Neurological Sciences

Highlights of the Issue 3, 2019

Rare Diseases Day and Brain Awareness Week: the active participation of Neurological Sciences

Antonio Federico

Red Flags for early referral of people with symptoms suggestive of narcolepsy: a report from a national multidisciplinary panel

L. Vignatelli, E. Antelmi, I. Ceretelli, M. Bellini, C. Carta, P. Cortelli, L. Ferini-Strambi, R. Ferri, R. Guerrini, F. Ingravallo, V. Marchiani, F. Mari, G. Pieroni, F. Pizza, M. C. Verga, E. Verrillo, D. Taruscio, Giuseppe Plazzi

Italian recommendations for diagnosis and management of congenital myasthenic syndromes

Lorenzo Maggi, Pia Bernasconi, Adele D’Amico, Raffaella Brugnoni, Chiara Fiorillo, Matteo Garibaldi, Guja Astrea, Claudio Bruno, Filippo Maria Santorelli, Rocco Liguori, Giovanni Antonini, Amelia Evoli, Enrico Bertini, Carmelo Rodolico, Renato Mantegazza

Regression-based normative data and equivalent scores for Trail Making Test (TMT): an updated Italian normative study

Mattia Siciliano, Carlo Chiorri, Valeria Battini, Valeria Sant’Elia, Manuela Altieri, Luigi Trojano, Gabriella Santangelo

Efficacy and safety of autologous hematopoietic stem-cell transplantation in multiple sclerosis: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Fangfang Ge, Hong Lin, Zhuyi Li, Ting Chang

The clinical and imaging features of gray matter heterotopia: a clinical analysis on 15 patients

Hafiz Khuram Raza, Hao Chen, Thitsavanh Chansysouphanthong, Zuohui Zhang, Fang Hua, Xinchun Ye, Wei Zhang, Liguo Dong, Shenyang Zhang, Xiaopeng Wang, Guiyun Cui

Evaluation of dual pathology among drug-resistant epileptic patients with hippocampal sclerosis

Jafar Mehvari Habibabadi, Shervin Badihian, Nasim Tabrizi, Navid Manouchehri, Mohammad Zare, Reza Basiratnia, Majid Barekatain, Houshang Moein, Amirali Mehvari Habibabadi, Payam Moein, Peyman Gookizadeh

Clinical and genetic characterization of an Italian family with slow-channel syndrome

Corrado Angelini, Ludovico Lispi, Cecilia Salvoro, Maria Luisa Mostacciuolo, Giovanni Vazza

Completeness of circle of Willis and white matter hyperintensities in patients with severe internal carotid artery stenosis

Huirong Ye, Xiumei Wu, Jiangzhi Yan, Jian Wang, Jianting Qiu, Yujie Wang

Heterogeneous brain FDG-PET metabolic patterns in patients with C9orf72 mutation

Veronica Castelnovo, Silvia Paola Caminiti, Nilo Riva, Giuseppe Magnani, Vincenzo Silani, Daniela Perani

Lack of association between valproic acid response and polymorphisms of its metabolism, transport, and receptor genes in children with focal seizures

Weixing Feng, Shenghui Mei, Jiaqi Han, Leting Zhu, Yazhen Yu, Baoqin Gao, Yun Wu, Jiuwei Li, Zhigang Zhao, Fang Fang

Cortical degeneration in chronic traumatic encephalopathy and Alzheimer’s disease neuropathologic change

Richard A. Armstrong, Ann C. McKee, Thor D. Stein, Victor E. Alvarez, Nigel J. Cairns

Imaging features (CT, MRI, MRS, and PET/CT) of primary central nervous system lymphoma in immunocompetent patients

Gang Cheng, Jianning Zhang

Clinical features of hypertrophic pachymeningitis in a center survey

Gonçalo Cação, Margarida Calejo, José Eduardo Alves, Pedro Bettencourt Medeiros, Nuno Vila-Cha, Teresa Mendonça, Ricardo Taipa, Ana Martins Silva, Joana Damásio

Vastus lateralis myofascial free flap for tongue reconstruction and hypoglossal-femoral anastomosis: neurophysiological study

Edvina Galiè, Veronica Villani, Fabio Ferreli, Andrea Pace, Raul Pellini

GEN-O-MA project: an Italian network studying clinical course and pathogenic pathways of moyamoya disease—study protocol and preliminary results

Anna Bersano, Gloria Bedini, Sara Nava, Francesco Acerbi, Davide Rossi Sebastiano, Simona Binelli, Silvana Franceschetti, Giuseppe Faragò, Marina Grisoli, Andrea Gioppo, Paolo Ferroli, Maria Grazia Bruzzone, Daria Riva, Elisa Ciceri, Chiara Pantaleoni, Veronica Saletti, Silvia Esposito, Nardo Nardocci, Federica Zibordi, Luigi Caputi, Stefania Bianchi Marzoli, Maria Luisa Zedde, Marco Pavanello, Alessandro Raso, Valeria Capra, Leonardo Pantoni, Cristina Sarti, Alessandro Pezzini, Filomena Caria, Maria Luisa Dell’ Acqua, Andrea Zini, Claudio Baracchini, Filippo Farina, Sandro Sanguigni, Maria Luisa De Lodovici, Giorgio Bono, Fioravanti Capone, Vincenzo Di Lazzaro, Silvia Lanfranconi, Massimiliano Toscano, Vittorio Di Piero, Simona Sacco, Antonio Carolei, Danilo Toni, Maurizio Paciaroni, Valeria Caso, Patrizia Perrone, Maria Vittoria Calloni, Alfredo Romani, Marco Cenzato, Alessia Fratianni, Emilio Ciusani, Paolo Prontera, Elisabeth Tournier Lasserve, Kinga Blecharz, Peter Vajkoczy, Eugenio Agostino Parati

Utilization of the Patient Competency Rating Scale in an epileptic and non-epileptic veteran population

Jennifer M. Stinson, Jessica E. Chang, Jordan S. Robinson, Jesse S. Passler, Robert L. Collins

Impact of seizure-related injuries on quality of life

Ozan Cengiz, Arife Çimen Atalar, Betül Tekin, Nerses Bebek, Betül Baykan, Candan Gürses

Leukoaraiosis is associated with poor outcomes after successful recanalization for large vessel occlusion stroke

Yukai Liu, Pengyu Gong, Huanhuan Sun, Shuting Zhang, Junshan Zhou, Yingdong Zhang

Decreased serum orexin A levels in drug-naive children with attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder

Saliha Baykal, Yakup Albayrak, Ferit Durankuş, Savaş Güzel, Özlem Abbak, Nihan Potas, Murat Beyazyüz, Koray Karabekiroğlu, Mustafa Metin Donma

Incidence study of Guillain-Barré syndrome in the province of Ferrara, Northern Italy, between 2003 and 2017. A 40-year follow-up

Enrico Granieri, Nico Golfrè Andreasi, Paolo De Martin, Vittorio Govoni, Massimiliano Castellazzi, Edward Cesnik, Maura Pugliatti, Ilaria Casetta

Resolution of unilateral upper limb action tremor after surgical treatment of a contralateral frontoparietal arachnoid cyst

Ilaria Cova, P. Contri, L. Pantoni, S. Pomati

Headache secondary to cervical artery dissections: practice pointers

Simone Gallerini, Luca Marsili, Manuele Bartalucci, Caterina Marotti, Alberto Chiti, Roberto Marconi

Self-assessment reliability in multiple sclerosis: the role of socio-demographic, clinical, and quality of life aspects

Andrea Tacchino, Giampaolo Brichetto, Paola Zaratin, Mario Alberto Battaglia, Michela Ponzio

Pseudo-orthostatic tremor in idiopathic Parkinson’s disease: could it be re-emergent tremor?

Sang-Won Yoo, Ko Eun Choi, Jungmin So, Kwang-Soo Lee, Joong-Seok Kim

Incidence of sarcopenia and dynapenia according to stage in patients with idiopathic Parkinson’s disease

Tugba Erdogan, Gulistan Bahat

Coxsackievirus B1 resulting acute flaccid myelitis with entire spinal cord lesion: a case report

Keun Tae Kim, Yong Won Cho

Stroke or Stramonium? A novel stroke mimic

M. Colella, L. Strada, D. Bianchini, G. Ajmar, M. Del Sette

Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) and its memory tasks for detecting mild cognitive impairment

Tomoyuki Kawada

Moyamoya masquerading as relapsing remitting multiple sclerosis

Sydney Feldman, Megan Esch, Shiv Saidha

Acute necrotizing encephalopathy of childhood associated with human herpes virus 6 in Croatia

Vedran Stevanović, Zoran Barušić, Klaudija Višković, Oktavija Đaković Rode, Goran Tešović

Absent cochlear and abducens nerves in a patient with Duane retraction syndrome

Hee Kyung Yang, Jae Hyoung Kim, Jeong-Min Hwang

A fatal back pain: report of two cases of diffuse large B cell/Burkitt-like nervous system lymphoma

Ivana Markovic, Jelena Saric Sucic, Stjepan Juric, Marina Titlic, Silvio Basic

Task-specific focal chin tremor in idiopathic Parkinson’s disease: is it an isolated phenomenon or a part of parkinsonism?

Sang-Won Yoo, Myungah Lee, Seong Hee Ho, Kwang-Soo Lee, Joong-Seok Kim

Bismuth-related acute neurotoxicity as stroke mimic: a case report

Amelia Brigandì, Vincenzo Rizzo, Vanessa Ziccone, Paolo Girlanda