西比灵对实验性脑血肿继发脑水肿的治疗研究

目的探讨西比灵对实验性脑血肿继发脑水肿的作用机制和治疗效果.方法以大鼠自体血制作脑出血模型,用干湿法测脑组织水份,同时病理镜检观察脑出血组和西比灵组脑组织变化.结果脑血肿形成后,脑组织含水量明显增加,而西比灵组小于脑出血组(P<0.05).结论西比灵能减轻实验性脑血肿继发的脑水肿.     

脑出血大鼠血肿周围脑组织白细胞和凋亡细胞变化及其与脑组织含水量的关系

目的 探讨脑出血大鼠血肿周围脑组织白细胞和凋亡细胞变化及其与脑组织含水量的关系.方法 48只大鼠采用自体不凝血注入法制备脑出血模型,随机分为8组:假手术组、脑出血6h组、脑出血12h组、脑出血24h组、脑出血48 h组、脑出血72 h组、脑出血1周组和脑出血2周组.分别在相应时间点断头取脑,进行脑组织含水量测定和HE染...     

大鼠脑室系统出血模型的建立

目的 探讨建立稳定、制作过程简单、创伤小的大鼠脑室系统出血模型的方法 . 方法 取大鼠自体动脉血立体定向下注入右侧侧脑室建立大鼠腩室系统出血模型,对模型组和对照组大鼠在不同时间点进行神经行为学评分,并观察脑室及室周脑组织病理变化. 结果本方法 模型成功率为88.9%(16/18),注血后6h大鼠出现行为异常,7d后行为异常好转;光镜下观察发现注血后24h模型组大鼠室管膜连续性遭到破坏,细胞间隙增宽,室周脑组织轻度水肿及出现红色坏死神经元. 结论 本研究采用的造模方法 模型稳定,制作创伤小,病理变化接近临床.     

大鼠脑室系统出血模型的建立

目的 探讨建立稳定、制作过程简单、创伤小的大鼠脑室系统出血模型的方法 . 方法 取大鼠自体动脉血立体定向下注入右侧侧脑室建立大鼠腩室系统出血模型,对模型组和对照组大鼠在不同时间点进行神经行为学评分,并观察脑室及室周脑组织病理变化. 结果本方法 模型成功率为88.9%(16/18),注血后6h大鼠出现行为异常,7d后行为异常好转;光镜下观察发现注血后24h模型组大鼠室管膜连续性遭到破坏,细胞间隙增宽,室周脑组织轻度水肿及出现红色坏死神经元. 结论 本研究采用的造模方法 模型稳定,制作创伤小,病理变化接近临床.     

大鼠脑室系统出血模型的建立

目的 探讨建立稳定、制作过程简单、创伤小的大鼠脑室系统出血模型的方法 . 方法 取大鼠自体动脉血立体定向下注入右侧侧脑室建立大鼠腩室系统出血模型,对模型组和对照组大鼠在不同时间点进行神经行为学评分,并观察脑室及室周脑组织病理变化. 结果本方法 模型成功率为88.9%(16/18),注血后6h大鼠出现行为异常,7d后行为异常好转;光镜下观察发现注血后24h模型组大鼠室管膜连续性遭到破坏,细胞间隙增宽,室周脑组织轻度水肿及出现红色坏死神经元. 结论 本研究采用的造模方法 模型稳定,制作创伤小,病理变化接近临床.     

大鼠脑室系统出血模型的建立

目的 探讨建立稳定、制作过程简单、创伤小的大鼠脑室系统出血模型的方法 . 方法 取大鼠自体动脉血立体定向下注入右侧侧脑室建立大鼠腩室系统出血模型,对模型组和对照组大鼠在不同时间点进行神经行为学评分,并观察脑室及室周脑组织病理变化. 结果本方法 模型成功率为88.9%(16/18),注血后6h大鼠出现行为异常,7d后行为异常好转;光镜下观察发现注血后24h模型组大鼠室管膜连续性遭到破坏,细胞间隙增宽,室周脑组织轻度水肿及出现红色坏死神经元. 结论 本研究采用的造模方法 模型稳定,制作创伤小,病理变化接近临床.     

大鼠脑室系统出血模型的建立

目的 探讨建立稳定、制作过程简单、创伤小的大鼠脑室系统出血模型的方法 . 方法 取大鼠自体动脉血立体定向下注入右侧侧脑室建立大鼠腩室系统出血模型,对模型组和对照组大鼠在不同时间点进行神经行为学评分,并观察脑室及室周脑组织病理变化. 结果本方法 模型成功率为88.9%(16/18),注血后6h大鼠出现行为异常,7d后行为异常好转;光镜下观察发现注血后24h模型组大鼠室管膜连续性遭到破坏,细胞间隙增宽,室周脑组织轻度水肿及出现红色坏死神经元. 结论 本研究采用的造模方法 模型稳定,制作创伤小,病理变化接近临床.     

大鼠脑室系统出血模型的建立

目的 探讨建立稳定、制作过程简单、创伤小的大鼠脑室系统出血模型的方法 . 方法 取大鼠自体动脉血立体定向下注入右侧侧脑室建立大鼠腩室系统出血模型,对模型组和对照组大鼠在不同时间点进行神经行为学评分,并观察脑室及室周脑组织病理变化. 结果本方法 模型成功率为88.9%(16/18),注血后6h大鼠出现行为异常,7d后行为异常好转;光镜下观察发现注血后24h模型组大鼠室管膜连续性遭到破坏,细胞间隙增宽,室周脑组织轻度水肿及出现红色坏死神经元. 结论 本研究采用的造模方法 模型稳定,制作创伤小,病理变化接近临床.     

大鼠脑室系统出血模型的建立

目的 探讨建立稳定、制作过程简单、创伤小的大鼠脑室系统出血模型的方法 . 方法 取大鼠自体动脉血立体定向下注入右侧侧脑室建立大鼠腩室系统出血模型,对模型组和对照组大鼠在不同时间点进行神经行为学评分,并观察脑室及室周脑组织病理变化. 结果本方法 模型成功率为88.9%(16/18),注血后6h大鼠出现行为异常,7d后行为异常好转;光镜下观察发现注血后24h模型组大鼠室管膜连续性遭到破坏,细胞间隙增宽,室周脑组织轻度水肿及出现红色坏死神经元. 结论 本研究采用的造模方法 模型稳定,制作创伤小,病理变化接近临床.     

大鼠脑室系统出血模型的建立

目的 探讨建立稳定、制作过程简单、创伤小的大鼠脑室系统出血模型的方法 . 方法 取大鼠自体动脉血立体定向下注入右侧侧脑室建立大鼠腩室系统出血模型,对模型组和对照组大鼠在不同时间点进行神经行为学评分,并观察脑室及室周脑组织病理变化. 结果本方法 模型成功率为88.9%(16/18),注血后6h大鼠出现行为异常,7d后行为异常好转;光镜下观察发现注血后24h模型组大鼠室管膜连续性遭到破坏,细胞间隙增宽,室周脑组织轻度水肿及出现红色坏死神经元. 结论 本研究采用的造模方法 模型稳定,制作创伤小,病理变化接近临床.     

Epilepsy and anomalies of neuronal migration: MRI and clinical aspects

Neuronal migration disorders are the result of disturbed brain development. In such disorders, neurons are abnormally located. In diagnosing these conditions, magnetic resonance imaging is superior to any other imaging technique. This enables us to improve our knowledge of the clinical correlates of neuronal migration. With reference to migrational disorder, a retrospective study of all 303 patients with epileptic seizures referred for magnetic resonance imaging during a 3-year period was performed, 13 patients (aged 12-41, mean age 27) were identified. They represent 4.3% of the entire study group. Of the patients with known epilepsy, 6.7% and of the mentally retarded, 13.7% had migrational disorders. Four patients had schizencephaly as the dominant finding, one was classified as hemimegalencephaly, 2 had isolated heterotopias, and 6 had localized pachy- and/or poly-microgyria. The clinical pictures are complex. Ectopias of grey matter are recognised foci of epilepsy, but from an epileptological and a clinical viewpoint little attention has been given to these disorders. The present study shows that malmigration is not rare in epilepsy patients, especially not in the mentally retarded.     

Hepatic Considerations in the Use of Antiepileptic Drugs

Summary: Virtually all of the major antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) can cause hepatotoxicity, although fatal hepatic reactions are rare. The mechanisms, incidences, and risk profiles for such reactions differ from drug to drug. With carbamazepine and phenytoin, hepatotoxicity may be due to drug hypersensitivity. Although the profiles of patients at risk have not been well-defined for these two antiepileptic drugs, it would appear from reports in the literature that older adolescents and adults are at higher risk than children of developing serious or fatal hepatotoxicity. Once hepatotoxicity develops, mortality rates are 10–38% with phenytoin and 25% for carbamazepine. The risk profile for valproate fatal hepatotoxicity has been more clearly defined. Those at primary risk of fatal hepatic dysfunction are children under the age of 2 years who are receiving multiple anticonvulsants and also have significant medical problems in addition to severe epilepsy. The risk is considerably lower for patients over the age of 2 years on valproate monotherapy. In contrast to the risk profile with other AEDs, adults receiving valproate as monotherapy have the lowest risk of hepatotoxicity. Fatal hepatic dysfunction coincident with valproate may be the result of aberrant drug metabolism. Concomitant use of AEDs that induce microsomal P450 enzymes (e.g., phenytoin and phenobarbital) may enhance the production of a toxic metabolite, and hence the greater risk of hepatotoxicity with polypharmacy.     

Vascular Malformations and Epilepsy: Clinical Considerations and Basic Mechanisms

Summary: Vascular malformations (VMs) are associated with epilepsy. The natural history of the various VMs, clinical presentation, and tendency to provoke epilepsy determine treatment strategies. Investigations have probed the mechanisms of epileptogenesis associated with these lesions. Electrophysiologic changes are associated with epileptogenic cortex adjacent to VMs. Putative pathophysiologic mechanisms of epileptogenesis include neuronal cell loss, glial proliferation and abnormal glial physiology, altered neurotransmitter levels, free radical formation, and aberrant second messenger physiology.     

Classification of methods in transcranial Electrical Stimulation (tES) and evolving strategy from historical approaches to contemporary innovations

Transcranial Electrical Stimulation (tES) encompasses all methods of non-invasive current application to the brain used in research and clinical practice. We present the first comprehensive and technical review, explaining the evolution of tES in both terminology and dosage over the past 100 years of research to present day. Current transcranial Pulsed Current Stimulation (tPCS) approaches such as Cranial Electrotherapy Stimulation (CES) descended from Electrosleep (ES) through Cranial Electro-stimulation Therapy (CET), Transcerebral Electrotherapy (TCET), and NeuroElectric Therapy (NET) while others like Transcutaneous Cranial Electrical Stimulation (TCES) descended from Electroanesthesia (EA) through Limoge, and Interferential Stimulation. Prior to a contemporary resurgence in interest, variations of transcranial Direct Current Stimulation were explored intermittently, including Polarizing current, Galvanic Vestibular Stimulation (GVS), and Transcranial Micropolarization. The development of these approaches alongside Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT) and pharmacological developments are considered. Both the roots and unique features of contemporary approaches such as transcranial Alternating Current Stimulation (tACS) and transcranial Random Noise Stimulation (tRNS) are discussed. Trends and incremental developments in electrode montage and waveform spanning decades are presented leading to the present day. Commercial devices, seminal conferences, and regulatory decisions are noted. We conclude with six rules on how increasing medical and technological sophistication may now be leveraged for broader success and adoption of tES.     

Carbamazepine Efficacy and Utilization in Children

Summary: Carbamazepine is effective for preventing partial and generalized tonic-clonic seizures in children. Although absence epilepsies are more common in children than adults, an estimated 80% of children with epilepsy have seizure types or epilepsies that are potentially responsive to carbamazepine. The differential diagnosis of ictal staring is an especially important issue in children because absence and atypical absence seizures are more prevalent in children than adults. Age-related pharmacokinetic differences and drug interactions are major considerations in children. On average, children have higher clearance rates of carbamazepine, shorter half-lives, and higher ratios of carbamazepine-10, 11-epoxide to carbamazepine than adults. In addition, children with severe epilepsy are more likely to require multiple-drug therapy, which can lead to complex drug interactions. When carbamazepine is administered along with valproate, drug protein binding interactions can cause intermittent side effects.     

Neonatal Seizures: Problems in Diagnosis and Classification

Summary: The clinical identification of neonatal seizures is critical for the recognition of brain dysfunction; however, diagnosis is often difficult because of the poorly organized and varied nature of these behaviors. Current classification systems are limited in their ability to communicate motor, autonomic, and electroencephalo-graphic features of seizures precisely and to provide a basis for uniform effective diagnosis, therapy, and determination of prognosis. Recent investigations of neonates, utilizing bedside electroencephalographic/polygraphic/ video monitoring techniques, have provided the basis for improved diagnosis and classification of seizures in the newborn. These studies have demonstrated that not all clinical phenomena currently considered to be seizures require electrocortical epileptiform activity for their initiation or elaboration. In addition, the specific clinical character of the phenomena considered to be seizures, the clinical state of the infant, and the character of the EEG indicate the probable pathophysiological mechanisms involved and suggest probable etiologies, prognosis, and therapy. Similarities between animal models that demonstrate reflex physiology and neonates with motor automatisms and tonic posturing suggest that these clinical behaviors may not be epileptic in origin but, rather, primitive movements of progression and posture mediated by brainstem mechanisms. Although not all clinical behaviors currently considered to be neonatal seizures may have similar pathophysiological mechanisms, they are clinically significant because they all indicate brain dysfunction.     

Valproate Monotherapy in the Management of Generalized and Partial Seizures

Summary: For decades, therapeutic tradition has promoted the concept of polypharmacy in the management of epilepsy. In recent years, however, studies have shown that, for most patients, monotherapy can provide comparable or better seizure control than administration of multiple anticonvulsants, while diminishing the potential for adverse reactions, drug interactions, and poor compliance. Valproate is an important monotherapeutic agent that is highly effective in the control of idiopathic primary and secondarily generalized epilepsies, and partial seizures that do not generalize. Comparative studies have found that valproate is at least as effective as phenytoin and carbamazepine in the treatment of generalized and partial seizures. Given the similar efficacy, other factors such as pharmacokinetics and side effects may therefore determine anticonvulsant selection for monotherapy.     

Un nouveau cadre conceptuel de travail pour la psychiatrie

In an attempt to place psychiatric thinking and the training of future psychiatrists more centrally into the context of modern biology, the author outlines the beginnings of a new intellectual framework for psychiatry that derives from current biological thinking about the relationship of mind to brain. The purpose of this framework is twofold. First, it is designed to emphasize that the professional requirements for future psychiatrists will demand a greater knowledge of the structure and functioning of the brain than is currently available in most training programs. Second, it is designed to illustrate that the unique domain which psychiatry occupies within academic medicine, the analysis of the interaction between social and biological determinants of behavior, can best be studied by also having a full understanding of the biological components of behavior.