This content is machine translated Psychosomatics for headaches Breaking the vicious circle Causes and causal relationships of headaches are complex. Isabelle Rittmeyer, MD, Chief of Psychosomatic Medicine at the Zurich Rehab Center Davos, focused on psychosomatic aspects at the SGAIM Fall Congress…
View Post 9 min This content is machine translated Diagnosis and therapy of polyneuropathies The paranodopathies as a new entity among the immune neuropathies. Paranodopathies are a new special form of inflammatory polyneuropathies, mediated by autoantibody-induced damage at Ranvier’s lacing ring. What are characteristics of this disease and how can it be treated?
View Post 2 min This content is machine translated Outstanding research The IRP Schellenberg Research Prize 2018 goes to two female researchers The IRP Schellenberg Research Prize, endowed with CHF 100,000, was awarded in equal parts to Prof. Dr. Claire Jacob, University of Fribourg (Switzerland), and Prof. Dr. Magdalena Götz, Helmholtz Zentrum…
View Post 5 min This content is machine translated Medidays Zurich Update on the workup of incidentalomas of the pituitary gland What should be considered regarding diagnosis and treatment of pituitary adenomas? To what extent is a distinction between hormone-secreting and hormone-inactive incidentalomas relevant to treatment? The endocrinology session at this…
View Post 8 min This content is machine translated Multiple sclerosis and pregnancy Recommendation status on childbearing and medication Multiple sclerosis (MS) does not adversely affect fertility, pregnancy, fetal development, or birth. Post partum, there is a 30% increased risk of relapse, although this depends on the relapse rate…
View Post 7 min This content is machine translated Critical for the course of the disease Psychiatric comorbidities in epilepsy. In refractory epilepsies, the rate of mental syndromes is significantly higher than in the general population, occurring in one in three patients [1]. Here, affective and anxiety disorders are in…
View Post 8 min This content is machine translated Epilepsy in children When does surgical treatment have to be performed? Epilepsy represents one of the most common neurological disorders in childhood. Epilepsy surgery is a particularly effective treatment option for children and adolescents with pharmacoresistant focal epilepsy. Why a decision…
View Post 16 min This content is machine translated Pregnancy planning, monitoring, peri- and postpartum Epilepsy and childbearing Most pregnancies with epilepsy proceed without problems, but it is important to anticipate epilepsy-specific problems and to work on them together with the doctor and the patient within the framework…
View Post 9 min This content is machine translated Interdisciplinary challenge Acute rehabilitation after stroke: stroke unit and rehabilitation center After stroke, immediate treatment in specialized centers is essential for a good therapeutic outcome. Early mobilization – taking into account the neurological-medical condition of the patient – promotes his functional…
View Post 5 min This content is machine translated Congress of the European Academy of Neurology Biomarkers in Alzheimer’s disease, new therapeutic targets in migraine. What is the role of biomarkers in Alzheimer’s disease? And how can insights into the pathogenesis of migraine improve its treatment? These two questions were discussed at a Presidential Symposium…
View Post 14 min This content is machine translated Epilepsy treatment Principles of drug therapy A confirmed diagnosis, patients who are convinced of the sense and purpose of the treatment, this may sound banal, but with regard to a possibly lifelong drug treatment, these aspects…
