Therapy of intention myoclonus with L-5-hydroxytryptophan and a peripheral decarboxylase inhibitor, MK 486.

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine the association of change in body mass index (BMI) with risk of Alzheimer disease (AD). METHODS:Nine hundred eighteen older Catholic clergy participating in the Religious Orders Study without dementia at baseline were studied. Outcome measures were the clinical diagnosis of AD and change in cognit...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Buchman AS,Wilson RS,Bienias JL,Shah RC,Evans DA,Bennett DA

更新日期：2005-09-27 00:00:00

abstract：:In a prospective cohort of 124 encephalopathic term infants, six infants had an acute focal stroke. All six encephalopathic patients with strokes presented with seizures. Neurodevelopmental outcome at 30 months was abnormal in all six patients and significantly worse when compared with the entire cohort overall. These...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Ramaswamy V,Miller SP,Barkovich AJ,Partridge JC,Ferriero DM

更新日期：2004-06-08 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Since Alzheimer disease (AD) is a slowly progressive disorder and its pathologic features are likely to be present for many years before symptoms become manifest, we investigated whether microstructural white matter changes similar to those identified in patients with AD can be detected in cognitively normal ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Zhuang L,Sachdev PS,Trollor JN,Kochan NA,Reppermund S,Brodaty H,Wen W

更新日期：2012-08-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Eighteen patients with congenital nystagmus were studied with the techniques of electronystagmography and computer analysis. We found several complex wave forms of congenital nystagmus in the primary position of gaze above those of jerk and pendular nystagmus as defined clinically. An etiologic classification of motor...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Yee RD,Wong EK,Baloh RW,Honrubia V

更新日期：1976-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This multicenter, double-blind, crossover study compared Tegretol-XR and Tegretol tablets with respect to trough plasma carbamazepine (CBZ) concentrations, seizure control, tolerability, and safety. We randomized 96 patients with epilepsy to 56-day monotherapy with their usual daily CBZ dose administered as (1) Tegret...

journal_title：Neurology

authors：

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We evaluated the relationship between mesial temporal seizure focus and serum prolactin (PRL) in patients before and after they underwent anterior temporal lobectomy (ATL) for medically intractable temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE). These patients had a confirmed unilateral epileptogenic focus in mesial temporal structures...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Lin YY,Su MS,Yiu CH,Shih YH,Yen DJ,Kwan SY,Wu ZA,Chan SH

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To analyze the oral motor, speech, and language phenotype in 20 children and adults with Dravet syndrome (DS) associated with mutations in SCN1A. METHODS:Fifteen verbal and 5 minimally verbal DS patients with SCN1A mutations (aged 15 months-28 years) underwent a tailored assessment battery. RESULTS:Speech w...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Turner SJ,Brown A,Arpone M,Anderson V,Morgan AT,Scheffer IE

更新日期：2017-02-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Pathologic studies of women with fatal cerebrovascular disease who have received oral contraceptives are infrequently found in the literature. Three cases of this type are reported here. The pathologic findings included an intrinsic vascular lesion in the form of intimal hyperplasia with and without associated thrombo...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Irey NS,McAllister HA,Henry JM

更新日期：1978-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:We assessed whether clinical and imaging features of subjects with apraxia of speech (AOS) more severe than aphasia (dominant AOS) are more similar to agrammatic primary progressive aphasia (agPPA) or to primary progressive AOS (PPAOS). METHODS:Sixty-seven subjects (PPAOS = 18, dominant AOS = 10, agPPA = 9, ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Josephs KA,Duffy JR,Strand EA,Machulda MM,Senjem ML,Lowe VJ,Jack CR Jr,Whitwell JL

更新日期：2013-07-23 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Parkinson disease (PD), a devastating neurodegenerative disorder, affects motor abilities and cognition as well. It is not clear whether the proapoptotic protein, Bid, is involved in tumor necrosis factor death receptor I (TNFRI)-mediated destructive signal transduction pathways such as cell dysfunction or ne...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Jiang H,He P,Adler CH,Shill H,Beach TG,Li R,Shen Y

更新日期：2012-10-23 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To estimate whole-brain microinfarct burden from microinfarct counts in routine postmortem examination. METHODS:We developed a simple mathematical method to estimate the total number of cerebral microinfarcts from counts obtained in the small amount of tissue routinely examined in brain autopsies. We derived...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Westover MB,Bianchi MT,Yang C,Schneider JA,Greenberg SM

更新日期：2013-04-09 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To compare the clinical features of patients showing a classical phenotype of facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD) with genetic and epigenetic characteristics of the FSHD1 and FSHD2 loci D4Z4 and SMCHD1. METHODS:This is a national multicenter cohort study. We measured motor strength, motor function,...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Sacconi S,Briand-Suleau A,Gros M,Baudoin C,Lemmers RJLF,Rondeau S,Lagha N,Nigumann P,Cambieri C,Puma A,Chapon F,Stojkovic T,Vial C,Bouhour F,Cao M,Pegoraro E,Petiot P,Behin A,Marc B,Eymard B,Echaniz-Laguna A,Laf

更新日期：2019-05-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Episodic paroxysmal hemicrania (EPH) is a rare disorder characterized by discrete bouts of hemicranial headache separated by headache-free remissions. Although EPH resembles episodic cluster headache in the location and quality of pain as well as the pattern of associated autonomic features, it is distinguished by the...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Newman LC,Gordon ML,Lipton RB,Kanner R,Solomon S

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the treatment of four patients with inclusion-body myositis (IBM) and severe slowly progressive weakness using high-dose intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIg). After two monthly infusions, the strength of the proximal and less atrophic muscle groups improved or normalized in three of the four patients. The impro...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Soueidan SA,Dalakas MC

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Resources of the Rochester Epidemiology Project were used to estimate prevalence rates for dementia on January 1, 1975, 1980, and 1985, and to evaluate trends over time. Prevalence rates increased with age for both men and women. There was no difference in the prevalence rates for January 1, 1975, and January 1, 1980,...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Beard CM,Kokmen E,O'Brien PC,Kurland LT

更新日期：1995-01-01 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

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To compare the prognostic accuracy of various acute stroke prognostic scales using a large, independent, clinical trials dataset. METHODS:We directly compared 8 stroke prognostic scales, chosen based on focused literature review (Acute Stroke Registry and Analysis of Lausanne [ASTRAL]; iSCORE; iSCORE-revised...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Quinn TJ,Singh S,Lees KR,Bath PM,Myint PK,VISTA Collaborators.

更新日期：2017-09-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Although a neuromuscular syndrome has been induced experimentally by vitamin E deficiency, a human syndrome has not yet been documented. This report describes a 7-year-old boy with severe malabsorption since birth who presented with progressive external ophthalmoplegia, proximal muscle weakness, peripheral neuropathy,...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Tomasi LG

更新日期：1979-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:No uniformly accepted hypothesis explains the genesis and rupture of intracranial aneurysms. We followed 5,184 men and women prospectively for 26 years; 36 cases of aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) accounted for 62% of all intracranial hemorrhages. Blood pressure before SAH was higher in these patients than in...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Sacco RL,Wolf PA,Bharucha NE,Meeks SL,Kannel WB,Charette LJ,McNamara PM,Palmer EP,D'Agostino R

更新日期：1984-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Distal sensory polyneuropathy (DSP) is the most common neurologic complication of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection. Risk factors for DSP have not been adequately defined in the era of highly active antiretroviral therapy. METHODS:The authors evaluated 101 subjects with advanced HIV infection ove...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Simpson DM,Kitch D,Evans SR,McArthur JC,Asmuth DM,Cohen B,Goodkin K,Gerschenson M,So Y,Marra CM,Diaz-Arrastia R,Shriver S,Millar L,Clifford DB,ACTG A5117 Study Group.

更新日期：2006-06-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Pregnancy registries for women taking anticonvulsant drugs have been developed to determine more efficiently the fetal risks of each drug. A total of 722 drug-exposed pregnancies are needed to identify a sevenfold increase in the rate of occurrence of a specific abnormality, such as spina bifida, with a freq...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Holmes LB,Baldwin EJ,Smith CR,Habecker E,Glassman L,Wong SL,Wyszynski DF

更新日期：2008-05-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Cerebral cavernous malformations (CCM) are CNS vascular anomalies associated with seizures, headaches, and hemorrhagic strokes. The CCM1 gene was screened in 35 sporadic cases with either single or multiple CCM. It was found that 29% of the individuals with multiple CCM have a CCM1 mutation, whereas cases with only on...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Verlaan DJ,Laurent SB,Sure U,Bertalanffy H,Andermann E,Andermann F,Rouleau GA,Siegel AM

更新日期：2004-04-13 00:00:00

abstract：:A 14-year-old boy with exercise-related myalgia and cramps had several episodes of myoglobinuria since early childhood. An episode at 2 years of age caused acute renal failure. Histochemical and biochemical analysis of muscle showed a combined defect of phosphofructokinase (PFK) and adenosine monophosphate (AMP) deami...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Bruno C,Minetti C,Shanske S,Morreale G,Bado M,Cordone G,DiMauro S

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Forty-seven consecutive patients presenting acutely with repetitive symptoms indicative of anterior circulation ischemia ("crescendo" transient ischemic attacks) were evaluated to identify clinical features that might reliably predict the presence of significant stenosis, ulceration, or both in the presumably symptoma...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Rothrock JF,Lyden PD,Yee J,Wiederholt WC

更新日期：1988-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Only a small percentage of patients with acute stroke are treated with recombinant tissue plasminogen activator (rt-PA). OBJECTIVE:To investigate why patients with right-hemisphere strokes seem at high risk of not receiving rt-PA. METHODS:This study includes two phases. Phase 1: the authors compared demogr...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Di Legge S,Fang J,Saposnik G,Hachinski V

更新日期：2005-07-12 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To improve our understanding of early β-amyloid (Aβ) accumulation processes using florbetapir-PET scan in 20- to 60-year-old individuals. METHODS:Seventy-six cognitively normal individuals aged 20 to 60 years, 57 cognitively normal older individuals (61-84 years old), and 70 patients with mild cognitive impa...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Gonneaud J,Arenaza-Urquijo EM,Mézenge F,Landeau B,Gaubert M,Bejanin A,de Flores R,Wirth M,Tomadesso C,Poisnel G,Abbas A,Desgranges B,Chételat G

更新日期：2017-12-12 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To perform an open-label, long-term efficacy and safety/tolerability study of vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) of 454 patients with refractory epilepsy. METHODS:Subjects were enrolled from five clinical trials of VNS between 1988 and 1995 after undergoing an implantation of a pulse generator in the chest and a ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Morris GL 3rd,Mueller WM

更新日期：1999-11-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Cerebral amyloid angiopathy is a common cause of spontaneous lobar hemorrhage in elderly patients. We discuss seven patients with amyloid angiopathy presenting without major lobar hemorrhage. The patients' presentations fell into two groups: recurrent transient neurologic symptoms and rapidly progressive dementia. The...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Greenberg SM,Vonsattel JP,Stakes JW,Gruber M,Finklestein SP

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine whether comorbidity is associated with clinical (relapses, disability worsening) and MRI outcomes in multiple sclerosis (MS) by conducting a secondary analysis of the CombiRx clinical trial. METHODS:CombiRx compared interferon beta-1a, glatiramer acetate, and the combination of these agents. For...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Salter A,Kowalec K,Fitzgerald KC,Cutter G,Marrie RA

更新日期：2020-08-04 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied performance on tests of visual neglect and left lateral gaze after caloric stimulation in 18 patients with left-sided visual neglect after strokes. Except for one patient with absent vestibulo-ocular responses, all improved during caloric stimulation on the left by cold (LC) or on the right by warm water (R...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Rubens AB

更新日期：1985-07-01 00:00:00