Year Book of Neurology and Neurosurgery

1. Cover image - p. 1 2. Title page - p. 2 3. Table of Contents - p. 3 4. Epilepsy and Other Seizure Disorders - p. 8 5. A rapid course through the five electrographic stages of status epilepticus - p. 9 6. Alcohol and drugs in epilepsy: Pathophysiology, presentation, possibilities, and prevention - p. 10 7. Advanced Treatments for Childhood Epilepsy: Beyond Antiseizure Medications - p. 11 8. Dilemmas in the interpretation of diagnostic accuracy studies on presurgical workup for epilepsy surgery - p. 12 9. Diagnosis and management of the epilepsies in children: a summary of the partial update of the 2012 NICE epilepsy guideline - p. 13 10. Epileptic encephalopathies (including severe epilepsy syndromes) - p. 14 11. Antiepileptic Drugs 2012: Recent Advances and Trends - p. 15 12. Benign childhood focal epilepsies - p. 16 13. Antiglutamic Acid Decarboxylase Antibodies in Children With Encephalitis and Status Epilepticus - p. 17 14. Cardiac autonomic dysfunction in drug naïve hot water epilepsy - p. 18 15. Dramatic weight loss with rufinamide - p. 19 16. A randomized controlled trial of flunarizine as add-on therapy and effect on cognitive outcome in children with infantile spasms - p. 20 17. Acute EEG findings in children with febrile status epilepticus: Results of the FEBSTAT study - p. 21 18. Lamotrigine Serum Concentration in Children With Epilepsy - p. 22 19. Feasibility of antiepileptic drug withdrawal following extratemporal resective epilepsy surgery - p. 23 20. Clinical outcomes, quality of life, and costs associated with implantation of vagus nerve stimulation therapy in pediatric patients with drug-resistant epilepsy - p. 24 21. Aggressive behavior and epilepsy: A multicenter study - p. 25 22. Headache - p. 26 23. Thunderclap headache - p. 27 24. Advances in Drug Development for Acute Migraine - p. 28 25. Improvement in Headaches With Continuous Positive Airway Pressure for Obstructive Sleep Apnea: A Retrospective Analysis - p. 29 26. Treatment of Pediatric Migraine in the Emergency Room - p. 30 27. Resident and Fellow Section - p. 31 28. Unusual Headache Syndromes - p. 32 29. Her versus his migraine: multiple sex differences in brain function and structure - p. 33 30. Bilateral acute angle-closure glaucoma in a migraine patient receiving topiramate: a case report - p. 34 31. Obese children suffer more often from migraine - p. 35 32. Frequency and Burden of Headache-Related Nausea: Results From the American Migraine Prevalence and Prevention (AMPP) Study - p. 36 33. The syndrome of transient headache and neurological deficits with cerebrospinal fluid lymphocytosis (HaNDL) as an acute ischemic stroke mimic leading to systemic thrombolysis: A case report - p. 37 34. LASH Syndrome: A Third Reported Case Twelve Years After the First - p. 38 35. Does Health Information Exchange Reduce Unnecessary Neuroimaging and Improve Quality of Headache Care in the Emergency Department? - p. 39 36. Dry Eyes and Migraines: Is There Really a Correlation? - p. 40 37. Pediatric Posttraumatic Headache: Two Cases Using Steroids as Abortive Therapy - p. 41 38. Infectious Diseases of the Nervous System - p. 42 39. Ultrasound study shows nerve atrophy in post herpetic neuralgia - p. 43 40. Case 1-2013: A 63-Year-Old Man with Paresthesias and Difficulty Swallowing - p. 44 41. Varicella-zoster virus encephalitis and vasculopathy in a patient treated with fingolimod - p. 45 42. Steroids and Childhood Encephalitis - p. 46 43. Iatrogenic prion diseases in humans: an update - p. 47 44. Seizures and encephalitis: Clinical features, management, and potential pathophysiologic mechanisms - p. 48 45. The Index Case for the Fungal Meningitis Outbreak in the United States - p. 49 46. Nationwide survey of patients in Japan with Bickerstaff brainstem encephalitis: epidemiological and clinical characteristics - p. 50 47. Locally acquired West Nile encephalitis - p. 51 48. Advances in treatment of bacterial meningitis - p. 52 49. Acute meningitis prognosis using cerebrospinal fluid interleukin-6 levels - p. 53 50. Dilemmas in the diagnosis of acute community-acquired bacterial meningitis - p. 54 51. A comparison of tau and 14-3-3 protein in the diagnosis of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease - p. 55 52. Extreme delta brush: A unique EEG pattern in adults with anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis - p. 56 53. A Life-Threatening Central Nervous System–Tuberculosis Inflammatory Reaction Nonresponsive to Corticosteroids and Successfully Controlled by Infliximab in a Young Patient With a Variant of Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis - p. 57 54. Movement Disorders - p. 58 55. Clinical features of dopamine agonist withdrawal syndrome in a movement disorders clinic - p. 59 56. Clinical subtypes of anterocollis in parkinsonian syndromes - p. 60 57. Accuracy of a Panel of 5 Cerebrospinal Fluid Biomarkers in the Differential Diagnosis of Patients With Dementia and/or Parkinsonian Disorders - p. 61 58. Cerebral pathological and compensatory mechanisms in the premotor phase of leucine-rich repeat kinase 2 parkinsonism - p. 62 59. Neurologist-associated reduction in PD-related hospitalizations and health care expenditures - p. 63 60. Risk factors for freezing of gait in Parkinson's disease - p. 64 61. Treatment patterns and associated costs with Parkinson's disease levodopa induced dyskinesia - p. 65 62. Anti-cholinergics for axial symptoms in Parkinson's disease after subthalamic stimulation - p. 66 63. Musculoskeletal problems as an initial manifestation of Parkinson's disease: A retrospective study - p. 67 64. Randomized clinical trial of fipamezole for dyskinesia in Parkinson disease (FJORD study) - p. 68 65. Comparison of patient rated treatment response with measured improvement in Parkinson's disease - p. 69 66. A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of antidepressants in Parkinson disease - p. 70 67. Randomized trial of deep brain stimulation for Parkinson disease: Thirty-six-month outcomes - p. 71 68. Placebo-controlled trial of lubiprostone for constipation associated with Parkinson disease - p. 72 69. Worsening essential tremor following deep brain stimulation: disease progression versus tolerance - p. 73 70. Multiple Sclerosis and Other Demyelinating Diseases - p. 74 71. “Undiagnosing” multiple sclerosis: the challenge of misdiagnosis in MS - p. 75 72. Fatigue in multiple sclerosis – A brief review - p. 76 73. Low vitamin D and elevated immunoreactivity against Epstein–Barr virus before first clinical manifestation of multiple sclerosis - p. 77 74. Disease-modifying drugs for multiple sclerosis in pregnancy: A systematic review - p. 78 75. Distinct lesion morphology at 7-T MRI differentiates neuromyelitis optica from multiple sclerosis - p. 79 76. Alemtuzumab for patients with relapsing multiple sclerosis after disease-modifying therapy: a randomised controlled phase 3 trial - p. 80 77. The cervical spinal cord in neuromyelitis optica patients: A comparative study with multiple sclerosis using diffusion tensor imaging - p. 81 78. Decreased Frontal Lobe Gray Matter Perfusion in Cognitively Impaired Patients with Secondary-Progressive Multiple Sclerosis Detected by the Bookend Technique - p. 82 79. Effect of Aquatic Exercise Training on Fatigue and Health-Related Quality of Life in Patients With Multiple Sclerosis - p. 83 80. Heterogeneity of cortical lesions in multiple sclerosis: Clinical and pathologic implications - p. 84 81. Gray Matter Pathology in MS: A 3-Year Longitudinal Study in a Pediatric Population - p. 85 82. Placebo-Controlled Phase 3 Study of Oral BG-12 for Relapsing Multiple Sclerosis - p. 86 83. Cortical lesion load associates with progression of disability in multiple sclerosis - p. 87 84. Impact of Fingolimod Therapy on Magnetic Resonance Imaging Outcomes in Patients With Multiple Sclerosis - p. 88 85. Ginkgo biloba does not improve cognitive function in MS: A randomized placebo-controlled trial - p. 89 86. Neoplastic Disease - p. 90 87. Refractory temporal lobe epilepsy caused by angiocentric glioma complicated with focal cortical dysplasia: a surgical case series - p. 91 88. An experimental study on acute brain radiation injury: Dynamic changes in proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy and the correlation with histopathology - p. 92 89. Differentiation of glioblastoma and primary CNS lymphomas using susceptibility weighted imaging - p. 93 90. Long-term follow-up of vanishing tumors in the brain: How should a lesion mimicking primary CNS lymphoma be managed? - p. 94 91. Diffusion Tensor Imaging Provides an Insight Into the Microstructure of Meningiomas, High-Grade Gliomas, and Peritumoral Edema - p. 95 92. A randomized trial on the efficacy of methylphenidate and modafinil for improving cognitive functioning and symptoms in patients with a primary brain tumor - p. 96 93. Valproic acid sensitizes human glioma cells for temozolomide and γ-radiation - p. 97 94. Risk of ischemia in glioma surgery: comparison of first and repeat procedures - p. 98 95. Differentiation between Brain Glioblastoma Multiforme and Solitary Metastasis: Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis Based on Routine MR Imaging - p. 99 96. Detection of IDH1 mutation in the plasma of patients with glioma - p. 100 97. Correlation between language function and the left arcuate fasciculus detected by diffusion tensor imaging tractography after brain tumor surgery - p. 101 98. Cognitive functioning early after surgery of gliomas in eloquent areas - p. 102 99. Diagnostic performance of whole brain volume perfusion CT in intra-axial brain tumors: Preoperative classification accuracy and histopathologic correlation - p. 103 100. Diffuse brainstem glioma: prognostic factors - p. 104 101. Cranial Irradiation Increases Risk of Stroke in Pediatric Brain Tumor Survivors - p. 105 102. Comparison of a Strategy Favoring Early Surgical Resection vs a Strategy Favoring Watchful Waiting in Low-Grade Gliomas - p. 106 103. Neuromuscular Disease - p. 107 104. Comprehensive analysis of the TRPV4 gene in a large series of inherited neuropathies and controls - p. 108 105. Curcumin derivatives promote Schwann cell differentiation and improve neuropathy in R98C CMT1B mice - p. 109 106. Novel mutation in VCP gene causes atypical amyotrophic lateral sclerosis - p. 110 107. GSK3β mediates muscle pathology in myotonic dystrophy - p. 111 108. Dysfunction of the neuromuscular junction in spinal muscular atrophy types 2 and 3 - p. 112 109. Characterization of a Family With c9FTD/ALS Associated With the GGGGCC Repeat Expansion in C9ORF72 - p. 113 110. Myasthenia gravis in the elderly - p. 114 111. Extensive genetics of ALS: A population-based study in Italy - p. 115 112. Reliability and accuracy of skeletal muscle imaging in limb-girdle muscular dystrophies - p. 116 113. Awaji Criteria for the Diagnosis of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis: A Systematic Review - p. 117 114. Neuro-otology - p. 118 115. Recent advances in central acute vestibular syndrome of a vascular cause - p. 119 116. Gamma Knife Treatment of Growing Vestibular Schwannoma in Norway: A Prospective Study - p. 120 117. Current epidemiology and management trends in acoustic neuroma - p. 121 118. Neuroanatomical correlates of tinnitus revealed by cortical thickness analysis and diffusion tensor imaging - p. 122 119. Endolymphatic Space Imaging in Idiopathic Sudden Sensorineural Hearing Loss With Vertigo - p. 123 120. Short-term audiologic effect of intratympanic gadolinium contrast agent application in patients with Ménière's disease - p. 124 121. Audiovestibular Dysfunction Associated with Adoptive Cell Immunotherapy for Melanoma - p. 125 122. Quality of Life of Patients With Bilateral Vestibulopathy - p. 126 123. Traumatic Tympanic Membrane Perforations: Clinical and Audiometric Findings in 198 Patients - p. 127 124. Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo in people with traumatic spinal cord injury: incidence, treatment efficacy and implications - p. 128 125. A Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Clinical Study to Assess Safety and Clinical Activity of OTO-104 Given as a Single Intratympanic Injection in Patients With Unilateral Ménière's Disease - p. 129 126. Auditory and Vestibular Symptoms and Chronic Subjective Dizziness in Patients With Ménière's Disease, Vestibular Migraine, and Ménière's Disease With Concomitant Vestibular Migraine - p. 130 127. Irreversible Atorvastatin-Associated Hearing Loss - p. 131 128. Tinnitus in Children: Association With Stress and Trait Anxiety - p. 132 129. Risk of Developing Sudden Sensorineural Hearing Loss in Diabetic Patients: A Population-Based Cohort Study - p. 133 130. Pediatric Neurology - p. 134 131. Early-Onset Epileptic Encephalopathies: Ohtahara Syndrome and Early Myoclonic Encephalopathy - p. 135 132. A Randomized, Double-Blind Study of 30 Versus 20 mg Dexmethylphenidate Extended-Release in Children With Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: Late-Day Symptom Control - p. 136 133. Glucose transporter type I deficiency syndrome: Epilepsy phenotypes and outcomes - p. 137 134. Does a Normalizing Electroencephalogram in Benign Childhood Epilepsy with Centrotemporal Spikes Abort Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder? - p. 138 135. Fever and fever-related epilepsies - p. 139 136. Sleep Disorders - p. 140 137. Society for Ambulatory Anesthesia Consensus Statement on Preoperative Selection of Adult Patients With Obstructive Sleep Apnea Scheduled for Ambulatory Surgery - p. 141 138. Characteristics of refractory vs. medically controlled epilepsy patients with obstructive sleep apnea and their response to CPAP treatment - p. 142 139. The impact of epilepsy on sleep architecture during childhood - p. 143 140. Effect of Continuous Positive Airway Pressure on the Incidence of Hypertension and Cardiovascular Events in Nonsleepy Patients With Obstructive Sleep Apnea: A Randomized Controlled Trial - p. 144 141. Association of Sleep-Disordered Breathing With Cognitive Dysfunction in CKD Stages 4-5 - p. 145 142. Effect of Continuous Positive Airway Pressure Therapy on Cardiovascular Risk Factors in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes and Obstructive Sleep Apnea - p. 146 143. Effect of Continuous Positive Airway Pressure on C-reactive Protein Levels in Sleep Apnea: A Meta-analysis - p. 147 144. Sleep-disordered breathing in multiple sclerosis - p. 148 145. Effects of Continuous Positive Airway Pressure on Neurocognitive Function in Obstructive Sleep Apnea Patients: The Apnea Positive Pressure Long-Term Efficacy Study (APPLES) - p. 149 146. Adaptive Servoventilation for Treatment of Sleep-Disordered Breathing in Heart Failure: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis - p. 150 147. Cardiovascular Mortality in Obstructive Sleep Apnea in the Elderly: Role of Long-Term Continuous Positive Airway Pressure Treatment: A Prospective Observational Study - p. 151 148. Utility of overnight pulse oximetry and heart rate variability analysis to screen for sleep-disordered breathing in chronic heart failure - p. 152 149. The Associations of Insomnia With Costly Workplace Accidents and Errors: Results From the America Insomnia Survey - p. 153 150. Association of Insomnia and Short Sleep Duration With Atherosclerosis Risk in the Elderly - p. 154 151. Sleep-disordered Breathing and Cancer Mortality: Results from the Wisconsin Sleep Cohort Study - p. 155 152. Association of multiple sclerosis with restless legs syndrome and other sleep disorders in women - p. 156 153. Miscellaneous - p. 157 154. American Medical Society for Sports Medicine Position Statement: Concussion in Sport - p. 158 155. Advances in stem cell therapy for spinal cord injury - p. 159 156. A pilot study of cerebral and haemodynamic physiological changes during sedation with dexmedetomidine or propofol in patients with acute brain injury - p. 160 157. Complex single gene disorders and epilepsy - p. 161 158. Clinical Applications of Hybrid PET/MRI in Neuroimaging - p. 162 159. Comparative stroke risk of antiepileptic drugs in patients with epilepsy - p. 163 160. Brain Tumors - p. 164 161. Endoscopic endonasal surgery for giant pituitary adenomas: advantages and limitations - p. 165 162. Value of endoscopy for maximizing tumor removal in endonasal transsphenoidal pituitary adenoma surgery - p. 166 163. Hearing preservation in patients with vestibular schwannoma treated with Gamma Knife surgery - p. 167 164. Longitudinal analysis of hearing before and after radiosurgery for vestibular schwannoma - p. 168 165. Long-term hearing outcomes following stereotactic radiosurgery for vestibular schwannoma: patterns of hearing loss and variables influencing audiometric decline - p. 169 166. Long-term safety and efficacy of stereotactic radiosurgery for vestibular schwannomas: evaluation of 440 patients more than 10 years after treatment with Gamma Knife surgery - p. 170 167. Gamma Knife surgery in the treatment paradigm for foramen magnum meningiomas - p. 171 168. Giant anterior clinoidal meningiomas: surgical technique and outcomes - p. 172 169. The role of radiotherapy following gross-total resection of atypical meningiomas - p. 173 170. Cerebral revascularization and carotid artery resection at the skull base for treatment of advanced head and neck malignancies - p. 174 171. Chromosomal alterations, prognostic factors, and targeted molecular therapies for malignant meningiomas - p. 175 172. Ten years of experience with microsurgical treatment of large and giant petroclival meningiomas - p. 176 173. Radiation-induced meningiomas after high-dose cranial irradiation - p. 177 174. The role of radiotherapy following gross-total resection of atypical meningiomas - p. 178 175. Single-Fraction Radiosurgery of Benign Intracranial Meningiomas - p. 179 176. The influence of surgery on quality of life in patients with intracranial meningiomas: a prospective study - p. 180 177. Risk for leptomeningeal seeding after resection for brain metastases: Implication of tumor location with mode of resection - p. 181 178. Systematic review of primary intracranial glioblastoma multiforme with symptomatic spinal metastases, with two illustrative patients - p. 182 179. Retrosigmoid Approach to Cerebellopontine Angle Tumor Resection: Surgical Modifications - p. 183 180. Early rehabilitation after surgery improves functional outcome in inpatients with brain tumours - p. 184 181. Chromosomal anomalies and prognostic markers for intracranial and spinal ependymomas - p. 185 182. Imaging modalities in high-grade gliomas: Pseudoprogression, recurrence, or necrosis? - p. 186 183. Frameless robotically targeted stereotactic brain biopsy: feasibility, diagnostic yield, and safety - p. 187 184. Cerebrovascular - p. 188 185. Long-term Results of Gamma Knife Surgery for Partially Embolized Arteriovenous Malformations - p. 189 186. Validation and absolute quantification of MR perfusion compared with CT perfusion in patients with unilateral cerebral arterial stenosis - p. 190 187. Safety and Efficacy of Intraoperative Angiography in Craniotomies for Cerebral Aneurysms and Arteriovenous Malformations: A Review of 1093 Consecutive Cases - p. 191 188. Solitaire flow restoration device versus the Merci Retriever in patients with acute ischaemic stroke (SWIFT): a randomised, parallel-group, non-inferiority trial - p. 192 189. Early Postmarket Results After Treatment of Intracranial Aneurysms With the Pipeline Embolization Device: A US Multicenter Experience - p. 193 190. A Comparison of Radiation Exposure between Diagnostic CTA and DSA Examinations of Cerebral and Cervicocerebral Vessels - p. 194 191. Endovascular Therapy after Intravenous t-PA versus t-PA Alone for Stroke - p. 195 192. Does Stent Implantation Improve the Result of Repeat Embolization in Recanalized Aneurysms? - p. 196 193. Distinctive flow pattern of wall shear stress and oscillatory shear index: similarity and dissimilarity in ruptured and unruptured cerebral aneurysm blebs - p. 197 194. Subarachnoid Hemorrhage Incidence in the United States Does Not Vary with Season or Temperature - p. 198 195. Surgical results of the Carotid Occlusion Surgery Study - p. 199 196. Stroke After Carotid Stenting and Endarterectomy in the Carotid Revascularization Endarterectomy Versus Stenting Trial (CREST) - p. 200 197. Pediatric Neurosurgery - p. 201 198. Craniocervical fusions in children - p. 202 199. Image-guided cerebrospinal fluid shunting in children: catheter accuracy and shunt survival - p. 203 200. Optimal timing of autologous cranioplasty after decompressive craniectomy in children - p. 204 201. Treatment of choroid plexus tumors: a 20-year single institutional experience - p. 205 202. Internal cranial expansion surgery for the treatment of refractory idiopathic intracranial hypertension - p. 206 203. Follow-up imaging to detect recurrence of surgically treated pediatric arteriovenous malformations - p. 207 204. Programmable shunt valve affected by exposure to a tablet computer - p. 208 205. Nonprogrammable and programmable cerebrospinal fluid shunt valves: a 5-year study - p. 209 206. The use of abdominal binders to treat over-shunting headaches - p. 210 207. Choroid plexus coagulation for hydrocephalus not due to CSF overproduction: a review - p. 211 208. Shunt survival after failed endoscopic treatment of hydrocephalus - p. 212 209. Second impact syndrome in football: new imaging and insights into a rare and devastating condition - p. 213 210. Spine - p. 214 211. Interrater and Intrarater Reliability of the Kuntz et al New Deformity Classification System - p. 215 212. Cervical decompression and reconstruction without intraoperative neurophysiological monitoring - p. 216 213. Surgical management of unknown primary tumors metastatic to the spine - p. 217 214. Results and complications after 2-level axial lumbar interbody fusion with a minimum 2-year follow-up - p. 218 215. Unilateral surgical approach for lumbar disc herniation with contralateral symptoms - p. 219 216. Outcomes of instrumented fusion in the pediatric cervical spine - p. 220 217. 2012 Young Investigator Award Winner: The Distribution of Body Mass as a Significant Risk Factor for Lumbar Spinal Fusion Postoperative Infections - p. 221 218. An Injectable Nucleus Pulposus Implant Restores Compressive Range of Motion in the Ovine Disc - p. 222 219. Incidental durotomy after spinal surgery: a prospective study in an academic institution: Presented at the 2012 Joint Spine Section Meeting - p. 223 220. Perioperative and delayed complications associated with the surgical treatment of cervical spondylotic myelopathy based on 302 patients from the AOSpine North America Cervical Spondylotic Myelopathy Study: Presented at the 2011 Spine Section Meeting - p. 224 221. Microscope Sterility During Spine Surgery - p. 225 222. C2 Nerve Root Sectioning in Posterior C1-2 Instrumented Fusions - p. 226 223. Surgical Techniques - p. 227 224. Intradural anterior petrosectomy for petroclival meningiomas: a new surgical technique and results in 5 patients - p. 228 225. Validation of the superior interhemispheric approach for tuberculum sellae meningioma - p. 229