MRI has become central to the diagnosis of multiple sclerosis, a complex disease of the central nervous system that affects over 400,000 people in Europe. Around 90% of all MS diagnoses are now based on MRI findings, owing to the modality’s high sensitivity to inflammation and demyelinating plaques. More »

Cancer patients sometimes develop neurologic complications directly caused by their cancers. Sometimes, however, these disorders are due not to the growth of a cancer tumor but to cancer-fighting antibodies that mistakenly attack cells in the nervous system. PET/CT may help physicians tell the... More »

Endobronchial schwannomas are rare and often benign neoplasms that develop from the nerve sheath of the peripheral nervous system. More »

Lymphoblastic lymphoma (LBL) is a rare disease, comprising about 2% of all non-Hodgkin lymphomas (NHLs) in adults.[1] It is a highly aggressive subtype of lymphoma, most commonly of precursor T-cell origin, occurring most frequently in adolescents and young adults, with male predominance and... More »

Multiple sclerosis is an inflammatory autoimmune disease of the central nervous system. It is characterized by pathological changes that include inflammation, demyelination, and axonal injury. More »

We evaluated a cohort of persons with late-stage HIV infection currently enrolled in a longitudinal tracking study to determine whether coinfection with hepatitis C virus (HCV) is associated with a greater prevalence and/or severity of HIV-associated cognitive-motor complex and distal predominantly... More »

Radioimmunotherapy (RIT) with a radiolabeled monoclonal antibody 131I-8H9, delivered intrathecally, appears to have clinical utility when added to salvage therapy for patients with metastatic cancer to the central nervous system (CNS), according to a phase I study reported at the 2007 American... More »

Playing off the continuously moving table built into TimCT, Siemens Medical Solutions proclaimed “Tim (Siemens’ total image matrix) is on the move” at the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine meeting in Berlin. The company is featuring clinical results from its seven luminary... More »

TAIPEI, Taiwan -- Enterovirus 71 infection in children associated with central nervous system involvement, and especially cardiopulmonary failure, may stall neurodevelopment and cognitive function, researchers here reported. More »

TAIPEI, Taiwan -- Enterovirus 71 infection in children associated with central nervous system involvement, and especially cardiopulmonary failure, may stall neurodevelopment and cognitive function, researchers here reported. More »