Diagnostic difficulties with ce ...
When faced with expanding brain lesions of unknown origin showing a ring-shaped enhancement on post-contrast imaging, we use definite criteria to di ...
Unusual segmental narrowing of ...
We describe a 7-year-old girl with spastic paraparesis. Her clinical condition was due to a unusual segmental thoracic narrowing of spinal cord. We ...
Detection of mumps virus RNA in ...
Neuromyelitis optica (NMO) is an acute inflammatory disease that preferentially involves the optic nerves and spinal cord. Although many infectious ...
A fatal case of Churg–Strauss s ...
A 64-year-old woman, with asthma and sinusal polyposis in her history, suddenly developed a painful polyneuropathy with diplopia. Nerve conduction s ...
Memantine effects on behaviour ...
The aim of this study is to evaluate memantine effectiveness on behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD) in clinical practice and t ...
Stroke secondary to aortic diss ...
Aortic dissection is a life-threatening emergency and can present neurological symptoms, mainly associated with a stroke. This represents a challeng ...
Intractable focal epilepsy cont ...
We report an unusual case of Parry–Romberg syndrome in which medically refractory focal epilepsy with ongoing epilepsia partialis continua (EPC) aro ...
Evidence of diffuse damage in f ...
A number of MRI studies have shown focal or diffuse cortical gray matter (GM) abnormalities in patients with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). ...
Meningitis associated with bila ...
Mycoplasma pneumoniae (M. pneumoniae) is a frequent cause for human infection, and central nervous system disease associated with M. pneumoniae infe ...
Constipation triggered the mali ...
A 69-year-old, chronically constipated patient with Parkinson’s disease developed fecal impaction and the malignant syndrome simultaneously, even wh ...
Unusual caloric responses in a ...
The caloric test is probably the most widely used clinical test of vestibular function. A unilateral decrease in response to cold and warm water rel ...
Negative predictors of clinical ...
Moderate to severe migraine attacks are treated with triptans. However, about 25% of migraineurs fail to respond to triptans. We investigated the in ...
Two cases of dementias with mot ...
We described the cases of two patients with dementia associated with motor neuron disease, the former with frontotemporal dementia (FTD) and the lat ...
Prominent persisting Eustachian ...
The Eustachian valve (EV) is an embryological remnant of the inferior vena cava valve that prenatally directs the oxygenated blood from inferior ven ...
Septo-optic dysplasia-plus and ...
Septo-optic dysplasia (SOD), also called De Morsier’s syndrome, is a highly heterogeneous condition comprising a spectrum of central nervous system ...
Sacculocolic reflex in patients ...
Alzheimer disease (AD) is a progressive, irreversible entity associated with behavioral changes, memory loss and disturbance of daily life activitie ...
Bone mineral density in ambulat ...
Multiple sclerosis (MS) may be associated with reduced bone mass and higher frequency of osteoporosis. Femoral and spinal bone mineral density (BMD) ...
Expression of Bcl-2 and Bax aft ...
To determine the impact of x3 fatty acids on post-ischemic expression of pro- and anti-apoptotic proteins in hippocampus, male rats were received 10 ...
HIF-1a ODD polypeptides increas ...
To investigate the effect of HIF-1a ODD polypeptides on the expression of HIF-1a and VEGF in primary rat cortical neuron in hypoxia. Primary culture ...
Incidence and prognosis of stro ...
The reported annual incidence of juvenile stroke ranges from 9 to 47 cases per 100,000 inhabitants. We sought to estimate the incidence of first-eve ...
Origin of isolated vertigo in r ...
Rotational vertebral artery syndrome (RVAS) is characterized by recurrent attacks of paroxysmal vertigo, nystagmus, and ataxia induced by head rotat ...
Cardiovascular safety of aripip ...
The pharmacotherapy for tic management in Tourette syndrome (TS) relies on neuroleptics, which have been associated with electrocardiographic abnorm ...
Bilateral abducens palsy in a c ...
Ophthalmoparesis in cytomegalovirus (CMV)- associated Guillain–Barre´ syndrome (GBS) is rare. We treated a 37-year-old woman with CMV-GBS who presen ...
Neuroradiological diagnosis of ...
Chiari malformations 1, 2, 3 represent different degrees of herniation of posterior fossa content into the cervical canal (Chiari 1 and 2), or throu ...
Surgical management of brainste ...
Bleeding from brainstem cavernomas may cause severe deficits due to the absence of non-eloquent nervous tissue and the presence of several ascending ...