Cerebrovascular ischemic events in wind instrument players.

abstract：:Interictal and ictal fluorodeoxyglucose scans were obtained with positron CT from four patients with spontaneous recurrent partial seizures, one with epilepsia partialis continua, and one with a single partial seizure induced by electrical stimulation of the hippocampus. Ictal metabolic patterns were different for eac...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Engel J Jr,Kuhl DE,Phelps ME,Rausch R,Nuwer M

更新日期：1983-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of gender in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease (AD) is an important issue that remains controversial. We compared men and women in late-onset familial AD kindreds for the risk of developing AD by studying 26 well-characterized familial AD kindreds from the Oregon Alzheimer Disease Center and, for confir...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Payami H,Montee K,Grimslid H,Shattuc S,Kaye J

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pure alexia, following an infarction in the distribution of the left posterior cerebral artery, is attributed to damage of the left occipital lobe and the splenium of the corpus callosum. We describe a case of pure alexia in a 57-year-old woman with infarction of the left lateral geniculate body and the splenium of th...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Stommel EW,Friedman RJ,Reeves AG

更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the prospective association of long-term intake of vegetables and fruits with late-life subjective cognitive function (SCF). METHODS:Among 27,842 men with a mean age of 51 years in 1986, we used multinomial logistic regression to examine the relation of vegetable and fruit consumption to future S...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Yuan C,Fondell E,Bhushan A,Ascherio A,Okereke OI,Grodstein F,Willett WC

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine the extent that different dopamine (DA) neuronal markers provide similar estimates of striatal (caudate and putamen) DA nerve terminal loss in idiopathic Parkinson's disease (PD), we compared, in postmortem striatum of 12 patients with PD and 10 matched controls, levels of five different DA neuronal marke...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Wilson JM,Levey AI,Rajput A,Ang L,Guttman M,Shannak K,Niznik HB,Hornykiewicz O,Pifl C,Kish SJ

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied 25 patients within 6 hours of acute spinal cord injury using magnetically evoked cortical motor evoked potentials (MEPs). The subjects included 16 quadriplegics with cervical spine injuries and eight paraplegics. MEPs were recorded from abductor digiti minimi (ADM), biceps, flexor hallucis brevis, and tibia...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Macdonell RA,Donnan GA

更新日期：1995-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An HIV-1-infected patient with progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy presented clinical deterioration and contrast-enhancing lesions on brain nuclear MR after the initiation of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART). Brain biopsy identified an inflammatory reaction compatible with immune reconstitution infl...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Martinez JV,Mazziotti JV,Efron ED,Bonardo P,Jordan R,Sevlever G,Martinez M,Verbanaz SC,Salazar ZS,Pardal MF,Reisin R

更新日期：2006-11-14 00:00:00

abstract：:A 32-year-old patient with seizures experienced decreased right-ear hearing during electrocortical stimulation mapping of the left lateral superior temporal gyrus. Audiometric testing under headphones confirmed a reversible, moderate unilateral hearing loss. Under binaural listening conditions, auditory comprehension ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Sinha SR,Crone NE,Fotta R,Lenz F,Boatman DF

更新日期：2005-01-25 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess alterations in brain metabolites of patients with Pelizaeus-Merzbacher disease (PMD) with the proteolipid protein gene 1 (PLP1) duplications using quantitative proton MRS. METHODS:Five unrelated male Japanese patients with PMD with PLP1 duplications were analyzed using automated proton brain examin...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Takanashi J,Inoue K,Tomita M,Kurihara A,Morita F,Ikehira H,Tanada S,Yoshitome E,Kohno Y

更新日期：2002-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate whether recurrent seizures cause hippocampal damage in temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE). PATIENTS:Eighteen patients with newly diagnosed cryptogenic TLE, 14 patients with chronic well-controlled cryptogenic TLE, 32 patients with chronic drug-resistant cryptogenic TLE, and 25 healthy subjects were ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Kälviäinen R,Salmenperä T,Partanen K,Vainio P,Riekkinen P,Pitkänen A

更新日期：1998-05-01 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：:Generalized epilepsy with febrile seizures plus (GEFS+) is a clinically and genetically heterogeneous syndrome with childhood onset, characterized by febrile seizures (FS) and a variety of afebrile epileptic seizure types. The authors performed a mutational analysis of SCN1B on 74 unrelated probands with GEFS+, FS, or...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Audenaert D,Claes L,Ceulemans B,Löfgren A,Van Broeckhoven C,De Jonghe P

更新日期：2003-09-23 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Evidence of a relation between use of lipid lowering drugs and cognitive outcomes is mixed. This study aimed to test the association between use of statins and incidence of dementia and cognitive impairment without dementia (CIND) over 5 years of follow-up. METHODS:Data were from a population-based cohort st...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Cramer C,Haan MN,Galea S,Langa KM,Kalbfleisch JD

更新日期：2008-07-29 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess the predominant type of cerebral small vessel disease (SVD) and recurrence risk in patients who present with a combination of lobar and deep intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH)/microbleed locations (mixed ICH). METHODS:Of 391 consecutive patients with primary ICH enrolled in a prospective registry, 75 (...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Pasi M,Charidimou A,Boulouis G,Auriel E,Ayres A,Schwab KM,Goldstein JN,Rosand J,Viswanathan A,Pantoni L,Greenberg SM,Gurol ME

更新日期：2018-01-09 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：:Fatal familial insomnia (FFI), a condition characterized by inability to sleep, dysautonomia, motor disturbances, and selective thalamic atrophy is a prion disease linked to a GAC----AAC mutation at codon 178 of the prion gene. These data were obtained from one kindred. We now report a second kindred affected by FFI a...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Medori R,Montagna P,Tritschler HJ,LeBlanc A,Cortelli P,Tinuper P,Lugaresi E,Gambetti P

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We compared the number of new gadolinium-enhancing and T2-weighted lesions on six monthly MRI scans in eight patients with relapsing multiple sclerosis before and during treatment with weekly intramuscular interferon beta-1a (Avonex; 30 microg). MRI activity was modestly reduced during treatment (p = 0.016). The treat...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Waubant E,Goodkin DE,Sloan R,Andersson PB

更新日期：1999-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Using a 1.5-tesla GE Signa MR scanner, we imaged the brains of 14 right-handed Tourette's syndrome (TS) patients (11 men, three women), aged 18 to 49 years, who had minimal lifetime neuroleptic exposure. We also studied an equal number of normal controls individually matched for age, sex, and handedness and group-matc...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Peterson B,Riddle MA,Cohen DJ,Katz LD,Smith JC,Hardin MT,Leckman JF

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Coma is rare in temporal arteritis (TA). We describe a patient with TA who suddenly developed coma with a triphasic EEG pattern that resolved after initiation of steroid treatment. Although the arterial lesions in TA are segmental in nature, TA may present with signs of diffuse neurologic deficit; early treatment can ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Tomer Y,Neufeld MY,Shoenfeld Y

更新日期：1992-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE:Collagen abnormalities of skin have been reported among patients with ALS. However, little is known concerning glycosaminoglycans of the skin in ALS. Our objective was to clarify morphologic and biochemical findings of skin glycosaminoglycans among patients with ALS. METHODS:We performed morph...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Ono S,Imai T,Aso A,Yamano T,Shimizu N,Nagao K

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This single case report describes a large (giant) left internal carotid aneurysm that showed a very marked decrease in the size of its lumen on reevaluation 5 days after the initial arteriogram. A review of the literature found only 5 cases of spontaneous thrombosis documented by arteriography and only one involved a ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Carlson DH,Thomson D

更新日期：1976-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the association of PD with a recently reported I93M mutation of the ubiquitin carboxy-terminal hydrolase L1 (UCH-L1) gene, and with a new and common polymorphic variant S18Y of the same gene. We did not identify the I93M mutation in any of 139 unrelated PD cases or 113 controls. However, S18Y polymorph...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Maraganore DM,Farrer MJ,Hardy JA,Lincoln SJ,McDonnell SK,Rocca WA

更新日期：1999-11-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Fasciculations and cramps may occur in motor neuron disease or as part of a more benign syndrome. A man with apparently benign fasciculations and cramps for 4 years developed progressive muscle weakness and wasting. Such a previously undocumented evolution of benign fasciculations and cramps to motor neuron disease ma...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Fleet WS,Watson RT

更新日期：1986-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To describe the phenotype of adult patients with variant and classic ataxia-telangiectasia (A-T), to raise the degree of clinical suspicion for the diagnosis variant A-T, and to assess a genotype-phenotype relationship for mutations in the ATM gene. METHODS:Retrospective analysis of the clinical characterist...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Verhagen MM,Abdo WF,Willemsen MA,Hogervorst FB,Smeets DF,Hiel JA,Brunt ER,van Rijn MA,Majoor Krakauer D,Oldenburg RA,Broeks A,Last JI,van't Veer LJ,Tijssen MA,Dubois AM,Kremer HP,Weemaes CM,Taylor AM,van Deuren M

更新日期：2009-08-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Early motor manifestations are the main components of focal seizures involving the frontal lobe. We examined the relationship between the initial ictal motor manifestations and interictal abnormalities of cerebral glucose consumption (rCMRGlc) as assessed by PET in 48 consecutive patients with focal seizures of neocor...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Schlaug G,Antke C,Holthausen H,Arnold S,Ebner A,Tuxhorn I,Jäncke L,Lüders H,Witte OW,Seitz RJ

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although Alzheimer's disease is generally considered a degenerative disease that primarily affects the cerebral cortex, subcortical structures such as the substantia innominata and certain brainstem nuclei may be involved. In 28 patients with progressive dementia and pathologically confirmed Alzheimer's disease, we fo...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： McDuff T,Sumi SM

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:We investigated if tau, microtubular binding protein, in serum and ventricular CSF (vCSF) in patients with severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) during the initial posttraumatic days correlated to 1-year outcome. METHODS:Patients with severe TBI (n = 39, Glasgow Coma Scale score

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Ost M,Nylén K,Csajbok L,Ohrfelt AO,Tullberg M,Wikkelsö C,Nellgård P,Rosengren L,Blennow K,Nellgård B

更新日期：2006-11-14 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the occurrence, treatment, and outcome of subdural empyema complicating community-acquired bacterial meningitis in adults. METHODS:Case series from a prospective nationwide cohort study from Dutch hospitals from 2006 to 2011. RESULTS:Subdural empyema was diagnosed in 28 of 1,034 episodes (2.7%),...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Jim KK,Brouwer MC,van der Ende A,van de Beek D

更新日期：2012-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To describe clinical characteristics, imaging findings, morbidity, and mortality in a single-center cohort of 12 pediatric cavernous sinus thrombosis cases and to review all cases available in recent English literature. METHODS:Clinical data and radiographic studies on 12 cases from our institution were anal...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Smith DM,Vossough A,Vorona GA,Beslow LA,Ichord RN,Licht DJ

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Using interictal alpha-[11C]methyl-l-tryptophan ([11C]AMT) PET scan, the authors have undertaken a quantitative analysis of all tubers visible on MRI or 2-deoxy-2-[18F]fluoro-d-glucose ([18F]FDG) PET, to determine the relationship between [11C]AMT uptake and epileptic activity on EEG. BACKGROUND:Tuberous scl...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Asano E,Chugani DC,Muzik O,Shen C,Juhász C,Janisse J,Ager J,Canady A,Shah JR,Shah AK,Watson C,Chugani HT

更新日期：2000-05-23 00:00:00