Horner's syndrome, Pseudo-Horner's syndrome, and simple anisocoria.

abstract：:Syringobulbia is an uncommon condition, usually a late complication of syringomyelia. It has predilection for the dorsolateral region of the medulla leading to damage to vestibular nuclei and their connections, as well as to the descending sympathetic fibers. Oscillopsia, nystagmus, and Horner syndrome are frequent ma...

journal_title：Current neurology and neuroscience reports

authors： Nogués M,López L,Meli F

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuronal failure leading to dementia in neurodegenerative diseases is evidenced in vivo by functional and structural changes in the brain such as reductions of glucose consumption and volume of grey matter. The earliest phase of cognitive decline and presymptomatic stages of these diseases are heralded by specific pat...

journal_title：Current neurology and neuroscience reports

authors： Rodriguez-Oroz MC,Gago B,Clavero P,Delgado-Alvarado M,Garcia-Garcia D,Jimenez-Urbieta H

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF THE REVIEW:The aims of fluid management in acute brain injury are to preserve or restore physiology and guarantee appropriate tissue perfusion, avoiding potential iatrogenic effects. We reviewed the literature, focusing on the clinical implications of the selected papers. Our purposes were to summarize the p...

journal_title：Current neurology and neuroscience reports

authors： Rossi S,Picetti E,Zoerle T,Carbonara M,Zanier ER,Stocchetti N

更新日期：2018-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Many currently prescribed antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) act via voltage-gated sodium channels, through effects on gamma-aminobutyric acid-mediated inhibition, or via voltage-gated calcium channels. Some newer AEDs do not act via these traditional mechanisms. The molecular targets for several of these nontraditional AEDs ...

journal_title：Current neurology and neuroscience reports

authors： Rogawski MA,Bazil CW

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the past few decades, intracranial monitoring technologies focused on treating and preempting secondary injury after traumatic brain injury (TBI) have experienced considerable growth. A physiological measure fundamental to the management of these patients is cerebral blood flow (CBF), which may be determined dire...

journal_title：Current neurology and neuroscience reports

authors： Akbik OS,Carlson AP,Krasberg M,Yonas H

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Successful critical care management of patients with aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage requires a thorough understanding of the disease and its complications and a familiarity with modern multimodality neuromonitoring technology. This article reviews the natural history of aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage and strat...

journal_title：Current neurology and neuroscience reports

authors： Levine JM

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic meningitis can be a diagnostic dilemma for even the most experienced clinician. Many times, the differential diagnosis is broad and encompasses autoimmune, neoplastic, and infectious etiologies. This review will focus on a general approach to chronic meningitis to simplify the diagnostic challenges many clinic...

journal_title：Current neurology and neuroscience reports

authors： Baldwin K,Whiting C

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite increases in our understanding of rabies pathogenesis, it remains an inevitably fatal disease. Lack of awareness, low level of political commitment to rabies control, and failure to recognize and correlate clinical, laboratory, and neuroimaging features contribute to continuing deaths. Clinical symptomatology,...

journal_title：Current neurology and neuroscience reports

authors： Hemachudha T,Wacharapluesadee S,Laothamatas J,Wilde H

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a leading cause of disability among young adults and has a significant economic impact on society. Although MS is not currently a curable disease, costly treatments known as disease-modifying therapies (DMTs) are available to reduce the disease impact in certain types of MS. In the current e...

journal_title：Current neurology and neuroscience reports

authors： Manouchehrinia A,Constantinescu CS

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurologic paraneoplastic syndromes (NPSs) result from damage to the nervous system due to the remote effects of cancer not related to metastasis, infection, or metabolic derangements. NPSs are rare, affecting 1 in 10,000 patients with cancer. Pathogenesis is likely related to the immune mechanisms: normal neural tiss...

journal_title：Current neurology and neuroscience reports

authors： Mehta SH,Morgan JC,Sethi KD

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic migraine occurs in about 3% of pediatric headaches. Many would be intractable to more than two preventive medications. OnabotulinumtoxinA has been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration for the use of chronic migraine in adults in 2010. Data on effectiveness and tolerability in the pediatric populatio...

journal_title：Current neurology and neuroscience reports

authors： Kabbouche M,O'Brien H,Hershey AD

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:This review overviews perioperative stroke as it pertains to specific surgical procedures. RECENT FINDINGS:As awareness of perioperative stroke increases, so does the opportunity to potentially improve outcomes for these patients by early stroke recognition and intervention. Perioperative stroke is d...

journal_title：Current neurology and neuroscience reports

authors： Leary MC,Varade P

更新日期：2020-04-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Diffuse infiltrative low grade gliomas (LGG) account for approximately 15 % of all gliomas. The prognosis of LGG differs between high-risk and low-risk patients notwithstanding varying definitions of what constitutes a high-risk patient. Maximal safe resection optimally is the initial treatment. Surgery that achieves ...

journal_title：Current neurology and neuroscience reports

authors： Le Rhun E,Taillibert S,Chamberlain MC

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:Clinical trials using agents directed at neuroprotection and remyelination in multiple sclerosis (MS) are needed. As optic neuritis (ON) is common in people with MS and the pathology of ON is similar to other MS lesions in the brain, measurements of the anterior visual system are frequently utilized i...

journal_title：Current neurology and neuroscience reports

authors： Silbermann E,Wooliscroft L,Bourdette D

更新日期：2018-06-19 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:Traumatic brain injuries are common, especially within the elderly population, which is typically defined as age 65 and older. This narrative review aims at summarizing and critically evaluating important aspects of their health care management in covering the entire pathway from prehospital care to r...

journal_title：Current neurology and neuroscience reports

authors： Schumacher R,Müri RM,Walder B

更新日期：2017-10-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Iatrogenic fungal infections of the central nervous system had been considered a medical curiosity. Generally, they are a rare isolated complication of neurosurgical procedures, but periodically these infections are observed in larger populations as a result of exposure to contaminated materials during diagnostic or t...

journal_title：Current neurology and neuroscience reports

authors： Lahoti S,Berger JR

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:Research has consistently shown that type 2 diabetes (T2D) is associated with increased risk of all-cause dementia. Because one of the most common clinical presentations of early stage dementia is memory impairment, we examined the relationship of T2D with memory function, using the recently published...

journal_title：Current neurology and neuroscience reports

authors： Arvanitakis Z,Tatavarthy M,Bennett DA

更新日期：2020-11-05 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:GBA mutations are the most common known genetic cause of Parkinson's disease (PD). Its biological pathway may be important in idiopathic PD, since activity of the enzyme encoded by GBA, glucocerebrosidase, is reduced even among PD patients without GBA mutations. This article describes the structure an...

journal_title：Current neurology and neuroscience reports

authors： Gan-Or Z,Liong C,Alcalay RN

更新日期：2018-06-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Sleep is a function of the brain and sleep affects brain function, contributing to cerebral pathology through a diversity of direct and indirect mechanisms. Sleep-disordered breathing (SDB) is a very common disorder and is the major sleep-related risk factor for cerebrovascular disease. Epidemiologic studies have show...

journal_title：Current neurology and neuroscience reports

authors： Culebras A

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:Parkinson's disease (PD) is a complex neurodegenerative disorder, the aetiology of which is still largely unknown. Overwhelming evidence indicates that mitochondrial dysfunction is a central factor in PD pathophysiology. Here we review recent developments around mitochondrial dysfunction in familial a...

journal_title：Current neurology and neuroscience reports

authors： Park JS,Davis RL,Sue CM

更新日期：2018-04-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The sequelae of post-stroke aphasia are considerable, with implications at the societal and personal levels. An understanding of the mechanisms of recovery of cognitive and language processes after stroke and the factors associated with increased risk of post-stroke language and cognitive deficits is vital in providin...

journal_title：Current neurology and neuroscience reports

authors： Tippett DC

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:Hiccups are a common problem that crosses multiple disciplines including neurology, gastroenterology and pulmonology, and primary care. There are no formal guidelines to the treatment of intractable hiccups and treatment is based on experience and anecdotal evidence often relying on older medications....

journal_title：Current neurology and neuroscience reports

authors： Rouse S,Wodziak M

更新日期：2018-06-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Nocturnal frontal lobe epilepsy (NFLE) is a syndrome of heterogeneous etiology, characterized by the occurrence of sleep-related seizures with different complexity and duration. Genetic, lesional, and cryptogenetic NFLE forms have been described. NFLE is generally considered a benign clinical entity, although severe, ...

journal_title：Current neurology and neuroscience reports

authors： Nobili L,Proserpio P,Combi R,Provini F,Plazzi G,Bisulli F,Tassi L,Tinuper P

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:Occipital neuralgia (ON) and cervicogenic headache (CGH) are secondary headache disorders with occipital pain as a key feature. Due to significant phenotypic overlap, differentiating ON and CGH from primary headache disorders such as migraine or tension-type headache, or other secondary headache disor...

journal_title：Current neurology and neuroscience reports

authors： Barmherzig R,Kingston W

更新日期：2019-03-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Contemporary treatment of malignant brain tumors has been hampered by problems with drug delivery to the tumor bed. Inherent boundaries of the central nervous system, such as the blood-brain barrier or the blood-cerebrospinal fluid barrier, and a general lack of response to many chemotherapeutic agents have led to alt...

journal_title：Current neurology and neuroscience reports

authors： Lesniak MS,Langer R,Brem H

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:Until recently, the gene associated with the recessive form of familial brain calcification (PFBC, Fahr disease) was unknown. MYORG, a gene that causes recessive PFBC was only recently discovered and is currently the only gene associated with a recessive form of this disease. Here, we review the radio...

journal_title：Current neurology and neuroscience reports

authors： Bauer M,Rahat D,Zisman E,Tabach Y,Lossos A,Meiner V,Arkadir D

更新日期：2019-08-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a neurodegenerative disease of upper and lower motor neurons that causes progressive weakness and death. The breadth of research in ALS continues to grow with exciting new discoveries in disease pathogenesis and potential future therapeutics. There is a growing list of identified...

journal_title：Current neurology and neuroscience reports

authors： Traub R,Mitsumoto H,Rowland LP

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microglia are the resident macrophages of the nervous system. They serve to protect and preserve neuronal cells from pathogens and facilitate recovery from metabolic insults. In addition, they appear to play a role in the neuropathology of noninfectious inflammatory disorders of the central nervous system, especially ...

journal_title：Current neurology and neuroscience reports

authors： Deng X,Sriram S

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article reviews current treatment strategies and recent advances for the Lewy body dementias (LBDs). Current available symptom treatment strategies are based on monoaminergic, cholinergic and glutaminergic neurotransmitter systems. Relatively robust evidence exists for cholinesterase inhibitors for cognitive impa...

journal_title：Current neurology and neuroscience reports

authors： Velayudhan L,Ffytche D,Ballard C,Aarsland D

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:To review the peripheral neurological complications of the acute hepatic porphyrias, as well as the latest advances in their pathophysiology and management. RECENT FINDINGS:The diagnosis of porphyric neuropathy remains challenging as varying neuropathic patterns are encountered depending on disease s...

journal_title：Current neurology and neuroscience reports

authors： Kazamel M,Desnick RJ,Quigley JG

更新日期：2020-10-07 00:00:00