Hélio A Ghizoni Teive

..This paper brings a short review about a peculiar characteristic of Professor Charcot, the father of neurology: the skepticism, emphasizing his personal view regarding the prognosis of several neurological conditions...

..The content of those letters focuses mainly on his wife's, Princess Thereza Cristina, health issues and Dom Pedro's personal desire to foster the research into the physiological study of the nervous system...

..The most common side effect was transient mild dysphagia. This preliminary study showed that jaw-opening oromandibular dystonia in WD may be partially responsive to the use of BTX-A...

..There are more than 30 distinct subtypes, 16 of which are associated with an identified gene. The aim of the current study was to evaluate a large group of patients from 104 Brazilian families with spinocerebellar ataxias...

..Charcot name became very famous around the world, firstly because of the work of Professor Jean-Martin Charcot, the founder of Clinical Neurology, and, secondly, because of his son, Jean-Baptiste, the world famous maritime explorer...

..We report three index patients, with pure, late onset, cerebellar ataxia, belonging to three different Brazilian families, all of them with Japanese ancestry, from Hokkaido island of Japan...

..The most common neurological complication of the peripheral nervous system was herpes zoster radiculopathy, while peripheral neuropathies, inflammatory myopathy and myotonia were very rarely found...

..He indicated that patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis usually did not develop this form of complication, as was illustrated by the cases presented here...

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..Central nervous system fungal infections (FI) are important complications and a cause of mortality in patients who receive hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT)...

..The São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro schools presented 85.43% of these scientific papers. Twenty-two Brazilian Congress of Neurology have been held in the 45 years since the first meeting of the BAN...

..These families present a quite different phenotype from those SCA10 families described in Mexico...

..Moses was the first person to report an immunologically based method for the diagnosis of NC, whereas Lange reported the cerebrospinal features of NC...

..We review the history of Tourette syndrome, emphasizing the contribution of Jean-Martin Charcot...

..Analysis of the most renowned biographies of Ernesto "Che" Guevara suggests that he may have had ADHD...

..This sign is one of the rarest manifestations of vitamin B12 deficiency...

..Non-motor features include cognitive (memory and executive problems and dementia), psychiatric (anxiety, depression and social phobia), and sensory abnormalities (olfactory deficits, hearing loss)...

..He wrote about his important insights into language, and neuroscience. It has been suggested that he had Asperger syndrome and a possible movement disorder (mannerisms)...

..Besides their historical relevance and the clinical picture of aphasia, these three cases share as a common feature the occurrence of speech automatisms or stereotypes...

..However, according to the most consistent biographical data, he was in fact born in Paris, France, and became a medical celebrity there and in Poland as well as around the world...

..As yet unidentified genotypic variables may account for this phenotypic difference...

..Genetic diagnosis was made in the three patients. The authors hypothesize that hormonal changes are likely to influence the manifestation of the condition...

..Overall, the frequency of epilepsy was considered rare, been found in 3.75 % of the cases while this finding in populations from other geographic areas reaches 60% of SCA10 cases...

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..Recent studies have suggested a role for Leão's cortical spreading depression in the pathogenesis and symptomatology of neurologic disorders such as transient global amnesia, head injury, and cerebrovascular diseases...

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..A patient with the phenotype of complicated HSP and relatives with other clinical features of a neurodegenerative disease should raise the suspicion of MJD...

..Further studies including additional Caucasian families of AR-HSP with thin corpus callosum are required to delineate the genetic profile of this syndrome in occidental countries...

..Symptoms and neuroimaging abnormalities were reversible and improvement occurred in all patients when given lower doses of CSA or when the drug was withdrawn. RPLS may be considered an expression of CSA neurotoxicity...

..The data obtained are similar to those found by other authors. We highlight the low frequency of coprolalia, as well as the associated neuropsychiatric disorders...

..The mean age of PD onset was 42.7 years old. We did not find the G209A mutation in our 10 families with PD. Our results suggest that alpha-synuclein mutation G209A is uncommon in Brazilian PD families...

..The contributions of Charcot in the 19th century and Marsden in the 20th century to the movement disorders allow us to conclude that both of them were the most representative icons in this field in the past two centuries...

..EBV infection in association with neurological findings can occur without the classic signs and symptoms of infectious mononucleosis...

..To describe the relationship between Professor Charcot and Brazil...

..We emphasize the anti-dopaminergic effect of veralipride...

..Most of patients who underwent botulinum toxin injection had a significant improvement of their symptoms (83%), with effects lasting for four months in average and without important side effects...

..Current literature on HC-HB and its relationship with AIDS is subsequently reviewed...

..Andrade and Ferraz reported this sign in 1996, suggesting that it be called the Rolex sign...

..We make a brief review of Gershwin's neurologic disease, with emphasis on the initial symptoms, namely the uncinated seizures...

..We present an update about the treatment of spasticity, stressing the pharmacological treatment, physical therapy and botulinum toxin therapy...

..On follow-up, two patients presented with significant improvement of dystonia, whereas the other three cases the clinical picture ultimately returned to baseline pre-SD condition...

..A blood sample was submitted to genetic analysis in relation to the principal mutations of this disorder, and homoplasmic mutation in 11778 was detected, thereby confirming the diagnosis of Leber's hereditary optic neuropathy...

..Epilepsy, mental retardation, and hippocampal calcifications can occur. The authors describe a patient with generalized dystonia caused by striatal calcifications...

..The authors provide an historical review of restless legs syndrome, emphasizing the contribution of Professor Karl-Axel Ekbom, the Swedish neurologist who made the first detailed clinical description of this disease...

..In this paper, we describe the full of twists and turns historical trajectory from the initial clinical description to the final genetic diagnosis...

..This paper reviews the first description of Flunarizine and Cinnarizine-Induced Parkinsonism (FCIP), as well as the subsequent literature, emphasizing epidemiological, clinical and diagnostic aspects...

..Treatment evolved from ineffective medical and surgical approaches to botulinum toxin. We evaluate the effectiveness and safety of botulinum toxin in the treatment of this complication in two patients...

..We report on a case of neuroparacoccidioidomycosis that presented with a midbrain mass lesion associated with Holmes' tremor. The difficulties of pharmacological treatment of such tremor are emphasized...

..She had a complete reversal of her motor symptoms after discontinuation of the drug...

..Sleep disorders presenting involuntary movements may be very annoying to patients, apart from their negative influence on sleep...

..To evaluate the effectiveness of the vestibular rehabilitation (VR) exercises by means of an assessment before and after the application of the Brazilian version of the Dizziness Handicap Inventory (DHI) questionnaire...

..All 28 patients showed cerebellar ataxia without epilepsy, suggesting that the phenotypic expression of the SCA10 mutation differs between Brazilian and Mexican families...

..PCM is an infectious disease caused by the dimorphic fungus Paracoccidioides brasiliensis, endemic in subtropical areas of Central and South America...