External ventricular drainage is a core neurosurgical procedure for the management of acute hydrocephalus and raised intracranial pressure, yet freehand catheter placement is associated with malposition rates. Image-guided techniques, including neuronavigation and intraoperative ultrasound, have been…
Abstract Background Neurofibromatosis type 2 (NF2) is a rare genetic disease that causes a wide range of disabilities leading to compromised quality of life (QOL). There is clear need for a validated disease-specific tool to assess quality of life among German-speaking patients with neurofibromatosis…
Abstract Background Most spontaneous subarachnoid hemorrhages (SAH) occur unexpectedly and independently of classical risk factors. In the light of increasing climate variability and change, we investigated weather and rapid weather changes as possible short-term risk factors for SAH. Methods Seven hundred…
Die Analyse von Proteinen, die im Zentralnervensystem (ZNS) essenziell an der Ausbildung neuronaler Netzwerke beteiligt sind, stellt das Fundament für das Verständnis von komplexem Verhalten, wie beispielsweise sozialer Interaktion, dar. Für die Familie der synaptischen Dynamin-assoziierten Proteine…