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Deep brain stimulation of the subthalamic nucleus improved "off" motor symptoms and quality of life in advanced Parkinson's disease, but was associated with an increased rate of serious adverse events.
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Sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) has multiple subtypes, and the subtype has an effect on the sensitivity of commonly utilized diagnostic tests in the workup of CJD.
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Severe tongue protrusion dystonia is disabling and occasionally life-threatening, and may suggest either a secondary cause or particular heredodegenerative diseases.
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Until now, neurologists have relied on large studies of patients with coronary atherosclerosis and hyperlipidemia who were treated with statins and were found, as a secondary outcome, to have a reduced risk of ischemic stroke.
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Patients with myopathies induced by lipid-lowering drugs, including statins and fibrates, have an increased rate of genetic muscle disorders.
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Cluster headache may be accompanied by a variety of neurological manifestations, and responds well to triptans and oxygen therapy.
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Ginkgo biloba has been used by practitioners of Eastern medicine for centuries to boost memory and other health purposes.
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Treatment of Parkinson's disease with dopamine agonist medications may precipitate impulse-control disorders such as compulsive gambling, buying, and hypersexuality
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The neurological risk of cardiac surgery is still not well characterized, but post-operative strokes occur in 3-9% of patients. A decrease in intra-operative blood pressure and increased cardiopulmonary bypass time may result in watershed infarcts.
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A team from UCSF recently reviewed company documents that were entered into the public record as a result of litigation over the promotion of gabapentin (Neurontin) between 1994 and 1998.
