Postictal nose-rubbing in the diagnosis, lateralization, and localization of seizures.

abstract：:A 66-year-old woman with acute idiopathic polyneuritis (Landry-Guillain-Barré [LGB] syndrome) had normal extraocular movements, but her pupils did not react to light or accommodation. This is the first such case to be reported. Pharmacologic testing pointed to postganglionic involvement of parasympathetic and sympathe...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Williams D,Brust JC,Abrams G,Challenor Y,Devereaux M

更新日期：1979-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four prolonged episodes of partial complex status epilepticus were observed in a teenaged girl. During each there was an "ictal" phase, in which her mental state frequently fluctuated between mildly clouded consciousness and almost total unresponsiveness; once, she was also blind during this phase of impaired consciou...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Engel J Jr,Ludwig BI,Fetell M

更新日期：1978-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In children, seizures associated with status epilepticus (SE) include a number of types that are age-related. These types of seizures are not associated with SE in older patients. Likewise, etiologies of SE in children are also unique to this patient population, in particular those responsible for SE in the neonate. C...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Lockman LA

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The endogenous auditory P300 event-related potential (P3) has been used to differentiate functional and organic cognitive disorders in adults. We found that children with organic cognitive impairments (as determined by the Halstead-Reitan [HR] test) had greater P3 latencies than children with normal HR evaluations. Th...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Finley WW,Faux SF,Hutcheson J,Amstutz L

更新日期：1985-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:We tested the hypothesis that admission serum magnesium levels are associated with hematoma volume, hematoma growth, and functional outcomes in patients with intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH). METHODS:Patients presenting with spontaneous ICH were enrolled in an observational cohort study that prospectively coll...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Liotta EM,Prabhakaran S,Sangha RS,Bush RA,Long AE,Trevick SA,Potts MB,Jahromi BS,Kim M,Manno EM,Sorond FA,Naidech AM,Maas MB

更新日期：2017-08-22 00:00:00

abstract：:A veterinarian contracted rabies in the course of laboratory work with homogenates of rabid goat brain. Epidemiologic study determined a respiratory mode of transmission. After a fulminant encephalitic illness, formed rabies virions were identified in the synaptic zones of the olfactory glomeruli. Identification, isol...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Conomy JP,Leibovitz A,McCombs W,Stinson J

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The Stroke-Thrombolytic Predictive Instrument (Stroke-TPI) predicts the probability of good and bad outcomes with and without recombinant tissue plasminogen activator (rtPA). We sought to rebuild and externally validate a simpler Stroke-TPI to support implementation in routine clinical care. METHODS:Using t...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Kent DM,Ruthazer R,Decker C,Jones PG,Saver JL,Bluhmki E,Spertus JA

更新日期：2015-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite strong evidence of the importance of hereditary factors in the etiology of Tourette's syndrome (TS), research findings have consistently pointed to a role of environmental influences. A recent line of research has suggested that tic disorders and associated behavioral disturbances, such as obsessive-compulsive...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Kurlan R

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A large proportion of survivors of traumatic brain injury (TBI) have persistent cognitive impairments, the profile of which does not always correspond to the size and location of injuries. One possible explanation could be that TBI-induced damage extends beyond obvious lesion sites to affect remote brain net...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Kasahara M,Menon DK,Salmond CH,Outtrim JG,Taylor Tavares JV,Carpenter TA,Pickard JD,Sahakian BJ,Stamatakis EA

更新日期：2010-07-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Stenosis or occlusion of the major arteries of the head and neck may cause hemodynamic impairment of the distal cerebral circulation. Hemodynamic factors may play an important role in the pathogenesis of ischemic stroke for patients with cerebrovascular disease. Several neuroimaging methods are currently available for...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Derdeyn CP,Grubb RL Jr,Powers WJ

更新日期：1999-07-22 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a patient with levodopa-resistant parkinsonism due to basal ganglia calcification related to surgically-induced hypoparathyroidism. The calcification was seen on computerized axial tomography but not on skull x-rays. Such calcification should be looked for in all cases of levodopa-resistant parkinsonism, si...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Klawans HL,Lupton M,Simon L

更新日期：1976-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine the prevalence, incidence, and predictors of epilepsy among older adults in the Cardiovascular Health Study (CHS). METHODS:We analyzed data prospectively collected in CHS and merged with data from outpatient Medicare administrative claims. We identified cases with epilepsy using self-report, ant...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Choi H,Pack A,Elkind MS,Longstreth WT Jr,Ton TG,Onchiri F

更新日期：2017-02-28 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：BACKGROUND:Treatment of aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) has changed substantially over the last 25 years but there is a lack of reliable population-based data on whether case-fatality or functional outcomes have improved. METHODS:We determined changes in the standardized incidence and outcome of SAH in the sa...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Lovelock CE,Rinkel GJ,Rothwell PM

更新日期：2010-05-11 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a Japanese Becker muscular dystrophy (BMD) patient with occasional myalgia and cramps during normal activity that developed at the age of 28 months. His family history was negative for neuromuscular diseases. Muscle biopsy analyses, including dystrophin immunostaining, disclosed no clinically relevant findin...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Ishigaki C,Patria SY,Nishio H,Yabe M,Matsuo M

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine the prevalence and clinical effect of ophthalmologic symptoms in patients with Parkinson disease (PD), compared with controls, using a standardized questionnaire. METHODS:In this observational, cross-sectional, multicenter study, 848 patients with PD and 250 healthy controls completed the Visual...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Borm CDJM,Visser F,Werkmann M,de Graaf D,Putz D,Seppi K,Poewe W,Vlaar AMM,Hoyng C,Bloem BR,Theelen T,de Vries NM

更新日期：2020-04-07 00:00:00

abstract：:We evaluated ventilation during cycle exercise in four men lacking myophosphorylase. In submaximal exercise of similar relative intensity, ventilation was higher relative to oxygen uptake in McArdle patients than in normal men. The exercise ventilatory response returned to normal after glucose infusion, by fasting to ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Haller RG,Lewis SF

更新日期：1986-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The term "Wernicke's area" is most often used as an anatomical label for the gyri forming the lower posterior left sylvian fissure. Although traditionally this region was held to support language comprehension, modern imaging and neuropsychological studies converge on the conclusion that this region plays a much large...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Binder JR

更新日期：2015-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine the relationship between hippocampal, amygdalar, and entorhinal cortex atrophy and duration of epilepsy, presence of secondary generalized seizures, and prolonged childhood febrile convulsions in patients with pharmacologically intractable temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE). METHODS:Volumetric MRI of ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Bernasconi N,Natsume J,Bernasconi A

更新日期：2005-07-26 00:00:00

abstract：:An infant with Pena-Shokeir phenotype was born to a cocaine-using mother. The pathologic findings included polyhydramnios, facial anomalies, arthrogryposis, camptodactyly, pulmonary hypoplasia, and tetralogy of Fallot. The neuropathologic findings were diffuse brainstem and spinal cord neuronal degeneration and focal ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Lavi E,Montone KT,Rorke LB,Kliman HJ

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Hypothalamic hamartomas (HHs), rare developmental abnormalities of the inferior hypothalamus, often cause refractory, symptomatic, mixed epilepsy, including gelastic seizures. We present 37 patients with HH who underwent transcortical transventricular endoscopic resection. METHODS:Between October 2003 and A...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Ng YT,Rekate HL,Prenger EC,Wang NC,Chung SS,Feiz-Erfan I,Johnsonbaugh RE,Varland MR,Kerrigan JF

更新日期：2008-04-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A European (EU) and a North American (NA) placebo-controlled study with interferon beta-1b (IFNB-1b) in secondary progressive multiple sclerosis (SPMS) showed divergent results with regard to their primary outcome of sustained Expanded Disability Status Scale (EDSS) progression, while effects were similar on...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Kappos L,Weinshenker B,Pozzilli C,Thompson AJ,Dahlke F,Beckmann K,Polman C,McFarland H,European (EU-SPMS) Interferon beta-1b in Secondary Progressive Multiple Sclerosis Trial Steering Committee and Independent Advisory Board.,North Ame

更新日期：2004-11-23 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Identifying an intriguing mechanism for unmasking recessive hereditary spastic paraplegias. METHOD:Herein, we describe 4 novel homozygous FA2H mutations in 4 nonconsanguineous families detected by whole-exome sequencing or a targeted gene panel analysis providing high coverage of all known hereditary spastic...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Soehn AS,Rattay TW,Beck-Wödl S,Schäferhoff K,Monk D,Döbler-Neumann M,Hörtnagel K,Schlüter A,Ruiz M,Pujol A,Züchner S,Riess O,Schüle R,Bauer P,Schöls L

更新日期：2016-07-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Morphologic findings of thymuses from 32 anti-acetylcholine receptor (AChR)-negative myasthenia gravis patients, 12 with and 20 without antibodies against the muscle-specific kinase (MuSK), were compared with those from 30 AChR-positive subjects. In contrast with the high frequency of thymic hyperplastic changes in AC...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Lauriola L,Ranelletti F,Maggiano N,Guerriero M,Punzi C,Marsili F,Bartoccioni E,Evoli A

更新日期：2005-02-08 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated levodopa intravenous infusion rates, plasma concentrations, and clinical responses in 23 parkinsonian patients with a fluctuating response to the drug. There was a linear relationship between rate of levodopa infusion and plasma concentration when carbidopa was coadministered. Minimum-therapeutically e...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Nutt JG,Woodward WR

更新日期：1986-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 12-year-old girl presented with headache, nausea, decreased level of consciousness, and diplopia. Brain MRI, arteriography (figure e-1 on the Neurology® Web site at www.neurology.org), vasculitic markers, and CSF were normal, as were EEGs and ECGs. Transcranial color-coded ultrasonography of the basilar artery revea...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Kraft P,Müllges W

更新日期：2013-11-19 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To study the potential effect of the 2008 Institute of Medicine (IOM) work duty hour (WDH) recommendations on neurology residency programs. METHODS:This study evaluated resident sleepiness, personal study hours, quality of life, and satisfaction and faculty satisfaction during a control month using the Accre...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Schuh LA,Khan MA,Harle H,Southerland AM,Hicks WJ,Falchook A,Schultz L,Finney GR

更新日期：2011-08-30 00:00:00

abstract：:A kindred is described with a dominantly inherited "pure" cerebellar ataxia in which the currently known spinocerebellar ataxias have been excluded. In the eight subjects studied, a notable clinical feature is slow progression, with the three least affected having only a mild degree of gait ataxia after three or more ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Storey E,Gardner RJ,Knight MA,Kennerson ML,Tuck RR,Forrest SM,Nicholson GA

更新日期：2001-11-27 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Brain changes occurring early in HIV infection are not well characterized. The Chicago Early HIV Infection Study aimed to evaluate the presence and extent of structural brain alterations using quantitative MRI. METHODS:Forty-three HIV and 21 control subjects were enrolled. Mean length of infection was estima...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Ragin AB,Du H,Ochs R,Wu Y,Sammet CL,Shoukry A,Epstein LG

更新日期：2012-12-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Rats with unilateral lesions of the substantia nigra were treated with L-dopa 25 mg/kg subcutaneously 30 minutes after treatment with carbidopa 25 mg/kg intraperitoneally. In the ipsilateral striatum, dopamine levels achieved a peak of 1.57 +/- 0.63 micrograms/g (control 0.19 +/- 0.05 micrograms/g) at 20 minutes and d...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Spencer SE,Wooten GF

更新日期：1984-08-01 00:00:00