Bruno Colombo • Roberto Teggi Editors 2014 Migraine is the more frequent neurological disorder, comprising nearly 20 % of outpatient neurological visits, even if worldwide prevalence of chronic disabling migraine is about 1 %. Migraine is characterised by recurrent attacks of headache associated to variable symptoms, including vertigo. Vertigo and dizziness may be associated to migraine in different ways. […]
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Rudi A.J.O. Dierckx • Andreas Otte Erik F.J. de Vries • Aren van Waarde Editors Klaus L. Leenders Guest Editor 2014 Neuroscientists of today dispose of a powerful instrumentarium for functional imaging that has never made more impressive advances than before, helping to better understand the mechanisms of diseases and to develop and design drug treatment options with […]
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Jay J. Pillai Editor 2014 The motivation for writing this book was the perceived need on the part of my neuroradiology trainees and colleagues at Johns Hopkins, as well as on the part of some of my neurosurgical and neuro-oncology colleagues, for a comprehensive but concise overview of current state-of the-art clinical functional/ physiologic imaging of brain tumors. Although […]
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Gratian Dragoslav Miclaus • Horia Ples 2014 Normal and Pathologic Findings Permanent research in the field of medical radio-imaging concerning the noninvasive exploration of the circulatory system has led to the appearance and increasing use of the CT multislice for diagnostic purposes. The acquisition by Neuromed Timisoara of the first computed tomography 64 multislice has placed Romania among the […]
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Giovanni Malferrari Marialuisa Zedde Patrizio Prati 2014 An Ultrasound Atlas Although the physiological mechanisms associated with cerebral-venous outflow are poorly understood, abnormalities of the venous system have been implicated in a variety of neurological disorders, including multiple sclerosis. This has raised intriguing questions about how to best evaluate the involvement of the venous system in those disorders. In 2009, it […]
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Marc Sindou George Georgoulis Patrick Mertens 2014 A Practical Guide for Treating Children and Adults Spasticity is a common sequelar condition frequently encountered after a variety of pathologies that affect the upper motor neuron system. Spasticity can be useful by compensating for lost motor strength, but may also become harmful leading to further functional losses and irreducible contractures. When spasticity […]
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Kenzo Uchida • Masaya Nakamura Hiroshi Ozawa • Shinsuke Katoh Editors 2014 During the last tens of years, we have witnessed major advances in the fields on molecular and cellular biologies, neurosciences around involving the spinal cord and nerve tissues, immunohistochemical neuropathology, and other relevant scientific technologies such as molecular neuroimaging. These advances in basic science areas have […]
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Oscar H. Del Brutto • Héctor H. García 2014 Neurocysticercosis—defined as the infection of the central nervous system and its covering by the larval stage of the tapeworm Taenia solium —is a major public health challenge for most of the developing world and is increasingly recognized in developed countries due to mass immigration, refugee movements, international travelling, and overseas […]
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Natalia Zakharova • Valery Kornienko Alexander Potapov • Igor Pronin 2014 The main cause of severe traumatic brain injury worldwide is traffic accidents which characterized by predominant acceleration-deceleration forces in various combinations with coup-contrecoup impact, thus making diffuse axonal injury (DAI) prevail in brain trauma alongside with focal and multifocal contusions and intracranial hemorrhages.
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Helen E. Scharfman • Paul S. Buckmaster Editors 2014 Philip A. Schwartzkroin recently retired after an outstanding, influential career in neuroscience and epilepsy research. He influenced the work of many neuroscientists either by the techniques he developed or his pioneering discoveries of neuronal mechanisms underlying excitability and microcircuitry in health and disease. He personally touched the lives of all […]
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