To research his upcoming book about the twin fates of the caracara bird species and the 19th-century naturalist William Henry Hudson, Meiburg spent a month paddling upriver in the jungles of Guyana. Wandering through fields where bluebonnets periscope above wild grass, he taped the rhythmic “ribbit-ribbit” of frogs, cicadas shaking like maracas, and wind whispering to the leaves of a Bradford pear tree.ĭuszynski and Cross were fascinated by their bandmate’s adventurous spirit. Meiburg, who is an ornithologist in his life outside of music, recorded the gossip of parakeets and braying of macaws coming from a neighbor’s aviary over the hill. They enhanced the often-hushed chamber music by splicing in ambient sounds from outside the house. The trio opted to keep accidental noises - a panting dog, a chair scraping on the floor - in their richly textured recordings. It’s kind of radical even to say that I don’t want children.” “I actually wasn’t thinking about myself when I sang that, which is funny,” says Cross. That approach paid off on “I Don’t Want Children,” a song so intimately confessional that one imagines it should only be listened to on headphones when no one’s watching. (“He tends to jam a lot more into a song than I do,” says Cross.) She, in turn, approached each song as if embodying a character. Meiburg wrote lyrics for the admittedly shy Cross to sing. So, suddenly, when we got into working together every day, you get to know each other in a very different way.” “Even though we had been on tour a long time together, we didn’t know each other all that well. “The energy of starting a new project has the same kind of honeymoon quality to it as when you first fall in love with someone,” says Meiburg. The first song they wrote, “Joy,” features a hall-of-mirrors choral effect in which the harmonies reflect each other in an infinite loop. The nascent trio quickly knew the collaboration was going to work. Though Meiburg has made nine albums with Shearwater, it wasn’t his style to pull rank over the less-experienced Cross Record duo. Brooklyn resident Meiburg arrived at Cross and Duszynski’s country home to try writing together. Ahead of their honeymoon tour - which arrives at Great Scott in Allston on Sunday night - the trio revealed how they saved their musical union and completed Loma’s eponymously titled debut album.ĭuring the initial courtship, everyone was on their best behavior. This new group, named Loma, almost ended prematurely in divorce. All rights reserved.Many musicians liken being in a band to being married. Cerebrovascular disorders and spondyloarthritic cervical myelopathy are the most important entities in the differential diagnosis of LOMS.Ĭopyright © 2010 Sociedad Española de Neurología. The findings of cerebral and spinal MRI, CSF and VEP studies are of high diagnostic yield. The diagnosis is usually delayed and when it is made patients have a high disability score. LOMS course is often primary, progressive and motor and multisystem symptoms are the most frequent. The most frequent wrong diagnoses were cerebrovascular disorders and spondyloarthritic cervical myelopathy. Oligoclonal IgG bands were positive in the 64% of patients in the CSF study and VEP were abnormal in the 73%. The cerebral MRI study was abnormal and compatible with MS in all patients and fulfilled the Barkhof criteria in 12 (67% of cases).
The initial EDSS score was higher than 4 points in one third of patients and diagnosis delay was over 5 years in two thirds of cases. Clinical course (all the cases with a minimal follow-up of 5 years after the diagnosis): primary progressive-MS (62%), secondary progressive-MS (22%), relapsing-remitting-MS (16%). The most frequent first symptoms were motors deficits (33%), multisystem deficits (33%) and cerebellum disorder (16%). We included 18 patients (12 F and 6M) with LOMS (4.8% of the total). In this retrospective study we review demographic characteristics, first onset symptom, diagnostic delay, disability at the time of diagnosis (EDSS), disease course and findings in SCF, VEP and MRI studies.
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To study a series of patients with LOMS (presentation of the first symptom of disease after the age of 50 years). Late onset multiple sclerosis (LOMS) is an unusual entity, poorly characterised and difficult to diagnose.
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