JNS-cover.jpgJournal of Neurological Sciences

Vol 409 | 15 February 2020

Editorial

MR spectroscopy even has power to predict outcome of acute encephalopathy

Kumiko Ando

 

Review Articles

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Considering risk factors for the effectiveness of translational therapies in brain stroke

Johanna Andrea Gutiérrez-Vargas, Gloria Patricia Cardona-Gómez


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Antiganglioside antibodies in neurological diseases

Pitchaya Wanleenuwat, Piotr Iwanowski, Wojciech Kozubski

 

Basic Research Papers

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Prognostic value of MR spectroscopy in patients with acute excitotoxic encephalopathy

Jun-ichi Takanashi, Yuka Murofushi, Nozomi Hirai, Kentaro Sano, Emiyu Matsuo, Keito Saito, Kumi Yasukawa, Hiromichi Hamada


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Rate of force development and relaxation scaling factors are highly sensitive to detect upper extremity motor impairments in multiple sclerosis

Mehmet Uygur, Paulo B. de Freitas, Donald A. Barone


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Correlating diffusion-weighted MRI intensity with type 2 pathology in mixed MM-type sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease

Toshimasa Ikeda, Yasushi Iwasaki, Keita Sakurai, Akio Akagi, Yuichi Riku, Maya Mimuro, Hiroaki Miyahara, Tetsuyuki Kitamoto, Noriyuki Matsukawa, Mari Yoshida


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Multidisciplinary rehabilitation reduces hypothalamic grey matter volume loss in individuals with preclinical Huntington's disease: A nine-month pilot study

Danielle M. Bartlett, Juan F. Dominguez D, Alpar S. Lazar, Catarina C. Kordsachia, Tim J. Rankin, Johnny Lo, Andrew D. Govus, Brian D. Power, Amit Lampit, Peter R. Eastwood, Mel R. Ziman, Travis M. Cruickshank


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Mild cognitive impairment and dementia in motor manifest Huntington's disease: Classification and prevalence

Parunyou Julayanont, Nikolaus R. McFarland, Kenneth M. Heilman


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External trigeminal nerve stimulation: Potential rescue treatment for acute vestibular migraine

Shin C. Beh


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Is there a timing for sensitivity to acute cerebral ischemia in migraine patients?

Isabelle Francillard, Lou Grangeon, Agathe Cornillot, Estelle Houivet, Ozlem Ozkul-Wermester, Aude Triquenot-Bagan, Benjamin Hebant, David Maltete, Emmanuel Gerardin, Evelyne Guegan-Massardier


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Discriminating chorea-acanthocytosis from Huntington's disease with single-case voxel-based morphometry analysis

Fumio Suzuki, Noriko Sato, Miho Ota, Atsuhiko Sugiyama, Yoko Shigemoto, Emiko Morimoto, Yukio Kimura, Noritaka Wakasugi, Yuji Takahashi, Akinori Futamura, Mitsuru Kawamura, Kenjiro Ono, Masayuki Nakamura, Akira Sano, Masako Watanabe, Hiroshi Matsuda, Osamu Abe


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Parcellation-based tractographic modeling of the ventral attention network

Parker G. Allan, Robert G. Briggs, Andrew K. Conner, Christen M. O'Neal, Phillip A. Bonney, B. David Maxwell, Cordell M. Baker, Joshua D. Burks, Goksel Sali, Chad A. Glenn, Michael E. Sughrue


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The prevalence and clinical associations of disproportionately enlarged subarachnoid space hydrocephalus (DESH), an imaging feature of idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus in community and memory clinic based Singaporean cohorts

Chihiro Akiba, Bibek Gyanwali, Steven Villaraza, Madoka Nakajima, Masakazu Miyajima, Ching-Yu Cheng, Tien Yin Wong, Narayanaswamy Venketasubramanian, Saima Hilal, Christopher Chen


Incidence of optic neuritis in Korean children and adolescents: A Nationwide survey and National Registry Analysis

Daye Diana Choi, Min-Su Park, Kyung-Ah Park


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Over ten years overall survival in glioblastoma: A different disease?

Elisabetta Marton, Enrico Giordan, Francesca Siddi, Christian Curzi, Giuseppe Canova, Bruno Scarpa, Angela Guerriero, Sabrina Rossi, Domenico D' Avella, Pierluigi Longatti, Alberto Feletti


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Loss of PTPRJ/DEP-1 enhances NF2/Merlin-dependent meningioma development

Natalie Waldt, David Scharnetzki, Christoph Kesseler, Elmar Kirches, Nele Stroscher, Frank-D Böhmer, Christian Mawrin


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Asymmetric dynamic center-of-pressure in Parkinson's disease

Chaewon Shin, Tae-Beom Ahn


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Perfusion abnormality on three-dimensional arterial spin labeling in patients with acute encephalopathy with biphasic seizures and late reduced diffusion

Hiroyuki Uetani, Mika Kitajima, Takeshi Sugahara, Yuichiro Muto, Katsuki Hirai, Yohei Kuroki, Takeshi Nakaura, Machiko Tateishi, Yasuyuki Yamashita


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Measuring graphical strength within the connectome: A neuroanatomic, parcellation-based study

Ryan G. Jones, Robert G. Briggs, Andrew K. Conner, Phillip A. Bonney, Luke R. Fletcher, Syed A. Ahsan, Arpan R. Chakraborty, Cameron E. Nix, Christina C. Jacobs, Alison M. Lack, Daniel T. Griffin, Charles Teo, Michael E. Sughrue


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Patients with MELAS with negative myopathology for characteristic ragged-red fibers

Yuanyuan Lu, Jianwen Deng, Yuying Zhao, Zhe Zhang, Daojun Hong, Sheng Yao, Danhua Zhao, Jie Xie, Hezhi Fang, Yun Yuan, Zhaoxia Wang


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Heteroplasmy and phenotype spectrum of the mitochondrial tRNALeu (UUR) gene m.3243A>G mutation in seven Han Chinese families

Gailing Liu, Xiya Shen, Yongan Sun, Qing Lv, Yuanyuan Li, Ailian Du


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MAMBO: Measuring ambulation, motor, and behavioural outcomes with post-stroke fluoxetine in Tanzania: Protocol of a phase II clinical trial

Andre C. Vogel, Kigocha Okeng'o, Faraja Chiwanga, Seif Sharif Ismail, Deus Buma, Lindsay Pothier, Farrah J. Mateen


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Echoes from the past- changing associations between brain tumors and ethnicity

Shlomit Yust-Katz, Aya Bar Oz, Estela Derazne, Lior H. Katz, Hagai Levine, Lital Keinan-Boker, Alexandra Amiel, Andrew Kanner, Yosf Laviv, Asaf Honig, I. Shelef, Tali Siegal, Gilad Twig, Jeremy Kark


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Cerebrovascular function during cognition in Parkinson's disease: A functional transcranial Doppler sonography study

Daria S. Gutteridge, Dimitrios Saredakis, Nicholas A. Badcock, Lyndsey E. Collins-Praino, Hannah A.D. Keage


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Rituximab improves not only back stiffness but also "stiff eyes" in stiff person syndrome: Implications for immune-mediated treatment

Satoshi Kodama, Shin-ichi Tokushige, Yusuke Sugiyama, Kazuya Sato, Juuri Otsuka, Yuichiro Shirota, Masashi Hamada, Atsushi Iwata, Tatsushi Toda, Shoji Tsuji, Yasuo Terao


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Sorting out difficulties in immunological diagnosis of neurocysticercosis: Development and assessment of real time loop mediated isothermal amplification of cysticercal DNA in blood

Gunjan Goyal, Anil Chandra Phukan, Masaraf Hussain, Vivek Lal, Manish Modi, Manoj Kumar Goyal, Rakesh Sehgal


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Radiological markers of idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus: Relative comparison of their diagnostic performance

Pavel Ryska, Ondrej Slezak, Anders Eklund, Jan Malm, Jonatan Salzer, Jan Zizka


Immunoglobulin administration for the treatment of CIDP: IVIG or SCIG?

Jeffrey A. Allen, Deborah F. Gelinas, Miriam Freimer, M. Chris Runken, Gil I. Wolfe


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United States Medical Licensing Examination step 2 scores do not predict American Board of Neurological Surgery scores: A single-institution experience

Methma Udawatta, Komal Preet, Carlito Lagman, Alexis M. French, Colleen Bruton, Marvin Bergsneider, Lawrance Chung, Prasanth Romiyo, Luke Macyszyn, Isaac Yang

 

Clinical Short Communications

Routine blood monitoring in maintenance immunoglobulin treatment of inflammatory neuropathy: Is it clinically relevant?

R. Keh, A. Kahlil, L. Nihoyannopoulos, L. Compton, M. Kapoor, D. Gosal, H. Manji, A.M. Rossor, M.M. Reilly, M.P. Lunn, T.M. Lavin, A.S. Carr

 

Letters to the Editor

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A novel homoplasmic mitochondrial DNA mutation (m.13376T>C, p.I347T) of MELAS presenting characteristic medial temporal lobe atrophy

Ryo Sasaki, Yasuyuki Ohta, Noriko Hatanaka, Koh Tadokoro, Emi Nomura, Jingwei Shang, Mami Takemoto, Nozomi Hishikawa, Toru Yamashita, Yoshio Omote, Eisaku Morimoto, Sanae Teshigawara, Jun Wada, Yu-ichi Goto, Koji Abe


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Complement deposition and macrophage-induced demyelination in CIDP with anti-LM1 antibodies

Haruki Koike, Shohei Ikeda, Yuki Fukami, Ryoji Nishi, Yuichi Kawagashira, Masahiro Iijima, Tomohiko Nakamura, Motoi Kuwahara, Susumu Kusunoki, Masahisa Katsuno, Gen Sobue


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Neuronal CISD2 plays a minor anti-inflammatory role in LPS-stimulated neuron-like SH-SY5Y cells

Chan-Yen Kuo, Woon-Man Kung, Muh-Shi Lin


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Atrophic mammillary bodies with hypointensities on susceptibility-weighted images: A case-study in Korsakoff syndrome

Toshimasa Ikeda, Keita Sakurai, Noriyuki Matsukawa, Mari Yoshida


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Recurrent headaches with cerebral white matter lesions

Chuan Qin, Bang-Xing Huang, Kun-Kun Yang, Ke-Jin Chu, Dai-Shi Tian, Bi-Tao Bu


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Branchial myorhythmia in a case of systemic lupus erythematosus

Hayato Une, Dai Matsuse, Taira Uehara, Yoshikazu Kikuchi, Saeko Inamizu, Ryo Yamasaki, Shozo Tobimatsu, Hiroshi Shibasaki, Jun-ichi Kira


Pregabalin is effective in treating prolonged hiccups both with and without brainstem lesion: A report of 2 cases

Yi-On Fong, Yi-Shan Teng, Yin-Chun Chen, Poyin Huang


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Large vessel occlusion stroke due to dislodged aortic valve calcification revealed by imaging and histopathology

A. Genchi, G. Schwarz, A. Semerano, M. Callea, F. Sanvito, F. Simionato, P. Panni, F. Scomazzoni, C. Doglioni, G. Comi, A. Falini, F. Ancona, M. Filippi, L. Roveri, M. Bacigaluppi


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Role of RNF213 p.4810K variant in the development of intracranial arterial disease in patients treated with nilotinib

Masahiro Uemura, Masato Kanazawa, Takuma Yamagishi, Takahiro Nagai, Mami Takahashi, Shingo Koide, Masayoshi Tada, Junsuke Shimbo, Aiko Isami, Kunihiko Makino, Masayoshi Masuko, Kouji Nikkuni, Kouichirou Okamoto, Shuichi Igarashi, Kenichi Morita, Osamu Onodera


Chorea-acanthocytosis associated with two novel heterozygous mutations in the VPS13A gene

Auli Verkkoniemi-Ahola, Liina Kuuluvainen, Sirpa Kivirikko, Liisa Myllykangas, Minna Pöyhönen


Antidepressants and Parkinson's disease: a causal association

Tomoyuki Kawada


In reply to the letter to the editor regarding "Use of antidepressants and the risk of Parkinson's disease in the Local Health Trust of Bologna: A historical cohort study"

Corrado Zenesini, Elisa Baldin, Luca Vignatelli, Roberto D'Alessandro


Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease with advanced fibrosis, stroke and cardiovascular disease

Tomoyuki Kawada


Response to letter to the editor by Kawada on "Association between nonalcoholic fatty liver disease with advanced fibrosis and stroke"

Neal S. Parikh, Jose Gutierrez


RE: Electrodiagnostic consultations in Zambia: Referral characteristics and neuromuscular disorders

Philip B. Adebayo, Funmilola T. Taiwo


Response to Letter to the Editor regarding "Electrodiagnostic consultations in Zambia: Referral characteristics and neuromuscular diagnosis"

Michelle Kvalsund, Gretchen L. Birbeck, David N. Herrmann

 

Corrigendum

Corrigendum to "Cerebrovascular reactivity after treatment of unruptured intracranial aneurysms - A transcranial Doppler sonography and acetazolamide study" [Journal of the Neurological Sciences 363 (2016) 97–103]

Marianne Lundervik Bøthun, Øystein Ariansen Haaland, Nicola Logallo, Frode Svendsen, Lars Thomassen, Christian A. Helland