I . By means of a cranial transillumination method used in conjunction with lumbar and bregmatic punctures, an increase in the space which contains the cerebro-spinal fluid in the cranial region is suggested in children with severe marasmic malnutrition. 2. The results appear to indicate that this is due to a diminished brain size, creating a space in the interior of the cranium which secondari...

and in the Rhine coal districts. He points out that school epidemics are unknown ; that second cases in the same house are uncommon ; that cases of cerebro-spinal meningitis which have been put into scarlatina or other wards on a wrong diagnosis do not give rise to further cases in these wards ; and that meningococci are not found in the noses of the other children in these wards. He concludes ...

Over the last decade, various studies have been reported to evaluate the circadian pattern of cardiovascular and cerebro-vascular diseases. The data from Indian population is lacking. We undertook this prospective observational study to evaluate the circadian variation in disorders like cerebro-vascular accidents and transient ischemic attacks. Total of 146 patients (events) were studied. Only ...

GENERAL ANAESTHESIA fOr pneumoencephalography presents the anaesthetist with a technical problem that has not been solved satisfactorily. The anaesthetic administered should be tailored to meet the demands of patient safety, comfort, possibly increased intracranial pressure and unusual positioning that is necessary during the study. It should also provide a quiet patient for the radiologist to ...

It is widely accepted that the cerebellum acquires and maintain internal models for motor control. An internal model simulates mapping between a set of causes and effects. There are two candidates of cerebellar internal models, forward models and inverse models. A forward model transforms a motor command into a prediction of the sensory consequences of a movement. In contrast, an inverse model ...

BACKGROUND Deposition of cortical amyloid beta (Aβ) is a correlate of aging and a risk factor for Alzheimer disease (AD). While several higher order cognitive processes involve functional interactions between cortex and cerebellum, this study aims to investigate effects of cortical Aβ deposition on coupling within the cerebro-cerebellar system. METHODS We included 15 healthy elderly subjects ...

Central Nervous System malignancies often require stereotactic biopsy or biopsy for differential diagnosis, and for tumor staging and grading. Furthermore, stereotactic biopsy can be non-diagnostic or underestimate grading. Hence, there is a compelling need of new diagnostic biomarkers to avoid such invasive procedures. Several biological markers have been proposed, but they can only identify s...

Patients with Uner Tan syndrome (UTS) exhibit habitual quadrupedal locomotion (QL), intellectual disability, dysarthric speech and truncal ataxia. Examination of cognitive ability in this syndrome has not yet been demonstrated in the scientific literature. Aims: (i) To analyze the cognitive abilities of the siblings with UTS; (ii) to assess the grade of their ataxia in relation to cerebellar di...

For comparison with the findings in disease, it is necessary to determine the characteristics of the cerebro-spinal fluid in healthy infants and children. Comparatively little work has been done on this subject. In the latest work on the cerebro-spinal fliuid. The Human Cerebro-spinal Fluid, published by the Association for Research in Nervous and Mental Diseases, New York, McLean and Mcintoshl...

Previous studies have suggested cerebro-cerebellar circuitry in working memory. The present fMRI study aims to distinguish differential cerebro-cerebellar activation patterns in verbal and visual working memory, and employs a quantitative analysis to deterimine lateralization of the activation patterns observed. Consistent with Chen and Desmond (2005a,b) predictions, verbal working memory activ...