Frontiers

Expanding the spectrum of white matter abnormalities in Wolfram syndrome: a retrospective review

Background and objectives: Wolfram syndrome (WFS) is a genetic disorder mainly caused by pathogenic variants in the WFS1 gene. It is characterized clinically by optic atrophy (OA), diabetes mellitus ...
Indiatimes

Understanding Guillain-Barré syndrome: Causes and symptoms of this rare nerve disorder

Guillain-Barré Syndrome, or GBS, is a rare neurological condition. The body's immune system mistakenly attacks its own nerves. This can lead to rapid muscle weakness and paralysis. Early symptoms ...
Medical Xpress

MRI-based evaluation system accurately quantifies paraspinal muscle atrophy and nerve root injury severity

A noninvasive MRI technique that measures volumetric changes in paraspinal muscles could transform how doctors assess nerve damage in the cervical spine, which helps guide more precise treatment ...
BioSpace

Stoke Therapeutics Presents Two-Year Natural History Data from Patients with Autosomal Dominant Optic Atrophy (ADOA)

– Data provide insights that informed the Phase 1 study of STK-002 as a potential disease-modifying medicine for ADOA, including disease etiology, progression and clinical assessments – – ADOA is a ...
IEEE

Bicubic Interpolation and Gradient-based Edge Detection with Skeletonization Segmentation (Bicubic-GES) on MR Optic Nerve Images for Examining NMOSD

Abstract: The post-processing of optic nerve Magnetic Resonance (MR) images is very challenging due to their small size and the surrounding cerebrospinal fluid (CSF). This study proposed a new ...