• Can Social Cognition Measurements Differentiate Behavioral Variant Frontotemporal Dementia from Alzheimer's Disease Regardless of Apathy? 

  MARIANO, Luciano Inacio; CARAMELLI, Paulo; GUIMARAES, Henrique Cerqueira; GAMBOGI, Leandro Boson; MOURA, Millena Vieira Brandao; YASSUDA, Onica Sanches; TEIXEIRA, Antonto Lucio; SOUZA, Leonardo Cruz de (IOS PRESS, AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS, 2020)

  Background: Alzheimer's disease (AD) and behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD) share cognitive and behavioral symptoms, such as apathy. Social cognition measurements are useful in distinguishing bvFTD from AD, ...
• Medical management after subthalamic stimulation in Parkinson's disease: a phenotype perspective 

  BERTHOLO, Ana Paula; FRANCA, Carina; FIORINI, Wilma Silva; BARBOSA, Egberto Reis; CURY, Rubens Gisbert (ASSOC ARQUIVOS NEURO- PSIQUIATRIA, SAO PAULO SP, BRAZIL, 2020)

  Subthalamic nucleus deep brain stimulation (STN DBS) is an established treatment that improves motor fluctuations, dyskinesia, and tremor in Parkinson's disease (PD). After the surgery, a careful electrode programming ...
• subtest analysis of The Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA): which subtests can best discriminate between healthy controls, mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease? (vol 28, pg 825, 2016) 

  CECATO, Juliana Francisco; MARTINELLI, Jose Eduardo; IZBICKI, Rafael; YASSUDA, Monica Sanches; APRAHAMIAN, Ivan (CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS, NEW YORK, USA, 2017)
• Loss of presynaptic inhibition for step initiation in parkinsonian individuals with freezing of gait 

  LIRA, Jumes Leopoldino Oliveira; UGRINOWITSCH, Carlos; COELHO, Daniel Boari; TEIXEIRA, Luis Augusto; LIMA-PARDINI, Andrea Cristina de; MAGALHAES, Fernando Henrique; BARBOSA, Egberto Reis; HORAK, Fay B.; SILVA-BATISTA, Carla (WILEY, HOBOKEN, USA, 2020)

  Key points Individuals with freezing of gait (FoG) due to Parkinson's disease (PD) have small and long anticipatory postural adjustments (APAs) associated with delayed step initiation. Individuals with FoG ('freezers') may ...
• Effectiveness of the histamine test for diagnosing root avulsion in patients with traumatic brachial plexus injury 

  STERMAN-NETO, H.; HEISE, C. O.; SIQUEIRA, M. G.; MARTINS, R. S.; TAVARES, P. L.; FORONI, L. H. (ELSEVIER, AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS, 2020)

  Objectives: Making the diagnosis of root avulsion in traumatic brachial plexus injuries is important but sometimes difficult. The histamine test for differentiating between pre- and post-ganglionic lesions is a simple, ...
• Simple and safe exposure of the sigmoid sinus with presigmoid approaches Comments 

  PATERNO, Vincenzo; MIKAMI, Takeshi; FIGUEIREDO, Eberval G.; FARHOUD, Ahmed (SPRINGER, NEW YORK, USA, 2013)
• Clinical features of collagen VI-related dystrophies: A large Brazilian cohort 

  ZANOTELI, Edmar; SOARES, Priscilla Souza; SILVA, Andre Macedo Serafim da; CAMELO, Clara Gontijo; FONSECA, Alulin Tacio Quadros Santos Monteiro; ALBUQUERQUE, Marco Antinio Veloso; MORENO, Cristiane Araujo Martins; ABATH NETO, Osorio Lopes; NOVO FILHO, Gil Monteiro; KULIKOWSKI, Leslie Domenici; REED, Umbertina Conti (ELSEVIER, AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS, 2020)

  Objectives: Collagen VI-related dystrophies (COL6-RDs) have a broad clinical spectrum and are caused by mutations in the COL6A1, COL6A2 and COL6A3 genes. Despite the clinical variability, two phenotypes are classically ...
• Reader response: Circulating cortisol and cognitive and structural brain measures: The Framingham Heart Study 

  BARBOSA, Breno J. A. P.; SOUZA-TALARICO, Juliana N. de; NITRINI, Ricardo; BRUCKI, Sonia M. D. (LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS, PHILADELPHIA, USA, 2019)
• Pediatric intrinsic brainstem lesions: clinical, imaging, histological characterization, and predictors of survival 

  MORAIS, Barbara Albuquerque; SOLLA, Davi Jorge Fontoura; MATUSHITA, Hamilton; TEIXEIRA, Manoel Jacobsen; MONACO, Bernardo A. (SPRINGER, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES, 2020)

  Purpose Brainstem lesions comprise 10-20% of all pediatric brain tumors. Over the past years, the benefits of stereotactic biopsy versus the use alone of MRI features to guide treatment have been controversial. Methods ...
• Congenital fiber type disproportion caused by TPM3 mutation: A report of two atypical cases 

  MORENO, Cristiane Araujo Martins; ESTEPHAN, Eduardo de Paula; FAPPI, Alan; MONGES, Soledad; LUBIENIECKI, Fabiana; ABATH NETO, Osorio Lopes; REED, Umbertina Conti; DONKERVOORT, Sandra; HARMS, Matthew B.; BONNEMANN, Carsten; ZANOTELI, Edmar (PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD, OXFORD, ENGLAND, 2020)

  Congenital fiber type disproportion (CFTD) is a rare congenital myopathy subtype defined by slow type 1 hypotrophy in the absence of any other major structural findings such as rods, central nuclei or cores. Dominant ...
• Neurodevelopmental disorder associated with de novo SCN3A pathogenic variants: two new cases and review of the literature 

  INUZUKA, Luciana Midori; MACEDO-SOUZA, Lucia Ines; DELLA-RIPA, Bruno; CABRAL, Katiane S. S.; MONTEIRO, Fabiola; KITAJIMA, Joao Paulo; GODOY, Luis Filipe de Souza; DELGADO, Daniel de Souza; KOK, Fernando; GARZON, Eliana (ELSEVIER, AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS, 2020)

  SCN3A was recently recognized as a gene associated with neurodevelopmental disorder and epilepsy. We present two additional patients with a novel de novo SCN3A pathogenic variant, and a review of all published cases of de ...
• Connectivity Patterns of Subthalamic Stimulation Influence Pain Outcomes in Parkinson's Disease 

  CURY, Rubens Gisbert; TEIXEIRA, Manoel Jacobsen; GALHARDONI, Ricardo; SILVA, Valquiria; IGLESIO, Ricardo; FRANCA, Carina; ARNAUT, Debora; FONOFF, Erich Talamoni; BARBOSA, Egberto Reis; ANDRADE, Daniel Ciampi de (FRONTIERS MEDIA SA, LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND, 2020)

  Background: Pain is highly prevalent in Parkinson's disease and is associated with significant reduction in health-related quality of life. Subthalamic deep brain stimulation can produce significant pain relief in a subset ...
• Deep brain stimulation modulates hypothalamic-brainstem fibers in cluster headache: case report 

  DANTAS, Sergio A. F.; ALHO, Eduardo J. L.; SILVA, Juliano J. da; MENDES NETO, Nilson N.; FONOFF, Erich Talamoni; HAMANI, Clement (AMER ASSOC NEUROLOGICAL SURGEONS, ROLLING MEADOWS, USA, 2020)

  Hypothalamic deep brain stimulation (DBS) has been used for more than a decade to treat cluster headache (CH) but its mechanisms remain poorly understood. The authors have successfully treated a patient with CH using ...
• Cortisol reactivity to a psychosocial stressor significantly increases the risk of developing Cognitive Impairment no Dementia five years later 

  SOUZA-TALARICO, Juliana Nery de; ALVES, Andrea Regiani; BRUCKI, Sonia Maria Dozzi; NITRINI, Ricardo; LUPIEN, Sonia J.; SUCHECKI, Deborah (PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD, OXFORD, ENGLAND, 2020)

  Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients show high cortisol levels suggesting that biological mediators of stress may play a role in the neurodegenerative process of cognitive disorders. However, there is no consensus as to whether ...
• Chronic HCV infection and neuropsychiatric dysfunction 

  FORTINI, I.; AROUCA, E.M.G.; TENGAM, F.M.; NITRINI, R. (ELSEVIER B.V., 2019)
• Generation of 5 hiPSC lines derived from three unrelated idiopathic Parkinson disease patients and two unrelated healthy control individuals 

  TOFOLI, Fabiano de Araujo; CHIEN, Hsin Fen; BARBOSA, Egberto Reis; PEREIRA, Lygia V. (ELSEVIER, AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS, 2019)

  We describe generation of human induced pluripotent stem cell (hiPSC) lines of three unrelated idiopathic late onset Parkinson disease patients and two healthy controls above 60 years of age without neurological diseases ...
• First stages towards the establishment of Brazilian neurology faculties 

  MEIRA, Alex Tiburtino; BETINI, Beatriz Gioppo; CARDOSO, Francisco; GOMES, Marleide da Mota; BARBOSA, Egberto Reis; PRADO, Roberto Cesar Pereira do; TEIVE, Helio Afonso Ghizoni (ASSOC ARQUIVOS NEURO- PSIQUIATRIA, SAO PAULO SP, BRAZIL, 2019)

  The establishment of modern medicine in Brazil was marked by the arrival of the Portuguese Court in 1808, when the Bahia and Rio de Janeiro Faculties of Medicine were founded. The French School of Medicine exerted a strong ...
• Multimodal Balance Training Supported by Rhythmical Auditory Stimuli in Parkinson's Disease: A Randomized Clinical Trial 

  CAPATO, Tamine T. C.; VRIES, Nienke M. de; INTHOUT, Joanna; BARBOSA, Egberto R.; NONNEKES, Jorik; BLOEM, Bastiaan R. (IOS PRESS, AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS, 2020)

  Background: Balance impairment in Parkinson's disease (PD) improves only partially with dopaminergic medication. Therefore, non-pharmacological interventions such as physiotherapy are important elements in clinical management. ...
• Disinhibition in Frontotemporal Dementia and Alzheimer's Disease: A Neuropsychological and Behavioural Investigation 

  I, Luciano Mariano; O'CALLAGHAN, Claire; GUIMARAES, Henrique C.; GAMBOGI, Leandro B.; SILVA, Thais B. L. da; YASSUDA, Monica S.; AMARAL, Juliana S.; CARAMELLI, Paulo; HORNBERGER, Michael; TEIXEIRA, Antonio L.; SOUZA, Leonardo C. de (CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS, NEW YORK, USA, 2020)

  Objective: Cognitive tests of inhibitory control show variable results for the differential diagnosis between behavioural variant of Frontotemporal Dementia (bvFTD) and Alzheimer's disease (AD). We compared the diagnostic ...
• Stereotactic Lesion in the Forel's Field H: A 2-Years Prospective Open-Label Study on Motor and Nonmotor Symptoms, Neuropsychological Functions, and Quality of Life in Parkinson Disease 

  GODINHO, Fabio; MAGNIN, Michel; TERZIAN FILHO, Paulo; REIS, Paul; MORAES, Osmar; NASCIMENTO, Marivaldo; COSTA, Carlos; OLIVEIRA, Maira Okada de; ROCHA, Maria Sheila (OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC, CARY, USA, 2019)

  BACKGROUND: Stereotactic lesion in the Forel's field H (campotomy) was proposed in 1963 to treat Parkinson disease (PD) symptoms. Despite its rationale, very few data on this approach have emerged. Additionally, no study ...

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