Issue 6/2021
Content (67 Articles)
The interrelation of COVID-19 and neurological modalities
Shweta Jakhmola, Budhadev Baral, Kartik Muduli, Mrutyunjay Suar, Pragateshnu Das, Pradeep Kumar Patnaik, Nirmal Kumar Mohakud, Hem Chandra Jha
Neuralgic amyotrophy associated with COVID-19 infection: a case report and review of the literature
Ismail Ibrahim Ismail, Ehab A. Abdelnabi, Jasem Y. Al-Hashel, Raed Alroughani, Samar Farouk Ahmed
Effects of COVID-19 on the admissions of aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage: the West Greece experience
Andreas Theofanopoulos, Dionysia Fermeli, Spyros Boulieris, George Kalantzis, Zinovia Kefalopoulou, Vasilios Panagiotopoulos, Dimitrios Papadakos, Constantine Constantoyannis
Clinical and neurophysiological characterization of muscular weakness in severe COVID-19
Francesco Bax, Christian Lettieri, Alessandro Marini, Gaia Pellitteri, Andrea Surcinelli, Mariarosaria Valente, Riccardo Budai, Vincenzo Patruno, Gian Luigi Gigli
Alexia without agraphia in a post COVID-19 patient with left-hemisphere ischemic stroke
Konstantinos Priftis, Massimo Prior, Leonardo Meneghetti, Teresa Mercogliano, Matteo Bendini
Testing olfactory dysfunction in acute and recovered COVID-19 patients: a single center study in Italy
Jacopo Pasquini, Carlo Maremmani, Stefano Salvadori, Vincenzo Silani, Nicola Ticozzi
A narrative review on non-invasive stimulation of the cerebellum in neurological diseases
Luana Billeri, Antonino Naro
Cognitive dysfunction in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: can we predict it?
Fabiola De Marchi, Claudia Carrarini, Antonio De Martino, Luca Diamanti, Antonio Fasano, Antonino Lupica, Mirella Russo, Simone Salemme, Edoardo Gioele Spinelli, Alessandro Bombaci
Neurofascin antibodies in chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy: from intrinsic genetic background to clinical manifestations
Ze Wang, Xiajun Zhou, Nan Zhao, Chong Xie, Desheng Zhu, Yangtai Guan
A systematic review of the status and methodological considerations for estimating risk of first ever stroke in the general population
Wei Xu, Jiuyi Huang, Qingsong Yu, Hongfan Yu, Yang Pu, Qiuling Shi
The surgical treatment of epilepsy
Alessandro Consales, Sara Casciato, Sofia Asioli, Carmen Barba, Massimo Caulo, Gabriella Colicchio, Massimo Cossu, Luca de Palma, Alessandra Morano, Giampaolo Vatti, Flavio Villani, Nelia Zamponi, Laura Tassi, Giancarlo Di Gennaro, Carlo Efisio Marras
Association of gender and age at onset with glucocerebrosidase associated Parkinson’s disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Qinghua Li, Yajun Jing, Peng Lun, Xia Liu, Peng Sun
Cognitive and behavioral manifestations in SARS-CoV-2 infection: not specific or distinctive features?
Andrea Stracciari, Gabriella Bottini, Maria Guarino, Eugenio Magni, Leonardo Pantoni
The Italian validation of the Communicative Effectiveness Index Questionnaire: a multicentric study
Pasquale Moretta, Anna Lanzillo, Maria Daniela Lo Sapio, Simona Spaccavento, Fara Cellamare, Francesca Nisoli, Alessandra Ianni, Debora Pain, Sarah Feroldi, Chiara Angela Forlani, Sara Boccola, Francesca Madonia, Paolo Volanti, Antonia Pierobon, Ilaria Scola, Marina Manera, Giorgio Bertolotti, Luigi Trojano
The correlation between circulating inflammatory, oxidative stress, and neurotrophic factors level with the cognitive outcomes in multiple sclerosis patients
Mahnaz Talebi, Alireza Majdi, Ehsan Nasiri, Amirreza Naseri, Saeed Sadigh-Eteghad
Reperfusion strategies in stroke due to isolated cervical internal carotid artery occlusion: systematic review and treatment comparison
Michele Romoli, Maria Giulia Mosconi, Patrizia Pierini, Andrea Alberti, Michele Venti, Valeria Caso, Simone Vidale, Enrico Maria Lotti, Marco Longoni, Paolo Calabresi, Georgios Tsivgoulis, Maurizio Paciaroni
Event-related potential (P300): the effects of levetiracetam in cognitive performance
Mariana Gongora, Eduardo Nicoliche, Julio Magalhães, Renan Vicente, Silmar Teixeira, Victor Hugo Bastos, Juliana Bittencourt, Mauricio Cagy, Luis F. Basile, Henning Budde, Bruna Velasques, Pedro Ribeiro
The influence of statin withdrawal and adherence on stroke outcomes
Bruno Kusznir Vitturi, Rubens José Gagliardi
Prediction of mTICI 3 recanalization and clinical outcomes in endovascular thrombectomy for acute ischemic stroke: a retrospective study in the Taiwan registry
Ching-Chung Ko, Hon-Man Liu, Tai-Yuan Chen, Te-Chang Wu, Li-Kai Tsai, Sung-Chun Tang, Yu-Kun Tsui, Jiann-Shing Jeng
Eye movement especially vertical oculomotor impairment as an aid to assess Parkinson’s disease
JianYuan Zhang, Bin Zhang, QingGuo Ren, Qing Zhong, Ye Li, GuoTao Liu, XiaoTian Ma, CuiPing Zhao
Impact of carotid tortuosity on outcome after endovascular thrombectomy
Ronen R. Leker, Scott E. Kasner, Hosnei Abu El Hasan, Tzvika Sacagiu, Asaf Honig, John M. Gomori, Shaobo Guan, Omar Choudhry, Robert W. Hurst, David Kung, Brian Pukenas, Neda Sedora-Roman, Preethi Ramchand, Jose E. Cohen
Diagnosis and surgical treatment of non-lesional temporal lobe epilepsy with unilateral amygdala enlargement
Zhen Fan, Bing Sun, Li-qin Lang, Jie Hu, N. U. Farrukh Hameed, Zi-xuan Wei, Qi-yuan Zhuang, Jia-jun Cai, Feng-tao Liu, Yi-ting Mao, Rui Feng, Li Pan
Characteristic imaging features of neurovascular involvement in primary Sneddon’s syndrome: an analysis of 12 cases
Ezgi Yilmaz, Ethem Murat Arsava, Rahşan Gocmen, Kader Karli Oguz, Anil Arat, Mehmet Akif Topcuoglu
Association of lipid profiles with severity and outcome of acute ischemic stroke in patients with and without chronic kidney disease
Ailing Zhang, Wenjing Deng, Bin Zhang, Mengyang Ren, Long Tian, Jihui Ge, Jinjuan Bai, Hao Hu, Ling Cui
Dynamic functional connectivity in temporal lobe epilepsy: a graph theoretical and machine learning approach
Alireza Fallahi, Mohammad Pooyan, Nastaran Lotfi, Fatemeh Baniasad, Leili Tapak, Neda Mohammadi-Mobarakeh, Seyed Sohrab Hashemi-Fesharaki, Jafar Mehvari-Habibabadi, Mohammad Reza Ay, Mohammad-Reza Nazem-Zadeh
Utility of Hounsfield unit in the diagnosis of tandem occlusion in acute ischemic stroke
Ruben Mühl-Benninghaus, Julia Dressler, Alena Haußmann, Andreas Simgen, Wolfgang Reith, Umut Yilmaz
Admission blood cell counts are predictive of stroke-associated infection in acute ischemic stroke patients treated with endovascular therapy
Qi-Wen Deng, Peng-Yu Gong, Xiang-Liang Chen, Yu-Kai Liu, Teng Jiang, Feng Zhou, Jian-Kang Hou, Min Lu, Hong-Dong Zhao, Yu-Qiao Zhang, Wei Wang, Rui Shen, Shuo Li, Hui-Ling Sun, Ni-Hong Chen, Hong-Chao Shi
Intracranial aneurysm management in patients with late-onset Pompe disease (LOPD)
Mormina Enricomaria, Olimpia Musumeci, Agostino Tessitore, Anna Ciranni, Graziana Tavilla, Antonio Pitrone, Sergio Lucio Vinci, Antonio Armando Caragliano, Marcello Longo, Francesca Granata, Antonio Toscano
Sex differences in characteristics of idiopathic generalized epilepsies
Ali A. Asadi-Pooya, Maryam Homayoun
Ultrasound reference values of C5, C6, and C7 brachial plexus roots at the interscalene groove
Mohamed A. Bedewi, Mamdouh A. Kotb
The Modified Five-Point Test (MFPT): normative data for a sample of Italian elderly
Petronilla Battista, Chiara Griseta, Rosanna Tortelli, Pietro Guida, Fabio Castellana, Davide Rivolta, Giancarlo Logroscino
Developing an instrument for an early prediction model of long-term functional outcomes in people with acquired injuries of the central nervous system: protocol and methodological aspects
Stefano Masiero, Humberto Antonio Cerrel Bazo, Marcello Rattazzi, Laura Bernardi, Marina Munari, Elisabetta Faggin, Manuela Cattelan, Paolo Pauletto, Alessandra Del Felice
Stroke incidence and case fatality: a 9-year prospective population-based study in an elderly population of Bagheria, Italy
Valentina Arnao, Giuseppe Salemi, Salvatore Scondotto, Nicola Casuccio, Marianna Riolo, Marco D’Amelio, Paolo Ragonese, Paolo Aridon
Developmental venous anomalies in patients with multiple sclerosis: is that a coincidence or an ancillary finding?
Irene Grazzini, Benedetta Calchetti, Gian Luca Cuneo
Open-source open-access reaction time test (OORTT): an easy tool to assess reaction times
Mattia Rigoli, Alessio Facchin, Davide Cardile, Nicoletta Beschin, Claudio Luzzatti
Impact of chemerin, lipid profile, and insulin resistance on disease parameters in patients with multiple sclerosis
Asli Koskderelioglu, Muhtesem Gedizlioglu, Neslihan Eskut, Pinar Tamer, Gizem Yalcin, Giray Bozkaya
Ketogenic diet experience at Ondokuz Mayıs University
Emine Tekin, Filiz Mıhçı Serdaroğlu, Şerife Şahin, Haydar Ali Taşdemir
Cognitive profiles in adult-onset neuronal intranuclear inclusion disease: a case series from the memory clinic
Fen Wang, Xiaowei Ma, Yuqing Shi, Longfei Jia, Xiumei Zuo, Yueyi Yu, Hongmei Jin, Yi Tang, Dongmei Guo, Jianping Jia
A novel PSEN2 p.Ser175Phe variant in a family with Alzheimer’s disease
Gamze Guven, Bedia Samanci, Cagri Gulec, Hasmet Hanagasi, Hakan Gurvit, Ebru Erzurumluoglu Gokalp, Fatih Tepgec, Suleyman Guler, Oya Uyguner, Basar Bilgic
Antihistamines as a common cause of new-onset seizures: a single-center observational study
Hayom Kim, Seong Hwan Kim, Jung Bin Kim
A new mutation in DNM2 gene in a large Italian family
Diego Lopergolo, Silvia Bocci, Anna Maria Pinto, Floriana Valentino, Gabriella Doddato, Federica Ginanneschi, Nila Volpi, Alessandra Renieri, Fabio Giannini
An image is not always worth a thousand words: an image mimic of transient global amnesia
Pedro Coelho, Miguel Schön, Pedro Nascimento Alves, Ana Catarina Fonseca, Teresa Pinho e Melo
Paraneoplastic neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorders: a case series
Eleonora Virgilio, Domizia Vecchio, Marco Vercellino, Paola Naldi, Fabiana Tesser, Roberto Cantello, Paola Cavalla, Cristoforo Comi
Paraneoplastic cerebellar degeneration as a presenting manifestation of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma
Satyan Nanda, Rahul Handa, Atul Prasad, Rajiv Anand, Dhruv Zutshi, Sujata K. Dass, Prabhjeet Kaur Bedi, Aarti Pahuja, Pankaj Kumar Shah, Bipan Sharma, Nalin Malhotra
A peculiar case of internal carotid dissection: “do not forget Eagle’s syndrome!”
Pietro Mattioli, Giuseppe Baldino, Antonio Castaldi, Ilaria Gandoglia, Massimo Del Sette
Bilateral internal carotid dissection and multiple embolic cerebral infarcts in a woman with Turner’s syndrome treated with exogenous hormones to induce pregnancy
Andrea De Zanche, Maela Masato, Maurizio Fabbri, Andrea Bruscagnin, Enrico Cagliari, Luigi Bartolomei
Fetal variant of posterior cerebral artery: just a physiologic variant or a window for possible ischemic stroke?
Martina Di Pietro, Vincenzo Di Stefano, Roberto Cannella, Francesco Di Blasio, Maria Vittoria De Angelis
Severe asterixis due to hypermagnesemia in chronic renal failure: a case report
Mitsunori Morimatsu, Kaoru Ono, Akira Harada
To assess whether a “virtual admission” can be useful for Parkinson’s disease patients with severe motor fluctuations
Anna Randall, J. Panicker, A. Macerollo, S. H. Alusi
Nerve ultrasonography features in hereditary transthyretin amyloidosis with V30M mutation and polyneuropathy
Alessandro Salvalaggio, Daniele Coraci, Mario Cacciavillani, Luca Padua, Chiara Briani
Osmotic demyelination syndrome and leukoencephalopathy in FGF23-related hypophosphatemia: a case report
Tiziana Carandini, Mattia Pozzato, Elisa Scola, Sabrina Avignone, Anna M Pietroboni
Acute motor effects induced by opioid antagonists in Parkinson’s disease: could naloxone be a rescue therapy?
Giuseppe Belfiore, Roberta Terranova, Giovanni Mostile, Donatella Contrafatto, Alessandra Nicoletti, Mario Zappia
Acute motor axonal polyneuropathy in one parkinsonian patient receiving moderate dosage of oral levodopa
Zhou Ou, Liujun Xue, Lijun Wang, Jinlong Zheng, Qiang Tong
SLC20A2 mutation manifesting as very late-onset orofacial dyskinesia
Kyung Ah Woo, Dallah Yoo, Jee-Young Lee, Man Jin Kim, Moon-Woo Seong, Sung Sup Park, Beomseok Jeon
Spontaneous upbeat contratorsional nystagmus with downbeat ipsitorsional nystagmus during horizontal gaze in chronic lateral medullary infarction
Hyung Lee, Ji-Yun Park, Hyun Ah Kim
A case of acute motor and sensory axonal neuropathy mimicking brain death
Laura Libonati, Ilenia Fiorini, Chiara Cambieri, Marco Ceccanti, Maurizio Inghilleri
Prevalence of multiple sclerosis and its risks in Tehran, Iran, in 2019
Mohamadreza Nasiri, Hossein Maroufi, Mohammad Ali Sahraian, Sharareh Eskandarieh
A case of novel CACNA1A mutation causing type 2 episodic ataxia
Pretty Sara Idiculla, Junaid Habib Siddiqui
A case of organotin toxic encephalopathy with atypical imaging characteristic
Cong Luo, Yujiao Fu
Opicapone-induced reversible myopathy in a patient with advanced Parkinson’s disease and familial hyperCKemia
Maurizio Morelli, Andrea Quattrone, Stefania Barone, Federico Tosto, Antonio Gambardella, Aldo Quattrone
Amphetamine-induced hemichorea
Francisco Martínez-Dubarbie, Cinta Ricart-Colome, Beatriz Manzanedo-Terán, Jon Infante
Authors’ reply to Bugiani O: More focus on SENECA with CAA
Anna Bersano
Perfusion imaging averting intravenous thrombolysis in stroke mimics
Klearchos Psychogios, Odysseas Kargiotis, Apostolos Safouris, Georgios Magoufis, Maria Gelagoti, Anastasios Bonakis, Eleftherios Stamboulis, Georgios Tsivgoulis
The Babinski sign in the first Italian reports
Francesco Brigo, Simona Lattanzi, Raffaele Nardone
Correction to: Paraneoplastic cerebellar degeneration as a presenting manifestation of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma
Satyan Nanda, Rahul Handa, Atul Prasad, Rajiv Anand, Dhruv Zutshi, Sujata K. Dass, Prabhjeet Kaur Bedi, Aarti Pahuja, Pankaj Kumar Shah, Bipan Sharma, Nalin Malhotra
Correction to: The Italian validation of the communicative effectiveness index questionnaire: a multicentric study
Pasquale Moretta, Anna Lanzillo, Maria Daniela Lo Sapio, Simona Spaccavento, Fara Cellamare, Francesca Nisoli, Alessandra Ianni, Debora Pain, Sarah Feroldi, Chiara Angela Forlani, Sara Boccola, Francesca Madonia, Paolo Volanti, Antonia Pierobon, Ilaria Scola, Marina Manera, Giorgio Bertolotti, Luigi Trojano