2018 January - 18 articles
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...
Degeneration of the intervertebral disc – triggered by ageing, mechanical stress, traumatic injury, infection, inflammation and other factors – has a significant role in the development of low back pain. Back pain not only has a high prevalence, but...
The 9th Swiss Movement Disorders Symposium, held in Lucerne, Switzerland, included didactic as well as scientific sessions. This conference report highlights selected lectures and presentations.
A 90-year-old woman developed a severe stroke (National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale Score (NIHSS) 24) due to an occlusion of the left carotid T. Computed tomography 60 min after symptom onset showed a large area of tissue at risk with a relativ...
A 45-year-old man presented to the neurotology clinic, suffering from recurrent attacks of vertigo associated with falls, of unknown origin. Pure tone audiometry revealed a profound right-sided and mild left-sided pantonal sensorineural hearing loss....
Aquaporins (AQPs) are water channel molecules that allow the passage of water through the lipid bilayers of cell membranes. AQP1, AQP4 and AQP9 are expressed in the central nervous system and AQP4 is well known as the target of auto-antibodies in Dev...
Objectives: To identify new magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) patterns in patients with high-grade glioma treated with bevacizumab (Avastin®). Methods: The retrospective study was approved by the institutional review board. An extended case series of...
While the physiology, histology and stem cell biology of smell are active fields of contemporary research, smell is probably the sense that physicians knew the least about prior to the 20th century. Joseph-Hippolyte Cloquet (1787–1840) was an anatomi...
In Switzerland, since 2011, a mandatory certification system for stroke units (SUs) and stroke centres has been successfully implemented. Detailed criteria for stroke centres and SUs focusing on leadership, specialized staff, infrastructure, diagnost...
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