BACKGROUND The autonomic nervous system and trigeminal nerve are involved in adjusting flow through diverging cerebral arteries in the prefrontal cortex. The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of 100 Hz electroacupuncture (EA) to the trigeminal nerve area on cerebral blood flow and autonomic nervous system function. METHOD This was a randomised crossover study of 16 healthy volun...

TO THE EDITOR: I read with great interest the paper entitled “Gastroesophageal reflux disease in type II diabetes mellitus with or without peripheral neuropathy” by Lee et al, which was published in July 2011 issue of Journal of Neurogastroenterology and Motility. The authors investigated gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) among patients with type II diabetes mellitus, and showed interestin...

OBJECTIVE Neurophysiological assessment of the peripheral autonomic system is characterized by various limitations. An alternative approach to laser Doppler and venous plethymography is the assessment of the sympathetic vasomotor response of the radial artery obtained by continuous wave Doppler sonography. Nomogram data have been established and demonstrate the temporary disappearance of diasto...

OBJECTIVE To report the clinical and electrophysiological characteristics of a family presenting Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease (CMT) associated with autonomic nervous system disturbances. METHODS We studied nerve conduction values, postural adaptation, sympathetic skin reflex, the variation in heart rate by the Valsalva ratio and pupillometry in 7 members of a French family in which CMT due to ...

OBJECTIVE To examine if statins have an effect on small nerve fibers. METHODS This retrospective study evaluated the effect of statins in pure small-fiber neuropathy (SFN). Outcome measures were symptom scales (numbness, tingling, and autonomic symptoms), skin biopsies assessing epidermal nerve fiber density (ENFD), sweat gland nerve fiber density (SGNFD), and quantitative autonomic testing. ...

In 2005, a patient in my practice developed complex regional pain syndrome type 1 (CRPS 1) after bunion surgery. The condition was properly diagnosed within 4 weeks with a diagnostic technique that I routinely use to diagnose chronic musculoskeletal pain, and it was successfully treated. The tests, which are based on primitive and postural reflexes in infants, were adapted to reflect normal and...

Overproduction of reactive oxygen species (ROS), such as the superoxide radical (O2 (∙-)), is associated with diseases which compromise cardiac autonomic function. Overexpression of SOD1 may offer protection against ROS damage to the cardiac autonomic nervous system, but reductions of O2 (∙-) may interfere with normal cellular functions. We have selected the C57B6SJL-Tg (SOD1)2 Gur/J mouse as a...

The term dysautonomia refers to a change in autonomic nervous system function that adversely affects health. The changes range from transient, occasional episodes of neurally mediated hypotension to progressive neurodegenerative diseases; from disorders in which altered autonomic function plays a primary pathophysiologic role to disorders in which it worsens an independent pathologic state; and...

INTRODUCTION Cramp-fasciculation syndrome (CFS) is a rare peripheral nerve hyperexcitability syndrome. There are only a few reports on clinical and serological profile of a CFS cohort that was followed up by a single outpatient clinic. METHODS Clinical, electrophysiological, and serological features of 6 CFS patients (5 men, 1 woman; 27-65 years old) were investigated. RESULTS All patients ...

Abstract Cluster headache (CH) is a primary characterized by severe pain that strictly unilateral, with orbital, supraorbital, or temporal location, accompanied ipsilateral autonomic manifestations. It has considerable socioeconomic impact and impairs patients' quality of life. The present study aimed to report the case patient presenting CH who underwent occipital nerve stimulation verify impr...