Repetitive phrenic nerve stimulation in myasthenia gravis.

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To describe the epidemiology, etiology, clinical characteristics, treatment, outcome, and prevention of zoonotic bacterial meningitis in human adults. METHODS:We identified 16 zoonotic bacteria causing meningitis in adults. RESULTS:Zoonotic bacterial meningitis is uncommon compared to bacterial meningitis c...

journal_title：Neurology

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

更新日期：2016-09-13 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the frequency and types of change in "self" seen in frontotemporal dementia (FTD) and to determine the relative involvement of the nondominant and dominant frontal and temporal brain regions in FTD patients with or without changes in a sense of self using neuropsychology tests and neuroimaging. B...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Miller BL,Seeley WW,Mychack P,Rosen HJ,Mena I,Boone K

更新日期：2001-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The diagnosis of psychogenic nonepileptic seizures (PNES) can be challenging. In the absence of a gold standard to verify the reliability of the diagnosis by EEG-video, we sought to assess the interrater reliability of the diagnosis using EEG-video recordings. METHODS:Patient samples consisted of 22 unselect...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Benbadis SR,LaFrance WC Jr,Papandonatos GD,Korabathina K,Lin K,Kraemer HC,NES Treatment Workshop.

更新日期：2009-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To study the behavioral and neuroanatomic characteristics of perseverative behavior encountered on a target cancellation task in patients with neglect. METHODS:Motor perseverative behavior during line cancellation task was evaluated retrospectively in 60 patients with left hemispatial neglect from right hem...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Na DL,Adair JC,Kang Y,Chung CS,Lee KH,Heilman KM

更新日期：1999-05-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Apraxia is the loss of the ability to perform learned skilled movements correctly. In right-handers, apraxia and aphasia are most frequently associated with left-hemisphere lesions. When they are dissociated, however, aphasia is more common in the absence of apraxia than vice versa. There are two hypotheses that can a...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Foundas AL,Henchey R,Gilmore RL,Fennell EB,Heilman KM

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Postmortem studies of patients with progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP) have demonstrated loss of cholinergic neurons in the striatum, nucleus basalis of Meynert, and the pedunculopontine nucleus. These findings suggest that cholinergic drugs might be an effective treatment for this disease. We studied the efficacy o...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Foster NL,Aldrich MS,Bluemlein L,White RF,Berent S

更新日期：1989-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pathologic substrate of essential tremor (ET) remains unknown. The authors studied 10 patients with ET and 10 volunteers using a multislice MR spectroscopy imaging sequence. Left and right cerebellar hemisphere NAA/CR and NAA/Cho ratios were significantly smaller in the ET patients than healthy subjects. The autho...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Pagan FL,Butman JA,Dambrosia JM,Hallett M

更新日期：2003-04-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The occurrence of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) among American Indians and Alaska Natives in the United States was evaluated using national multiple cause-of-death data and medical information obtained from state health departments. Twelve CJD deaths were identified for 1981 through 2002, and the average annual age-...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Maddox RA,Holman RC,Belay ED,Cheek JE,Yorita KL,Schonberger LB

更新日期：2006-02-14 00:00:00

abstract：:We used the Mayo Clinic medical records linkage system to detect all cases of intracranial vascular malformation (IVM) among residents of Olmsted County, Minnesota from 1965 to 1992 and found 48 IVMs over the 27-year period, including four patients with IVM detected at autopsy, without prior symptoms. Twenty-nine of 4...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Brown RD Jr,Wiebers DO,Torner JC,O'Fallon WM

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 3-year old, previously well child developed paroxysms of left thigh pain. Evaluation was unremarkable except for interictal and postictal EEG epileptiform activity in the right parietal and posterior temporal regions. The painful spells were controlled with anticonvulsant medication. Episodes of paroxysmal, unexplai...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Trevathan E,Cascino GD

更新日期：1988-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Affective-motivational and sensory-discriminative aspects of pain were investigated in patients with mild to moderate Alzheimer disease (AD) and healthy elderly controls using the cold pressor test tolerance and repetitive stimuli of warmth and heat stimuli, evaluating the stimulus-response function. METHOD...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Jensen-Dahm C,Werner MU,Jensen TS,Ballegaard M,Andersen BB,Høgh P,Waldemar G

更新日期：2015-04-14 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess efficacy and safety of once-daily 8 or 12 mg perampanel, a noncompetitive α-amino-3-hydroxy-5-methyl-4-isoxazole-propionic acid (AMPA) receptor antagonist, when added to concomitant antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) in the treatment of drug-resistant partial-onset seizures. METHODS:This was a multicenter,...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： French JA,Krauss GL,Biton V,Squillacote D,Yang H,Laurenza A,Kumar D,Rogawski MA

更新日期：2012-08-07 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To investigate the role of beta oscillations in urinary voiding and their association with lower urinary tract symptoms in Parkinson disease (PD). METHODS:We used surgically implanted deep brain stimulation electrodes to record local field potential signals from the subthalamic nucleus (STN) and globus pall...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Roy HA,Aziz TZ,Fitzgerald JJ,Green AL

更新日期：2018-04-24 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：:While intracranial tuberculomas have become uncommon in industrial nations, 12 patients with signs and symptoms of an intracranial mass lesion were recently found to have tuberculomas. Clinical findings suggestive of tuberculosis were frequently subtle or absent. Five patients did not have extracranial tuberculosis. T...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Mayers MM,Kaufman DM,Miller MH

更新日期：1978-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One hundred and eight multiple sclerosis (MS) patients and 108 matched controls were studied for antibody levels and cellular immune responses to several viruses. There were significant increases in the mean titers of complement fixation (CF) or hemagglutination inhibition (HI), and complement-mediated cytotoxicity (C...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Fuccillo DA,Madden DL,Castellano GA,Uhlig L,Traub RG,Mattson J,Krezlewicz A,Sever JL

更新日期：1978-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Imaging determinations of the spatial extent of diffuse low-grade gliomas (DLGGs) are of paramount importance in evaluating the risk-to-benefit ratio of surgical resection. However, it is not clear how accurately preoperative conventional MRI can delineate DLGGs. METHODS:We report a retrospective histologic...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Pallud J,Varlet P,Devaux B,Geha S,Badoual M,Deroulers C,Page P,Dezamis E,Daumas-Duport C,Roux FX

更新日期：2010-05-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Human cytomegalovirus and herpes simplex virus DNA probes were labeled in vitro and hybridized to the DNA extracted from brains of patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) to detect the presence of genetic information related to these viruses. We were unable to detect any virus-related genetic information complementary t...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Aulakh GS,Albrecht P,Tourtellotte WW

更新日期：1980-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitochondrial and cytoplasmic malic isoenzymes were assayed fluorometrically in digitonin-fractionated fibroblasts from three patients with Friedreich's ataxia (FA). Normal activity was found, failing to verify an earlier report of reduced fibroblast mitochondrial malic enzyme activity in FA. The previously reported d...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Fernandez RJ,Civantos F,Tress E,Maltese WA,De Vivo DC

更新日期：1986-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Some patients with prosopagnosia have covert recognition, meaning that they retain some familiarity or knowledge of facial identity of which they are not aware. OBJECTIVE:To test the hypothesis that prosopagnosic patients with right occipitotemporal lesions and impaired face perception lack covert processin...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Barton JJ,Cherkasova M,O'Connor M

更新日期：2001-10-09 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Spontaneous spinal CSF leaks are an important cause of new-onset headaches. Such leaks are reported to be particularly common at the cervico-thoracic junction. The authors undertook a study to determine the significance of these cervico-thoracic CSF leaks. METHODS:The patient population consisted of a consec...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Schievink WI,Maya MM,Chu RM,Moser FG

更新日期：2015-06-16 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the production rate of CSF in patients with differing disease states. METHODS:The authors measured the production rate of CSF in three groups of patients: five patients with PD below age 60 (aged 51 +/- 4 years, mean +/- SD), nine with PD over age 60 (aged 69 +/- 6 years, mean +/- SD), and seven ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Silverberg GD,Heit G,Huhn S,Jaffe RA,Chang SD,Bronte-Stewart H,Rubenstein E,Possin K,Saul TA

更新日期：2001-11-27 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied 60 patients with idiopathic Parkinson disease with motor and neuropsychologic tests to ascertain whether the severity of motor symptoms was associated with the degree of neuropsychologic deficity. Significant correlations were found between the severity of brady kinesia and impaired performance on tests ass...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Mortimer JA,Pirozzolo FJ,Hansch EC,Webster DD

更新日期：1982-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Compare the cost and effectiveness of nonbenzodiazepine antiepileptic drugs (non-BZD AEDs) for treatment of BZD-resistant convulsive status epilepticus (SE). METHODS:Decision analysis model populated with effectiveness data from a systematic review and meta-analysis of the literature, and cost data from publ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Sánchez Fernández I,Gaínza-Lein M,Lamb N,Loddenkemper T

更新日期：2019-05-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Loading doses of 15 to 20 mg per kilogram of both phenobarbital and phenytoin, administered intravenously, are necessary in the newborn to achieve rapid therapeutic plasma anticonvulsant levels. Maintenance doses of 3 to 4 mg per kilogram of both agents will maintain therapeutic levels. Phenytoin is, however, not pred...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Painter MJ,Pippenger C,Wasterlain C,Barmada M,Pitlick W,Carter G,Abern S

更新日期：1981-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glucocorticoid therapy slows the progression of Duchenne muscular dystrophy. In muscle cultures, the addition of the glucocorticoid methylprednisolone increases myogenesis in most normal mixed and clonal cultures. Conversely, in some normal clonal and most dystrophic cultures, methylprednisolone inhibits fusion. Howev...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Hardiman O,Sklar RM,Brown RH Jr

更新日期：1993-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There are reports that patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) and Alzheimer's disease (AD) have reduced levels of thiolmethyltransferase (TMT) in erythrocyte membranes. TMT methylates thiols and thiocarbamates, thereby reducing their toxicity. We examined TMT levels in erythrocytes from patients with PD and AD and fro...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Hurwitz A,Hubble JP,Glatt SL,Koller WC,Pollack J

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors pooled four population-based European studies to determine the risk for institutionalization and death after stroke. Risk for institutionalization was assessed in 13,095 subjects. Survival was calculated for prevalent stroke in 7929 individuals and incident stroke in 8550 individuals. The adjusted risk of ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Schmidt R,Breteler MM,Inzitari D,Fratiglioni L,Hofman A,Launer LJ

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lymphocytic meningoradiculitis (Bannwarth's syndrome) is a radicular neuralgia associated with a chronic lymphocytic pleocytosis in cerebrospinal fluid and frequently with unilateral or bilateral peripheral facial weakness. Most reported cases have occurred during the summer among adults living in central Europe. Lymp...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Donaldson JO,Lewis RA

更新日期：1983-11-01 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