Transition Care to Adult Epilepsy Centers
Pediatric Neurology Briefs, 2014 Epileptologists at University of Toronto and University of Saskatchewan, Canada, evaluated the complexity of epilepsy patients transitioned from child to adult care between tertiary centers compared to patients transferred from the community.
J Gordon Millichap, John J Millichap
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The Application of Nanotechnology for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Brain Diseases and Disorders
Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, 2021 Brain is by far the most complex organ in the body. It is involved in the regulation of cognitive, behavioral, and emotional activities. The organ is also a target for many diseases and disorders ranging from injuries to cancers and neurodegenerative ...
E. Ngowi +11 more
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Panayiotopoulos Syndrome vs. GERDs
Pediatric Neurology Briefs, 2014 Investigators at Sapienza University of Rome, Italy, describe 12 children with Panayiotopoulos syndrome (PS) misdiagnosed as gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD).
J Gordon Millichap, John J Millichap
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Current research into brain barriers and the delivery of therapeutics for neurological diseases: a report on CNS barrier congress London, UK, 2017. [PDF]
, 2017 This is a report on the CNS barrier congress held in London, UK, March 22-23rd 2017 and sponsored by Kisaco Research Ltd. The two 1-day sessions were chaired by John Greenwood and Margareta Hammarlund-Udenaes, respectively, and each session ended with a ...
A Brenn +28 more
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Extracellular vesicles (exosomes and ectosomes) play key roles in the pathology of brain diseases
Molecular Biomedicine, 2021 Last century, neurons and glial cells were mostly believed to play distinct functions, relevant for the brain. Progressively, however, it became clear that neurons, astrocytes and microglia co-operate intensely with each other by release/binding of ...
J. Meldolesi
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New Therapeutic Avenues of mCSF for Brain Diseases and Injuries
Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience, 2018 Macrophage colony-stimulating factor (mCSF) is a cytokine known to promote the recruitment of macrophages inducing the release of CCL2, a chemokine mobilizing monocytes to sites of inflammation. Additionally, it induces microglia/macrophage proliferation
Vincent Pons, Serge Rivest
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Ketogenic therapy in childhood and adolescence: recommendations of the Brazilian experts group
Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria, 2023 Ketogenic dietary therapies (KDTs) are a safe and effective treatment for pharmacoresistant epilepsy in children. There are four principal types of KDTs: the classic KD, the modified Atkins diet (MAD), the medium-chain triglyceride (MCT) diet, and the ...
Letícia Pereira de Brito Sampaio +12 more
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Design and construction of a distributed sensor NET for biotelemetric monitoring of brain energetic metabolism using microsensors and biosensors [PDF]
, 2010 Neurochemical pathways involved in brain physiology or disease pathogenesis are mostly unknown either in physiological conditions or in neurodegenerative diseases.
Bazzu, Gianfranco +5 more
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BrainBase: a curated knowledgebase for brain diseases
Nucleic Acids Res., 2021 Brain is the central organ of the nervous system and any brain disease can seriously affect human health. Here we present BrainBase (https://ngdc.cncb.ac.cn/brainbase), a curated knowledgebase for brain diseases that aims to provide a whole picture of ...
Lin Liu +15 more
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1st INCF Workshop on Genetic Animal Models for Brain Diseases [PDF]
, 2011 The INCF Secretariat organized a workshop to focus on the “role of neuroinformatics in the processes of building, evaluating, and using genetic animal models for brain diseases” in Stockholm, December 13–14, 2009.
Holm Graessner, Olaf Riess
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