Targeting CGRP for migraine treatment: mechanisms, antibodies, small molecules, perspectives.

abstract：:The third part of this in-depth review series on the treatment of multiple sclerosis (MS) with monoclonal antibodies covers the years 2010-2012. The natalizumab section gives a progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy update, focusing on clinically relevant aspects. Furthermore, it outlines problems around natalizum...

journal_title：Expert review of neurotherapeutics

authors： Deiß A,Brecht I,Haarmann A,Buttmann M

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The prognosis for patients with malignant glioma, the most common primary intracranial neoplasm, remains dismal despite significant progress in neuro-oncological therapies and technology. This stems from the inability of current treatment strategies to address the highly invasive nature of this disease. Malignant glia...

journal_title：Expert review of neurotherapeutics

authors： Ehtesham M,Kabos P,Black KL,Yu JS

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a common psychiatric condition that affects approximately 5.3% of children worldwide. This disorder is defined by a combination of symptoms of inattention and hyperactivity/impulsivity. Diagnosis is based on impairment in these two domains determining several problems...

journal_title：Expert review of neurotherapeutics

authors： Genro JP,Kieling C,Rohde LA,Hutz MH

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Introduction: Despite increased interest in the pharmacotherapy of bipolar disorder during pregnancy and the postpartum period, management of the disorder during these critical periods in a woman's life remains challenging.Areas covered: The authors review the effect of pregnancy and the postpartum period on the cours...

journal_title：Expert review of neurotherapeutics

authors： Sharma V,Sharma P,Sharma S

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Central pain, which follows brain and spinal cord injury remains an ill-treated entity affecting approximately 1-2 million people worldwide. When oral drugs fail, either immediately or in the long run, the only therapeutic option is neuromodulation, via either electrical or chemical means. The whole spectrum of neurom...

journal_title：Expert review of neurotherapeutics

authors： Canavero S,Bonicalzi V

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epilepsy is the most common serious neurological disorder in the elderly after stroke and dementia. It may be more important for elderly people because it is intermittent and unpredictable. There is no reliable diagnostic test and so its diagnosis and management requires clinical acumen and experience. The situation i...

journal_title：Expert review of neurotherapeutics

authors： Johnston A,Smith PE

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The number of patients who will develop metastatic spinal tumors is estimated to be between 5 and 10% of all cancer patients. As the therapy for systemic cancer improves, the number of patients developing symptomatic spinal tumors that require local therapy will increase. Over the last 10 years there has been a dramat...

journal_title：Expert review of neurotherapeutics

authors： Bilsky MH

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuropathic pain is notoriously difficult to treat; currently available pharmaceutical drugs result in moderate analgesia in approximately a third of patients. As our understanding of the biological processes involved in the establishment and maintenance of neuropathic pain increases, so does the development of novel ...

journal_title：Expert review of neurotherapeutics

authors： Goss JR,Goins WF,Glorioso JC

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuroblastoma is a neuroectodermal tumor of childhood with poor prognosis and low survival in patients with advanced-stage disease who respond to conventional therapies but unfortunately, often present relapse. Therefore, the search for novel therapeutic strategies is warranted and represents the objective of many inv...

journal_title：Expert review of neurotherapeutics

authors： Raffaghello L,Pistoia V

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Primary brain tumors are generally difficult to treat because of the unique location of the lesions. In addition, normal brain structures are often destroyed by the growing neoplasm. Even with effective therapy to surgically resect and destroy the neoplastic tissues, the brain is sometimes still injured, which can lea...

journal_title：Expert review of neurotherapeutics

authors： Schaller BJ,Buchfelder M

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dual-task (DT) circumstances aggravate gait disorders in Parkinson's disease (PD) and are associated with an increased risk of falling and reduced functional mobility. Clinical rehabilitation guidelines for PD consider DT interventions as potentially hazardous and recommend avoiding them in daily life. The current art...

journal_title：Expert review of neurotherapeutics

authors： Strouwen C,Molenaar EA,Münks L,Keus SH,Bloem BR,Rochester L,Nieuwboer A

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Unique among the different neuropathic pain conditions, trigeminal neuralgia frequently has an excellent response to some selected drugs, which, on the other hand, often entail disabling side effects. Physicians should be therefore acquainted with the management of these drugs and the few alternative optio...

journal_title：Expert review of neurotherapeutics

authors： Di Stefano G,Truini A

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Parkinson's disease (PD) is characterized clinically by rest tremor, rigidity, bradykinesia and pathologically by degeneration of nigrostriatal dopamine neurons. Motor fluctuations (wearing off) and motor complications (dyskinesia) are common features of the long-term treatment of PD. Ongoing clinical and preclinical ...

journal_title：Expert review of neurotherapeutics

authors： Ramirez-Zamora A,Molho E

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sumatriptan 85 mg with naproxen sodium 500 mg, a combination tablet for the acute treatment of migraine, is approved in the USA. It is likely that triptan/NSAID combination benefits are a class effect, although the majority of data are on sumatriptan and naproxen sodium. The combination tablet demonstrated superior ef...

journal_title：Expert review of neurotherapeutics

authors： Cleves C,Tepper SJ

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:With the development of new immunomodulating therapies, with which early use is strongly encouraged, it is crucial to be in possession of reliable clinical predictors of multiple sclerosis evolution. Prognostic factors are important to patients wanting to be informed about their prospects; to the clinician needing to ...

journal_title：Expert review of neurotherapeutics

authors： Bergamaschi R

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In different study populations, several studies have shown that modest C-reactive protein elevation, in the range of apparently healthy individuals, is a strong predictor of future vascular events. Willcox and colleagues summarize the epidemiological and clinical observations that have led to the enthusiastic suggesti...

journal_title：Expert review of neurotherapeutics

authors： Di Napoli M,Papa F

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glucocorticoids exert a variety of immunomodulatory activities. Since changes in glucocorticoid homeostasis impact on susceptibility to autoimmune diseases, and synthetic glucocorticoids are widely used in the treatment of multiple sclerosis, a detailed understanding of their mechanism of action is desirable. Experime...

journal_title：Expert review of neurotherapeutics

authors： Reichardt HM,Gold R,Lühder F

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Narcolepsy is a life-long neurodegenerative disorder that causes considerable impairment to quality of life. Until the 1970s, the treatment for one of the main symptoms, excessive daytime sleepiness, was restricted to stimulants, whereas the second core symptom, cataplexy, was treated with antidepressants, and the res...

journal_title：Expert review of neurotherapeutics

authors： Mayer G

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:With increasing life expectancy, the early diagnosis and treatment of Alzheimer's disease has become critical in sustaining a healthy society. Noninvasive markers of disease progression starting from the earliest stages of pathologic involvement are required for determining the effectiveness of putative disease-modify...

journal_title：Expert review of neurotherapeutics

authors： Kantarci K

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Research into what works in depression is in trouble. All treatments appear equally effective and what happens in research trials does not seem to translate into clinical practice or, to put it another way, clinical practice is not reflected in randomized controlled trials. We run the risk of designing cosmetic trials...

journal_title：Expert review of neurotherapeutics

authors： Hatcher S

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dystonia may be a sign or symptom, that is comprised of complex abnormal and dynamic movements of different etiologies. A specific cause is identified in approximately 28% of patients, which only occasionally results in specific treatment. In most cases, treatment is symptomatic and designed to relieve involuntary mov...

journal_title：Expert review of neurotherapeutics

authors： Bhidayasiri R,Tarsy D

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This discussion will focus on defining the standard of care for neoplastic meningitis, including: What is the role of radiation therapy? What are first-line pharmacotherapeutic agents? Is combination therapy useful? What is the role of corticosteroids? ...

journal_title：Expert review of neurotherapeutics

authors： Recht L,Phuphanich S

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Introduction: Alzheimer's disease (AD), a commonly encountered neurodegenerative disorder, causes cognitive decline and has a devastating effect on the quality of life. AD occurs mainly through abnormal amyloid β peptide (Aβ) and tau protein (tau) activity around/in neurons. Aβ-based therapeutic techniques have been s...

journal_title：Expert review of neurotherapeutics

authors： Kuo YC,Rajesh R

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Parkinson's disease is a chronic neurodegenerative disorder leading to progressive motor impairment for which there is no cure. Currently, the diagnosis is made by the presence of cardinal motor features and several associated non-motor symptoms. However, at this point, the underlying neuropathological changes are alr...

journal_title：Expert review of neurotherapeutics

authors： Akhtar RS,Stern MB

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seizures are often the presenting symptoms of a cerebral tumor and may precede its diagnosis by many years. The article under evaluation searched two large English registries for patients admitted for new-onset epilepsy. The risk of subsequently being diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor was found to be 26-fold high...

journal_title：Expert review of neurotherapeutics

authors： Schucht P,Duffau H

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Natalizumab is an α-4 integrin antagonist used for the treatment of relapsing multiple sclerosis (MS). Concerns with the drug have a risen owing to a heightened risk of progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy, which has caused some physicians to interrupt or stop treatment altogether. The article under review evalu...

journal_title：Expert review of neurotherapeutics

authors： Schaaf SM,Pitt D,Racke MK

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Background: Relatively little is known about the use of disease-modifying drugs (DMDs) for multiple sclerosis (MS) in the population-based universal healthcare setting. This study aimed to describe the characteristics of a population-based cohort with MS and their DMD exposure in four Canadian provinces. Methods: We i...

journal_title：Expert review of neurotherapeutics

authors： Ng HS,Zhu F,Kingwell E,Zhao Y,Yao S,Ekuma O,Svenson LW,Evans C,Fisk JD,Marrie RA,Tremlett H

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The spectrum of idiopathic inflammatory-demyelinating disorders of the CNS is classified based on clinical symptoms and signs, clinical severity, lesion distribution, neuroimaging features and cerebrospinal fluid characteristics. There is a wide variety of conditions in this broad spectrum. In some cases, the dissemin...

journal_title：Expert review of neurotherapeutics

authors： Idiman E,Ozakbaş S

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In recent years there has been great scientific and public interest focused on the therapeutic potential of compounds derived from cannabis for the treatment of refractory epilepsy in children. From in vitro and in vivo studies on animal models, cannabidiol (CBD) appears to be a promising anticonvulsant drug with a fa...

journal_title：Expert review of neurotherapeutics

authors： Paolino MC,Ferretti A,Papetti L,Villa MP,Parisi P

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Neuromodulation techniques play an increasing role in the treatment of primary headaches. While initially reserved for refractory cases they are now increasingly taken into consideration in earlier treatment phases and in non-refractory situations. One of the main reasons for this paradigm shift is that mo...

journal_title：Expert review of neurotherapeutics

authors： Hoffmann J,May A

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00