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Neurological Sciences

Issue 3/2024

Content (58 Articles)

Editorial

Unravelling the mysteries: a reflection on rare neurological diseases

Massimiliano Filosto, Michelangelo Mancuso, Antonio Federico, Alessandro Padovani

COVID-19 COVID-19

SARS-CoV-2’s brain impact: revealing cortical and cerebellar differences via cluster analysis in COVID-19 recovered patients

Angel Omar Romero-Molina, Gabriel Ramirez-Garcia, Amanda Chirino-Perez, David Alejandro Fuentes-Zavaleta, Carlos Roberto Hernandez-Castillo, Oscar Marrufo-Melendez, Diana Lopez-Gonzalez, Mónica Rodriguez-Rodriguez, Armando Castorena-Maldonado, Yaneth Rodriguez-Agudelo, Francisco Paz-Rodriguez, Mireya Chavez-Oliveros, Susana Lozano-Tovar, Alonso Gutierrez-Romero, Antonio Arauz-Gongora, Raul Anwar Garcia-Santos, Juan Fernandez-Ruiz

COVID-19-associated serum and cerebrospinal fluid cytokines in post- versus para-infectious SARS-CoV-2-related Guillain–Barré syndrome

Federico Massa, Tiziana Vigo, Margherita Bellucci, Debora Giunti, Maria Mobilia Emanuela, Davide Visigalli, Giovanna Capodivento, Denise Cerne, Andrea Assini, Silvia Boni, Domenica Rizzi, Eleonora Narciso, Giuseppe Stefano Grisanti, Elena Coco, Antonio Uccelli, Angelo Schenone, Diego Franciotta, Luana Benedetti

Review Article

The place of Free Will: the freedom of the prisoner

Paolo F. Nichelli, Jordan Grafman

The effects of rTMS on motor recovery after stroke: a systematic review of fMRI studies

Zhiqing Tang, Tianhao Liu, Kaiyue Han, Ying Liu, Wenlong Su, Rongrong Wang, Hao Zhang

Pathology Review Article

Theta-burst stimulation as a therapeutic tool in neurological pathology: a systematic review

Nicoleta Jemna, Ana Calina Zdrenghea, Georgiana Frunza, Anca Diana Demea, Gheorghe Elian Hapca, Diana Alecsandra Grad, Ioana Anamaria Muresanu, Razvan Mircea Chereches, Fior Dafin Muresanu

Open Access Spastic Paraplegia Review Article

Non-pharmacological treatment of hereditary spastic paraplegia: a systematic review

Simona Maccora, Angelo Torrente, Vincenzo Di Stefano, Antonino Lupica, Salvatore Iacono, Laura Pilati, Antonia Pignolo, Filippo Brighina

Stroke Review Article

Performance-based outcome measures of upper extremity in virtual reality and telerehabilitation: a systematic review

Jie Hao, Yanfei Li, Andréas Remis, Zhengting He, Zixuan Yao, Yuqi Pu

Open Access Wilson's Disease Review Article

Neurological complications due to copper deficiency in the context of Wilson disease treatment: a case report with long-term follow-up and review of the literature

Danilo Tornabene, Paola Bini, Matteo Gastaldi, Elisa Vegezzi, Carlo Asteggiano, Enrico Marchioni, Luca Diamanti

Subarachnoid hemorrhage due to pituitary adenoma apoplexy—case report and review of the literature

Yesim Yildiz, Arno Lauber, Natalia Velez Char, Oliver Bozinov, Marian Christoph Neidert, Isabel Charlotte Hostettler

Care Original Article

Child-to-adult transition: a survey of current practices within the European Reference Network for Rare Neurological Diseases (ERN-RND)

Lorenzo Nanetti, Mary Kearney, Sylvia Boesch, Lucie Stovickova, Juan Darío Ortigoza-Escobar, Alfons Macaya, David Gomez-Andres, Emmanuel Roze, Maria-Judit Molnar, Nicole I. Wolf, Alejandra Darling, Gessica Vasco, Enrico Bertini, Elisabetta Indelicato, David Neubauer, Tobias B. Haack, Judit C. Sagi, Federica R. Danti, Deborah Sival, Ginevra Zanni, Anneli Kolk, Odile Boespflug-Tanguy, Ludger Schols, Bart van de Warrenburg, Marie Vidailhet, Michèl A. Willemsen, Annemieke I. Buizer, Enrico Orzes, Sophie Ripp, Carola Reinhard, Isabella Moroni, Caterina Mariotti, Michael Freilinger, Benson Monika, Ardissone Anna, Iva Prihodova, Klara Hruba Ebba Lohmann, Samuel Gröschel, Alexander Muenchau, Kathrin Grundmann-Hauser, Olaf Horst Rieß, Bernhard Landwehrmeyer, Fran Borovečki, Tom J. de Koning, Hadzsiev Kinga, Juliane Spiegler, Charlotte Haaxma, Sandy Siegert, Mario Fichera, Tamara Martin, Nuria Couto Lopez, Andrea Bevot

Open Access Dementia Original Article

Is headache a risk factor for dementia? A systematic review and meta-analysis

Aurora Cermelli, Fausto Roveta, Lia Giorgis, Silvia Boschi, Alberto Grassini, Fabio Ferrandes, Chiara Lombardo, Andrea Marcinnò, Elisa Rubino, Innocenzo Rainero

Open Access Alzheimer's Disease Original Article

The role of plasma neurofilament light chain and glial fibrillary acidic protein in subjective cognitive decline and mild cognitive impairment

Salvatore Mazzeo, Assunta Ingannato, Giulia Giacomucci, Silvia Bagnoli, Arianna Cavaliere, Valentina Moschini, Juri Balestrini, Carmen Morinelli, Giulia Galdo, Filippo Emiliani, Diletta Piazzesi, Chiara Crucitti, Daniele Frigerio, Cristina Polito, Valentina Berti, Sonia Padiglioni, Sandro Sorbi, Benedetta Nacmias, Valentina Bessi

Alzheimer's Disease Original Article

Association of APOE gene with longitudinal changes of CSF amyloid beta and tau levels in Alzheimer’s disease: racial differences

Chun Xu, Danqing Xiao, Brenda Bin Su, Jaime Miguel Saveron, Daniela Gamez, R. Osvaldo Navia, Nianyang Wang, Upal Roy, Donald A. Adjeroh, Kesheng Wang

Open Access Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Original Article

Parkinson-ALS with a novel MAPT variant

Camilla Ferrari, Assunta Ingannato, Sabrina Matà, Silvia Ramat, Luca Caremani, Silvia Bagnoli, Valentina Bessi, Sandro Sorbi, Benedetta Nacmias

Sensory disturbances in Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease

Shmuel Appel, Yael Cohen, Shira Appel, Oren S. Cohen, Joab Chapman, Hanna Rosenmann, Zeev Nitsan, Esther Kahana

Open Access Telemedicine Original Article

Development of the Digital Inclusion Questionnaire (DIQUEST) in Parkinson’s Disease

Vincenzo Canoro, Marina Picillo, Sofia Cuoco, Maria Teresa Pellecchia, Paolo Barone, Roberto Erro

Open Access Parkinson's Disease Original Article

Sexual dysfunction in a sample of Egyptian patients with Parkinson’s disease

Heba Assem Deraz Abdelhalim Deraz, Hanan Abdalla Hassan Amer, Muhammad Ramadan Suleiman, Ahmed Dahshan

Huntington's Disease Original Article

Validity, diagnostics and feasibility of the Italian version of the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) in Huntington’s disease

Edoardo Nicolò Aiello, Federica Solca, Silvia Torre, Annalisa Lafronza, Alessio Maranzano, Ruggero Bonetti, Francesco Scheveger, Sabrina Maffi, Consuelo Ceccarelli, Marta Scocchia, Melissa Casella, Federico Verde, Simone Migliore, Vincenzo Silani, Nicola Ticozzi, Ferdinando Squitieri, Andrea Ciammola, Barbara Poletti

Open Access Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Original Article

Frontotemporal-spectrum disorders and functional independence in non-demented ALS patients

Edoardo Nicolò Aiello, Federica Solca, Silvia Torre, Francesco Gentile, Francesco Scheveger, Marco Olivero, Eleonora Colombo, Alessio Maranzano, Martina Manzoni, Claudia Morelli, Alberto Doretti, Federico Verde, Vincenzo Silani, Nicola Ticozzi, Barbara Poletti

Open Access Stroke Original Article

Do stroke services still show sex differences? A multicenter study

Nevine El Nahas, Hossam Shokri, Tamer Roushdy, Noha Dawood, Amr Zaki, Mehdi Farhoudi, Elyar Sadeghi Hokmabadi, Amal Al Hashmi, Waldemar Brola, Krystian Kosno, Cristian Falup-Pecurariu, Bogdan Ciopleias, Joan Montaner, Soledad Pérez-Sánchez, Manoj Mittal, Kandis Dowd, Annie Banke, Nicholas Vigilante, James Siegler, Atilla Ozcan Ozdemir, Ozlem Aykac, Zehra Uysal Kocabas, Donoband Melgarejo, Analia Cardozo, Lorena Peralta, Hany Aref, Valeria Caso

Stroke Original Article

Current status and value of testing antiphospholipid antibody in patients with acute ischemic stroke: a retrospective single-center study in China

Qiqi Wang, Guangsong Han, Yuhui Sha, Mingyu Tang, Ziang Pan, Yicheng Zhu, Lixin Zhou, Jun Ni

Stroke Original Article

Reperfusion strategies in stroke with medium-to-distal vessel occlusion: a prospective observational study

Federica Rizzo, Michele Romoli, Luigi Simonetti, Mauro Gentile, Stefano Forlivesi, Laura Piccolo, Federica Naldi, Matteo Paolucci, Simone Galluzzo, Francesco Taglialatela, Ciro Princiotta, Ludovica Migliaccio, Marco Petruzzellis, Giancarlo Logroscino, Andrea Zini

Computed Tomography Original Article

The impact of perfusion computed tomography on the diagnosis and outcome of delayed cerebral ischemia after subarachnoid hemorrhage

Mohamed Seyour, Michele Salvagno, Raphael Rozenblum, Elisabetta Macchini, Marco Anderloni, Lise Jodaitis, Lorenzo Peluso, Filippo Annoni, Valentina Lolli, Sophie Schuind, Nicolas Gaspard, Fabio Silvio Taccone, Elisa Gouvea Bogossian

Open Access Multiple Sclerosis Original Article

User appraisal of a booklet for advance care planning in multiple sclerosis: a multicenter, qualitative Italian study

Andrea Giordano, Ludovica De Panfilis, Simone Veronese, Michela Bruzzone, Marta Cascioli, Mariangela Farinotti, Ambra Mara Giovannetti, Maria Grazia Grasso, Paola Kruger, Alessandra Lugaresi, Leigh Manson, Marta Perin, Eugenio Pucci, Claudio Solaro, Luca Ghirotto, Alessandra Solari

Fatigue Original Article

The administration of the paper and electronic versions of the Manual Ability Measure-36 (MAM-36) and Fatigue Severity Scale (FSS) is equivalent in people with multiple sclerosis

Andrea Tacchino, Rachele Di Giovanni, Erica Grange, Maria Marcella Spirito, Michela Ponzio, Mario Alberto Battaglia, Giampaolo Brichetto, Claudio Marcello Solaro

Optic Neuritis Original Article

Risk of central nervous system demyelinating attack or optic neuritis recurrence after pediatric optic neuritis in Korea

Yeji Moon, Kyung-Ah Park, Jinu Han, Jeong-Min Hwang, Seong-Joon Kim, Sueng-Han Han, Byung Joo Lee, Min Chae Kang, Yong Hyu Goh, Byung Chan Lim, Hee Kyung Yang, Jae Ho Jung

Open Access Migraine Original Article

Profiling migraine patients according to clinical and psychophysical characteristics: clinical validity of distinct migraine clusters

Stefano Di Antonio, Lars Arendt-Nielsen, Marta Ponzano, Francesca Bovis, Paola Torelli, Pelosin Elisa, Cinzia Finocchi, Matteo Castaldo

Open Access Migraine Original Article

Working memory during spontaneous migraine attacks: an fMRI study

Amparo Ruiz-Tagle, Patrícia Figueiredo, Joana Pinto, Pedro Vilela, Isabel Pavão Martins, Raquel Gil-Gouveia

Vestibular Migraine Original Article

Phenotypes and clinical subgroups in vestibular migraine: a cross-sectional study with cluster analysis

Roberto Teggi, Bruno Colombo, Federica Cugnata, Roberto Albera, Giacinto Asprella Libonati, Cristiano Balzanelli, Augusto Pietro Casani, Iacopo Cangiano, Marco Familiari, Sergio Lucisano, Marco Mandalà, Giampiero Neri, Rudi Pecci, Mario Bussi, Massimo Filippi

Open Access Cluster Headache Original Article

Translating the Cluster Headache Quality of Life Questionnaire (CHQ) from English to Dutch with the TRAPD method

Willemijn C. Naber, Roemer B. Brandt, Dimitris D. Figetakis, Marjan Jahanshahi, Gisela M. Terwindt, Rolf Fronczek

Myopathy Original Article

Marked neuropsychiatric involvement and dysmorphic features in nemaline myopathy

Paulo Ribeiro Nóbrega, Jorge Luiz de Brito de Souza, Rebeca Bessa Maurício, Anderson Rodrigues Brandão de Paiva, Daniel Aguiar Dias, Clara Gontijo Camelo, Edmar Zanotelli, David Schlesinger, Pedro Braga-Neto, Cristiane Araujo Martins Moreno

Rituximab Original Article

Rituximab as a sole steroid-sparing agent in generalized myasthenia gravis: Long-term outcomes

Zinovia-Maria Kefalopoulou, Dimitra Veltsista, Alexandra Germeni, Dimosthenis Lykouras, Eirini Tsiamaki, Elisabeth Chroni

Myasthenia Gravis Brief Communication

Eculizumab for myasthenic exacerbation during treatment with immune-checkpoint inhibitors

Laura Fionda, Elena Rossini, Antonio Lauletta, Luca Leonardi, Laura Tufano, Rocco Costanzo, Paolo Marchetti, Marco Salvetti, Matteo Garibaldi, Stefania Morino, Giovanni Antonini

Posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome and acute ischemic stroke: an underreported association

Marialuisa Zedde, Ilaria Grisendi, Federica Assenza, Gabriele Vandelli, Manuela Napoli, Claudio Moratti, Franco Valzania, Rosario Pascarella

Encephalitis Brief Communication

Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis following Saint Louis encephalitis virus infection

Denison Alves Pedrosa, Lucyana Karla Lima de Paula Oliveira, Renata Bertanha, Edson Amaro Júnior, Gustavo Bruniera Peres Fernandes, Rodrigo B. Thomaz

Epilepsy Brief Communication

Iatrogenic Shapiro syndrome: a case report

Rosa Ferrer Tarrés, Marina Garcia Huguet, Carla Vera Cáceres, Almudena Boix Lago, LLuís Ramió Torrentà, Gary Álvarez-Bravo

Levodopa Letter to the Editor

Parkinsonism with prominent neuropsychiatric symptoms without pyramidal involvement in a patient with FBXO7 variants

Surbhi Mahajan, Shivangi Mehta, Jagdeep Singh, Sahil Mehta, Vivek Lal

Letter to the Editor

Autosomal recessive spino-cerebellar ataxia type 10 (SCAR10): clinical presentation associated with c.289delA ANO10 gene variant

Davide Norata, Paolo Alonge, Lucia Grillo, Francesco Calì, Maurizio Sturnio, Antonino Lupica, Vanessa Costa, Filippo Brighina, Vincenzo Di Stefano

Human Immunodeficiency Virus Letter to the Editor

Isolated pontocerebellar leukoencephalopathy in HIV-related PML: focus on the “shrimp sign”

Angelo Tiziano Cimmino, Vincenzo Carlomagno, Maria Ausilia Sciarrone, Giulia Di Lazzaro, Gabriella Silvestri

Ependymoma Letter to the Editor

Superficial siderosis of the central nervous system caused by myxopapillary ependymoma of cauda equine: a case report

Jianxiong Zhuang, Qifei Duan, Changxiang Liang, Yunbing Chang, Dong Yin

Myasthenia Gravis Letter to the Editor

Efgartigimod improves triple-negative myasthenia gravis

Rita Frangiamore, Elena Rinaldi, Fiammetta Vanoli, Francesca Andreetta, Renato Mantegazza, Carlo Antozzi

Stroke Neuro-Images

Stroke in a young adult: looking beyond the diffusion-weighted imaging sequence

Benjamin Hebant, Linda Zourdani, Camille Dagba

Ophthalmoparesis Neuro-Images

Post-traumatic carotid-cavernous fistula

Giacomo Bertolini, Giulia Capurri, Roberto Menozzi