Vagus nerve stimulation… 25 years later! What do we know about the effects on cognition?

K Vonck, R Raedt, J Naulaerts, F De Vogelaere… - Neuroscience & …, 2014 - Elsevier
VNS therapy was delivered to patients for the first time in 1988. After 25 years, insight in the
antiepileptic and antidepressant mechanism of action of VNS has grown steadily. The effects …

Preoperative fMRI in tumour surgery

A Tieleman, K Deblaere, D Van Roost… - European …, 2009 - Springer
Minimally invasive resection of brain tumours aims at removing as much pathological tissue
as possible while preserving essential brain functions. Therefore, the precise spatial …

Deep brain stimulation in patients with refractory temporal lobe epilepsy

P Boon, K Vonck, V De Herdt, A Van Dycke… - …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose: This pilot study prospectively evaluated the efficacy of long‐term deep brain
stimulation (DBS) in medial temporal lobe (MTL) structures in patients with MTL epilepsy …

Real-time tracking of memory formation in the human rhinal cortex and hippocampus

G Fernández, A Effern, T Grunwald, N Pezer… - Science, 1999 - science.org
A fundamental question about human memory is which brain structures are involved, and
when, in transforming experiences into memories. This experiment sought to identify neural …

[PDF][PDF] The pathophysiology of motors symptoms in Parkinson's disease

P Santens, P Boon, D Van Roost… - Acta Neurologica …, 2003 - actaneurologica.be
This review focuses on some of the known and hypothetical pathophysiological mechanisms
underlying the motor symptoms in Parkinson's disease (PD). Current views on these …

Primary diffuse large B-cell lymphomas of the central nervous system are targeted by aberrant somatic hypermutation

M Montesinos-Rongen, D Van Roost, C Schaller… - Blood, 2004 - ashpublications.org
We have addressed whether aberrant ongoing hypermutation can be detected in the proto-
oncogenes PIM1, c-MYC, RhoH/TTF, PAX5, and the tumor-suppressor gene CD95 in …

[HTML][HTML] A prospective, multicenter study of cardiac-based seizure detection to activate vagus nerve stimulation

P Boon, K Vonck, K van Rijckevorsel, R El Tahry… - Seizure, 2015 - Elsevier
Purpose This study investigates the performance of a cardiac-based seizure detection
algorithm (CBSDA) that automatically triggers VNS (NCT01325623). Methods Thirty-one …

Primary central nervous system lymphomas are derived from germinal-center B cells and show a preferential usage of the V4–34 gene segment

M Montesinos-Rongen, R Küppers, D Schlüter… - The American journal of …, 1999 - Elsevier
Primary central nervous system lymphomas (PCNSLs) have recently received considerable
clinical attention due to their increasing incidence. To clarify the histogenetic origin of these …

Subdural and depth electrodes in the presurgical evaluation of epilepsy

E Behrens, J Zentner, D Van Roost, A Hufnagel… - Acta …, 1994 - Springer
From 1987 to 1992, invasive EEG studies using subdural strips, grids or depth electrodes
were performed in a total of 160 patients with medically intractable epilepsy, in whom scalp …

Ictal‐onset localization through connectivity analysis of intracranial EEG signals in patients with refractory epilepsy

P Van Mierlo, E Carrette, H Hallez, R Raedt… - …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose Fifteen percent to 25% of patients with refractory epilepsy require invasive video–
electroencephalography (EEG) monitoring (IVEM) to precisely delineate the ictal‐onset …