Intelligent use of antiepileptic drugs is beneficial to patients.

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：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：: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：: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：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:In recent years, advances in the understanding of the regulatory mechanisms of the immune system has led to the development of new approaches for cancer treatment. Currently, immune checkpoint inhibitors are the first successful examples of this approach and several agents that target cytotoxic lympho...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurology

authors： Hottinger AF

更新日期：2016-12-01 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: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:The aim of this review is to refer to recent arguments supporting the existence of specific propagation mechanisms associated with spreading of neuron injury in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). RECENT FINDINGS:Misfolded ALS-linked protein accumulation can induce aggregation of their native equiva...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurology

authors： Pradat PF,Kabashi E,Desnuelle C

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy (CIDP) is a chronic and often disabling neuropathy, which often responds to immune therapies including corticosteroids, plasma exchange, and high-dose intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIg). The reasons for choosing one of these therapies and the fa...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurology

authors： Nobile-Orazio E,Gallia F

更新日期：2015-10-01 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

authors： Hilton-Jones D

更新日期：2001-10-01 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

authors： Ess KC

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We currently conceive of a migraine attack as originating in the brain. Triggers of an attack initiate a depolarizing neuroelectric and metabolic event likened to the spreading depression of Leao. This event activates the headache and associated features of the attack by mechanisms that remain to be determined, but ap...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurology

authors： Aurora SK,Welch KM

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Continuing advances have rendered the neural control of eye movements one of the best understood motor systems, from molecules to complex behaviors. Nevertheless, new discoveries have required re-evaluation of established concepts, from the genetics of disorders that affect extraocular muscles to the way in which the ...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurology

authors： Szatmáry G,Leigh RJ

更新日期：2002-02-01 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: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: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：:This is a review of chemotherapy options for patients with brain tumors, both at the time of initial diagnosis and at recurrence. Gliomas, the most common malignant brain tumors, represent the main focus of the review; chemotherapeutic options for supratentorial, brain stem, and optic track gliomas are discussed. ...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurology

authors： Galanis E,Buckner JC

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the past few years evidence that atherosclerotic disease of the aortic arch is probably an underestimate source of emboli, particularly moving thrombi in the lumen, has accumulated. Pathological studies, and more recently transesophageal echocardiographic studies, have shown that atherosclerotic disease of the aort...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurology

authors： Heinzlef O,Cohen A,Amarenco P

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The population of pediatric patients with cerebrovascular disease presents a unique set of challenges to the neurosurgeon. The wide scope of pathology, including arteriovenous malformations, cavernous malformations and moyamoya disease, coupled with marked advances in diagnosis and treatment of these conditions over t...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurology

authors： Smith ER,Butler WE,Ogilvy CS

更新日期：2002-04-01 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: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

authors： Spatola M,Dalmau J

更新日期：2017-06-01 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：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：:Although reactive oxygen species are natural metabolic products, they can be toxic to cells and are implicated in some neurodegenerative disease. Cytosolic Cu, Zn superoxide dismutase normally defends against damage by reactive oxygen species; however, mutant forms of the enzyme might instead contribute to damage of m...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurology

authors： Hosler BA,Brown RH Jr

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This review first considers toxic neuropathies of recent interest, including those caused by antineoplastic and antiretroviral drugs, agents that affect methylation reactions, vitamin and herbal preparations, and certain occupational exposures. The discussion points out the interesting phenomenon of "coasting," the st...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurology

authors： Kuncl RW,George EB

更新日期：1993-10-01 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 highlights recent neuroimaging and genetic studies of attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder that may inform biologically targeted interventions and treatments. RECENT FINDINGS:The findings suggest that attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder is characterized by specific learning and c...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurology

authors： Casey BJ,Nigg JT,Durston S

更新日期：2007-04-01 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: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