abstract：:To determine the effect of flunarizine therapy on patients with alternating hemiplegia of childhood (AHC), we sent a questionnaire by mail to council members of the Japanese Society of Child Neurology. We collected 28 AHC patients, and studied their clinical courses and the effects of drug therapy. All of the patients...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Sasaki M,Sakuragawa N,Osawa M

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The abnormal patterns of cerebral convolutions range from severe to small anomalies restricted to tertiary gyri and sulci. Lesions within Glial-Pial barrier were found in examined cases with cortical developmental abnormalities. Anomalies and impaired function of vessels penetrating the cortex from meningeal plexus co...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Dambska M,Laure-Kamionowska M

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a patient with holoprosencephaly, partial seizures had various initial ictal symptoms, and ictal EEGs showed epileptogenic foci in the right and left brain. Partial seizures did not culminate in secondary generalized tonic-clonic convulsions. Characteristic malformed structures contribute to the absence of secondar...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Takahashi S,Takahashi Y,Kondo N,Orii T

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eighteen children with diplegic form of cerebral palsy (CP) underwent magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) because of the enlarged occipital horns of both lateral ventricles found on previous computerized tomography (CT). In 16 of them squint was present. MRI in flow attenuated inversion recovery (FLAIR) and turbo spin ec...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Seidl Z,Süssová J,Obenberger J,Vanecková M,Viták T,Rydland J

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Monitoring brain function by EEG is an important means of preventing cerebral insults in pediatric cardiovascular surgery. We studied intraoperative EEG changes and their regional differences associated with hypothermia and brain ischemia. The subjects of this study consisted of 13 children ranging in age from 4 month...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Akiyama T,Kobayashi K,Nakahori T,Yoshinaga H,Ogino T,Ohtsuka Y,Takeuchi M,Morita K,Sano S,Oka E

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Schizencephaly is an uncommon structural disorder of cerebral cortical development, characterized by congenital clefts spanning the cerebral hemispheres from the pial surface to the lateral ventricles and lined by cortical gray matter. Either an antenatal environmental incident or a genetic origin could be responsible...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Denis D,Chateil JF,Brun M,Brissaud O,Lacombe D,Fontan D,Flurin V,Pedespan J

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe three patients with the limb pain of complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) in childhood with autonomic nervous system function involvement. Their autonomic nerve abnormality was non-invasively examined by means of laser doppler flowmetry (LDF) and a sympathetic skin response (SSR) test. In one it was resol...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Matsui M,Ito M,Tomoda A,Miike T

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present study, we investigated age-related changes in pteridine levels and enzymatic activity responsible for tetrahydrobiopterin biosynthesis in mouse tissues. Until about 15 weeks after the birth, the remarkable change of tetrahydrobiopterin (BH4) was observed in all tissues tested. Between 20 and 50 weeks af...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Yoshida YI,Eda S,Masada M

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hereditary progressive dystonia (HPD) with marked diurnal fluctuation is caused by mutant guanosine triphosphate (GTP) cyclohydrolase I (GCH). The clinical presentation of dominant HPD varies considerably. We proposed the hypothesis that a relative increase of mutant GCH capable of inhibiting normal GCH is responsible...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Ueno S,Hirano M

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to evaluate the ability of the test of variables of attention (TOVA) to distinguish between 6- to 12-year-old Japanese male children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD group; n=17) meeting DSM-IV and ICD-10 criteria, and age-matched, normal Japanese male controls (control...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Wada N,Yamashita Y,Matsuishi T,Ohtani Y,Kato H

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although a large amount of cholesterol is known to be needed for brain maturation and differentiation, cholesterol metabolism during these periods remains unclear. To elucidate the developmental regulation of cholesterol metabolism in the brain, we investigated the expression of 3-hydroxy-3-methyglutaryl-coenzyme A (H...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Hanaka S,Abe T,Itakura H,Matsumoto A

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An unique cytoplasmic inclusion was found in astrocytes of a 2-month-old female baby who showed Leigh-like brain lesions with lactic acidosis, hypoglycemia and hepatomegaly. Although a defective enzyme was not determined, a metabolic disorder was suggested from clinicopathological observations. Symmetrically distribut...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Yamamoto T,Armstrong D,Shibata N,Kato Y,Kobayashi M

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the development of the voluntary control of saccadic eye movement, we examined eye movements in 99 normal children (4-13 years of age). Subjects were asked to fixate a central light for 3-5 s. A target was then presented, either to its right or left. In visually guided saccades, the mean latencies of th...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Fukushima J,Hatta T,Fukushima K

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Head angular stability is essential for postural control in whole body movement. Using the opto-electronic ELITE system, we have studied head orientation during the movements of squatting from the standing position and straightening-up from the squatting position in 12 children with spastic diplegia and 12 age-matched...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Dan B,Bouillot E,Bengoetxea A,Noël P,Kahn A,Cheron G

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A female case of developmental arrest, early-onset seizures, retinal pigmentary degeneration, progressive central nervous symptoms and peripheral neuropathy, associated with progressive renal dysfunction, anemia and nephrotic syndrome, was presented. Her epileptic syndrome was possibly an early myoclonic encephalopath...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Hirabayashi S,Shigematsu H,Iai M,Takashima S

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We reported a 2-year-old boy with Lennox-Gastaut syndrome, of which the cause could be an adverse effect of further attenuated live (FL) measles vaccine. The pre- and peri-natal histories of the patient were uneventful, except that he was one of monozygotic twins. He had developed normally until 24 months of life, whe...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Ishikawa T,Ogino C,Chang S

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to study the validity of disintegrative psychosis (DP) as defined in ICD-9, we compared the natural history of somatic morbidity of 13 patients given this diagnosis in childhood with a control group of 39 patients with infantile autism (IA) matched for gender, age, IQ and social class. Average follow-up time ...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Mouridsen SE,Rich B,Isager T

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of our study was to determine the relation between the serum level of endotoxin at birth and the development of periventricular leukomalacia (PVL) in preterm infants. We studied 68 preterm infants whose gestational ages ranged between 27 and 33 weeks, and birthweights between 1000 and 2000 g. The serum e...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Okumura A,Hayakawa F,Kato T,Kuno K,Watanabe K

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Both xeroderma pigmentosum group A (XPA) and Cockayne syndrome (CS) are rare autosomal disorders, have a genetic defect in the step of nucleotide repair, and involve various neurological abnormalities caused by progressive neurodegeneration. We performed comprehensive neuropathological analysis of five cases of XPA an...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Itoh M,Hayashi M,Shioda K,Minagawa M,Isa F,Tamagawa K,Morimatsu Y,Oda M

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neopterin and biopterin concentrations were measured in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) and urine samples from controls less than 1 year old. This is the first time for CSF reference data for controls less than 1 year old to be reported. The ratio of neopterin to biopterin in CSF 0-30 days (n = 48) of age in control samples...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Sawada Y,Shintaku H,Isshiki G

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We determined the efficacy of and tolerability to zonisamide (ZNS) in newly diagnosed patients with infantile spasms. ZNS, 4-20 mg/kg per day, was introduced as an add-on therapy or monotherapy in 27 children with infantile spasms (cryptogenic, 2; symptomatic, 25). The dosage was initially 2-4 mg/kg per day, and then ...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Yanai S,Hanai T,Narazaki O

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two cases of convulsive syncope following the insertion of sphenoidal electrodes are reported. The episodes occurred shortly after an uneventful insertion of the needle. Both patients exhibited behavioral arrest with loss of muscle tone, followed by flexor posturing, jerking of the extremities, then followed by what a...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： DeToledo JC

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the effects of stimulus rates on the somatosensory evoked potential (SEP) amplitudes following median nerve stimulation at the wrist in 42 children. We divided these subjects into five groups according to their age (0-6 months, 7-12 months, 1-3 years, 4-6 years and more than 7 years) and measured the peak-...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Araki A,Takada A,Yasuhara A,Kobayashi Y

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The developmental expression of monocyte chemoattractant protein-1 (MCP-1) in the cerebellum, medulla oblongata and pons was investigated in 26 normal human brains, ranging from 20 weeks of gestation (GW) to adulthood by means of an immunohistochemical method. Immunoreactivity to MCP-1 was observed in neurons of the c...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Meng SZ,Oka A,Takashima S

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three cases of Lesch-Nyhan syndrome (LNS) were examined by polysomnography to assess the brainstem function, and to determine the causes of the neurological manifestations and sudden death in this syndrome. In the two older cases, the amount of slow wave and rapid eye movement (REM) sleep, the REM density and the freq...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Saito Y,Hanaoka S,Fukumizu M,Morita H,Ogawa T,Takahashi K,Ito M,Hashimoto T

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The common factor causing congenital arthrogryposis is lack of fetal movements. This can result from a large number of disorders. They may be neuropathic, affecting the brain, the spinal cord, or the peripheral nerves; they may be abnormalities of the muscles, such as myasthenia gravis, congenital muscular dystrophies...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Gordon N

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To clarify the predictive value of the seven more commonly used postural reactions (PR) in the 1st year of life regarding the diagnosis of cerebral palsy (CP), we prospectively examined 204 high-risk infants of whom 58 developed CP, 22 had developmental retardation (DR) and 124 were normal at follow-up at 3 years of a...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Zafeiriou DI,Tsikoulas IG,Kremenopoulos GM,Kontopoulos EE

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Congenital cerebellar ataxia is usually thought to be of cerebellar origin. We report two children with congenital cerebellar ataxia, in whom neuroimaging investigations suggest the possibility of a parietal etiology. The two boys showed hypotonia, delayed motor and cognitive development followed by marked, truncally ...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Steinlin M,Schmitt B,Ferrini B

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twelve patients with early infancy onset megalencephaly and leukodystrophy with a mild clinical course are reported. The neuroradiological, clinical, and genetic aspects of this recently recognized familial leukodystrophy syndrome were reviewed. Five were affected siblings, and all patients had consanguineous parents....

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Topcu M,Saatci I,Topcuoglu MA,Kose G,Kunak B

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The neuropathological characteristics and alteration of the dopamine D2 receptor (D2R) were investigated in 27 cases of hypoxic-ischemic basal ganglia necrosis (BGN) by means of neuropathological and immunohistochemical methods. Perinatal hypoxic-ischemic BGN manifested neuronal karyorrhexis as well as eosinophilia, k...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Meng SZ,Isumi H,Takashima S

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study is to elucidate the interrelation between the M and F wave characteristics of the median nerve and the grip power in patients with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA). The SMA patients showed decreased amplitudes of the M and F waves, decreased frequency of the F wave, and an increase of the F/M ra...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Imai T,Saito M,Matsumoto H,Ishikawa Y,Ishikawa Y,Minami R

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oral motor patterns during feeding were investigated in 58 patients with severe physical disability. Five patients showed a pattern resembling sucking. Twenty-nine exhibited an up-and-down movement of the jaw and protrusion of the tongue. Among these, the mouth opened when the food entered and the lips closed before s...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Yokochi K

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to elucidate the molecular mechanisms underlying neuronal migration in the developing rat cerebral cortex, a novel primary tissue culture system in which neuronal migration can be evaluated was developed. Using this culture system, through autoradiographic studies we demonstrated the migration of [3H]thymidin...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Matsushita K,Yoshioka H,Fushiki S,Hirai K,Kihara M,Kadono N,Hasegawa K,Goma H,Sawada T

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report an autopsy case of bathtub drowning in epilepsy. A 26-year-old female with mental retardation had been treated for refractory epilepsy. Her younger sister found her floating supine in the bathtub 45 min after starting bathing. Neuropathological examination revealed cerebral cortical dysplasia in the precentr...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Osamura T,Fushiki S,Yoshioka H,Yamanaka T,Mizuta R

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 15-year-old boy presenting with epilepsy, optic atrophy and intracranial calcifications was diagnosed as having metaphyseal dysplasia by bone X-ray examinations. The patient had no laboratory data suggesting other metabolic or endocrinologic disorders. In addition, CT scans showed unique intracranial calcifications ...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Ohtagaki A,Hara T,Maegaki Y,Takeshita K

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Becker muscular dystrophy (BMD) was diagnosed in a male patient with Klinefelter's syndrome (47, XXY karyotype). The BMD was confirmed by (i) immunohistological methods and Western blotting, showing decreased quantity of dystrophin in muscle biopsy specimen and (ii) molecular genetic analysis which demonstrated a homo...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Zeitoun O,Ketelsen UP,Wolff G,Müller CR,Korinthenberg R

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to reveal the pathophysiology of photoparoxysmal responses (PPRs) in photosensitive patients with hereditary dentatorubral-pallidoluysian atrophy (DRPLA) who had expansion of the CAG repeat in the DRPLA gene, we studied the characteristics of PPRs using optical filters with specific wavelength transmission. I...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Takahashi Y,Watanabe M,Fujiwara T,Yagi K,Kondo N,Orii T,Seino M

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The clinical profile of 33 children (19 boys, 14 girls) with multiple congenital contractures has been studied. The majority (54%) belong to arthrogryposis multiplex congenita with a static clinical course. Children were classified into three groups: group I (limb involvement only; n = 21) having arthrogryposis multip...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Wong V

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The developmental changes in N-acetyl-L-aspartic acid (NAA) were assessed in human fetal and child brains by means of high resolution proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS). NAA was detected in the cerebral cortex and white matter of fetuses of 16 weeks' gestation. NAA increased gradually from 24 weeks' gestatio...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Kato T,Nishina M,Matsushita K,Hori E,Mito T,Takashima S

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study was undertaken to clarify how we should assess the necessity of close follow-up in each case, when we first examine an infant with ankle clonus within the first year of life. The neurologic prognoses of 169 infants who had exhibited ankle clonus at least once during the first year of life were review...

journal_title：Brain & development

authors： Futagi Y,Otani K,Goto M

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00