Area Under the Curve of Somatosensory Evoked Potentials Detects Spinal Cord Injury.

Purpose: Intraoperative neurophysiological monitoring using somatosensory evoked potentials has been linked to a reduction in the incidence of neurological deficits during corrective surgery. Nonetheless, quantitative assessments of somatosensory evoked potential waveforms are often difficult to evaluate, because they are affected by anesthesia, injury, and noise. Here, we discuss a novel method that integrates somatosensory evoked potential signals into a single metric by calculating the area under the curve (AUC).

Hippocampal neurotransplantation evaluated in the rat kainic acid epilepsy model.

Objective: Neurotransplantation has focused on disorders that involve subcortical brain targets. We evaluated the concepts of epileptic focus repair and changes in animal behavior through replacement of lost hippocampal neurons. The safety of hippocampal neurotransplantation was assessed in the rat kainic acid (KA) epilepsy model.