Publications by authors named "Andreea Toma"

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  • - A 20-year-old man with drug-resistant epilepsy developed multiple intracerebral hemorrhages after receiving stereo-EEG electrodes and experiencing a lumbar spinal tap, with a history of heavy use of nicotine pouches.
  • - Genetic testing revealed a mutation in the COL4A2 gene, which is linked to collagen production and has previously been associated with hemorrhage risks, raising concerns about its role in the patient's complication.
  • - The study suggests that the combination of the COL4A2 mutation and high nicotine use could significantly increase the likelihood of bleeding during neurosurgical procedures, calling for more research into this connection.
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Sagittal computed tomography of lumbal spine showing dural ectasia and Tarlow Cyst (red arrows) (A). Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) axial slice, susceptibility-weighted imaging (SWI) sequences showing siderosis in cerebellar sulci (red arrows) and in the inset uncharacteristic iron deposition in dental nuclei, more pronounced on the left side (red arrows) (B, inset). MRI, SWI, axial slice, showing numerous foci of superficial siderosis (C).

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Background: The transmission of amyloid β (Aβ) in humans leading to iatrogenic cerebral amyloid angiopathy (iCAA) is a novel concept with analogies to prion diseases. However, the number of published cases is low, and larger international studies are missing.

Aims: We aimed to build a large multinational collaboration on iCAA to better understand the clinical spectrum of affected patients.

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Background And Objective: People with migraine headache have altered interictal visual sensory-level processing in between headache attacks. Here we examined the extent to which these migraine abnormalities may extend into higher visual processing such as implicit evaluative analysis of visual images in between migraine events.

Methods: Specifically, we asked two groups of participants--migraineurs (N=29) and non-migraine controls (N=29)--to view a set of unfamiliar commercial logos in the context of a target identification task as the brain electrical responses to these objects were recorded via event-related potentials (ERPs).

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Research has established decreased sensory habituation as a defining feature in migraine, while decreased cognitive habituation has only been found with regard to cognitive assessment of the relative probability of the occurrence of a stimulus event. Our study extended the investigation of interictal habituation in migraine to include cognitive processing when viewing of a series of visually-complex images, similar to those we encounter on the internet everyday. We examined interictal neurocognitive function in migraine from a habituation perspective, using a novel paradigm designed to assess how the response to a series of images changes over time.

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Previous research has demonstrated that higher-order cognitive processes associated with the allocation of selective attention are engaged when highly familiar self-relevant items are encountered, such as one's name, face, personal possessions and the like. The goal of our study was to determine whether these effects on attentional processing are triggered on-line at the moment self-relevance is established. In a pair of experiments, we recorded ERPs as participants viewed common objects (e.

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