{"title":"[Review of guideline on new diagnostic criteria for chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy].","authors":"Masaaki Odaka","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":19163,"journal":{"name":"No to shinkei = Brain and nerve","volume":"58 9","pages":"771-7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"26374861","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Social cognitive deficits in Parkinson's disease].","authors":"Tetsuhiro Maruyama","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":19163,"journal":{"name":"No to shinkei = Brain and nerve","volume":"58 9","pages":"757-61"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"26374859","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Dying with dignity].","authors":"Akihiro Igata","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":19163,"journal":{"name":"No to shinkei = Brain and nerve","volume":"58 8","pages":"639-43"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"26262495","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Two case mimicking cerebral tuberculoma in MRI diffusion weighted-images with difficult preoperative diagnosis].","authors":"Wataru Nisikawa, Kouichiro Takemoto, Seizaburo Sakamoto, Masaaki Yamamoto, Takeo Fukushima, Hidetsuna Utsunomiya, Kouichi Takano","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Two cases with a high signal intensity core with laminar structure based on diffusion weighed-images (DWI) mimicking intracerebral tuberculoma were herein reported. Both patients were suspected to have pulmonary tuberculosis in their past history and/or based on chest X-ray findings. DWI demonstrated a high signal intensity core with laminar structure, thus suggesting the presence of an intracerebral tuberculoma. As initial therapy, both patients received anti-tuberculous drugs, however, their symptoms did not improve, and the lesions were observed to have increased in MRI. As a result, a biopsy was carried out to clarify the nature of the disease. A pathological examination showed the former to be a brain abscess while the latter was metastatic carcinoma. In such cases mimicking intracerbral tuberculoma based on DWI, anti-tuberculous drugs are first treatment of choice, however, a biopsy should be performed as early as possible if the medication dose not show a significant response.</p>","PeriodicalId":19163,"journal":{"name":"No to shinkei = Brain and nerve","volume":"58 8","pages":"695-700"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"26262502","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Network to support patients with ALS in the Hyogo prefecture].","authors":"Kiyohiko Kondo","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":19163,"journal":{"name":"No to shinkei = Brain and nerve","volume":"58 8","pages":"653-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"26262497","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Two cases of lateral medullary infarctions presenting with axial lateropulsion].","authors":"Kengo Maeda","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":19163,"journal":{"name":"No to shinkei = Brain and nerve","volume":"58 8","pages":"718-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"26262506","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Cognitive function in patients with severe carotid stenosis--evaluation of RBANS, WAIS-R and NART before treatment of carotid revascularization--].","authors":"Akiko Takaiwa, Naoya Kuwayama, Nakamasa Hayashi, Michiya Kubo, Mie Matsui, Shunro Endo","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Purpose: </strong>To evaluate the cognitive function in preoperative patients with severe carotid stenosis.</p><p><strong>Patients and method: </strong>Twenty-five patients with severe carotid stenosis were examined on their cognitive function by RBANS (Japanese version), WAIS-R (Japanese version), and NART (Japanese version) before treatment of carotid revascularization (endarterectomy or stenting). They had full activities of daily living without any hemiparesis, aphasia, agnosia, and apraxia at the time of the examinations.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Mean intelligent quotient (IQ) measured by WAIS-R and NART was 104.0 +/- 10.7 and 101.3 +/- 13.4, (ns) respectively. Mean total scale of RBANS was 90.0 +/- 13.4, which was significantly lower than both the results of WAIS-R and NART. A mean value of each RBANS index was 91.3 +/- 11.7 in immediate memory, 102.0 +/- 18.2 in visuospatial/constructional, 93.2 +/- 8.7 in language, 84.6 +/- 14.7 in attention, and 92.1 +/- 14.4 in delayed memory. RBANS index significantly declined in immediate memory, language, attention and delayed memory than visuospatial/constructional.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Qualitative evaluation was available in RBANS, WAIS-R, and NART, which enabled the investigators to make a precise comparison between these methods. WAIS-R and NART showed a comparatively preserved function and were presumed to be useful for the evaluation of the baseline of cognitive function in preoperative patients. RBANS demonstrated a slight decrease in memory and attention in those patients and was expected to be useful to detect the cognitive dysfunction when compared with WAIS-R and NART.</p>","PeriodicalId":19163,"journal":{"name":"No to shinkei = Brain and nerve","volume":"58 8","pages":"681-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"26262500","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Coexistence of hypertensive brainstem encephalopathy and acute ischemic stroke in the posterior cerebral artery territory].","authors":"Hideaki Tei","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":19163,"journal":{"name":"No to shinkei = Brain and nerve","volume":"58 8","pages":"716-7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"26262505","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[A case of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis presenting as motor aphasia in its early stage].","authors":"Natsuko Takayasu, Kyoko Ito, Masaki Kondo, Manabu Muranishi, Yoshinari Nagakane, Masanori Nakagawa","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A 76-year-old right-handed woman complained of speech disturbance and difficulity of singing was admitted to our hospital. Examination showed motor aphasia and mild cognitive impairment. After she was discharged, dementia and weakness of the extremities had rapidly progressed. She was readmitted eight month after the first visit, when she was almost abulic, her skeletal and bulbar muscles were remarkably atrophic, and hyperreflexia of the extremities were seen. Electromyographcal study showed neurogenic pattern. These findings suggest amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) with dementia. Pathological findings were atrophy at the anterior horn of the spinal cord. The brain was diffusely atrophic. The extent of degenerative change was not lateralized. This case is a discriminative type of ALS with dementia, that its first symptom is motor aphasia.</p>","PeriodicalId":19163,"journal":{"name":"No to shinkei = Brain and nerve","volume":"58 8","pages":"709-13"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"26262504","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[What is QOL in the patient with incurable and intractable disease?--QOL evaluation and palliative care].","authors":"Takashi Nakajima","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":19163,"journal":{"name":"No to shinkei = Brain and nerve","volume":"58 8","pages":"661-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"26262498","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}