Rasmussen encephalitis (RE) is a rare but severe immune-mediated brain disorder leading
to unilateral hemispheric atrophy, associated progressive neurological dysfunction and …

The authors observed a high rate of suicide (6/140 patients, 4.3%) in a large cohort of patients
with movement disorders treated with deep brain stimulation (DBS). Apparent risk factors …

Introduction Few series compare endoscopic third ventriculostomies (ETV) and
ventriculoperitoneal shunts (VPS). To avoid the complications after a shunt insertion, there is an …

Although conventional proton magnetic resonance imaging has increased our ability to detect
brain tumors, it has not enhanced to nearly the same degree our ability to diagnose tumor …

Objective: To study the reappearance of the clinical signs of PD when subthalamic nucleus (STN)
deep brain stimulation (DBS) was turned off. Method: The authors studied 35 patients …

A series of 24 consecutive PD patients were prospectively studied prior to and within 6 months
postoperatively for mood, motor, and cognitive status to investigate the effects on mood of …

Background: Subthalamic nucleus (STN) deep brain stimulation (DBS) of patients with PD
allows reduction of antiparkinsonian medication but has only a mild direct effect on dyskinesia…

Multipotent precursors able to generate neurons, astrocytes, and oligodendrocytes have
previously been isolated from human brain embryos and recently from neurogenic regions of …

We propose a method for brain atlas deformation in the presence of large space-occupying
tumors, based on an a priori model of lesion growth that assumes radial expansion of the …

THE NATURE OF functional hemispherectomy continues to be misunderstood despite its 20-year
history. Recently, we introduced the concept of peri-insular hemispherotomy, a …