Issue 6/2020
Content (51 Articles)
Highlights of the issue 6, 2020
Potential neurological impact of coronaviruses: implications for the novel SARS-CoV-2
Joy D. Iroegbu, Chibuzor W. Ifenatuoha, Omamuyovwi M. Ijomone
Rising evidence for neurological involvement in COVID-19 pandemic
Narghes Calcagno, Eleonora Colombo, Alessio Maranzano, Jacopo Pasquini, Ignacio Juan Keller Sarmiento, Francesca Trogu, Vincenzo Silani
Neurology and the COVID-19 emergency
Alfredo Berardelli, Vincenzo Silani, Paolo Barone, Paolo Calabresi, Paolo Girlanda, Leonardo Lopiano, Luca Massacesi, Salvatore Monaco, Marco Onofrj, Cristina Tassorelli, Gioacchino Tedeschi
Dealing with immune-mediated neuropathies during COVID-19 outbreak: practical recommendations from the task force of the Italian Society of Neurology (SIN), the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology (SINC) and the Italian Peripheral Nervous System Association (ASNP)
Raffaele Dubbioso, Eduardo Nobile-Orazio, Fiore Manganelli, Lucio Santoro, Chiara Briani, Dario Cocito, Gioacchino Tedeschi, Vincenzo Di Lazzaro, Gian Maria Fabrizi
New challenges from Covid-19 pandemic: an unexpected opportunity to enlighten the link between viral infections and brain disorders?
Alessandro Gialluisi, Giovanni de Gaetano, Licia Iacoviello
Early Guillain-Barré syndrome in coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19): a case report from an Italian COVID-hospital
Donatella Ottaviani, Federica Boso, Enzo Tranquillini, Ilaria Gapeni, Giovanni Pedrotti, Susanna Cozzio, Giovanni M Guarrera, Bruno Giometto
An Italian multicenter retrospective-prospective observational study on neurological manifestations of COVID-19 (NEUROCOVID)
Carlo Ferrarese, Vincenzo Silani, Alberto Priori, Stefania Galimberti, Elio Agostoni, Salvatore Monaco, Alessandro Padovani, Gioacchino Tedeschi
Diagnosing herpes simplex-1 encephalitis at the time of COVID-19 pandemic
Carlo Lovati, Maurizio Osio, Leonardo Pantoni
Telemedicine and technological devices for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis in the era of COVID-19
Fabiola De Marchi, Roberto Cantello, Serena Ambrosini, Letizia Mazzini, Maria Francesca Sarnelli, Ilaria De Marchi, Marcella Serioli, Giampaolo Biroli, Sergio Riso, Renato Vercelli, Maurilio Massara, Raffaella Garone
Assessing disability and relapses in multiple sclerosis on tele-neurology
Marcello Moccia, Roberta Lanzillo, Vincenzo Brescia Morra, Simona Bonavita, Gioacchino Tedeschi, Letizia Leocani, Luigi Lavorgna
Self-reported needs of patients with Parkinson’s disease during COVID-19 emergency in Italy
Tommaso Schirinzi, Rocco Cerroni, Giulia Di Lazzaro, Claudio Liguori, Simona Scalise, Roberta Bovenzi, Matteo Conti, Elena Garasto, Nicola Biagio Mercuri, Mariangela Pierantozzi, Antonio Pisani, Alessandro Stefani
Letter to editor: brain awareness week, CoVID-19 infection and neurological sciences
Saeedeh Mosaferchi, Alireza Mortezapour, Rashid Heidarimoghadam
Hyperbaric oxygen therapy in acute stroke: is it time for Justitia to open her eyes?
Milija D. Mijajlovic, Vuk Aleksic, Nenad Milosevic, Natan M. Bornstein
The efficacy of statins in the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trial
Kun Xuan, Tianming Zhao, Guangbo Qu, Haixia Liu, Xin Chen, Yehuan Sun
Management of dysphagia in Huntington’s disease: a descriptive review
Nicole Pizzorni, Francesca Pirola, Andrea Ciammola, Antonio Schindler
Association of orthostatic hypotension with Parkinson’s disease: a meta-analysis
Feifei Mu, Qian Jiao, Xixun Du, Hong Jiang
Seizures as the first clinical manifestation of acute pulmonary embolism: an underestimate issue in neurocritical care
Marco Zuin, Gianluca Rigatelli, Giovanni Zuliani, Alessandro Adami, Pietro Zonzin, Loris Roncon
Research on cognitive and sociocognitive functions in patients with brain tumours: a bibliometric analysis and visualization of the scientific landscape
Milena Pertz, Stoyan Popkirov, Uwe Schlegel, Patrizia Thoma
Value of thrombus imaging in predicting the outcomes of patients with large-vessel occlusive strokes after endovascular therapy
Shuang-jiao Huang, Shan-shan Diao, Yue Lu, Tan Li, Lu-lu Zhang, Yi-ping Ding, Qi Fang, Xiu-ying Cai, Zhuan Xu, Yan Kong
Upregulation of VEGF-A and correlation between VEGF-A and FLT-1 expressions in Iranian multiple sclerosis patients
Ghazaleh Azimi, Fatemeh Ranjbaran, Shahram Arsang-Jang, Soudeh Ghafouri-Fard, Mehrdokht Mazdeh, Arezou Sayad, Mohammad Taheri
Insulin resistance is an independent risk factor for early neurological deterioration in non-diabetic patients with acute ischemic stroke
Donghua Mi, Yilong Wang, Yongjun Wang, Liping Liu
Frequency and distribution of polyQ disease intermediate-length repeat alleles in healthy Italian population
Alessia Mongelli, Stefania Magri, Elena Salvatore, Elena Rizzo, Anna De Rosa, Tommasina Fico, Marta Gatti, Cinzia Gellera, Franco Taroni, Caterina Mariotti, Lorenzo Nanetti
The role of the neuropsychologist in memory clinics
Emilia Salvadori, Leonardo Pantoni
The minimal neuropsychological assessment of MS patients (MACFIMS): normative data of the Italian population
Paola Grossi, Emilio Portaccio, Fabio Bellomi, Valentina Bianchi, Sabina Cilia, Monica Falautano, Benedetta Goretti, Erika Pietrolongo, Rosa Gemma Viterbo, Michele Messmer Uccelli
Decreased visible deep medullary veins is a novel imaging marker for cerebral small vessel disease
Xiaodong Chen, Lei Wei, Jihui Wang, Yilong Shan, Wei Cai, Xuejiao Men, Sanxin Liu, Zhuang Kang, Zhengqi Lu, Vincent C. T. Mok, Aimin Wu
A survey on clinical pathways of patients with epilepsy and cerebrovascular diseases or brain tumors
Gaetano Zaccara, Vincenzo Esposito, Marta Maschio, Rosa Musolino, Roberta Rudà, Danilo Toni
Multiple sclerosis and neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorders in Argentina: comparing baseline data from the Argentinean MS Registry (RelevarEM)
Juan Ignacio Rojas, Marina Alonso Serena, Orlando Garcea, Liliana Patrucco, Adriana Carrá, Jorge Correale, Carlos Vrech, Agustín Pappolla, Jimena Miguez, María L. Doldan, Facundo Silveira, Ricardo Alonso, Leila Cohen, Cecilia Pita, Berenice A. Silva, Marcela Fiol, María I. Gaitán, Mariano Marrodan, Laura Negrotto, María C. Ysrraelit, Norma Deri, Geraldine Luetic, Alejandro Caride, Edgar Carnero Contentti, Pablo A. Lopez, Juan Pablo Pettinicchi, Celeste Curbelo, Alejandra D. Martinez, Judith D. Steinberg, María E. Balbuena, Verónica Tkachuk, Marcos Burgos, Eduardo Knorre, Felisa Leguizamon, Raúl Piedrabuena, Susana del V. Liwacki, Andrés G. Barboza, Pedro Nofal, Gabriel Volman, Amelia Alvez Pinheiro, Javier Hryb, Dario Tavolini, Patricio A. Blaya, Emanuel Silva, Jorge Blanche, Santiago Tizio, Fernando Caceres, María Laura Saladino, Gisela Zanga, María E. Fracaro, Gustavo Sgrilli, Fátima Pagani Cassara, Guido Vazquez, Vladimiro Sinay, María Laura Menichini, Luciana Lazaro, Lorena M. Cabrera, Santiago Bestoso, Pablo Divi, Miguel Jacobo, Eduardo Kohler, Matías Kohler, Diego Giunta, Carolina Mainella, Ruben Manzi, Marcela Parada Marcilla, Juan Pablo Viglione, Ivan Martos, Edgardo Reich, Gustavo Jose, Edgardo Cristiano, Nora Fernández Liguori
An analysis of 109 fetuses with prenatal diagnosis of complete agenesis of corpus callosum
Ayşe Kaçar Bayram, Mehmet Serdar Kütük, Selim Doganay, Mahmut Tuncay Özgün, Hakan Gümüş, Mustafa Başbuğ, Sefer Kumandaş, Mehmet Canpolat, Hüseyin Per
Association between serum bilirubin and asymptomatic intracranial atherosclerosis: results from a population-based study
Kaiyi Zhong, Xiang Wang, Xiaotong Ma, Xiaokang Ji, Shaowei Sang, Sai Shao, Yuanyuan Zhao, Yuanyuan Xiang, Jifeng Li, Guangbin Wang, Ming Lv, Fuzhong Xue, Yifeng Du, Qinjian Sun
Italian translation and psychometric validation of the Manual Ability Measure-36 (MAM-36) and its correlation with an objective measure of upper limb function in patients with multiple sclerosis
Claudio Solaro, Rachele Di Giovanni, Erica Grange, Giampaolo Brichetto, Margit Mueller, Andrea Tacchino, Rita Bertoni, Francesco Patti, Angelo Pappalardo, Luca Prosperini, Letizia Castelli, Rosalba Rosato, Davide Cattaneo, Davide Marengo
Why we fail: mechanisms and co-factors of unsuccessful thrombectomy in acute ischemic stroke
Dominik M. Heider, Andreas Simgen, Gudrun Wagenpfeil, Philipp Dietrich, Umut Yilmaz, Ruben Mühl-Benninghaus, Safwan Roumia, Klaus Faßbender, Wolfgang Reith, Michael Kettner
Brain activity underlying face and face pareidolia processing: an ERP study
Gülsüm Akdeniz
Awareness of rare and genetic neurological diseases among italian neurologist. A national survey
Michelangelo Mancuso, Massimiliano Filosto, Costanza Lamperti, Olimpia Musumeci, Filippo M Santorelli, Serenella Servidei, Enza M Valente, Massimo Zeviani, Gianluigi Mancardi, Gioacchino Tedeschi, Antonio Federico
Clinical pathways of epileptic seizures and status epilepticus: results from a survey in Italy
Gaetano Zaccara, Giuseppe Citerio, Alfredo Del Gaudio, Monica Ferlisi, Francesco Rocco Pugliese, Danilo Toni
Developing an objective evaluating system to quantify the degree of upper limb movement impairment in patients with severe Friedreich’s ataxia
Giuseppe Arcuria, Christian Marcotulli, Raffaele Amuso, Giuliano Dattilo, Claudio Galasso, Francesco Pierelli, Carlo Casali
Serial change of opsoclonus associated with Mycoplasma pneumoniae infection
Ji-Young Kim, Kwang-Dong Choi, Jae-Hwan Choi, Seo-Young Choi
Transient epileptic amnesia with amygdala enlargement
Takamichi Kanbayashi, Yuki Hatanaka, Masahiro Sonoo
Anti-leucine-rich glioma-inactivated 1–positive limbic encephalitis presenting hypothalamic symptoms
Yang Liu, Zhi Liu, Wenge Liu, Mingyu Shao, Sakakibara Ryuji
The ultrasonography: another weapon to counter the amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
Giuseppe Fiorentino, Antonio M. Esquinas, Fabrizio Rao
Combined central and peripheral demyelination with tumefactive demyelinating lesions in the brainstem and longitudinally extensive optic neuritis: a case report
Tatsuya Ueno, Iku Kinoshita, Akira Arai, Chieko Suzuki, Masahiko Tomiyama
A case of Bickerstaff encephalitis associated with Mycoplasma pneumoniae infection
Gianni Coriolani, Silvia Ferranti, Giulia Squarci, Salvatore Grosso
Posterior cortical atrophy initially presenting as dementia with Lewy bodies
Sang-Won Yoo, Joong-Seok Kim, Kwang-Soo Lee
Axonal form of Guillain-Barré syndrome in a patient receiving oxaliplatin-based chemotherapy
Maelle Tyberghein, Christophe Milants, Olivier Bouquiaux, François Wang
A case of verbal and emotional prosody processing dissociation after a right temporal venous infarct
Julie Bourgeois–Vionnet, Annie Moulin, Marc Hermier, Agathe Pralus, Norbert Nighoghossian
Pure allocentric unilateral spatial neglect in a case of Alzheimer’s disease presenting with posterior cortical atrophy syndrome
Sebastiano Lorusso, Cristina Maioli, Edoardo Barvas
Subthalamic nucleus deep brain stimulation in two siblings with chorea-acanthocytosis
Yunhao Wu, Hongxia Li, Chencheng Zhang, Bomin Sun, Dianyou Li, Yiwen Wu
Interoceptive awareness in focal brain-damaged patients
Simona Raimo, Maddalena Boccia, Antonella Di Vita, Teresa Iona, Maria Cropano, Antonio Ammendolia, Roberto Colao, Maurizio Iocco, Valentina Angelillo, Cecilia Guariglia, Dario Grossi, Liana Palermo
Brain hyperintensities in magnetic resonance imaging of patients with mild acute focal neurology
Ourania Varsou, Katie Turnbull, Michael S Stringer, Catarina Dinis Fernandes, Alison D Murray, Christian Schwarzbauer, Mary Joan Macleod