The Background Transient global amnesia (TGA) is a clinical syndrome characterised by sudden-onset amnesia usually lasting for 4 to 6 hours. It often has an identifiable trigger, such as sexual…
read moreIt has been shown that everyday habits, lifestyle and stress can have a substantial influence on migraine frequency.1,2 The COVID-19 pandemic significantly disrupted the everyday life of people around the…
read moreThe Global Burden of Diseases (GBD) Study 2015 has drawn attention to the substantial and increasing health burden of neurological diseases worldwide.1 In order to adjust public health and disease…
read moreDr Michel Röthlisberger is a neurosurgical consultant in the department for neurosurgery at the University Hospital in Basel, Switzerland. He specialises in endonasal endoscopic and lateral skull base surgery and…
read moreRadiologically isolated syndrome (RIS) is a clinical finding that describes individuals with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) patterns similar to those seen in multiple sclerosis patients. However, affected patients do not…
read moreCluster headaches, a disease belonging to the class of trigeminal autonomic cephalgias, are seen chronically in about 15% of all cluster headache patients.1,2 Affected individuals have always been treated with…
read moreProf. Andrea Rossetti is the head of the Electroencephalography (EEG) and Epilepsy unit of the Neurological department of the University Hospital of Lausanne in Switzerland. He recently published a potentially…
read moreStroke can have several causes, and one of them is cerebral venous thrombosis (CVT), affecting mostly young adult and middle-aged patients.1 The current standard for CVT is anticoagulation treatment with…
read moreIt has been consistently shown that deep brain stimulation (DBS) in combination with medication is superior to medication alone in mid- and advanced-stage Parkinson’s disease (PD).1 These findings also motivated…
read more“Ageing comes with many issues in multiple sclerosis (MS): progression, comorbidities, cognition problems and response to treatment”, Pierre Duquette (Department of Neuroscience, University of Montreal, Canada), the chair of the…
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