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Tuberculous leptomeningitis mimicking a migrainous status with osmophobia: a case report
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Updating on Italian Stroke Units: the “CCM study”
The Stroke Units (SUs) have been demonstrated to be efficient and cost effective for acute stroke care. Nevertheless, the level of stroke unit implementation in Italy does not correspond to expectations yet. T...
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Some Results on the Identification of Memory Kernels
The present paper is base on a talk given by one of the authors to the 7th International ISAAC Congress held in London, UK, in 2009. A few years ago the authors have introduced a strategy to prove global in ti...
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An Inverse Problem for a Phase-field Model in Sobolev Spaces
We prove an existence and uniqueness result for an inverse problem arising from a phase-field model with two memory kernels. More precisely, we identify the convolution memory kernels and the diffusion coeffic...
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An Italian case of CADASIL with mutation CGC-TCG in codon 1006, exon 19 Notch3 gene
Cerebral autosomal dominant arteriopathy with subcortical infarcts and leukoencephalopathy (CADASIL) is commonly overlooked or misdiagnosed owing to its recent identification. It is characterized clinically by...
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Risk of sporadic amyotrophic lateral sclerosis associated with seropositivity for herpesviruses and echovirus-7
We examined the association between risk of sporadic amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and seroprevalence of antibodies to echovirus-7 (echo-7) and herpesviruses 6, 7, and 8 through a population-based case–c...
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Epidemiological survey of X-linked bulbar and spinal muscular atrophy, or Kennedy disease, in the province of Reggio Emilia, Italy
Commencing with the work carried out during the epidemiological survey of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis in the period 1980–1992 and the pathology follow-up, we carried out a perspective incidence, prevalence a...
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Epidemiological study of myasthenia gravis in the province of Reggio Emilia, Italy
We carried out a retrospective incidence, prevalence and mortality survey of myasthenia gravis in the province of Reggio Emilia in Northern Italy. Based on 49 patients, the mean incidence per year for the peri...
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Lead, cadmium, and selenium in the blood of patients with sporadic amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
We determined whole blood lead and cadmium levels, and serum selenium levels in patients with sporadic amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and age- and sex-matched controls. Disability due to the disease directly co...
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High dose intravenous immune globulins and plasma exchange in Guillain-Barré Syndrome
We report the effects of treatment with plasma-exchange (PE) and intravenous immune globulins (IVIg) in 36 out of 50 patients with Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) recruited by an incidence study in the Emilia-Ro...
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Fourth meeting of the European Neurological Society 25–29 June 1994 Barcelona, Spain
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Peroneal muscular atrophy with hereditary spastic paraparesis (HMSN V) is pathologically heterogeneous
Peroneal muscular atrophy (PMA) associated with hereditary spastic paraparesis (HSP) is a nosologically ill-defined disease, which has been classified by Dyck as hereditary motor and sensory neuropathy type V ...
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Evidence for a Sex-Specific Facilitatory Effect of Melatonin on Prolactin Secretion. Is Pineal-Prolactin Interaction Relevant to the Clinical Course of Breast Cancer?
In all mammals tested so far melatonin (MT), the main pineal hormone, is secreted according to a large-amplitude circadian rhythm. Its profile of secretion is characterized by a brisk surge during the period o...
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Cerebellar Syndrome due to multiple ischemic lesions in hypothyroidism