A dor neuropática é causada por uma lesão ou doença do sistema nervoso
somatossensitivo. Trata-se de uma manifestação sindrômica que envolve
mecanismos inflamatórios e imunes com fisiopatologia ainda pouco
esclarecida. O espectro de apresentação da dor neuropática é amplo e,
assim, constitui ...
Parkinson's disease is a neurodegenerative disease understood as a complex syndrome with motor and non-motor symptoms, including sleep-related conditions, such as periodic limb
movements in sleep (PLMS). This paper presents issues regarding Parkinson's disease, motor and non-motor symptoms, sleep physiol...
Background: Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) is a prion affection that typically produces a rapidly progressive dementia with different neurologic and extra-neurologic manifestations. Aim: To characterize clinical, imaging and electroencephalography findings in patients with a probable CJD. Patients and M...
Dementia is a syndrome characterized by a decline of two or more cognitive functions, affecting social or professional life. Alzheimer’s Disease is a neurodegenerative disorder that represents 53% of dementia cases; memory loss, inability to recognize faces, impaired judgement, disorientation and confu...
Demencia/epidemiología,
Demencia/complicaciones,
Enfermedad de Alzheimer/diagnóstico,
Enfermedad de Alzheimer/epidemiología,
Demencia Vascular/diagnóstico,
Prevalencia,
Neuroimagen/métodos,
Cerebro/diagnóstico por imagen,
Pruebas de Estado Mental y Demencia,
Disfunción Cognitiva,
Trastornos de la Memoria,
Deficiencia de Vitamina B 12/etiología,
Hidrocéfalo Normotenso/etiología
The white matter hyperintensities (WMH, leucoaraiosis) represent the most common kind of ischemic vascular lesion of the white matter due to small vessel diseases, and occurs frequently in the elderly. Consequent to the neuroimaging identification arouse the need for their assessment. The group of Fazeka...
La gripe se asocia al aparato respiratorio, especialmente en invierno, y puede causar complicaciones neurológicas. Se evaluó a pacientes pediátricos con manifestaciones neurológicas graves por gripe desde septiembre de 2018 hasta febrero de 2019 para determinar car...
ABSTRACT Background: Anosognosia, i.e. lack of awareness of one's own symptoms, is a very common finding in patients with dementia and is related to neuropsychiatric symptoms and worse prognosis. Although dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) is the second most common form of degenerative dementia, literatur...
The last four decades have witnessed tremendous growth in research studies applying neuroimaging methods to evaluate pathophysiological and treatment aspects of psychiatric disorders around the world. This article provides a brief history of psychiatric neuroimaging research in Brazil, including quantita...
Invasive aspergillosis is an uncommon infection, which is mainly seen among immunocompromised patients. In recent years, cases of aspergillosis involving immunocompetent hosts are increasingly being reported. Herein, we report the case of a 27-year-old man with fever, productive cough, shortness of breat...
