Neurology Alert – August 1, 2021
August 1, 2021
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Occipital Nerve Stimulation in Medically Intractable Chronic Cluster Headache
Occipital nerve stimulation is an effective and safe treatment that can help reduce attack frequency and intensity in patients with medically intractable chronic cluster headache.
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Mortality and Costs of Status Epilepticus
In an analysis of a large group of patients hospitalized with status epilepticus, based on an administrative database, patients who required a third line of intravenous anesthetic agents had the highest mortality and highest hospital costs.
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Functional Cognitive Disorder: An Important Condition for Neurologists to Recognize
Functional cognitive disorder (FCD) is a term that can be used to describe cognitive difficulties that are present where there is no biologic cause, but a lack of consensus in diagnostic criteria limits its use in clinical practice and research. Ball and colleagues proposed an operational definition for FCD as the cognitive phenotype of functional neurological disorder.
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Is it Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyneuropathy or Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease?
Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease may be confused with chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy, resulting in inappropriate and hazardous treatments. Age at onset < 40 years, a family history of neuropathy, absence of nerve hypertrophy on magnetic resonance imaging, and poor response to intravenous immune globulin treatment should prompt a genetic evaluation.
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Localized Slow Wave Sleep in the Awake but Inattentive Brain
Electroencephalogram studies of humans during periods of “mind wandering” and “mind blanking” have shown regional changes that suggest parts of the brain may be asleep while other areas are activated.
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The Passing of M. Flint Beal, MD
A tribute to the late M. Flint Beal, MD.