Biomedical subjects

E V Spudis

Publications and source records attributed to E V Spudis.

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PubMed1981

The soul in left-handers: a neurologic site visit.

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PubMed1980

Monday-Tuesday petit mal exacerbations in a successful executive.

An executive reported Monday-Tuesday exacerbations of petit mal epilepsy for months at a time over a 29-year span. He had achieved rapid business promotions and, for unknown reasons, also had a good safety record in operating risky machinery. Such cycles were greatly influenced by his weekend activity. His success in a demanding discipline has been a useful example when counseling young people with similar epilepsy.

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PubMed1980

Somatosensory central latencies and disc discrimination in multiple sclerosis.

1. Somatosensory evoked potentials are abnormal in a large percentage of patients with severe multiple sclerosis if amplitude, latency and right-left asymmetry are all considered. Mild disease has remained difficult to identify. This screening test employing two stimulus sites in the same arm did not improve the yield. 2. Stimulation of the median nerve at the elbow is not often likely to justify the associated discomfort, except in patients with known disease in the forearm. 3. Measuring the central conduction velocities from easily recorded low cervical potentials up to the parietal scalp deflections eliminates the need to consider the length and health of the peripheral nerve stimulated. 4. Central conduction velocities were not significantly related to age or total body height in this population. Extremely old or tall subjects may still deserve special consideration if the cervical responses are truly nerve propagated waves. 5. One restricted measure of stereogno-sis--disc size discrimination, correlated well with conduction times from the low cervical region to short-latency deflections in the post-central parietal area, but patients with delayed onset of deflections still maintained normal interpeak latencies. 6. more precise correlations between components of stereognosis, and the integrity of mediating neurons, will be possible when the electrical generators of the SER are better delineated.

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PubMed1978

Brain death.

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PubMed1977

The psychiatrist's management of patients with undiagnosed brain neoplasm.

Of 679 patients with brain neoplasms admitted to either a medical school center or a community hospital during a nine-year period, 24 had been examined by a psychiatrist before definitive diagnosis of brain neoplasm. These 24 cases were studied to evaluate the role of the psychiatrist in the management of the patients before the neoplasm was diagnosed. Such cases pose many subtle problems for psychiatrists. However, ten of the 24 patients either were sent for definitive tests by the psychiatrist with the tentative diagnosis of brain neoplasm or were triaged to other consultants to pursue that diagnosis.

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PubMed1974