Neurological Disorders

This project aims at the development and validation of high-field in vivo MR spectroscopy as a tool for clinical differential diagnostics and treatment monitoring of different neurological pathologies such as tumors, multiple sclerosis, abscesses and genetic defects.

This project also supports studies performed in the MRI user lab. Former and ongoing physiological studies focus on neuronal plasticity and neuroregeneration in different neuropathology’s such as traumatic injuries and multiple sclerosis in the spinal cord or CADASIL and Mitochondrial zytopathies in the human brain as well as the neurobiological base of pain and sleep disorders such as migraine or narcolepsy.

To that recent developments regarding absolute quantification, 2D-resolved MRS, spectral editing, high-field MRSI along with functional 31P and 13C MRS are combined with other MR imaging modalities and additional clinical investigations.

Enlarged view: MRSI in CADASIL
MRSI in CADASIL: average spectra from short-echo medium-resolution MRSI and long-echo high-resolution TSI data indicate distinct metabolic adaptations to hypoperfusion in normal appearing white matter versus to microinfarctions in white matter hyperintensities (Akhvlediani T et al; J Neurol (EPUB) 2009).

Publications:

  • Akhvlediani T, Henning A, Sandor PS, Boesiger P, Jung H Adaptive metabolic changes in CADASIL white matter. J Neurol EPUB, 2009
  • Poryazova R, Schnepf B, Werth E, Khatami R, Dydak U, Meier D, Boesiger P, Bassetti CL. Evidence for metabolic hypothalamo-amygdala dysfunction in narcolepsy. Sleep 32(5), 607-613, 2009
  • Akhvlediani T, Sandor PS, Henning A, Schaller A, Jauslin M, Gallati S, Boesiger P, Jung HH Mitochondrial Encephalopathy with CADASIL-like MRI. Eur Neurol. 58(3), 185-188, 2007
  • Poryazova R, Schnepf B, Boesiger P, Bassetti CL. Magnetic resonance spectroscopy in a patient with Kleine-Levin syndrome. J Neurol 254(10), 1445-6, 2007
  • Dydak U, Mueller S, Sandor PS, Meier D, Boesiger P, Jung HH. Cerebral metabolic alterations in McLeod syndrome. Eur Neurol. 56, 17-23, 2006
  • Sandor PS, Dydak U, Schoenen J, Kollias S, Hess K, Boesiger P, Agosti RM MR-spectroscopic imaging during visual stimulation in subgroups of migraine with aura. Cephalalgia 25 (7), 507-518, 2005

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