Are more nerve injections in the same session more effective in migraine treatment? 3-month follow-up results.

Background And Purpose: Peripheral nerve blockade techniques have been developed for both acute and prophylactic treatment of migraine. Our aim was to compare pain parameters between the groups of patients who only had greater occipital nerve blockade (GON), and those who also had blockade to the supraorbital nerve (SON) and infraorbital nerve (ION) together with greater occipital nerve blockade, in order to reduce pain more effectively in migraine patients.

Methods: 50 patients diagnosed with migraine were included in our study.

Botulinum toxin type A wear-off phenomenon in chronic migraine patients: how long does the maximum efficiency last?

Background: Botulinum toxin Type A (BoNTA) is a successful treatment for chronic migraine prophylaxis.

Objective: We aimed to evaluate the monthly change of effectiveness of BoNTA treatment.

Methods: A total of 80 patients (70 females and 10 males) with chronic migraine were included.

Impaired integrity of commissural and association fibers in essential tremor patients: Evidence from a diffusion tensor imaging study.

Background/aim: The evolving understanding of essential tremors (ET) has led to a new definition of neurodegenerative disease, pointing to diffuse brain network involvement with a wide spectrum of associated motor and nonmotor symptoms. Considering the fact that white matter should also be affected by the nature of the disease, our study aimed to evaluate the integrity of white matter and its clinical correlations in ET patients.

Materials And Methods: Approximately 40 patients diagnosed with ET and 40 age-and sex-matched control subjects (ranging between 18–80 years old) were included in the study.

Combined Technique for the Treatment of Infected Nonunions of the Distal Femur With Bone Loss: Short Supracondylar Nail-Augmented Acute Shortening/Lengthening.

Objective: To evaluate a combined technique for treating distal femoral bone defects after debridement of osteomyelitis, using an external fixator together with a short supracondylar nail.

Design: Retrospective study.

Setting: Single tertiary referral center.

Cognitive and brain micro-structural correlates of alexithymia in essential tremor patients.

Essential tremor (ET) is the most common movement disorder which has both motor and non-motor findings such as neuropsychiatic symptoms. Alexithymia is defined as inability to identify and describe emotions experienced by one's self or others. In our study, we aimed to evaluate the neurocognitive and brain micro-structural correlates of alexithymia in ET.

Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease: A single center experience and systemic analysis of cases in Turkey.

Background And Purpose: We aimed to analyze the clinical, laboratory and neuroimaging findings in patients with sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) in a single center as well as to review other published cases in Turkey.

Methods: Between January 1st, 2014 and June 31st, 2017, all CJD cases were evaluated based on clinical findings, differential diagnosis, the previous misdiagnosis, electroencephalography (EEG), cerebrospinal fluid and cranial magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) findings in our center. All published cases in Turkey between 2005-2018 were also reviewed.

Investigation of risk factors, topographic location and stroke mechanisms of unilateral isolated and posterior cerebral ARTERY thalamic infarcts.

Background And Purpose: In this study, we aimed to examine the risk factors, topographic features and stroke mechanisms of acute ischemic unilateral infarcts of thalamus.

Methods: Patient with isolated thalamic infarct and those with posterior cerebral artery (PCA) infarction who were admitted to our hospital between January 2014 and January 2017 with acute unilateral thalamic infarction (TI) were included in this study (isolated thalamic infarction/ isolated TI; thalamic and posterior cerebral artery infarction/PCA+TI). Demographic characteristics and vascular risk factors of the patients were determined.