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PURPOSE OF REVIEW:Parkinson's disease is the second most common neurodegenerative disorder and affects 2% of the population over the age of 60 years. Due to the increasing proportion of elderly individuals in developed countries, Parkinson's disease and related neurodegenerative disorders represent a growing burden on the health care system. In the majority of cases, the cause of the disease is still unknown, and its elucidation remains one of the major challenges of the neurosciences. Recent findings in rare genetic forms of Parkinson's disease have allowed the development of novel animal models, providing a basis for a better understanding of the molecular pathogenesis of the disease, setting the stage for the development of novel treatment strategies. RECENT FINDINGS:Several novel genes for monogenic forms of Parkinson's disease, such as PINK-1 for an autosomal-recessive early-onset variant, and LRRK2 for a relatively common late-onset autosomal-dominant form have recently been discovered, and several novel animal models have been generated on the basis of genes that had been found earlier. SUMMARY:The combination of genetic, pathologic and molecular findings provide increasing evidence that the pathways identified through the cloning of different disease genes are interacting on different levels and share several major pathogenic mechanisms.
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Curr Opin Neuroljournal_title
Current opinion in neurologyauthors
Gasser Tdoi
10.1097/01.wco.0000170951.08924.3dsubject
Has Abstractpub_date
2005-08-01 00:00:00pages
363-9issue
4eissn
1350-7540issn
1473-6551pii
00019052-200508000-00003journal_volume
18pub_type
杂志文章,评审abstract:PURPOSE OF REVIEW:Despite the extensive research carried out in the past decades, the current pathophysiological notions of neurodegenerative disease as well as effective treatments to reduce their progression are largely unknown. Alterations of the human microbiota, the plethora of different microscopic organisms that...
journal_title:Current opinion in neurology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1097/WCO.0000000000000496
更新日期:2017-12-01 00:00:00
abstract:PURPOSE OF REVIEW:Neuroimaging in motor neuron disease (MND) has traditionally been seen as an academic tool with limited direct relevance to individualized patient care. This has changed radically in recent years as computational imaging has emerged as a viable clinical tool with true biomarker potential. This transit...
journal_title:Current opinion in neurology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1097/WCO.0000000000000569
更新日期:2018-08-01 00:00:00
abstract:PURPOSE OF REVIEW:Cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA) is diagnosed primarily as a cause of lobar intracerebral hemorrhages (ICH) in elderly patients. With improving MRI techniques, however, the role of CAA in causing other symptoms has become clear. Recognizing the full clinical spectrum of CAA is important for diagnosis...
journal_title:Current opinion in neurology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1097/WCO.0000000000000510
更新日期:2018-02-01 00:00:00
abstract:PURPOSE OF REVIEW:This review highlights recent advances in cochlear gene therapy over the past several years. Cochlear gene therapy has undergone tremendous advances over the past decade. Beginning with some groundbreaking work in 2005 documenting hair cell regeneration using virally mediated delivery of the mouse ato...
journal_title:Current opinion in neurology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1097/WCO.0b013e32834f038c
更新日期:2012-02-01 00:00:00
abstract::Little progress has been made in the treatment outcome of patients with glioblastoma in the past 10 to 15 years, despite an aggressive multimodality regimen using surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy. New approaches, particularly molecular strategies, have become the clinicians' and scientists' hope for the future in ...
journal_title:Current opinion in neurology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1097/00019052-199412000-00005
更新日期:1994-12-01 00:00:00
abstract:PURPOSE OF REVIEW:Only two functionally validated susceptibility genes, CACNA1H and GABRD, have so far been identified in the common epilepsies using a candidate gene approach. The difficulty with the alternative statistical approach, where none of the suggested candidates has been functionally validated, may partly be...
journal_title:Current opinion in neurology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1097/01.wco.0000218232.66054.46
更新日期:2006-04-01 00:00:00
abstract::Dermatomyositis and polymyositis are treatable disorders of skeletal muscle. Despite their clinical similarities, they appear to have fundamentally different autoimmune origins. Inclusion body myositis, from its origins 30 years ago, has emerged as the commonest acquired myopathy of the elderly. Despite inflammatory c...
journal_title:Current opinion in neurology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1097/00019052-200110000-00007
更新日期:2001-10-01 00:00:00
abstract:PURPOSE OF REVIEW:To describe the path of technological developments that have led to the actual application of MRI-guided focused ultrasound in multiple neurological disorders and to update the more recent technical advances in the field. An insight into the latest clinical achievements in movement disorders will be p...
journal_title:Current opinion in neurology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/WCO.0000000000000840
更新日期:2020-08-01 00:00:00
abstract:PURPOSE OF REVIEW:To provide an update on immunomodulating and immunosuppressive therapies in myasthenia gravis and highlight newly approved, or pending approval, therapies with new biologics. RECENT FINDINGS:Preoperative IVIg is not needed to prevent myasthenic crisis in stable myasthenia gravis patients scheduled fo...
journal_title:Current opinion in neurology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/WCO.0000000000000858
更新日期:2020-10-01 00:00:00
abstract:PURPOSE OF REVIEW:The aim of this study was to assess the seizure manifestations and risk of epilepsy in encephalitis associated with antibodies against neuronal cell-surface (autoimmune encephalitis) or myelin-associated antigens, and to review several chronic epileptic disorders, including Rasmussen's encephalitis, f...
journal_title:Current opinion in neurology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1097/WCO.0000000000000449
更新日期:2017-06-01 00:00:00
abstract:PURPOSE OF REVIEW:To review the clinical findings, differential diagnosis, treatment and outcome of pseudotumoral demyelinating lesions including tumefactive demyelination and Baló's concentric sclerosis. RECENT FINDINGS:MRI findings, such as dynamic restricted diffusion changes at the edge of pseudotumoral lesions he...
journal_title:Current opinion in neurology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1097/WCO.0000000000000683
更新日期:2019-06-01 00:00:00
abstract:PURPOSE OF REVIEW:This article reviews what is known about the health and well being of adults with cerebral palsy. It also addresses the factors known to affect the areas identified in the World Health Organization International Classification of Functioning model as being critical for optimal health and well being. ...
journal_title:Current opinion in neurology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1097/WCO.0b013e3282f6a499
更新日期:2008-04-01 00:00:00
abstract:PURPOSE OF REVIEW:Research on the pathophysiology of syndromic autism spectrum disorder (ASD) has contributed to the uncovering of mechanisms in nonsyndromic ASD. The current review aims to compare recent progress in therapeutics development for ASD with those for fragile X syndrome (FXS), the most frequent monogenic f...
journal_title:Current opinion in neurology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1097/WCO.0000000000000703
更新日期:2019-08-01 00:00:00
abstract::An increasing number of mutations in the CACNA1A gene have been identified, which are associated with a broad clinical spectrum, including familial hemiplegic migraine. Transfection studies and mouse model analyses are currently being undertaken to study the correlation between CACNA1A mutations and disease. ...
journal_title:Current opinion in neurology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1097/00019052-200206000-00014
更新日期:2002-06-01 00:00:00
abstract:PURPOSE OF REVIEW:Drug resistance is an important clinical problem: it is associated with higher rates of somatic and psychiatric comorbidities and cognitive/memory decline, with seizures being just the 'tip of the iceberg'. This review summarizes recent developments in imaging research, focusing specifically on the fu...
journal_title:Current opinion in neurology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1097/WCO.0000000000000072
更新日期:2014-04-01 00:00:00
abstract::Epilepsies, like other common diseases, have complex inheritance, and molecular genetic studies in such conditions are difficult. There has been recent success in identifying the molecular basis of certain epilepsies, particularly in those syndromes with autosomal dominant inheritance. All four genes discovered to dat...
journal_title:Current opinion in neurology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1097/00019052-199904000-00008
更新日期:1999-04-01 00:00:00
abstract::Migraine is an episodic headache disorder that occurs with or without aura and is often accompanied by other symptoms. Treatment must address these associated symptoms as well as the headache, and it can involve either acute or preventive therapy alone or a combination of both. Acute therapy treats the individual atta...
journal_title:Current opinion in neurology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1097/00019052-199406000-00014
更新日期:1994-06-01 00:00:00
abstract:PURPOSE OF REVIEW:Tension-type headache is the most common type of headache and, in its chronic form, one of the most neglected and difficult types of headache to treat. Recently published data will be reviewed. RECENT FINDINGS:The prevalence of frequent tension-type headache increased significantly from 1989 to 2001,...
journal_title:Current opinion in neurology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1097/01.wco.0000227043.00824.a9
更新日期:2006-06-01 00:00:00
abstract::There is a spectrum of acute autonomic neuropathies. Acute panautonomic neuropathy (pandysautonomia), characterized by severe widespread sympathetic and parasympathetic failure, is at one extreme. Guillain-Barré syndrome is at the other end of the spectrum, where the brunt of the disorder falls on the somatic nervous ...
journal_title:Current opinion in neurology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1097/00019052-199410000-00007
更新日期:1994-10-01 00:00:00
abstract::Disability following head injury varies depending on injury mechanism, neuropathology, and other factors, including medical complications. Mild head injury (Glasgow Coma Scale score 13-15) has been shown to have considerable variability in outcome. Some persons experience rapid symptom resolution whereas others contin...
journal_title:Current opinion in neurology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1097/00019052-199310000-00016
更新日期:1993-10-01 00:00:00
abstract:PURPOSE OF REVIEW:Stroke thrombolysis is in the process of moving from academic centers into community-based standard therapy in experienced centers. Recently published data on patient selection, imaging and other technical or organizational advances are reviewed in order to improve the safety and efficacy of stroke th...
journal_title:Current opinion in neurology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1097/01.wco.0000053584.70044.65
更新日期:2003-02-01 00:00:00
abstract::Although spreading depression has been known for over 50 years, recent research into this interesting experimental phenomenon provides evidence for an integrative role of spreading depression in brain pathophysiology. Spreading depression activates neurophysiological pathways that may have widespread consequences on b...
journal_title:Current opinion in neurology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1097/00019052-199806000-00006
更新日期:1998-06-01 00:00:00
abstract::Recent discoveries emanating from basic electrophysiological, anatomical, and pharmacological studies have implications for the diagnosis and treatment of clinical disorders of eye movements caused by disease affecting the brainstem and cerebellum. Electrophysiological studies have better defined the role of the super...
journal_title:Current opinion in neurology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1097/00019052-199602000-00006
更新日期:1996-02-01 00:00:00
abstract:PURPOSE OF REVIEW:With the aging of the population, treatment of painful neuropathies is becoming more and more important for neurological practice. This short review highlights recent findings and current problems. RECENT FINDINGS:In addition to tricyclic antidepressants and gabapentin, the reliability of which is es...
journal_title:Current opinion in neurology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1097/WCO.0b013e328285dfd6
更新日期:2007-10-01 00:00:00
abstract:PURPOSE OF REVIEW:Here we summarize the evidence from human studies of the impairments to the structural, functional, and metabolic capacities in skeletal muscle in those with type 1 diabetes (T1D) - a condition known as diabetic myopathy. Given the importance of skeletal muscle for blood lipid and glucose management, ...
journal_title:Current opinion in neurology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1097/WCO.0000000000000479
更新日期:2017-10-01 00:00:00
abstract:PURPOSE OF REVIEW:Tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC) is a multiorgan genetic disease caused by mutations in the TSC1 or TSC2 genes. TSC has been recognized for many years as an important cause of severe neurological disease with patients suffering from epilepsy, developmental delay, autism, and psychiatric problems. Duri...
journal_title:Current opinion in neurology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1097/WCO.0b013e32832c4ff5
更新日期:2010-04-01 00:00:00
abstract:PURPOSE OF REVIEW:The last 5 years have seen the number of ultra-high field (UHF; 7 T and beyond) MRI scanners nearly double. Benefits include improved specificity, better sensitivity for signal-starved compounds, and the ability to detect, quantify, and monitor tumor activity and treatment effects. This is especially ...
journal_title:Current opinion in neurology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1097/WCO.0b013e32834cd495
更新日期:2011-12-01 00:00:00
abstract:PURPOSE OF REVIEW:There continues to be more males than females diagnosed with neurodevelopmental disorders, which may provide clues about their cause. This review will focus on the two most common neurodevelopmental disorders - autism spectrum disorder (autism) and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and ...
journal_title:Current opinion in neurology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1097/WCO.0000000000000714
更新日期:2019-08-01 00:00:00
abstract::Nuclear magnetic resonance methods as a whole have contributed as much to the study and treatment of epilepsy as to any branch of medicine. The pace of the progress in this field increases as recently developed nuclear magnetic resonance techniques mature into practical tools for epilepsy research and management. Rece...
journal_title:Current opinion in neurology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1097/00019052-199704000-00005
更新日期:1997-04-01 00:00:00
abstract:PURPOSE OF REVIEW:Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a leading cause of death and disability in children. Prognostication of outcome following TBI is challenging in this population and likely requires complex, multimodal models to achieve clinically relevant accuracy. This review highlights injury characteristics, physiol...
journal_title:Current opinion in neurology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1097/WCO.0000000000000504
更新日期:2017-12-01 00:00:00