Currently we do not yet know the populational burden of work-related and occupational neurological diseases. There is, however, scientific evidence for correlations between chemical, biological, and physical agents at workplace…

Disorders of peripheral nerves are usually diagnosed by neurological examination and electrodiagnostic methods. However, we can investigate peripheral nerves also by imaging methods, particularly by ultrasonography. During ultrasonographic examination we…

Facial palsy causes substantive disfiguration and functional deficit of the affected side of the face. Treatment of facial palsy differs and depends on the underlying cause. When facial palsy is…

In the article we provide an overview of paediatric autonomic dysfunctions. In children, autonomic disorders are often overlooked since they can range from mild, not even by health care specialist…

Providing health care to youth requires special attention to their developmental needs and characteristics. This applies especially to those who are chronically ill and find themselves on the verge of…

Crossed aphasia results from a lesion in a non-dominant, right cerebral hemisphere. This kind of neurological damage is rare and raises a number of issues in relation to the distribution…

Glasgow coma scale was first defined in 1974. It was designed as a unified scoring system for assessing a patient’s conscious state. During the four decades of use, several versions…

The autonomic nervous system plays an important role in various pathological situations such as myocardial infarction, congestive heart failure or diabetic neuropathy and is strongly implicated in the pathogenesis of…

Parkinson's disease is traditionally regarded as a movement disorder caused by the loss of dopaminergic neurons in the nigrostriatal system. However, we are becoming more and more aware that pathology…

Cerebral venous thrombosis is a rare but serious neurologic disorder manifested clinically with headache, focal neurological deficits, seizures, impairment of consciousness and papilledema. Causes and predisposing factors include local conditions…

The interpretation of the electroencephalographic signal is often limited to the assumption  that the electrode placed directly above the source of the signal detects the largest potential, whereas more distant…

Conus medullaris syndrome and cauda equina syndrome are relatively rare, yet serious health conditions. They are caused by compression of neural structures in the lumbar spinal canal. They are most…

The causes of ischemic stroke in young people are numerous and diverse. Younger patients require a much more in-depth and comprehensive diagnostic evaluation compared with the older ones. It is…

The basal ganglia are a cortico-subcortical neural network in the midbrain and the forebrain. The main components are the nuclei associated with the striatum, globus pallidus, substantia nigra and the…

Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease. It belongs to a group of diseases called tauopathies, for which abnormal tau protein aggregation in the brain is the hallmark…

Histamine receptor type 3 was discovered in 1983 by Schwartz and coworkers and cloned in 1999. The expression of histamine receptor type 3 is largely confined to the central nervous…

Stroke is the primary cause of morbidity and disability throughout the world, mainly because of its effect on cognitive functions. After stroke, individuals can recover from physical disability, but might…

Over the past few years, several studies have shown that elastic properties of arteries independently correlate with the risk of various cardiovascular and cerebrovascular conditions. Furthermore, increased stiffness of the arterial…

The etiology and pathophysiology of spontaneous cervical artery dissection are largely unknown. Its etiology is likely multifactorial, and primary arteriopathy is most probably involved. An association with migraine has also…

Brain tumors are a significant public health problem and present several imaging challenges. Neuroimaging plays an integral role in intracranial tumor management, but it is no longer limited to providing…

Meralgia paresthetica is a relatively frequent entrapment neuropathy. It is usually caused by damage to the lateral femoral cutaneous nerve as it passes under the inguinal ligament to enter the…

Approximately 2,500 children in Slovenia have epilepsy. Epilepsy is diagnosed when unprovoked seizures recur. The etiologies and natural courses of epilepsies are variable. Prognostically, epilepsies are divided into four major groups (benign,…

The author emphasizes the most frequently used clinical and functional contemporary approaches in diagnostics of neonatal seizures and presents all four newborn epilepsies which can already occur also in during this period.…

Postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS) is a disorder of the autonomic nervous system. The pathology is characterised by adrenergic and cardiovagal nerve fibre dysfunction, combined with central abnormality of autonomic…