Neuroradiology: Page 60

Woman in vegetative state plays tennis in her head

By Reuters Health

WASHINGTON (Reuters), Sep 11 - A woman in a vegetative state for five months appeared in brain scans to imagine playing tennis and to respond to commands, researchers reported on Thursday. Adrian Owen, a neuroscientist at Britain's Cambridge University and colleagues in Britain and Belgium used functional magnetic resonance imaging to look at the British woman's brain in action.

September 10, 2006

Antidepressant treatment improves cerebral blood flow in Parkinson's disease

By Reuters Health

NEW YORK (Reuters Health), Jun 21 - Investigators used brain SPECT to investigate the effects of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation and fluoxetine on regional cerebral blood flow in 26 Parkinson's disease patients with depression and in 29 healthy age-matched control subjects without depression.

June 20, 2006

Clinical features differentiate parasomnias and nocturnal frontal lobe seizures

By Reuters Health

NEW YORK (Reuters Health), May 30 - Misdiagnosis of parasomnias and nocturnal frontal lobe epilepsy (NFLE) is common because characteristics of the two disorders are similar, including MRI findings and interictal EEG results. Therefore, specialists recommend video EEG or video EEG-polysomnography, but these services may be unavailable, or the events may not be captured during any given night.

May 29, 2006

Pulmonary arteriovenous malformation correction maintained long-term

By Reuters Health

NEW YORK (Reuters Health), May 1 - The benefits of selective embolization of pulmonary arteriovenous malformations (PAVM) are usually maintained over many years, as demonstrated by helical CT follow-up, investigators in France report.

April 30, 2006