[PDF] Top 20 Arq. NeuroPsiquiatr. vol.73 número10

... he authors studied ive adult patients with acquired non-progressive cerebellar ataxia (mean age of onset = 20.8 years) associated with cerebellar or olivopontocerebellar atrophy who pr[r] ... See full document

... Results: Twenty-ive patients had sensory changes in the wrist and hand contralateral to the stroke, and eighteen patients (64%) had sensory deicits in the ipsilesional wrist and hand.[r] ... See full document

... he study published in this number of Arq Neuropsiquiatr tries to fulill a gap in this is- sue in Brazil, characterizing cognitive deicit in a sample of irst-stroke patients. Bonini and Radanovic have ... See full document

... We have been observing an increase of stroke incidence in the oldest-old patients in the Joinville Stroke Register over the past 20 years.. For sure, we are going to see more patients[r] ... See full document

... Marchiafava-Bignami disease, irst described in 1903, is a rare condition characterized by demyelination of the corpus callosum seen in patients with chronic alcoholism or nutritional s[r] ... See full document

... The authors review the most important contributions of Pierre Marie to the elucidation and description of several neurological diseases, such as Charcot-Marie-Tooth’s disease and heredi[r] ... See full document

... Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis is a progressive neuromuscular disease, resulting in respiratory muscle weakness, reduced pulmonary volumes, ineffective cough, secretion retention, and re[r] ... See full document

... After electroconvulsive therapy, all patients showed a statistically signiicant improvement in the Brief Psychiatric Rating scale (reduction of 52% points) and Hamilton Depression Rati[r] ... See full document

... 13. Machado LR, Livramento JA, Vaz AJ, Bueno EC, Mielli SR, Bastouly V et al. IgC intrathecal synthesis and speciic antibody index in patients with neurocysticercosis. Arq Neuropsiquiatr. 2002;60(2B):395-9. ... See full document

... Two doses of botulinum toxin type A for the treatment of trigeminal neuralgia: observation of therapeutic effect from a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial.. Botulinum [r] ... See full document

... Correlation of disability levels (assessed by EDSS) with the use of alcohol, anxiety and depression by 168 patients with multiple sclerosis (MS).. Patients with higher degrees of disabi[r] ... See full document

... Correspondence: Wladimir Bocca Vieira de Rezende Pinto; UNIFESP, Departamento de Neurologia e Neurocirurgia; Rua Pedro de Toledo, 650; 04023-900 São Paulo SP, Brasil; E-mail: wladimirb[r] ... See full document

... Egas Moniz is credited with the discovery in 1927 of radioarteriography, for which he was, on three occasions, nominated for the Nobel Prize, and in all three denied the award.. In 1949[r] ... See full document

... Objective: This study aims to present the Selective Reminding Test (SRT) and Word List Generation (WLG) adaptation to the Portuguese population, within the validation of the Brief[r] ... See full document

... Although there is no other study addressing the injection of trigger points in the temporal muscles of FM patients, as a form of treatment, we suggest its utilization, be it with sali[r] ... See full document

... Results: Three patients on mechanical ventilation who presented axonal variants of GBS, with autonomic dysfunction, bulbar impairment and Erasmus score > 6, showed no improvement a[r] ... See full document

... Most patients presented with a juvenile to adult-onset acute to subacute appendicular and truncal cerebellar ataxia with mild to moderate cerebellar or olivopontocerebellar atrophy.. Es[r] ... See full document

... A sample of 47 patients (21 aphasics, 17 non-aphasics with left hemisphere lesions and 9 non-aphasics with right hemisphere lesions) performed cognitive tasks (attention, verbal and vi[r] ... See full document

... Diagnostic criteria for MELAS include typical manifestations of the disease: stroke-like episodes, encephalopathy, evidence of mitochondrial dysfunction (laboratorial or histological) [r] ... See full document

... Objective: The aim of the present study is to examine the accuracy of the Brazilian versions of the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) and the Addenbrooke’s Cognitive Examination-Revi[r] ... See full document