Headache types and panic disorder: directionality and specificity.

abstract：:Retarded mental and motor development was observed during the first year of life of a full-term female who had been delivered with difficulty. Generalized psychomotor seizures and dysplastic "acromegalic" facial changes began to develop when she was 8 years old, and generalized amyotrophy developed over the next sever...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Landau WM,Torack RM,Guggenheim MA

更新日期：1976-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 59-year-old woman with levodopa-responsive parkinsonism complicated by motor fluctuations and generalized levodopa dyskinesia underwent bilateral subthalamic deep brain stimulation (STN DBS) 7 years after symptom onset. DBS improved levodopa-responsive upper extremity bradykinesia but aggravated speech, swallowing, ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Tarsy D,Apetauerova D,Ryan P,Norregaard T

更新日期：2003-07-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Visual hallucinations (VHs) occur frequently in Parkinson's disease (PD). VHs occur more frequently in elderly patients with longer duration of illness, cognitive impairment, and sleep disturbances. The relationship between the use of antiparkinsonian drugs and VHs is complicated, but most drugs used to treat parkinso...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Kulisevsky J,Roldan E

更新日期：2004-10-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:An association between primary hyperparathyroidism (PHP) and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) has been noted; however, a causal relation between these disorders has not been confirmed. PATIENTS/METHODS:We report five patients (three men, two women) meeting El Escorial criteria for ALS who also had PHP. I...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Jackson CE,Amato AA,Bryan WW,Wolfe GI,Sakhaee K,Barohn RJ

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 78-year-old woman presented with a right basal ganglia infarct 6 weeks after a left herpes zoster ophthalmicus. MR angiography showed focal segmental stenosis of the proximal segments of the anterior, middle, and posterior cerebral arteries. Varicella DNA was detected in the CSF by polymerase chain reaction (PCR). T...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Melanson M,Chalk C,Georgevich L,Fett K,Lapierre Y,Duong H,Richardson J,Marineau C,Rouleau GA

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Long-term hypothalamic stimulation is effective in improving drug-resistant chronic cluster headache (CH). We assessed acute hypothalamic stimulation to resolve ongoing CH attacks in 16 patients implanted to prevent chronic CH, investigating 136 attacks. A pain intensity reduction of > or =50% occurred in 25 of 108 ev...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Leone M,Franzini A,Broggi G,Mea E,Cecchini AP,Bussone G

更新日期：2006-11-28 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：:This paper reviews the issue of hepatotoxicity with the use of the catechol-O-methly transferase (COMT) inhibitors tolcapone and entacapone. Neither drug caused hepatotoxicity in preclinical toxicity testing. However, in clinical trials of tolcapone, liver chemistry tests were elevated more than 3 times above the uppe...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Watkins P

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The aim of this study was to identify risk factors for rupture of unruptured cerebral aneurysms (UCAs) in elderly Japanese patients aged 70 years or older. METHODS:The participants included all patients 70 years of age or older in 3 prospective studies in Japan (the Unruptured Cerebral Aneurysm Study of Jap...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Hishikawa T,Date I,Tokunaga K,Tominari S,Nozaki K,Shiokawa Y,Houkin K,Murayama Y,Ishibashi T,Takao H,Kimura T,Nakayama T,Morita A,For UCAS Japan and UCAS II Investigators.

更新日期：2015-11-24 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the occurrence of neurologic complications in 23 patients who underwent gastric restriction surgery for the treatment of morbid obesity. Complications occurred 3 to 20 months after surgery. All the patients had had protracted vomiting for the first 3 months after the operation. The following syndromes were f...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Abarbanel JM,Berginer VM,Osimani A,Solomon H,Charuzi I

更新日期：1987-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In the setting of severe immunosuppression, the polyomavirus JC (JCV) can cause a lytic infection of oligodendrocytes. This demyelinating disease of the CNS white matter (WM) is called progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML). JCV has a very narrow host-cell range and productive infection of neurons ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Du Pasquier RA,Corey S,Margolin DH,Williams K,Pfister LA,De Girolami U,Mac Key JJ,Wüthrich C,Joseph JT,Koralnik IJ

更新日期：2003-09-23 00:00:00

abstract：:We evaluated four formulas for estimating the intra-blood-brain barrier (IBBB) synthesis of IgG in a computer model of two types of BBB damage and in 1,629 consecutively received pairs of CSF and serum. These four formulas were the IgG synthesis rate (SR), IgG(loc) (ie, local), IgG index, and IgG extended index. Resul...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Peter JB,Bowman RL

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spinal cord compression by extramedullary hemopoietic tissue is a rare complication of hemolytic anemias. This is the first report of this complication in hemolytic anemia caused by pyruvate-kinase deficiency. Indium scan, computed tomography (CT) scan, and myelography were helpful in diagnosis. Surgery and radiothera...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Rutgers MJ,van der Lugt PJ,van Turnhout JM

更新日期：1979-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Functional decline for each decade at symptom onset and need for cane, walker, or wheelchair were assessed in 78 biopsy-proved patients with sporadic inclusion body myositis. Patients with disease onset between 40 and 59 years used a walker after 10.2 +/- 5.8 years, whereas those with disease onset between 60 and 79 y...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Peng A,Koffman BM,Malley JD,Dalakas MC

更新日期：2000-07-25 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate whether plasma interleukin-6 (IL-6) is cross-sectionally related to poorer cognitive function and whether a baseline plasma IL-6 measurement can predict risk for decline in cognitive function in longitudinal follow-up of a population-based sample of nondisabled elderly people. METHODS:A prospe...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Weaver JD,Huang MH,Albert M,Harris T,Rowe JW,Seeman TE

更新日期：2002-08-13 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the vasocapacitance of the cerebral circulation, as determined by cerebral blood flow reactivity to induced hypercapnia using fluoromethane positron emission tomography, in 32 patients with unilateral anterior circulation transient ischemic attacks. A hemodynamic subset of eight patients, defined based on ex...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Levine RL,Lagreze HL,Dobkin JA,Hanson JM,Satter MR,Rowe BR,Nickles RJ

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To characterize the clinical course of pathologically diagnosed hippocampal sclerosis dementia (HSD). BACKGROUND:Dementia associated with HSD is incompletely characterized. Previous studies suggest similarities to both Alzheimer disease (AD) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD). METHODS:Case-control analysis o...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Blass DM,Hatanpaa KJ,Brandt J,Rao V,Steinberg M,Troncoso JC,Rabins PV

更新日期：2004-08-10 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 have performed positron emission tomography (PET) with 2-deoxy-2[18F]fluoro-D-glucose (FDG) in eight infants and children (aged 18 days to 5 years) with medically refractory epilepsy of neonatal onset. It was hypothesized that in at least some of these infants a surgical approach (focal resection, cerebral hemisphe...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Chugani HT,Shewmon DA,Peacock WJ,Shields WD,Mazziotta JC,Phelps ME

更新日期：1988-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of lysine vasopressin on memory and cognitive deficits in Alzheimer disease was investigated. In a double-blind study, seven patients were given 16 units of lysine vasopressin per day for 10 days and were compared with seven different patients receiving placebo. No significant difference in performance bet...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Durso R,Fedio P,Brouwers P,Cox C,Martin AJ,Ruggieri SA,Tamminga CA,Chase TN

更新日期：1982-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The MS Functional Composite (MSFC), a recently developed outcome measure for clinical trials, was applied to 240 patients with MS to explore its utility in different subgroups of MS and for comparison with the Expanded Disability Status Scale (EDSS). METHOD:Three clinical dimensions were examined: arm/hand f...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Kalkers NF,de Groot V,Lazeron RH,Killestein J,Adèr HJ,Barkhof F,Lankhorst GJ,Polman CH

更新日期：2000-03-28 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:This observational multimodality brain imaging study investigates emergence of endophenotypes of late-onset Alzheimer disease (AD) risk during endocrine transition states in a cohort of clinically and cognitively normal women and age-matched men. METHODS:Forty-two 40- to 60-year-old cognitively normal women ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Mosconi L,Berti V,Quinn C,McHugh P,Petrongolo G,Varsavsky I,Osorio RS,Pupi A,Vallabhajosula S,Isaacson RS,de Leon MJ,Brinton RD

更新日期：2017-09-26 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To verify the previously reported association between long-term use of β2-adrenoreceptor (β2AR) agonist and antagonist with reduced and increased risk of Parkinson disease (PD), respectively. METHODS:We obtained odds ratios (ORs) associating time of β2AR agonist and antagonist use with PD risk in nationwide ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Hopfner F,Wod M,Höglinger GU,Blaabjerg M,Rösler TW,Kuhlenbäumer G,Christensen K,Deuschl G,Pottegård A

更新日期：2019-07-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytoplasmic inclusion bodies are found in fibers of superior rectus muscle of the eye. They occur in middle-aged and old individuals dying with various unrelated diseases not affecting muscle and in patients with myotonic dystrophy. With light microscopy they can be observed in fibers with pathologic changes, and with...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Culebras A,Merk FB

更新日期：1975-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To quantify disease progression in individuals with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) using magnetic resonance biomarkers of leg muscles. METHODS:MRI and magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) biomarkers were acquired from 104 participants with DMD and 51 healthy controls using a prospective observational stu...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Rooney WD,Berlow YA,Triplett WT,Forbes SC,Willcocks RJ,Wang DJ,Arpan I,Arora H,Senesac C,Lott DJ,Tennekoon G,Finkel R,Russman BS,Finanger EL,Chakraborty S,O'Brien E,Moloney B,Barnard A,Sweeney HL,Daniels MJ,Walter

更新日期：2020-04-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Use of neuroleptic medications is common among elderly patients. Using multivariate models, the authors found that use of antipsychotic medications, age, and disability were strong predictors of developing self-reported Parkinson disease (PD) in the subsequent year among 1992 to 2000 Medicare Current Beneficiary Surve...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Noyes K,Liu H,Holloway RG

更新日期：2006-03-28 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:We performed propensity score (PS) models to compare the outcome of patients with myasthenia gravis (MG) submitted to 2 different surgical approaches: extended transsternal (T-3b) or thoracoscopic extended thymectomy (VATET). METHODS:Patients' clinical data were retrieved from the MG database of the C. Besta...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Brenna G,Antozzi C,Montomoli C,Baggi F,Mantegazza R,INCB-MG Group.

更新日期：2017-07-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous anatomic and physiologic studies suggest brainstem dysfunction in cranial-cervical dystonia. To further explore this, we studied suprathreshold acoustic reflex waveforms in 15 such patients. A unique feature of this technique is its ability to reject movement artifacts before averaging the acoustic reflex wav...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Lew H,Jordan C,Jerger J,Jankovic J

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have identified large-scale deletions in muscle mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) in seven of seven patients with Kearns-Sayre syndrome (KSS). We found no detectable deletions in the mtDNA of ten non-KSS patients with other mitochondrial myopathies or encephalomyopathies, or three normal controls. The deletions ranged in s...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Zeviani M,Moraes CT,DiMauro S,Nakase H,Bonilla E,Schon EA,Rowland LP

更新日期：1988-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A neurocutaneous syndrome is described in which spastic paraplegia, peroneal neuropathy, and crural hypopigmentation are inherited in a dominant pattern. Spastic paraplegia becomes clinically apparent during adolescence or in childhood and progresses slowly throughout the adult years with a variability in severity of ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Stewart RM,Tunell G,Ehle A

更新日期：1981-06-01 00:00:00