This is a report on the 55-year follow-up of the first case of a craniopharyngioma patient who underwent gamma knife radiosurgery. The article details the medical history, diagnosis process, gamma knife surgery details, as well as the 55-year follow-up with multiple treatments, providing a comprehensive overview of the patient’s long medical journe...
Vertebral hemangiomas are the most common primary tumors of the spine. Most vertebral hemangiomas are asymptomatic benign lesions, but in a few cases, if the mass grows and extends into the epidural space, compressing the spinal cord or nerve roots, it may lead to neurological symptoms such as pain, sensory abnormalities, or motor deficits. The tre...
Outcomes of Mechanical Thrombectomy for Stroke Patients with Low Alberta Stroke Program Early CT Score Background Acute ischemic stroke is a life-threatening disease, and large vessel occlusion is one of the major causes of severe disability. Mechanical thrombectomy (MT) has become the standard treatment for acute ischemic stroke, with multiple cli...
This is a report on a new classification method for caudal agenesis: Caudal agenesis is a congenital disorder characterized by the absence of lower vertebrae. Previous classifications of caudal agenesis were primarily based on the level of bony deficiency or the position of the terminal spinal cord, but there has been debate as to whether these cla...
Correlation between Task Complexity and Accuracy of Cortical Language Mapping Introduction This study aimed to investigate whether task complexity affects the accuracy of mapping language functions during direct cortical stimulation mapping (DCS). The researchers hypothesized that due to the reduced computational ability of neurons in the cortex in...
Major Breakthrough in Neuroscience Research: Deep Learning Technique Achieves Decoding of Natural Speech from Brain Signals A cross-disciplinary research team at New York University recently achieved a major breakthrough in the fields of neuroscience and artificial intelligence. They developed a novel deep learning-based framework that can directly...
In this study, researchers explored the role of the TAK1 activation pathway in CAR T cell therapy-associated immune effector cell-associated neurotoxicity syndrome (ICANS). They established a mouse ICANS model and found that following the transfer of CAR19 T cells, cerebellar cells were activated, underwent morphological changes, and expressed more...
There has long been a problem of “weak supervision” in the field of artificial intelligence, where only part of the labels are observable in the training data, while the remaining labels are unknown. Multiple Instance Learning (MIL) is a paradigm to address this issue. In MIL, the training data is divided into multiple “bags”, each containing multi...
Brain Clearance Mechanism Suppressed During Sleep and Anesthesia Background Clearing metabolic wastes and toxic substances from the brain is a crucial process for maintaining a healthy nervous system. However, the specific mechanism of this process has been debated. A widely discussed viewpoint suggests that the sleep state promotes the function of...
Obsessive-compulsive behaviors have long been associated with overactivation of the striatum. The GABA-ergic parvalbumin-positive interneurons (PVIs) in the striatum play a crucial role in regulating striatal activity and inhibiting inappropriate motivated behaviors. To investigate the potential role of striatal PVIs in regulating obsessive-compuls...