Neuroprotection can be defined as medical prophylactic and therapeutic intervention aimed at neuronal tissue and function. Hardly any concept of neuroprotection has been convincingly efficient in man thus far. Lithium ...

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 Glutamate is the major excitatory neurotransmitter in the mammalian nervous system. It is important that extracellular glutamate levels are kept low because glutamate can be toxic to neurons when present in high ...

MS is a chronic, inflammatory, demyelinating disease of the CNS. It is characterized by lesions in especially the white areas of the brain. The immunological mechanisms are not completely recognized. Intrathecal IgG-production ...

ABSTRACT The aim of this study was to investigate cognitive dysfunction in patients with multiple sclerosis. I have mainly focused on symptoms, prevalence and development of cognitive impairment. Cognitive dysfunction ...

Neuroprotection can be defined as medical prophylactic and therapeutic intervention aimed at neuronal tissue and function. Hardly any concept of neuroprotection has been convincingly efficient in man thus far. Lithium ...

Background: There have only been retrospective uncontrolled studies of the effect of thymectomy on Myasthenia gravis (MG); Most of them show a positive effect, but the indication for operation is under discussion. Objective: ...

Essential tremor (ET) is the most common form of tremor disorder. It is characterized by postural or intentional tremor in the absence of any other neurological disease. First choice of treatment is pharmacological. The ...

Bakgrunn: Ufrivillige bevegelsesforstyrrelser er en svært heterogen gruppe lidelser. Formålet med denne oppgaven er å presentere oppdatert kunnskap om årsaksforhold og patofysiologien bak de ikke-rytmiske hyperkinetiske ...

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 ...