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- NEUROLOGY TREATMENT: - CONTINUOUS OPIOD THERAPY FOR REFRACTARY HEADACHE: -A practice guide for continuous opioid therapy for refractory daily headache: patient selection, physician requirements, and treatment monitoring
Objectives To provide a guide to the use and limitations of continuous opioid therapy (COT, or daily scheduled opioids) for refractory daily headache, based on the best available evidence and ...
- HEADACHE: -TRANSCRANEAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION FOR MIGRAINE: a safety review
Objective.— To review potential and theoretical safety concerns of transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), as obtained from studies of single-pulse (sTMS) and repetitive TMS (rTMS) and to ...
- NEUROLOGY: -A survey of neurologists on the likeability of headaches and other neurological disorders
Background A pilot survey of 94 neurologists attending a continuing medical education meeting was performed to assess whether neurologists like to treat headaches and other common disorders and ...
- MIGRAINE AND MIGRAINE OF SPECIALIST: perceptions and management
Objectives. To describe the perception of migraine by neurologists in France, to compare perceptions between neurologists who did and did not suffer from migraines and to describe treatments used ...
- HEADACHE: -LIFESTYLE, DIET AND HEADACHE: -Associations of diet and lifestyle with headache in high-school students: results from a cross-sectional study
Headache 2010;50:1104-1114) Background Diet and lifestyle are seen as factors which influence headache in adults. However, population-based studies on this issue in adolescents are rare. ...
- NEUROLOGY: -EPILEPSIA: -NIRS-measured oxy- and deoxyhemoglobin changes associated with EEG spike-and-wave discharges in a genetic model of absence epilepsy: The GAERS
SUMMARY Purpose: Absence epilepsy may be severe and is frequently accompanied by cognitive delay, yet its metabolic/hemodynamic aspects have not been established. The Genetic ...
- NEUROLOGY: -EPILEPSIA: -The topography and significance of extratemporal hypometabolism in refractory mesial temporal lobe epilepsy examined by FDG-PET
SUMMARY Purpose: This study aims to map the temporal and extratemporal 18-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography (FDG-PET)–defined hypometabolism in mesial temporal lobe ...
- MECHANICAL THROMBECTOMY with the SOLITAIRE AB DEVICE; -In large artery occlusions of the anterior circulation
BACKGROUND & PURPOSE To describe the safety and effectiveness of a self-expanding and fully retrievable stent (Solitaire AB; ev3 Inc, Plymouth, MN) in revascularization of patients with acute ...
- NEUROLOGY & EPILEPSIA: -Epilepsy with dual pathology: Surgical treatment of cortical dysplasia accompanied by hippocampal sclerosis
SUMMARY & PURPOSE Purpose: The presence of two or more epileptogenic pathologies in patients with epilepsy is often observed, and the coexistence of focal cortical dysplasia (FCD) ...
- NEUROLOGY: -Genetics of Parkinson's explored
It is too soon to realise the full implications of these findings "The immune system may have a key role in the development of Parkinson's disease," reported BBC News. It said ...
- NEUROLOGY & AUTOIMMUNITY: -Improvement in disability after alemtuzumab treatment of multiple sclerosis is associated with neuroprotective autoimmunity
Treatment of early relapsing–remitting multiple sclerosis with the lymphocyte-depleting humanized monoclonal antibody alemtuzumab (Campath [registered trade mark]) significantly reduced the ...
- NEUROLOGY: -STROKE: -Perception of weight-bearing distribution during sit-to-stand tasks in hemiparetic and healthy individuals
Background and Purpose It is unknown whether hemiparetic individuals are aware of their weight-bearing asymmetry during sit-to-stand tasks. This study compared the error between hemiparetic and ...
- NEUROBIOLOGY: -During growing axons travel toward their final destinations through long and complicated routes.Neural RNA-binding protein musashi1 controls midline crossing of precerebellar neurons through posttranscript. regul. of robo3/rig-1 expression
NEUROBIOLOGY: -During development, growing axons travel toward their final destinations through long and complicated... Axons pass through several intermediate targets sequentially to reach ...
- SLEEP DISORDER: -Violent dreams may predict illness in advance. Sleep disorder can precede neurodegenerative disease by decades
Violent dreams may predict illness in advance: Sleep disorder can precede neurodegenerative disease by decadest 3rd, 2010 Vivid, violent dreams can portend brain disorders by half a century, a ...
- NEUROLOGY & ONCOLOGY: -Iron oxide nanoparticles becoming tools for brain tumor imaging and treatment
Contact: Janet Christenbury, jmchris@emory.edu, 404-727-8599 Emory University IMAGE: Iron oxide nanoparticles “darken” the MRI signal of a brain tumor implanted into a ...
