J.Neurol.Sci.Turk.AUGUST / AGUSTOS

 2008

ISSUE / SAYI #128

Editor 

Prof. Nezih OKTAR MD

Official Monthly Newsletter of the 

Journal of Neurological Sciences [Turkish]

 

 

 

 

195.gif (847 bytes) From the editor

 

Journal of Neurological Sciences [Turkish]  is now covered by SCIe(Web of Science) & Neuroscience Citation Index

Dear Colleagues and readers,

It is my privilege to inform you that our official electronical peer-reviewed scientific journal "Jouırnal of Neurological Sciences - Turkish" has been accepted for indexing at Science Citation Index Expanded (Web of Science) and Neuroscience Citation Index. This has been achieved by sending your manuscripts and the tremendous efforts of previous editors and national and international editorial board members and referees since 1984. Many thanks to your support. Our new goal is to improve the scientific quality of our journal especially in the neurosciences arena. Since we have already started to receive many international manuscripts from all over the World, we kindly request from our referees to provide their comments in the English language in a precise and timely manner. I want to thank to all those who have contributed to our journal on behalf of the editorial board and kindly request your ongoing support for Turkish Neuroscience.

Sincerely yours,

Prof. Nezih Oktar M.D.

editor@jns.dergisi.org 

 

References

1.ISI Web of Science http://isiknowledge.com 

2. Thomson Reuters http://scientific.thomsonreuters.com/products/wos/ 

3. Science Citation Index Expanded http://www.thomsonscientific.com/cgi-bin/jrnlst/jlresults.cgi?PC=D 

4. Current Contents Connect http://scientific.thomsonreuters.com/products/ccc/  

Prof. Nezih Oktar MD

editor@jns.dergisi.org 

 

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Nörolojik Bilimler Dergisi şimdi SCIe(Web of Science) ve Neuroscience Citation Index kapsamında

Sevgili okurlar ve meslektaşlarım,

Büyük bir onurla belirtmeliyim ki resmi yayın organımız olan, hakemli ve bilimsel elektronik dergimiz "Nörolojik Bilimler Dergisi" Science Citation Index Expanded (Web of Science) ve Neuroscience Citation Index kapsamına alınmaya kabul edilmiştir. Yayın hayatımıza atıldığımız tarih olan 1984 yılından beri görev yapmış editör ve yayın kurulu üyelerinin, ulusal ve uluslararası hakemlerin, dergiye yazı gönderen yazarların müthiş gayretleri ile ulaşılan bu başarıdan dolayı ve desteklerinize teşekkür ederim. Yeni hedefimiz dergimizin özellikle sinirbilim arenasında, bilimsel kalitesini arttırmaya yönelik olacaktır. Zaten Dünya'nın hemen her tarafından çok sayıda uluslararası makaleleri almaya başlamıştık. Hakemlerimizden ricamız raporlarını zamanında ve İngilizce olarak göndermeleri olacaktır. Editöryal kurul adına dergiye emeği geçen herkese teşekkür ediyor ve Türk Sinir Bilimlerine mevcut olan desteğinizin artarak sürmesini diliyorum.

En iyi dileklerimle,

Prof. Dr. Nezih Oktar 

editor@jns.dergisi.org 

 

Kaynaklar

References

1.ISI Web of Science http://isiknowledge.com 

2. Thomson Reuters http://scientific.thomsonreuters.com/products/wos/ 

3. Science Citation Index Expanded http://www.thomsonscientific.com/cgi-bin/jrnlst/jlresults.cgi?PC=D 

4. Current Contents Connect http://scientific.thomsonreuters.com/products/ccc/  

 

 

 

 

 

Prof. Dr. Nezih Oktar 

editor@jns.dergisi.org 

From "J Neurol Sci [Turk]" editorial 

 

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A SLICE FOR SCIENCE

 

 

BiLiM iÇiN BiR DiLiM

Jennifer Couzin
Science 4 July 2008: 31-33.
After years of neglect, a devastating effect of epilepsy, sudden death, is drawing new scrutiny.

After years of neglect, a devastating effect of epilepsy, sudden death, is drawing new scrutiny

SUDEP

Figure 1
CREDIT: K. SUTLIFFE/SCIENCE
The call came on a Thursday, 21 February 2002, while Jeanne Donalty sat at her desk at work. Her son Chris, a 21-year-old senior at a Florida college, had stopped breathing. His girlfriend found him on his bed, surrounded by the books he'd been studying and a summer job application. Paramedics were unable to revive him, and just like that, Chris Donalty was gone.

Chris Donalty had had epilepsy--he suffered his first seizure in school when he was 9 years old--but his mother at first saw no clear line connecting his death and the disease for which he was being treated. An autopsy found no visible cause of death, and it was shortly after that that Jeanne Donalty discovered a term she had never heard before: SUDEP.

Sudden unexpected death in epilepsy, SUDEP was first written up in The Lancet in 1868 by a British physician; he described the phenomenon as "sudden death in a fit." Neurologists today are familiar with SUDEP, which is thought to follow a seizure, and most specialists have lost patients in this way. "Four or five times a year, someone will not come to my clinic because they have a SUDEP death," says Mark Richardson, a neurologist at King's College London. Most victims, like Chris Donalty, are in their 20s or 30s.

SUDEP has been little studied and is rarely discussed in the medical and scientific communities. Families often learn of it only after a relative's death. In the United Kingdom, which is well ahead of the United States in tracking SUDEP, it's estimated that SUDEP strikes at least 500 people a year. It's thought to explain between 8% and 17% of deaths in people with epilepsy. Among those with frequent seizures, the number may be as high as 40%. This increased risk, recognized only recently, underscores that SUDEP is more likely to occur if seizures are more frequent or treatment is inadequate.

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BRAIN TRAFFIC

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The "connectome" of the human cortex has been produced by an international team of brain scientists and imagers led by Patric Hagmann of the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. Specialized regions of the neocortex are linked by a dense network of neural pathways, with several distinct nodes, like airline hubs, the researchers reported last week in PLoS Biology. The data were based on imaging brains of five male volunteers.

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severe stenosis circumflex artery

Investigating severe interscapular pain

This Practice article is by cardiologist Gareth Morgan-Hughes, and radiologists Ali A Haydar and Carl Roobottom. It explores the radiological investigations for identifying the cause of severe interscapular pain, focusing on how to exclude acute myocardial infarction, aortic dissection, and pulmonary embolism. The arrow indicates severe stenosis in the circumflex artery.

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Comment

Is sun exposure a major cause of melanoma?

Every summer we are reminded about the dangers of the sun. Scott Menzies, associate professor at Sydney University's Melanoma Diagnostic Centre, argues that the risks of malignant melanoma are real. But Sam Shuster, consultant dermatologist at Norfolk and Norwich Hospital, is unconvinced.

 

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    THE MASTER'S TOUCH

    Fingerprints on a painting from the studio of Leonardo da Vinci show the touch of the master himself--and confirm that the artist had Arab ancestors, Italian researchers say.

     

    Figure 1 La Madone de Laroque, painting by artist in Leonardo's atelier. (Inset) Fingerprint.

    CREDIT: AFP/GETTY IMAGES; MUSEO IDEALE
    A team led by Luigi Capasso, an anthropologist at the Museum of Biomedical Sciences in Chieti, Italy, is using infrared light to study prints on The Martyrdom of Saint Catherine and La Madone de Laroque--paintings attributed to members of Leonardo's atelier in Amboise, France. The artist often used his fingers in place of brushes, diluting colors with saliva. But experts couldn't tell whether any of the fingerprints on the paintings were his.

    The researchers have now matched one of the prints to a fingerprint on Lady with an Ermine, known to be by Leonardo. Some scholars say Leonardo's mother was an Arab slave, and Capasso and colleagues at the Museo Ideale in Vinci says their research confirms the artist's Middle Eastern origins. The print, from his left index finger, has a Y-shaped pattern shared by 60% of Middle Easterners, says Emiliano Carnieri, a paleontologist at the University of Palermo in Italy. Fingerprints, like blood group or skin color, can help determine a person's ancestral origins, Carnieri says.

    Alessandro Vezzosi, director of the Museo Ideale, calls the research "extraordinary and very important" in casting light on techniques of Leonardo and his followers.

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    IN BRIEF

    James Briscoe of the United Kingdom's National Institute for Medical Research has been awarded the European Molecular Biology Organization's Gold Medal for his research on the molecular basis of neuronal development in the spinal cord.

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    195.gif (847 bytes)TRANSSEXUALITY GENE

    A gene variant has been identified that appears to be associated with female-to-male transsexuality – the feeling some women have that they belong to the opposite sex.
     
    While such complex behaviour is likely the result of multiple genes, environmental and cultural factors, the researchers say the discovery suggests that transsexuality does have a genetic component.
     
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    LAST CHANCE TO SEE

    Image from East to West exhibition

    ART AND THE MAN
    Until 3 August 2008, admission free

    Early paintings of Sumatran scenes and wildlife, and royal Malay letters with fine Islamic illumination drawn from the Raffles Family Collection form this small display.
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    FROM EAST TO WEST: TRADITIONAL ASIAN AND CONTEMPORARY EUROPEAN PRINTING
    Until 17 August, admission free

    This exhibition draws on the Library's collections of fine printing from East Asia, including coloured woodblock illustration developed in 18th century Japan, and the continuing tradition reflected in works by European artists.
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    195.gif (847 bytes)Cutaneous fields of peripheral nerves

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    2008  

     

    August

     Recent Trends in Diabetes, Obesity, and Metabolic Syndrome: A conference by JAMA and the National University Health System of Singapore  August 1-2, 2008 University Cultural Centre on the NUS campus / Singapore Contact: http://www.jama-nus.com/ 

    usa.gif (1070 bytes) The Summer Institute on Neurodevelopmental Disorders  August 7-8, 2008 Sacramento / CA / USA Contact: Continuing Medical Education Office, 3560 Business Drive, Suite 130, Sacramento, CA 95820 E-mail: cmereg@ucdavis.edu 

      Neuropathic pain: NeuPSIG August 13-15, 2008 Royal Society of Medicine / London / England / UK Website: http://www.kenes.com/neuropathic2008/  

      12th World Congress on Pain   August 17-22, 2008 SECC / Glasgow / Scotland/ UK Website: http://www.iasp-pain.org/AM/=1843 

      XXIInd International Conference of the European Society for Philosophy of Medicine and Healthcare August 20-23, 2008 Tartu / Estonia / The Netherlands Email:  b.gordijn@efg.umcn.nl  Website:  http://www.umcn.nl/efg

      12th Congress of the European Federation of Neurological Societies: EFNS 2008   August 23-26, 2008 Madrid / Spain E-mail: headoffice@efns.org  WEB-SITE: http://efns2008.efns.org/ 

      Clinical Trials: ICH GCP meeting   August 27-28, 2008 Kiev / Ukraine E-mail: dr@nbscience.com  WEB-SITE: http://www.nbscience.com/  

      40º Congreso Argentino de Neurocirugia   August 27-28, 2008 Hotel Park Hyatt / Mendoza / Argentina E-mail: neurocirugia@aanc.org.ar  - secretaria@aanc.org.ar 

     

    September

      Stem cell Europe   September 1-3, 2008  Amsterdam / Netherlands WEB SITE: http://www.selectbiosciences.com/conferences/SCE2008/ 

    tur.gif (589 bytes) 10th International Conference on Cognitive Neuroscience : ICON 2008 September 1-5, 2008 Azka Hotel / Bodrum / Mugla / Turkey  Contact: http://www.iconxbodrum.org/ 

      5th Congress of the Croatian Neurosurgical Society and the Joint Meeting with the Congress of Neurological Surgeons   September 2-5, 2008  Hotel Excelsior / Dubrovnik / Croatia WEB SITE: www.studiohrg.hr/neurosurgery2008 

    tur.gif (589 bytes) 15th Turkish Psychology Congress September 3-5, 2008 Istanbul University / Istanbul / Turkey  Contact: http://www.psikolojikongresi.org 

    tur.gif (589 bytes) 9th International Conference on Xenon-CT  : XeCT 2008: A Multidisciplinary approach to Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism September 3-6, 2008 Pine Bay Hotel / Kusadasi / Aydin / Turkey  Contact: http://www.xect2008.org 

      6th International Congress on Autoimmunity September 3-7, 2008 Centro de Congressos e Exposições / Porto / Portugal Email:  autoimmunity@kenes.com  Website:  http://www.kenes.com/autoimmunity/

    usa.gif (1070 bytes) Sixth International Congress on
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      DePuy Spine: Instructional course: Lumbar degenerative spine   September 4-5, 2008  Barcelona / Spain Email: DePuySpine@dpygb.jnj.com  

    usa.gif (1070 bytes) Minimally invasive endoscopic surgery of the cranial base and pituitary fossa 2008: Course  September 4-6, 2008 University of Pittsburgh Medical Center / Pittsburg / Pennsylvania / USA Contact: http://www.neurosurgery.pitt.edu/training/endoscopic_course.html 

      EANO VIII : European Association for NeuroOncology Congress September 4-11, 2008  Barcelona / Spain WEB-SITE:: http://www.eano.de

     9th Annual Interventional Neuroradiology Symposium September 5-6, 2008 Toronto / ON / Canada  Contact: Office of Continuing Education & Professional Development E-mail: help-MIM0804@cmetoronto.ca 

      14th World Congress of Psychophysiology September 8-13, 2008  St. Petersburg / Russia WEB-SITE: http://www.world-psychophysiology.org/iop2008/ 

     ExpoMedical 2008 September 11-13, 2008 Buenos Aires / Argentina  WEB-SITE: http://www.expomedical.com.ar 

     5th International Skull Base Congress of the World Federation of Skull Base Societies & the 19th Annual Meeting of the North American Skull Base Society September 11-14, 2008 Hyatt Regencey / Vancouver / Canada  

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      DePuy Spine: Instructional course: Cervical spine   September 18-19, 2008  Barcelona / Spain Email: DePuySpine@dpygb.jnj.com  

    usa.gif (1070 bytes) Seventh Annual International Neuro-Oncology Updates; The John Hopkins Medicine  September 18-19, 2008 Baltimore Marriott Waterfront Hotel / Baltimore / Maryland /  USA Online: http://www.HopkinsCME.edu  Email: cmenet@jhmi.edu  

     5th Meeting of the Central European Neurosurgical Society September 18-20, 2008 Conference Center / Penta Renaissance Hotel / Vienna / Austria  For further information: http://www.cens2008.com/ 

     ESNR XXXIII and 17th advanced course: ESNR Congress September 18-21, 2008 Cracow / Poland  For further information: Prof. Marek Sasiadek mareks@rad.am.wroc.pl Web: http://www.esnr.org 

     5th Atlantic Canada Stroke Conference September 19-20, 2008 Halifax / NS / Canada  Email: cme@dal.ca 

    usa.gif (1070 bytes) 2008 Annual Meeting of Congress of Neurological Surgeons  September 20-24, 2008 Orlando / Florida / USA Contact: http://www.cns.org 

    usa.gif (1070 bytes) 133rd Annual Meeting American Neurological Association  September 21-24, 2008 Salt Lake City / UT / USA Contact: American Neurological Association, 5841 Cedar Lake Road Suite 204, Minneapolis, MN 55416 E-mail(s): Julieratzloff@llmsi.com  / ana@llmsi.com 

      U.S. FDA Drug Develepment and Compliance :CfPA training course September 22-24, 2008 Amsterdam / The Netherlands Web: http://www.cfpa.com  

    tur.gif (589 bytes) Endoscopic pituitary surgery : Workshop on cadavers & live surgery  September 22-24, 2008 Departments of Anatomy & Neurosurgery / Istanbul University / Istanbul / Turkey  Contact: nurperi@istanbul.edu.tr 

     AnalyticaChina 2008  September 23-25, 2008  Shangai / China Web: http://www.analytica-world.com 

     6th World Stroke Congress  September 24-27, 2008 Vienna / Austria / EU E-mail: stroke2008@kenes.com WEB-SITE: http://www.kenes.com/stroke2008/ 

     4th European Cerebral Revascularization Course: Hands On Microsurgical and Endovascular Training  September 24-27, 2008 Inselspital Bern / University of Bern / Switzerland Contact: cornelia.kost-fuchs@aesculap-akademie.ch ;
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      IFCC-WorldLab Fortaleza 2008   September 28- October 2, 2008 Fortaleza / Brazil Contact: http://www.fortaleza2008.org 

      Good Laboratory Practices :CfPA training course September 29- October 1, 2008 Amsterdam / The Netherlands Web: http://www.cfpa.com   

      XX Simposio de Medicina Familiar   September 28- October 4, 2008 Hotel Pipo Internacional / Maracay Edo / Aragua / Venezuela Web: http://www.sovemefa.net.ve/eventos/  http://hum-molgen.org/meetings/meetings/3597.html 

         

    October

      Le 13ème Cours Francophone de Neurochirurgie   October 1-2, 2008 Iassy / Romania For more information please contact: Prof. A.V. Ciurea, MD.e-mail: rsn@bagdasar-arseni.ro  or F. Gramada, MD. e-mail: floringramada@yahoo.com 

      Romanian Conference of Neurosurgery
    with international participation       October 3-4, 2008 Iassy / Romania WEB-SITE: www.rsn.ro 

      ESMRMB 2008: 25th Annual Meeting, European Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine and Biology   October 2-4, 2008 Valencia / Spain E-mail: office@esmrmb.org  WEB: http://www.esmrmb.org 

      DePuy Spine: Instructional course: Osteotomies and reconstructive surgery tecniques in the thoracolumbar spine   October 3, 2008  Barcelona / Spain Email: DePuySpine@dpygb.jnj.com  

     The Seventh North American Conference on Shaken Baby Syndrome (Abusive Head Trauma)  October 5-8, 2008 Vancouver / BC / Canada Contact: mail@dontshake.org 

     ESCMID / FEMS Conference October 5-8, 2008 Villars-sur-Olion / Switzerland  Email: info@escmid.org Web: http://www.escmid.org 

     World Vaccine Congress Lyon 2008  October 6, 2008 Palais des Congres / Lyon / France  Web: http://hum-molgen.org/meetings/meetings/3580.html 

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     Conference on Chemical Biology  October 8-11, 2008 EMBL / Heidelberg / Germany  Web: http://hum-molgen.org/meetings/meetings/3598.html 

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    tur.gif (589 bytes) Ninth NOBIVA Symposium October 10-12, 2008 Osman Turan Congress Center / Trabzon / Turkey  WEB-SITE: http://www.nobiva2008.com/ 

     World Rett Syndrome Congress