Catastrophic Brain Aspergillosis after Liver Transplantation by Mohammadmahdi Abbasi, Shirin Shams Ardakani, Nasir Fakhar, Hamid Eshaghi, Hosein Alimadadi, Toktam Faghihi, Behdad Gharib, Meisam Sharifzadeh, Masoomeh Safaei

“…Four days after the surgery, he was affected by fever, agitation, loss of consciousness, hemiparesis, and focal seizure. Brain MRI showed abscess formation, whereas chest X-ray was normal. …”
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NIRS-BIDS: Brain Imaging Data Structure Extended to Near-Infrared Spectroscopy by Robert Luke, Robert Oostenveld, Helena Cockx, Guiomar Niso, Maureen J Shader, Felipe Orihuela-Espina, Hamish Innes-Brown, Stephen Tucker, David Boas, Meryem A. Yücel, Remi Gau, Taylor Salo, Stefan Appelhoff, Christopher J. Markiewicz, David McAlpine, The BIDS Maintainers, Luca Pollonini

“…Currently, BIDS supports dozens of neuroimaging modalities including MRI, EEG, MEG, PET, and many others. In this paper, we present the extension of BIDS for NIRS data alongside tools that may assist researchers in organizing existing and new data with the goal of promoting public disseminations of fNIRS datasets.…”
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Transthyretin-Related Familial Amyloidosis Polyneuropathy with Spinal Cord Damage: A Case Report by Liu H, Huang C, Du Y, Liu J, Ren X, Wang H, Ye J, Zhou H, Duan Z

“…The diagnostic process was tortuous, and despite the administration of regular treatment (conventional drugs, cardiac pacemaker, and the specific drug clofenadifen), the patient died.Interventions: To confirm TTR-FAP, ultrasound, MRI, pathological, and genetic tests were performed.Outcomes: The patient ultimately died of heart failure 7.5 years after the initial onset of symptoms.Conclusion: The patient presented with unusual symptoms of spinal cord injury, and despite a long and arduous diagnostic process and administration of standard treatment for over seven years, the outcome was poor. …”
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Depression among adult patients with primary brain tumour: a cross-sectional study of risk factors in a low–middle-income country by Adnan Abdul Jabbar, Anum Sadruddin Pidani, Amna Rehana Siddiqui, Muhammad Shahzad shamim, Shameel Khan

“…Thus, we aim to study the factors associated with depression among adult patients with primary brain tumour at a tertiary care hospital in Karachi, Pakistan.Study design A prospective cross-sectional study.Setting This study was conducted at a tertiary care hospital of Karachi, Pakistan.Participants This study included 132 patients with confirmed diagnosis of primary brain tumour (initially diagnosed on MRI of the brain with contrast and later confirmed on histology of surgical specimen) in various stages of treatment.Primary outcome The primary outcome of this study was to assess depression and its associated factors among adult patients with primary brain tumour. …”
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TWIN-10: protocol for a 10-year longitudinal twin study of the neuroscience of mental well-being and resilience by Robin M Turner, Haeme R P Park, Leanne M Williams, Justine M Gatt

“…Participants will complete an online battery of psychological self-reports, computerised behavioural assessments of neurocognitive functions and MRI testing of the brain structure and function during resting and task-evoked scans. …”
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Posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome in a young male with IgA nephropathy and chronic kidney disease: a case report from the Maldives by Rajib Kumar Dey, Gunjan Khadka, Shifa Ishaq, Aishath Zeena Abdul Jaleel, Aminath Shafeenaz Moosa, Saifullah Muslim, Ali Nazeem

“…Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) T2/fluid-attenuated inversion recovery (FLAIR) findings showed hyperintense areas on the right frontal periventricular and right parietal and bilateral occipitotemporal lobes which was suggestive of PRES. …”
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Acupuncture Induces Reduction in Limbic-Cortical Feedback of a Neuralgia Rat Model: A Dynamic Causal Modeling Study by Zhen-Zhen Ma, Ye-Chen Lu, Jia-Jia Wu, Xiang-Xin Xing, Xu-Yun Hua, Jian-Guang Xu

“…This study is aimed at investigating the effect of electroacupuncture on effective connectivity and neural response in corticolimbic circuitries during implicit processing of nociceptive stimulus in rats with brachial plexus pain. Methods. An fMRI scan was performed in a total of 16 rats with brachial plexus pain, which was equally distributed into the model group and the electroacupuncture group. …”
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SSNMR confirms silicate ion substitution in the apatitic structure of 0.8wt% Si hydroxyapatite by Marc-Krystelle Mafina, Rory M. Wilson, Gregory J. Rees, Peter Gierth, Alice C. Sullivan, Karin A. Hing

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Assessment of MGMT and TERT Subtypes and Prognosis of Glioblastoma by Whole Tumor Apparent Diffusion Coefficient Histogram Analysis by Ling Chen, Min Wu, Yao Li, Lifang Tang, Chuyun Tang, Lizhao Huang, Tao Li, Li Zhu

“…Materials and Methods: MRI, clinical, and pathological data of 79 patients with GBM were retrospectively collected. …”
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Symptom descriptors and patterns in lumbar radicular pain caused by disc herniation: a 1-year longitudinal cohort study by Lars Grøvle, Anne Julsrud Haugen, Eivind Hasvik

“…Objective The objective of the present study was to explore the diversity, quality, severity and distribution of symptoms in patients with radicular pain and a lumbar disc herniation.Design Longitudinal cohort study.Setting Hospital-based back clinic.Participants Ninety patients referred to secondary healthcare with (a) low back-related leg pain, (b) age between 18 and 65 years and (c) MRI confirmed lumbar disc herniation at a relevant side and level.Outcome measures Neuropathic pain symptoms were assessed using the Short-Form McGill Pain Questionnaire-2 (SF-MPQ-2) and the painDETECT Questionnaire. …”
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Protocol for the impact of CBT for insomnia on pain symptoms and central sensitisation in fibromyalgia: a randomised controlled trial by Michael Robinson, Chokkalingam Siva, Christina S McCrae, Ashley F Curtis, Jason Craggs, Chelsea Deroche, Pradeep Sahota, Roland Staud

“…The following assessments will be completed: 2 weeks of daily diaries measuring sleep and pain, daily actigraphy, insomnia severity index, pain-related disability, single night of polysomnography recording, arousal (heart rate variability, cognitive affective arousal), structural and functional MRI to examine pain-related neural activity and plasticity and mood (depression, anxiety).Ethics and dissemination Ethics approval was obtained in July 2018 from the University of Missouri. …”
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Alterations in genes associated with cytosolic RNA sensing in whole blood are associated with coronary microvascular disease in SLE by Lihong Huo, Arati Naveen Kumar, Gantsetseg Tumurkhuu, Moumita Bose, Daniel S. Berman, Daniel J. Wallace, Janet Wei, Mariko Ishimori, C. Noel Bairey Merz, Caroline Jefferies

“…Using whole blood RNA samples, we asked whether gene signatures discriminate SLE patients with coronary microvascular dysfunction (CMD) on cardiac MRI (n = 4) from those without (n = 7) and whether any signaling pathway is linked to the underlying pathobiology of SLE CMD. …”
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Scurvy as a Cause of Leg Pain and Limp in Pediatric and Adolescent Patients by Christopher J. DeFrancesco, MD, David Kell, BA, Sean Owens, BS, Matt Grady, MD, Naomi Brown, MD

“…Key Concepts: (1) Scurvy, the condition caused by vitamin C deficiency, is not a historical disease, with research suggesting that its incidence in the US is on the rise. (2) Scurvy can result in lower extremity pain and limping among children, who may present for orthopaedic evaluation. (3) An increased index of suspicion for vitamin C deficiency should be maintained for any child with a history of restrictive eating, especially those with a history of autism spectrum disorder. (4) Orthopaedic providers should know the specific MRI and x-ray findings characteristic of vitamin C deficiency. (5) Vitamin C levels can be repleted in weeks with proper supplementation, but children with scurvy due to restrictive eating generally require continued intervention from nutrition and/or feeding specialists.…”
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Factors Affecting the Presence of Renal Cortical Cysts in Kidney Donors by Sevim Nuran Kuşlu Çiçek, Amil Huseynov

“…Renal cysts were identified and classified using computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) methods. Results: Renal cortical cysts were more frequently observed in males (52.76%) compared to females (47.24%), with a significant difference (P=.031). …”
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Psychiatric Assessment in Patients with Mild Temporal Lobe Epilepsy by Antonella Bruni, Iolanda Martino, Maria Eugenia Caligiuri, Maria Grazia Vaccaro, Michele Trimboli, Cristina Segura Garcia, Pasquale De Fazio, Antonio Gambardella, Angelo Labate

“…Thirty-five patients with mTLE (22 males, mean age 40.7±12.1) underwent awake and sleep EEG, 3T brain MRI, and an extensive standardized diagnostic neuropsychiatric battery: Temperament and Character Inventory-Revised (TCI-R), Beck Depression Inventory-2, and State-Trait Anxiety Inventory. …”
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Long-term memory plasticity in a decade-long connectivity study post anterior temporal lobe resection by Marine N. Fleury, Lawrence P. Binding, Peter Taylor, Fenglai Xiao, Davide Giampiccolo, Sarah Buck, Gavin P. Winston, Pamela J. Thompson, Sallie Baxendale, Andrew W. McEvoy, Matthias J. Koepp, John S. Duncan, Meneka K. Sidhu

“…We assess memory network changes, from 3–12 months to 10 years postoperatively, in 25 patients (12 left-sided resections) relative to 10 healthy matched controls, using longitudinal task-based functional MRI and standard neuropsychology assessments. We observe key adaptive changes in memory networks of a predominantly seizure-free cohort. …”
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QUANTIFICATION OF ECTOPIC FAT DEPOTS IN PATIENTS WITH CORONARY HEART DISEASE by A. N. Kokov, N. K. Brel, V. L. Masenko, O. V. Gruzdeva, Yu. A. Dyleva, E. V. Belik, O. L. Barbarash

“…To visualize the epicardial fat depot with an assessment of the thickness of the adipose tissue layer, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the heart was performed.Results. During the comparative analysis, significantly higher values of quantitative indicators of the main ectopic fat depots were noted in patients with coronary artery disease. …”
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The Effects of Lutein and Zeaxanthin Supplementation on Brain Morphology in Older Adults: A Randomized, Controlled Trial by Catherine M. Mewborn, Cutter A. Lindbergh, B. Randy Hammond, Lisa M. Renzi-Hammond, L. Stephen Miller

“…Structural brain outcomes, focusing on global and frontal-temporal lobe regions, were acquired using both T1-weighted and DTI MRI sequences. We hypothesized that the supplement group would increase, maintain, or show attenuated loss in hypothesized regions-of-interest (ROIs) while the placebo group would show age-related declines in brain structural integrity over the course of the trial. …”
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Artificial Intelligence in Pediatric Epilepsy Detection: Balancing Effectiveness With Ethical Considerations for Welfare by Marina Ramzy Mourid, Hamza Irfan, Malik Olatunde Oduoye

“…Specific methods, like EEG‐based AI for detecting interictal discharges, showed high specificity (93.33%–96.67%) and sensitivity (76.67%–93.33%), while neuroimaging approaches using rs‐fMRI and DTI reached up to 97.5% accuracy in identifying microstructural abnormalities. …”
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Blood biochemistry changes in a minipig infarction model by Dénes Kőrösi, Ágoston Göcző, Noémi Varga, Rita Garamvölgyi, Nándor Balogh, Kornélia Farkas, András Vorobcsuk, András Vorobcsuk

“…Blood samples were taken before AMI, and immediately after the reperfusion, during the cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (cMRI) on days 3 and 30. Aspartate transaminase (AST), alanine aminotransferase (ALT), creatine kinase (CK), lactate dehydrogenase (LDH), and high-sensitivity troponin I were determined.ResultsWhile the parameters measured at baseline remained within physiological ranges, a notable elevation was seen in comparison with the results observed on day 30. …”
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