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| | Angioma Alliance |
 | | Cavernous malformations of the brainstem: experience with 100 patients. | | | Cavernous angiomas of the brainstem present particular problems to both the affected individual as well as the neurosurgeon. | | | The nerves that transverse the brainstem control basic, involuntary functions such as respiration, gag reflex, heartbeat regulation, body temperature, pain and heat sensation, and hiccupping as well as other voluntary functions including eye movement, swallowing, facial muscle control, walking, and speech. |
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http://www.angiomaalliance.org/brainstem.html
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| | eMedicine - Brainstem Gliomas : Article by Joseph Landolfi, DO |
| | Focal radiotherapy is the cornerstone of treatment of brainstem gliomas and can improve or stabilize the patient's condition. | | | Although no familial tendency is prominent overall, an increased incidence of brainstem glioma has been observed consistently in patients with neurofibromatosis (up to 14% in some reports). | | | Treatment of brainstem gliomas has been frustrating; at this point, new therapies have yielded little benefit over conventional treatment with radiotherapy alone. |
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http://www.emedicine.com/NEURO/topic40.htm
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| | brainstem - multiple sclerosis encyclopaedia |
| | The Brainstem is the lower part of the brain which is continuous with the spinal cord. | | | All the cranial nerves except the Olfactory Nerve and the Optic Nerve arise in the Brainstem. | | | In general, the brainstem deals with communications between the rest of the brain and the body and the more primitive (but still essential) functions such as the vasomotor, respiratory and cardiac systems. |
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http://www.mult-sclerosis.org/brainstem.html
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| | Brainstem Books |
| | Hausman, L. Atlases of the spinal cord and brainstem and the forebrain. | | | Desmedt, J. Clinical uses of cerebral, brainstem, and spinal somatosensory evoked potentials. | | | Hood, L. Clinical applications of the auditory brainstem response. |
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http://www.medlina.com/brainstem_books.htm
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| | Researchers Successfully Deliver Drugs to the Primate Brainstem: National Institute of Neurological Disorders and ... |
| | Now, an NIH study shows that researchers can effectively deliver drugs to the primate brainstem and monitor how the drugs spread inside the brain. | | | In the new study, researchers at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) used a technique called convection-enhanced delivery (CED), which was developed at the National Institutes of Health, to deliver a tracer molecule to the primate brainstem. | | | The researchers then used a needle to target and deliver Gd-albumin into the pontine region (pons) of the brainstem in three healthy adult monkeys. |
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http://www.ninds.nih.gov/news_and_events/press_releases/pressrelease_brainstem_ced_100302.htm
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| | Neurological Research: Surgical management of cavernous malformations of the brainstem |
| | The authors' experience on the surgical treatment of cavernous hemangiomas of the brainstem, indicating important aspects of intra-operative surgical techniques, is presented, including a clinical and anatomical correlation of different surgical approaches to brainstem cavernomas. | | | Keywords: Brainstem; cavernomas; cavernous malformations; radiosurgery; surgical resection | | | Neurological Research: Surgical management of cavernous malformations of the brainstem |
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http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3909/is_200201/ai_n9076834
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| | Dr. Koop - BAER - brainstem auditory evoked response |
| | Koop - BAER - brainstem auditory evoked response | | | The brainstem auditory evoked response (BAER) test measures responses in brain waves that are stimulated by a clicking sound to evaluate the central auditory pathways of the brainstem. | | | You are positioned on a reclining chair or bed and are asked to relax and remain still. |
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http://www.drkoop.com/ency/1/003926.html
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| | Interoceptive and integrative contributions of forebrain and brainstem to energy balance control |
| | The experiments reveal that the brainstem is indeed sufficient for the integration of taste and gastrointestinal signals that co-determine the size of meals in the short term. | | | We have used the chronic decerebrate preparation to ask whether the brainstem contains integrative substrates sufficient to mediate behavioral responses to variations in physiological state. | | | The data reviewed support a distributed anatomical model of energy balance and recommend increased attention to specific responses (behavioral, autonomic and endocrine) that are mediated by local (brainstem or forebrain) interoceptive and integrative processes, and those requiring bi-directional interactions. |
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http://www.nature.com/cgi-taf/DynaPage.taf?file=/ijo/journal/v25/n5s/abs/0801917a.html
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| | Neuroanatomical correlates of brainstem coma -- Parvizi and Damasio 126 (7): 1524 -- Brain |
| | Brainstem reticular nuclei that project to the thalamus in rats: a retrograde tracer study. | | | were used for the identification of brainstem nuclei and pathways. | | | The physiological involvement of the serotonergic and noradrenergic systems in modulating the global activity of cortex, and in supporting increased attentiveness and behavioural response to environmental stimuli, is well documented (Clark et al. |
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http://brain.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/126/7/1524
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| | INABIS '98 - Brainstem Auditory Evoked Potentials With Logon Stimuli. Frequency-Specific Study |
| | EGGERMONT, J., SCHMIDT, P. (1990) The auditory brainstem response. | | | LAUKLI, E. (1986) Frequency specificity of the auditory brainstem responses. | | | GORGA, M., KAMINSKI, J., BEAUCHAINE, K., SCHULTE, L. (1992) Auditory brainstem responses elicited by 1000 Hz tone bursts in patients with sensorineural hearing loss. |
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http://www.mcmaster.ca/inabis98/neuroscience/mata0857/six.html
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| | Brainstem |
| | Since the brainstem is the closest brain region to the spinal cord, it will have to deal with a lot of the basic information about life functions, like breathing, which occur in our bodies. | | | For example, all the motor neurons to our facial muscles have to lie somewhere-- they lie in nuclei within the brainstem. | | | But I prefer to start from the spinal cord and move up. |
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http://distance.stcc.edu/AandP/AP/AP1pages/nervssys/unit13/brainste2.htm
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| | The Brainstem |
| | The brainstem is the pathway for all fiber tracts passing up and down from peripheral nerves and spinal cord to the highest parts of the brain. | | | Most of the cranial nerves come from the brainstem. | | | Neurological functions located in the brainstem include those necessary for survival (breathing, digestion, heart rate, blood pressure) and for arousal (being awake and alert). |
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http://www.waiting.com/brainstem.html
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| | Amazon.ca: Books: Atlas of the Human Brainstem |
| | In the authors' preliminary work on the morphology of the human brainstem (The Human Nervous System, 1990), Paxinos et al demonstrated that it is possible to use chemoarchitecture to establish a number of human homologs in structures known to exist in the rat, the most extensively studied species. | | | Look for books like Atlas of the Human Brainstem by subject: | | | The synthesis is up-to-date, and in the same vein as his rat atlases is likely to find wide readership and usage." |
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http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/0125476159
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| | Organ: Brainstem - WrongDiagnosis.com |
| | Brainstem: Lower region of the brain responsible for various primal controls. | | | By using this site you agree to our Terms of Use. |
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http://www.wrongdiagnosis.com/organ/brainstem.htm
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| | FlockBots : Brainstem |
| | The Brainstem can be controlled in three basic ways: | | | Type 4 19 to save the changes to EEPROM | | | Several programs can be run at the same time on the Brainstem but the 1K limitation holds for each individual process. |
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http://cs.gmu.edu/~eclab/projects/robots/flockbots/pmwiki.php?n=Main.Brainstem
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| | BrainTalk Communities - Does brain MRI include the brainstem? |
| | MRIs are immediately examined by a radiologist to see what other views/signal types are needed in order to get a good picture of what's happening. | | | I can't make much sense of it, but can someone tell me if a brain MRI includes the brainstem? | | | The pattern of sensory disturbance may be helpful. |
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http://brain.hastypastry.net/forums/showthread.php?t=46168
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| | Spinal Cord/Brainstem Interactive Atlas |
| | A web based, interactive, anatomical atlas consisting of twenty-seven plates of transverse sections of the spinal cord and brainstem. | | | Section through the habenular commissure and mammillary bodies | | | Plate five through twenty-seven include an image of the brainstem, indicating the level the section was taken from. |
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http://lansing.bellarmine.edu/pt/atlas/cover.html
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| | Brainstem involvement late in course of MS |
| | Certain clusters of cell bodies in the brainstem control the muscles involved in these behaviors. | | | This is "pseudo-bulbar." We see this in diseases such as MS, strokes, and certain degenerative diseases. | | | Although brainstem involvement can be serious because there are so many functions there, it is not necessarily true that brainstem involvement represents advanced disease or a switch to a chronic progressive form. |
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http://www.medhelp.org/perl6/neuro/archive/7741.html
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| | [Brainlife] JALLO GI et al (2003) - Current Management of Brainstem Gliomas |
| | Brainstem gliomas have historically been one of the most difficult pediatric cancers to treat. | | | Tumors arising in the brainstem were once uniformly discounted as surgically unresectable lesions. | | | The authors review the current management of brainstem tumors and their experience with brainstem gliomas in a 5 year period. |
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http://www.brainlife.org/abstract/jallo_200308.htm
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| | Brainstem Auditory Evoked Response Test (BAER) |
| | This test focuses on changes and responses in brain waves that are stimulated by a clicking sound to evaluate the auditory pathways of the brainstem. | | | Brainstem Auditory Evoked Response (BAER) Test is also known as Auditory Brainstem Response; evoked auditory potentials; BAEP, brainstem auditory evoked potentials; evoked response audiometry. | | | The test is performed by placing the patient in a reclining chair or bed. |
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http://www.ccent.com/PHS/brain.html
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| | Cochlear, Middle Ear and Auditory Brainstem Implants and Bone-Anchored Hearing Aids: Hear-it |
| | It is only a reduced hearing sensation and not a full hearing sense, but it relieves the involved persons from total sound isolation and also makes it easier to lip-read. | | | An auditory brainstem implant (ABI) is a small device that is surgically implanted in the brain of a deaf person who is lacking the auditory nerves that lead the sound signals from the ear to the brain. | | | The auditory brainstem implant consists of a small electrode that is applied to the brainstem where it stimulates vital acoustic nerves by means of electrical signals. |
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http://www.hear-it.org/page.dsp?page=2022
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| | Important New Brainstem Finding in SIDS |
| | AB The brainstem and cervical spinal cord were sampled from 45 cases of | | | Baltimore, MD I think a note of caution is in order. | | | To test their hypothesis they analyzed brainstem tissues for the presence of Ach binding sites from 77 infants, including 45 SIDS cases, 14 infants who died acutely of known causes, and 18 infants who died of longer illnesses characterized by chronic or recurrent low blood oxygen levels (hypoxemia) (Science 1995;269:1446- 1450). |
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http://sids-network.org/experts/brainstem.htm
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| | AS105 - Auditory Brainstem Response (ABR) Testing |
| | Whenever a sound wave is detected by the ear, it triggers a number of neuro-physiological responses along the auditory pathway. | | | About a third of a second after initial stimulation, the signal evokes a response in the area of the brain where sounds are interpreted. | | | Middle responses occur 12 to 50 msec after stimulation |
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http://biopac.com/AppNotes/app105ABR/ABRTesting.htm
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| | New Scientist Breaking News - First brainstem implants aim to tackle deafness |
| | ABIs, on the other hand, tend to stimulate only a single channel. | | | Feeding auditory signals directly into the brainstem should work better, but because the brainstem carries signals from the entire body to the brain, any damage caused by an implant could be disastrous. | | | The procedure is far more risky than, say, placing implants in the cortex to try to restore some vision. |
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http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn4540
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| | Brainstem - Demonstration |
| | Call Brainstem at (877) 990-9881 and say "LumenVox" or "Demonstration". | | | Contact Brainstem at (877) 990-9881 or Sales@Brainstem.com for information. | | | This is a canned demonstration provided by LumenVox, if your company is looking for a custom application using voice recognition, let Brainstem know about your needs; we will then demonstrate your application through our system! |
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http://www.brainstem.com/demo.htm
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| | Cancer Spectrum: Medline Abstract |
| | Brainstem tumors in patients with neurofibromatosis type 1: a distinct clinical entity. | | | With a median follow-up of 52 months, 15 of 17 patients remain alive; 14 of them did not require adjuvant therapy. | | | Fifteen of 17 patients (88%) had neurologic signs and symptoms referable to brainstem dysfunction, including dysarthria, cranial neuropathies, and gross motor incoordination. |
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http://jncicancerspectrum.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/medline/pmid;7477989
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| | CHEST: Resolution of obstructive sleep apnea after microvascular brainstem decompression |
| | Lesions of the brainstem have been associated with obstructive sleep apnea in previous reports. | | | The patient was considered to be a good candidate for retromastoid craniectomy with microvascular decompression of the brainstem and lower cranial nerves. | | | Resolution of obstructive sleep apnea after microvascular brainstem decompression |
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http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0984/is_n2_v107/ai_16669179
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| | Brainstem Auditory Evoked Testing - Childrens Hospital San Diego |
| | This measurement is called a Brainstem Evoked Response (BER). | | | Audiologists are able to measure the speed and intensity of these pulses to determine if there is hearing loss or a lesion that is upsetting the flow of the sound information through the brainstem. | | | The clicks may become louder or softer, faster or slower, to see how the auditory responds to these different stimulus parameters. |
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http://www.chsd.org/1799.cfm
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| | Brainstem ocular motility defects and AIDS. |
| | Two patients had focal brainstem lesions as evidenced on neuroimaging. | | | Ocular motility manifestations of focal brainstem dysfunction were the initial clinical features in three patients with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection. | | | These included conjugate gaze palsy with ipsilateral facial paresis, bilateral abducens palsy and a gaze paresis, and homolateral internuclear ophthalmoplegia and abducens nerve paresis. |
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http://www.aegis.com/aidsline/1989/jan/M8910286.html
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| | Ontogeny and distribution of GABAA receptors in rat brainstem and rostral brain regions. |
| | Previous studies from our laboratory and others have shown that there are major age-related differences in brainstem neuronal function. | | | Using quantitative receptor autoradiography, the present study was performed to examine the postnatal expression of GABAA receptors in the rat brainstem and rostral brain areas at five ages, i.e. | | | Ontogeny and distribution of GABAA receptors in rat brainstem and rostral brain regions. |
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http://www.arclab.org/medlineupdates/abstract_1331860.html
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| | Nucleus® 24 ABI: Auditory Brainstem Implant* |
| | Comprehensive telemetry, including NRT™, which can measure the responsiveness of the auditory brainstem. | | | The electrical auditory information is then sent from the brainstem to the brain for interpretation. | | | This electrode array is placed on the surface of the cochlear nucleus in the brainstem, bypassing the inner ear and auditory nerve. |
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http://www.cochlear.com/373.asp
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| | Brainstem Glioma List |
| | The Brainstem mailing list is a group of brainstem glioma patients, parents, caregivers and medical professionals who exchange messages on the internet. | | | EVERYONE who has an interest in brainstem tumors, either as a patient or medical professional, should join. | | | Sign in and select the brainstem list, then follow the instructions on how to unsubscribe and set options! |
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http://www.virtualtrials.com/brnstem.cfm
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| | Brainstem lesion and symptoms |
| | While this can be injured by trauma or shearing injury, it would be unusual not to have other symptoms such as weakness, sensory or clumsiness. | | | The brainstem lesion was only diagnosed in 2002 via ENG and other functional tests. | | | It would be unusual for the symptoms to be caused by the accident in 1997 when they did not start until 2002 |
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http://www.medhelp.org/forums/Neuro/messages/33489.html
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| | Auditory Brainstem Implants - MC |
| | The electrode is connected to an external microphone and processor, which allows the patient to identify sound. | | | This brainstem electrode is placed next to the cochlear nuclei. | | | Auditory brainstem implants is not covered at this time, as it is considered experimental / investigative. |
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http://www.healthpartners.com:747/medicare/auditory_brainstem_implant_mc.html
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| | Invasive Tumor of the Brainstem - Medical Illustration |
| | This medical exhibit reveals cut-away comparative views of the brainstem and cerebellar region. | | | This image may only be used in support of a single legal proceeding and for no other purpose. | | | Invasive Tumor of the Brainstem - Medical Illustration |
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http://www.doereport.com/generateexhibit.php?ID=284&A=
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| | A Z Psychiatry |
| | Gillberg (1921) found that 5 of the 21 boys had prolonged brain stem transmission time on auditory brainstem response examination. |
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http://www.azpsychiatry.info/cap/asperger/aetiology.htm
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| | Brainstem |
| | The following symptoms may be experienced due to lesions in the brainstem: | | | Impairment of ocular motility– blurred and double vision, |
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http://www.rebif.net/international/branded/nurses/medical_information/symptoms/common_sites/brainstem.jsp
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| | News - FDA Releases Revolutionary Auditory Brainstem Implant |
| | Denver, CO (October 20, 2000) - Cochlear Corporation announced today that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the Nucleus 24 Multichannel Auditory Brainstem Implant (ABI) for use in patients suffering from Neurofibromatosis Type II (NF2), a genetic condition that affects one in 40,000 people in the United States. | | | Nucleus 24 Multichannel Auditory Brainstem Implant Now Available for Neurofibromatosis Type II Patients | | | For more information, visit the House Ear Institute's website at www.hei.org. |
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http://www.cochlear.com/spanish/About/342.asp
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| | Cerebellum -- Brainstem Removal Protocol |
| | In the coronal view, begin removal in the most anterior slice where brainstem can be observed. | | | A mask of the cerebellum will be created by subtracting the left and right hemisphere masks from the whole brain mask modifying the results to more exactly trace the cerebellum, and removing the brainstem. | | | Continue removal in coronal plane at each slice up to the point where cerebellar grey matter can be observed lateral to the pons. |
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http://www.loni.ucla.edu/~esowell/edevel/Cereb_BrainstemProtocol.html
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