Neuroimaging in trigeminal autonomic cephalgias: when, how, and of what?

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:Cervical spondylotic myelopathy (CSM) is a potentially debilitating disorder primarily related to spinal cord injury caused by degenerative changes of the spine. As the population continues to age and live longer, it is likely that this disorder will be encountered with increasing frequency. RECENT F...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurology

authors： Holly LT

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:Treatment response of brain tumours is typically evaluated with gadolinium-enhanced MRI using the Macdonald criteria. These criteria depend on changes in the area of enhancement. However, gadolinium enhancement of brain tumours primarily reflects impairment of the blood-brain barrier. RECENT FINDINGS...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurology

authors： Brandsma D,van den Bent MJ

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:The aim is to specify the genetic causes of dominantly and recessively inherited axonal forms of Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease (CMT) and review the biological basis for these disorders. RECENT FINDINGS:More than 10 genes that cause axonal CMT have been identified over the past decade. Many of these gen...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurology

authors： Shy ME,Patzkó A

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The motoneuron has a strong ability to regenerate after injury. However, the problems of nerve cell survival after a proximal axotomy, difficulty in axonal elongation after intraspinal lesion and the lack of target specificity during nerve fibre regrowth interfere with a good functional restitution. Current research h...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurology

authors： Carlstedt T

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:This review presents the new terms and concepts proposed by the International League Against Epilepsy (ILAE) Classification Commission in 2010 to describe seizures and epilepsies. This is the first major revision in 21 years and reflects the rapid evolution in our understanding of the epilepsies. REC...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurology

authors： Korff CM,Scheffer IE

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:This review summarizes the major recent developments in understanding of pathogenic mechanisms in inflammatory and paraproteinaemic neuropathies. RECENT FINDINGS:In the inflammatory neuropathies, there has been a particular focus on antibody-mediated disease affecting the nodal/paranodal regions. Dis...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurology

authors： Rinaldi S,Bennett DL

更新日期：2014-10-01 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

authors： Kors EE,van den Maagdenberg AM,Plomp JJ,Frants RR,Ferrari MD

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:The advent of novel techniques for tracing connections in vivo, such as diffusion tensor magnetic resonance imaging tractography, allows us, for the first time in the human brain, to study the microstructural integrity of white matter fibres and perform virtual dissections of large scale neurocognitiv...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurology

authors： Catani M

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:Preterm infants are at high risk for neurological sequelae and cognitive dysfunction. These problems have been attributed to a high occurrence of central nervous system (CNS) lesions, but suboptimal brain development appears to be just as important. In this brief review we present the hypothesis that ...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurology

authors： Hagberg H,Mallard C

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:Migraine has traditionally been categorized as a pain disorder, focusing on headache as its central feature. This narrow view does not account for the complex array of premonitory and postrdromal symptoms that occur in the hours before and after headache. This review outlines evidence that supports a ...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurology

authors： Charles A

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:We analyze recent data on technical aspects, clinical indications, and imaging features of spinal cord MRI in multiple sclerosis, and on the value of this examination for assessing the type and extension of spinal cord damage, and for predicting prognosis in patients with this disease. RECENT FINDING...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurology

authors： Rovira A,de Stefano N

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:The traditional focus of neurorehabilitaion has been on the patients' attention on their deficit, such that they should become aware of their problems and gain intentional control of compensatory strategies (descending approach). We review prism adaptation as one of the approaches that emphasize ascen...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurology

authors： Pisella L,Rode G,Farnè A,Tilikete C,Rossetti Y

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:Is multiple sclerosis (MS) a generalized disease of the central nervous system? Or put another way, is MS pathology primarily focal with global consequences or global with focal consequences? Consideration of this question depends on how you view it both spatially and temporally. In this review, we ad...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurology

authors： Chard D,Miller D

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neural circuits comprised of dopamine-containing and dopamine-receptive neurons are altered functionally after the repeated intermittent administration of cocaine and its withdrawal. The characterization of these neuroadaptive changes at various times after repeated exposure to cocaine is important because they may re...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurology

authors： Pilotte NS

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Slowly, advances are being made in the understanding and treatment of primary childhood brain tumors. The addition of chemotherapy has resulted in better survival for children with medulloblastoma. For other tumor types, therapeutic advances have been slower. High-dose chemotherapy is increasingly being employed to tr...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurology

authors： Packer RJ

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Insight into the pathomechanisms of the benign positional vertigo syndromes has led to quick and effective treatment with positional manoeuvres. Our understanding of other causes of vertigo is progressing at a slower pace, but several recent findings regarding vestibular neuritis, vascular compression of the eighth ne...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurology

authors： Lempert T

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article reviews recent studies concerning memory and language disorders in Alzheimer's disease and other neurodegenerative conditions. It shows how different memory and language subcomponents may differentially be impaired in different neurodegenerative diseases and at different stages of the same disease. ...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurology

authors： Dalla Barba G,Boller F

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Desmin-related myopathies are marked by accumulation of desmin, which is often familial and associated with cardiomyopathy. When multifocal this excess is characterized by inclusions such as cytoplasmic or spheroid bodies, when disseminated the excess is called granulofilamentous material. Excess of desmin might repre...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurology

authors： Goebel HH

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability to recognize elements of the environment as familiar objects, events, or classes underlies virtually all human cognition. Positron emission tomography and functional magnetic resonance imaging studies of the recognition of visually presented objects suggest that several brain areas crucially support this f...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurology

authors： Bly BM,Kosslyn SM

更新日期：1997-02-01 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

authors： Prichard JW

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:The exotic and emerging viral encephalitides are caused by animal or human viruses and characterised by sudden unexpected outbreaks of neurological disease, usually in tropical and sub-tropical regions, but sometimes spreading to temperate areas. Although a wide range of viruses come within this label...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurology

authors： Solomon T

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:This article will review the recent experience with West Nile virus encephalitis and myelitis. RECENT FINDINGS:In the summer of 2003, the majority of cases of West Nile virus infection in the United States were reported from the western states. The transmission of West Nile virus through blood transf...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurology

authors： Roos KL

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:New insights into the psychophysiological determinants of performance changes and brain plasticity associated with motor sequence learning have recently been gained through behavioral and imaging studies in healthy individuals. In addition, using a variety of motor sequential paradigms in groups of pa...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurology

authors： Doyon J

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:Inflammation is implicated in ischaemic stroke as a general cardiovascular risk factor, a possible immediate trigger, a component (and possible exacerbating factor) of the response to tissue injury, a marker of future risk, and as a therapeutic target. Each aspect is reviewed. RECENT FINDINGS:Evidenc...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurology

authors： Muir KW,Tyrrell P,Sattar N,Warburton E

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:Stroke is the third leading cause of death after myocardial infarction and cancer, and is the leading cause of permanent disability and disability-adjusted loss of independent life-years in western countries. Thrombolysis is the treatment of choice for acute stroke within 3 h after the onset of sympto...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurology

authors： Schellinger PD,Kaste M,Hacke W

更新日期：2004-02-01 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

authors： Averbuch-Heller L,Leigh RJ

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Various functional imaging modalities can be applied in acute ischaemic stroke to identify functionally impaired, but morphologically preserved tissue (i.e. the penumbra), and to distinguish it from irreversibly damaged tissue. Flow thresholds for irreversible tissue destruction resulting in functional impairment, as ...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurology

authors： Heiss WD,Forsting M,Diener HC

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A relatively small number of studies were published on the intra-arterial therapy of stroke in the past year. Those reports, however, do offer strong evidence for the feasibility and safety of this therapeutic approach. Partly on the basis of these data it has become evident that the intra-arterial thrombolytic therap...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurology

authors： Abou-Chebl A,Furlan AJ

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:This review on traumatic brain injury consolidates the substantial current literature available on the pathophysiology, mechanisms, developments, and their subsequent effects on outcome. In particular, it tries to conceptualize why our greatly improved understanding of pathophysiology and neurobiology...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurology

authors： Nortje J,Menon DK

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Trauma to the developing brain constitutes an unexplored field. The few studies attempting to model and study paediatric head trauma, the leading cause of death and disability in the paediatric population, have revealed interesting aspects and potential targets for future research. One feature unique to the developing...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurology

authors： Felderhoff-Mueser U,Ikonomidou C

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00