abstract：:Organic acidemias (OAs) have been detected worldwide in symptomatic patients using gas chromatography mass spectrometry. We diagnosed 188 Asian cases of OAs by analysis of urinary organic acids and investigated their clinical onset and outcome. Methylmalonic acidemia (MMA) was most common (74 cases), followed by propi...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Hori D,Hasegawa Y,Kimura M,Yang Y,Verma IC,Yamaguchi S

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sphingolipidoses are a subgroup of lysosomal storage diseases. They are defined as disorders caused by a genetic defect in catabolism of sphingosine-containing lipids. Catabolism of these lipids involves enzymes and activator proteins. After the discovery of lysosomes by de Duve and the demonstration of the first defe...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Ozkara HA

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the relationship between theophylline and memory/learning using an elevated plus-maze test and measuring spontaneous locomotor activity in developing mice. There were no significant differences in transfer latency (TL) in 21-, 30- and 42-day-old mice in the acquisition trial, but theophylline significantly ...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Hirose M,Yokoyama H,Iinuma K

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The diagnosis of fragile X A syndrome (FRAXA) during childhood depends largely on DNA-based diagnostic tests due to the lack of the specific clinical features. To determine a non-invasive screening method for fragile X syndrome, we studied the method of DNA-based diagnosis using urine or hair roots instead of routinel...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Suwa K,Momoi MY

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is sometimes difficult to discriminate high functioning pervasive developmental disorders (HFPDD) from attention deficit/hyperactivity disorders (AD/HD) in young children because of the behavioral similarities between the two. For adequate diagnosis, understanding fundamental differences in their social cognitive a...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Adachi T,Koeda T,Hirabayashi S,Maeoka Y,Shiota M,Wright EC,Wada A

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study is to determine the efficacy of prophylactic treatment for patients with febrile convulsions (FCs) in whom electroencephalograms (EEGs) revealed epileptiform discharges. We retrospectively investigated 43 patients who met the following criteria: (a) at least one FC during the study period; (b) ep...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Okumura A,Ishiguro Y,Sofue A,Suzuki Y,Maruyama K,Kubota T,Negoro T,Watanabe K

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Wolf-Hirschhorn syndrome (WHS) is associated with partial deletion of short arm of chromosome 4, and characterized by severe growth retardation. Other characteristic features are microcephaly, intellectual handicap, Greek helmet facies and closure deficits such as cleft lip or cleft palate, coloboma of the eye, and ca...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Tutunculer F,Acunas B,Hicdonmez T,Deviren A,Pelitli V

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study is to investigate predictive factors of post-traumatic syndrome in children with minor head injury. Prospective neurological, electroencephalographic and psychological investigations were performed in 98 children aged 3-13 years within 24 h after the trauma and 4-6 weeks later. Inclusion criteria...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Korinthenberg R,Schreck J,Weser J,Lehmkuhl G

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to clarify the risk factors of relapse following discontinuation of AEDs in patients with childhood-onset cryptogenic localization-related epilepsies. The subjects were 82 patients who fulfilled the following criteria: (1) age at first visit of less than 15 years, (2) follow-up period of ...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Ohta H,Ohtsuka Y,Tsuda T,Oka E

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:This study was conducted to describe the natural course of tic disorders over a long period of time in Japanese adults patients with Tourette's syndrome (TS) in terms of symptomatology. METHODS:An extensive literature on TS cases was reviewed selectively and 31 TS patients (mean age: 31.4 years; sex: 28 male...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Ohta M,Kano Y

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fifty-one consecutive adult patients with epilepsy and early development destructive brain lesions were divided into three main groups according to the topographic distribution of the lesion on magnetic resonance imaging: hemispheric (H) (n=9); main arterial territory (AT) (n=25) and arterial borderzone (Bdz) (n=17). ...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Teixeira RA,Li LM,Santos SL,Zanardi VA,Honorato DC,Guerreiro CA,Cendes F

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glucose transporter type1 (GLUT-1) deficiency may be rare, but it is a preventable cause of severe learning difficulties; and therefore there is an urgency in making an early diagnosis. Suspicions must be roused when intractable seizures occur in infancy. These may be associated with acquired microcephaly and developm...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Gordon N,Newton RW

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutation of the gene for alpha-tocopherol transfer protein causes ataxia with isolated vitamin E deficiency, a disorder usually stabilized or improved after vitamin E supplementation. Dystonia has rarely been described in ataxia with isolated vitamin E deficiency (AVED) patients. We present the case of a young boy wit...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Roubertie A,Biolsi B,Rivier F,Humbertclaude V,Cheminal R,Echenne B

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent postmortem studies have suggested that sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) might involve an underlying, gradual brain stem injury caused by repeated episodes of transiently compromised brain stem circulation. Autopsy studies have also reported that vertebral artery occlusion due to head rotations, such as occur...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Vanhatalo S,Nikolajev K,Kiekara O,Seuri R,Riikonen R

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 1908 a Viennese remedial educator Theodor Heller described six children under the name of dementia infantilis who had insidiously developed a severe mental regression between the 3rd and 4th years of life after normal mental development. Neuropathological and other medical conditions are sometimes associated with t...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Mouridsen SE

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Midazolam is a relatively new anticonvulsive agent in the benzodiazepine group. It has a short onset of duration and is practical for use, providing several alternatives such as intravenous, intramuscular, and intranasal routes. The buccal route could be an alternative choice for seizure control in an emergency settin...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Kutlu NO,Dogrul M,Yakinci C,Soylu H

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We measured neopterin, biopterin and nitric oxide (NO) concentrations in the cerebrospinal fluid of pediatric patients with central nervous system (CNS) infectious diseases. The nitric oxide and neopterin concentrations were significantly elevated in encephalitis patients, especially in two cases with serious neurolog...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Azumagawa K,Suzuki S,Tanabe T,Wakamiya E,Kawamura N,Tamai H

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 7-year-old boy began to complain that his pitch perception was decreased just after oral medication with carbamazepine was initiated for the treatment of epilepsy. When he played the piano, he felt as if he had played a musical note of almost a half pitch lower than he had. His pitch perception recovered soon after ...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Yoshikawa H,Abe T

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study analyzed changes in cerebral blood volume (CBV) during apnea associated with hypoxia compared to apnea without hypoxia. Hypoxia was defined as pulsoxymetric oxygen saturation <80%>10 s. The employed technique was near infrared spectroscopy combined with electrocardiogram, electroocologram, pulsoxymet...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Payer C,Urlesberger B,Pauger M,Müller W

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The occurrence of seizures in patients with fragile X syndrome (Fra-X) is reported. Among the 30 patients, six had epilepsy that was particularly severe and two also showed atypical facial dysmorphism that was different from that seen in classical Fra-X. From the study performed in this series of Fra-X patients the au...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Incorpora G,Sorge G,Sorge A,Pavone L

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Carrier detection for 12 women and prenatal diagnosis for six fetuses in Japanese families with a patient with Menkes disease (MNK) were performed by gene analysis and/or measurement of the copper concentration in cultured cells. Six out of eight mothers of MNK patients were carriers while two (25%) were not carriers....

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Gu YH,Kodama H,Sato E,Mochizuki D,Yanagawa Y,Takayanagi M,Sato K,Ogawa A,Ushijima H,Lee CC

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Arachnoid cysts comprise approximately 1% of all intracranial space-occupying lesions and usually occur sporadically. We report retrocerebellar arachnoid cysts in two male siblings with mental retardation and undescended testis, suggesting the possibility of a genetic basis for at least some cases of retrocerebellar a...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Suzuki H,Takanashi J,Sugita K,Barkovich AJ,Kohno Y

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 6-month-old girl developed West syndrome and it remitted in association with valproate-induced hepatic dysfunction. Plasma -alanine elevated after valproate hepatotoxicity, which seemed to be a possible cause of remission. The patient has been seizure-free with normal electroencephalogram for 12 months without any a...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Go T

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The long-term effectiveness of acetazolamide (AZA) and its side effects, especially the formation of renal calculi, were investigated in a prospective study when AZA was used as an adjunct to other antiepileptic drugs in the treatment of refractory epilepsies. The subjects comprised 37 patients aged from 1 to 17 years...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Katayama F,Miura H,Takanashi S

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Potassium bromide was tried for two children with daily convulsive focal motor seizures with unconsciousness and focal motor seizure status. The treatment resulted in complete cessation of the attacks. It has been reported that bromide is effective for generalized tonic-clonic seizures and not for complex partial seiz...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Takayanagi M,Yamamoto K,Nakagawa H,Munakata M,Kato R,Yokoyama H,Haginoya K,Iinuma K

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Zonisamide is widely used for intractable epilepsy and the effects of this drug on fetuses and neonates through the mother taking it for epilepsy need to be clarified. We measured the zonisamide concentration in plasma and breast milk using high-performance liquid chromatography to investigate the transfer of zonisami...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Kawada K,Itoh S,Kusaka T,Isobe K,Ishii M

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ohtahara syndrome (OS) is characterized by frequent tonic spasms, with or without clustering, of early onset within a few months of life, and a suppression-burst (S-B) pattern in electroencephalography (EEG). Tonic spasms occur in not only waking but also sleeping state in most cases. Partial seizures are observed in ...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Yamatogi Y,Ohtahara S

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Molybdenum cofactor deficiency is a rare and devastating disease leading to intractable seizures in the neonatal period. Severe loss of neocortical neurons, gliosis, and cystic necrosis of cerebral white matter resulting in significant cerebral volume loss are the neuropathological findings. The mechanism of cerebral ...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Arslanoglu S,Yalaz M,Gökşen D,Coker M,Tütüncüoglu S,Akisu M,Darcan S,Kultursay N,Ciriş M,Demirtaş E

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The syndrome of brain atrophy in girls described by Andreas Rett in 1966 [Rett, Wien Klin Wochenschr, 1966;116:723-726] was brought to the attention of the English-speaking world by Hagberg et al. in 1983 [Hagberg et al., Ann Neurol, 1983;14:471-479]. Four clinical stages after the age of 6 months were described in cl...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Dunn HG

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this report, we reviewed the characteristics of motor development and motor symptoms of Rett Syndrome (RTT) and demarcated the early and pathognomonic motor symptom which correlates to the impairment of the higher cortical function (HCF) assessed by the ability of language. It is suggested that failure of locomotio...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Segawa M

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in the methyl-CpG-binding protein 2 gene (MECP2) are identified in the majority of females with Rett syndrome (RTT), an X-linked dominant neurodevelopmental disorder. We searched for mutations by sequencing the MECP2 coding region in 45 sporadic cases (35 with classic RTT, eight with variant forms and two ma...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Lee SS,Wan M,Francke U

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) of DNA-DNA or DNA-RNA using post-mortem brain samples is one approach to study low-level chromosomal aneuploidy and selective expression of specific genes in the brain of patients with neuropsychiatric diseases. We have performed a pilot molecular-cytogenetic analysis of post-...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Yurov YB,Vostrikov VM,Vorsanova SG,Monakhov VV,Iourov IY

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ninety-nine cases of Rett syndrome (RTT) diagnosed clinically (age range 3 years 6 months to 29 years 9 months) were evaluated for the ability of language. The presence of meaningful words, vocabularies, and ages at the start and disappearance of speech were assessed. Phenotype/genotype correlation was evaluated in 22...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Uchino J,Suzuki M,Hoshino K,Nomura Y,Segawa M

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spasms are a form of epileptic seizure typical of infancy. From a clinical point of view, the child presents a flexor-extensor movement involving the trunk and limbs and lasting about 1s. Although asymmetry can be present, the seizure involves both sides of the body. The ictal discharge most frequently associated with...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Vigevano F,Fusco L,Pachatz C

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:West syndrome (WS) is associated with diverse etiological factors. This fact has suggested that there must be a 'final common pathway' for these etiologies, which operates on the immature brain to result in WS only at the maturational state present during infancy. Any theory for the pathogenesis of WS has to account f...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Brunson KL,Eghbal-Ahmadi M,Baram TZ

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The incidence of West syndrome (WS) was determined by a search of reports of electroencephalograms (EEG) recorded in 1998 and 1999 in all public hospitals in Singapore. Amongst records of patients born in 1998, nine were found with EEG features of hypsarrhythmia or modified hypsarrhythmia with onset of seizures betwee...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Lee WL,Ong HT

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A large body of experience has been compiled in different countries, documenting the efficacy of adenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH) for infantile spasms. This is important, because it may serve as a key for understanding this disorder, as well as for designing better medicines. However, significant discrepancies exist ...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Baram TZ

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Long-term social prognosis of 120 Japanese patients with West syndrome was surveyed using structured questionnaire at the age of 25.4 years in average. The survey revealed that ADL score remained null in one-fifth of cases; the majority entered in special education course for disabled children; only eleven cases were ...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Kumagai T,Ito M,Yamazaki Y,Sekijima K,Sakakibara K,Matsutomo Y,Hijikigawa F,Yamada H

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The aim of this study is to elucidate the clinical and neurophysiological characteristics of the myoclonic, myoclonic-astatic, or astatic seizures in patients with myoclonic-astatic epilepsy (MAE) of early childhood, and to discuss on the nosology of this unique epileptic syndrome. SUBJECTS:The subjects includ...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Oguni H,Fukuyama Y,Tanaka T,Hayashi K,Funatsuka M,Sakauchi M,Shirakawa S,Osawa M

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of the present study was to evaluate sleeping position-dependent effects on cerebral hemodynamics during apnea in preterm infants. To this end, polygraphic studies were performed on 15 stable preterm infants lying prone and lying supine. Changes in cerebral blood volume (DeltaCBV) and in cerebral hemoglo...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Pichler G,Schmölzer G,Müller W,Urlesberger B

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00