Advances in ultra-high field MRI for the clinical management of patients with brain tumors.

abstract：:This article reviews the current knowledge with regard to neurotoxicity of conventional radiation, including recent understanding of the pathophysiology, molecular biology, diagnostic evaluation and clinical presentations, as well as proposed treatment modalities and possible protective agents. ...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurology

authors： New P

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:The aim is to systematically and critically review the relationship between migraine and estrogen, the predominant female sex hormone, with a focus on studies published in the last 18 months. RECENT FINDINGS:Recent functional MRI (fMRI) studies of the brain support the existence of anatomical and fun...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurology

authors： Chai NC,Peterlin BL,Calhoun AH

更新日期：2014-06-01 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

authors： Liptak GS

更新日期：2008-04-01 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:We present an overview of recent concepts in mechanisms underlying cognitive decline associated with brain aging and neurodegeneration from the perspective of MRI. RECENT FINDINGS:Recent findings challenge the established link between neuroimaging biomarkers of neurodegeneration and age-related or di...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurology

authors： Draganski B,Lutti A,Kherif F

更新日期：2013-12-01 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

authors： May T,Adesina I,McGillivray J,Rinehart NJ

更新日期：2019-08-01 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

authors： Berkovic SF,Scheffer IE

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:This review will summarize new neuroimaging techniques, particularly MRI and PET imaging, that can be used to assess brain tumor growth and angiogenesis. RECENT FINDINGS:Glioma tumor vasculature is abnormal, and advances in MRI now permit visualization of the hemodynamic properties of gliomas includi...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurology

authors： Gerstner ER,Sorensen AG,Jain RK,Batchelor TT

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:This review focuses on important new findings in the field of tremor and illustrates the consequences for the current definition and classification of tremor. RECENT FINDINGS:Since 1998 when the consensus criteria for tremor were proposed, new variants of tremors and new diagnostic methods were disco...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurology

authors： Gövert F,Deuschl G

更新日期：2015-08-01 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: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

authors： Koepp MJ

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:Localization of focal epileptic brain is critical for successful epilepsy surgery and focal brain stimulation. Despite significant progress, roughly half of all patients undergoing focal surgical resection, and most patients receiving focal electrical stimulation, are not seizure free. There is intens...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurology

authors： Cimbalnik J,Kucewicz MT,Worrell G

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:This review summarizes key findings of the current literature on functional neuroimaging in migraine and describes how these studies have changed our view of the disorder. RECENT FINDINGS:Recent studies have started not only to investigate the global cerebral activation pattern during migraine attack...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurology

authors： Sprenger T,Borsook D

更新日期：2012-06-01 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

authors： Lustig LR,Akil O

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:Gadolinium-enhancement depicts blood-brain barrier disruption associated with new inflammatory MRI lesions in multiple sclerosis (MS) and is widely used for diagnosis and therapeutic monitoring. However, earlier and more specific markers of inflammation are urgently needed. RECENT FINDINGS:Susceptibi...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurology

authors： Hagens M,van Berckel B,Barkhof F

更新日期：2016-06-01 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：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:To review some aspects of the relationship between epilepsy and depression that have recently received increasing attention and may become major research topics in the near future. RECENT FINDINGS:Epidemiological studies show that depression and suicide are, in some cases, premorbid symptoms precedin...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurology

authors： Mula M

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:This review highlights recent work using advanced imaging approaches that have improved our understanding of the underlying neural mechanisms associated with disrupted brain development or demonstrated the potential of MRI to provide objective biomarkers of cerebral injury that relate to subsequent ne...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurology

authors： Counsell SJ,Ball G,Edwards AD

更新日期：2014-04-01 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

authors： Parsons AA

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent advances in clinical neurophysiology of epilepsy have enhanced our ability to study the epileptogenic region and have improved the localization of seizures in patients with intractable epilepsy. Computed spike analyses using electroencephalogram or magnetoencephalography superimposed on magnetic resonance image...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurology

authors： Masuoka LK,Spencer SS

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A review of the literature on methods of seizure or epilepsy severity assessments resulted in tabulation of the seizure rating scales known as US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), Chalfont-National Hospital, Liverpool, Hague, and others. Each of the scales reviewed has some advantages, but none of them appears to b...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurology

authors： Cramer JA

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:To summarize the currently known side effects of the approved therapies of multiple sclerosis and to suggest monitoring procedures. RECENT FINDINGS:The progress in the treatment of multiple sclerosis with new very effective therapies is accompanied by a number of side effects. Some of these have alre...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurology

authors： Moiola L,Rommer PS,Zettl UK

更新日期：2020-06-01 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：:At the dawning of the present decade, deemed appropriately the Decade of the Spine, acute spinal cord injury lingers as a formidable disorder affecting society. The enormous physical, emotional and socioeconomic impact of acute spinal cord injury on society is well known. Consequently, intensive clinical and laborator...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurology

authors： Dumont AS,Dumont RJ,Oskouian RJ

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Subacute focal encephalitis of Rasmussen involves cortical inflammatory infiltration which may on occasion be bilateral. The presence of anti-Glu R3 antibodies in some patients suggests that an autoimmune process may be involved. Although a small number of patients respond transiently to immunoglobulins and the condit...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurology

authors： Dulac O

更新日期：1996-04-01 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：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an autoimmune and inflammatory disease of the central nervous system (CNS) that causes neurological disability in young adults and that to date has no cure. Until now, expensive and only partially efficacious therapies have become available. For this reason, researchers, cli...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurology

authors： Mangas A,Coveñas R,Geffard M

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:Experimental and clinical studies have suggested that epileptic seizures can be modulated or interrupted by electrical stimulations of subcortical structures that may exert a remote control on seizure generators. The aim of this review is to present these recent reports and to address the perspectives...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurology

authors： Kahane P,Depaulis A

更新日期：2010-04-01 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:Converging evidence from animal models of stroke and clinical trials suggests that aerobic exercise has effects across multiple targets. RECENT FINDINGS:The subacute phase is characterized by a period of heightened neuroplasticity when aerobic exercise has the potential to optimize recovery. In anima...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurology

authors： Ploughman M,Kelly LP

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00