Outcome after conservative or surgical treatment for new-onset epilepsy in children with cerebral cavernous malformation.

Objective: This study aimed to investigate and compare the outcome of conservatively or surgically treated children with cerebral cavernous malformation (CCM) and new-onset CCM-related epilepsy (CRE) during a 5-year period.

Methods: In this observational monocentric cohort study, data were collected ambispectivley. Our database was screened for CCM patients treated between 2003 and 2020.

The degree of cortical plasticity correlates with cognitive performance in patients with Multiple Sclerosis.

Background: Cortical reorganization and plasticity may compensate for structural damage in Multiple Sclerosis (MS). It is important to establish sensitive methods to measure these compensatory mechanisms, as they may be of prognostic value.

Objective: To investigate the association between the degree of cortical plasticity and cognitive performance and to compare plasticity between MS patients and healthy controls (HCs).