SPECIAL ARTICLES:

Quality Standards Subcommittee of the American Academy of Neurology

Practice advisory on the treatment of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis with riluzole: Report of the Quality Standards Subcommittee of the American Academy of Neurology
Neurology 1997 49: 657-659. [Full Text] [PDF]  

IN MEMORIAM:

Maynard M. Cohen

Frank Morrell, MD, A. Watson Armour III and Sarah Armour Presidential Professor of Neurological Sciences, Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center, Chicago, IL (1926-1997)
Neurology 1997 49: 905-906. [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

VIEWS & REVIEWS:

Andrew R. Pachner

Anticytokine antibodies in beta interferon-treated MS patients and the need for testing: Plight of the practicing neurologist
Neurology 1997 49: 647-650. [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Stephen J. Peroutka

Dopamine and migraine
Neurology 1997 49: 650-656. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

ARTICLES:

C. H. Waters, M. Kurth, P. Bailey, L. M. Shulman, P. LeWitt, E. Dorflinger, D. Deptula, S. Pedder, and the Tolcapone Stable Study Group

Tolcapone in stable Parkinson's disease: Efficacy and safety of long-term treatment
Neurology 1997 49: 665-671. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

W. M. Clark, S. J. Warach, L. C. Pettigrew, R. E. Gammans, L. A. Sabounjian, and the Citicoline Stroke Study Group

A randomized dose-response trial of citicoline in acute ischemic stroke patients
Neurology 1997 49: 671-678. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

John F. Dashe, Michael S. Pessin, Richard E. Murphy, and Douglas D. Payne

Carotid occlusive disease and stroke risk in coronary artery bypass graft surgery
Neurology 1997 49: 678-686. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Norman Delanty, Carl Vaughan, Steven Frucht, and Patrick Stubgen

Erythropoietin-associated hypertensive posterior leukoencephalopathy
Neurology 1997 49: 686-689. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

G. Gold, P. Giannakopoulos, C. Montes-Paixao, Jr., F. R. Herrman, R. Mulligan, J. P. Michel, and C. Bouras

Sensitivity and specificity of newly proposed clinical criteria for possible vascular dementia
Neurology 1997 49: 690-694. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Olivier Godefroy and Marc Rousseaux

Novel decision making in patients with prefrontal or posterior brain damage
Neurology 1997 49: 695-701. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

M. F. Lew, B. T. Adornato, D. D. Duane, D. D. Dykstra, S. A. Factor, J. M. Massey, M. F. Brin, J. Jankovic, R. L. Rodnitzky, C. Singer, M. R. Swenson, D. Tarsy, J. J. Murray, M. Koller, and J. D. Wallace

Botulinum toxin type B: A double-blind, placebo-controlled, safety and efficacy study in cervical dystonia
Neurology 1997 49: 701-707. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

S. Goto, N. Kunitoku, N. Soyama, K. Yamada, A. Okamura, M. Yoshikawa, Y. Hirata, E. Uyama, and Y. Ushio

Posteroventral pallidotomy in a patient with parkinsonism caused by hypoxic encephalopathy
Neurology 1997 49: 707-710. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

L. Verhagen Metman, P. van den Munckhof, A. A. G. Klaassen, P. Blanchet, M. M. Mouradian, and T. N. Chase

Effects of supra-threshold levodopa doses on dyskinesias in advanced Parkinson's disease
Neurology 1997 49: 711-713. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

G. Logroscino, K. Marder, J. Graziano, G. Freyer, V. Slavkovich, N. LoIacono, L. Cote, and R. Mayeux

Altered systemic iron metabolism in Parkinson's disease
Neurology 1997 49: 714-717. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

N. Turjanski, A. J. Lees, and D. J. Brooks

In vivo studies on striatal dopamine D₁ and D₂ site binding in L-dopa-treated Parkinson's disease patients with and without dyskinesias
Neurology 1997 49: 717-723. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

K. M. Shannon, J. P. Bennett, Jr, J. H. Friedman, and the Pramipexole Study Group

Efficacy of pramipexole, a novel dopamine agonist, as monotherapy in mild to moderate Parkinson's disease
Neurology 1997 49: 724-728. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Thomas Lempert, Clive Wolsley, Rosalyn Davies, Michael A. Gresty, and Adolfo M. Bronstein

Three hundred sixty-degree rotation of the posterior semicircular canal for treatment of benign positional vertigo: A placebo-controlled trial
Neurology 1997 49: 729-733. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Richard A. Burgett, Valerie A. Purvin, and Aki Kawasaki

Lumboperitoneal shunting for pseudotumor cerebri
Neurology 1997 49: 734-739. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

G. K. Bergey, H. H. Morris, W. Rosenfeld, W. T. Blume, P. E. Penovich, M. J. Morrell, D. B. Leiderman, J. G. Crockatt, L. LaMoreaux, E. Garofalo, M. Pierce, and US Gabapentin Study Group 88/89

Gabapentin monotherapy: I. An 8-day, double-blind, dose controlled, multicenter study in hospitalized patients with refractory complex partial or secondarily generalized seizures
Neurology 1997 49: 739-745. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

A. Beydoun, J. Fischer, D. R. Labar, C. Harden, D. Cantrell, B. M. Uthman, J. C. Sackellares, B. Abou-Khalil, R. E. Ramsay, A. Hayes, M. Greiner, E. Garofalo, M. Pierce, and US Gabapentin Study Group 82/83

Gabapentin monotherapy: II. A 26-week, double-blind, dose-controlled, multicenter study of conversion from polytherapy in outpatients with refractory complex partial or secondarily generalized seizures
Neurology 1997 49: 746-752. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

W. Van Paesschen, J. S. Duncan, J. M. Stevens, and A. Connelly

Etiology and early prognosis of newly diagnosed partial seizures in adults: A quantitative hippocampal MRI study
Neurology 1997 49: 753-757. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

N. Foldvary, N. Lee, G. Thwaites, E. Mascha, J. Hammel, H. Kim, A. H. Friedman, and R. A. Radtke

Clinical and electrographic manifestations of lesional neocortical temporal lobe epilepsy
Neurology 1997 49: 757-763. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

M. J. Koepp, M. P. Richardson, C. Labbé, D. J. Brooks, V. J. Cunningham, J. Ashburner, W. Van Paesschen, T. Revesz, and J. S. Duncan

¹¹C-flumazenil PET, volumetric MRI, and quantitative pathology in mesial temporal lobe epilepsy
Neurology 1997 49: 764-773. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

R. I. Kuzniecky, E. Bilir, F. Gilliam, E. Faught, C. Palmer, R. Morawetz, and G. Jackson

Multimodality MRI in mesial temporal sclerosis: Relative sensitivity and specificity
Neurology 1997 49: 774-778. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

R. Katzman, M.-Y. Zhang, P. J. Chen, N. Gu, S. Jiang, T. Saitoh, X. Chen, M. Klauber, R. G. Thomas, W. T. Liu, and E.S. H. Yu

Effects of apolipoprotein E on dementia and aging in the Shanghai Survey of Dementia
Neurology 1997 49: 779-785. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Clifford R. Jack, Jr, Ronald C. Petersen, Yue Cheng Xu, Stephen C. Waring, Peter C. O'Brien, Eric G. Tangalos, Glenn E. Smith, Robert J. Ivnik, and Emre Kokmen

Medial temporal atrophy on MRI in normal aging and very mild Alzheimer's disease
Neurology 1997 49: 786-794. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

O. L. Lopez, M. I. Kamboh, J. T. Becker, D. I. Kaufer, and S. T. DeKosky

The apolipoprotein E 4 allele is not associated with psychiatric symptoms or extrapyramidal signs in probable Alzheimer's disease
Neurology 1997 49: 794-797. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

M. I. Geerlings, D.J. H. Deeg, B. Schmand, J. Lindeboom, and C. Jonker

Increased risk of mortality in Alzheimer's disease patients with higher education? A replication study
Neurology 1997 49: 798-802. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

R. M. Lazar, R. S. Marshall, J. Pile-Spellman, L. Hacein-Bey, W. L. Young, J. P. Mohr, and B. M. Stein

Anterior translocation of language in patients with left cerebral arteriovenous malformation
Neurology 1997 49: 802-808. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Britt Anderson

Pieces of the true crossover effect in neglect
Neurology 1997 49: 809-812. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

R. B. Lipton, T. Lowenkopf, Z. H. Bajwa, R. S. Leckie, S. Ribeiro, L. C. Newman, and M. A. Greenberg

Cardiac cephalgia: A treatable form of exertional headache
Neurology 1997 49: 813-816. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Manuela Albisetti, Gertrud Schaer, Markus Good, Eugen Boltshauser, and David Nadal

Diagnostic value of cerebrospinal fluid examination in children with peripheral facial palsy and suspected Lyme borreliosis
Neurology 1997 49: 817-824. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

A. Lazzarini, K. O. Schwarz, S. Jiang, E. S. Stenroos, T. Lehner, and W. G. Johnson

Pelizaeus-Merzbacher-like disease: Exclusion of the proteolipid protein locus and documentation of a new locus on Xq
Neurology 1997 49: 824-832. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

H. Miyajima, K. E. Orii, Y. Shindo, T. Hashimoto, T. Shinka, T. Kuhara, I. Matsumoto, H. Shimizu, and E. Kaneko

Mitochondrial trifunctional protein deficiency associated with recurrent myoglobinuria in adolescence
Neurology 1997 49: 833-837. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Kazuo Abe, Yoshimi Matsuo, Jun Kadekawa, Satoru Inoue, and Takehiko Yanagihara

Measurement of tissue oxygen consumption in patients with mitochondrial myopathy by noninvasive tissue oximetry
Neurology 1997 49: 837-841. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

T. Sander, B. Bockenkamp, T. Hildmann, R. Blasczyk, R. Kretz, T. F. Wienker, A. Volz, B. Schmitz, G. Beck-Mannagetta, O. Rieß, J. T. Epplen, D. Janz, and A. Ziegler

Refined mapping of the epilepsy susceptibility locus EJM1 on chromosome 6
Neurology 1997 49: 842-847. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

P. M. Bingham, N. Shen, H. Rennert, L. B. Rorke, A. W. Black, M. Marin-Padilla, and R. E. Nordgren

Arthrogryposis due to infantile neuronal degeneration associated with deletion of the SMN^T gene
Neurology 1997 49: 848-851. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

H. Rosenmann, M. Halimi, I. Kahana, I. Biran, and R. Gabizon

Differential allelic expression of PrP mRNA in carriers of the E200K mutation
Neurology 1997 49: 851-856. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Robert C. Collard, Richard P.M. Koehler, and David H. Mattson

Frequency and significance of antinuclear antibodies in multiple sclerosis
Neurology 1997 49: 857-861. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

L. A. Stone, J. A. Frank, P. S. Albert, C. N. Bash, P. A. Calabresi, H. Maloni, and H. F. McFarland

Characterization of MRI response to treatment with interferon beta-1b: Contrast-enhancing MRI lesion frequency as a primary outcome measure
Neurology 1997 49: 862-869. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

BRIEF COMMUNICATIONS:

M. Kaneko, S. Kuwabara, A. Hatakeyama, T. Fukutake, and T. Hattori

Guillain-Barré and virus-associated hemophagocytic syndromes contracted simultaneously following Epstein-Barr viral infection
Neurology 1997 49: 870-871. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Michael Hanna, Kerry Mills, Ladislav Pazdera, and John Newsom-Davis

Primary orthostatic tremor with prominent muscle hypertrophy
Neurology 1997 49: 872-874. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Lie-Gan Chia

Late blink reflex changes in lesions of thalamus and internal capsule
Neurology 1997 49: 874-876. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Steven W. Wheeler, Sheldon M. Wolf, and Evan A. Steinberg

Cat-scratch encephalopathy
Neurology 1997 49: 876-878. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Nebojsa Stojsavljevic, Zvonimir Levic, Jelena Drulovic, and Gradimir Dragutinovic

A 44-month clinical-brain MRI follow-up in a patient with B₁₂ deficiency
Neurology 1997 49: 878-881. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

R. Chen, A. Samii, M. Caños, E. M. Wassermann, and M. Hallett

Effects of phenytoin on cortical excitability in humans
Neurology 1997 49: 881-883. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Jeffrey T. Joseph

Periventricular heterotopias display cortical degenerative neuropathology
Neurology 1997 49: 884-887. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Jodi L. Kashmere and Andrew Kirk

The complex interaction of normal biases in line bisection
Neurology 1997 49: 887-889. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

D. C. Rubinsztein, J. Leggo, M. Chiano, S. Korn, A. Dodge, G. Norbury, E. Rosser, and D. Craufurd

Homozygotes and heterozygotes for ciliary neurotrophic factor null alleles do not show earlier onset of Huntington's disease
Neurology 1997 49: 890-892. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

CLINICAL/SCIENTIFIC NOTES:

David G. Vossler

Erroneous substitution of terbinafine for lamotrigine
Neurology 1997 49: 893. [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Maurício Cândido de Souza and Ricardo Nitrini

Effects of human immunodeficiency virus infection on the manifestations of neurosyphilis
Neurology 1997 49: 893-894. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Jonathan I. Orwitz, Steven L. Galetta, and James W. Teener

Bilateral trochlear nerve palsy and downbeat nystagmus in a patient with cephalic tetanus
Neurology 1997 49: 894-895. [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

K. Tanaka, M. Motomura, Y. Nakao, M. Tanaka, and S. Tsuji

Absence of anti-P/Q calcium channel antibody in the sera of patients with anti-Yo antibody-positive paraneoplastic cerebellar degeneration
Neurology 1997 49: 895-896. [Full Text] [PDF]  

CORRESPONDENCE:

Yashushi Osaki

Characterizing and diagnosing peripheral neuropathy
Neurology 1997 49: 897. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Peter James Dyck

Characterizing and diagnosing peripheral neuropathy
Neurology 1997 49: 897. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Leon J. Thal, Ronald G. Thomas, and Mary Sano

Tacrine and nursing home placement
Neurology 1997 49: 897-898. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Lon Schneider, David Knopman, Ken Davis, Stephen Gracon, and Fraser Smith

Tacrine and nursing home placement
Neurology 1997 49: 898-899. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Roberto Massa, Giuseppe Sancesario, and Giorgio Bernardi

Muscle phosphofructokinase deficiency
Neurology 1997 49: 899. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Kumaraswamy Sivakumar, Olavo Vasconcelos, Lev Goldfarb, and Marinos C. Dalakas

Muscle phosphofructokinase deficiency
Neurology 1997 49: 899. [Full Text] [PDF]  

A. Achiron

Complications of intravenous immune globulin treatment in neurologic disease
Neurology 1997 49: 899-900. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Thomas H. Brannagan, III, Keith J. Nagle, Dale J. Lange, and Lewis P. Rowland

Complications of intravenous immune globulin treatment in neurologic disease
Neurology 1997 49: 900. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Gordon J. Gilbert

Migraine and hypotension
Neurology 1997 49: 900. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Hing-Chung Lee

Migraine and hypotension
Neurology 1997 49: 900. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Jacques De Keyser

Thrombolytic therapy for acute ischemic stroke
Neurology 1997 49: 900-901. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Milton Alter and the Quality Standards Subcommittee, AAN

Thrombolytic therapy for acute ischemic stroke
Neurology 1997 49: 901. [Full Text] [PDF]  

David G. Benditt

Clinical neuromythology XV. Feinting science
Neurology 1997 49: 901-902. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Daniel Kosinski and Blair P. Grubb

Clinical neuromythology XV. Feinting science
Neurology 1997 49: 902. [Full Text] [PDF]  

William M. Landau and Dewey A. Nelson

Clinical neuromythology XV. Feinting science
Neurology 1997 49: 902-904. [Full Text] [PDF]  

CORRECTIONS:

Correction
Neurology 1997 49: 904. [Full Text] [PDF]  

CALENDAR:

Calendar
Neurology 1997 49: 26A-28A. [Full Text] [PDF]  

BOOK REVIEWS:

Stewart Tepper

Office Practice of Neurology
Neurology 1997 49: 65A. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Nancy L. Adams

The Blackwell Dictionary of Neuropsychology
Neurology 1997 49: 65A. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Edwin A. Weinstein

The Psychiatry of Stroke
Neurology 1997 49: 65A. [Full Text] [PDF]  

ISSUES OF NEUROLOGIC PRACTICE:

C. Benesch, D. M. Witter, Jr., A. L. Wilder, P. W. Duncan, G. P. Samsa, and D. B. Matchar

Inaccuracy of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-9-CM) in identifying the diagnosis of ischemic cerebrovascular disease
Neurology 1997 49: 660-664. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

PROFESSIONAL NOTICES:

Professional Notices
Neurology 1997 49: 75A-85A. [Full Text] [PDF]  

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