The term neurovascular coupling denotes the relationship between neuronal activity and regional cerebral blood flow. A method that would enable analysis of neurovascular coupling in humans is still to be…

The article reviews cognitive impairment and mental disorders in Parkinson's disease, which often accompany movement disorders and contribute to patients disability. Specific clinical picture as well as pharmacological treatment of…

Quantitative sensory tests constitute an important complement to physical examination. Perception is evoked by modality-specific stimuli and sensory thresholds are examined by psychophysical methods. Sensory disturbances are defined in terms…

Sensory examination is a part of the routine neurologic examination. It depends on both the patient and the examiner. Conventional sensibility tests are neither quantitative nor selective with regard to…

The wealth of energies around us are detected by receptors transducing the physical stimuli in a train of nerve impulses. These are conducted to the perception centres in the CNS,…

Cerebral cortex and nuclei in the brain and brain stem trigger and control all human activities. Nerve centres in the central nervous system are directly or indirectly connected with peripheral…

Our activities are controlled by nerve tracts, i.e. groups of nerve fibres with the common origin, course and destination. Afferent nerve pathways conveying information to the central nervous system are…

We examined the firing characteristics of single motor units in response to noninvasive magnetic brain stimulation in 17 patients with stroke in order to assess differences in motor unit responses…

Mortality after severe craniocerebral trauma still ranges between 18 and 50 percent. The author describes the hypertensive and hypotensive syndromes occurring directly after severe brain injury. The task of emergency…

Mechanically induced peripheral nerve lesions are among the commonest neurological disorders. Pressure neuropathies (due to acute compression) differ form entrapment neuropathies (due to chronic constriction, repeated pressure or angulation) in…

Transcranial magnetic motor cortex stimulation (MS) was standardized by measuring the central motor latency (CML) of the abductor digiti minimi (AM) and tibialis anterior (TA) in 18 healthy subjects. Normal…

Neurological lesions and disorders manifest as nervous system hyper- or hypoactivity. This involves symptoms which are described by the patient in the history. On the basis of symp­toms - and…

Parkinson's disease is a slowly progressive, degenerative disorder of the substantia nigra of unknown etiology. The main pathomorphological finding in Parkinson's disease is the loss of dopaminergic neurons in the…

Pain is frequently one of the most dis­turbing symptoms of multiple sclerosis. It is caused by the disease process or its conse­quences, and may be one of the first symptorms…

Tests of cardiovascular reflexes and heart rate variability are reliable and noninvasive and therefore useful in children with suspected autonomic nerve dysfunction. The aim of this study was to calculate…

The purpose of the research was to determine the prevalence of migraine and recurrent headaches in students. Five hundred ninety-five students of University of Ljubljana and University of Maribor with…

Collateral sprouting of axons in the pe­ripheral nervous system is a branching out­growth of new axon terminals from non-injured axons into adjacent denervated regions of tar­get tissue. The initiation of…

Multiple sclerosis is a chronic autoim­mune demyelinating disease. In the article, the epidemiological situation in the world as well as the prevalence and incidence of multiple sclero­sis in our country…

The authors report on a 40-year-old female patient with pain, paresthesias and hypesthesias involving the distal parts of the lower extremities. Standard electromyography revealed no abnormalities, while the assessment of…

Assessment of spontaneous body movements of newborns from video recordings is a diagnostic method that has not yet been introduced in Slovenia. Spontaneous move­ments of neurologically damaged newborns have been…

Psychophysical tests, including ther­mometry and vibrametry, are used to assess sen­sory function of the specific sensory system. Since sensory tests measure subjective respons­es, and are therefore less objective, evaluation of…

The authors present the fundamen­tals and some recent data on the human visal pathway obtained by the new imaging tech­niques of the cerebral cortex and non-inva­sive electrophysiological and other methods.…

This article presents the Alzheimer's Disease Assessment Scale-Cognitive (ADAS-Cog) for the measurement of disease progression and the patient's response to drug treatment for Alzheimer's disease. Previous scales had only limited…

Clinical features of optic neuritis in adults differ from those in children, who often pre­sent with atypical clinical manifestations and results of some investigations. This makes the diagnosis of optic…