[Damage of teres minor branch of axillary nerve].

Atrophy demarcating to musculus teres minor is seen in magnetic resonance imaging of the shoulder region in 3 to 5.5% of investigations. We describe seven patients with prolonged or recurrent pain of the shoulder region, who were diagnosed in ENMG with damage of the axillary nerve brand to m.

P300 of auditory event related potentials in occupational chronic solvent encephalopathy.

This retrospective study characterized the P300 component of the auditory event related potential (ERP) and assessed its diagnostic value in occupational chronic solvent encephalopathy (CSE). The P300 was recorded on 86 CSE patients by the classical oddball paradigm. In addition to the laboratory's reference values, we used an age and education matched control group that consisted of 104 blue-collar workers with no known occupational solvent exposure.

Cognitive and neurophysiological outcome of cardiac arrest survivors treated with therapeutic hypothermia.

Background And Purpose: Cognitive deficits are common in survivors of cardiac arrest (CA). The aim of this study was to examine the effect of therapeutic hypothermia after CA on cognitive functioning and neurophysiological outcome.

Methods: A cohort of 70 consecutive adult patients resuscitated from out-of-hospital ventricular fibrillation CA were randomly assigned to therapeutic hypothermia of 33 degrees C for 24 hours accomplished by external cooling or normothermia.

Sensorimotor cortex localization: comparison of magnetoencephalography, functional MR imaging, and intraoperative cortical mapping.

Purpose: To prospectively evaluate magnetoencephalography (MEG) and functional magnetic resonance (MR) imaging, as compared with intraoperative cortical mapping, for identification of the central sulcus.

Materials And Methods: Fifteen patients (six men, nine women; age range, 25-58 years) with a lesion near the primary sensorimotor cortex (13 gliomas, one cavernous hemangioma, and one meningioma) were examined after institutional review board approval and written informed consent from each patient were obtained. At MEG, evoked magnetic fields to median nerve stimulation were recorded; at functional MR imaging, hemodynamic responses to self-paced palmar flexion of the wrist were imaged.

Somatosensory and brainstem auditory evoked potentials in cardiac arrest patients treated with hypothermia.

Objective: To evaluate the prognostic value of short-latency median nerve somatosensory evoked potentials and brainstem auditory evoked potentials in outcome prediction for comatose cardiac arrest patients treated with hypothermia.

Design: Prospective, randomized, controlled trial of mild hypothermia after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest; a substudy of the European Hypothermia After Cardiac Arrest study.

Setting: Intensive care unit of a tertiary referral hospital (Helsinki University Central Hospital).

Facilitation of the spinal H-reflex by auditory stimulation in dyslexic adults.

Dyslexic subjects show a variety of mild sensory and motor deficits that have been assumed to reflect dysfunction of the large-diameter 'magnocells' in different parts of the brain. Hearing as a warning sense relies on rapidly-conducting fibers, and on the basis of the magnocellular deficit theory, we wondered whether auditory alerting would be weakened in dyslexic adults. We quantified the strength of sound-induced spinal facilitation in seven dyslexic and eight normal-reading adults by measuring the amplitudes of H-reflex, a monosynaptic spinal reflex, after loud binaural sounds.