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Abstract:In 30 healthy male students aged 19 to 28 years of a mean age of 22.6 years, a study was made of the amount of Fm θ by recording EEG patterns from Fz by monopolar lead during the Uchida‐Kraepelin serial addition task of a five‐minute duration, before and after taking 1.5ml of 43% whisky per Kg.At the same time, a determination was made of the blood concentration of alcohol, along with the MPI test in all subjects, to examine the relationship between the results obtained and the occurrence of Fm θ. The amount of Fm θ was significantly increased following dr

ISSN:1323-1316    

DOI:10.1111/j.1440-1819.1980.tb01507.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1980

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Abstract:Determinations were made of the plasma cyclic AMP level to examine its relationship with hyperkinesis (Werry‐Weiss‐Peters Activity Scale, WWPAS) and other features of mental disorders in 80 children, of whom 21 had early infantile autism, 15 hyperkinetic mental retardation, 12 minimal brain dysfunction and 32 Down's syndrome. In autistic and hyperkinetic mentally retarded children, the plasma cyclic AMP levels were higher than in normal children and were positively correlated with the WWPAS score. In children with minimal brain dysfunction, the plasma cyclic AMP level was significantly lower than in normal children and was not correlated with the WWPAS score. In children with Down's syndrome, the plasma cyclic AMP level was somewhat higher than in normal child

ISSN:1323-1316    

DOI:10.1111/j.1440-1819.1980.tb01508.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1980

数据来源: WILEY

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Abstract:Recently the association of hypersomnia and respiratory insufficiency without lesion in the respiratory organ has attracted attention of many investigators. Obese patients with such a condition have been called the Pickwickian syndrome. In this report, two non‐obese patients with a similar condition were presented, one with micrognathia and frequent apneic episodes during sleep, and the other with laryngeal stenosis due to paralysis of the bilateral laryngeal nerves and chronic laryngitis. Tracheostomy had a prompt and long‐lasting therapeutic effect to make their sleep stable and also to relieve their excessive daytime sleepiness. These findings suggest that the obstruction or stenosis of the upper airway during sleep disturbed their nocturnal sleep, and that their excessive daytime sleepiness was a phenomenon compensating for their disturbed nocturnal sl

ISSN:1323-1316    

DOI:10.1111/j.1440-1819.1980.tb01509.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1980

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Abstract:In the present study, thirty schizophrenics who showed low blood pressure and low voltage fast EEG at the onset of the disease were selected from many schizophrenics. As a control group, 50 schizophrenics without any abnormal findings in blood pressure and EEG were examined. The experimental group showed a remarkable improvement after using Haloperidol and Ethylephedrine. From the above described findings, we want to emphasize on one group of schizophrenia which had low blood pressure and low boltage fast EEG, and we speculated that the symptoms of schizophrenia seem to have a close relation to the dysfunction of diencephalon and lower brain; this dysfunction might cause a disharmony between the function of neocortex and the lower brain.

ISSN:1323-1316    

DOI:10.1111/j.1440-1819.1980.tb01510.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1980

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Abstract:The authors have studied the bucco‐facial apraxia (BFA) in 20 aphasic patients, examining 10 isolated oral gesture (IOG) and 10 combined oral gesture (COG). The heterogeneity of the BFA is indicated by the qualitative analysis of the types of errors in COG in relation to IOG. It is probable that the BFA due to the posterior lesions might base on the motor programming disorders of oral gestures, and that the BFA due to the anterior lesions on the motor realization disorders of oral gestures. It remains unsolved whether there is a continuity or some varieties between two types of BF

ISSN:1323-1316    

DOI:10.1111/j.1440-1819.1980.tb01511.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1980

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Abstract:Clinical features including changes in the peripheral nerve conduction were analyzed in 10 cases with ethambutol neuropathy. There were abnormalities in the visual field in seven and optic atrophy in five of 10 cases. Seven of 10 cases complained of numbness in the lower limbs. The age of onset and dose of ethambutol the patients continue to take after the occurrence of visual impairment were found to be important in determining the severity of neurological symptoms. A functional disturbance was more conspicuous in ethambutol neuropathy, particularly in the sensory system than in the motor system so far as the peripheral nerve conduction was serially examined. Some cases still had serious optic disturbances even about seven years after the onset of the disease and the presence of irreversible lesions was suspected.

ISSN:1323-1316    

DOI:10.1111/j.1440-1819.1980.tb01512.x

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年代:1980

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Abstract:The electrophysiological examination was made to clarify the effect of ethambutol on the peripheral nervous system in 39 patients at tuberculous sanatorium. Abnormalities in the sensory nerve action potential (toe‐ankle) were observed in about 10 percent of the patients treated with ethambutol, and these patients were mostly elderly and/or received the high dose of ethambutol. The mixed nerve conduction velocity (ankle‐knee) showed a significant decrease compared with healthy subjects. The conduction velocity tended to decrease in the high ethambutol dosage (200 gm or more) group compared with the low dosage (200 gm or less) group. The tendency for the conduction velocity to decrease was also observed in the 18 patients treated with isoniazid but the abnormalities were mild compared with the ethambu

ISSN:1323-1316    

DOI:10.1111/j.1440-1819.1980.tb01513.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1980

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Abstract:A young male patient with adrenoleukodystrophy progressed from the frontal to the parieto‐occipital region was reported.The spreading pattern of the brain lesion in this patient was confirmed by a serial examination of Technetium scintigrams and the neuropathological findings. The high uptake area of the isotope in the scintigrams seemed to represent the active demyelinating and infiltrative‐reactive process in the white matter.A chemical analysis of the frozen white matter tissue of the patient revealed the existence of long chain fatty acids more than C 22 in cholesteryl esters and gangliosides.It is suggested by this case that the demyelination process can start in the frontal white matter also in adrenoleukodystrophy as well as in Schilder's dise

ISSN:1323-1316    

DOI:10.1111/j.1440-1819.1980.tb01514.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1980

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Abstract:Metal analysis of calcium, manganese, aluminum and copper in CNS tissue samples of degenerative CNS disease cases (six Japanese ALS, three Japanese Alzheimer disease, four Guam PD, one Guam ALS) using neutron activation analysis, was conducted with following results: Five of six Japanese ALS cases, two of three Japanese Alzheimer disease cases and all of four Guam PD cases showed a high content of calcium and aluminum in CNS tissue with a significant positive correlation between calcium and aluminum and/or between calcium and manganese.These findings suggest a possible process of metal‐induced soft tissue calcification with interaction of other di‐ and/or trivalent cations such as aluminum, manganese in CNS tissue of these degenerative CNS disea

ISSN:1323-1316    

DOI:10.1111/j.1440-1819.1980.tb01515.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1980

数据来源: WILEY