23 Apr 2024
Non-invasive positive pressure ventilation (NIV) has become a widely accepted mode of management for ventilatory failure due to the otherwise fatal combination of upper and lower motor neuron weakness in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).
16 Apr 2024
In a new study published in Developmental Cell, researchers from the lab of Wim Annaert (VIB-KU Leuven) have identified a novel mechanism potentially connected to the early stages of AD.
15 Apr 2024
Vol. 459, April 2024 now available
4 Apr 2024
Researchers at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago discover a fundamental biological mechanism that could lead to new treatments for neurological diseases, such as spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) and autism, as well as different cancers.
25 Mar 2024
Placebo and recently the term nocebo are often used in situations where uncertain effects, possibly the effect of the mind works, and have been often disregarded as scientifical activities. All of us working with patients are implicitly using the concept of placebo, and sometimes the negative prediction, the nocebo.
22 Mar 2024
The date marks the day in 1882 when Dr. Robert Koch announced that he had discovered the bacterium that causes TB, which opened the way towards diagnosing and curing this disease.
14 Mar 2024
Neurological conditions now leading cause of ill health and disability globally, affecting 3.4 billion people worldwide.
13 Mar 2024
The quandary persists, how can “asymptomatic” HT be linked with a serious adverse event and worse clinical outcomes, whether due to spontaneous recanalization, IVT or EVT? Perhaps, the stroke community is agnostic to ever knowing or realizing the actual causal relationship of HT with respect to individual patient-related factors or specific treatments, including combinations with IVT and EVT. It is also quite arbitrary to designate certain cases of HT as “asymptomatic” when we truly cannot disprove a link with symptoms or long-term clinical outcomes. In short, it is increasingly clear that our current definitions of HT require an update in 2024.
10 Mar 2024
6 Mar 2024
The WFN March 2024 issue of the OPEN ACCESS journal eNeurologicalSci Vol. 34 is now available online.