Issue 12/2021
Content (79 Articles)
More then 10 years as Editor-in-Chief of Neurological Sciences: greetings and acknowledgements
Antonio Federico
Cognitive impairment in young COVID-19 patients: the tip of the iceberg?
Claudio Solaro, Giulia Gamberini, Fabio Giuseppe Masuccio
Neurological manifestations of COVID-19 in patients: from path physiology to therapy
J. J. Merino, A. Macho-González, J. Benedi, M. P. González
SARS-CoV-2 infection after alemtuzumab in a multiple sclerosis patient: milder disease symptoms in comparison with coinfected relatives: a case report and review of the literature
Lorenzo Saraceno, Emanuela Laura Susani, Maria Raffaella Marazzi, Maria Cristina Moioli, Elio Clemente Agostoni, Alessandra Protti
Focal neurological deficits from multiple thromboembolic stroke complicating COVID-19 and limitations of stroke management during outbreak in Korea
Soo-Hyun Park, Woo Chang Chun
Myasthenia gravis and telemedicine: a lesson from COVID-19 pandemic
Dario Ricciardi, Silvia Casagrande, Francesco Iodice, Bianca Orlando, Francesca Trojsi, Giovanni Cirillo, Marinella Clerico, Marco Bozzali, Letizia Leocani, Gianmarco Abbadessa, Giuseppina Miele, Gioacchino Tedeschi, Simona Bonavita, Luigi Lavorgna
Critical illness neuropathy in severe COVID-19: a case series
Tommaso Bocci, Laura Campiglio, Manuela Zardoni, Stefano Botta, Silvia Coppola, Elisabetta Groppo, Davide Chiumello, Alberto Priori
Early reversible leukoencephalopathy and unilateral sixth cranial nerve palsy in mild COVID-19 infection
Federico Piazza, Marco Bozzali, Giovanni Morana, Bruno Ferrero, Mario Giorgio Rizzone, Carlo Alberto Artusi, Mattia Parisi, Alice Robert, Gabriele Imbalzano, Alberto Romagnolo, Maurizio Zibetti, Leonardo Lopiano
Long-term neurological manifestations of COVID-19: prevalence and predictive factors
Andrea Pilotto, Viviana Cristillo, Stefano Cotti Piccinelli, Nicola Zoppi, Giulio Bonzi, Davide Sattin, Silvia Schiavolin, Alberto Raggi, Antonio Canale, Stefano Gipponi, Ilenia Libri, Martina Frigerio, Michela Bezzi, Matilde Leonardi, Alessandro Padovani
Spontaneous thrombosis of cerebral arteriovenous malformation post COVID-19
Sofia Grenho Rodrigues, Renato Oliveira, Pedro Vilela, Sofia Nunes Oliveira
Alzheimer’s disease in elderly COVID-19 patients: potential mechanisms and preventive measures
Haili Wang, Juan Lu, Xia Zhao, Rongyin Qin, Kangping Song, Yao Xu, Jun Zhang, Yingzhu Chen
Qualitative smell/taste disorders as sequelae of acute COVID-19
Tommaso Ercoli, Carla Masala, Ilenia Pinna, Gianni Orofino, Paolo Solla, Lorenzo Rocchi, Giovanni Defazio
“Parkinson’s disease” on the way to progressive supranuclear palsy: a review on PSP-parkinsonism
Ján Necpál, Miroslav Borsek, Bibiána Jeleňová
Influence of the gut microbiome on inflammatory and immune response after stroke
Qin Huang, Jian Xia
Driving and Alzheimer’s dementia or mild cognitive impairment: a systematic review of the existing guidelines emphasizing on the neurologist’s role
Petros Stamatelos, Alexandra Economou, Leonidas Stefanis, George Yannis, Sokratis G. Papageorgiou
The management of Chiari malformation type 1 and syringomyelia in children: a review of the literature
Veronica Saletti, Mariangela Farinotti, Paola Peretta, Luca Massimi, Palma Ciaramitaro, Saba Motta, Alessandra Solari, Laura Grazia Valentini
Compensating for verbal-motor deficits in neuropsychological assessment in movement disorders: sensitivity and specificity of the ECAS in Parkinson’s and Huntington’s diseases
Laura Carelli, Federica Solca, Simone Migliore, Silvia Torre, Agostino Brugnera, Francesca Mancini, Sofia Tagini, Roberta Ferrucci, Sabrina Maffi, Consuelo Ceccarelli, Jacopo Pasquini, Jenny Sassone, Ferdinando Squitieri, Andrea Ciammola, Vincenzo Silani, Barbara Poletti
Multidimensional predicting model of intracranial aneurysm stability with backpropagation neural network: a preliminary study
Yi Yang, Qingyuan Liu, Pengjun Jiang, Junhua Yang, Maogui Li, Shanwen Chen, Shaohua Mo, Yanan Zhang, Xuesheng Ma, Yong Cao, Deqi Cui, Jun Wu, Shuo Wang
Neuropsychiatric symptoms among young stroke survivors—frequency, patterns, and associated factors
Done Indira Priya, Rajeswari Aghoram, Sunil K. Narayan
Comparative study between idiopathic and non-idiopathic dystonia: a prospective observational study
Rupesh Prasad, Anand Kumar, Abhishek Pathak, Varun Kumar Singh, Ashish Verma, R. N. Chaurasia, V. N. Mishra, Deepika Joshi
Nabiximols and botulinum toxin injections for patients with multiple sclerosis: efficacy on spasticity and spasms in a single-centre experience
Arianna Sartori, Alessandro Dinoto, Lara Stragapede, Giulia Mazzon, Maria Elisa Morelli, Fulvio Pasquin, Alessio Bratina, Antonio Bosco, Paolo Manganotti
Effectiveness of a dance-physiotherapy combined intervention in Parkinson’s disease: a randomized controlled pilot trial
Elisa Frisaldi, Piero Bottino, Margherita Fabbri, Marco Trucco, Alessandra De Ceglia, Nadia Esposito, Diletta Barbiani, Eleonora Maria Camerone, Federico Costa, Cristina Destefanis, Edoardo Milano, Giuseppe Massazza, Maurizio Zibetti, Leonardo Lopiano, Fabrizio Benedetti
Clinical characteristics of patients with ischemic stroke after the 2016 Kumamoto earthquake, a multi-center study
Yuichiro Inatomi, Makoto Nakajima, Tokunori Ikeda, Toshiro Yonehara, Tadashi Terasaki, Yoichiro Hashimoto, Yanosuke Kouzaki
Low blood caspase-8 levels in survivor patients of traumatic brain injury
Leonardo Lorente, María M. Martín, Antonia Pérez-Cejas, Agustín F. González-Rivero, Luis Ramos-Gómez, Jordi Solé-Violán, Juan J. Cáceres, Carmen Ferrer-Moure, Alejandro Jiménez
Vertigo without cochlear symptoms: vestibular migraine or Menière disease?
Roberto Teggi, Marco Familiari, Omar Gatti, Mario Bussi
A novel homozygous splice-site mutation in SCARB2 is associated with progressive myoclonic epilepsy with renal failure
Abolfazl Yari, Reza Molla Ali-Nejad, Nasrollah Saleh-Gohari
Effects of the onabotulinumtoxinA follow-up delay in migraine course during the COVID-19 lockdown
Alicia Gonzalez-Martinez, Álvaro Planchuelo-Gómez, Ángel L Guerrero, David García-Azorín, Sonia Santos-Lasaosa, María Pilar Navarro-Pérez, Paula Odriozola-González, María Jesús Irurtia, Sonia Quintas, Rodrigo de Luis-García, Ana Beatriz Gago-Veiga
Serum transthyretin and risk of cognitive decline and dementia: 22-year longitudinal study
Marzieh Araghi, Martin J. Shipley, Atul Anand, Nicholas L. Mills, Mika Kivimaki, Archana Singh-Manoux, Adam Tabák, Séverine Sabia, Eric J. Brunner
Efficacy of aspirin for sporadic vestibular schwannoma: a meta-analysis
Katrina Hannah D. Ignacio, Adrian I. Espiritu, Jose Danilo B. Diestro, Kevin Ivan Chan, Adam A. Dmytriw, Abdelsimar T. Omar II
The relationship between attention and static balance disturbance in patients with Parkinson’s disease
Amir Dana, Amir Shams, Nahid Allafan, Alireza Bahrami
Cerebrovascular and cardiovascular disease burden in patients with hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia
Mudassir Farooqui, Sajid Suriya, Fares Qeadan, Catherine Vigil, Ashley Wegele, Asad Ikram, Syed A. Quadri, Myranda Robinson, Josanna Rodriguez-Lopez, Santiago Ortega-Gutierrez, Atif Zafar
Leber hereditary optic neuropathy and dystonia overlapping mitochondrial encephalomyopathy with lactic acidosis and stroke-like episodes due to m.14459G>A mutation
Xiaolin Yu, Kunqian Ji, Yan Lin, Xuebi Xu, Wei Wang, Ying Li, Jian-Qiang Lu, Yuying Zhao, Chuanzhu Yan
The role of CE-MRA of the supraortic vessels in the detection of associated intracranial pathology
Sonia Francesca Calloni, Marianna Perrotta, Luisa Roveri, Pietro Panni, Anna del Poggio, Paolo Quintiliano Vezzulli, Massimo Filippi, Andrea Falini, Nicoletta Anzalone
Abnormal neurological pupil index is associated with malignant cerebral edema after mechanical thrombectomy in large vessel occlusion patients
Ehsan Dowlati, Kwadwo Sarpong, Stanley Kamande, Austin H. Carroll, Jerome Murray, Alynna Wiley, Brendon Peterson, Jeffrey C. Mai, Jason J. Chang, Edward F. Aulisi, Rocco A. Armonda, Daniel R. Felbaum
Rivermead assessment of somatosensory performance: Italian normative data
Cristina Russo, Viviana Spandri, Marcello Gallucci, Peter Halligan, Nadia Bolognini, Giuseppe Vallar
Cancer risk for multiple sclerosis patients treated with azathioprine and disease-modifying therapies: an Italian observational study
Loredana La Mantia, Maria Donata Benedetti, Milena Sant, Alessia d’Arma, Sonia Di Tella, Roberto Lillini, Laura Mendozzi, Antonio Marangi, Marco Turatti, Domenico Caputo, Marco Rovaris
Evaluating the optic nerve stiffness and optic nerve sheath diameter in idiopathic intracranial hypertension patients after the resolution of papilledema
Fatma Selin Kaya, Ersoy Bayram, Ercan İnci
The value of asphericity derived from T1-weighted MR in differentiating intraparenchymal ring-enhancing lesions–comparison of glioblastomas and brain abscesses
Tao Zeng, Zijun Xu, Jianhua Yan
Geographic differences in the incidence of Huntington’s disease in Sardinia, Italy
Antonella Muroni, Maria R. Murru, Lucia Ulgheri, Margherita Sechi, Tommaso Ercoli, Francesco Marrosu, Cesa L. Scaglione, Anna Rita Bentivoglio, Martina Petracca, Paola Soliveri, Eleonora Cocco, Stefania Cuccu, Marcello Deriu, Chiara Zuccato, Giovanni Defazio
Cognitive impairment in multiple sclerosis: diagnosis and monitoring
Virginia Meca-Lallana, Francisco Gascón-Giménez, Ricardo C. Ginestal-López, Yolanda Higueras, Nieves Téllez-Lara, Joan Carreres-Polo, Sara Eichau-Madueño, Jesús Romero-Imbroda, Ángela Vidal-Jordana, Francisco Pérez-Miralles
Two novel missense variants in SPTBN2 likely associated with spinocerebellar ataxia type 5
Xianli Bian, Shang Wang, Suqin Jin, Shunliang Xu, Hong Zhang, Dewei Wang, Wei Shang, Ping Wang
High-resolution ultrasound changes of the vagus nerve in idiopathic Parkinson’s disease (IPD): a possible additional index of disease
F. Sartucci, T. Bocci, M. Santin, P. Bongioanni, G. Orlandi
Characteristics of pupil palsy in miller-fisher syndrome: case reports and review of the literature
Jang Ho Lee, Yeonji Jang, Seong-Joon Kim, Jae Ho Jung
Robotic rehabilitation for end-effector device and botulinum toxin in upper limb rehabilitation in chronic post-stroke patients: an integrated rehabilitative approach
Teresa Paolucci, Francesco Agostini, Massimiliano Mangone, Andrea Bernetti, Letizia Pezzi, Vitalma Liotti, Elena Recubini, Cristina Cantarella, Rosa Grazia Bellomo, Carlo D’Aurizio, Raoul Saggini
Mosaic ring chromosome 18 in a Chinese child with epilepsy: a case report and review of the literature
Jing Wang, Ling Xiao, Junling Wang, Zijin Ding, Jie Ni, Xiaoyan Long
Disability progression in multiple sclerosis is associated with plasma neuroactive steroid profile
C. Cheng, D. Gomez, J. A. McCombe, P. Smyth, F. Giuliani, G. Blevins, G. B. Baker, C. Power
Effects of virtual reality in post-stroke aphasia: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Yun Cao, Xing Huang, Binlong Zhang, Georg S. Kranz, Danli Zhang, Xiaolin Li, Jingling Chang
The effect of ketogenic diet on thyroid functions in children with drug-resistant epilepsy
Ünsal Yılmaz, Özlem Nalbantoğlu, Yiğithan Güzin, Selvinaz Edizer, Zeynep Akışin, Serdar Pekuz, Hatice Hilal Kırkgöz, Merve Yavuz, Aycan Ünalp, Behzat Özkan
What might cervical vestibular–evoked myogenic potential abnormalities mean in essential tremor?
Feray Gulec Uyaroglu, Roza Ucar, Ahmet Acarer, Nese Celebisoy
Narrative Medicine to integrate patients’, caregivers’ and clinicians’ migraine experiences: the DRONE multicentre project
Maria Clara Tonini, Alessandra Fiorencis, Rosario Iannacchero, Mauro Zampolini, Antonietta Cappuccio, Raffaella Raddino, Elisabetta Grillo, Maria Albanese, Gianni Allais, Marco André Bassano, Filippo Brighina, Terenzio Carboni, Fabio Frediani, Licia Grazzi, Carmela Mastrandrea, Franca Moschiano, Maria Gabriella Poeta, Angelo Ranieri, Renato Turrini, Maria Giulia Marini
A nomogram to predict rupture risk of middle cerebral artery aneurysm
Jinjin Liu, Yongchun Chen, Dongqin Zhu, Qiong Li, Zhonggang Chen, Jiafeng Zhou, Boli Lin, Yunjun Yang, Xiufen Jia
Extra-basal ganglia iron content and non-motor symptoms in drug-naïve, early Parkinson’s disease
Minkyeong Kim, Seulki Yoo, Doyeon Kim, Jin Whan Cho, Ji Sun Kim, Jong Hyun Ahn, Jun Kyu Mun, Inyoung Choi, Seung-Kyun Lee, Jinyoung Youn
Clinical predictors for mechanical ventilation and prognosis in patients with Guillian-Barre syndrome: a 10-year experience
Maha Shangab, Muhammed Al Kaylani
A novel loss of function mutation in adaptor protein complex 4, subunit mu-1 causing autosomal recessive spastic paraplegia 50
Anikha Bellad, Satish Chandra Girimaji, Babylakshmi Muthusamy
Evaluation of the risk factors predicting thrombotic complications associated with intravenous immunoglobulin therapy in neuroimmunological diseases
Kotaro Noda, Yohsuke Yagi, Takanori Yokota
Face pareidolia is associated with right striatal dysfunction in drug-naïve patients with Parkinson’s disease
Hidetomo Murakami, Tomotaka Shiraishi, Tadashi Umehara, Shusaku Omoto, Maki Takahashi, Haruhiko Motegi, Takahiro Maku, Takeo Sato, Hiroki Takatsu, Teppei Komatsu, Keiko Bono, Kenichiro Sakai, Hidetaka Mitsumura, Yasuyuki Iguchi
Study on the correlation between the circle of Willis structure and collateral circulation in bilateral carotid artery occlusion
Yang Liu, Lei Zhu, Bei Hou, Tuoyi Wang, Dechao Xu, Chenxi Tan, Huiyi Zhang, Chunyan Li, Jianan Wang
The fixation suppression test can uncover vertical nystagmus of central origin in some patients with dizziness
Anand K. Bery, Ching-Fu Wang, Daniel R. Gold, Tzu-Pu Chang
Clinical and radiological features of cerebral amyloid angiopathy-related inflammation
Gary Álvarez Bravo, Laura Sánchez Cirera, Lluís Ramió Torrentà
p.Asn1180Ile mutation of SCN4A gene in an Italian family with myopathy and myotonic syndrome
Andrea Rigamonti, Vittorio Mantero, Lorenzo Peverelli, Serena Pagliarani, Sabrina Lucchiari, Giacomo Comi, Sara Gibertini, Andrea Salmaggi
Co-occurrence of DMPK expansion and CLCN1 mutation in a patient with myotonia
Sara Locci, Rosanna Cardani, Paola Brunori, Sabrina Lucchiari, Giacomo P. Comi, Antonio Federico, Nicola De Stefano, Giovanni Meola, Andrea Mignarri
Brain network modulation in transradial amputee with finger perception restored through biomimetic intraneural stimulation
Fabrizio Vecchio, Francesca Miraglia, Francesca Alù, Giacomo Valle, Alberto Mazzoni, Calogero Oddo, Silvestro Micera, Paolo Maria Rossini
Effectiveness of dual migraine therapy with CGRP inhibitors and onabotulinumtoxinA injections: case series
Tahlia Toni, Rayce Tamanaha, Bashak Newman, Yutong Liang, James Lee, Enrique Carrazana, Vimala Vajjala, Jason Viereck, Kore Kai Liow
Myasthenia Gravis Lambert-Eaton overlap syndrome induced by nivolumab in a metastatic melanoma patient
Alexandra Duplaine, Camille Prot, Gwendal Le-Masson, Antoine Soulages, Fanny Duval, Caroline Dutriaux, Sorilla Prey
A case of meningoencephalocele in the nasal cavity 6 years after skull base fracture
Guanghui Xu, Shengjie Liu, Xin Li, Xingyun Quan, Huajiang Deng, Luotong Liu, Xiaomei Zheng, Xianglong Li, Liang Liu
MicroRNAs and SUDEP: news in small matters
Fulvio A. Scorza, Antonio-Carlos G. de Almeida, Carla A. Scorza, Antônio Marcio Rodrigues, Josef Finsterer
A case of adult-onset leukoencephalopathy with axonal spheroids and pigmented glia (ALSP) with a high antinuclear antibody titer
Shitan Zheng, Juanjuan Wang
Unpredictable relapses in seronegative autoimmune encephalitis
Ivan Martinez, Vlatko Šulentić, Sibila Nanković, Kamelija Žarković, Dubravka Dobec-Gorenak
Opsoclonus myoclonus ataxia may differentiate postinfectious autoimmune encephalitis from infectious encephalitis
Seong-Joon Lee, In Ja Shin, Tae-Joon Kim
“No man is an island”—unique pattern of anhidrosis with islands of preserved sweat in Ross syndrome
Anza Zahid, Elizabeth A. Coon, Guillaume Lamotte
Novel deletion in the ACTA1 gene associated with milder phenotype of nemaline myopathy in Chinese patient: a case report
Li Yang, Xin Mu, Qiuyan Shen, Dan Zhang, Yanming Xu
Inter-individual variability in disease expression: the Tudor-Churchill spectrum
Donald F. Weaver
Freezing of gait (FOG) in Parkinson’s disease patients—the contribution of Garcin and Melaragno
Hélio A. G. Teive, Paulina Cunha, Matheus Gomes Ferreira, Carlos Henrique F. Camargo, João Carlos P. Limongi, Egberto Reis Barbosa, Olivier Walusinski, Yves Agid
A rare MRI finding in a patient with Marchiafava-Bignami disease
Ting Xu, Kundian Guo
Autoimmune screening before adenovirus vector-based DNA vaccine in women may avoid underuse for all the subjects
Maria Giulia Mosconi, Francesco Caso, Giorgio Maraziti, Christine Kremer, Luisa Costa, Raffaele Scarpa, Roberto Giacomelli, Valeria Caso
Cognitive dysfunction in a patient with migraine and APT1A2 mutation: a case report
Pian Wang, Yan-Rong Yang, Hong-Bo Zhang, Jiang-Hong Wang, Yan Wang
A rare triad of morning glory disc anomaly, moyamoya vasculopathy, and transsphenoidal cephalocele: pathophysiological considerations and surgical management
Marco Pavanello, Pietro Fiaschi, Andrea Accogli, Mariasavina Severino, Domenico Tortora, Gianluca Piatelli, Valeria Capra
Correction to: Clinical and demographic characteristics of primary progressive multiple sclerosis in Argentina: Argentinean registry cohort study (RelevarEM)
Ricardo Alonso, Cecilia Quarracino, Bárbara Eizaguirre, Leila Cohen, Berenice Silva, Cecilia Pita, Juan Ignacio Rojas, Agustín Pappolla, Jimena Miguez, Liliana Patrucco, Edgardo Cristiano, Carlos Vrech, Gabriel Volman, Emanuel Silva, Andres Barboza, Norma Deri, Verónica Tkachuk, Gisela Zanga, Dario Tavolini, María Laura Saladino, Geraldine Luetic, María Laura Menichini, Edgar Carnero Contentti, Pablo López, Judith Steinberg, Pablo Divi, Javier Hryb, Amelia Alves Pinheiro, Adriana Carra, María Eugenia Balbuena, Luciana Lázaro, Nora Fernández Liguori, Orlando Garcea
Correction to: Alzheimer’s disease in elderly COVID‑19 patients: potential mechanisms and preventive measures
Haili Wang, Juan Lu, Xia Zhao, Rongyin Qin, Kangping Song, Yao Xu, Jun Zhang, Yingzhu Chen