Clinical neurophysiology : official journal of the International Federation of Clinical Neurophysiology
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Ultrasound differentiation of neuropathies is a great challenge. We, therefore, suggest a standardized score to operationalize differentiation between several acute and subacute onset neuropathies. ⋯ Using the UPSS and its sub-scores gives a new diagnostic power to the method of the peripheral nerve ultrasound.
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To show that neck proprioceptive input can induce long-term effects on vestibular-dependent self-motion perception. ⋯ Tonic proprioceptive inflow, as might occur as a consequence of enduring or permanent head postures, can induce adaptive plastic changes in vestibular-dependent motion sensitiveness. These changes might be counteracted by vibration of selected neck muscles.
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Randomized Controlled Trial
The effect of sleep restriction on laser evoked potentials, thermal sensory and pain thresholds and suprathreshold pain in healthy subjects.
Sleep restriction seems to change our experience of pain and reduce laser evoked potential (LEP) amplitudes. However, although LEP-habituation abnormalities have been described in painful conditions with comorbid sleep impairment, no study has previously measured the effect of sleep restriction on LEP-habituation, pain thresholds, and suprathreshold pain. ⋯ Since LEP-amplitude is known to reflect both CNS-pain-specific processing and cognitive attentive processing, our results suggest that hyperalgesia after sleep restriction might partly be caused by a reduction in cortical cognitive or perceptual mechanisms, rather than sensory amplification.
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Deep hypothermia induces 'burst suppression' (BS), an electroencephalogram pattern with low-voltage 'suppressions' alternating with high-voltage 'bursts'. Current understanding of BS comes mainly from anesthesia studies, while hypothermia-induced BS has received little study. We set out to investigate the electroencephalogram changes induced by cooling the human brain through increasing depths of BS through isoelectricity. ⋯ These results pave the way for accurate noninvasive tracking of brain metabolic state during surgical procedures under deep hypothermia, and suggest new testable predictions about the network mechanisms underlying burst suppression.
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It has been suggested that abnormal synchronization and oscillation of neuronal activity in the subthalamic nucleus (STN) is associated with sensorimotor dysfunction in Parkinson's disease (PD). We investigated the bilateral subcortico-cortical functional coupling in PD patients. ⋯ Synchronized activity through cortico-subcortical transmission may have an important role in the pathophysiology of PD.