The Development of Psychosis in Patients with Substance Use Disorder and Its Association with Cavum Septum Pellucidum and Adhesio Interthalamica.

Background: It is known that there is a relationship between psychotic disorders and the presence of cerebral midline defects, such as the cavum septum pellucidum and the absence of adhesio interthalamica. This study aims to investigate whether these defects in people with alcohol/substance use disorders are associated with the occurrence and persistence of psychotic symptoms.

Methods: The files of the patients who were hospitalized in an addiction inpatient unit were retrospectively scanned.

Comparing the efficiency of speech and language therapy and transcranial magnetic stimulation for treating Broca's aphasia.

Objectives: Aphasia is an acquired language-cognitive disorder that highly affects an individual's speech, language, and communication skills. Recovery from aphasia requires attentive treatment since it is a long and dynamic process. This study aimed to show interactive benefits of combining classical intervention strategies with new technological approaches and demonstrating their effectiveness.

Proteasome Modulator 9 Gene rs14259 Polymorphism in Patients with Diabetic Polyneuropathy.

Introduction: Diabetic polyneuropathy (DPN) is a major chronic neurological complication of diabetes mellitus (DM) and typically presents as diabetic sensory polyneuropathy (DSPN). Whereas some patients with similar risk factors develop polyneuropathy, others don't, which suggests that genetics plays an important role in the progression of disease. The is a transcriptional regulator of the insulin gene and its variants cause beta-cell dysfunction that devastates insulin transcription.

The Use of Quantitative EEG for Differentiating Frontotemporal Dementia From Late-Onset Bipolar Disorder.

The behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD) usually emerges with behavioral changes similar to changes in late-life bipolar disorder (BD) especially in the early stages. According to the literature, a substantial number of bvFTD cases have been misdiagnosed as BD. Since the literature lacks studies comparing differential diagnosis ability of electrophysiological and neuroimaging findings in BD and bvFTD, we aimed to show their classification power using an artificial neural network and genetic algorithm based approach.

Brainstem Reflexes in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Patients Without Clinical Neurological Manifestations.

Introduction: We aimed to assess central and peripheral nervous system involvement in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) patients without any neurological signs and symptoms by performing electrophysiological investigations.

Methods: Thirty-eight SLE patients and 35 healthy volunteers participated in this study. Peripheral nerve conduction and brainstem reflexes were evaluated by performing nerve conduction studies (NCSs) and blink reflex (BR) and masseter inhibitory reflex (MIR) recordings.

High Plasma Pentraxin 3 Levels in Diabetic Polyneuropathy Patients with Nociceptive Pain.

Diabetic polyneuropathy is the most common neurologic complication of diabetes mellitus. Underlying mechanisms of diabetic polyneuropathy are related to various metabolic and inflammatory pathways. Pentraxin 3 (PTX3) is an acute phase protein that is produced locally at the inflammatory sites by several cell types.

Motor-Unit Number Estimation Is Sensitive in Detecting Motor Nerve Involvement in Patients with Carpal Tunnel Syndrome.

Background And Purpose: We compared the motor-unit number estimation (MUNE) findings in patients who presented with signs and/or findings associated with carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) and healthy controls, with the aim of determining if motor-unit loss occurs during the clinically silent period and if there is a correlation between clinical and MUNE findings in CTS patients.

Methods: The study investigated 60 hands of 35 patients with clinical CTS and 60 hands of 34 healthy controls. Routine median and ulnar nerve conduction studies and MUNE analysis according to the multipoint stimulation method were performed.

Cervical dermatomal zona misdiagnosed as ulnar nerve entrapment.

Herpes zoster is a secondary reactivation of primary contagious varicella-zoster virus in the dorsal root ganglia. While thoracic zona is common, cervical dermatomal zona is a rare segmental complication of herpes zoster and can be easily misdiagnosed as other diseases. This article describes a patient with initial neuralgia without dermatomal lesions that was treated as ulnar nerve entrapment syndrome until manifestation of herpetiform cutaneous lesions appeared.

Motor nerve impairment in diabetic patients with symmetrical distal sensory polyneuropathy: a single nerve fiber conduction velocity study.

Introduction: In this study we investigated the clinical utility of single fiber conduction velocity (SF-CV) testing in the evaluation of motor nerve function in diabetic patients with signs and symptoms of symmetrical distal sensory polyneuropathy (DSP). SF-CV findings were compared with conventional nerve conduction studies (NCS).

Methods: Twenty-eight consecutive type 2 diabetic patients with clinically diagnosed DSP were studied.

A neurophysiological approach to the complex organisation of the spine: F-wave duration and the cutaneous silent period in restless legs syndrome.

Objective: It is generally accepted that F-wave duration (FWD) and the cutaneous silent period (CSP) are influenced by diminished central inhibition. The aim of this study was to diagnose patients of restless legs syndrome (RLS) with the help of FWD and/or CSP parameters.

Methods: In all, 24 patients with primary RLS were compared with 31 age- and sex-matched controls.