Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry articles from June 2001

Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry archives from June 2001

Structural imaging in the clinical diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease: problems and tools.
June 1, 2001... The techniques of CT and MRI are the most commonly used instrumental aids in the diagnosis of dementia and Alzheimer's disease. Their use is often uncritical or suboptimal as to when the examination should be prescribed, which of the two...

Nosological entities?
June 1, 2001... Nosology. 1. A classification, arrangement, or catalogue of diseases; a collection or combination of disease. 2 (The branch of medicine that deals with) the systematic naming and classification of diseases. (Oxford English Dictionary) ...

Imaging counterparts of cognitive decline in multiple sclerosis.
June 1, 2001... Cognitive impairment occurs in 40% to 60% of those with multiple sclerosis, with devastating effects for some. Subtle abnormalities may already be present in those with clinically isolated syndromes, but impairment tends to be more severe as...

The late whiplash syndrome: a biopsychosocial approach.
June 1, 2001... Abstract Physicians and other therapists continue to grapple in daily practice with the controversies of the late whiplash syndrome. For decades much of the debate and the approach to this controversial syndrome has centred on the natural...

Visual hallucinations in Parkinson's disease: a review and phenomenological survey.
June 1, 2001... Abstract Objectives--Between 8% and 40% of patients with Parkinson's disease undergoing long term treatment will have visual hallucinations during the course of their illness. There were two main objectives: firstly, to review the...

Prospective study of hallucinations and delusions in Parkinson's disease.
June 1, 2001... Abstract Objective--This study was undertaken to determine the prevalence of hallucinations and delusions in Parkinson's disease, to describe such symptoms phenomenologically, and possibly to determine factors associated with their...

Anosmia in dementia is associated with Lewy bodies rather than Alzheimer's pathology.
June 1, 2001... Abstract Objectives--To assess olfactory function of patients with dementia. Odour detection ability is impaired in clinical Parkinson's disease. Evidence of impaired detection in patients with clinically diagnosed Alzheimer's disease is...

Vladimir Mikhailovich Bechterev (1857-1927).(Obituary)
June 1, 2001... Bechterev studied brain stem anatomy (1894) and later as a contemporary of Pavlov contributed to "psychoreflexology" (1900). He achieved a place in Russian neurology nearly equivalent to Pavlov. Bechterev (1885, 1887) added to Dieter's work by...

Use of 14-3-3 and other brain-specific proteins in CSF in the diagnosis of variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.(cerebrospinal fluid)
June 1, 2001... Abstract Objectives--The detection of the protein 14-3-3 in the CSF has been shown to be a reliable and sensitive marker for sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD). Other brain-specific proteins such as neuron specific enolase (NSE),...

Functional MRI for presurgical planning: problems, artefacts, and solution strategies.(magnetic resonance imaging)
June 1, 2001... Abstract Ojectives--Presurgical mapping of motor function is a widely used clinical application of functional (f) MRI, employing the blood oxygenation level dependent contrast. The aim of this study was to report on 3 years experience of...

Return to driving after head injury.
June 1, 2001... Abstract Objectives--To determine whether patients who return to driving after head injury can be considered safe to do so and to compare the patient characteristics of those who return to driving with those who do not. Methods--In a...

Oligoclonal T cell repertoire in cerebrospinal fluid of patients with inflammatory diseases of the nervous system.
June 1, 2001... Abstract Objective--To evaluate the T cell receptor [beta] chain variable region (TCRBV) gene usage ex vivo in CSF cells and peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) collected from patients with autoimmune and inflammatory diseases of...

A longitudinal study of brain atrophy and cognitive disturbances in the early phase of relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis.
June 1, 2001... Abstract Objective--(a) To establish whether the cognitive decline of the early phase of relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis depends on the progression of the burden of disease, or on the loss of brain parenchyma, or is influenced by...

Cardiac [I.sup.123]-meta-iodobenzylguanidine (MIBG) uptake in dementia with Lewy bodies: comparison with Alzheimer's disease.
June 1, 2001... Abstract Cardiac [[blank].sup.123]I-meta-iodobenzylguanidine (MIBG) uptake was measured in 11 patients with dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB), 10 patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD), and 10 age matched control subjects. The severity of...

Increased plasma neurotensin concentrations in patients with Parkinson's disease.
June 1, 2001... Abstract Plasma neurotensin (NT) was measured by radioimunoassay in propanol extracted and unextracted plasma from 16 parkinsonian patients (four before treatment) and 16 age and sex matched controls. Mean plasma NT concentrations were...

Visual field loss associated with vigabatrin: pathological correlations.
June 1, 2001... Abstract Pathological changes are reported in the anterior visual pathways of a 41 year old man with complex partial seizures treated with vigabatrin who developed bilateral visual field constriction. There was peripheral retinal atrophy...

Paroxysmal alternating skew deviation and nystagmus after partial destruction of the uvula.
June 1, 2001... Abstract A patient with suspected brain stem glioma involving the area of the left vestibular nuclei and cerebellar peduncle, developed paroxysmal alternating skew deviation and direction changing nystagmus after biopsy of the inferior...

Unusual presentation of a primary spinal Burkitt's lymphoma.
June 1, 2001... Abstract Primary CNS lymphomas are detected with increasing frequency in immunocompetent and immunodeficient persons. Primary involvement of the spinal roots has only rarely been reported. The unusual history is described of a patient with...

Juvenile muscular atrophy of the distal upper limb (Hirayama disease) associated with atopy.
June 1, 2001... Abstract Juvenile muscular atrophy of the distal upper limb (Hirayama disease) is a rare disease predominantly affecting the anterior horn cells of the cervical spinal cord in young men. Although the disease is considered to be a type of...

Aphasia or aphemia.
June 1, 2001... I remember reading the ancient use of the word aphemia instead of aphasia when a young student. Aphemia, I felt was a mellifluent, romantic word and wondered about its origin. Trousseau in his seventh lecture given at the Hotel-Dieu, Paris, On...

Inherited prion disease with A117V mutation of the prion protein gene: a novel Hungarian family.
June 1, 2001... Abstract Three members of a family with inherited prion disease are reported. One additional family member had a progressive neurological disease without details. Two developed symptoms of ataxia, dementia, myoclonus, rigidity, and...

Transient total tongue paralysis from simultaneous central and peripheral lesions.
June 1, 2001... Lower cranial nerve palsies in various combinations involving the hypoglossal, glossopharyngeal, vagal, and the accessory nerves occur in internal carotid artery (ICA) dissection. [1-8,17] The hypoglossal nerve (cn-XII) is most often affected....

Eye movement abnormality associated with cyclosporin.
June 1, 2001... A 50 year old man developed diplopia 2 months after an allogeneic bone marrow transplantation for mantle cell lymphoma. He was receiving cyclosporin for graft versus host disease prophylaxis and ganciclovir for a positive cytomegalovirus blood...

Preoperative and postoperative imaging of an aneurysm of the middle cerebral artery with transcranial duplex sonography.
June 1, 2001... A 37 year old woman was admitted to the department of neurosurgery because of severe headache during sexual intercourse 4 weeks earlier. Cerebral MRI showed an aneurysm of the left middle cerebral artery which had caused a subarachnoid...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.
June 1, 2001... Blockade of cholecystokinin-A receptors has no effect on dyskinesias in Parkinson's disease Cholecystokinin is one of the most abundant neuropeptides in the human CNS. It coexists with dopamine in ventral tegmental and substantia nigra...

CORRECTIONS.(Correction Notice)
June 1, 2001... Bhakta B, Cozens JA, Chamberlain MA, et al. The impact of botulinum toxin type A on disability and carer burden due to arm spasticity after stroke: a randomised double blind placebo controlled trial. J Neurol neurosurg Psychiatry...

Essentials of Clinical Epilepsy: 2nd Edition.(Review)
June 1, 2001... By A GUBERMAN and J BRUNI. (Pp 207, [pound]27.50). Oxford: Butterworth Heinemann, 1999. ISBN 0 7506 7109 2. The authors of this text have sought to provide a handbook in which they present the core clinical knowledge on epilepsy while...

Central Nervous System Diseases: Innovative Animal Models From Lab to Clinic.(Review)
June 1, 2001... Edited by D I P EMERICH, R L DEAN III, and P R SANBERG (Pp 512, US$145.00). New Jersey: Humana Press, 2000. ISBN 0 896 03724 X. This book takes as its main theme the neurodegenerative disorders and animal models of them for assessment and...

Treatment of Neurological Disorders with Intravenous Immunoglobulins.(Review)
June 1, 2001... Edited by GERARD SAID (Pp 200, [pound]24.95). Published by Martin Dunitz, London, 2000. ISBN 1 85317 758 X. Over the past decade the introduction of high dose intravenous immunoglobulin (IvIg) therapy has transformed the treatment of some...

Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorders. Diagnosis and Treatment Guidelines for the Practicing Physician.(Review)
June 1, 2001... Edited by CHARLES H ADKER and J ERIC AHLSKOG (Pp 480, US$ 125.00). Published by Humana Press, New Jersey, 2000. ISBN 0 896 03607 3. The authors state that this book is aimed at the primary care physician or perhaps the "general" neurologist...

Localization of brain lesions and developmental functions.(Review)
June 1, 2001... Edited by D RIVA and A BENTON. (Pp 165, [pound]39.00.) Published by John Libbey, Eastleigh, 2000. IBSN 0 86196 5999X The richness of this subject has become apparent with the development of tests assessing an increasing array of aspects of...

Neurological emergencies, 3rd edition.(Review)
June 1, 2001... Edited by RAC HUGHES. (Pp 399, [pound]35.00.) Published by BMJ Books, London, 2000. ISBN 0 7279 1405 7 This is the third edition of a book which stems from an original series of 12 articles on Neurological Emergencies, published by this...

Dementia, 2nd edition.(Review)
June 1, 2001... Edited by JOHN O'BRIAN, DAVID AMES, and ALISTAIR BURNS (Pp 940, [pound]155.00). Published by Arnold Publishers, London, 2000. ISBN 0 340 759216X. Dementia is a big subject and this is a big book. The first edition was edited by Raymond...

Clinical approach to antiphospholipid antibodies.(Review)
June 1, 2001... Edited by STEPHEN R LEVINE and ROBIN L BREY (Pp 184, [pound]55.00). Published by Butterworth Heinemann, Oxford, 2000. ISBN 0-7506-7177-7. This monograph devoted to antiphospholipid antibodies (APA) developed from an annual course at the...

Stroke.(Review)
June 1, 2001... Edited by MARTIN M BROWN (Pp 576, [pound]34.95). Published by the Royal Society of Medicine Press, London, 2000. ISBN 1 85315 457. The British Medical Bulletin, published quarterly, on behalf of the British Council, has a somewhat...

An atlas of Alzheimer's disease. The encyclopedia of visual medicine series.(Review)
June 1, 2001... Edited by MONY J DE LEON (Pp149, [pound]59.00). Published by Parthenon Publishing, Carnforth, 1999. ISBN 1-85070-912-2. In just 149 pages and nine separately authored chapters, Professor De Leon has produced a practical guide to the...

Neural transplantation methods.(Review)
June 1, 2001... Edited by: DUNNETT, BOULTON, and BAKER (Pp 556, US$125.00). Published by The Humana Press, New Jersey, 1999. ISBN 0 896 03793 2. Just over 20 years ago, the notion that nerve cells transplanted to a damaged adult brain could not only...

Alzheimer's disease and related disorders annual.(Review)
June 1, 2001... Edited by SERGE GAUTHIER and JEFFREY L CUMMINGS (Pp 255, [pound]39.95). Published by Martin Dunitz, London, 2000. ISBN 1-85317-909-4. My first impression on being asked to review this book was "who needs another text book on dementia?"...

Clinician's manual on anxiety disorders and comorbid depression.(Review)
June 1, 2001... Edited by DAVID NUTT, SPILIOS ARGYROPOULOS, and SEAN HOOD (Pp 56, [pound] 7.25). Published by Science Press, London, 2000. ISBN 1 85873 397 9. This is a small book with a formidable task. The editors describe it as written for "busy...

Pediatric epilepsy: diagnosis and therapy, 2nd edition.(Review)
June 1, 2001... Edited by JOHN M PELLOCK, W EDWIN DOOSON, and BLAISE F D BOURGEOIS (Pp 688, US$150.00). Published by Demos Medical Publishing, New York, 2001. ISBN 1-888799-30-7. The most useful part of this book is an account of each of the...

Diagnosis and management of pituitary tumors.(Review)
June 1, 2001... Edited by KAMAL THAPAR, KALMAN KOVACS, BERND W SCHETTHAUER, and RICARDO V LLOYD. (pp 479, US$225.00). Published by The Humana Press, Totowa, 2001. ISBN 0-896-03403-8. This new multiauthor text attempts the ambitious task of reviewing in...

Handbook of ataxia disorders.(Review)
June 1, 2001... Edited by THOMAS KLOCKGETHER (pp 689, US$215). Published by Marcel Dekker Inc, New York, 2000. ISBN 0-8247-0381-2. There is a constant debate as to the value of textbooks in general in this information technology age. This is perhaps most...

The brain and cardiac surgery. Causes of neurological complications and their prevention.(Review)
June 1, 2001... Edited by STANTON P NEWMAN and MICHAEL JG HARRISON, (pp 343, [pound]70.00). Published by Harwood Academic Publishers, The Netherlands, 2000. ISBN 90 5702 476 4. This book offers a description of the neurological syndromes that may occur...

Neurosurgical classics II.(Review)
June 1, 2001... Edited by ROBERT H WILKINS and GLORIA K WILKINS. (pp 592, US$95.00). Published by American Association of Neurological Surgeons, Rolling Meadows, 2000. ISBN 1 897284 74 X. The first volume of this book, which was published in 1965 under...

NEUROLOGY IN PRACTICE: EPILEPSY.(Bibliography)
June 1, 2001... Epilepsy is a common chronic disorder affecting at least 350 000 persons in the UK Patients with blackouts and suspected epilepsy account for about 20% of new referrals to neurological outpatients and those with epilepsy a considerable...

ASSESSMENT AND INVESTIGATION OF POSSIBLE EPILEPTIC SEIZURES.
June 1, 2001... Epilepsy enters the differential diagnosis of paroxysmal disorders of central nervous system function. The first step is to differentiate seizures from other common paroxysmal disorders, which are considered in another section (see p ii9). When...

IF IT'S NOT EPILEPSY...
June 1, 2001... The most important diagnostic problem in epileptology is to distinguish epileptic seizures from syncope and from psychogenic attacks. A less common problem is the need to distinguish epilepsy from other paroxysmal disorders with which it may...

THE MANAGEMENT OF EPILEPSY.
June 1, 2001... Epilepsy is a common, sometimes chronic, condition with physical risks and psychological Band socioeconomic consequences which impair quality of life. The management of patients with epilepsy demands long term commitment from both the general...

THE MANAGEMENT OF STATUS EPILEPTICUS.
June 1, 2001... Status epilepticus is defined usually as a condition in which epileptic activity persists for 30 minutes or more. The seizures can take the form of prolonged seizures or repetitive attacks without recovery in between. There are various types of...

CORRESPONDENCE.(Letter to the Editor)
June 1, 2001... The EQ-5D--a generic quality of life measure--is a useful instrument to measure quality of life in patients with Parkinson's disease We read with interest the recent article by Schrag et a!, [1] in which the authors showed that the...