JNS-cover.jpgJournal of Neurological Sciences

Vol 378 | 15 July 2017 | Pages 1-240

Review Articles

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Subcutaneous immunoglobulin treatment in CIDP and MMN. Efficacy, treatment satisfaction and costs

Lars H. Markvardsen, Thomas Harbo

  • DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jns.2017.04.039
  • p19–25
  • Published online: April 24, 2017
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Mobile health as a viable strategy to enhance stroke risk factor control: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Shimeng Liu, Wuwei Feng, Pratik Y. Chhatbar, Yumei Liu, Xunming Ji, Bruce Ovbiagele

  • DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jns.2017.04.050
  • p140–145
  • Published online: April 28, 2017
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Peripheral neuropathy in idiopathic Parkinson's disease: A systematic review

Panagiotis Zis, Richard A. Grünewald, Ray Kallol Chaudhuri, Marios Hadjivassiliou


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Management of post-stroke depression in the Middle East and North Africa: Too little is known

M. Ihsan Kaadan, Mary Jo Larson

  • DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jns.2017.05.026
  • p220–224
  • Published online: May 12, 2017
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Basic Research Papers

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Pattern of care and outcome in elderly patients with glioblastoma: Data in 151 patients from 3 Lombardia Hospitals

Andrea Rigamonti, Francesca Imbesi, Antonio Silvani, Gianluca Grimod, Valentina Prone, Paola Gaviani, Antonio Ardizzoia, Ida Milanesi, Virginia Arienti, Elio Agostoni, Francesco Di Meco, Andrea Salmaggi

  • DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jns.2017.04.030
  • p3–8
  • Published online: April 18, 2017
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The brain of René Descartes (1650): A neuro-anatomical analysis

Charlier Philippe, Huynh-Charlier Isabelle, Froesch Philippe, Shorto Russell, Benmoussa Nadia, Froment Alain, Grimaud-Hervé Dominique, Deo Saudamini, Augias Anaïs, Albessard Lou, Balzeau Antoine

  • DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jns.2017.04.031
  • p12–18
  • Published online: April 20, 2017
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Achieving low density lipoprotein-cholesterol < 70 mg/dL may be associated with a trend of reduced progression of carotid artery atherosclerosis in ischemic stroke patients

Qian Zhang, Shimeng Liu, Yumei Liu, Yang Hua, Haiqing Song, Yi Ren, Yang Song, Ran Liu, Wuwei Feng, Bruce Ovbiagele, Jianping Ding, Xunming Ji

  • DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jns.2017.04.024
  • p26–29
  • Published online: April 17, 2017
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Vitamin D3 supplementation in multiple sclerosis: Symptoms and biomarkers of depression

Linda Rolf, Anne-Hilde Muris, Yvonne Bol, Jan Damoiseaux, Joost Smolders, Raymond Hupperts


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Brain iron concentrations in regions of interest and relation with serum iron levels in Parkinson disease

Paola Costa-Mallen, Christopher Gatenby, Sally Friend, Kenneth R. Maravilla, Shu-Ching Hu, Kevin C. Cain, Pinky Agarwal, Yoshimi Anzai

  • DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jns.2017.04.035
  • p38–44
  • Published online: April 22, 2017
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Effects of age and glucose levels on lactate levels in cerebrospinal fluid examination of neurodegenerative diseases

Fumihito Nakano, Ken Sakushima, Reona Umeki, Ichiro Yabe, Akira Endoh, Hidenao Sasaki

  • DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jns.2017.04.033
  • p45–48
  • Published online: April 20, 2017
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NUDT15 p.R139C variant is common and strongly associated with azathioprine-induced early leukopenia and severe alopecia in Korean patients with various neurological diseases

Sun-Young Kim, Jin-Hong Shin, Jin-Sung Park, Sa-Yoon Kang, Tai-Seung Nam, Jong Kuk Kim, Ki-Jong Park, So-Young Huh, Ji Seon Oh, Boram Kang, Dae-Seong Kim


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Profile of 26 HIV Seropositive individuals with Cerebral Venous Thrombosis

Netravathi M., Jaychandran R., M. Bhat, R. Christopher, Satishchandra P.

  • DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jns.2017.04.034
  • p69–74
  • Published online: April 21, 2017
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Unexpectedly mild phenotype in an ataxic family with a two-base deletion in the APTX gene

Makito Hirano, Ryusuke Matsumura, Yusaku Nakamura, Kazumasa Saigoh, Hikaru Sakamoto, Shuichi Ueno, Hiroya Inoue, Susumu Kusunoki


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Trends in vascular risk factors, stroke performance measures, and outcomes in patients with first-ever ischemic stroke in Taiwan between 2000 and 2012

Cheng-Yang Hsieh, Darren Philbert Wu, Sheng-Feng Sung


Association between leukoaraiosis and hemorrhagic transformation after cardioembolic stroke due to atrial fibrillation and/or rheumatic heart disease

Chen-Chen Wei, Shu-Ting Zhang, Yun-Han Wang, Jun-Feng Liu, Jie Li, Ruo-Zhen Yuan, Ge Tan, Shi-Hong Zhang, Ming Liu


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Intracerebral haemorrhage risk in microbleed-positive ischaemic stroke patients with atrial fibrillation: Preliminary meta-analysis of cohorts and anticoagulation decision schema

Andreas Charidimou, Gregoire Boulouis, Sara Shams, David Calvet, Ashkan Shoamanesh, for the International META-MICROBLEEDS Initiative


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The anteroposterior and primary-to-posterior limbic ratios as MRI-derived volumetric markers of Alzheimer's disease

Adolfo Jiménez-Huete, Susana Estévez-Santé, for the ADNI group

  • DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jns.2017.04.046
  • p110–119
  • Published online: April 27, 2017
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Assessment of the general public's knowledge of stroke: A cross-sectional study in Yaoundé, Cameroon

Jobert Richie Nansseu, Cedric Paterson Atangana, Saint-Just N. Petnga, Joseph Kamtchum-Tatuene, Jean Jacques Noubiap

  • DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jns.2017.05.004
  • p123–129
  • Published online: May 2, 2017
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Clinical profile of motor neuron disease patients with lower urinary tract symptoms and neurogenic bladder

Juan Francisco Vázquez-Costa, Salvador Arlandis, David Hervas, Esther Martínez-Cuenca, Fernando Cardona, Jordi Pérez-Tur, Enrique Broseta, Teresa Sevilla


Sonographic evaluation of atherosclerosis burden in carotid arteries of ischemic stroke patients and its relation to paraoxonase 1 and 2, MTHFR and AT1R genetic variants

Carmen Rosa Hernández-Socorro, Francisco Javier Rodríguez-Esparragón, Jennifer Celli, Juan Carlos López-Fernández

  • DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jns.2017.05.010
  • p146–151
  • Published online: May 6, 2017
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Usefulness of the superior cerebellar peduncle for differential diagnosis of progressive supranuclear palsy: A meta-analysis

Wataru Sako, Nagahisa Murakami, Yuishin Izumi, Ryuji Kaji

  • DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jns.2017.05.005
  • p153–157
  • Published online: May 2, 2017
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DNA damage, DNA susceptibility to oxidation and glutathione redox status in patients with Alzheimer's disease treated with and without memantine

Çağlayan Akkaya, Serap Sahin Yavuzer, Hakan Yavuzer, Gökhan Erkol, Melda Bozluolcay, Yıldız Dinçer

  • DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jns.2017.04.051
  • p158–162
  • Published online: April 29, 2017
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A preliminary investigation of sleep quality in functional neurological disorders: Poor sleep appears common, and is associated with functional impairment

Christopher D. Graham, Simon D. Kyle

  • DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jns.2017.05.021
  • p163–166
  • Published online: May 11, 2017
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Diagnostic challenges in POEMS syndrome presenting with polyneuropathy: A case series

Yuebing Li, Jason Valent, Payam Soltanzadeh, Nimish Thakore, Bashar Katirji

  • DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jns.2017.05.019
  • p170–174
  • Published online: May 11, 2017
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Long-term safety of repeated high doses of incobotulinumtoxinA injections for the treatment of upper and lower limb spasticity after stroke

Andrea Santamato, Francesco Panza, Domenico Intiso, Alessio Baricich, Alessandro Picelli, Nicola Smania, Francesca Fortunato, Davide Seripa, Pietro Fiore, Maurizio Ranieri

  • DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jns.2017.04.052
  • p182–186
  • Published online: May 1, 2017
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Brain positron emission tomography in patients with myotonic dystrophy type 1 and type 2

Stojan Peric, Leposava Brajkovic, Bozidar Belanovic, Vera Ilic, Biljana Salak-Djokic, Ivana Basta, Vidosava Rakocevic Stojanovic


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Cervical spinal cord and motor unit pathology in a canine model of SOD1-associated amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

Martin L. Katz, Cheryl A. Jensen, Jeffrey T. Student, Gayle C. Johnson, Joan R. Coates


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In-vivo reflectance confocal microscopy of Meissner's corpuscles in diabetic distal symmetric polyneuropathy

Peter D. Creigh, Michael P. McDermott, Janet E. Sowden, Michele Ferguson, David N. Herrmann

  • DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jns.2017.05.025
  • p213–219
  • Published online: May 12, 2017
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Transcranial direct current stimulation over the primary motor vs prefrontal cortex in refractory chronic migraine: A pilot randomized controlled trial

Suellen Marinho Andrade, Renata Emanuela Lyra de Brito Aranha, Eliane Araújo de Oliveira, Camila Teresa Ponce Leon de Mendonça, Wanessa Kallyne Nascimento Martins, Nelson Torro Alves, Bernardino Fernández-Calvo

  • DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jns.2017.05.007
  • p225–232
  • Published online: May 3, 2017
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Is maraviroc useful in multiple sclerosis patients with natalizumab-related progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy?

Cristina Scarpazza, Luca Prosperini, Chiara R. Mancinelli, Nicola De Rossi, Alessandra Lugaresi, Marco Capobianco, Lucia Moiola, Paola Naldi, Luisa Imberti, Simonetta Gerevini, Ruggero Capra

 

Clinical Short Communications

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Bibrachial plegia due to Lyme radiculopoliomyelitis-myelitis

Feras Akbik, Marcelo Matiello, Amanda Piquet, Tracey Cho, Adam Cohen, Nagagopal Venna

  • DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jns.2017.04.028
  • p1–2
  • Published online: April 17, 2017
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Role of the "other Babinski sign" in hyperkinetic facial disorders

Sara Varanda, Sofia Rocha, Margarida Rodrigues, Álvaro Machado, Gisela Carneiro

  • DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jns.2017.04.036
  • p36–37
  • Published online: April 22, 2017
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Acute unilateral peripheral vestibulopathy in neurosyphilis

Allison S. Young, Antonia S. Carroll, Miriam S. Welgampola, Peter J. McCluskey, Sebastian J. van Hal, Elizabeth O. Thompson, Juliet Burn, Michael J. Fulham, G. Michael Halmagyi

  • DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jns.2017.04.038
  • p55–58
  • Published online: April 23, 2017
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Improved strength on 5-hydroxytryptophan and carbidopa in spinal cord atrophy

Gabriella A. Horvath, Lorelyn Meisner, Kathryn Selby, Robert Stowe, Bruce Carleton


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Detection of LGI1 and CASPR2 antibodies with a commercial cell-based assay in patients with very high VGKC-complex antibody levels

T. Yeo, Z. Chen, J.Y.H. Chai, K. Tan

  • DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jns.2017.04.045
  • p85–90
  • Published online: April 27, 2017
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Bilateral striatal necrosis caused by a founder mitochondrial 14459G > A mutation in two independent Japanese families

Kimitoshi Hirayanagi, Yuji Okamoto, Eriko Takai, Kunihiko Ishizawa, Kouki Makioka, Yukio Fujita, Yuka Kaneko, Makoto Tanaka, Hiroshi Takashima, Yoshio Ikeda

  • DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jns.2017.05.015
  • p177–181
  • Published online: May 10, 2017
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Letters to the Editor

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VEMPs in a patient with cerebellar ataxia, neuropathy and vestibular areflexia (CANVAS)

Heiko Rust, Nils Peters, John H.J. Allum, Benjamin Wagner, Flurin Honegger, Thomas Baumann

  • DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jns.2017.04.029
  • p9–11
  • Published online: April 18, 2017
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C9ORF72 and parkinsonism: Weak link, innocent bystander, or central player in neurodegeneration?

Francesco Cavallieri, Jessica Mandrioli, Francesca Rosafio, Sara Contardi, Antonio Fasano, Elisa Menozzi, Claudia Caponnetto, Adriano Chiò, Franco Valzania


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Expanding the phenotype of phosphomannomutase-2 gene congenital disorder of glycosylation: Cervical dystonia

Malco Rossi, Alex Medina Escobar, Lucia Ameghino, Marcelo Merello


Interleukin 17 and 10 in relapsing remitting multiple sclerosis

Mehrdad Farrokhi, Aria Masoudifar, Farnoosh Peykanpour

  • DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jns.2017.04.044
  • p63
  • Published online: April 26, 2017
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Neuroendocrine lung cancer in a patient with limbic encephalopathy due to anti-Hu antibodies: A rare association not to be missed

A.R. Pati, C. Battisti, S.A. Tripodi, A. Cerase, A. Vella, L. Guidi, A. Mignarri, M.T. Dotti, A. Federico

  • DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jns.2017.04.032
  • p91–93
  • Published online: April 20, 2017
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Three dimensional video-oculography and thin-slice magnetic resonance imaging in a patient with superior oblique myokymia

Ji-Yun Park, Jae-Chan Ryu, Ki-Bum Sung, Tae-Kyeong Lee


Marcel Proust's contacts with neurology. Did mistrust in doctors lead him to refuse life-saving therapies?

Antonio Perciaccante, Alessia Coralli, Philippe Charlier, Otto Appenzeller, Raffaella Bianucci

  • DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jns.2017.05.006
  • p120–121
  • Published online: May 3, 2017
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The man behind Duchenne de Boulogne

P. Charlier, S. Deo

  • DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jns.2017.05.008
  • p122
  • Published online: May 3, 2017
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Deep brain stimulation for Parkinson's disease: Subcutaneous apomorphine as an alternative for patients unable to tolerate surgery under local anesthesia

António Martins de Campos, Luís Braz, Paulo Linhares, Maria José Rosas

  • DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jns.2017.04.048
  • p137–139
  • Published online: May 3, 2017
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Concerning the article "Interleukins 17 and 10 in a sample of Egyptian relapsing remitting multiple sclerosis patients"

Tarek Z. Tawfik, Adel H. Gad, Dina A. Mehaney, Eslam El Nahrery, Hatem S. Shehata, Hebatalla Hashem, Nawal F. Abdel Ghaffar, Nevin Shalaby

  • DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jns.2017.04.043
  • p152
  • Published online: April 26, 2017
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Functional brain neuroimaging-guided repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation in neurodevelopmental disorders: The case of a schizencephaly-related spastic dystonia

Ksenija Vucurovic, Samuel Emeriau, Jean-Michel Coulon, Philippe Peruzzi, Claude-Fabien Litré, Arthur Kaladjian


Paroxysmal sensory (spinal) attacks without hyperexplexia in a patient with a variant in the GLRA1 gene

M.J. Zwarts, M.H. Willemsen, E.-J. Kamsteeg, H.J. Schelhaas

  • DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jns.2017.05.024
  • p175–176
  • Published online: May 11, 2017
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Expanding the clinical phenotype of CAPN1-associated mutations: A new case with congenital-onset pure spastic paraplegia

Lorena Travaglini, Emanuele Bellacchio, Chiara Aiello, Stefano Pro, Enrico Bertini, Francesco Nicita

  • DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jns.2017.05.014
  • p210–212
  • Published online: May 10, 2017
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Cardiac takotsubo syndrome in association with cerebral, renal, gastrointestinal, vascular, and perhaps total body, "takotsubo" syndrome?

John E. Madias

  • DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jns.2017.05.027
  • p238
  • Published online: May 12, 2017
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Is the Takotsubo syndrome a brain-heart or multiorgan disorder?

Josef Finsterer, Claudia Stollberger

  • DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jns.2017.05.028
  • p239–240
  • Published online: May 12, 2017
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