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ABSTRACTThe total 5‐hydroxyindoles (5‐HI) in whole blood were measured in 20 migraine patients during spontaneous migraine attacks and in headache‐free periods. A statistically significant fall in blood 5‐HI was found during headache in 17 patients suffering from classical and common migraine. In one patient with complicated migraine no change was found, and in two patients, one with common migraine and one with migraine and associated symptoms, there was a rise in total blood 5‐HI during migraine attacks. the results are compared with previous findings in this field, and it is suggested that during migraine attacks there might be a rise in the plasma 5‐HI. the possibility of using the 5‐HI fall during spontaneous migraine attacks as a simple test for the diagnosis of migraine

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DOI:10.1111/j.1600-0404.1976.tb04360.x

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ABSTRACTEstimates of prekallikrein levels in plasma specimens from patients with migraine and from healthy individuals were obtained by determining the benzoyl‐arginine ethyl ester (BAEe) esterase activities developed on activation with kaolin, as suggested byColman(1969a, b). No difference was registered between the pro‐esterase levels in the patient and in the control material, and kinetic data provided no evidence of a difference in inhibitor levels. Only very low BAEe esterase activity was registered in samples of cerebrospinal fluid obtained from the patients and no significant difference between attacks and free intervals was detected. When citrated EDTA‐treated plasma was activated with acetone‐incubated normal plasma containing prekallikrein activator (factor XIIf), no significant difference in BAEe esterase activity was noticed between plasma from the patients and that from the control persons. When, however, citrated plasma without EDTA was used, a significantly higher peak level of esterase activity was registered in the patient plasma. This observation might suggest the presence of a factor positioned between active factor XII and prekallikrein, and present in higher amounts in plasma from patients with migraine than in healthy indi

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DOI:10.1111/j.1600-0404.1976.tb04361.x

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ABSTRACTAs a consequence of a WHO inquiry about possible complications to poliomyelitis immunization, a prospective incidence study was performed during 1971 in the western region of Sweden, in order to obtain data relevant to the inactivated vaccine used here. After rejection of surgical and secondary cases, the study consisted of 10 Guillain‐Barré cases, three incipient MS cases, two infectious and one probably vascular case. By using a procedure of retrospective controls it was demonstrated that the efficiency of prospective case ascertainment is dependent on diagnosis. the incidence ofde novoparapareses as defined was approximately 1.7/100,000/year of which 1.0/100,000/year was due to MS. CSF and virological investigations were performed early in prospective cases, in MS cases within 5 to 11 days after onset, and it was shown that no changes occurred in later CF titrations. Routine virological tests did not contribute to diagnosis in patients having paraparesis. No vaccine‐associated cases of paraparesis occurred during the 1‐year period of the

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DOI:10.1111/j.1600-0404.1976.tb04362.x

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ABSTRACTNine periods in seven women with partial epilepsy have been investigated with respect to frequency of fits, and estrogen‐progesterone levels in blood plasma. Six cycles with ovulation showed a positive correlation between the number of secondary generalized seizures and the mean estrogen/progesterone (E/P) ratios and a negative correlation to plasma progesterone levels. Three periods without ovulation showed an increase in the number of fits during days of high estrogen. the number of fits seemed not to be correlated to changes in body weigh

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DOI:10.1111/j.1600-0404.1976.tb04363.x

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ABSTRACTThree groups of epileptic out‐patients (juvenile myoclonie epilepsy, psychomotor epilepsy, and cryptogenic grand mal) were studied. the groups were matched as closely as possible with each other with regard to sex, age, and treatment. Out‐patients suffering from Menière's disease served as a control group; these patients were treated with placebo and matched with the epilepsy groups with regard to sex, duration of disease and social level. the Marke‐Nyman inventory was used as a quantitative assessment of personality traits. This inventory is an operative definition of Sjöbring's neurophysiological model of personality, including the three dimensions: validity, stability and solidity. Our results showed that epileptic patients irrespective of the type of seizures were substable. Low validity was found in patients with juvenile myoclonic epilepsy and in patients with psychomotor epilepsy with temporal EEG focus. In those latter epilepsy groups a tendency to subsolidity was also observed. In Sjöbring's frame of reference these substable patients of low validity have a psychological vulnerability since they are unable to overcome the small concrete adversities of life. They adhere to problems, and being unable to solve them they tend to react in a mood of discontent or of maladjustment. In the usual psychiatric frame of reference substable patients of low validity are classified as psychoastenic patients with emotional ins

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DOI:10.1111/j.1600-0404.1976.tb04364.x

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ABSTRACTAn EEG study has been made of 50 women with Turner's syndrome, 39 found outside institutions and 11 in institutions for the mentally retarded. We found paroxysmal EEG abnormalities in 23 per cent of the former and in 55 per cent of the latter. We found indications of occipital lobe defects in the mentally retarded Turner women.

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DOI:10.1111/j.1600-0404.1976.tb04365.x

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DOI:10.1111/j.1600-0404.1976.tb04366.x

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年代:1976

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ABSTRACTSerial cerebral blood flow studies performed by the intra‐carotid133Xenon method were fortuitously determined during the course of a cluster headache in a 32 year old man. the initial study was performed about 10 min after the headache began and showed values at the upper limit of normal. Twenty min after the headache started a second procedure showed that the autoregulatory response on hyperventilation was normal. Ergotamine tartrate was given intra‐muscularly 23 min after the headache began and there was partial relief. A third cerebral blood flow estimation showed abnormally high values. the probable reasons for this are discus

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DOI:10.1111/j.1600-0404.1976.tb04367.x

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ABSTRACTEntrapment of the median and posterior tibial nerves in the carpal and tarsal tunnels, respectively, in Paget's disease, are described. In each, decompression resulted in a complete relief of sensory symptoms. Factors in the genesis of selective wasting of the thenar pad are outlined.

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J. D. Spillane: an Atlas of Clinical NeurologyMultiple Sklerose.Herausgegeben von F. W. BronischP. M. Jeavons&G. F. A. Harding: Photosensitive epilepsyAntiepileptische Langzeitmedikation.Ed. by H. HelmchenCEAN ‘Computerized EEG Analysis’. Ed. by Guiliano Dolce and Helmut KünkelBiochemistry and Neurology.Ed. by H. Bradford&C. Ma

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DOI:10.1111/j.1600-0404.1976.tb04369.x

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年代:1976

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