Objectives: To determine the prevalence of visual deficits among inpatients with acquired brain injury, to examine the agreement between objective screenings and patient-reported visual deficits, and to investigate patient characteristics associated...
Objectives: To review the outcomes of patients who underwent repeated vertebroplasty (VP) surgery for adjacent segment fractures (ASF), defined as new osteoporotic vertebral fractures occurring at levels immediately above or below a previously treate...
Background: Sphenoid wing meningiomas (SWM) frequently compress structures of the optic pathway, resulting in significant visual dysfunction characterized by vision loss and visual field deficits, which profoundly impact patients’ quality of li...
Word reading requires a range of spatial attention processes, such as orienting to a specific word and selecting it while ignoring other words. This study investigated whether deficits of these spatial attention processes can show dissociations after...
Stroke survivors with right-brain damage (RBD) often present with attentional deficits such as left unilateral spatial neglect. Some patients also present with contralesional visual hemi-field deficits. A late detection of visual hemi-field deficits...
Degenerative lumbar disorders are commonly treated with lumbar interbody fusion, but comparative evidence among ALIF, OLIF, and XLIF remains limited. This prospective multicenter observational cohort study compared perioperative outcomes, complicatio...
Brain tumour surgery in visual eloquent areas poses significant challenges to neurosurgeons and has reported inconsistent results. This is a single-centre prospective cohort study of patients admitted for asleep surgery of intra-axial lesions in visu...
Background: Minimally invasive glaucoma surgery, often performed with phacoemulsification (PHACO-MIGS), for the management of primary open angle glaucoma (POAG), has good clinical outcomes and safety profiles. However, few studies have comprehensivel...
Among the first clinical symptoms of the SARS-CoV-2 infection is olfactory–gustatory deficit; this continues for weeks and, in some cases, can be persistent. We prospectively evaluated 162 patients affected by COVID-19 using a visual analogue s...
Minor visual phenomena (MVP), such as visual illusions, pareidolias, feeling of presence, and passage hallucinations, are often experienced by patients with Lewy Body Disease (LBD), in addition to complex visual hallucinations (VH), even in the early...
Background/Objectives: Following lumbar fusion procedures, adjacent segment degeneration (ASD) at cranial levels presents as a well-documented long-term complication, manifesting through recurrent pain, neurological deficits, and progressive function...
Background: Organized hematoma in the sphenoid sinus is rare, but serious complications, such as visual deficits, can occur. Three such case reports have been published previously in the literature; however, none have achieved complete recovery of th...
Pituitary adenomas (PAs) are the third most common brain tumors in adults right after meningiomas and gliomas. Taking into account their hormonal activity in vivo, they can be divided in functioning PAs, which secrete hormones, and nonfunctioning pit...
1 January 2002
We report the case of a 20-year-old woman, with no medical history, who in a short period of time developed the association of a bilateral vestibulocochlear deficit and a nonsyphilitic interstitial keratitis, the usual clinical presentation of Cogan’...
Cognitive deficit has been reported in coeliac disease (CD), but previous reports often study heterogenous samples of patients at multiple stages of the disease, or lack control data. Healthy controls (N = 21), newly diagnosed CD patients (NCD; N = 1...
Middle-third falcine meningiomas (FMs) are usually hidden deep under the eloquent cortex and abundant bridging veins, which represent the main hindrances to surgical access. The endoscopic approach has the advantages of wide visualization and free vi...
Background: Craniopharyngioma (CP) is a rare brain tumor involving the sellar region. The best management is still debated. Gross total resection (GTR) is considered the best option to improve recurrence-free survival, but considerable long-term sequ...
Background/Objectives: We aim to characterize, through a survey-based approach conducted in Spain, the perspectives of healthcare professionals (HCPs) and patients regarding geographic atrophy (GA). Methods: A survey-based study assessed ophthalmolog...
Background: Hypothyroidism is a prevalent endocrine disorder capable of affecting multiple organ systems. While somatic symptoms are common, prominent neuropsychiatric manifestations such as visual hallucinations and cognitive deficits are exceptiona...
23 March 2022
Subjective visual complaints are commonly reported in patients with neck pain, but their relation to objectively measured oculomotor functions during smooth pursuit neck torsion tests (SPNTs) has not yet been investigated. The aim of the study was to...
Long-COVID is a clinical condition in which patients affected by SARS-CoV-2 usually report a wide range of physical and cognitive symptoms from 3 to 6 months after the infection recovery. The aim of the current study was to assess the link between se...
While the loss of mental imagery following brain lesions was first described more than a century ago, the key cerebral areas involved remain elusive. Here we report neuropsychological data from an architect (PL518) who lost his ability for visual ima...
Familial hemiplegic migraine (FHM) is characterized by repeated episodes of reversible localized neurological deficits, in addition to headache. The aura of HM includes visual, sensory, motor, and verbal symptoms. Hemiplegic migraine (HM) is classifi...
The present review aims to explore the use of Immersive Virtual Reality (IVR) in the treatment of visual perception in Unilateral Spatial Neglect (USN) after a stroke. PubMed, Scopus, Embase and Pedro databases were searched, from inception to 1 Febr...
Background: Arteriovenous malformations (AVMs) are rare vascular anomalies that can cause intracerebral hemorrhage, particularly in pediatric patients. Low-flow AVMs may not be visualized on initial non-invasive imaging modalities such as MR angiogra...
Background: The efficacy of single-session stereotactic radiosurgery (sSRS) for the treatment of intracranial meningioma is widely recognized. However, sSRS is not always feasible in cases of large tumors and those lying close to critically radiation...
Neurologic manifestations have been occasionally described in patients with bradykinin-mediated angioedema. The existing literature is currently limited to case series and case reports mainly described in the hereditary forms (HAE) concerning central...
Background: Craniopharyngiomas are histologically benign but clinically aggressive epithelial tumors that pose significant surgical challenges due to their proximity to the hypothalamic–pituitary axis. While traditional transcranial approaches...
Background/Objectives: Schizophrenia is a severe psychiatric disorder characterized by deficits in perception and advanced cognitive functions. Prior studies have reported abnormal lateralization in cortical morphology and functional connectivity in...
Anodal transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) has been shown to be an effective non-invasive brain stimulation method for improving cognitive and motor functioning in patients with neurological deficits. tDCS over motor cortex (M1), for insta...
1 January 2005
Sleep and dream research has recently been invigorated by convergent data from complementary neuropsychological sources such as brain-imaging studies of normal sleep, clinical investigations of dream disorders in brain-damaged patients and analyses o...
Introduction: This case highlights a rare and significant complication of Chlamydia pneumoniae infection: optic neuritis (ON). Acute Chlamydia pneumoniae infection in children typically presents with respiratory tract symptoms and may occasionally le...
Posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome (PRES) is a rare complication that the exact pathophysiological mechanism of which is still unclear. PRES most often occurs in connection with severe hypertension and autoimmune diseases. It can also appea...
Cystic Echinococcosis (CE) is a rare but serious parasitic disease caused by Echinococcus granulosus sensu lato, representing only 1–2% of all hydatid disease cases. Due to its nonspecific clinical presentation, its diagnosis and management pos...
Glioblastoma (GB) is among the most aggressive and difficult-to-treat brain tumors, with a median survival of only 12–15 months despite maximal treatments, including surgery, radiotherapy, and chemotherapy. Extensive surgical resection improves...
Multiple sclerosis (MS) represents a major cause of chronic neurological disability in young adults and can result in upper limb sensorimotor impairment with a huge impact on manual dexterity and activities of daily living. Moreover, pain is common i...
Background/Objectives: Previous research has demonstrated that the initial letters of a word likely play a privileged role in visual word recognition, such that reading and visual recognition errors reflecting changes in this position are much less l...
The term posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome (PRES) refers to an acute syndrome characterised by a range of neurological symptoms and posterior transient changes on neuroimaging. Common clinical presentation includes headache, confusion, vis...
Dengue virus infection frequently involves the eye, manifesting with hemorrhages, uveal inflammation, retinal vascular changes and maculopathy. These ocular manifestations may arise during the acute febrile phase or emerge weeks later. Studies from e...
Background: Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is associated with well-documented alterations in reactive brain processing of stimuli or events, whereas little is known about proactive/anticipatory neural dynamics preceding and preparing for task...
28 September 2021
Background. The COVID-19 pandemic has imposed radical behavioral and social changes in the general population, significantly impacting the lives of individuals affected by disabilities. The aim of this study was to investigate the impact of COVID-19...
Eighty-five percent of the studies of patients with congenital hypothyroidism (CH) treated with Levothyroxine (L-T4) report neuropsychological sequelae throughout life. In neonates and infants, there is a deficit in sensorimotor skills (impaired bala...
Patients with Lewy body disease (LBD) frequently experience visual hallucinations (VH), well-formed images perceived without the presence of real stimuli. The structural and functional brain mechanisms underlying VH in LBD are still unclear. The pres...
Network motif analysis approaches provide insights into the complexity of the brain’s functional network. In recent years, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) has been reported to result in abnormal information interactions in macro...
Background: Spheno-orbital meningiomas (SOMs) are rare tumors arising from the meninges surrounding the sphenoid bone and orbital structures. Surgical resection is the primary treatment approach for SOMs. Several surgical approaches have been describ...
Two causes of intellectual disability are 15q13.3 deletion syndrome and BRWD3 X-linked intellectual disability. 15q13.3 deletion syndrome causes a heterogenous phenotype including intellectual disability (ID), developmental delay (DD), autism spectru...
The management of multiple intracranial aneurysms presents significant clinical challenges, particularly when complicated by underlying conditions such as cerebral atherosclerosis. This case report highlights the successful treatment of a 66-year-old...
Background: Epilepsy surgery for extratemporal lobe epilepsy (ETLE) is challenging, particularly when MRI findings are non-lesional and seizure patterns are complex. Invasive diagnostic techniques are crucial for accurately identifying the epileptoge...
The role of the endoscopic transplanum–transtuberculum approach (ETTA) in the treatment of pituitary adenomas/PitNETs (PAs) is sparsely analyzed in the literature, and its use is still debated in the current practice. The aim of this study was...
Background/Objectives: Intracranial arachnoid cysts (Acs) are congenital, usually benign lesions that are frequently regarded as clinically silent in adulthood. Nonetheless, growing evidence indicates that Acs may be associated with subtle but measur...
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