abstract：:A prospective trial of plasmapheresis and azathioprine or azathioprine alone was carrier out on 20 patients with chronic progressive MS. Seven of 10 patients in each group continued therapy for 12 months. When the groups were compared by disability ratings, the combination of plasmapheresis and azathioprine was no bet...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Tindall RS,Walker JE,Ehle AL,Near L,Rollins J,Becker D

更新日期：1982-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of lysine vasopressin on memory and cognitive deficits in Alzheimer disease was investigated. In a double-blind study, seven patients were given 16 units of lysine vasopressin per day for 10 days and were compared with seven different patients receiving placebo. No significant difference in performance bet...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Durso R,Fedio P,Brouwers P,Cox C,Martin AJ,Ruggieri SA,Tamminga CA,Chase TN

更新日期：1982-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three patients presented with unilateral progressive optic neuropathy. None of these patients had signs of symptoms referable to the chiasm or eye, thus confining their decline in vision to the optic nerve. Clinical and neuroradiographic evidence suggested a meningioma involving the optic nerve at the orbital-canalicu...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Gudeman SK,Selhorst JB,Susac JO,Waybright EA

更新日期：1982-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We compared the electrodiagnostic studies of 40 patients with chronic acquired demyelinative neuropathy and 18 patients with familial demyelinative neuropathy. Patients with acquired neuropathy had differential slowing of conduction velocity when distal latencies were compared with more proximal conduction velocities ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Lewis RA,Sumner AJ

更新日期：1982-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The prevalence of spontaneous lingual-facial-buccal movements was determined in 661 patients between the ages of 50 and 79 without neuroleptic exposure or known CNS disease. The prevalence was 0.8% between ages 50 and 59, 6% between ages 60 and 69, and 7.8% between ages 70 and 79. ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Klawans HL,Barr A

更新日期：1982-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Estrogen have been reported in animal studies to both enhance and block central dopaminergic activity and in one clinical report to improve tardive dyskinesia. In the present study estrogen (Premarin, 2.5 mg per day) administration caused varying degrees of improvement in less than one-third of 21 patients with chorea...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Koller WC,Barr A,Biary N

更新日期：1982-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The urinary excretion of some important phenylethylamines, catecholamines, their metabolites, amphetamine, and methamphetamine were measured in parkinsonian patients on Sinemet (L-dopa plus carbidopa, a peripheral dopadecarboxylase inhibitor) and depressed patients after chronic (-) deprenyl treatment. Deprenyl was ef...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Karoum F,Chuang LW,Eisler T,Calne DB,Liebowitz MR,Quitkin FM,Klein DF,Wyatt RJ

更新日期：1982-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Swiss mice, muscimol (3 mg per kilogram, intraperitoneally) caused myoclonic jerks of the hindquarters. These jerks were strong, repetitive, more or less regular, and of high frequency (peak response, 76 per minute). Pretreatment with sodium gamma-hydroxybutyrate (50 to 200 mg per kilogram) caused a dose-dependent ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Menon MK

更新日期：1982-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The local cerebral metabolic rate for glucose (1=CMRg) was computed in rats with methylphenidate-induced stereotypy using the quantitative 14C-2-deoxyglucose (2-DG) technique. Four rats received methylphenidate 15 mg per kilogram IP. Compared to five control animals, treated rats showed statistically significant (p le...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Bell RD,Alexander GM,Schwartzman RJ,Yu J

更新日期：1982-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We compared the effect of metrizamide and its parent compound glucosamine on the kinetics of dog brain hexokinase. The Michaelis constant (Km) for glucose rose from 0.065 to 0.15 to 0.28 mM in the presence of 0, 16, and 32 mM metrizamide, respectively. For 0, 1.5, and 3.7 mM glucosamine, the Km values were 0.065, 0.4,...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Bertoni JM,Steinman CG

更新日期：1982-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We observed acute onset of delayed psychosis in 8 patients 1 month to 11 years after right temporoparietooccipital (TPO) stroke or trauma. The psychotic disorder included hallucinations and, in some patients delusions and agitation. All patients had spatioconstructional difficulties. None had an earlier psychiatric di...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Levine DN,Finklestein S

更新日期：1982-03-01 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：:Human subjects normally have miniature eye movements during tasks that require steady visual fixation. These eye movements were compared in 12 control subjects and 4 patients with degenerative cerebellar disorders. Slow drifts, small fixation saccades, square waves, saccadic oscillations, flutter, and vertical nystagm...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Hotson JR

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We used riboflavin to treat a patient with lipid myopathy, reduced exercise capacity, intolerance to fasting, and reduced concentrations of carnitine in muscle and serum. Although carnitine concentrations did not change, exercise capacity doubled, and response to fasting improved. Muscle enzyme assay showed that palmi...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Carroll JE,Shumate JB,Brooke MH,Hagberg JM

更新日期：1981-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 10 patients with chronic autonomic failure, the sympathetic perivascular nerve plexuses from quadriceps muscle biopsies were studied by catecholamine fluorescence and electronmicroscopy. There was almost complete absence of catecholamine fluorescence and fewer than normal numbers of small granular (noradrenergic) v...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Bannister R,Crowe R,Eames R,Burnstock G

更新日期：1981-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine whether the complete correction of hyperglycemia of diabetes can rapidly improve abnormal peripheral nerve function, eight hyperglycemic insulin-requiring diabetics underwent 3 days of glucose control with an artificial endocrine pancreas, the BIOSTATOR Glucose Controller. Comparison of neurologic assessm...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Service FJ,Daube JR,O'Brien PC,Dyck PJ

更新日期：1981-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Brainstem auditory evoked responses were recorded after acute asphyxia in 126 infants, ages birth through 18 months. Of these, 21 had markedly abnormal amplitude ratios, and all infants with abnormal amplitude ratios had severe neurologic handicaps. An abnormal amplitude ratio predicts long-term neurologic sequelae of...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Hecox KE,Cone B

更新日期：1981-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To assess reversibility of focal cerebral ischemia, we performed a neurologic and pathologic study of 27 monkeys subjected to temporary middle cerebral artery occlusion. An implanted snare ligature occluded the artery in awake monkeys for 30 minutes, 4 hours, 8 hours, 16 hours, 24 hours, or permanently. Serial neurolo...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Crowell RM,Marcoux FW,DeGirolami U

更新日期：1981-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the same family, the generalized or infantile form of acid maltase deficiency (glycogenosis type II, Pompe disease) and the muscular or adult-onset form affected different individuals. Autosomal-recessive inheritance for the two clinical forms was demonstrated in this family by assay of acid alpha-glucosidase in mu...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Loonen MC,Busch HF,Koster JF,Martin JJ,Niermeijer MF,Schram AW,Brouwer-Kelder B,Mekes W,Slee RG,Tager JM

更新日期：1981-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We measured plasma norepinephrine levels in patients with familial amyloid polyneuropathy. Patients with orthostatic hypotension had low basal plasma norepinephrine levels, which did not increase after postural change. On the basis of biochemical findings that suggest depletion of peripheral norepinephrine, DL-threo-3...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Suzuki T,Higa S,Sakoda S,Hayashi A,Yamamura Y,Takaba Y,Nakajima A

更新日期：1981-10-01 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：:Antiacetylcholine receptor antibody (anti-AChR) was spontaneously synthesized by cultured thymic tissue from 19 of 35 patients with myasthenia gravis. Two other thymus cultures produced antibody after stimulation by pokeweed mitogen. Antibody production correlated with histologic evidence of thymitis, long duration of...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Scadding GK,Vincent A,Newsom-Davis J,Henry K

更新日期：1981-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:[Methyl-3H]epsilon-N-trimethyl-L-lysine was administered to patients with primary systemic carnitine deficiency and to controls. In both groups, labeled carnitine appeared in blood and urine within 2 hours, and the specific radioactivity of urinary carnitine peaked between 2 and 6 hours. The specific radioactivity of ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Rebouche CJ,Engel AG

更新日期：1981-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An infant with transient neonatal myasthenia gravis had a double-blood-volume exchange transfusion because of maternal-fetal blood group incompatibility. This seemed to accelerate both decline in antiacetylcholine antibody titer and clinical improvement. ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Donat JF,Donat JR,Lennon VA

更新日期：1981-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intracranial hypertension in the absence of an intracranial mass lesion or hydrocephalus can be caused by an alteration of one or more of the four determinants of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) pressure: (1) intrasagittal sinus pressure, (2) resistance of arachnoid villi to the egress of CSF, (3) rate of production of CSF,...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Donaldson JO

更新日期：1981-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the effect of acetazolamide on plasma potassium in normals and in two patients with hyperkalemic periodic paralysis. Administration of acetazolamide for 48 hours lowered mean plasma potassium in normals from 4.01 to 3.56 mEq per liter (p less than 0.001) and in the patients from 4.55 to 4.00 mEq per liter (...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Riggs JE,Griggs RC,Moxley RT 3rd,Lewis ED

更新日期：1981-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Isovaleric acidemia (IVA) is an inborn error of leucine metabolism, resulting in an accumulation of isovaleric acid in the body fluids. The neuropathologic findings in an 11-day-old infant with IVA consisted of diffuse cerebral edema, massive cerebellar hemorrhage, upward transtentorial herniation, and focal degenerat...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Fischer AQ,Challa VR,Burton BK,McLean WT

更新日期：1981-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A neurocutaneous syndrome is described in which spastic paraplegia, peroneal neuropathy, and crural hypopigmentation are inherited in a dominant pattern. Spastic paraplegia becomes clinically apparent during adolescence or in childhood and progresses slowly throughout the adult years with a variability in severity of ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Stewart RM,Tunell G,Ehle A

更新日期：1981-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four men with evidence of hemiatrophy resulting from early-life hemispheral injury developed unilateral hemiparkinsonism on the side of the hemiatrophy. The parkinsonism began in the fourth decade and has remained unilateral for 5 to 35 years. In all four patients, the parkinsonism was slowly progressive, but the clin...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Klawans HL

更新日期：1981-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A clinical procedure for determining contrast sensitivity was performed on patients with suspected sella area masses. The test consisted of a series of six plates, each containing a bar pattern of fixed sinusoidal spatial frequency in which contrast varies along the length of the bar. Patients with compressive lesions...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Kupersmith MJ,Siegel IM,Carr RE

更新日期：1981-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nine neurosurgical patients suffering from a variety of brain tumors were studied. Sodium valproate was given for 3 days before surgery. At craniotomy, sections of brain and samples of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) and plasma were obtained and assayed for sodium valproate concentrations. Brain levels were 6.8 to 27.9% of ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Vajda FJ,Donnan GA,Phillips J,Bladin PF

更新日期：1981-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied four patients with neurologic disorders of the lumbosacral plexus. Except for location of symptoms, the disorder confirmed to criteria established for the clinical diagnosis of brachial plexus neuritis. Acute onset of pain in one or both legs was followed by weakness, loss of stretch reflexes, and sometimes...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Sander JE,Sharp FR

更新日期：1981-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ninety-seven chronic alcoholics, both impaired and unimpaired, without clinically evident liver disease, showed significantly more cerebral atrophy on computed tomography than age-matched neurologic controls. Age was the variable most highly correlated with cerebral atrophy measurements, and it accounted for most of t...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Carlen PL,Wilkinson DA,Wortzman G,Holgate R,Cordingley J,Lee MA,Huszar L,Moddel G,Singh R,Kiraly L,Rankin JG

更新日期：1981-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute chorea in a child followed ingestion of pemoline mesylate. In guinea pigs, in an experimental model of chorea, chronic administration of pemoline induced behavioral supersensitivity to other dopaminergic agonists. Pemoline is similar to both d-amphetamine and methylphenidate in altering central dopaminergic sens...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Nausieda PA,Koller WC,Weiner WJ,Klawans HL

更新日期：1981-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The blink reflex may be evoked by auditory click or light stimulation, the latter being constantly present in all healthy subjects. The latency and amplitude of the light-stimulus-evoked blink response (L-BR) is influenced by the light intensity, distance between the light stimulus and the eye, attention, and backgrou...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Yates SK,Brown WF

更新日期：1981-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lymphocyte subpopulations ("active' T cells, total T cells, and B cells), leukocyte migration, lymphocyte transformation, complements (CH50, C3, and C4), and immune complexes in serum and cerebrospinal fluid were studied in 23 patients with subacute sclerosing panencephalitis. The percentage of active T cells was norm...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Derakhshan I,Massoud A,Foroozanfar N,Nikbin B,Lotfi J,Shakib N,Ala F

更新日期：1981-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 57-year-old chronically immunosuppressed woman with systemic lupus erythematosus developed fulminant meningoencephalitis due to Acanthamoeba castellanii. Amebic trophozoites were also found in the lungs, suggesting a primary pulmonary focus of infection. This case illustrates that Acanthamoeba can cause a fulminant,...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Grunnet ML,Cannon GH,Kushner JP

更新日期：1981-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:(-)Deprenyl, a specific monoamine oxidase subtype B inhibitor (MAOI-B), has been reported to be a safe and valuable adjunct to conventional treatment of parkinsonism. A double-blind, clinical comparison of (-)deprenyl with placebo was undertaken in 11 parkinsonian patients; the efficacy of 10 mg daily was studied over...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Eisler T,Teräväinen H,Nelson R,Krebs H,Weise V,Lake CR,Ebert MH,Whetzel N,Murphy DL,Kopin IJ,Calne DB

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Increased urinary levels of the polyamines, putrescine, spermidine, and spermine are present in Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) patients. Alterations in excretion are detectable when based on nanomoles per milligram creatinine, micromoles per 24-hour urine collection, or nanomoles per kilogram body weight per 24-hou...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Russell DH,Stern LZ

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We carried out an open study of the effects of large doses (12 to 16 gm per day) of oral choline on medically intractable human complex partial seizures (CPS). Marked increases of plasma choline concentration (75 to 300%) in three subjects were associated with (1) shorter duration of CPS, (2) less postseizure fatigue,...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： McNamara JO,Carwile S,Hope V,Luther J,Miller P

更新日期：1980-12-01 00:00:00