (six patients) were recorded, with the EEGs showing diffuse theta and delta slowing during the ep...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： DeMaria AA Jr,Westmoreland BF,Sharbrough FW

更新日期：1984-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We measured the concentrations of the monoamines, their precursors, and their metabolites, and the activity of choline acetyltransferase (ChAT) in basal ganglia and cortical regions of postmortem brains from cases with histologically verified pure Alzheimer's disease (AD), AD with diffusely distributed Lewy bodies (Le...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Langlais PJ,Thal L,Hansen L,Galasko D,Alford M,Masliah E

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this double-blind, placebo-controlled trial, we investigated the effect of the catechol-O-methyltransferase inhibitor tolcapone 100 or 200 mg three times daily on activities of daily living and motor function in 298 patients with parkinsonism receiving levodopa but without motor fluctuations. At 6 months, both dosa...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Waters CH,Kurth M,Bailey P,Shulman LM,LeWitt P,Dorflinger E,Deptula D,Pedder S

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We retrospectively studied the effects of changing antiepileptic drug levels on patterns of seizure discharge in 8 patients investigated with intracerebral electrodes during presurgical evaluation. We compared seizures recorded at high levels of medication to seizures recorded at low levels for changes in seizure dura...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： So N,Gotman J

更新日期：1990-03-01 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：OBJECTIVES:More than 30 different rare mutations, including copy number variants (CNVs), in the amyloid precursor protein gene (APP) cause early-onset familial Alzheimer disease (EOFAD), whereas the contribution of common APP variants to disease risk remains controversial. In this study we systematically assessed the r...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Hooli BV,Mohapatra G,Mattheisen M,Parrado AR,Roehr JT,Shen Y,Gusella JF,Moir R,Saunders AJ,Lange C,Tanzi RE,Bertram L

更新日期：2012-04-17 00:00:00

abstract：:This community-based study analyzed 54 patients with definite or probable tuberculous meningitis (TBM) in New Mexico from 1970 through 1990. Patients ranged in age from 4 months to 86 years. The highest age-specific incidence occurred in the elderly, but 22% of patients were less than 10 years old. Native American pat...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Davis LE,Rastogi KR,Lambert LC,Skipper BJ

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess the correlation of tissue parameters estimated by quantitative magnetic resonance (MR) techniques and motor handicap in patients with hypomyelination. METHODS:Twenty-eight patients with different causes of hypomyelination (12 males, 16 females; mean age 10 years) and 61 controls (33 males, 28 femal...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Steenweg ME,Wolf NI,van Wieringen WN,Barkhof F,van der Knaap MS,Pouwels PJ

更新日期：2016-08-23 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine the efficacy and tolerability of unilateral thalamic deep brain stimulation (DBS) for patients with medically refractory essential tremor (ET) and the tremor associated with Parkinson's disease (PD). BACKGROUND:The tremor of ET and PD may produce functional disability despite optimal medical the...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Ondo W,Jankovic J,Schwartz K,Almaguer M,Simpson RK

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate the cognitive decline in dementia with Lewy bodies (DLBs) and characterize the contribution of Lewy bodies (LBs) to cognitive impairment in the presence of concurrent Alzheimer disease (AD). METHODS:Cognitive deficits and rates of progression attributable to DLB and AD neuropathology were inve...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Johnson DK,Morris JC,Galvin JE

更新日期：2005-10-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Although neurophysiologic doctrine has traditionally referred to "the" voltage-gated sodium channel, it is now clear that there are at least nine genes that encode molecularly and physiologically distinct sodium channels. Mutations of sodium channel genes provide a basis for genetic channelopathies. Dysregulated expre...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Waxman SG

更新日期：2001-06-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Calcification in brainstem gliomas is an unusual histologic and and radiologic finding. To date, radiologic evidence of calcification in these tumors has not been reported. The two patients described here had evidence of calcification on either computerized tomography (CT) or plain skull films. Increasing availability...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Duffner PK,Klein DM,Cohen ME

更新日期：1978-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently published reports have suggested that multiple sclerosis (MS) may be associated with human retrovirus infection. Indeed, an autonomously proliferating T-cell clone was isolated from the CSF of an MS patient, an observation interpreted as indicating an infection with human T lymphotropic virus I (HTLV I). In v...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Birnbaum G,Aubitz S,Kotilinek L

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Among 22 patients with human T-lymphotropic virus type I (HTLV-I)-associated chronic progressive myelopathy, agarose isoelectric focusing (AIF) revealed oligoclonal IgG bands in 21: in 3 in CSF only; in 11 in CSF and to some extent in serum; and in 7, identical patterns in CSF and serum. By immunoblot after AIF of CSF...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Link H,Cruz M,Gessain A,Gout O,de Thé G,Kam-Hansen S

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of genetic factors in determining risk for status epilepticus (SE) was examined in twins identified using the population-based Virginia Twin Registry. Concordance rates for SE were 0.38 for monozygotic (MZ) and 0.00 for dizygotic (DZ) twins, with the rate in MZs being significantly increased over DZs. The pre...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Corey LA,Pellock JM,Boggs JG,Miller LL,DeLorenzo RJ

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Ullrich congenital muscular dystrophy (UCMD) is a form of merosin-positive congenital muscular dystrophy characterized by proximal contractures, distal laxity, rigidity of the spine, and respiratory complications. Recently, a deficiency of collagen VI on muscle and skin biopsy together with recessive mutatio...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Mercuri E,Yuva Y,Brown SC,Brockington M,Kinali M,Jungbluth H,Feng L,Sewry CA,Muntoni F

更新日期：2002-05-14 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Twenty-eight percent of patients with the Guillain-Barré syndrome remain able to walk unaided. Studying patients with the mild form of Guillain-Barré syndrome can further contribute to knowledge of the spectrum of the syndrome and explore whether this subgroup may need treatment with IV immunoglobulin. METHO...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Van Koningsveld R,Schmitz PI,Ang CW,Groen J,Osterhaus AD,Van der Meché FG,Van Doorn PA

更新日期：2002-02-26 00:00:00

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:Fragile X-associated tremor/ataxia syndrome (FXTAS) is a recently described, underrecognized neurodegenerative disorder of aging fragile X mental retardation 1 (FMR1) premutation carriers, particularly men. Core motor features are action tremor, gait ataxia, and parkinsonism. Carriers have expanded CGG repea...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Leehey MA,Berry-Kravis E,Goetz CG,Zhang L,Hall DA,Li L,Rice CD,Lara R,Cogswell J,Reynolds A,Gane L,Jacquemont S,Tassone F,Grigsby J,Hagerman RJ,Hagerman PJ

更新日期：2008-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Determine the frequency of and the predictive factors for abnormal ocular fundus findings among emergency department (ED) headache patients. METHODS:Cross-sectional study of prospectively enrolled adult patients presenting to our ED with a chief complaint of headache. Ocular fundus photographs were obtained...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Thulasi P,Fraser CL,Biousse V,Wright DW,Newman NJ,Bruce BB

更新日期：2013-01-29 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To explore the incidence of depression and anxiety and to measure quality of life in women with idiopathic intracranial hypertension (IIH), a matched group cross-sectional study was conducted. Women with IIH (n = 28) were compared with control groups of weight- and age-matched women not diagnosed with IIH (n ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Kleinschmidt JJ,Digre KB,Hanover R

更新日期：2000-01-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Several studies indicate semantic fluency more sensitively discriminates patients with Alzheimer disease (AD) from normal elderly persons, with disproportionate impairment of semantic over phonemic fluency. OBJECTIVE:To determine the ability of abbreviated fluency measures in the clinic setting (1-minute le...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Canning SJ,Leach L,Stuss D,Ngo L,Black SE

更新日期：2004-02-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Women were enrolled in our prospective cohort study of epilepsy and pregnancy to determine the developmental outcome of offspring and the immediate outcome of pregnancy. Women with epilepsy (case group) were enrolled before conception or during the first trimester, and women without epilepsy or chronic illness (contro...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Leavitt AM,Yerby MS,Robinson N,Sells CJ,Erickson DM

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00