Toxic and metabolic brain disorders are relatively uncommon diseases that affect the
central nervous system, but they are important to recognize as they can lead to catastrophic …

The aim of this paper was to determine the correlation between calcium burden (expressed
as a volume) and extent of stenosis of the origin of the internal carotid artery (ICA) by CT …

Parkinson's disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative disorder that affects motor skills and
cognition. As brain structure and function are compromised, functional magnetic resonance …

Importance Physical abuse is a common but preventable cause of long-term childhood
morbidity and mortality. Despite the strong association between abuse in an index child and …

Background: Merosin-deficient congenital muscular dystrophy (CMD) is characterized
clinically by hypotonia and muscular weakness and, on imaging studies, by white matter (WM) …

Objectives Our goal was to estimate the diagnostic accuracy of substantia nigra fractional
anisotropy (SN-FA) for Parkinson’s disease (PD) diagnosis in a sample similar to the clinical …

Background Neurotoxoplasmosis is a common opportunistic infection in HIV/AIDS patients.
Imaging identification of neurotoxoplasmosis assists in timely treatment. Purpose To …

Objective To describe characteristics of REM sleep behavior disorder in Wilson’s disease.
Method Questionnaire-based interviews (patients and relatives), neurological examinations, …

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Wilson disease (WD) is rare but one of the few metabolic
disorders that can possibly benefit from effective available treatments. The literature …

BACKGROUND: Chagas’ disease is endemic in many Latin American countries. In the last
decades, millions of people from these countries have migrated to the United States, …