Neurology Updates

Neurology Updates

Here you will find regular scientific news from our Scientific Panels. We cover all areas of neurology, including rare diseases. The most recent news are displayed below. You will find all news of different areas sorted into the subsections of the respective scientific panel. Enjoy reading!

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| Higher Cortical Functions  

A somato-cognitive action network alternates with effector regions in motor cortex

The motor homunculus is composed by motor specific concentric regions, organized concentrically, intermingled with inter-effector integrating areas…

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Created by Pedro Nascimento Alaves

| Higher Cortical Functions | Rare Neurological Diseases  

Patel, N., Peterson, K. A., Ingram, R. U., Storey, I., Cappa, S. F., Catricala, E., ... & Garrard, P. (2022). A ‘Mini Linguistic State Examination’to classify primary progressive aphasia. Brain communications, 4(2), fcab299

A “Mini Linguistic State Examination”, was developed to assess and classify language disorders in patients with primary progressive aphasia (PPA).…

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Created by Isabel Pavão Martins

| Higher Cortical Functions  

Role of right frontal regions in cognition: evidence from intraoperative stimulation in awake people

Right frontal regions make a significant contribution to inhibitory behavioural control.

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Created by Prof Masud Husain (University of Oxford)

| Higher Cortical Functions  

Neural basis of impulse control behaviours in Parkinson’s disease

Up to 20% of patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) develop impulse control behaviours (ICBs) on dopaminergic therapy, particularly on dopamine…

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Created by Masud Husain, University of Oxford, United Kingdom

| Higher Cortical Functions  

Persisting spatial neglect correlates with transneuronal damage to the attention network in the contralesional hemisphere

This important study is the first to present neuroanatomical evidence for transneuronal damage to functional homologues of the attention  network in…

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Created by Wolfgang Heide; Roza M. Umarova et al.

| Rare Neurological Diseases | Higher Cortical Functions  

Theta-Alpha Oscillations Bind the Hippocampus, Prefrontal Cortex, and Striatum during Recollection: Evidence from Simultaneous EEG-fMRI.

Advances in understanding memory mechanisms have crucial implications for cognitive neurology, and it is very good news that current studies combining…

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Created by Stefano F. Cappa