JNS-cover.jpgJournal of Neurological Sciences

Vol 414 | 15 July 2020

Review Articles

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Cerebral vascular reactivity and the migraine-stroke relationship: A narrative review

Raffaele Ornello, Ilaria Frattale, Valeria Caponnetto, Francesca Pistoia, Simona Sacco


The neurology of COVID-19 revisited: A proposal from the Environmental Neurology Specialty Group of the World Federation of Neurology to implement international neurological registries

Gustavo C. Román, Peter S. Spencer, Jacques Reis, Alain Buguet, Mostafa El Alaoui Faris, Sarosh M. Katrak, Miguel Láinez, Marco Tulio Medina, Chandrashekhar Meshram, Hidehiro Mizusawa, Serefnur Öztürk, Mohammad Wasay, on behalf of the WFN Environmental Neurology Specialty Group

 

Basic Research Papers

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Case-control association study of rare nonsynonymous variants of SCN1A and KCNQ2 in acute encephalopathy with biphasic seizures and late reduced diffusion

Akiko Shibata, Mariko Kasai, Hiroshi Terashima, Ai Hoshino, Taku Miyagawa, Kenjiro Kikuchi, Atsushi Ishii, Hiroshi Matsumoto, Masaya Kubota, Shinichi Hirose, Akira Oka, Masashi Mizuguchi


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Cytokine profile during pregnancy predicts relapses during pregnancy and postpartum in multiple sclerosis

Juan Pablo Cuello, María Luisa Martínez Ginés, Amalia Tejeda-Velarde, Silvia Medina Heras, José Manuel García Domínguez, José Ignacio Fernández Velasco, Alberto Lozano Ros, Yolanda Higueras, Ariana Meldaña Rivera, Haydee Goicochea Briceño, Santiago Garcia-Tizon Larroca, Juan De León-Luis, Clara de Andrés, Roberto Álvarez Lafuente, Luisa María Villar


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Nitrous oxide-induced demyelination: Clinical presentation, diagnosis and treatment recommendations

Thomas Noh, Gamaleldin Osman, Mokbel Chedid, Hebah Hefzy


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Diagnostic value of N-terminal pro B-type natriuretic peptide for nonvalvular atrial fibrillation in acute ischemic stroke patients: A retrospective multicenter case-control study

Jingjing Zhao, Yi Zhang, Fang Yuan, Changgeng Song, Yongli Jiang, Qiong Gao, Xiuxiu Leng, Wen Jiang


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Novel likely disease-causing CLN5 variants identified in Pakistani patients with neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis

Beenish Azad, Stephanie Efthymiou, Tipu Sultan, Marcello Scala, Javeria Raza Alvi, Caroline Neuray, Natalia Dominik, SYNaPS Study Group, Asma Gul, Henry Houlden


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Five- and seven-year prognostic value of new effectiveness measures (NEDA, MEDA and six-month delayed NEDA) in relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis

Elena Tsantes, Erica Curti, Filippo Collura, Veronica Bazzurri, Alessia Fiore, Franco Granella


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Influence of plasma cytokine levels on the conversion risk from MCI to dementia in the Alzheimer's disease neuroimaging initiative database

Kie Abe, Yuhei Chiba, Saki Hattori, Akihide Tamazawa, Asuka Yoshimi, Omi Katsuse, Akira Suda, Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative


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Prognostic value of macular ganglion cell layer thickness for visual outcome in parasellar tumors

Yung Ju Yoo, Jeong-Min Hwang, Hee Kyung Yang, Jin-Deok Joo, Young-Hoon Kim, Chae-Yong Kim


A double-blind, randomized controlled trial of duloxetine for pain in Parkinson's disease

Hirotaka Iwaki, Rina Ando, Satoshi Tada, Noriko Nishikawa, Tomoaki Tsujii, Yuki Yamanishi, Noriyuki Miyaue, Hayato Yabe, Masahiro Nagai, Masahiro Nomoto


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Oxidative stress and ER stress may contribute to drug-induced hepatitis in tuberculous meningitis

Usha K. Misra, Jayantee Kalita, Abhilasha Tripathi, Prabhaker Mishra


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The NAG scale can screen for hematoma expansion in acute intracerebral hemorrhage–a multi-institutional validation

Kenichi Sakuta, Hiroshi Yaguchi, Takeo Sato, Taiji Mukai, Teppei Komatsu, Kenichiro Sakai, Hidetaka Mitsumura, Kenji Okuno, Toshihide Tanaka, Yasuyuki Iguchi


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Measurement of the length of vertebrobasilar arteries: A three-dimensional approach

Yoriko Dodo, Tetsuya Takahashi, Kie Honjo, Naoyuki Kitamura, Hirofumi Maruyama


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Reduced dopamine transporter binding predicts early transition to Lewy body disease in Japanese patients with idiopathic rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder

Tomoyuki Miyamoto, Masayuki Miyamoto, Kyoko Numahata, Hiroyuki Onoue, Yasuhisa Akaiwa, Toshimi Sairenchi


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The CXCL12/CXCR4 axis confers temozolomide resistance to human glioblastoma cells via up-regulation of FOXM1

Shengwen Wang, Cheng Chen, Junliang Li, Xinke Xu, Wei Chen, Fangcheng Li


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High white matter hyperintensity burden in strategic white matter tracts relates to worse global cognitive performance in community-dwelling individuals

J. Matthijs Biesbroek, Bonnie Y.K. Lam, Lei Zhao, Yumi Tang, Zhaolu Wang, Jill Abrigo, Winnie W.C. Chu, Adrian Wong, Lin Shi, Hugo J. Kuijf, Geert Jan Biessels, Vincent C.T. Mok


Prevalence and predictors of statin utilization among patient populations at high vascular risk in Ghana

Fred Stephen Sarfo, Bruce Ovbiagele


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Exploring outcomes and characteristics of myasthenia gravis: Rationale, aims and design of registry – The EXPLORE-MG registry

Rahul Anil, Aditya Kumar, Sneha Alaparthi, Aditi Sharma, Joan L. Nye, Bhaskar Roy, Kevin C. O'Connor, Richard J. Nowak


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Safety and efficacy of memantine for multiple sclerosis-related fatigue: A pilot randomized, double-blind placebo-controlled trial

Zeinab Falsafi, Abbas Tafakhori, Elmira Agah, Maryam Mojarrad, Reihaneh Dehghani, Majid Ghaffarpour, Vajiheh Aghamollaii, Seyed Vahid Mousavi, Zahra Fouladi, Bahareh Pourghaz, Pargol Balali, Mohammad Hossein Harirchian


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A comparative study of South African and Portuguese amyotrophic lateral sclerosis cohorts

Anna Caroline Braga, Marta Gromicho, Susana Pinto, Mamede de Carvalho, Franclo Henning


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Does perceived control mediate the relationship between stigma and well-being for individuals with Parkinson's disease?

Danielle Verity, Fiona J.R. Eccles, Amanda Boland, Jane Simpson


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CAG repeats ≥ 34 in Ataxin-1 gene are associated with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis in a Brazilian cohort

João Pedro Nunes Gonçalves, Helen Maia Tavares de Andrade, Vívian Pedigone Cintra, Luciana Cardoso Bonadia, Tauana Bernardes Leoni, Milena de Albuquerque, Melina Pazian Martins, Fabrício Castro de Borba, Rafael Esteves Duarte Couteiro, Daniel Sabino de Oliveira, Rinaldo Claudino, Marcos Vinicius Magno Gonçalves, Mario Emilio Dourado, Leonardo Cruz de Souza, Antônio Lúcio Teixeira, Laura de Godoy Rousseff Prado, Vitor Tumas, Acary Souza Bulle Oliveira, Anamarli Nucci, Iscia Lopes-Cendes, Wilson Marques Jr., Marcondes C. França Jr.


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Essential autophagic protein Beclin 1 localizes to atherosclerotic lesions of human carotid and major intracranial arteries

Takahiko Umahara, Toshiki Uchihara, Kentaro Hirao, Soichiro Shimizu, Takao Hashimoto, Michihiro Kohno, Haruo Hanyu


Sensitivity and specificity of cerebrospinal fluid CXCL13 for diagnosing Lyme neuroborreliosis - a study on 1410 patients and review of the literature

Hannes Lintner, Petra Hochgatterer-Rechberger, Barbara Pischinger, Josef Seier, Peter Vollmann, Alexander Haushofer, Heike Rittner, Claudia Sommer, Raffi Topakian


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Evaluation of oxidative stress-related genetic variants for predicting stroke in patients with sickle cell anemia

Igor F. Domingos, Diego A. Pereira-Martins, Rayssa L. Borges-Medeiros, Diego A. Falcao, Betania L. Hatzlhofer, John N. Brewin, Kate Gardner, Taciana F. Mendonca, Maria S. Cavalcanti, Anderson F. Cunha, Ana C. Anjos, Evandra S. Rodrigues, Simone Kashima, Pedro R. Cruz, Monica B. Melo, Stephan Menzel, Aderson S. Araujo, Fernando F. Costa, Marcos A. Bezerra, Antonio R. Lucena-Araujo


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Laboratory and clinical correlates of brain atrophy in Neuro-Behçet's disease

Tuncay Gündüz, Murat Kürtüncü, Zeliha Matur, Erdem Tüzün, Utku Limon, Burak Tanyıldız, Belgin İzgi, Nergis Erdoğan, Ali Emre Öge, Hakan Gürvit, Başar Bilgiç, Gülşen Akman-Demir


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Associations of serum uric acid with incident dementia and cognitive decline in the ARIC-NCS cohort

Aniqa B. Alam, Aozhou Wu, Melinda C. Power, Nancy A. West, Alvaro Alonso


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Impaired topographic organization in Parkinson's disease with mild cognitive impairment

Yanbing Hou, Qianqian Wei, Ruwei Ou, Jing Yang, Qiyong Gong, Huifang Shang


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Epilepsy surgery beyond 50 years: Long-term seizure and cognitive outcomes

Asier Gómez-Ibáñez, Mercedes Garcés-Sánchez, Kevin G. Hampel, Irene Cano-López, Rebeca Conde-Sardón, Antonio Gutiérrez-Martín, Vicente Villanueva-Haba


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The increase in CSF total protein and immunoglobulins in Chinese patients with sporadic amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: A retrospective study

Xue Zhao, Fei Yang, Hongfen Wang, Fang Cui, Mao Li, Bo Sun, Yanran Li, Qionghua Sun, Zhengqing He, Yang Li, Xusheng Huang


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Abnormal motor unit firing rates in chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy

Kevin J. Gilmore, Eric A. Kirk, Timothy J. Doherty, Kurt Kimpinski, Charles L. Rice


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COVID-19 related neuroimaging findings: A signal of thromboembolic complications and a strong prognostic marker of poor patient outcome

Rajan Jain, Matthew Young, Siddhant Dogra, Helena Kennedy, Vinh Nguyen, Simon Jones, Seda Bilaloglu, Katherine Hochman, Eytan Raz, Steven Galetta, Leora Horwtiz

 

Clinical Short Communications

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Paradoxical embolism through a patent foramen ovale from central venous catheter thrombosis: A potential cause of stroke

Vincenzo Di Stefano, Maria Di Fulvio, Lorenzo Di Liberato, Marco Onofrj, Maria Vittoria De Angelis


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Coffin-Siris Syndrome-1: Report of five cases from Asian populations with truncating mutations in the ARID1B gene

Sophie Lian, Teck Wah Ting, Angeline H.M. Lai, Ee-Shien Tan, Heming Wei, Breana Cham, Ene-Choo Tan


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Reactive increase of cerebrospinal fluid white blood cell count after lumbar puncture: Fact or fiction?

Bernhard Neumann, Tim Steinberg, De-Hyung Lee, Johanna Kress, Marco Kufner, Felix Schlachetzki, Georg Weinfurtner, Ralf Linker, Klemens Angstwurm


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Has COVID-19 played an unexpected "stroke" on the chain of survival?

Marcello Naccarato, Ilario Scali, Sasha Olivo, Miloš Ajčević, Alex Buoite Stella, Giovanni Furlanis, Carlo Lugnan, Paola Caruso, Alberto Peratoner, Franco Cominotto, Paolo Manganotti


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Teleneurology during the COVID-19 pandemic: A step forward in modernizing medical care

Bhaskar Roy, Richard J. Nowak, Ricardo Roda, Babar Khokhar, Huned S. Patwa, Thomas Lloyd, Seward B. Rutkove


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Monitoring of asymptomatic family members at risk of hereditary transthyretin amyloidosis for early intervention with disease-modifying therapies

Mitsuharu Ueda, Yoshiki Sekijima, Haruki Koike, Taro Yamashita, Tsuneaki Yoshinaga, Tomonori Ishii, Yukio Ando

 

Letters to the Editor

An Italian family carrying a new mutation in the COL4A1 gene

A. Russo, A.M. Pinto, D. Lopergolo, A. Renieri, C. Battisti


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Prospective use of MRI post-processing in the surgical treatment of MRI-negative orbitofrontal epilepsy

Tin Tun Aung, Roger Murayi, Thandar Aung, Hiroatsu Murakami, Stephen E. Jones, Andreas Alexopoulos, Imad Najm, Zhong Irene Wang


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Primary hypoparathyroidism and multiple neuraxial involvement in mitochondrial disorder due to the variant m.15043G>A in MT-CYB

Ritwik Ghosh, Souvik Dubey, Subhankar Chatterjee, Josef Finsterer, Rakesh Biswas, Durjoy Lahiri, Biman Kanti Ray


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Abnormal upper gastrointestinal structures underlying levodopa malabsorption

Noriyuki Miyaue, Hayato Yabe, Masahiro Nagai, Masahiro Nomoto


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Cerebrospinal fluid folate, ascorbate, and tetrahydrobiopterin deficiency in superficial siderosis: A new potential mechanism of neurological dysfunction?

Jack Belsten, David J. Werring, Howell Jones, Simon Heales, Simon Pope


Sudden death in Parkinson's disease: Cerebellum in court

Carla A. Scorza, Marcia Guimarães-Marques, Eduardo R.C. Girão, Luiz F.B.G. de Moraes, Josef Finsterer, Manoel J.B.C. Girão, Fulvio A. Scorza


Appropriateness of MRI brain orders: Application of American and British guidelines

Joshua Li Liang Lim, Louis Elliott McAdory, Phua Hwee Tang, Edwin Philip Conceicao, Winston Eng Hoe Lim, Deidre Anne De Silva, Eng King Tan, Ling Ling Chan


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HNRNPDL-related limb girdle muscular dystrophy in a Spanish family with scapulo-peroneal phenotype, the first family in Europe

L.M. Vicente, P. Martí, I. Azorín, M. Olivé, N. Muelas, J.J. Vilchez


Covert COVID-19 complications: Continuing the use of evidence-based drugs to minimize potentially lethal indirect effects of the pandemic in stroke patients

Meng Lee, Chi-Hsin Sally Chen, Bruce Ovbiagele


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Myasthenic crisis in COVID-19

Fadi Delly, Maryam J. Syed, Robert P. Lisak, Deepti Zutshi


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Venous cerebral thrombosis in COVID-19 patient

Francesco Garaci, Francesca Di Giuliano, Eliseo Picchi, Valerio Da Ros, Roberto Floris