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Crit Care
March 2016
Neurosciences Critical Care Division, Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Abnormal movements are frequently encountered in patients with brain injury hospitalized in intensive care units (ICUs), yet characterization of these movements and their underlying pathophysiology is difficult due to the comatose or uncooperative state of the patient. In addition, the available diagnostic approaches are largely derived from outpatients with neurodegenerative or developmental disorders frequently encountered in the outpatient setting, thereby limiting the applicability to inpatients with acute brain injuries. Thus, we reviewed the available literature regarding abnormal movements encountered in acutely ill patients with brain injuries.
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May 1999
Psychiatry Service, Little Rock VA Medical Center, Arkansas 72114, USA.
Background: Cocaine and its metabolites can produce vasospasm. Cocaine-dependent (CD) patients are at increased risk for stroke, and a high frequency of brain perfusion defects has been observed in clinically asymptomatic CD subjects. This is the first controlled magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) study of clinically asymptomatic CD subjects.
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November 1964
Arch Psychiatr Nervenkr Z Gesamte Neurol Psychiatr
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