Exploring the feasibility and clinical impact of ultrasound microvascular flow imaging in detecting brain injury in hyperbilirubinemia neonates by Shuang He, Meiyu Wang, Man Zhu, Min Zhang, Xueni He, Xiang Jiang, Shu Tang, Zhaoxia Wang

“…Clinical data, along with gray-scale and microvascular ultrasound images of the basal ganglia, were collected from 85 neonates (hyperbilirubinemia group vs. non-hyperbilirubinemia group: 51 vs. 34). …”
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MELAS Missed for Years: Stroke-Like Lesions Are No Indication for Brain Biopsy by J. Finsterer

“…Further manifestations of the mitochondrial disorder (MID) were tremor, cerebral atrophy, bilateral basal ganglia, calcification, glaucoma, hypoacusis, short stature, hyperostosis frontalis, hyperthyroidism, sick-sinus syndrome and AV-block-1, and myopathy. …”
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Gene Therapy for Parkinson's Disease by Rachel Denyer, Michael R. Douglas

“…More radically, gene therapy could be used to correct the imbalances in basal ganglia circuitry associated with the symptoms of Parkinson's disease, or to preserve or restore dopaminergic neurons lost during the disease process itself. …”
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Unilateral Thalamic Venous Infarction in an Infant: A Rare Presentation of Bilateral Deep Cerebral Venous Thrombosis by Katherine Chung, Umar Tariq, Rabia M. Khan, Thomas P. Nickles, Joseph H. Lock

“…It can present at any age and typically results in edema of the bilateral thalami, with occasional extension into the basal ganglia. Unilateral thalamic infarct is rare and results in an ambiguous imaging pattern. …”
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Extensive Bilateral Intracranial Calcifications: A Case of Iatrogenic Hypoparathyroidism by Vaso Zisimopoulou, Anna Siatouni, Grigorios Tsoukalos, Antonios Tavernarakis, Stylianos Gatzonis

“…Intracranial calcification that affects structures other than the basal ganglia and the cerebellum is a rare manifestation of postoperative hypoparathyroidism. …”
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Potential Neuroprotective Effect of the Endocannabinoid System on Parkinson’s Disease by María Fernanda Urmeneta-Ortíz, Aldo Rafael Tejeda-Martínez, Orfil González-Reynoso, Mario Eduardo Flores-Soto

“…The endocannabinoid system (ECS), highly expressed in the basal ganglia (BG) circuit, undergoes alterations in response to dopaminergic depletion, potentially contributing to motor symptoms and the etiopathogenesis of PD. …”
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Fatal Balamuthia mandrillaris Encephalitis by Binoy Yohannan, Mark Feldman

“…Neuroimaging showed three cavitary, peripherally enhancing brain lesions, involving the right frontal lobe, the left basal ganglia, and the left cerebellar hemisphere. She underwent right frontal craniotomy with removal of tan, creamy, partially liquefied necrotic material from the brain, consistent with granulomatous amoebic encephalitis on tissue staining. …”
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Effect of Deep Brain Stimulation on Speech Performance in Parkinson's Disease by Sabine Skodda

“…Since a deterioration of speech function has more often been observed under high stimulation amplitudes, this phenomenon has been ascribed to a spread of current-to-adjacent pathways which might also be the reason for the sporadic observation of an onset of dysarthria under DBS of other basal ganglia targets (e.g., globus pallidus internus/GPi or thalamus/Vim). …”
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MRI Findings in Neuroferritinopathy by Emiko Ohta, Yoshihisa Takiyama

“…Another characteristic finding is the presence of symmetrical cystic changes in the basal ganglia, which are seen in the advanced stages of this disorder. …”
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Central Nervous System Lymphoma: The Great Mimicker—A Single-Institution Retrospective Study by Danielle A. Bazer, Ewa Zabrocka, Nicholas Koroneos, Agnieszka Kowalska

“…The frontal lobes, basal ganglia, cerebellum, and corpus callosum were most affected. …”
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Hemorrhagic Stroke in a Young Adult with Undiagnosed Asymptomatic Dandy–Walker Malformation by Haleem Abdul, Joseph Burns, Andrea Estevez, Carlos Nasr El-Nimer, Brinsley Ekinde, Sherard Lacaille

“…This case offers a rare opportunity for diagnosis in an adult presenting with a hemorrhagic stroke of the basal ganglia in an otherwise asymptomatic young adult male. …”
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Limb Pain as Unusual Presentation of a Parietal Intraparenchymal Bleeding Associated with Crack Cocaine Use: A Case Report by Alan Lucerna, James Espinosa, Taimur Zaman, Risha Hertz, Douglas Stranges

“…It has been proposed that acute limb pain from a parietal lobe stroke is due to the disconnection of the parietal cortex from the thalamus secondary to the interruption of the pathways between the hemisphere and thalamus/basal ganglia.…”
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Dynamical Analyses on Beta Oscillations in a STN-GPE-GPI Model of Parkinson’s Disease by Yuanhong Bi, Quansheng Liu, Jingyi Zhao, Wuritu Yang

“…Exploring the behaviors of beta oscillations in the basal ganglia is helpful to understand the mechanism of Parkinson’s disease. …”
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Targeting Histone Deacetylases: A Novel Approach in Parkinson’s Disease by Sorabh Sharma, Rajeev Taliyan

“…In general, the clinical manifestations of PD result from dysfunction of the basal ganglia. Although the exact underlying mechanisms leading to neural cell death in this disease remains unknown, the genetic causes are often established. …”
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Chronic Lymphocytic Inflammation with Pontine Perivascular Enhancement Responsive to Steroids, with Cranial and Caudal Extension by Mahmood Mubasher, Aseel Sukik, Ahmed Hassan El Beltagi, Ali Rahil

“…MRI examination of the brain and spinal cord showed evidence of faint bright signal intensity foci in T2/FLAIR involving bilateral cerebral hemispheres, subcortical deep white matter, bilateral thalami, posterior pons and left brachium pontis, and basal ganglia, with small nodular enhancement that aligned along curvilinear structures; those lesions also were apparent along the spinal cord at multiple levels. …”
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Corticostriatal Plastic Changes in Experimental L-DOPA-Induced Dyskinesia by Veronica Ghiglieri, Vincenza Bagetta, Valentina Pendolino, Barbara Picconi, Paolo Calabresi

“…Here we provide an overview of recent findings that represent a further step into the comprehension of mechanisms underlying maladaptive changes of basal ganglia functions in response to L-DOPA and associated to development of LID.…”
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Cerebral Venous Sinus Thrombosis and Hydrocephalus in a Vegan Secondary to Acquired Hyperhomocystinaemia by W. D. D. Priyankara, A.V. I. Chandimal, F. G. Sivagnanam, E. M. Manoj

“…He was found to have widespread cerebral venous sinus thrombosis, hyperintensities in basal ganglia, and acute hydrocephalus in magnetic resonance imaging, necessitating cerebrospinal fluid diversion, by way of an external ventricular drain and therapeutic anticoagulation. …”
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Septic Embolic Stroke Followed by Hemorrhage and Brain Abscess in a Patient with Systemic Infections: A Case Report and Literature Review by Jama A. Mohamud, Jingtao Wu, Ye Jing, Yu Wang

“…His initial intracranial radiographic findings were normal but three days later MRI scan of the brain revealed well-defined rounded cystic lesion on the T2-weighted and T1-weighted images in the right basal ganglia; the lesion presented an area of diffusion restriction on DWI; lately the lesion was confirmed to be an early stage of cerebral abscess. …”
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Brain magnetic resonance imaging findings in Mitochondrial Neurogastrointestinal Encephalomyopathy (MNGIE): A case-based review by Maria Veatriki Christodoulou, MD, MSc, Nikoletta Anagnostou, MD, MSc, Anastasia K. Zikou, MD, PhD

“…Brain MRI revealed lesions in the cerebral deep white matter and the pons, with sparing of the subcortical U-fibers and the cerebral cortex and no apparent involvement of the cerebellum, basal ganglia, and thalamus. A literature review led to the identification of 72 additional cases with MNGIE that underwent brain MRI. …”
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Sleep Promotion by 3-Hydroxy-4-Iminobutyric Acid in Walnut Diaphragma juglandis Fructus by Jian Ji, Yongli Ye, Lina Sheng, Jiadi Sun, Qianqian Hong, Chang Liu, Jun Ding, Shuxiang Geng, Deping Xu, Yinzhi Zhang, Xiulan Sun

“…Subsequently, a metabolomics approach of the serum, basal ganglia, hypothalamus, and hippocampus as well as the gut microbiota was undertaken to unravel the underlying molecular mechanisms of sleep promotion. …”
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