Erwin Deutsch, the Eppinger Clinic and the legacy of the Second Vienna School of Medicine-Continuities of a career.

Erwin Deutsch (1917-1992) was an outstanding representative of Austrian internal medicine after World War II. Little is known about his early biography. Considered a "Jewish half-breed" under Nazi racial laws, he was subjected to harassment during his training.

Somatosensory Plasticity in Hemiplegic Cerebral Palsy Following Constraint Induced Movement Therapy.

Background: Children with hemiplegic cerebral palsy (HCP) experience upper limb somatosensory and motor deficits. Although constraint-induced movement therapy (CIMT) improves motor function, its impact on somatosensory function remains underinvestigated.

Objective: The objective of this study was to evaluate somatosensory perception and related brain responses in children with HCP, before and after a somatosensory enhanced CIMT protocol, as measured using clinical sensory and motor assessments and magnetoencephalography.

Complexity-Dependent Modulations of Beta Oscillations for Verbal and Nonverbal Movements.

Purpose The planning and execution of motor behaviors require coordination of neurons that are established through synchronization of neural activity. Movements are typically preceded by event-related desynchronization (ERD) in the beta range (15-30 Hz) primarily localized in the motor cortex, while movement onset is associated with event-related synchronization (ERS). It is hypothesized that ERD is important for movement preparation and execution, and ERS serves to inhibit movement and update the motor plan.

White matter microstructural differences underlying beta oscillations during speech in adults who stutter.

The basal ganglia-thalamocortical (BGTC) loop may underlie speech deficits in developmental stuttering. In this study, we investigated the relationship between abnormal cortical neural oscillations and structural integrity alterations in adults who stutter (AWS) using a novel magnetoencephalography (MEG) guided tractography approach. Beta oscillations were analyzed using sensorimotor speech MEG, and white matter pathways were examined using tract-based spatial statistics (TBSS) and probabilistic tractography in 11 AWS and 11 fluent speakers.