Publications by authors named "Thapa Shanta"
Objective: Surgery is a good treatment option for drug-resistant temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE). 2-deoxy-2-(18F) fluoro-D-glucose (FDG) positron emission tomography (PET) is used to detect epileptic foci as hypometabolic lesions in presurgical evaluation. Visual field defects (VFDs) in the contralateral homonymous upper quadrant are common postoperative complications in TLE.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Solitary fibrous tumor/hemangiopericytomas (SFT/HPCs) are rare mesenchymal tumors of nonmeningothelial origin that comprises <1% of all central nervous system tumors.
Case Description: A 45-year-old male presented with sleep apnea (apnea-hypopnea index was 17.1 events/hour) and dysesthesias of the right upper and lower extremities.
Solitary fibrous tumor (SFT) or hemangiopericytoma (HPC) is a rare fibroblastic tumor of mesenchymal origin. SFT or HPC comprises <1% of all primary central nervous system tumors. SFT or HPC of the sellar or suprasellar region is even more unusual.
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- FFAR1 is a receptor in the brain that helps respond to certain fats and is found a lot in an important brain area called the nigrostriatal region.
- Scientists studied how FFAR1 affects the levels of two chemicals in the brain called dopamine and serotonin, and how it influences movement when cocaine is used.
- They discovered that mice without FFAR1 had higher dopamine but lower serotonin levels, and that this affected their movement when given cocaine, suggesting FFAR1 helps with serotonin release and may play a role in how cocaine affects behavior.