Predicting survival in malignant glioma using artificial intelligence by Wireko Andrew Awuah, Adam Ben-Jaafar, Subham Roy, Princess Afia Nkrumah-Boateng, Joecelyn Kirani Tan, Toufik Abdul-Rahman, Oday Atallah

“…Abstract Malignant gliomas, including glioblastoma, are amongst the most aggressive primary brain tumours, characterised by rapid progression and a poor prognosis. …”
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Efficiency and Safety of Prolonged Levosimendan Infusion in Patients with Acute Heart Failure by Georgios Aidonidis, Ioannis Kanonidis, Vasileios Koutsimanis, Till Neumann, Raimund Erbel, Georgios Sakadamis

“…Clinical parameters, BNP (Brain Natriuretic Peptide) and signal-averaged-ECG data (SAECG) were recorded up to 72 hours. …”
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Cognitive Feature Extraction of Puns Code-Switching Based on Neural Network Optimization Algorithm by Jing Zhang, Qiaoyun Liao, Lipei Li

“…It is generally believed that the human brain’s thinking is divided into three basic ways: abstract (logical) thinking, image (intuitive) thinking, and inspiration (awareness) thinking. …”
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Global trends of delayed graft function in kidney transplantation from 2013 to 2023: a bibliometric analysis by Zhiling Yao, Mingqian Kuang, Zhen Li

“…These emerging trends include ‘brain death donors’, ‘blood absence re-injection injuries’, ‘tacrolimus’, ‘older donors and recipients’, and ‘artificial intelligence and DGF’. …”
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Bilious Vomiting in the Newborn: A Three-Year Experience in a Tertiary Medical and Surgical Centre by Rebecca A Lee, Theodore Dassios, Ravindra Bhat, Anne Greenough

“…One infant was diagnosed with bilateral polymicrogyria (PMG) on brain MRI and another was found to have hypochondroplasia FGFR3 skeletal dysplasia. …”
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First line antiepileptics and their hidden risks - a unique case report on diffuse calvarial thickening and twisted tongue linked to the use of phenytoin and sodium valproate by Sankavi Kaarthic, Selvakumar CJ

“…Patient had gum hypertrophy and serum phenytoin level was elevated and CT brain showed diffuse calvarial thickening, the offending drug was stopped. …”
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Modern Imaging Methods in the Diagnosis of Neurodegenerative Diseases by Paulina Dorota Pietrukaniec, Bartosz Omasta, Katarzyna Kamińska-Omasta, Olga Krupa, Daria Rybak, Kuba Borys Romańczuk, Magdalena Agata Czerska, Szymon Przemysław Stolarczyk, Zofia Martyna Wójcik, Kinga Furtak

“…Early diagnosis and monitoring of disease progression are key to effective management of these conditions. Advanced brain imaging techniques, such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), positron emission tomography (PET), single photon emission tomography (SPECT) and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), play a key role in the diagnosis and monitoring of neurodegenerative diseases. …”
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Mixed-Effects Modeling of Neurofeedback Self-Regulation Performance: Moderators for Learning in Children with ADHD by Agnieszka Zuberer, Franziska Minder, Daniel Brandeis, Renate Drechsler

“…However, it is unclear to what extent children learn to regulate their brain activity and in what way NF learning may be affected by subject- and treatment-related factors. …”
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Fitting and comparison of calcium-calmodulin kinetic schemes to a common data set using non-linear mixed effects modelling. by Domas Linkevicius, Angus Chadwick, Guido C Faas, Melanie I Stefan, David C Sterratt

“…Calmodulin is a calcium binding protein that is essential in calcium signalling in the brain. There are many computational models of calcium-calmodulin binding that capture various calmodulin features. …”
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Interleukin-18 and CD30 serum levels in patients with moderate-severe depression by Rosaria Alba Merendino, Antonio Enrico Di Rosa, Giuseppe Di Pasquale, Paola Lucia Minciullo, Carmela Mangraviti, Antonella Costantino, Antonella Ruello, Sebastiano Gangemi

“…Interleukin-18 (IL-18), a pro-inflammatory cytokine that plays an important role in the T-cell-helper type 1 response, is a new member of the family of cytokines produced in the brain. CD30 is a marker of T-cell-helper type 2 lymphocytes. …”
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Consumption of a High-Fat Diet Alters Perineuronal Nets in the Prefrontal Cortex by P. M. Dingess, J. H. Harkness, M. Slaker, Z. Zhang, S. S. Wulff, B. A. Sorg, T. E. Brown

“…A key factor in the development of obesity is the overconsumption of fatty foods, which, in addition to facilitating weight gain, alters neuronal structures within brain reward circuitry. Our previous work demonstrates that sustained consumption of a high-fat diet (HFD) attenuates spine density in the prefrontal cortex (PFC). …”
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A Biopsychosocial Overview of Speech Disorders: Neuroanatomical, Genetic, and Environmental Insights by Diya Jaishankar, Tanvi Raghuram, Bhuvanesh Kumar Raju, Divyanka Swarna, Shriya Parekh, Narendra Chirmule, Vikramsingh Gujar

“…Advances in the understanding of intricate brain networks involved in language offer insights into typical speech development and the pathophysiology of speech disorders. …”
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Hypernatremia in patients with neurological conditions in critical state by David Wilfredo Suàrez Prieto, Mairen Pèrez Fuentes, Elaine Teresa Gutièrrez Pèrez

“…<p><strong>Background:</strong> sodium disorders are the most common and least understood in patients with acute brain injury due to the major role played by the central nervous system in regulating sodium and water homeostasis, which can lead to serious complications and adverse outcomes, including death.…”
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Determination of risk factors and patient profile in human hydatidosis by Ahmet Korul, Mustafa Köse, Sezgin Yılmaz

“…Cysts shoved the highest proportion in the liver (53%) and in the lungs (40.4%) and lowest in the brain (1.2%). Infection was exclusively concentrated between 50 and 59 (19.9%) year old patients and the lowest was in the 0-9 (2, 4%) age group. …”
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Asymptotic analysis of mathematical model describing a new treatment of breast cancer using AZD9496 and palbociclib by Ophir Nave, Ophir Nave

“…Cancer can start almost anywhere in the human body such as the breast, prostate, colorectal, brain, bones, lungs, bladder etc. The main differences between the different types of cancer are related to the organ in which the tumor develops and the type of cells that compose the tumor.MethodThis paper focused on the breast cancer. …”
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Vasopressin Bolus Protocol Compared to Desmopressin (DDAVP) for Managing Acute, Postoperative Central Diabetes Insipidus and Hypovolemic Shock by Anukrati Shukla, Syeda Alqadri, Ashley Ausmus, Robert Bell, Premkumar Nattanmai, Christopher R. Newey

“…Patient presented after bifrontal decompressive craniotomy for severe traumatic brain injury. He developed increased urine output resulting in hypovolemia and hypernatremia. …”
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Impact of Left Atrial Appendage Closure Combined with Catheter Ablation on Endocrine and Mechanical Cardiac Function in Patients with Atrial Fibrillation by Jing Yang, Ling You, Mingqing Liu, Guangming Zhang, Liang Feng, Yue Liu, Xue Geng, Jinglan Wu, Ruiqin Xie

“…During follow-up, patients were examined for brain natriuretic peptide (BNP) levels to represent endocrine cardiac function. …”
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Role of BDNF-mTORC1 Signaling Pathway in Female Depression by Xianquan An, Xiaoxiao Yao, Bingjin Li, Wei Yang, Ranji Cui, Guoqing Zhao, Yang Jin

“…Moreover, recent studies suggest that the brain-derived neurotrophic factor- (BDNF-) mammalian target of rapamycin complex-1 (mTORC1) signaling pathway is a crucial target pathway for improving depression and mediates the rapid antidepressant-like effects of various antidepressants. …”
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Gestational Age at Delivery Is an Independent Predictor of Neonatal Outcome for Maternal HELLP Syndrome by Yan Shi, Xiaoli Yang, Chengqin Wang, Luosong Zhuoga, Dongmei Xu

“…The results indicated that levels of neutrophil‐to‐lymphocyte ratio (NLR), serum creatinine (Scr), lactic dehydrogenase (LDH), and brain natriuretic peptide (BNP) were significantly elevated, while gestational age (GA) at delivery and alkaline phosphatase (AP) level was significantly decreased in the Death Group. …”
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Lymphomatoid Granulomatosis Treated Successfully with Rituximab in a Renal Transplant Patient by Cindy Castrale, Wael El Haggan, Françoise Chapon, Oumedaly Reman, Thierry Lobbedez, Jean Philippe Ryckelynck, Bruno Hurault de Ligny

“…Here, we describe LYG in a 70-year-old renal allograft recipient who, 4 years after transplantation, on tacrolimus and mycophenolate mofetil and prednisone maintenance immunosuppression, complained of low-grade fever, persistent headache and gait disturbance. The MRI of the brain revealed diffuse periventricular cerebral and cerebellar contrast-enhanced lesions. …”
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