Shedding light on neuropathic pain: Current and emerging tools for diagnosis, screening, and quantification.

Ensuring the proper management of neuropathic pain is a contemporary challenge for professionals who care for patients with this type of pain. The estimated prevalence of neuropathic pain in Europe is 7%-8%. The objective of this study was to perform a non-systematic review on the diagnosis, screening, and quantification of neuropathic pain.

Neuropsychological assessment protocol in an ongoing randomized controlled trial on posterior subthalamic area vs. ventral intermediate nucleus deep brain stimulation for essential tremor.

Objective: Patients with essential tremor (ET) may experience cognitive-affective impairment. Deep brain stimulation (DBS) of different targets, such as the ventral intermediate nucleus (VIM) of the thalamus or the posterior subthalamic area (PSA), has been shown to be beneficial for refractory ET. However, there is little evidence regarding the possible neuropsychological effects of PSA-DBS on patients with ET, and there are few studies comparing it with VIM-DBS in this population.

A prospective international multi-center study on safety and efficacy of deep brain stimulation for resistant obsessive-compulsive disorder.

Deep brain stimulation (DBS) has been proposed for severe, chronic, treatment-refractory obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) patients. Although serious adverse events can occur, only a few studies report on the safety profile of DBS for psychiatric disorders. In a prospective, open-label, interventional multi-center study, we examined the safety and efficacy of electrical stimulation in 30 patients with DBS electrodes bilaterally implanted in the anterior limb of the internal capsule.

An initial experience with intraoperative O-Arm for deep brain stimulation surgery: can it replace post-operative MRI?

Deep brain stimulation (DBS) is used to treat movement disorders, severe psychiatric disorders, and neuropathic pain, among other diseases. Advanced neuroimaging techniques allow direct or indirect localization of the target site, which is verified in many centers by the intraoperative recording of unitary neuronal activity. Intraoperative image acquisition technology (e.

[Bilateral acute subdural haematoma without subarachnoid haemorrhage secondary to rupture of an anterior communicating aneurysm. A case report and review of the literature].

Introduction: Pure acute subdural haematomas caused by aneurysmal rupture are a highly infrequent event, with only 51 cases published in the literature to date, with only six cases due to the rupture of anterior communicating artery aneurysm.

Aim: To describe a case of an acute subdural haematoma not associated with subarachnoid haemorrhage due to ruptured of an anterior communicating cerebral artery aneurysm.

Case Report: A 55-year-old woman without a traumatic history, who is found at home with a level of consciousness of 4 points on the Glasgow Coma Scale and a bilateral arreactive mydriasis, which are reversed with medical measures.