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    Preventing long-term disability in CIDP: the role of timely diagnosis and treatment monitoring in a multicenter CIDP cohort

    Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP) is an inflammatory disease affecting the peripheral nerves and the most frequent autoimmune polyneuropathy. Given the lack of established biomarkers or ...

    Paula Quint, Christina B. Schroeter, Felix Kohle, Menekse Öztürk in Journal of Neurology (2024)

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    Correction to: Update on the diagnosis and treatment of neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorders (NMOSD) – revised recommendations of the Neuromyelitis Optica Study Group (NEMOS). Part II: Attack therapy and long-term management

    Tania Kümpfel, Katrin Giglhuber, Orhan Aktas, Ilya Ayzenberg in Journal of Neurology (2024)

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    Update on the diagnosis and treatment of neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorders (NMOSD) – revised recommendations of the Neuromyelitis Optica Study Group (NEMOS). Part II: Attack therapy and long-term management

    This manuscript presents practical recommendations for managing acute attacks and implementing preventive immunotherapies for neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorders (NMOSD), a rare autoimmune disease that cau...

    Tania Kümpfel, Katrin Giglhuber, Orhan Aktas, Ilya Ayzenberg in Journal of Neurology (2024)

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    Update on the diagnosis and treatment of neuromyelits optica spectrum disorders (NMOSD) – revised recommendations of the Neuromyelitis Optica Study Group (NEMOS). Part I: Diagnosis and differential diagnosis

    The term ‘neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorders’ (NMOSD) is used as an umbrella term that refers to aquaporin-4 immunoglobulin G (AQP4-IgG)-positive neuromyelitis optica (NMO) and its formes frustes and to a nu...

    Sven Jarius, Orhan Aktas, Ilya Ayzenberg, Judith Bellmann-Strobl in Journal of Neurology (2023)

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    Somatosensory evoked potentials and magnetic resonance imaging of the central nervous system in early multiple sclerosis

    Somatosensory evoked potentials (SSEP) are still broadly used, although not explicitly recommended, for the diagnostic work-up of suspected multiple sclerosis (MS).

    Alexander Wuschek, Matthias Bussas, Malek El Husseini in Journal of Neurology (2023)

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    Cerebrospinal fluid lactate levels along the Alzheimer’s disease continuum and associations with blood-brain barrier integrity, age, cognition, and biomarkers

    Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) lactate levels have been suggested to be associated with disease severity and progression in several neurological diseases as an indicator of impaired energy metabolism, neuronal deat...

    Paul Theo Zebhauser, Achim Berthele, Oliver Goldhardt in Alzheimer's Research & Therapy (2022)

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    Cerebrospinal fluid findings in COVID-19: a multicenter study of 150 lumbar punctures in 127 patients

    Comprehensive data on the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) profile in patients with COVID-19 and neurological involvement from large-scale multicenter studies are missing so far.

    Sven Jarius, Florence Pache, Peter Körtvelyessy in Journal of Neuroinflammation (2022)

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    Cognitive impairment in early MS: contribution of white matter lesions, deep grey matter atrophy, and cortical atrophy

    Cognitive impairment (CI) is a frequent and debilitating symptom in MS. To better understand the neural bases of CI in MS, this magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) study aimed to identify and quantify related str...

    Christina Engl, Laura Tiemann, Sophia Grahl, Matthias Bussas in Journal of Neurology (2020)

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    Cytokine and immune cell profiling in the cerebrospinal fluid of patients with neuro-inflammatory diseases

    Cytokines play multiple roles during neuro-inflammatory processes and several cytokines have been studied in the context of specific diseases. This study provides a comprehensive picture of cerebrospinal fluid...

    Gildas Lepennetier, Zsuzsanna Hracsko, Marina Unger in Journal of Neuroinflammation (2019)

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    Visual imagery and functional connectivity in blindness: a single-case study

    We present a case report on visual brain plasticity after total blindness acquired in adulthood. SH lost her sight when she was 27. Despite having been totally blind for 43 years, she reported to strongly rely...

    Christine C. Boucard, Josef P. Rauschecker, Susanne Neufang in Brain Structure and Function (2016)

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    Efficacy of glatiramer acetate in neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder: a multicenter retrospective study

    Glatiramer acetate (GA) is an approved therapy for relapsing–remitting multiple sclerosis, but its efficacy for the prevention of attacks in neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder (NMOSD) remains unknown. We d...

    Ilya Ayzenberg, Joanna Schöllhammer, Robert Hoepner in Journal of Neurology (2016)

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    Update on the diagnosis and treatment of neuromyelitis optica: Recommendations of the Neuromyelitis Optica Study Group (NEMOS)

    Neuromyelitis optica (NMO, Devic’s syndrome), long considered a clinical variant of multiple sclerosis, is now regarded as a distinct disease entity. Major progress has been made in the diagnosis and treatmen...

    Corinna Trebst, Sven Jarius, Achim Berthele, Friedemann Paul in Journal of Neurology (2014)

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    CXCL13 is the major determinant for B cell recruitment to the CSF during neuroinflammation

    The chemokines and cytokines CXCL13, CXCL12, CCL19, CCL21, BAFF and APRIL are believed to play a role in the recruitment of B cells to the central nervous system (CNS) compartment during neuroinflammation. To ...

    Markus C Kowarik, Sabine Cepok, Johann Sellner in Journal of Neuroinflammation (2012)

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    Contrasting disease patterns in seropositive and seronegative neuromyelitis optica: A multicentre study of 175 patients

    The diagnostic and pathophysiological relevance of antibodies to aquaporin-4 (AQP4-Ab) in patients with neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorders (NMOSD) has been intensively studied. However, little is known so...

    Sven Jarius, Klemens Ruprecht, Brigitte Wildemann in Journal of Neuroinflammation (2012)

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    Anti-CD20 B-cell depletion enhances monocyte reactivity in neuroimmunological disorders

    Clinical trials evaluating anti-CD20-mediated B-cell depletion in multiple sclerosis (MS) and neuromyelitis optica (NMO) generated encouraging results. Our recent studies in the MS model experimental autoimmun...

    Klaus Lehmann-Horn, Eva Schleich, Deetje Hertzenberg in Journal of Neuroinflammation (2011)

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    Multicystic tumor in the fourth ventricle

    Clarissa U. Prazeres da Costa, Helga Gräfin von Einsiedel in Journal of Neurology (2006)