abstract：:The interaction between theory and experiment in sleep research was considered on the grounds of a selective historical survey of early sleep studies up to the first half of the twentieth century. The dialectic pair of experimental reductionism and theoretical holism was the motor of progress in sleep research as soon...

journal_title：Revue neurologique

authors： Parmeggiani PL

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome (PRES) occurring in a women treated by sunitinib for an ovarian metastatis of a renal cell carcinoma is described. This is the third case described in the literature. The three cases are very similar except for the delay to onset of the PRES (one week to five mont...

journal_title：Revue neurologique

authors： Cumurciuc R,Martinez-Almoyna L,Henry C,Husson H,de Broucker T

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The management of gliomas remains challenging and requires a multidisciplinary approach that involves neurosurgeons, radiation therapists and oncologists. For patients with glioblastomas, progress has been made in recent years with the introduction of a combined modality treatment associating radiation therapy and con...

journal_title：Revue neurologique

authors： Hottinger AF,Stupp R

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alexia without agraphia is the result of a left inferotemporal cortical lesion. This unilateral lesion provokes an almost irrecoverable word reading disability. This anatomical-clinical observation has identified as crucial an area on the left fusiform gyrus, which represents a sort of "letter cranial bump". This area...

journal_title：Revue neurologique

authors： Michel F

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the field of perception, learning is formed by a distributed functional architecture of very specialized cortical areas. For example, capacities of learning in patients with visual deficits - hemianopia or visual agnosia - from cerebral lesions are limited by perceptual abilities. Moreover a visual deficit in link ...

journal_title：Revue neurologique

authors： Ceccaldi M,Clarke S,Meulemans T

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Only a few cases of cavernomas induced by radiation treatment, 78 patients, have been reported in the literature. The prevalence may be underestimated. Cavernomas occur several years after radiotherapy for brain neoplasia. Medulloblastoma, glioma and acute lymphoblastic lymphoma are commonly diagnosed and treated in c...

journal_title：Revue neurologique

authors： Battaglia F,Uro-Coste E,Delisle MB,Tannier C

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Acute and reversible parkinsonism is usually described after massive ingestion of organophosphate insecticides whereas acute intoxications occurring after pesticide spraying are rare. CASE REPORT:We report one case of atypical parkinsonian disorder following repeated spraying with an aerosol insecticide c...

journal_title：Revue neurologique

authors： Aubeneau L,Bohu PA,Hannequin D,Maltête D

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pergolide, an ergot-derived dopamine agonist prescribed since the late 1980's mainly in Parkinson's disease and restless leg syndrome has recognized fibrosis side effects, affecting the pleural, pericardial and retroperitoneal systems. Pergolide-induced valvulopathies were first reported in 2002. We present here the h...

journal_title：Revue neurologique

authors： Evrard F,Dupuis M,Muller T,Jacquerye P

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Numerous pathophysiological arguments supporting immunosuppression for multiple sclerosis have been collected during recent years. The relevance of intense immunosuppression, in terms of clinical benefit and early or late risk, remains a matter of discussion. Immunoablation followed by autologous hematopoietic stem ce...

journal_title：Revue neurologique

authors： Créange A,Farge-Bancel D

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Although rare, adenocarcinoma is the most frequent neoplasm of the ethmoid sinus and must be regarded as an occupational disease secondary to chronic wood dust exposure. Few cases with neurological metastasis have been reported. CASE REPORT:We report the cases of two patients who developed a multiple cran...

journal_title：Revue neurologique

authors： Béjot Y,Catteau A,Hervieu M,Giré P,Caillier M,Bénatru I,Osseby GV,Soichot P,Moreau T,Giroud M

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Motor neuron disorders (MND) form a heterogeneous group of neurodegenerative affections: phenotypic description is based on selective injury to the upper motor neuron or lower motor neuron or both. Phenotypic heterogeneity is also present concerning genetic features: genetic factors involved in MND may be causative or...

journal_title：Revue neurologique

authors： Corcia P,Praline J,Vourc'h P,Andres C

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Lambert-Eaton Myasthenic Syndrome (LEMS) is an autoimmune channelopathy in which patients produce autoantibodies directed against voltage-gated calcium channels. LEMS is paraneoplastic in 50% of patients, most frequently associated with small cell lung carcinoma. We describe a case of paraneoplastic LEMS a...

journal_title：Revue neurologique

authors： Shipley E,Krim E,Deminière C,Lagueny A

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Lambert-Eaton myasthenic syndrome (LEMS) is a rare presynaptic disorder of the neuromuscular junction. Electrodiagnosis is characterized by compound muscle action potentials of small amplitude at rest, normalizing immediately after brief exercise or high-rate nerve stimulation. Needle electromyographic (EM...

journal_title：Revue neurologique

authors： Lapergue B,Lefaucheur JP,Bourahoui A,Nordine T,Hosseini H,Créange A

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurologic disorders represent the most severe complications of acute intermittent porphyria (AIP). Cognitive disturbances, bulbar and spinal weakness appear as the most critical neurological complications as they may lead to death or definitive motor weakness. A 38-year-old woman was admitted for an acute and painful...

journal_title：Revue neurologique

authors： Diot E,Corcia P,Zannad N,Chauvet MA,Borie MJ,Maillot F

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The latest reviews of the literature devoted to the epidemiology of ALS all agree that exogenic risk factors play a role in sporadic ALS. Nevertheless, there is no convincing evidence demonstrating in a reproducible manner an association between an environmental risk factor and ALS. This discordance is mainly explaine...

journal_title：Revue neurologique

authors： Gil J,Funalot B,Torny F,Lacoste M,Couratier P

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Special diets can be an efficient treatment for certain inborn errors of metabolism. Regimens applicable in adult neurology include low protein diet (phenylketonuria, homocystinuria, urea cycle disorders, organic acidurias), low fatty acid diets (fatty acid B oxidation defects, adrenomyeloneuropathy, Refsum's disease)...

journal_title：Revue neurologique

authors： Crenn P,Maillot F

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:SUNCT syndrome is a rare form of a primary headache disorder, although secondary causes, particularly posterior fossa abnormalities, are well known. We report a new case in a 67-year-old man suffering SUNCT syndrome secondary to pyogenic cerebral abscess and empyema localized in the convexity portion of the right fron...

journal_title：Revue neurologique

authors： El Amrani M,Roger JC,Fossati P,De Monredon J,Serveaux JP

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The diagnosis of Chronic idiopathic demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP) is based on clinical, biological and electrophysiological data. Besides the easily recognized classic forms, there are many clinical variants, sometimes with paucisymptomatic presentation leading to uncertain diagnosis. Numerous sets of diagnostic...

journal_title：Revue neurologique

authors： Denys V

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since the use of interferon beta and glatiramer acetate in multiple sclerosis, a new step has been taken with the approval of natalizumab (Tysabri) in the relapsing remitting form of the disease. Natalizumab is a monoclonal antibody and binds to the alpha4 subunit of the alpha4B1 integrin. This antibody blocks the adh...

journal_title：Revue neurologique

authors： Vermersch P,Zéphir H

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Sub-arachnoid hemorrhage, cerebral venous thrombosis and cerebral reversible angiopathies are the main causes of secondary thunderclap headache. Ischemic stroke is rarely revealed by thunderclap headache. CASE REPORT:A 80-year-old woman developed for the first time a thunderclap headache associated with t...

journal_title：Revue neurologique

authors： Annic A,Lucas C

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Apathy is usually defined as a lack of motivation leading to reduced interest and participation in various activities. From a pathophysiological viewpoint, the most common cause of apathy is dysfunction of the frontal lobes, following either direct lesion of the frontal cortex or damage to regions tightly connected to...

journal_title：Revue neurologique

authors： Dujardin K

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Familial spastic paraplegia (FSP) with severe muscular atrophy of hands and feet is exceptional. Autosomal dominant forms were initially described by Silver in 1966. We report two cases, from the same Tunisian family, presenting FSP with severe amyotrophy of the hands. A brother and his sister, aged respectively 37 an...

journal_title：Revue neurologique

authors： Feki I,Miladi MI,Elleuch N,Boukhris A,Stévanin G,Brice A,Mhiri C

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Mills' syndrome is a rare motor neuron disease, initially described by Mills in 1900 as a progressive ascending or descending hemiplegia without significant sensory involvement. This syndrome is of uncertain nosological status, and is supposedly due to unilateral primary degeneration of corticospinal pathw...

journal_title：Revue neurologique

authors： Lachaud S,Soriani MH,Delmont E,Budai M,Desnuelle C,Lebrun C

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:The free and cued reminding test is often considered to be essential in the neuropsychological examination of elderly people consulting Memory Clinics. One of the reasons is that this test maximizes learning by inducing deep semantic processing and by controlling encoding and retrieval conditions. The aim ...

journal_title：Revue neurologique

authors： Amieva H,Carcaillon L,Rouze L'Alzit-Schuermans P,Millet X,Dartigues JF,Fabrigoule C

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:The epileptogenic potential of quinolones differs from one product to the other. The rare epileptic seizures induced by gatifloxacin were seen with the intravenous route. PATIENTS:We report two old ladies presenting with generalized status epilepticus after being treated orally with normal doses of gatifl...

journal_title：Revue neurologique

authors： Koussa S,Hage Chahine S,Zoghbi A,Yazbeck P

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Even though mood and emotion are closely related concepts, they differ in some ways. This article aims to review the main mood and emotional disorders most often found in Multiple Sclerosis (MS). STATE OF ART:Studies related to four fields are presented and discussed: assessment tools and methodological p...

journal_title：Revue neurologique

authors： Montel S,Bungener C

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:We report a case of nemaline myopathy revealed in adulthood by a respiratory insufficiency. CASE REPORT:A 26-year-old patient, without past history, was admitted with respiratory and right cardiac insufficiency which appeared in a few days. There was a severe restrictive lung impairment with nocturnal hyp...

journal_title：Revue neurologique

authors： Befort P,Landreau L,Pagès AM,Jonquet O,Pagès M

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Lamotrigine is an anti-epileptic drug considered as a first-line therapy in idiopathic generalised epilepsy. Lamotrigine is well-tolerated and secondary aggravation of epileptic syndromes has rarely been reported. CASE REPORT:We report the case of a 19 year-old man with juvenile myoclonic epilepsy in whom...

journal_title：Revue neurologique

authors： Maiga Y,Nogues B,Guillon B

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Faces represent a crucial vector of interhuman communication. The message transmitted by the face has multiple features. Recognition of each feature can be impaired independently or in combination with others. In order to understand the behavioral consequences of such impairments, which can be a major social handicap,...

journal_title：Revue neurologique

authors： Krolak-Salmon P,Hénaff MA,Bertrand O,Mauguière F,Vighetto A

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Stroke in a young adult justifies an extensive etiologic workup. OBSERVATION:We present a 44-year-old women victim of a frontal ischemic stroke. Extensive evaluation was normal, except for high plasma level of homocysteine in the context of pernicious anemia, otherwise asymptomatic. DISCUSSION:Hyperhomoc...

journal_title：Revue neurologique

authors： Leemann B,Boughanem N,Schnider A

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Memory disorders observed in Alzheimer's disease gave rise, from the eighties, to a detailed analysis into the framework of cognitive neuropsychology which aimed at describing the deficits of very specific processes. Beyond their clinical interest, these studies contributed to the modelisation of human memory thanks t...

journal_title：Revue neurologique

authors： Eustache F,Giffard B,Rauchs G,Chételat G,Piolino P,Desgranges B

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peroneal nerve injury in the lateral aspect of the knee is frequent, commonly dominated by traumatic or compressive etiologies. Tumors, generally synovial cysts, are exceptional causes. We report a case of a 70-year-old women referred for assessment of peroneal palsy syndrome found to be related to peroneal schwannoma...

journal_title：Revue neurologique

authors： Rafai MA,El Otmani H,Rafai M,Bouhaajaj FZ,Largab A,Trafeh M,Adil A,Kadiri R,Slassi I

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During the past years, the development of new technologies and techniques has been applied to brain tumor surgery, leading to decreased surgical morbidity and increased efficiency. These techniques can be used to reduce the invasiveness of the surgical approach (endoscopy, neuronavigation, robotics), to improve guidan...

journal_title：Revue neurologique

authors： Fontaine D,Duffau H,Litrico S

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Psychological management of patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and their caregivers is a relatively recent concern, probably because there was previously a tendency to consider only physical functioning. Recent work have focused more on psychological well-being concerning patient and their close relativ...

journal_title：Revue neurologique

authors： Havet V

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although noninvasive ventilation may improve survival in patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), ineffective airway clearance is an important cause of therapeutic failure. We report in this paper the main studies which have assessed assisted cough techniques in patients with ALS. Manually assisted cough (in...

journal_title：Revue neurologique

authors： Perrin C

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As the clinical signs of amyotrophic of lateral sclerosis (ALS) are late and not specific, spirometric measurements, study of respiratory strength muscles and analysis of night respiratory parameters are used to evaluate ventilatory functions. The prognostic value of vital capacity is well established, but with a poor...

journal_title：Revue neurologique

authors： Pinet C

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Operatory procedures can help to break bad news in ALS but the main goal of this unpleasant task stands in the quality of the relationship between the physician and his patient which must be preserved throughout the course of the disease. Plasticity is obviously the best way to characterize the appropriate kind of car...

journal_title：Revue neurologique

authors： Salachas F

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Amotrophic lateral sclerosis diagnosis is based on clinical and electrophysiological findings. Transcranial magnetic stimulation and MRI can show abnormalities which are not specific, but which can confirm upper motor neuron involvement. The other tests are performed to exclude differential diagnosis. Tests which shou...

journal_title：Revue neurologique

authors： Tranchant C

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:A number of tests are currently used in clinical and research settings for the assessment of patients with memory deficits. Among them, the Hopkins Verbal Learning Test (HVLT) is particularly appropriate for the longitudinal follow-up of patients with memory disorders because it exists in six parallel form...

journal_title：Revue neurologique

authors： Rieu D,Bachoud-Lévi AC,Laurent A,Jurion E,Dalla Barba G

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Sudden bilateral deafness and facial weakness are unusual presentations of brain stem stroke. OBSERVATION:We report the case of a patient who presented successively sudden bilateral deafness and facial diplegia in correlation with a brain stem stroke but without any ischemic pontine lesion. DISCUSSION:Un...

journal_title：Revue neurologique

authors： Guidoux C,Garcin B,Clery-Melin ML,Blanc R,Jouvent E,Hosseini H

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00