abstract：:This report reviews the fundamental principles and the changing concepts of nerve stimulation techniques, and discusses the proper application of these techniques in the differential diagnosis of peripheral nerve disorders. Nerve conduction studies help delineate the extent and distribution of the neural lesion and di...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Kimura J

更新日期：1984-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 30-year-old male drug abuser developed ophthalmoplegia, bulbar paralysis, and limb weakness responsive to edrophonium. However, potentiation of a low-amplitude evoked muscle action potential was produced with repetitive nerve stimulation at 10 Hz, and the clinical and electrophysiological data suggested the diagnosi...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Rapoport S,Watkins PB

更新日期：1984-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The fate of neurofilament (NF) proteins was examined in sections of nerves from rats that survived for 3 to 90 days following nerve transection, using anti-NF monoclonal antibodies and immunohistochemical techniques. The same methods were also applied to twenty-three human nerve biopsy specimens. Granular debris with ...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Trojanowski JQ,Lee VM,Schlaepfer WW

更新日期：1984-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Measurement of conduction velocity along the H reflex arc was used to study sensorimotor peripheral nerve function in diabetic patients during short- and long-term improvement of hyperglycemia. In ten type I diabetics a slight (p less than 0.05) conduction increase occurred after 6 hours of normal glycemia induced by ...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Troni W,Carta Q,Cantello R,Caselle MT,Rainero I

更新日期：1984-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The oculocerebrorenal syndrome (OCRS), Lowe's syndrome, is an X-linked, recessive disease characterized by mental retardation, congenital corneal abnormalities and cataracts, growth failure, rickets, osseous abnormalities, renal dysfunction with periodic acidosis, hypotonia, and areflexia. Ultrastructural studies of s...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Wisniewski KE,Kieras FJ,French JH,Houck GE Jr,Ramos PL

更新日期：1984-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Because of the association of D-penicillamine (DP) therapy with myasthenia gravis, we have studied long-term DP treatment in five inbred strains of mice with doses comparable to those used in patients with rheumatoid arthritis. No clinical weakness or anti-acetylcholine receptor (AChR) antibody developed with up to 6 ...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Bever CT Jr,Dretchen KL,Blake GJ,Chang HW,Penn AS,Asofsky R

更新日期：1984-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Between 36 and 44 weeks after conception, telencephalic white matter in the newborn appears to be particularly vulnerable to insults that result in morphological disturbances. Available evidence indicates that this disorder (or group of disorders), named acquired perinatal leukoencephalopathy, reflects a decrease in b...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Leviton A,Gilles FH

更新日期：1984-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alterations of nodal and paranodal axolemma of the rat sciatic nerve were investigated in antigalactocerebroside serum-induced demyelination. A ferric ion-ferrocyanide (FeFCN) stain that appears to stain the regions with a high sodium channel density in nerve fibers was applied. When acute conduction block was initiat...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Saida K,Saida T,Kayama H,Nishitani H

更新日期：1984-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied local cerebral blood flow, as measured by autoradiography with digital image processing and by tissue morphology, in six rats 4 hours after occlusion of the proximal middle cerebral artery. A consistent, three-dimensional pattern of graded reductions in local cerebral blood flow involved the affected hemisp...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Tyson GW,Teasdale GM,Graham DI,McCulloch J

更新日期：1984-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cerebrospinal fluid and plasma vasopressin were measured in patients with cerebral disorders associated with varying levels of elevated intracranial pressure. The mean cerebrospinal fluid vasopressin concentration was significantly increased in patients with pseudotumor cerebri (2.0 +/- 0.2 [SEM] pg/ml), intracranial ...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Sørensen PS,Gjerris F,Hammer M

更新日期：1984-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 10-year-old boy developed progressive dystonia and dementia. His symptoms had begun at age 2 1/2 years, and he had been unable to walk by 8 years. At age 10 he was severely dystonic, unable to use his hands to feed himself, and almost anarthric . He had dysphagia and urinary incontinence, and functioned at a 4-year-...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Meek D,Wolfe LS,Andermann E,Andermann F

更新日期：1984-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case-control study was performed to determine the possible roles of various environmental factors, prior illnesses, drug use, and personal habits in the development of Alzheimer's disease. Such information was collected from 40 patients with onset of dementia prior to age 70 and from 80 community control subjects ma...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Heyman A,Wilkinson WE,Stafford JA,Helms MJ,Sigmon AH,Weinberg T

更新日期：1984-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a patient with hemidystonia and an abnormality of the contralateral basal ganglion seen only with positron emission tomography. A 50-year-old sinistral man suffered minor trauma to the right side of his head and neck. Within 20 minutes he developed paroxysmal intermittent dystonic posturing of his right fac...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Perlmutter JS,Raichle ME

更新日期：1984-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A child with neurofibromatosis exhibited gigantism and acromegaly in association with a hypothalamic mass lesion. Bromocriptine, 5 mg daily, reduced somatic growth rate and restored biochemical homeostasis but had no effect on tumor growth. Radiation therapy arrested tumor enlargement and stabilized deteriorating visu...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Duchowny MS,Katz R,Bejar RL

更新日期：1984-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The incidence of periventricular-intraventricular hemorrhage (PV-IVH) in a group of 460 preterm infants with birth weight less than 2,250 gm, studied by cranial ultrasonography, was 39%. Sixty-four (36%) of the infants with periventricular-intraventricular hemorrhage had, in addition, periventricular intraparenchymal ...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： McMenamin JB,Shackelford GD,Volpe JJ

更新日期：1984-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibody against acetylcholine receptor (AChR) of human skeletal muscle was measured using enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay and found in 23 (74%) of 31 Japanese patients with generalized myasthenia gravis. In 15 patients with generalized myasthenia gravis who had not undergone thymectomy and who were not receiving ad...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Kawanami S,Tsuji R,Oda K

更新日期：1984-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 65-year-old woman with subacute global deterioration of neurological function had bilateral occlusion of the internal carotid arteries demonstrated by angiography. Postmortem examination showed isolated giant cell arteritis involving the carotid siphon bilaterally. ...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Howard GF 3rd,Ho SU,Kim KS,Wallach J

更新日期：1984-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper attempts to place into perspective the present state of clinical investigation with PET in neurology. To this end we briefly review the work of the neurology group of the MRC Cyclotron Unit at Hammersmith Hospital, by reference to studies performed in normal subjects and in patients with cerebrovascular dis...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Frackowiak RS,Wise RJ,Gibbs JM,Jones T

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied patients with partial and primary generalized seizures using fluorine-18-labeled 2-fluorodeoxyglucose and positron emission tomography. Interictal studies of patients with partial seizures showed regions of focal or lateralized hypometabolism in 15 of 17 patients with unilateral electroencephalographic foci...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Theodore WH,Brooks R,Sato S,Patronas N,Margolin R,Di Chiro G,Porter RJ

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Calmodulin is a major Ca2+ -binding protein that may mediate many Ca2+ -regulated processes in neuronal function. Calmodulin is present in the presynaptic nerve terminal in association with synaptic vesicles and in postsynaptic density fractions. Several calmodulin-regulated synaptic biochemical processes have been id...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： DeLorenzo RJ

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As more small peptidergic components of the central nervous system are isolated, their role in disease states is being investigated. Several of these neuropeptides, especially the opioidlike peptides, adrenocorticotropic hormone, and some hypothalamic releasing factors, have been found to alter neuronal excitability. ...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Bajorek JG,Lee RJ,Lomax P

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fourteen patients with cauda equina syndrome secondary to long-standing ankylosing spondylitis are described. The roughly symmetrical neurological deficits were very slowly progressive and began long after the onset of the spondylitis, usually well after the rheumatological symptoms had stopped. Eventually every patie...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Bartleson JD,Cohen MD,Harrington TM,Goldstein NP,Ginsburg WW

更新日期：1983-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A family with Gerstmann-Sträussler-Scheinker disease had coincidental clinical onset in three members of two generations, a phenomenon suggesting a common source of a transmissible agent. A regular dietary supplement in this family was home-bred rabbit. The clinical picture, although generally similar to that in previ...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Hudson AJ,Farrell MA,Kalnins R,Kaufmann JC

更新日期：1983-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eight patients with recent cerebral hemispheric infarction were studied with positron emission tomography and the oxygen-15 steady-state inhalation and [18F]deoxyglucose techniques to obtain values of regional cerebral blood flow, oxygen consumption, and glucose metabolism. The Sokoloff equation, used to calculate glu...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Wise RJ,Rhodes CG,Gibbs JM,Hatazawa J,Palmer T,Frackowiak RS,Jones T

更新日期：1983-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 13-year-old boy with imipramine overdose developed seizures, respiratory arrest, and coma. Abnormalities of oculovestibular reflexes, electroencephalograms, and brainstem auditory evoked potentials were monitored in relation to measurements of drug levels. An alpha-coma electroencephalographic pattern evolved into o...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Pulst SM,Lombroso CT

更新日期：1983-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fourteen children with brain tumors received endocrine evaluations at least one year following completion of cranial irradiation. Treatment consisted of operation (13 patients), craniospinal irradiation (6), whole brain irradiation (5), posterior fossa irradiation (3), and chemotherapy (10). Endocrine evaluation inclu...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Duffner PK,Cohen ME,Anderson SW,Voorhess ML,MacGillivray MH,Panahon A,Brecher ML

更新日期：1983-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A persistent vegetative state (severe dementia) developed in a 30-year-old man following hypoglycemic coma. Despite the poor clinical outcome, sensory evoked response recovered between 6 and 34 months after the insult. The cerebral blood flow level at rest after 34 months was slightly above the normal range. This find...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Agardh CD,Rosén I,Ryding E

更新日期：1983-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study reports a case of type VII mucopolysaccharidosis (beta-glucuronidase deficiency) presenting as lethal hydrops fetalis. Skin fibroblast cultures established postmortem revealed deficient beta-glucuronidase activity. Mucopolysaccharides were stored in various cells of the brain, heart, kidney, liver, and sple...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Irani D,Kim HS,El-Hibri H,Dutton RV,Beaudet A,Armstrong D

更新日期：1983-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nine patients who had suffered strokes were examined between 10 and 34 days after onset using positron emission tomography. DMO labeled with carbon 11 was used to evaluate brain acid-base balance, and the oxygen-15 inhalation technique was used to measure regional cerebral blood flow, the oxygen extraction fraction, a...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Syrota A,Castaing M,Rougemont D,Berridge M,Baron JC,Bousser MG,Pocidalo JJ

更新日期：1983-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The anatomy of the recently discovered diencephalospinal dopaminergic system is summarized and its possible role in physiological and pathological processes suggested. The cell bodies of origin of this system are localized periventricularly in the dorsal hypothalamus and caudal thalamus, and the terminal innervations ...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Lindvall O,Björklund A,Skagerberg G

更新日期：1983-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ultrasound scans of three newborn infants with cerebral ischemic lesions demonstrated on computed tomographic scan showed unexpected changes in echogenicity of brain parenchyma in addition to lateralized mass effect. Areas of increased echogenicity were present adjacent to regions of infarction identified on computed ...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Wilson-Davis SL,Lo W,Filly RA

更新日期：1983-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Positron emission tomography was used to study the effect of supratentorial infarction on cerebellar metabolic rate for oxygen and cerebellar blood flow. In a control group of patients, the mean cerebellar metabolic rate for oxygen was 2.97 +/- 0.11 (standard error of the mean [SEM] ) ml-1 . min-1 . hg-1 and mean cere...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Martin WR,Raichle ME

更新日期：1983-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The regional metabolic rate for glucose (rMRglu) was studied in macaque monkeys after spinal cord transection at T10, both during spinal shock and after reflexes had returned. The rMRglu was measured in all Rexed layers in cord segments both caudal and rostral to the level of the transection utilizing the quantitative...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Schwartzman RJ,Eidelberg E,Alexander GM,Yu J

更新日期：1983-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasma valproate concentrations were monitored prospectively in 54 previously untreated adult patients with epilepsy. Dose and plasma concentration were highly correlated. Adverse effects were common in association with plasma levels above 100 micrograms/ml. In patients suffering tonic-clonic seizures without focal sy...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Turnbull DM,Rawlins MD,Weightman D,Chadwick DW

更新日期：1983-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Passive joint position sense was tested in 10 subjects after unilateral total hip replacement surgery (which included capsulectomy). Varied initial limb position, amplitude, and velocity of movement were used. The unoperated side was used as a control. Statistically barely significant errors (p less than 0.025) on the...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Karanjia PN,Ferguson JH

更新日期：1983-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A young woman with Kearns-Sayre syndrome and progressive central nervous system deterioration over 15 years had decreased plasma and cerebrospinal fluid folate levels while receiving phenytoin for a seizure disorder. A muscle biopsy showed a "ragged red fiber" myopathy with reduced muscle carnitine and mitochondrial e...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Allen RJ,DiMauro S,Coulter DL,Papadimitriou A,Rothenberg SP

更新日期：1983-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two women suffered from a similar, slowly progressive illness characterized by upper and lower motor neuron involvement, sensory disturbances, and neurogenic bladder. Radiographic examinations showed cerebral atrophy and, in one, changes on computerized tomography suggesting leukodystrophy. Sural nerve biopsies reveal...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Vos AJ,Joosten EM,Gabreëls-Festen AA

更新日期：1983-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The unloading reflex was measured in the intrinsic muscles of the hand. By removing various fractions of the load on the muscles, we determined the size of the electromyographic response as a function of the change in the external force. This technique was applied to both hands of a patient with a pontine lesion who h...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Angel RW,Goldstein M

更新日期：1983-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A young man developed pathological thirst and hyperdipsia, hyperphagia, disordered temperature regulation, a lowered threshold for aggressive behavior, apathy, impaired memory, and seizures following encephalitis. He had marked hyponatremia. Bouts of water drinking produced water intoxication and precipitated status e...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Howe JG,Penney MD,Currie S,Morgan D

更新日期：1983-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Visual (VEP), brainstem auditory (BAEP), and somatosensory (SEP) evoked potential tests were performed in 45 patients representing ten types of inherited disorders in which ataxia was the most prominent symptom. Comparable VEP abnormalities were present among all types of patients. Normal BAEP tests were recorded in m...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Nuwer MR,Perlman SL,Packwood JW,Kark RA

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00