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Neuroscience & Medicine is a peer reviewed international journal dedicated to the latest advancements of neuroscience. The goal of this journal is to keep a record of the state-of-the-art research and to promote study, research and improvement within its various specialties. All manuscripts submitted to NM must be pre…
Yukihiko Yasui
The organization of the emotion-related somatic motor behavior, including jaw movements, is governed not only by the cortical limbic system but also by the subcortical limbic system including the amygdala and hypothalamus. GABAergic neurons in the central amy…
Koichi Iwatsuki, Toshiki Yoshimine, Yu-Ichiro Ohnishi, Koshi Ninomiya, Toshika Ohkawa, Kousuke Iwaisako
Spontaneous spinal epidural hematoma (SSEH) is a rare idiopathic condition that leads to the acute onset of neurological deficits, which can have catastrophic consequences if not recognized early. It is important to make an early precise diagnosis. Spinal epi…
Chrisovalantis A. Tsimiklis, Marguerite A. Harding
Prescribing patterns amongst practising Australasian neurosurgeons regarding the use of prophylactic antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) in patients with newly diagnosed intrinsic brain tumours are not well established. This study aimed to determine the rate of prophy…
Morenci M. Manning, Marie Kelly-Worden
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) is the most common neurodegenerative disorder. It is also among the most lethal as life expectancy is between 2 and 5 years after diagnosis. Sporadic ALS (sALS) makes up 90% of all ALS cases with little known about the exac…
Mohamed Hamdy Ibrahim, Ahmed El Mansory, Shivram Kumar, Janhavi Sirsat
The case study is aimed at providing a more thorough analysis of a case of Epilepsy presented with an unusual aura of cough. The study hopes to generate an interest for further studies into the topic and focuses on abnormal unusual presentations of auras. Cou…
Yu-Ichiro Ohnishi, Koichi Iwatsuki, Toshiki Yoshimine
We have been previously reported that disuse muscle atrophy exacerbates both motor neuron (MN) degeneration in caudal regions remote from a spinal cord injury, and decrease in glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor (GDNF) protein level in paralyzed muscl…
Paula Pascoal-Faria, Miguel Patrício, Adriana Leal, Francisco Caramelo, António Freire, Cristina Januário, Miguel Castelo-Branco
Tremor is a manifestation of a variety of human neurodegenerative diseases, notably Parkinson’s disease (PD) and Essential Tremor (ET), both affecting millions worldwide. PD is primarily caused by a progressive loss of dopamine neurons in the nigrostriatal sy…
Mohamed Hamdy Ibrahim, Taha Kamel Alloush, Mohamed Khalid Abdul Rahim
Objectives: To study the prevalence of vitamin D deficiency among newly diagnosed multiple sclerosis patients. Patients and Methods: It is a case control cross matching age related study done on totally 40 subjects (20 patients are newly diagnosed as MS; pati…
Caterina Bruzzi, Maurizio Negri, Manuele Casale, Valeria Frari, Fabrizio Salvinelli, Stefano Galli
Complications of middle ear cholesteatoma are well described in the literature and are classified into two major categories: intratemporal and intracranial. They are due either to infection or to local extension of the disease and consequent invasion of surro…
Toshiyuki Mizui, Yuichiro Tanima, Hiroko Komatsu, Haruko Kumanogoh, Masami Kojima
Brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) is a neurotrophin that elicits neuronal survival and differentiation, synaptic transmission, and the modulation of synaptic plasticity. The biological actions of BDNF are mediated via two distinct receptors: the high-a…
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