PURPOSE The aim of this study is to describe seizure as a presenting symptom in individuals with recently diagnosed neurocysticercosis (NCC). METHODS Using logistic regression, we examined the probability of having seizures as a presenting symptom among those with active or transitional NCC by host age and gender, and by number of cysts, location of the cysts in the brain, and phase of evolut...

OBJECTIVE To study and evaluate the effects of perfusion through cerebral ventricles with substance P (SP) and its analogs: spantide I, II and III on evoked tongue jerks (ETJ) in male rats. METHODS During the perfusion, stimulation of the tooth pulp caused retractive movements of the stretched tongue, the amplitudes of which were recorded. The mean amplitudes of evoked tongue jerks (ETJ) reco...

A distinctive angiographic appearance is described in two patients who had uncorrected levotransposition of the great vessels. Although levotransposition with inversion of the ventricles usually results in physiologically corrected transposition, in these patients the anatomy was arranged in such a way as to result in an uncorrected transposition. The following elements were responsible for thi...

Galanin (GAL) is suggested to be a neuropeptide involved in pain transmission. In this study we tried to determine, whether the increase of GAL concentration in brain cells affects impulse transmission between the motor centers localized in the vicinity of the third and fourth cerebral ventricles. The experiments were carried out on rats under chloralose anesthesia. The study objectives were re...

Abstract Repeated sub-concussive impact (e.g . soccer ball heading), a significantly lighter form of mild traumatic brain injury, is increasingly suggested to cumulatively alter structure and compromise neurobehavioural function in the long-term. However, underlying mechanisms whereby repeated long-term sub-concussion induces cerebral structural changes are currently unknown. Here, we utilised ...

The choroid plexus and cerebral ventricles are critical structures for the production of cerebral spinal fluid (CSF) and play an important role in regulating ion and metal transport in the brain, however many aspects of its roles in normal physiology and disease states, such as psychiatric illness, remain unknown. The choroid plexus is difficult to examine in vivo, and in situ ex vivo, and as s...

Pattern of neurosonographic (NSG) abnormalities in 150 term newborn infants with hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy (HIE) was studied. Sonographic abnormalities, presumably indicating cerebral edema and or ischemia, were observed in 86% (n = 129) cases. Obliteration of the ventricles occurred as the sole abnormality in 30 (20%) cases. Eighty (53%) patients had diffusely increased echogenicity of t...

In the neonate, regional growth trajectories provide information about the coordinated development of cerebral substructures and help identify regional vulnerability by identifying times of faster growth. Segmentation of magnetic resonance images (MRI) has provided detailed information for the myelinated brain but few reports of regional neonatal brain growth exist. We report the method and pre...