abstract：:Thirty-two children (21 female and 11 male), between 7 and 14 years old, with chronic daily headache (CDH) were consecutively included in a prospective, randomized, double blind, placebo controlled crossover study. The patients were divided in group I (fluoxetine vs. placebo), with 17 patients and group II (placebo vs...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Gherpelli JL,Esposito SB

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The study aimed to find out how frequent is brain tissue aspiration and if brain tissue heterotopia could be found in the lung of human neural tube defect cases. Histological sections of each lobe of both lungs of 22 fetuses and newborn with neural tube defect were immunostained for glial fibrillary acidic protein (GF...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Peres LC,Barbosa GH

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy (CIDP) is a peripheral nerve disorder probably due to an immunological disturb. It evolves either in a steadily progressive or in a relapsing and fluctuating course. Weakness is mainly in the lower limbs proximally and distally. The electromyography is demyelin...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Freitas MR,Nascimento OJ,Soares CN,Brito AR,Domingues RC

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Jean-Martin Charcot, the father of Neurology, a very austere and reserved man that did not express affection freely for human being, had a profound affection to animals, particularly to a small female monkey, called "Rosalie", which came from Brazil and was a gift of Dom Pedro II to Charcot. ...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Teive HA,Arruda WO,Werneck LC

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Encephalitozoonosis is an increasingly important opportunistic protozoan infection in immunocompromised individuals. This study aims to examine the development of an experimental Encephalitozoon cuniculi infection in the central nervous system of immunosuppressed mice. Adult Balb-C mice were inoculated intraperitoneal...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Lallo MA,Bondan EF

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alzheimer disease (AD) is usually associated with cognitive, language and behavioral impairments, which can get more and more serious as the disease progresses. The aim of this study is to verify language disorders in the early stages of this disease. Twelve patients meeting criteria for problable AD were evaluated by...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Ortiz KZ,Bertolucci PH

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Semantic dementia is a clinical syndrome in the spectrum of frontotemporal lobar degeneration group. We report on a 63 years old man who presented with memory disorder of semantic nature for visual and mainly verbal material when he was 57 years old. Mild behavior impairment was present and related to exaggerated resp...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Caixeta L,Mansur LL

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:The P300 component of the event-related potential (ERP) is a general measurement of "cognitive efficiency". It is an index of the ability of an individual's central nervous system (CNS) to process incoming information. OBJECTIVE:To compare the neuromodulatory effects of caffeine and bromazepam on the visual...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Montenegro M,Veiga H,Deslandes A,Cagy M,McDowell K,Pompeu F,Piedade R,Ribeiro P

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:West syndrome (WS) is a severe epileptic encephalopathy of childhood, characterized by spasms, developmental deterioration and hipsarhythymia. OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the safety and efficacy of vigabatrin (VGB) in the treatment of WS. METHOD:We evaluated every patient diagnosed with WS seen at the pediatric ...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Moraes MH,Montenegro MA,Franzon RC,Avila JO,Guerreiro MM

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pathogenesis of spontaneous cervical artery dissection remains unknown. Infection-mediated damage of the arterial wall may be an important triggering mechanism. We describe a 21 year-old man with respiratory infection (bronchial pneumonia) which was diagnosed and treated with antibiotic few days prior to the right...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Campos CR,Bassi TG,Pinto F,Abrahão DK

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Status Dystonicus (SD) is characterized by generalized muscle contractions in dystonic patients. We report 5 cases of SD, two of which in patients with dystonic cerebral palsy, one in a patient with primary segmental dystonia, one in a patient with Hallervorden-Spatz syndrome and one in a patient with Wilson's disease...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Teive HA,Munhoz RP,Souza MM,Antoniuk SA,Santos ML,Teixeira MJ,Barbosa ER,Carvalho RC,Scaff M,Werneck LC

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the occipital inter-hemispheric coherence of Electroencephalogram (electrodes O1-O2) for alpha band (alpha1--8.0 to 10.0 Hz and alpha2--10.1 to 12.5 Hz) in two groups of healthy individuals (young adults and subjects older than 50 years-old), to assess if there is significant difference between this two age...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Anghinah R,Caramelli P,Takahashi DY,Nitrini R,Sameshima K

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aims of this study were to identify the most common vestibular syndromes in a dizziness unit, and to observe their clinical aspects and response to treatment. Five hundred and fifteen patients were studied retrospectively in two institutions. Aspects of anamnesis, physical examination and the response to treatment...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Kanashiro AM,Pereira CB,Melo AC,Scaff M

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This review describes therapeutically relevant mechanisms of action of botulinum toxin (BT). BT's molecular mode of action includes extracellular binding to glycoproteine structures on cholinergic nerve terminals and intracellular blockade of the acetylcholine secretion. BT affects the spinal stretch reflex by blockad...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Dressler D,Saberi FA,Barbosa ER

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To assess the association between child growth and teacher-reported behavior and academic standing, and neuropsychological performance. METHOD:The heights of 344 public-school children were measured using standard procedures. Teachers were requested to complete two behavioral and one academic performance rating sc...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Brito GN,Onis Md

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stroke mortality rates are higher in Brazil when compared to other countries. The city of São Paulo has a good system of mortality surveillance that allow us to describe the epidemiology of the stroke in the city. Our aim was to describe the stroke mortality pattern by gender and age characterizing the ischemic/ hemor...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Lotufo PA,Bensenor IM

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hemimegalencephaly (HME) is a rare congenital brain malformation of unknown etiology. Patients with HME can present with an early onset epileptic syndrome which is often refractory to medical treatment and associated to impaired neurological development. Functional hemispherectomy (FH) has proven to be a valuable trea...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Fonseca LF,Melo RP,Cukiert A,Burattini JA,Mariani PP,Brandão R,Ceda L,Baldauf CM,Argentoni M,Forster C,Baise C

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aplasia cutis congenita is a rare condition characterized by the absence of skin layers. It is most common on the scalp, middle line, and it can be seen as a congenital ulcer involving periosteum, skull and dura. We present the case of a female newborn infant with a dysmorphic facies, a large scalp and skull defect ex...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Henriques JG,Pianetti Filho G,Giannetti AV,Henriques KS

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We analyzed computerized tomography (CT) findings in six patients with Fahr's syndrome. They presented calcifications in basal ganglia, dentate nucleus, subcortical region and semioval center, due to alteration in calcium metabolism or due to senile relative hypoxemic state. The image pattern was not strictly related ...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Faria AV,Pereira IC,Nanni L

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pudendo-anal reflex was studied in a sample of 31 normal women. Responses were obtained after bilateral independent stimulation of the clitoris, with surface recordings from both sides of the external anal sphincter. Responses were elicited with double-pulses of 0.2 ms duration with a interstimulus interval of 5 m...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Cavalcanti Gde A,Manzano GM,Bruschini H,Giuliano LM,Srougi M,Nóbrega JA

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Syringohydromyelia is defined as a longitudinal dilatation of the central canal of the spinal cord with accumulated cerebrospinal fluid. This condition may cause neurologic deficits when the cavity enlarges and compresses the spinal cord. We present the case of a 33 years-old female with progressive paraparesis caused...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Honorato D,Borges W,Vargas AA,Ramina R

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leprosy neuropathy is characterized by initial involvement of the small nerve fibers, later followed by involvement of the large fibers, when routine nerve conduction studies become abnormal. To increase the diagnostic yield and precocity of these studies, we applied the near nerve technique to the sural nerve of 8 le...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Arruda AP,Marques W Jr,Foss NT,Garbino JA,Virmond M,Barreira AA

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The study has been carried out through anthropometric measures of Bahian newborns, to define measures according with the reality of this region. METHOD:Study type transversal cut in term babies with the measures of cephalic perimeter, biauricular and anteroposterior distances, fontanel and cephalic index. R...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Mota M,Melo A,Burak C,Daltro C,Rodrigues B,Lucena R

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cervical carotid stenosis is one of the main causes of ischemic stroke. Carotid endarterectomy is a safe procedure for treatment of moderate and severe symptomatic and asymptomatic carotid stenosis. Regional anesthesia allows neurological evaluation of the patient during the surgery. We reviewed the results of 104 pat...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Raso J,Lopes F,Serrano P,Locarno A,Frota EC,Cariri GA

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hallervorden-Spatz syndrome is a neurodegenerative disease, autosomic recessive with two clinical features: early and late onset. Psychiatric, pyramidal and extrapyramidal signs are present in the late subtype. We report the case of a 41-old woman with extrapyramidal signs. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) showed the ...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Farage L,Castro MA,Macedo TA,Assis MC,Souza LP,Freitas LO

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate the effects of galantamine on the performance of patients with mild to moderate Alzheimer's disease (AD) in a computerized neuropsychological test battery (CNTB). METHOD:Thirty-three patients with probable AD were treated with galantamine for three months and evaluated in a prospective, open-l...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Caramelli P,Chaves ML,Engelhardt E,Machado JC,Schultz RR,Vale FA,Charchat-Fichman H,Brazilian Multi-Center Galantamine Study (GAL-BRA-01).

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study used MRI to define preoperative imaging criteria for cavernous sinus invasion (CSI) by pituitary adenoma (PA). MR images of 103 patients with PA submitted to surgery (48 with CSI) were retrospectively reviewed. The following MR signs were studied and compared to intraoperative findings (the latter were cons...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Vieira JO Jr,Cukiert A,Liberman B

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To report a Brazilian series of spontaneous cervical arterial dissections, risk factors, warning symptoms, clinical manifestations, diagnostic tests, treatment and prognosis. METHOD:We performed the retrospective analysis of clinical and neuroradiological records (MRI, A-MRI and Angiography) of patients with...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Campos CR,Evaristo EF,Yamamoto FI,Puglia P Jr,Lucato LT,Scaff M

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The association between the use of statins and neuromuscular disease is currently being intensely discussed. We relate a 63 years old man with possible case of statin-induced neuropathy in a patient with dislipidemia in use of simvastatina at high doses. The electrophysiologic studies disclosed findings compatible wit...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Scola RH,Trentin AP,Germiniani FM,Piovesan EJ,Werneck LC

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：CONTEXT:The precise function of sleep in animals and human beings is still unknown, and any sort of physical, social or psychological variation may change the normal sleep-wake cycle. PURPOSE:This research aims is to determine the sleep disorders (SD) for each of the three trimesters of the pregnancy comparing them to...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Lopes EA,Carvalho LB,Seguro PB,Mattar R,Silva AB,Prado LB,Prado GF

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Skin biopsy has become an attractive technique to evaluate the terminal regions of small nerve fibers. There is extensive innervation of the skin by both sensory and autonomic fibers as demonstrated by staining for the pan-axonal marker PGP 9,5. The normal pattern is fundamental before any study, since three different...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Moura L,Oliveira AS,Zanoteli E,Cardoso R,Schmidt B,Gabbai AA

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The extra-intracranial bypass may be used in selected cases of brain vascular insufficiency refractory to clinical treatment. We report a case of encephalic ischemia in the territory of the right middle cerebral artery due to occlusion of the ipsilateral internal carotid artery, with consequent reduction of the perfus...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Falavigna A,Ferraz FA,Breunig Jde A,Michelin MM

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Functional imaging of brain electrical activity was performed in 25 chronic medicated schizophrenics and 40 controls, analyzing the classical frequency bands (delta, theta, alpha, and beta) of 19-channel EEG during resting state to identify brain regions with deviant activity of different functional significances, usi...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Veiga H,Deslandes A,Cagy M,Fiszman A,Piedade RA,Ribeiro P

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Painful shoulder is considered the most common complication of hemiplegic/parethic (H/P) stroke patients. It is a negative factor for neuromotor recovery. PURPOSE:To study the effects of kinesiotherapy treatment on shoulder pain prevention, and as a secondary endpoints, to analyze muscle strength of H/P sho...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Horn AI,Fontes SV,de Carvalho SM,Silvado RA,Barbosa PM,Durigan A Jr,Atallah AN,Fukujima MM,do Prado GF

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:With the objective to show the characteristics of neurocysticercosis (NCC) in Brazil, was performed a critical analysis of national literature which showed a frequency of 1.5% in autopsies and 3.0% in clinical studies, corresponding to 0.3% of all admissions in general hospitals. In seroepidemiological studies the pos...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Agapejev S

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To describe developmental characteristics, morphological aspects and incidence of temporal sharp transients (TST) in normal preterm and term newborns at matched conceptional ages (CA). METHOD:Neonatal EEGs from two groups of normal newborns were evaluated in order to identify and characterize TST. Group I (n...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Nunes ML,Gameleira FT,Oliveira AJ,da Costa JC

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Percutaneous vertebroplasty (PV) is a minimally invasive procedure used to treat focal pain from compressive vertebral fracture. The PV is indicated for the treatment of debilitating vertebral pain from osteoporotic vertebral fractures, metastatic disease (osteolytic), myeloma and hemagioma. We analyzed the results of...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Figueiredo N,Amaral Filho JC,Serra Ada R,Nogueira AM,Garcia VC,Weissheimer FL

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Intrathoracic meningocele is a rare pathology, almost always associated with neurofibromatosis type I and with a few cases related in the literature. In the majority of cases cysts are small or asymptomatic, and the surgery is indicated when big or symptomatic cysts are present. We report a case of giant int...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： de Andrade GC,Braga OP,Hisatugo MK,de Paiva Neto MA,Succi E,Braga FM

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present study, we have evaluated the use of intraventricular pressure catheters in thalamic and ganglionic hemorrhages. Ten patients admitted in our Emergency Department in Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) equal or below 13 enrolled the study (at least one point should have been lost in the eye opening score to exclude...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Hamani C,Zanetti MV,Pinto FC,Andrade AF,Ciquini O Jr,Marino R Jr

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of radiofrequency trigeminal rhizotomy in treating 135 patients harboring trigeminal neuralgia, and to introduce a technical modification to guide the puncture of the foramen ovale. A hundred and one (74.8%) patients were treated with a single surgical procedure w...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Gusmão S,Magaldi M,Arantes A

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00