Clinical and Translational Neuroscience, Volume 2, Issue 1

For most sighted people, looking into a mirror helps to consolidate a visual and spatial concept of the self. This concept connects both theoretically and substantively to other elements of identity. Similarly, observing the bodies of others plays a...

The Swiss Young Neurosurgeons Society (SYNS) comes to life in 2008, creating a community renowned for its unique spirit, a platform dedicated to lifelong teaching and learning. In 2008, a small group of Swiss residents found a cross-canton training p...

Medicine has made immense progress, largely due to the fact that it is now firmly anchored in an ongoing science base. [...]

Two prominent colleagues give us here their personal views of the future of clinical neuroscience [...]

We wish to highlight the political impact of neuroscientific societies as forums of cross-border communication from a historical point of view. We trace the efforts of Constantin von Monakow, a founder of Swiss Neurology, and Cornelis Winkler, one of...

We present the multidisciplinary approach toward the diagnostic and treatment of patients with cognitive complaints adopted within the Leenaards Memory Centre at the University Hospital of Lausanne in Switzerland. Our strategy combines clinical evalu...

Blood biomarkers are increasingly beginning to play a role in the diagnosis, management, and prognostication of patients with acute ischemic stroke. While imaging biomarkers have played the largest role in determining acute therapies, blood-based bio...

Since almost 50 years L-Dopa is the gold standard for the treatment of patients with Parkinson’s disease (PD). For the first time, a specific chemical abnormality was found in a specific brain disorder. It has been shown that the striatal dopamine (D...

Background: Anti-CD20 therapies are an emerging treatment strategy in multiple sclerosis (MS). Objective: Retrospective analysis of efficacy and safety in an MS cohort treated with rituximab (RTX) with identification of potential treatment response p...

A 62-year-old female with a history of stroke due to cerebral arteriosclerosis suffered from recurrent fainting (<10 s) provoked by rapid head movements up to four times per month for at least two years. There was no evidence of new strokes in rep...