JNS-cover.jpgJournal of Neurological Sciences

Vol 412 | 15 May 2020

Editorial

Further evidence for shared genetic susceptibility in both sporadic and Thyrotoxic periodic paralysis

Stephen C. Cannon

 

Review Articles

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The impact of external trigeminal nerve stimulator (e-TNS) on prevention and acute treatment of episodic and chronic migraine: A systematic review

Michal Stanak, Sarah Wolf, Harald Jagoš, Karin Zebenholzer


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Metabolic stroke or stroke-like lesion: Peculiarities of a phenomenon

Josef Finsterer, Rahim Aliyev


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Near-infrared spectroscopy as a quantitative spasticity assessment tool: A systematic review

Jessica McDougall, Eric Chow, R. Luke Harris, Patricia Branco Mills


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Vascular-brain Injury Progression after Stroke (VIPS) study: concept for understanding racial and geographic determinants of cognitive decline after stroke

Fred Stephen Sarfo, Rufus Akinyemi, George Howard, Virginia J. Howard, Kolawole Wahab, Mary Cushman, Deborah A. Levine, Adesola Ogunniyi, Fred Unverzagt, Mayowa Owolabi, Bruce Ovbiagele


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Metastases to the central nervous system: Molecular basis and clinical considerations

Pitchaya Wanleenuwat, Piotr Iwanowski

 

Basic Research Papers

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Analysis of the genetic background associated with sporadic periodic paralysis in Japanese patients

Maki Nakaza, Yuri Kitamura, Mitsuru Furuta, Tomoya Kubota, Ryogen Sasaki, Masanori P. Takahashi


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Non-motor symptoms depending on motor severity in Japanese patients with Parkinson's disease: A multicenter cross-sectional study

Mayumi Toyama, Yasuyuki Okuma, Mitsutoshi Yamamoto, Kenichi Kashihara, Kazuto Yoshida, Hidemoto Saiki, Tetsuya Maeda, Yoshio Tsuboi, Yoshimitsu Takahashi, Takeo Nakayama


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Concordance of Mini-Mental State Examination, Montreal Cognitive Assessment and Parkinson Neuropsychometric Dementia Assessment in the classification of cognitive performance in Parkinson's disease

Jannik Florian Scheffels, Leon Fröhlich, Elke Kalbe, Josef Kessler


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Impact of thrombus migration on clinical outcomes in patients with internal carotid artery occlusions and patent middle cerebral artery

Junpei Koge, Shoji Matsumoto, Ichiro Nakahara, Akira Ishii, Taketo Hatano, Yujiro Tanaka, Daisuke Kondo, Jun-ichi Kira, Izumi Nagata


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The role of cerebral microbleeds in the incidence of post-stroke dementia

Chathuri Yatawara, Anne Cristine Guevarra, Kok Pin Ng, Russell Chander, Bonnie Yin Ka Lam, Adrian Wong, Vincent Mok, Nagaendran Kandiah


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Ultra-early improvement after endovascular thrombectomy and long-term outcome in anterior circulation acute ischemic stroke

António Martins de Campos, Andreia Carvalho, Marta Rodrigues, Sofia Figueiredo, Tiago Gregório, Henrique Costa, Ludovina Paredes, André Cunha, Sérgio Castro, Manuel Ribeiro, Miguel Veloso, Pedro Barros


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CT radiomics features as a diagnostic tool for classifying basal ganglia infarction onset time

Xiang Yao, Ling Mao, Shunli Lv, Zhenghong Ren, Wentao Li, Ke Ren


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Re-examining the exclusion criterion of early recurrent ischemic stroke in intravenous thrombolysis: A meta-analysis

Katrina Hannah D. Ignacio, Jose Danilo B. Diestro, Adrian I. Espiritu, Julian Spears, Maria Cristina Z. San Jose


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The discriminative capacity of CSF β-amyloid 42 and Tau in neurodegenerative diseases in the Chinese population

Ling-Qi Ye, Xiao-Yan Li, Yan-Bin Zhang, Hong-Rong Cheng, Yin Ma, Dian-Fu Chen, Qing-Qing Tao, Hong-Lei Li, Zhi-Ying Wu


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Initial deterioration and intravenous methylprednisolone therapy in patients with myasthenia gravis

Takamichi Sugimoto, Kazuhide Ochi, Ruoyi Ishikawa, Taku Tazuma, Masahiro Hayashi, Naoko Mine, Hiroyuki Naito, Eiichi Nomura, Tatsuo Kohriyama, Takemori Yamawaki


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Haptic vs sensorimotor training in the treatment of upper limb dysfunction in multiple sclerosis: A multi-center, randomised controlled trial

Claudio Solaro, Davide Cattaneo, Angelo Basteris, Ilaria Carpinella, Alice De Luca, Margit Mueller, Rita Bertoni, Maurizio Ferrarin, Vittorio Sanguineti


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Asymptomatic carotid intraplaque hemorrhage is associated with a high risk of cerebral infarction and death after cardiovascular surgery

Kouichi Misaki, Takehiro Uno, Iku Nambu, Ryouken Kimura, Akifumi Yoshikawa, Tomoya Kamide, Yasuhiko Hayashi, Naoyuki Uchiyama, Kenji Iino, Hirofumi Takemura, Mitsutoshi Nakada


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Prevalence of GLA gene mutations and polymorphisms in patients with multiple sclerosis: A cross-sectional study

Camilla Russo, Sirio Cocozza, Eleonora Riccio, Giuseppe Pontillo, Luigi Annicchiarico Petruzzelli, Roberta Lanzillo, Letizia Spinelli, Paolo Colomba, Giovanni Duro, Massimo Imbriaco, Cinzia Valeria Russo, Giulia De Riso, Teodolinda Di Risi, Enrico Tedeschi, Alberto Cuocolo, Arturo Brunetti, Vincenzo Brescia Morra, Sergio Cocozza, Antonio Pisani

 

Clinical Short Communications

Myasthenia gravis and azathioprine treatment: Adverse events related to thiopurine S-methyl-transferase (TPMT) polymorphisms

Paulo José Lorenzoni, Cláudia Suemi Kamoi Kay, Marcelo Farago Zanlorenzi, Renata Dal-Prá Ducci, Lineu Cesar Werneck, Rosana Herminia Scola


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Racial variations in lacosamide serum concentrations in adult patients with epilepsy

Deepti Zutshi, Kalyan Yarraguntla, Advait Mahulikar, Navid Seraji-Bozorgzad, Aashit K. Shah, Maysaa M. Basha


Guidance for the management of myasthenia gravis (MG) and Lambert-Eaton myasthenic syndrome (LEMS) during the COVID-19 pandemic

International MG/COVID-19 Working Group Saiju Jacob, Srikanth Muppidi, Amanda Guidon, Jeffrey Guptill, Michael Hehir, James F. Howard Jr, Isabel Illa, Renato Mantegazza, Hiroyuki Murai, Kimiaki Utsugisawa, John Vissing, Heinz Wiendl, Richard J. Nowak

 

Letters to the Editor

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Changing the face of stroke care in the Middle East North Africa region

Maria Khan, Suhail Al-Rukn, Adel Ali Alhazzani, Hany Aref, Tiago Moreira, Nils Wahlgren


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Numerous ballooned neurons in a 94-year-old man with dementia with Lewy bodies

Takahiro Takeda, Toshiki Uchihara, Takashi Endo, Masanobu Kitagawa, Katsuiku Hirokawa, Takayoshi Kobayashi, Shuta Toru


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Recurrent stroke due to quasi-moyamoya disease associated with POEMS syndrome: An autopsy case

Teruhiko Sekiguchi, Satoru Ishibashi, Jo Sasame, Jun-Ichi Mukae, Kotaro Noda, Hiroaki Tanaka, Koh Yamamoto, Yasunori Takemoto, Jiro Kumagai, Takanori Yokota


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Chorea-acanthocytosis with a novel mutation in the vacuolar protein sorting 13 homolog a gene: A case report

Yasutake Tada, Tsuyoshi Hamaguchi, Yoshihisa Ikeda, Kazuo Iwasa, Yoshiaki Nishida, Masayuki Nakamura, Akira Sano, Masahito Yamada


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A gaze-triggered downbeat nystagmus persisting in primary position in a patient with hypomagnesemia combined with anti-SOX1

Filip Rosa, Alexander Grimm, Katja Ambjoernsen, Jörn K. Pomper


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The mutation D313Y may be associated with nervous system manifestations in Fabry disease

Christina Zompola, Lina Palaiodimou, Panagiotis Kokotis, Marianna Papadopoulou, Aikaterini Theodorou, Nikolaos Sabanis, Efterpi Theodoroula, Matilda Papathanasiou, Georgios Tsivgoulis, Elisabeth Chroni


Parkinson's disease and cancer incidence: A risk assessment

Tomoyuki Kawada


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MM2 cortical form of sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease without progressive dementia and akinetic mutism: A case deviating from current diagnostic criteria

Ikuko Takahashi-Iwata, Ichiro Yabe, Akihiko Kudo, Katsuya Eguchi, Masahiro Wakita, Shinichi Shirai, Masaaki Matsushima, Takanobu Toyoshima, Susumu Chiba, Satoshi Tanikawa, Shinya Tanaka, Katsuya Satoh, Tetsuyuki Kitamoto, Hidenao Sasaki


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Non-invasive visualization of arterial stagnation in a dissected internal carotid artery

Tatsuo Mano, Takahiro Nakayama, Hironobu Endo, Keiko Bono, Ichiro Imafuku


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A novel pathogenic NFIX variant in a Malan syndrome patient associated with hindbrain overcrowding

Kenshiro Tabata, Aritoshi Iida, Eri Takeshita, Eiji Nakagawa, Noriko Sato, Masayuki Sasaki, Ken Inoue, Yu-ichi Goto


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Corticobasal syndrome-Pick's disease: A clinicopathological study

Yuto Uchida, Mari Yoshida, Koji Takada, Yasukuni Tsugu, Yoshino Ueki, Noriyuki Matsukawa


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Mitochondrial myopathy, encephalopathy, lactic acidosis, and stroke-like episodes due to m.3243A > G mutation in a 76-year-old woman

Kana Ueki, Yoshinobu Wakisaka, Kuniyuki Nakamura, Yuji Shono, Shinichi Wada, Yoji Yoshikawa, Yuta Matsukuma, Takeshi Uchiumi, Dongchong Kang, Takanari Kitazono, Tetsuro Ago


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Near-fatal primary manifestation of anti-aquaporin 4-positive neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder survived without neurological sequelae: A case report

Ahmad Talhami, Niklas Lützen, Sebastian Grundmann, Wolf-Dirk Niesen, Benjamin Berger


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An autopsy case of primary lateral sclerosis with Alzheimer's disease

Takumi Nakamura, Tomoya Kon, Takeshi Kawarabayashi, Koichi Wakabayashi, Yoshio Ikeda, Mikio Shoji


Colombian consortium for the study of Lewy body dementia COL-DLB

Miguel Germán Borda, Francisco Lopera, Omar Buritica, Catalina Cerquera-Cleves, Maria Camila Gonzalez, Elkin Garcia-Cifuentes, Alberto Jaramillo-Jimenez, David Aguillon, Yamile Bocanegra, Beatriz Elena Munoz-Ospina, Carlos Alberto Cano-Gutierrez, Daniela Patiño-Hernandez, Carlos Tobón, Hernando Santamaría-García, José Manuel Santacruz, Diego Andrés Chavarro-Carvajal, Gabriel Pinilla, Elly Morros-González, Camila Pantoja, Valentina Quintana-Peña, Jaime Valderrama, Ketil Oppedal, Dag Aarsland, Jorge Orozco


"Initial deterioration" upon intravenous methyl-prednisolon in myasthenia is multifactorial

Josef Finsterer, Carla A. Scorza, Ana C. Fiorini, Fulvio A. Scorza


Neurotropism of SARS-CoV 2: Mechanisms and manifestations

Giancarlos Conde Cardona, Loraine D. Quintana Pájaro, Iván D. Quintero Marzola, Yancarlos Ramos Villegas, Luis R. Moscote Salazar

 

Addiction Medicine and Psychiatry - State of the Art 2020

The therapeutic potential of exercise for neuropsychiatric diseases: A review

Sabrina Swenson, Kenneth Blum, Thomas McLaughlin, Mark S. Gold, Panayotis K. Thanos


Ketamine and nitrous oxide: The evolution of NMDA receptor antagonists as antidepressant agents

Molly C. Kalmoe, Alvin M. Janski, Charles F. Zorumski, Peter Nagele, Ben J. Palanca, Charles R. Conway