This content is machine translated Parkinson's disease BRIVARACT II study on opicapone Purpose: A large proportion of patients with Mb. Parkinson’s disease experiences fluctuations in the effect of levodopa therapy during the course of the disease.
View Post 3 min This content is machine translated Stroke Therapy “Patients benefit from intervention through the vascular system” At the 20th Annual Meeting of the Swiss Cerebrovascular Society SHG, Prof. Jan Gralla, MD, from Inselspital Bern, Switzerland, spoke on “New Approaches in the Intra-arterial Treatment of Acute Stroke.”…
View Post 5 min This content is machine translated ACTRIMS Forum 2017 in Orlando B-cell-directed therapy under the microscope – what can we expect? At the ACTRIMS Forum 2017, B-cell depletion and thus the recently published results from the ORATORIO study in the New England Journal of Medicine were also on everyone’s lips. Not…
View Post 8 min This content is machine translated Focal neurological deficit Acute treatment of ischemic stroke Successful stroke treatment is carried out in dedicated centers (stroke units and stroke centers) by an experienced and specialized team. The standard of care in the acute phase is systemic…
View Post 2 min This content is machine translated Swiss Stroke Society SHG Quality assurance in cerebrovascular care throughout Switzerland The Swiss Stroke Society SHG celebrated its 20th anniversary in 2016. As an interdisciplinary society, it is open to all professionals involved in cerebrovascular treatment and promotes clinical and scientific…
View Post 5 min This content is machine translated Brain disorders BrainCheck and BrainCoach in the family practice Early detection of brain disorders allows causal treatment of the underlying pathology in about 10% of cases and, in the case of irreversible neurodegenerative diseases, delay of deterioration by initiating…
View Post 2 min This content is machine translated Care of epilepsy patients An EMU for the Epilepsy Center of Eastern Switzerland The Epilepsy Center of the Clinic for Neurology at the Cantonal Hospital St. Gallen offers comprehensive medical care for epilepsy patients in Eastern Switzerland. Long-term EEGs can now also be…
View Post 2 min This content is machine translated Large tumor - large access? The keyhole concept in minimally invasive neurosurgery Case report: The 56-year-old patient had been suffering from headache and nausea and increasing psychomotor slowing for three months. Clinically, he presented with left facial nerve mouth branch weakness, left…
View Post 1 min This content is machine translated A feasibility study Psilocybin for the treatment of refractory depression. Purpose: Psilocybin is an indole alkaloid belonging to the tryptamine group, which acts as a serotonin receptor agonist in the brain. Psilocybin produces a hallucinogenic high and is very similar…
View Post 4 min This content is machine translated Multiple sclerosis Neurofilament determination in serum – a potential biomarker? Background: Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic inflammatory disease of the central nervous system and, with a median age of onset of 30 years, the most common disabling disease in…
View Post 9 min This content is machine translated The AHA/ASA Guideline for Stroke Prevention in Women. Uncovering disparities in stroke prevention. Women suffer strokes more often and at an older age. Women have a worse outcome after stroke and suffer particularly from the impact on their independence in everyday life. In…
