Cervicogenic causes of vertigo.

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:After more than 10 years of methodological developments and clinical applications, diffusion imaging tractography has reached a crossroad. Although the method is still in its infancy, the time has come to address some important questions. Can tractography reproduce reliably known anatomy or describe n...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurology

authors： Dell'Acqua F,Catani M

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:The aim is to review recent publications on amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). RECENT FINDINGS:The Awaji recommendations for electrophysiological diagnosis will permit earlier clinical trials entry. The use of ultrasound to visualize fasciculations, even in deep muscles, will contribute to earlier ...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurology

authors： de Carvalho M,Swash M

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:Convergent evidence from a number of neuroscience disciplines supports the hypothesis that Alzheimer's disease and other neurodegenerative disorders progress along brain networks. This review considers the role of neuroimaging in strengthening the case for network-based neurodegeneration and elucidati...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurology

authors： Greicius MD,Kimmel DL

更新日期：2012-12-01 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：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:This review discusses advances in the understanding of the mechanisms of status epilepticus and its current treatment approaches. Many of these have been topics at the 5th London-Innsbruck Colloquium on status epilepticus 2015. RECENT FINDINGS:A new definition and classification of status epilepticus...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurology

authors： Trinka E,Brigo F,Shorvon S

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:Research on multiple sclerosis (MS) pathogenesis and therapy is to a large extent driven by results obtained in experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE). This approach provided deep insights into the mechanism of brain inflammation and immune mediated tissue injury and, thus, most of our curren...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurology

authors： Lassmann H

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:To describe the background, principles and implementation of the Stroke Action Plan for Europe 2018--2030 (SAP-E) in the perspective of the current COVID-19 pandemic. RECENT FINDINGS:SAP-E sets targets for the implementation of evidence-based preventive actions and stroke services to 2030. A recent m...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurology

authors： Christensen H,Pezzella FR,Action Plan for Stroke in Europe Implementation Steering Committee.

更新日期：2021-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:The field of new technologies for upper-limb rehabilitation is exploding. The review presents new trends and studies of effectiveness from recent literature regarding robots, virtual reality and telerehabilitation for neurorehabilitation of the upper limb. RECENT FINDINGS:There appears to be a greate...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurology

authors： Brochard S,Robertson J,Médée B,Rémy-Néris O

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:To summarize why there are polarized opinions regarding the management of patients with asymptomatic carotid disease and whether it is possible to identify patients who might benefit from carotid interventions. RECENT FINDINGS:Carotid Revascularization Endarterectomy Versus Stenting Trial and Asympto...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurology

authors： Naylor AR

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:The role of chemotherapy in low-grade glioma has been redefined with the long-term follow-up of the RTOG 9802, which investigated adjuvant procarbazine, CCNU, and vincristine (PCV) chemotherapy in addition to radiotherapy, and the results of EORTC trial 22033 in a similar patient population that compa...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurology

authors： van den Bent MJ

更新日期：2015-12-01 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 describes the pathogenesis, clinical presentation, course, and therapy of herpes simplex encephalitis (HSE), the most fatal viral encephalitis, in which prognosis is dependent on early diagnosis and effective therapy. RECENT FINDINGS:Herpes simplex viruses types 1 and 2 (HSV-1 and HSV-2) ...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurology

authors： Steiner I

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:The demyelinating disease multiple sclerosis has an autoimmune inflammatory component, which has dominated the description of multiple sclerosis. A degenerative component to multiple sclerosis was always apparent, but was underappreciated until recently. Recent work has brought axonal pathology and br...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurology

authors： Owens T

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:This review discusses the present use of interventional transcatheter strategies to treat patients with acute brain ischemia and severe stenosis of intracranial large arteries. RECENT FINDINGS:The benefits and risks of opening freshly occluded intracranial large arteries in patients with brain ischem...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurology

authors： Caplan LR,Thomas AJ,Inoa V

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:Valproic acid (VPA) is one of the four first line antiepileptic drugs (AEDs). VPA is also an effective drug in migraine prophylaxis and in treatment of bipolar disorders. The use of VPA is limited by its two rare but potentially life-threatening side effects, teratogenicity and hepatotoxicity, and it ...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurology

authors： Isoherranen N,Yagen B,Bialer M

更新日期：2003-04-01 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

authors： Hardy TA

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mild cognitive impairment is not an established diagnosis but a concept for which different criteria have been proposed and modified over time. Mild cognitive impairment refers to the transitional zone between normal ageing and dementia. The mild cognitive impairment stage may be one of the optimum stages at which to ...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurology

authors： Voisin T,Touchon J,Vellas B

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:This review describe the role and advancements of MRI in the diagnosis and monitoring of progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML) in multiple sclerosis patients treated with natalizumab. RECENT FINDINGS:MRI is the most sensitive paraclinical tool in the detection of PML lesions in natalizumab...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurology

authors： Wattjes MP,Barkhof F

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:This review considers the role of neuroimaging in developmental disorders by highlighting recent studies in two distinct, but overlapping, developmental disorders: autism and fragile X syndrome. RECENT FINDINGS:After a decade of conflicting results in neuroimaging studies of autism, recent studies ha...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurology

authors： Greicius MD

更新日期：2003-04-01 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：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:Severe childhood traumatic brain injury (TBI) is the leading cause of death and acquired disability in children, causing impairments in children's sensory-motor, cognitive and behavioural functioning, with devastating consequences on community integration. Community integration is the ultimate goal of...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurology

authors： Chevignard MP,Brooks N,Truelle JL

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although theoretical reasons exist for believing that selegiline slows the progression of Parkinson's disease, this has not been shown in clinical trials. Selegiline improves the symptoms of Parkinson's disease, allowing the introduction of levodopa to be delayed in de-novo patients and, later, for levodopa to be used...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurology

authors： Hely MA,Morris JG

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:Campylobacter jejuni is the most frequent agent of antecedent infection in an axonal variant of Guillain-Barré syndrome, acute motor axonal neuropathy, and anti-GM1 or anti-GD1a IgG antibody is also associated with acute motor axonal neuropathy. Molecular mimicry has been found between human GM1 gangl...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurology

authors： Yuki N,Odaka M

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:Although cluster headache has traditionally been thought of as a vascular headache disorder, its periodicity suggests an involvement of central areas such as the hypothalamus. This review covers the past 3 years, which have seen remarkable progress in understanding the pathophysiology of circadian hea...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurology

authors： May A,Leone M

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:To gain a complete understanding of how the brain functions, both in illness and good health, data from multiple levels of analysis must be integrated. Technical advances have made direct recordings of neuronal activity deep inside the human brain tractable, providing a rare glimpse into cellular proc...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurology

authors： Viskontas IV

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:Understanding the mechanisms and abnormalities of respiratory function in neuromuscular disease is critical to supporting the patient and maintaining ventilation in the face of acute or chronic progressive impairment. RECENT FINDINGS:Retrospective clinical studies reviewing the care of patients with ...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurology

authors： Howard RS

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:The 2016 WHO classification of tumors of the central nervous system (2016 CNS WHO) features many changes that are relevant to neurologists treating patients with brain tumors as well as neurologists involved in basic, clinical, and epidemiological research. This review summarizes what neurologists nee...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurology

authors： DeWitt JC,Mock A,Louis DN

更新日期：2017-12-01 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

authors： Lindsberg PJ,Kaste M

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:The aim of this article is to review the current literature on endovascular treatment of acute ischemic stroke in the aftermath of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) lockdown. RECENT FINDINGS:The outbreak of the COVID-19 has had effect of unprecedented magnitude on the social, economic and perso...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurology

authors： Dobrocky T,Kaesmacher J,Pereira VM,Gralla J,Fischer U

更新日期：2021-02-01 00:00:00