ABSTRACT BACKGROUND Acute stroke is the third most common cause of death in Norway, and approximately 15 000 patients suffer from stroke each year. Stroke can be of ischemic or hemorrhagic origin. With ischemic stroke, ...

Migraine is a disease where both environment and genetics play an important etiological role. It is a common disease, who affects more than 10 % of the grown up population. This article gives an overview over the genetic ...

Abstract Purpose: Initially make a literary overview of epilepsy and bone health, bone structure and physiology, hormonal regulation of bone metabolism, osteoporosis and enzyme inducing and non-enzyme inducing AEDs. The ...

Pharmacoresistant epilepsy poses a therapeutical challenge. There is not an international agreement on how to define pharmacoresistant epilepsy. This makes it difficult to assess why people have pharmacoresistant epilepsy. ...

Data show a firm association between migraine and stroke, especially migraine with aura. The exact mechanisms by which migraine can lead to stroke are still under investigation and are complex. Migraine is a neurovascular ...

Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) is an acute, immune-mediated polyneuropathy that usually follows an antecedent infection. It consists of several subtypes including the most common forms: acute inflammatory demyelinating ...

Bakgrunn Pasienter med Parkinsons sykdom kan i tillegg til deres motoriske symptomer, oppleve å være rammet av forstyrrende ikke-motoriske symptomer, hvorav smerter er det symptomet som rapporteres mest. Hos denne ...

Sammendrag Bakgrunn: Arvelige spinocerebellære lidelser (Hereditær spastisk paraparese (HSP) og hereditære ataksier) er sjeldne nevrodegenerative sykdommer der hovedsymptomene er spastisitet i underekstremitetene og/eller ...

Background: Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a common, chronic, inflammatory disease of the central nervous system (CNS), which primarily affects young people. There exists no causal treatment as the disease is not fully understood. ...

Background In order to weigh the risks of surgery against the presumed advantages, it is important to have specific knowledge about complication rates. Objective To study the surgical mortality and rate of reoperations ...