An update on the treatment of Sydenham's chorea: the evidence for established and evolving interventions.

abstract：:Superficial temporal artery-middle cerebral artery anastomosis is generally considered as an effective method in improving damage associated with intracerebral occlusions in moyamoya disease. Hemodynamic changes caused by revascularization are the cause of many postoperative complications. Of the 186 consecutive surge...

journal_title：Therapeutic advances in neurological disorders

authors： Yu J,Hu M,Yi L,Zhou K,Zhang J,Chen J

更新日期：2019-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Dabigatran is increasingly being used in clinical practice for the thromboprophylaxis in atrial fibrillation as a convenient therapy that needs no drug level monitoring. However, analysis of the data of the same clinical trial that led to the adoption of dabigatran in fixed-dosing regimens has indicated a small subgro...

journal_title：Therapeutic advances in neurological disorders

authors： Safouris A,Triantafyllou N,Parissis J,Tsivgoulis G

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Laquinimod is a novel immunomodulatory agent, in development as a potential disease-modifying treatment for multiple sclerosis (MS). Structurally related to linomide, its pharmacological predecessor, laquinimod combines anti-inflammatory and possibly clinically relevant neuroprotective effects with the convenience of ...

journal_title：Therapeutic advances in neurological disorders

authors： Haggiag S,Ruggieri S,Gasperini C

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Galcanezumab, along with three other monoclonal antibodies targeting the calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP) pathway, represents the latest disease-specific and mechanism-based treatment for the prophylaxis of migraine. Galcanezumab shares data also for the prophylaxis of cluster headache. Objective:To p...

journal_title：Therapeutic advances in neurological disorders

authors： Gklinos P,Mitsikostas DD

更新日期：2020-04-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Calcitonin gene related peptide (CGRP) monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) have been the first class of specifically developed preventive treatments for migraine. Clinical trials data suggest superiority of the CGRP mAbs to placebo in terms of prevention of migraine symptoms, migraine-specific quality of life and headache re...

journal_title：Therapeutic advances in neurological disorders

authors： Andreou AP,Fuccaro M,Lambru G

更新日期：2020-05-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Experimental models of Parkinson's disease (PD) are of great importance for improving the design of future clinical trials. Various neurotoxic models are available, including 6-hydroxydopamine (6-OHDA), 1-methyl-4-phenyl-1,2,3,6-tetrahydropyridine (MPTP), paraquat and rotenone. However, no model is considered perfect;...

journal_title：Therapeutic advances in neurological disorders

authors： Salama M,Arias-Carrión O

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Until the early 1990s, a limited number of antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) were available. Since then, a large variety of new AEDs have been developed and introduced, several of them offering new modes of action. One of these new AED families is described and reviewed in this article. Levetiracetam (LEV) and brivaracetam (...

journal_title：Therapeutic advances in neurological disorders

authors： Steinhoff BJ,Staack AM

更新日期：2019-09-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Prolonged-release (PR) fampridine is the only approved medication to improve walking in multiple sclerosis (MS), having been shown to produce a clinically meaningful improvement in walking ability in the subset of MS patients with Expanded Disability Status Scale 4-7. Recent responder subgroup analyses in the phase II...

journal_title：Therapeutic advances in neurological disorders

authors： Albrecht P,Bjørnå IK,Brassat D,Farrell R,Feys P,Hobart J,Hupperts R,Linnebank M,Magdič J,Oreja-Guevara C,Pozzilli C,Salgado AV,Ziemssen T

更新日期：2018-10-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a progressive, recessively inherited neuromuscular disease, characterized by the degeneration of lower motor neurons in the spinal cord and brainstem, which leads to weakness and muscle atrophy. SMA currently represents the most common genetic cause of infant death. SMA is caused by th...

journal_title：Therapeutic advances in neurological disorders

authors： Parente V,Corti S

更新日期：2018-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The World Wide Web is increasingly used in therapeutic settings. In this regard, internet-based interventions have proven effective in ameliorating several health behaviors, amongst them physical activity behavior. Internet-delivered interventions have shown positive effects on physical activity and physical function ...

journal_title：Therapeutic advances in neurological disorders

authors： Tallner A,Pfeifer K,Mäurer M

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Natalizumab is approved for the treatment of patients with relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis who have failed first-line treatment with traditional disease-modifying therapies or who have highly active disease. The drug has proved highly effective, both in a clinical trial setting and in clinical practice, with ma...

journal_title：Therapeutic advances in neurological disorders

authors： Fernández O

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The aim of this study was to analyse registry data of seizure outcome and adverse events (AEs) for perampanel as add-on therapy in patients with focal epilepsy since its approval in 2012 for adjunctive treatment of focal epilepsy in patients ⩾12 years. METHOD:A retrospective 2-year chart review of all patie...

journal_title：Therapeutic advances in neurological disorders

authors： Rohracher A,Kalss G,Leitinger M,Granbichler C,Deak I,Dobesberger J,Kuchukhidze G,Thomschewski A,Höfler J,Trinka E

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Autoimmune glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) astrocytopathy has been considered a novel central nervous system autoimmune disease characterized by relapse and responsiveness to corticosteroid with a specific GFAP-Immunoglobulin G (IgG) being noted in cerebrospinal fluid. We report the case of a 21-year-old girl p...

journal_title：Therapeutic advances in neurological disorders

authors： Li XL,Han J,Zhao HT,Long YM,Zhang BW,Wang HY

更新日期：2020-06-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic migraine (CM) is a severely disabling neurological condition characterized by episodes of pulsating unilateral or bilateral headache. The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved onabotulinumtoxinA (Botox®) for the prophylactic treatment of CM in 2010. It has been shown that onabotulinumtoxinA...

journal_title：Therapeutic advances in neurological disorders

authors： Escher CM,Paracka L,Dressler D,Kollewe K

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disease characterized by progressive memory loss and dementia. Accumulating evidence suggests that inflammation is involved in the pathogenesis of AD. Epidemiological studies suggest that use of anti-inflammatory drugs is associated with a lower incidence of AD. However,...

journal_title：Therapeutic advances in neurological disorders

authors： Zhu M,Wang X,Sun L,Schultzberg M,Hjorth E

更新日期：2018-08-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Blepharospasm is a focal (although usually bilateral) dystonia of the orbicularis oculi muscles, producing excessive eye closure. This produces significant disability through functional blindness. Botulinum neurotoxins (BoNT) have become the treatment of choice for blepharospasm; the impressive response rate and the t...

journal_title：Therapeutic advances in neurological disorders

authors： Hellman A,Torres-Russotto D

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The treatment of neuropathic pain is difficult. Oral pharmaceuticals have significant side effects, and treatment efficacy tends to be modest. The use of topical analgesics reduces the potential for systemic side effects and allows direct application of medications to the area of pain. The natural spicy substance, cap...

journal_title：Therapeutic advances in neurological disorders

authors： Peppin JF,Pappagallo M

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Whole brain atrophy (WBA) estimates in multiple sclerosis (MS) correlate more robustly with clinical disability than traditional, lesion-based metrics. We compare Structural Image Evaluation using Normalisation of Atrophy (SIENA) with the icobrain longitudinal pipeline (icobrain long), for assessment of long...

journal_title：Therapeutic advances in neurological disorders

authors： Beadnall HN,Wang C,Van Hecke W,Ribbens A,Billiet T,Barnett MH

更新日期：2019-01-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Impulse control disorders are a psychiatric condition characterized by the failure to resist an impulsive act or behavior that may be harmful to self or others. In movement disorders, impulse control disorders are associated with dopaminergic treatment, notably dopamine agonists (DAs). Impulse control disorders have b...

journal_title：Therapeutic advances in neurological disorders

authors： Mestre TA,Strafella AP,Thomsen T,Voon V,Miyasaki J

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The BEtaferon®/BEtaseron® in Newly Emerging MS For Initial Treatment (BENEFIT) trial assessed the efficacy of early versus delayed treatment with interferon beta-1b for patients with clinically isolated syndrome (CIS). Patients were randomly assigned to receive either interferon beta-1b 250 μg every other day (early t...

journal_title：Therapeutic advances in neurological disorders

authors： Freedman MS

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute stroke is one of the major causes of death and disabilities. Since the 1980s many clinical studies have been conducted to evaluate neuroprotective approaches to treat this important brain vascular event. However, to date the only drug approved (recombinant tissue plasminogen activator [rtPA]) represents a thromb...

journal_title：Therapeutic advances in neurological disorders

authors： Subirós N,Del Barco DG,Coro-Antich RM

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:More than 30% of epilepsy patients remain refractory despite the advent of new antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) over two decades. Although a small percentage of these refractory patients may become seizure free when a new AED is added, combined administration of AEDs or the application of novel AEDs is the most common thera...

journal_title：Therapeutic advances in neurological disorders

authors： Chung SS

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Lennox-Gastaut syndrome (LGS) is a typical intractable form of epilepsy that most often occurs between the second and sixth year of life. This study aimed to evaluate the clinical efficacy and safety of ketogenic diet therapies (DTs) for LGS with mitochondrial dysfunction. Methods:This was a retrospective s...

journal_title：Therapeutic advances in neurological disorders

authors： Na JH,Kim HD,Lee YM

更新日期：2020-02-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Stroke is the fifth leading cause of death and the most frequent cause of disability worldwide. Currently, stroke diagnosis is based on neuroimaging; therefore, the lack of a rapid tool to diagnose stroke is still a major concern. In addition, therapeutic approaches to combat ischemic stroke are still scarce, since th...

journal_title：Therapeutic advances in neurological disorders

authors： Ramiro L,Simats A,García-Berrocoso T,Montaner J

更新日期：2018-08-06 00:00:00

abstract：Background:To investigate outcome and toxicity of high-dose systemic methotrexate (HDMTX)-based polychemotherapy and intracerebroventricular (ICV) chemotherapy via an Ommaya reservoir in elderly patients with primary central nervous system lymphoma (PCNSL). Methods:We performed a retrospective analysis on patients ⩾65...

journal_title：Therapeutic advances in neurological disorders

authors： Seidel S,Kowalski T,Margold M,Baraniskin A,Schroers R,Martus P,Schlegel U

更新日期：2020-10-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic inflammatory disorder of the central nervous system. Demyelinization of nerve fibres not only affects the motor and sensory systems functionally, but may also cause psychopathological signs and symptoms. In addition to the psychiatric manifestations of MS, many patients have reacti...

journal_title：Therapeutic advances in neurological disorders

authors： Haussleiter IS,Brüne M,Juckel G

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Key objectives in the treatment of multiple sclerosis (MS) include prevention of relapses, a reduction in the accumulation of disability and slowing of the brain volume loss that occurs from the earliest stages of the disease. Teriflunomide, a once-daily, oral immunomodulatory therapy, has demonstrated efficacy across...

journal_title：Therapeutic advances in neurological disorders

authors： Miller AE

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a potentially disabling chronic autoimmune neurological disease that mainly affects young adults. Our understanding of the pathophysiology of MS has significantly advanced in the past quarter of a century. This has led to the development of many disease-modifying therapies (DMTs) that preven...

journal_title：Therapeutic advances in neurological disorders

authors： Castro-Borrero W,Graves D,Frohman TC,Flores AB,Hardeman P,Logan D,Orchard M,Greenberg B,Frohman EM

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Brain imaging is increasingly used to support clinicians in diagnosing multiple sclerosis (MS) and monitoring its progression. However, the role of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in MS goes far beyond its clinical application. Indeed, advanced imaging techniques have helped to detect different components of MS patho...

journal_title：Therapeutic advances in neurological disorders

authors： Cortese R,Collorone S,Ciccarelli O,Toosy AT

更新日期：2019-06-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuromyelitis optica (NMO) is an inflammatory demyelinating disease that largely affects optic nerves and spinal cord. Recent studies have identified an elevation of serum anti-aquaporin 4 antibody as a hallmark of NMO. Typical cases of NMO significantly differ from multiple sclerosis (MS) in immunological markers, hi...

journal_title：Therapeutic advances in neurological disorders

authors： Okamoto T,Ogawa M,Lin Y,Murata M,Miyake S,Yamamura T

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00