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：: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：:Since the first successful attempts in 1990, human embryonic tissue transplantation has attracted the attention of multiple investigators and clinicians as a serious candidate therapy for Parkinson's disease. Although over two hundred patients have undergone the procedure, multiple issues and questions remain unresolv...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurology

authors： Tabbal S,Fahn S,Frucht S

更新日期：1998-08-01 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：:This paper reviews current knowledge about epileptogenesis in the developing brain. Animal studies indicate that the maturational balance of excitatory and inhibitory neurotransmitter systems should result in an increased susceptibility to seizures. However, the reason for specific age-locked syndromes and the high ra...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurology

authors： Scott RC,Neville BG

更新日期：1998-04-01 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：: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：: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：: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：: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：:This article reviews recent studies evaluating the clinicopathologic markers of progressive supranuclear palsy, which have helped establish standardized clinical and pathologic diagnostic criteria. Although these criteria increase diagnostic accuracy, the clinical and pathologic overlap between progressive supranuclea...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurology

authors： Litvan I

更新日期：1997-08-01 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 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：: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：:Positron emission tomography, single photon emission computed tomography and magnetic resonance spectroscopy provide distinct, uncorrelated and sensitive indicators of brain tumors which can be used to improve differential diagnosis, biopsy guidance or therapy monitoring. New findings, including conflicting ethyl-cyst...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurology

authors： Slosman DO,Lazeyras F

更新日期：1996-12-01 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：:Deletion of the 1.5 Mb tract on chromosome 17p11.2-12 that is duplicated in Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease type 1A is commonly associated with hereditary neuropathy with liability to pressure palsies. The deletion, which originates from an unequal meiotic crossover involving two homologous repeats, causes underexpression...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurology

authors： Pareyson D,Taroni F

更新日期：1996-10-01 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：:Recent positron emission tomography investigations found spreading oligemia in the early phases of a human migraine attack. During the headache phase, increased cerebral blood flow was found in cortical sensory association areas and unilaterally in the brainstem. The brainstem activation persisted after complete relie...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurology

authors： Diener HC,May A

更新日期：1996-06-01 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：:A long series of studies beginning with the pioneering experiments of Wiesel and Hubel [1] has shown that correct visual experience is crucial for the development of the visual system. Recent results suggest that neurotrophic factors of the nerve growth factor family might have a relevant role in mediating the effects...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurology

authors： Pizzorusso T,Maffei L

更新日期：1996-04-01 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：:Selected topics related to rehabilitation of individuals with spinal cord lesions are reviewed and commented upon. A 10-week arm-cranking programme improved aerobic capacity and endurance in tetraplegics. Furthermore, endurance training and forced vital capacity were found to be positively correlated. Rowing had addit...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurology

authors： Biering-Sørensen F,Hartkopp A

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In multifocal motor or sensorimotor neuropathy with persistent conduction block, most of the recent research has concerned treatment. Open trials show that intravenous immunoglobulin is effective, providing a rapid and often marked clinical improvement, accompanied by a significant reduction of conduction block in som...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurology

authors： Léger JM

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three genetic loci for Alzheimer's disease have been identified. These are the amyloid precursor gene on chromosome 21, a gene for early-onset autosomal dominant Alzheimer's disease on chromosome 14, and the risk-modifying gene APOE on chromosome 19. Additional Alzheimer's disease genes remain to be found. The genes i...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurology

authors： Schellenberg GD

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper reviews clinical reports of various movement disorders (dystonia, chorea, ballism and parkinsonism) caused by well defined lesions of the putamen, globus pallidus, substantia nigra, thalamus and subthalamus. The role of basal ganglia in motor control is also emphasized. ...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurology

authors： Berardelli A

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stimulated by the impressive effect of interferon beta on magnetic resonance imaging-detected disease activity, the past year or so has seen a particular interest in the use of magnetic resonance imaging to monitor treatment. To be effective in this regard, there needs to be a high sensitivity and accuracy in detectin...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurology

authors： Miller DH

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Central nervous system infections are an important cause of childhood morbidity and mortality. This review discusses recent developments in diagnostic tests, management strategies, and prevention of bacterial and tubercular meningitis. ...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurology

authors： Singhi PD,Singhi SC

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Little progress has been made in the treatment outcome of patients with glioblastoma in the past 10 to 15 years, despite an aggressive multimodality regimen using surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy. New approaches, particularly molecular strategies, have become the clinicians' and scientists' hope for the future in ...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurology

authors： Yung WK

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is a spectrum of acute autonomic neuropathies. Acute panautonomic neuropathy (pandysautonomia), characterized by severe widespread sympathetic and parasympathetic failure, is at one extreme. Guillain-Barré syndrome is at the other end of the spectrum, where the brunt of the disorder falls on the somatic nervous ...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurology

authors： Low PA

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Migraine is an episodic headache disorder that occurs with or without aura and is often accompanied by other symptoms. Treatment must address these associated symptoms as well as the headache, and it can involve either acute or preventive therapy alone or a combination of both. Acute therapy treats the individual atta...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurology

authors： Silberstein SD

更新日期：1994-06-01 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：: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：:Disability following head injury varies depending on injury mechanism, neuropathology, and other factors, including medical complications. Mild head injury (Glasgow Coma Scale score 13-15) has been shown to have considerable variability in outcome. Some persons experience rapid symptom resolution whereas others contin...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurology

authors： Macciocchi SN,Reid DB,Barth JT

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00