OBJECT Intraoperative dorsal column mapping, transcranial motor evoked potentials (TcMEPs), and somatosensory evoked potentials (SSEPs) have been used in adults to assist with the resection of intramedullary spinal cord tumors (IMSCTs) and to predict postoperative motor deficits. The authors sought to determine whether changes in MEP and SSEP waveforms would similarly predict postoperative moto...

Abstract Background Electrophysiological techniques have been used for discriminating myoclonus from other hyperkinetic movement disorders and classifying the subtype. This study was carried out on patients with different subtypes of to determine electrophysiological characteristics anatomical classification etiologies. included 20 compared 30 control participants. all by somatosensory evoked p...

The Secondary Structural Elements of Proteins (SSEP) database is an integrated and comprehensive knowledge base for accessing information related to all the secondary-structural elements present in non-redundant (25 and 90%) protein chains. The new version 2.0 of the database contains 2485 and 8595 protein chains from the 25 and 90% non-redundant data sets, respectively. The necessary web inter...

Near zero stroke rates can be achieved in carotid endarterectomy (CEA) surgery with selective shunting and electrophysiological neuromonitoring. though false negative rates as high as 40% have been reported. We sought to determine if improved training for interpretation of the monitoring signals can advance the efficacy of selective shunting with electrophysiological monitoring across multiple ...

Bodily misperceptions are a frequent symptom in major depressive disorder. A reduced ability to deflect attention from somatosensory stimuli may contribute to the generation of unpleasant bodily sensations and co-occur with altered habituation of the brain electric reactions to somatosensory stimuli. The aim of the present study was to explore whether attention-related components of somatosenso...

Animal experiments suggest that cortical sensory representations may be remodelled as a consequence of changing synaptic efficacy by timing-dependent associative neuronal activity. Here we describe a timing-based associative form of plasticity in human somatosensory cortex. Paired associative stimulation (PAS) was performed by combining repetitive median nerve stimulation with transcranial magn...

Intraoperative neurophysiological monitoring (IONM) can help prevent permanent neurological damage during cervical myelopathy surgery. However, injuries occur positioning before A 61-year-old man had symptoms of hypoesthesia and motor weakness due to ossification the posterior longitudinal ligament compressing spinal cord. The surgery involved anterior corpectomy decompression fusion with IONM....

A 16-year-old male patient with Ehler-Danlos syndrome (EDS) and a back deformity since birth presented with severe kyphoscoliosis. The patient was neurologically intact but had respiratory and cardiac insufficiencies. A two-stage vertebral column resection (VCR) at T9-T10 with multiple level fusion with multimodality intraoperative neurophysiological monitoring (IONM) was planned.  During the f...