Neurologic Examination

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A longitudinal study of differences in late- and early-onset geriatric depression: depressive symptoms and psychosocial, cognitive, and neurological functioning. 
  • A pragmatic neurological screen for patients with suspected cord compressive myelopathy. 
  • A randomized evaluation of bispectral index-augmented sedation assessment in neurological patients. 
  • A randomized, multicentre, open-label, parallel-group trial of the tolerability of interferon beta-1a (Rebif) administered by autoinjection or manual injection in relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis. 
  • A retrospective analysis of a remifentanil/propofol general anesthetic for craniotomy before awake functional brain mapping. 
  • A simple manual muscle test for myasthenia gravis: validation and comparison with the QMG score. 
  • A simple, efficient tool for assessment of mice after unilateral cortex injury. 
  • A unique case of benign intermittent upbeat nystagmus triggered by light stimulation. 
  • Acquired myasthenia gravis. 
  • Acute Headache in Adults: A Diagnostic Approach. 
  • Acute neurotoxicity after intrathecal cytosine arabinoside in two adolescents with acute lymphoblastic leukemia of B-cell type. 
  • Acute steroid-induced tetraplegia following status asthmaticus. 
  • Administration of 5-hydroxy-L-tryptophan to individuals with Huntington's chorea. 
  • Aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage in patients under 35-years-old: a single-center experience. 
  • ApoE genotype and survival from intracerebral haemorrhage. 
  • ApoE mimetic ameliorates motor deficit and tissue damage in rat spinal cord injury. 
  • Apolipoprotein E Exerts a Whole-Brain Protective Property by Promoting M1? Microglia Quiescence After Experimental Subarachnoid Hemorrhage in Mice. 
  • Arm drift--a frequent occurrence in normal subjects. 
  • Autonomic and peripheral (sensorimotor) neuropathy in chronic liver disease: a clinical and electrophysiologic study. 
  • BE-FAST (Balance, Eyes, Face, Arm, Speech, Time): Reducing the Proportion of Strokes Missed Using the FAST Mnemonic. 
  • Biotin-responsive basal ganglia disease: case report and review of the literature. 
  • Biportal thoracoscopic sympathectomy: surgical techniques and clinical results for the treatment of hyperhidrosis. 
  • Birth asphyxia survivors in a developing country. 
  • Cerebellar malignant fibrous histiocytoma: case report and literature review. 
  • Cerebellopontine angle craniopharyngioma: case report and literature review. 
  • Chiari I malformation manifesting as bilateral trigeminal neuralgia: case report and review of the literature. 
  • Clinical and radiographic evaluation of the adult spinal deformity patient. 
  • Clinical and radiographic predictors of neurological outcome following posterior fossa decompression for spontaneous cerebellar hemorrhage. 
  • Clinical tests for screening and diagnosis of cervical spine myelopathy: a systematic review. 
  • Comparative estimates of neonatal gestational maturity by electrographic and fetal ultrasonographic criteria. 
  • Computed tomography brain scanning in alcohol withdrawal seizures. Value of the neurologic examination. 
  • Concerns about meningitis. 
  • Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in a pregnant woman with an implanted dura mater graft. 
  • Decompressive hemicraniectomy in pediatric patients with malignant middle cerebral artery infarction: case series and review of the literature. 
  • Dementia assessment and management. 
  • Developmental outcome of very low birth weight infants at four years of age as a function of biological risk and psychosocial risk. 
  • Diagnosing organic mental disorders in the elderly. 
  • Dissociation between vasospasm and functional improvement in a murine model of subarachnoid hemorrhage. 
  • Does this patient have myasthenia gravis? 
  • Dorsal column mapping for intramedullary spinal cord tumor resection decreases dorsal column dysfunction. 
  • Dynamics of lip dyskinesia associated with neuroleptic withdrawal. 
  • ECT-induced delirium in depressed patients with Parkinson's disease. 
  • EEG changes during awake carotid endarterectomy. 
  • Early Determination of Prognosis in Neonatal Moderate or Severe Hypoxic-Ischemic Encephalopathy. 
  • Effect of antenatal treatment of maternal periodontitis on early childhood neurodevelopment. 
  • Effect of γ-hydroxybutyrate (Xyrem) on locus coeruleus activity as measured by pupillometry in a patient with narcolepsy. 
  • Effects of Tourniquets in the Development of Pain States: a Novel Clinical Pilot Study and Review of Utilization of Tissue Oximetry to Measure Neural Ischemia. 
  • Effects of postischemic halothane administration on outcome from transient focal cerebral ischemia in the rat. 
  • Emotional complications of adolescent grand mal epilepsy. 
  • Endovascular treatment of vertebral artery dissections and pseudoaneurysms. 
  • Evaluation and surgical management of peripheral nerve problems. 
  • Evaluation of augmentation cystoplasty for severe neuropathic bladder using the hostility score. 
  • Evaluation of temazepam and diphenhydramine as hypnotics in a nursing-home population. 
  • Failure of cerebrospinal fluid shunts: part II: overdrainage, loculation, and abdominal complications. 
  • Familial spinocerebellar degeneration with corneal dystrophy. 
  • Focal features in West syndrome indicating candidacy for surgery. 
  • Ganglioside GM1 in acute ischemic stroke. The SASS Trial. 
  • Gasoline sniffing multifocal neuropathy. 
  • Gender and age interact to affect early outcome after intracerebral hemorrhage. 
  • Growth trajectory and neurodevelopmental outcome in infants with congenital diaphragmatic hernia. 
  • Hand weakness in the elderly. 
  • Hemiballismus. 
  • Hereditary spastic paraplegia: advances in genetic research. Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia Working group. 
  • Immunological abnormalities in the tears of multiple sclerosis patients. 
  • In utero surgery rescues neurological function at birth in sheep with spina bifida. 
  • Incidence and risk factors of postoperative neurologic decline after complex adult spinal deformity surgery: results of the Scoli-RISK-1 study. 
  • Influence of common drugs and related factors on stroke outcome. 
  • Initial management of pediatric head trauma. 
  • Intraoperative mapping during repeat awake craniotomy reveals the functional plasticity of adult cortex. 
  • Intrarater and interrater reliability and validity in the assessment of the mechanism of injury and integrity of the posterior ligamentous complex: a novel injury severity scoring system for thoracolumbar injuries. Invited submission from the Joint Section Meeting On Disorders of the Spine and Peripheral Nerves, March 2005. 
  • Intraventricular hemorrhage in blunt head trauma: an analysis of 43 cases. 
  • Is this patient having a stroke? 
  • Islands of Inflammation: Neurosarcoidosis. 
  • Isolated, giant cerebellopontine angle craniopharyngioma in a patient with Gardner syndrome: case report. 
  • Long-Term Outcomes Among Elderly Survivors of Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest. 
  • Long-term safety and efficacy of continuous intrathecal baclofen. 
  • Lupus-related myelitis: serial MR findings. 
  • Lupus-related myelopathy: report of three cases and review of the literature. 
  • MRI abnormalities following febrile status epilepticus in children: the FEBSTAT study. 
  • Methodological issues in negative symptom trials. 
  • Minimally invasive, robot-assisted, anterior lumbar interbody fusion: a technical note. 
  • Mononeuropathies in pregnancy. 
  • MuSK-antibody positive myasthenia gravis: clinical and electrodiagnostic patterns. 
  • Myasthenia gravis: diagnosis. 
  • Nerve conduction and ultrasound: will the wedding give birth to new morpho-functional measures? 
  • Neurobehavioral evaluation of neonates with congenital heart disease: a cohort study. 
  • Neurodevelopmental Impairment Among Extremely Preterm Infants in the Neonatal Research Network. 
  • Neurodevelopmental outcome of infants with unilateral or bilateral periventricular hemorrhagic infarction. 
  • Neurodevelopmental outcomes at 5years of age in congenital diaphragmatic hernia. 
  • Neurodevelopmental outcomes in children with congenital heart disease: evaluation and management: a scientific statement from the American Heart Association. 
  • Neurologic injury from undersea diving. 
  • Neurologic presentation of decompression sickness and air embolism in sport divers. 
  • Neurological features of cerebral malaria in Nigerian children. 
  • Neuroradiologic findings in fucosidosis, a rare lysosomal storage disease. 
  • Neurotization of elements of the brachial plexus. 
  • Newborn screening for Krabbe disease: the New York State model. 
  • Non-convulsive status epilepticus: usefulness of clinical features in selecting patients for urgent EEG. 
  • Normative Data for the NeuroCom Sensory Organization Test in US Military Special Operations Forces. 
  • Normative data for vascular and neurological tests of the hand-arm vibration syndrome. 
  • Nursery Neurobiologic Risk Score: important factor in predicting outcome in very low birth weight infants. 
  • Nursery neurobiologic risk score: levels of risk and relationships with nonmedical factors. 
  • Opiate detoxification of methadone maintenance patients using lefetamine, clonidine and buprenorphine. 
  • Outcome after repeat lumbar microdiscectomy. 
  • Outcomes in pediatric patients with Chiari malformation Type I followed up without surgery. 
  • PROMACE-MOPP and intrathecal chemotherapy for CNS lymphomas. 
  • Patient demographics and health plan paid costs in chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy. 
  • Perioperative fever and outcome in surgical patients with aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage. 
  • Perioperative management of a neurosurgical patient requiring antiplatelet therapy. 
  • Persistent respiratory failure due to low cervical cord infarction in newborn babies. 
  • Potential autonomic risk factors for chronic TMD: descriptive data and empirically identified domains from the OPPERA case-control study. 
  • Predictive value of an early amplitude integrated electroencephalogram and neurologic examination. 
  • Prevalence of diabetic peripheral neuropathy and relation to glycemic control therapies at baseline in the BARI 2D cohort. 
  • Primary intramedullary melanocytoma of the spinal cord: case report. 
  • Prognostic value of premorbid hypertension and neurological status in aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage: pooled analyses of individual patient data in the SAHIT repository. 
  • Proposed Standardized Neurological Endpoints for Cardiovascular Clinical Trials: An Academic Research Consortium Initiative. 
  • Radial Artery Bypass for Intractable Vertebrobasilar Insufficiency: Case Series and Review of the Literature. 
  • Rapid brain autopsy. The Joseph and Kathleen Bryan Alzheimer's Disease Research Center experience. 
  • Regional cerebral blood flow and metabolic rate in persistent Lyme encephalopathy. 
  • Relative Average Look Duration and its Association with Neurophysiological Activity in Young Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder. 
  • Reliability of the triple-timed up-and-go test. 
  • Repetitive nerve stimulation testing in myasthenic crisis. 
  • Resurgence of stereotaxic procedures for relief of parkinsonism. Role of image-directed targeting and current status. 
  • Reversible corpus callosum lesion in legionnaires' disease. 
  • Risk factors for failed transverse sinus stenting in pseudotumor cerebri patients. 
  • Role of noradrenergic hyperactivity in neonatal opiate abstinence. 
  • Rupture of a Common Carotid Artery Aneurysm. 
  • Sample size calculations for clinical trials using the NIH Stroke Scale. 
  • Severe primary refractory thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP) in the post plasma exchange (PEX) and rituximab era. 
  • Sex and Age Interactions and Differences in Outcomes After Intracerebral Hemorrhage. 
  • Shock of birth. Evaluation of neurologic status of term newborn in the first 48 hours of life. 
  • Soft neurologic signs. 
  • Solitary eosinophilic granuloma invading the clivus of an adult: case report. 
  • Surgeon's foot: a report of sural nerve palsy. 
  • Surgical approaches for the correction of unstable thoracolumbar burst fractures: a retrospective analysis of treatment outcomes. 
  • The diagnostic utility of clinical tests for differentiating between cervicogenic and other causes of dizziness after a sports-related concussion: An international Delphi study. 
  • The impact of facet dislocation on clinical outcomes after cervical spinal cord injury: results of a multicenter North American prospective cohort study. 
  • The radiographic diagnosis and treatment of paraneoplastic central nervous system disease. 
  • The rational clinical examination. Clinical assessment of stroke. 
  • The rewarming rate and increased peak temperature alter neurocognitive outcome after cardiac surgery. 
  • The small "surgical aneurysm" at the basilar apex. 
  • The use of STarT back screening tool to predict functional disability outcomes in patients receiving physical therapy for low back pain. 
  • Timing of vulnerability of the brain to iodine deficiency in endemic cretinism. 
  • Tourettism and dystonia after subcortical stroke. 
  • Toward Solving the Sedation-Assessment Conundrum: Neurofunction Monitoring. 
  • Toward solving the sedation-assessment conundrum: bi-spectral index monitoring and sedation interruption. 
  • Transient choroid plexus cysts and benign asymmetrical ventricles: a case suggesting a possible link: case report. 
  • Transient cortical blindness in an infant exposed to methamphetamine. 
  • Transient late magnetic resonance imaging changes suggesting progression of brain stem glioma: implications for entry criteria for phase II trials. 
  • Treatment of dural sinus thrombosis by urokinase infusion. 
  • Use of barbiturate therapy in severe perinatal asphyxia: a randomized controlled trial. 
  • Variations in two-point discrimination as a function of terminal probes. 
  • Video training and certification program improves reliability of postischemic neurologic deficit measurement in the rat. 
  • Wegener granulomatosis: CT and MR findings. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Laskowitz, Daniel Todd, Professor of Neurology, Duke Science & Society
  • McLendon, Roger Edwin, Professor of Pathology, Pathology
  • Milano, Carmelo Alessio, Joseph W. and Dorothy W. Beard Distinguished Professor of Experimental Surgery, Surgery, Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery