{"title":"A patient with epilepsy and new onset of nocturnal symptoms.","authors":"Ross F Liebman, Alcibáades J Rodriguez","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A patient with a 14-year history of complex partial seizures presented with new onset of nocturnal symptoms consisting of hallucinations, vivid dreams, and gross motor activity. These episodes were not consistent with his previous seizures, which had consisted of a foul smell, automatisms, and an altered stage of consciousness. Prior to this presentation, the patient had been seizure-free for 3 years while taking antiepileptic medications.</p>","PeriodicalId":21171,"journal":{"name":"Reviews in neurological diseases","volume":"6 1","pages":"37-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"28109735","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":"Epilepsy - radiosurgery for epilepsy.","authors":"Nicholas M Barbaro, Mark Quigg","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":21171,"journal":{"name":"Reviews in neurological diseases","volume":"6 1","pages":"39"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"28109736","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":"The neurofibromatoses. Part 2: NF2 and schwannomatosis.","authors":"Christine Lu-Emerson, Scott R Plotkin","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The neurofibromatoses, including neurofibromatosis 1 (NF1), neurofibromatosis 2 (NF2), and schwannomatosis, comprise a group of genetically distinct disorders of the nervous system that are unified by the predisposition to nerve sheath tumors. All 3 types of NF have tumor manifestations (consistent with tumor-suppressor status) and nontumor manifestations. In the second part of this 2-part series, the manifestations of NF2 and schwannomatosis are reviewed. NF2 is characterized by bilateral vestibular schwannomas, meningiomas, ependymomas, cataracts, and epiretinal membranes. The combination of complete hearing loss from vestibular schwannomas and blindness from bifacial weakness is a devastating potential outcome of NF2. Schwannomatosis is characterized by multiple nonvestibular, nonintradermal schwannomas and chronic pain. Recently, germline alterations in the SMARCB1/INI1 gene have been implicated in both familial and sporadic forms of this disorder. Neurologists play an important role in the diagnosis and management of the neurofibromatoses.</p>","PeriodicalId":21171,"journal":{"name":"Reviews in neurological diseases","volume":"6 3","pages":"E81-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"28495665","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":"Neuroimaging advances. Highlights from the 32nd Annual Meeting of the American Society of Neuroimaging, January 22-25, 2009, Orlando, FL.","authors":"Rohit Bakshi","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":21171,"journal":{"name":"Reviews in neurological diseases","volume":"6 2","pages":"E68-71"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"28294750","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":"Nervous system lyme disease: diagnosis and treatment.","authors":"John J Halperin","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Lyme disease, the multisystem infectious disease caused by the tickborne spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi, frequently affects the peripheral and central nervous systems. The earliest indication of Lyme disease infection is usually erythema migrans. This large, typically macular erythema, often with a target-like pattern of concentric pale and red circles, gradually enlarges day by day, potentially reaching many centimeters in diameter. In a significant proportion of infected individuals, an acute disseminated phase leads to seeding elsewhere in the body. Up to 5% of patients develop cardiac involvement. In about 10% to 15% of patients, the nervous system becomes symptomatically involved. Current serologic diagnostic tools are quite useful, and standard treatment regimens are highly effective. Oral antimicrobials have been shown to be effective in European neuroborreliosis and presumably are equally potent in North American patients. Long-term antibiotic treatment does not provide any additional lasting improvement, but it is frequently associated with significant morbidity.</p>","PeriodicalId":21171,"journal":{"name":"Reviews in neurological diseases","volume":"6 1","pages":"4-12"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"28109196","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 patient with epilepsy and new onset of nocturnal symptoms.","authors":"Ross F Liebman, Alcibáades J Rodriguez","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":21171,"journal":{"name":"Reviews in neurological diseases","volume":"6 1","pages":"40-4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"28109737","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}
Carrie R Muh, Jacques Dion, Nancy J Newman, Valérie Biousse
{"title":"Headaches, rapidly progressive visual loss, and bilateral disc edema.","authors":"Carrie R Muh, Jacques Dion, Nancy J Newman, Valérie Biousse","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The diagnosis and management of a 28-year-old obese woman who presented with neck pain, headache, and rapidly progressive visual loss is discussed here. Results of her initial general examination were normal. Thorough medical follow-up resulted in a rare diagnosis.</p>","PeriodicalId":21171,"journal":{"name":"Reviews in neurological diseases","volume":"6 4","pages":"E133-4; discussion E141-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"28639086","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}
Katie Luneau, Beau B Bruce, Nancy J Newman, Valérie Biousse
{"title":"Multiple brain infarcts after orbital inflammation.","authors":"Katie Luneau, Beau B Bruce, Nancy J Newman, Valérie Biousse","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A 75-year-old woman developed trigeminal varicella-zoster virus infection complicated by ophthalmoplegia, and visual loss followed by recurrent cerebral infarctions involving small and large intracranial arteries. Medical therapy improved her ophthalmoplegia, but she developed a right hemiparesis and aphasia.</p>","PeriodicalId":21171,"journal":{"name":"Reviews in neurological diseases","volume":"6 2","pages":"E75-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"28294752","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":"Best of the 2009 annual meeting of the american academy of neurology.","authors":"John J Kelly","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":21171,"journal":{"name":"Reviews in neurological diseases","volume":"6 3","pages":"E94-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"28495667","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}