Neurology
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In amnestic mild cognitive impairment (aMCI), functional neuronal connectivity may be altered, as suggested by quantitative EEG and neuroimaging data. In young healthy humans, the execution of linguistic tasks modifies the excitability of the hand area of the dominant primary motor cortex (M1(hand)), as tested by transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS). We used TMS to investigate functional connectivity between language-related cortical areas and M1(hand) in aMCI. ⋯ Findings suggest that functional connectivity between the language-related brain regions and the dominant M1(hand) may be altered in amnestic mild cognitive impairment. Follow-up studies will reveal whether transcranial magnetic stimulation application during linguistic tasks may contribute to characterize the risk of conversion to Alzheimer disease.
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Case Reports Comparative Study
Neurologic immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome in HIV/AIDS: outcome and epidemiology.
To characterize the immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome in the nervous system (NeuroIRIS) among patients with HIV/AIDS. ⋯ Immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome in the nervous system (NeuroIRIS) remains an uncommon complication of combination antiretroviral therapy (cART) but with a potentially poor outcome. Initiation of cART in very immunosuppressed patients requires close monitoring to manage NeuroIRIS in an expedient manner.
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Intracortical inhibition in the motor cortex may be measured with short interval intracortical inhibition (SICI), likely mediated by GABA(A) receptors, and long interval intracortical inhibition (LICI), likely mediated by GABA(B) receptors. Separate neuronal populations mediate SICI and LICI, and LICI inhibits SICI, likely through GABA(B) mediated presynaptic inhibition. The purpose of this study was to test the hypothesis that cortical presynaptic inhibition in Parkinson disease (PD) is impaired. ⋯ The inhibitory effect of long interval intracortical inhibition on short interval intracortical inhibition, likely representing presynpatic inhibition in the motor cortex, is decreased in Parkinson disease and may be a nondopaminergic feature of the disease.