Phenotypic signatures of genetic frontotemporal dementia.

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:Central nervous system infections are not uncommon in systemic vasculitides. Being vigilant of central nervous system infections as an alternative consideration, instead of systemic vasculitides per se, could prove to be lifesaving in certain circumstances. RECENT FINDINGS:Common pathogens, such as t...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurology

authors： Ye S,Yang CD

更新日期：2008-06-01 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：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

authors： Marizzoni M,Provasi S,Cattaneo A,Frisoni GB

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:Human ischemic stroke is a multistage disorder with different options for recovery. Imaging has opened a window to explore the pathophysiology and recovery mechanisms of ischemic stroke in vivo. RECENT FINDINGS:It was shown that in the acute phase, arterial recanalization and reperfusion are the most...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurology

authors： Seitz RJ

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:Small vessel diseases of the brain are still clinically underrecognized whereas their burden is increasing steeply. The most frequent is acquired degenerative small vessel disease. Many hereditary or idiopathic small vessel diseases have also been identified, of which cerebral autosomal-dominant arter...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurology

authors： Ringelstein EB,Nabavi DG

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:This review summarizes currently available treatment options and treatment strategies, investigational treatments, and the importance of exercise for early Parkinson's disease. RECENT FINDINGS:The available treatment options for early Parkinson's disease have changed little in the past decade and inc...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurology

authors： Pahwa R,Lyons KE

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:Cognitive impairments are common in children with epilepsy. They may already be present before the onset of epilepsy or occur - and even progress - during its course. Many variables contribute to cognitive dysfunction. Those that can be targeted to prevent (further) cognitive impairment will be highli...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurology

authors： Braun KP

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:This article reviews the most significant advances concerning the neural correlates of decision-making with emphasis on those imaging studies investigating the neural implementation of evaluative judgment processes. This is done against the background of current concepts from the field of judgment and...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurology

authors： Volz KG,Schubotz RI,von Cramon DY

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pathogenesis of primary vasculitides, which are assumed to have an autoimmune pathogenesis, is not well understood. The endothelial cell adhesion molecules seem to play an active role, which varies according to the histopathologic stage of vascular lesions. The role of genetic factors also seems quite important, a...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurology

authors： Said G

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:Functional neuro-imaging studies of aphasic stroke offer the potential for a better understanding of the neuronal mechanisms that sustain language recovery. Conclusions, however, have been hampered by a set of unexpected challenges related to experimental design and interpretation. In this review of s...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurology

authors： Price CJ,Crinion J

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:This review discusses current data on nosological boundaries related to diagnosis, pathophysiology and therapeutic strategies in chronic tension-type headache (CTTH). RECENT FINDINGS:Diagnostic criteria of CTTH should be adapted to improve its sensitivity against migraine. It seems that mechanical pa...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurology

authors： Fernández-de-las-Peñas C,Schoenen J

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:This review summarizes the recent studies assessing patients with psychogenic nonepileptic seizures and developments in treatment. RECENT FINDINGS:The misdiagnosis of nonepileptic seizure is costly to patients, the healthcare system, and to society. Patients with nonepileptic seizures are prescribed ...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurology

authors： LaFrance WC Jr

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:The trigeminal autonomic reflex is a physiological reflex with an important protective function which also plays a role in pathophysiological conditions, such as primary headache. It is not understood whether the autonomic symptoms in trigeminal autonomic cephalalgias and migraine are the consequence ...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurology

authors： Möller M,May A

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:Patients with asymptomatic carotid stenosis are at increased vascular risk but optimal treatment is controversial. We reviewed the current evidence for medical and surgical intervention in these patients. RECENT FINDINGS:Optimal medical treatment is the most important aspect of management of patients...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurology

authors： Redgrave JN,Rothwell PM

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:This article reviews the results of recent therapeutic trials in dermatomyositis, polymyositis, and inclusion body myositis and suggests an approach to treating patients with inflammatory myopathy. RECENT FINDINGS:We reviewed 10 double-blind, placebo-controlled therapeutic trials in patients with inf...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurology

authors： Amato AA,Griggs RC

更新日期：2003-10-01 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

authors： Au AK,Clark RSB

更新日期：2017-12-01 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：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:To review the most relevant developments in the understanding of headache in idiopathic intracranial hypertension (IIH). RECENT FINDINGS:The phenotype of the typical IIH headache is diverging from the historical thinking of a raised intracranial pressure headache, with the majority being classified a...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurology

authors： Mollan SP,Hoffmann J,Sinclair AJ

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Demyelination and inflammation both contribute to the neurological deficits characteristic of multiple sclerosis and Guillain-Barré syndrome. Conduction deficits attributable to demyelination are well known, but it is becoming clear that factors such as nitric oxide, endocaine, cytokines, and antiganglioside antibodie...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurology

authors： Smith KJ,Hall SM

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Autoimmune ataxic neuropathies are a subset of the sensory ataxic neuropathies which are characterized by ataxia as the dominant presenting feature. The major known causes of autoimmune ataxic neuropathies include sensory variants of the Guillain-Barré syndrome, including Miller-Fisher syndrome, subsets of immunoglobu...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurology

authors： O'Leary CP,Willison HJ

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuropharmacology is aiding our understanding of the control of eye movements in at least three ways. First, neurotransmitters have been identified in the pathways that coordinate gaze. Second, the technique of pharmacologic inactivation has provided a powerful method to determine the contributions of populations of n...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurology

authors： Leigh RJ,Ramat S

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:This review seeks to describe recent advances in the epidemiology, outcomes, and prognostic factors in acute encephalitis. RECENT FINDINGS:Infectious causes continue to account for the largest proportion of encephalitis cases in which a cause is identified, although autoimmune causes are increasingly...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurology

authors： Venkatesan A

更新日期：2015-06-01 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：:The phakomatoses are a diverse group of diseases characterized by skin lesions in early childhood followed by the development of tumors in many other organs. Tuberous sclerosis complex and neurofibromatosis 1 are of special interest to the neurologist because of their prominent neuro-oncological and neuro-developmenta...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurology

authors： MacCollin M,Kwiatkowski D

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:To summarize the application of advanced MRI sequences such as magnetic resonance spectroscopy, diffusion tensor imaging and functional MRI for the evaluation of patients with altered consciousness. RECENT FINDINGS:Magnetic resonance spectroscopy, volumetry and diffusion tensor imaging have shown pro...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurology

authors： Galanaud D,Naccache L,Puybasset L

更新日期：2007-12-01 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

authors： Cruccu G

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:This review aims to describe new features on the epidemiology of encephalitis world-wide. As this neurological presentation is most frequently related to transmitted viruses, surveillance of encephalitis is of major importance to detect their emergence or re-emergence. RECENT FINDINGS:Rabies causes o...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurology

authors： Stahl JP,Mailles A

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:Trigeminal autonomic cephalgias (TACs) are characterized by frequent, short-lasting headache attacks with ipsilateral facial autonomic features. They include cluster headache, paroxysmal hemicrania, and short-lasting unilateral neuralgiform headache attacks with conjunctival injection and tearing. The...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurology

authors： Wilbrink LA,Ferrari MD,Kruit MC,Haan J

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:To summarize advances in our understanding of the clinical phenotypes, genetics, and molecular pathophysiology of the periodic paralyses, the nondystrophic myotonias, and other muscle channelopathies. RECENT FINDINGS:The number of pathogenic mutations causing periodic paralysis, nondystrophic myotoni...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurology

authors： Platt D,Griggs R

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:Cervical artery dissection (CeAD) is a major cause of ischemic stroke in young and middle-aged adults, although relatively uncommon in the community. Recent large collaborative projects have provided new insights into mechanisms and risk factors of CeAD. RECENT FINDINGS:Pathologic changes observed at...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurology

authors： Debette S

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00