Besides its well known antibiotic activity rifampicin exerts multiple brain protective functions in acute cerebral ischemia and chronic neurodegeneration. The present mini-review gives an update of the unique activity of ...

It is widely known that the occurrence of poststroke mood disorders, especially depression, is one of the most frequent complications of stroke.1 Studies evaluating the association of focal lesions with depressive disorder ...

There are rapidly replicating human data suggesting the therapeutic and neurorestorative role of transcranial magnetic stimulation in various neurological and psychiatric disorders. However there are only limited experimental ...

Introduction Transcranial focused ultrasound (tFUS) is a novel technique that can noninvasively modulate the cortical function. Moreover, there are rapidly replicating evidence suggesting the role of tFUS for targeted ...

Ischemic stroke (IS), especially wake-up stroke, is reported to occur with a maximal peak in the morning hoursand usually associated with worse clinical outcome [1-3].Many proposed mechanisms are reported to be responsiblefor ...

There are rapidly replicating human data suggesting the therapeutic and neurorestorative role of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) in clinical depression. However there are only limited experimental studies ...

Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) is a well known non-invasive brain stimulation procedure which is capable of inducing the expression of the hippocampal BDNF that has been already shown to exert significant ...

troke is the third leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Many deleterious cellular pathways have been proposed to explain the molecular pathogenesis of this clinically devastating disease [1, 2]. The ...

Dear Editor, Alien hand syndrome (AHS) is a sensation of foreignness between the patient and one of his or her hands, where the affected hand is observed to perform autonomic purposive behaviors that are interpreted as ...

Sleep is an important factor that plays a key role in Alzheimer's disease pathogenesis. However, it is still unclear whether poor-quality sleep may overlap with sleep disturbances in the underlying dysfunctional mechanisms ...