Adriana Suely de Oliveira Melo, MD, PhD; Renato Santana Aguiar, PhD; Melania Maria Ramos Amorim, MD, PhD; et al.
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JAMA Neurol. 2016;73(12):1407-1416. doi:10.1001/jamaneurol.2016.3720
This case series describes the prenatal evolution and perinatal outcomes of 11 neonates who had developmental abnormalities and neurological damage associated with maternal Zika virus infection in Brazil.
Marina Boccardi, PhD; Daniele Altomare, MS; Clarissa Ferrari, PhD; et al.
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JAMA Neurol. 2016;73(12):1417-1424. doi:10.1001/jamaneurol.2016.3751
This multicenter cohort study examines the use of florbetapir F 18 positron emission tomography in the confirmation or change in the diagnosis of Alzheimer disease and other cognitive impairment disorders.
Jeri W. Nieves, PhD; Chris Gennings, PhD; Pam Factor-Litvak, PhD; et al.
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JAMA Neurol. 2016;73(12):1425-1432. doi:10.1001/jamaneurol.2016.3401
This cross-sectional study evaluates the associations between nutrients, individually and in groups, and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis function and respiratory function at diagnosis.
David S. Lynch, MRCPI; Wei Jia Zhang, MRCP; Rahul Lakshmanan, FRANZCR; et al.
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JAMA Neurol. 2016;73(12):1433-1439. doi:10.1001/jamaneurol.2016.2229
This case series describes the features of adult-onset leukoencephalopathy with axonal spheroids and pigmented glia and performs genetic sequencing in patients who do not carry CSF1R mutations.
Gregoire Boulouis, MD, MSc; Ellis S. van Etten, MD, MSc; Andreas Charidimou, MD, PhD; et al.
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JAMA Neurol. 2016;73(12):1440-1447. doi:10.1001/jamaneurol.2016.2619
This analysis of data collected from consecutive patients admitted with primary lobar or deep intracerebral hemorrhage to a single tertiary care medical center investigates the association between key magnetic resonance imaging markers of small vessel disease and hematoma volume and expansion.
Tamara Shiner, MBChB, PhD; Anat Mirelman, PhD; Mali Gana Weisz, PhD; et al.
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JAMA Neurol. 2016;73(12):1448-1453. doi:10.1001/jamaneurol.2016.1593
This cross-sectional study assesses the prevalence of GBA gene mutations in Ashkenazi Jews with clinically probable or possible dementia with Lewy bodies, and associations between GBA carrier status and disease severity.
Connie Luk, PhD; Samantha Jones, BSc; Claire Thomas, BSc; et al.
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JAMA Neurol. 2016;73(12):1454-1460. doi:10.1001/jamaneurol.2016.3733
This cross-sectional study assesses the feasibility of sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease diagnosis by adaptation of an established variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease diagnostic blood test to urine.
Eliza C. Miller, MD; Hajere J. Gatollari, MPH; Gloria Too, MD; et al.
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JAMA Neurol. 2016;73(12):1461-1467. doi:10.1001/jamaneurol.2016.3774
This population-based cohort study uses data from the New York State SPARCS database to examine the risk of stroke in women of childbearing age who are pregnant or post partum compared with the risk in those who are not pregnant.
Brian C. Callaghan, MD, MS; Rong Xia, MS; Evan Reynolds, MS; et al.
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JAMA Neurol. 2016;73(12):1468-1476. doi:10.1001/jamaneurol.2016.3745
This cross-sectional study examines the prevalence of polyneuropathy stratified by glycemic status in obese and lean participants and investigates the association of specific components of metabolic syndrome with polyneuropathy.
Sangwon Han, MD; Minyoung Oh, MD, PhD; Jungsu S. Oh, PhD; et al.
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JAMA Neurol. 2016;73(12):1477-1484. doi:10.1001/jamaneurol.2016.3243
This case-control study investigates the subregional pattern of striatal dopamine transporter loss in patients with pure akinesia with gait freezing in comparison with patients with progressive supranuclear palsy and those with Parkinson disease.