Cognitive dysfunction in multiple sclerosis: natural history, pathophysiology and management.

abstract：:Postherpetic neuralgia, which occurs most typically in older persons, is one of the most common and serious complications of herpes zoster (or shingles). It is a chronic neuropathic pain syndrome and remains one of the most difficult pain disorders to treat. Known beneficial agents include antidepressants, antiepilept...

journal_title：CNS drugs

authors： Pappagallo M,Haldey EJ

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There have been significant developments in the understanding of depression in children and adolescents in the past few years, including an increased recognition that significant depressive illness occurs in this patient group. Pharmacological and psychotherapeutic treatments are used to manage depression in children ...

journal_title：CNS drugs

authors： Varley CK

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the established efficacy of chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy in hematologic malignancies, translating CAR T therapy to solid tumors has remained investigational. Glioblastoma, the most aggressive and lethal form of primary brain tumor, has recently been among the malignancies being trialed clinic...

journal_title：CNS drugs

authors： Salinas RD,Durgin JS,O'Rourke DM

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Tianeptine is an antidepressant agent with a novel neurochemical profile. It increases serotonin (5-hydroxytryptamine; 5-HT) uptake in the brain (in contrast with most antidepressant agents) and reduces stress-induced atrophy of neuronal dendrites. Like the selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) and...

journal_title：CNS drugs

authors： Wagstaff AJ,Ormrod D,Spencer CM

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epileptic encephalopathy is defined as a condition where the epileptic activity itself may contribute to the severe neurological and cognitive impairment seen, over and above that which would be expected from the underlying pathology alone. The epilepsy syndromes at high risk of this are a disparate group of condition...

journal_title：CNS drugs

authors： McTague A,Cross JH

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Narcolepsy type 1 and narcolepsy type 2 are central disorders of hypersomnolence. Narcolepsy type 1 is characterized by excessive daytime sleepiness and cataplexy and is associated with hypocretin-1 deficiency. On the other hand, in narcolepsy type 2, cerebrospinal fluid hypocretin-1 levels are normal and cataplexy ab...

journal_title：CNS drugs

authors： Barateau L,Lopez R,Dauvilliers Y

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The basal ganglia and dopaminergic pathways play a central role in hyperkinetic movement disorders. Vesicular monoamine transporter 2 (VMAT2) inhibitors, which deplete dopamine at presynaptic striatal nerve terminals, are a class of drugs that have long been used to treat hyperkinetic movement disorders, but have rece...

journal_title：CNS drugs

authors： Tarakad A,Jimenez-Shahed J

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Benzodiazepine hypnotic agents were the mainstream pharmacotherapy for insomnia from the 1960s to the 1980s, but their safety profile proved to be not quite as perfect as originally expected with regard to daytime performance and cognition, and above all the risk of dependence. These risks are substantially diminished...

journal_title：CNS drugs

authors： Lee YJ

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Insomnia, an inability to initiate or maintain sleep, affects approximately one-third of the American population. Conventional benzodiazepines, such as triazolam and midazolam, were the treatment of choice for short-term insomnia for many years but are associated with adverse effects such as rebound insomnia, withdraw...

journal_title：CNS drugs

authors： Hesse LM,von Moltke LL,Greenblatt DJ

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Both levetiracetam (LEV) and brivaracetam (BRV) eliminate the electroencephalogram photoparoxysmal response (PPR) in the human phase IIa photosensitivity model of epilepsy. The physiochemical properties of BRV differ from those of LEV, having higher potency and lipophilicity plus 10- to 15-fold greater aff...

journal_title：CNS drugs

authors： Reed RC,Rosenfeld WE,Lippmann SM,Eijkemans RMJC,Kasteleijn-Nolst Trenité DGA

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Valproate is a first-line antiepileptic agent and is also used in the treatment of bipolar disorder and migraine. It is a known human teratogen. The objective of the study was to evaluate the teratogenic risk of valproate. METHODS:All callers who contacted the Israeli Teratology Information Service (TIS) be...

journal_title：CNS drugs

authors： Diav-Citrin O,Shechtman S,Bar-Oz B,Cantrell D,Arnon J,Ornoy A

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Down syndrome (DS), which results from an extra copy of chromosome 21 (trisomy 21), is the most common genetically defined cause of intellectual disability. Although no pharmacotherapy aimed at counteracting the cognitive and adaptive deficits associated with this genetic disorder has been approved at present, there h...

journal_title：CNS drugs

authors： Costa AC,Scott-McKean JJ

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There is growing epidemiological evidence that opioids may increase the risk of unintentional injuries and it is plausible that the time of initiation is most critical in that respect. Studies on fall-related injuries remain few, limited and mostly focused on specific groups of elderly patients. OBJECTIVE:T...

journal_title：CNS drugs

authors： Söderberg KC,Laflamme L,Möller J

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Social anxiety disorder (SAD) is a prevalent and disabling disorder associated with significant co-morbidity. An increased awareness of SAD over the past two decades has given impetus to advances in the pharmacotherapeutic and psychotherapeutic treatment options for this disorder. On the basis of consistent data from ...

journal_title：CNS drugs

authors： Muller JE,Koen L,Seedat S,Stein DJ

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is used in the treatment of severe psychiatric disorders. It involves the induction of a seizure for therapeutic purposes by the administration of a variable-frequency electrical stimulus via electrodes applied to the scalp. The original application of ECT in non-anaesthetised patients ...

journal_title：CNS drugs

authors： Wagner KJ,Möllenberg O,Rentrop M,Werner C,Kochs EF

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A wide range of support is available to help smokers to quit and to aid attempts at harm reduction, including three first-line smoking cessation medications: nicotine replacement therapy, varenicline and bupropion. Despite the efficacy of these, there is a continual need to diversify the range of medications so that t...

journal_title：CNS drugs

authors： Beard E,Shahab L,Cummings DM,Michie S,West R

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biopharmaceuticals can induce antibodies, which interact with and neutralize the therapeutic effect of such drugs and are therefore termed neutralizing antibodies (NAbs). In the treatment of multiple sclerosis, NAbs against interferon (IFN)-beta and natalizumab have been recognized. The prevalence of NAbs against diff...

journal_title：CNS drugs

authors： Deisenhammer F

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Several small studies have shown beneficial effects of ondansetron, a serotonin 5-HT(3) receptor antagonist, in the treatment of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). The efficacy of other 5-HT(3) receptor antagonists in patients with OCD is still unclear. Granisetron does not alter cytochrome P450 activity a...

journal_title：CNS drugs

authors： Askari N,Moin M,Sanati M,Tajdini M,Hosseini SM,Modabbernia A,Najand B,Salimi S,Tabrizi M,Ashrafi M,Hajiaghaee R,Akhondzadeh S

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clinically relevant movement disorders are identified in 3% of patients with HIV infection seen at tertiary referral centres. In the same setting, prospective follow-up shows that 50% of patients with AIDS develop tremor, parkinsonism or other extrapyramidal features. Hemiballism-hemichorea and tremor are the most com...

journal_title：CNS drugs

authors： Cardoso F

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:NEDA was evaluated as the proportion of patients free of relapses, 3-month confirmed disability progression, and free of new or newly enlarging T2 lesion and Gadolinium enhancing lesions. ...

journal_title：CNS drugs

authors： Papadopoulos D,Mitsikostas DD

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oral fingolimod (Gilenya™), a sphingosine 1-phosphate (S1P) receptor agonist, is the first oral agent and the first in a novel class of disease-modifying therapies (DMTs) to be approved for use in the US for the treatment of relapsing forms of multiple sclerosis (MS). In the EU, fingolimod is approved for use as a sin...

journal_title：CNS drugs

authors： Scott LJ

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spinal cord injury (SCI) has a number of severe and disabling consequences, including chronic pain, and around 40% of patients develop persistent neuropathic pain. Pain following SCI has a detrimental impact on the patient's quality of life and is a major specific healthcare problem in its own right. Thus far, there i...

journal_title：CNS drugs

authors： Baastrup C,Finnerup NB

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alcoholic patients suffer from harmful allostatic neuroplastic changes in the brain causing an acute withdrawal syndrome upon cessation of drinking followed by a protracted abstinence syndrome and an increased risk of relapse to heavy drinking. Benzodiazepines have long been the treatment of choice for detoxifying pat...

journal_title：CNS drugs

authors： Hammond CJ,Niciu MJ,Drew S,Arias AJ

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in the isocitrate dehydrogenase (IDH) 1 gene are commonly found in human glioma, with the majority of low-grade gliomas harboring a recurrent point mutation (IDH1 R132H). Mutant IDH reveals an altered enzymatic activity leading to the synthesis of 2-hydroxyglutarate, which has been implicated in epigenetic m...

journal_title：CNS drugs

authors： Karpel-Massler G,Nguyen TTT,Shang E,Siegelin MD

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The eating disorders anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa present with comorbidity in a number of important areas, including depression, bipolar disorder, anxiety disorders (obsessive-compulsive disorder, panic disorder, social anxiety disorder and other phobias, and post-traumatic stress disorder) and substance abuse...

journal_title：CNS drugs

authors： Woodside BD,Staab R

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most prevalent dementia in the world. Its cause(s) are presently largely unknown. The most common explanation for AD, now, is the amyloid cascade hypothesis, which states that the cause of AD is senile plaque formation by the amyloid β peptide, and the formation of neurofibrillary tangl...

journal_title：CNS drugs

authors： Fülöp T,Munawara U,Larbi A,Desroches M,Rodrigues S,Catanzaro M,Guidolin A,Khalil A,Bernier F,Barron AE,Hirokawa K,Beauregard PB,Dumoulin D,Bellenger JP,Witkowski JM,Frost E

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Friedreich ataxia (FA) is a progressive genetic neurological disorder associated with degeneration of the dorsal columns, spinocerebellar tracts and other regions of the nervous system. The disorder results from mutations in the gene referred to as FXN. Almost all mutations are expansions of an intronic GAA repeat in ...

journal_title：CNS drugs

authors： Tsou AY,Friedman LS,Wilson RB,Lynch DR

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this review is to provide clinicians with a picture of the mechanisms by which: histamine and histaminergic agonists act on the vestibular system both peripherally and centrally; and histaminergic agonists and antagonists interfere with the recovery process after peripheral vestibular lesion. We have focuse...

journal_title：CNS drugs

authors： Lacour M,Sterkers O

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Duloxetine (Cymbalta) is an orally administered, selective serotonin and noradrenaline reuptake inhibitor (SNRI) that has been approved for the treatment of major depressive disorder (MDD). Based on a considerable body of evidence, duloxetine at dosages ranging from 40 to 120 mg/day was effective in the short- and lon...

journal_title：CNS drugs

authors： Frampton JE,Plosker GL

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ursolic acid is a pentacyclic triterpenoid found in several plants. Despite its initial use as a pharmacologically inactive emulsifier in pharmaceutical, cosmetic and food industries, several biological activities have been reported for this compound so far, including anti-tumoural, anti-diabetic, cardioprotective and...

journal_title：CNS drugs

authors： Ramos-Hryb AB,Pazini FL,Kaster MP,Rodrigues ALS

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00