Transient perivascular inflammation of the carotid artery-A transient but potentially recurrent disease.

Transient perivascular inflammation of the carotid artery (TIPIC syndrome) is a rare, unclassified vascular syndrome that usually affects the distal part of the common carotid artery and has a favorable prognosis. The disease is often misdiagnosed even by neurologists due to the moderate intensity of clinical symptoms and their transient character. We present a case of a 52-year-old man who experienced two episodes of transient neck pain and moderate local tenderness one and a half years apart.

Functional Connectivity of the Anterior Cingulate Cortex and the Right Anterior Insula Differentiates between Major Depressive Disorder, Bipolar Disorder and Healthy Controls.

This study aimed to explore possible differences of the whole-brain functional connectivity of the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) and anterior insula (AI), in a sample of depressed patients with major depressive disorder (MDD), bipolar disorder (BD) and healthy controls (HC). A hundred and three subjects (n = 35, n = 25, and n = 43) between the ages of eighteen and sixty-five years old underwent functional magnetic resonance imaging. The CONN Toolbox was used to process and analyze the functional connectivity of the ACC and AI.