Current Status of Dyslipidemia Treatment for Stroke Prevention.

abstract：:This review highlights recent epidemiologic, clinical-genetic, and neurochemical advances in our understanding of sporadic amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and their relationships to familial ALS caused by superoxide dismutase (SOD1) gene mutations. It is of fundamental importance to recognize that ALS is a biologi...

journal_title：Current neurology and neuroscience reports

authors： Andersen PM

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the last decade, there has been an emerging interest in the link between obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) and ocular health. Though the evidence for OSA playing a role in cerebrovascular disease risk seems clear, the same cannot be said for optic neuropathies. The association between OSA and glaucoma or non-arteriti...

journal_title：Current neurology and neuroscience reports

authors： Fraser CL

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:Hematologic diseases are blood disorders which can affect different organs, including the central and peripheral nervous systems. Some of them are associated with increased risk of permanent disability and death. This review highlights a selected group of primary and acquired hematologic disorders tha...

journal_title：Current neurology and neuroscience reports

authors： Cruz ML,Farooq S,Testai FD

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding sleep complaints of menopausal women is an emerging area of clinical and research interest. In this article, we summarize the most relevant and recent literature to provide an update on sleep in perimenopause and postmenopause. Our discussion includes the causes, clinical diagnosis, and treatment of slee...

journal_title：Current neurology and neuroscience reports

authors： Nowakowski S,Meliska CJ,Martinez LF,Parry BL

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:Parkinson's disease was studied for a long time from the prism of a motor impairment. Recent advances have outlined the importance of cognitive and neuropsychiatric symptoms (NPS) in the PD equation. This review concentrates on the present possibilities of using neuroimaging techniques in order to qua...

journal_title：Current neurology and neuroscience reports

authors： Hanganu A,Monchi O

更新日期：2018-10-15 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：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：:Lyme disease is due to infection with a tick-borne spirochete, Borrelia burgdorferi. Risk for infection is confined to regions that contain the Ixodid tick vector. Characteristic skin, musculoskeletal, cardiac, ocular, and neurologic disorders are associated with the local, early dissemination and late stages of infec...

journal_title：Current neurology and neuroscience reports

authors： Coyle PK

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:Despite the increase in the number of novel antiseizure medications over the past 20 years, approximately one-third of patients will not have adequate seizure control on medications. For these patients, additional options need to be considered, including dietary, device, and surgical treatments. In ad...

journal_title：Current neurology and neuroscience reports

authors： Dawit S,Crepeau AZ

更新日期：2020-07-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The management of carotid stenosis has enjoyed renewed interest in the neurological community in recent years due to the advent of endovascular approaches. In concert, progress in medical treatment of these patients has rekindled the debate regarding the best management of carotid stenosis overall, both for symptomati...

journal_title：Current neurology and neuroscience reports

authors： Marchidann A,Marshall RS

更新日期：2011-02-01 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：:Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) is the most common cause of acute paralysis, yet the pathogenesis has still not been fully elucidated and specific evidence-based consensus management guidelines have not been developed. This paper reviews the research of the past year dedicated to determining the pathogenesis of GBS, opt...

journal_title：Current neurology and neuroscience reports

authors： Green DM

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stroke and especially its complications are a leading cause of death. Despite reduced morbidity in some developed countries, mortality in stroke patients is still high worldwide. In the past decades, treatment of acute stroke has focused on early intervention, such as revascularization and cerebral edema prevention. H...

journal_title：Current neurology and neuroscience reports

authors： Zhang S,He WB,Chen NH

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The neuropeptides hypocretin-1 and -2 (orexin A and B) are critical in the regulation of arousal and maintenance of wakefulness. Understanding the role of the hypocretin system in sleep/wake regulation has come from narcolepsy-cataplexy research. Deficiency of hypocretin results in loss of sleep/wake control with cons...

journal_title：Current neurology and neuroscience reports

authors： Cao M,Guilleminault C

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Restless legs syndrome is a very common and still under-diagnosed neurologic condition that can cause severe morbidity. The pathology centers around central nervous system iron homeostatic dysregulation with subsequent alterations in dopaminergic functioning. Genetic studies will hopefully soon identify specific abnor...

journal_title：Current neurology and neuroscience reports

authors： Ondo WG

更新日期：2005-07-01 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：:Viral infections of the pediatric central nervous system (CNS) encompass a broad spectrum of both perinatally and postnatally acquired diseases with potentially devastating effects on the developing brain. In children, viral infections have been associated with chronic encephalopathy, encephalitis, demyelinating disea...

journal_title：Current neurology and neuroscience reports

authors： Crawford JR

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in the SNCA gene, which encodes the α-synuclein protein, were the first discovered genetic causes of familial parkinsonism with Lewy pathology. To date, six different SNCA missense mutations as well as multiplications are known to cause parkinsonism. For this review, we performed a literature search to ident...

journal_title：Current neurology and neuroscience reports

authors： Rosborough K,Patel N,Kalia LV

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitochondria are key organelles in eukaryotic cells that not only generate adenosine triphosphate but also perform such critical functions as hosting essential biosynthetic pathways, calcium buffering, and apoptotic signaling. In vivo, mitochondria form dynamic networks that undergo frequent morphologic changes throug...

journal_title：Current neurology and neuroscience reports

authors： Lu B

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The subjects of this review are the various types of optic nerve disease that involve autoimmune mechanisms, broadly defined. These include optic neuropathy caused by direct inflammatory involvement of the nerve parenchyma and optic nerve damage as an ischemic sequel to primary vasculitis, although there is naturally ...

journal_title：Current neurology and neuroscience reports

authors： Goodwin J

更新日期：2006-09-01 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：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:Near-death experiences (NDEs) are conscious perceptual experiences, including self-related emotional, spiritual, and mystical experiences, occurring in close encounters with death or in non-life-threatening situations. The origin of NDEs remains unknown. Here, we review recent advances in the understa...

journal_title：Current neurology and neuroscience reports

authors： Peinkhofer C,Dreier JP,Kondziella D

更新日期：2019-07-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The importance of recognizing and documenting the subjective impact of disease and the side effects of long-term medical therapy in illnesses such as Parkinson's disease is beginning to be fully appreciated. This appreciation follows the recognition that it is necessary to describe the overall results of diagnostic an...

journal_title：Current neurology and neuroscience reports

authors： Welsh MD

更新日期：2001-07-01 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：:Evaluation for psychiatric and cognitive dysfunction is a crucial part of preoperative assessment for deep brain stimulation (DBS) surgery. All candidates for DBS should be treated for active psychiatric disorders, and the treatment team should also screen for past psychiatric history, which may predispose to postoper...

journal_title：Current neurology and neuroscience reports

authors： Anderson KE,Mullins J

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gray matter demyelination is frequent and extensive in most patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) and has recently received much attention in neuropathologic and imaging studies. Gray matter lesions show distinct pathologic features that make their detection difficult with conventional imaging techniques. Thus, despit...

journal_title：Current neurology and neuroscience reports

authors： Wegner C,Stadelmann C

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seizures represent an important clinical manifestation of inborn errors of metabolism. The presence of myoclonic seizures and very early onset are clues to a metabolic disorder. Specific correlations between age of seizure onset and electroencephalogram patterns with inborn errors of metabolism are discussed. The expl...

journal_title：Current neurology and neuroscience reports

authors： Pearl PL,Bennett HD,Khademian Z

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sleep disorders are common in neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson's disease (PD), multiple system atrophy (MSA), amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), hereditary ataxias, and Alzheimer's disease (AD). Type, frequency, and severity of sleep disturbances vary depending on each of these diseases. Cell loss of the...

journal_title：Current neurology and neuroscience reports

authors： Gaig C,Iranzo A

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This discussion reviews the common causes of Horner's syndrome, with emphasis on case reports from the past several years. Much of the recent literature concerns the use of apraclonidine as a diagnostic test for Horner's syndrome, possibly as an alternative for the current gold standard of cocaine eye drops. This new ...

journal_title：Current neurology and neuroscience reports

authors： Martin TJ

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:To update the current knowledge concerning sleep complaints and breathing disorders in myotonic dystrophy type 2 (DM2) and to better understand if sleep and breathing symptoms may add a further clinical definition of DM2. RECENT FINDINGS:Although DM2 has been poorly evaluated, the most relevant sleep...

journal_title：Current neurology and neuroscience reports

authors： Romigi A,Maestri M,Nicoletta C,Vitrani G,Caccamo M,Siciliano G,Bonanni E,Centonze D,Sanduzzi A

更新日期：2019-02-09 00:00:00