Abstract Purpose: Antiepileptic drug therapy is in many cases lifelong and carried out in patients who are also multimorbid and on a multipharmacological treatment. Traditionally used antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) have been ...

Background: Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is the most common of the dementia disorders, and age is the main risk factor. In Norway, there are approximately around 60 000 demented persons, and the prevalence is expected to ...

Abstract: Cerebral stroke is one of the leading causes of death and a major cause of disability world wide. During the recent decade acute treatment of ischemic stroke has improved significantly. The emphasis on urgent ...

This paper first gives an introduction to the neurological disease hereditary spastic paraparesis (HSP), and then concentrates on the database on HSP from Ullevål Sykehus. HSP is a hereditary progressive degenerative ...

Prion diseases (or transmissible spongiform encephalopathies) are rare, infectious neurodegenerative disorders caused by the accumulation of aberrant prion proteins in the brain. TSEs can affect both animals and humans ...

Migraine with aura (MA) and migraine without aura (MO) are primary headaches prevalent in the general population that carry a substantial familial liability. There is a evidence for a role of genetic factors in migraine. ...

Concept: adverse neurological outcomes after cardiac surgery, although well-known, are still relatively common. In average, about 5 % of the adult cardiac surgeries end up in stroke and about 15 % has some kind of global ...

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 ...

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 ...