Non-conscious processing of fear faces: a function of the implicit self-concept of anxiety.

Background: Trait anxiety refers to a stable tendency to experience fears and worries across many situations. High trait anxiety is a vulnerability factor for the development of psychopathologies. Self-reported trait anxiety appears to be associated with an automatic processing advantage for threat-related information.

Nimodipine vs. Milrinone - Equal or Complementary Use? A Retrospective Analysis.

Background: Cerebral vasospasm (CVS) continues to account for high morbidity and mortality in patients surviving the initial aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH). Nimodipine is the only drug known to reduce delayed cerebral ischemia (DCI), but it is believed not to affect large vessel CVS. Milrinone has emerged as a promising option.

Coping With Anxiety: Brain Structural Correlates of Vigilance and Cognitive Avoidance.

Background: Individuals differ in their dispositional coping behavior when they are confronted with anxiety-provoking situations. Cognitive avoidance is characterized by a withdrawal from threatening information, whereas vigilance denotes the intensive search for threat-related information. Functional neuroimaging studies indicate alterations in brain responsivity to emotional stimuli as a function of cognitive avoidant and vigilant coping, but findings are partially discrepant.

Standardized Classification of Cerebral Vasospasm after Subarachnoid Hemorrhage by Digital Subtraction Angiography.

Background: During the last decade, cerebral vasospasm after aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) was a current research focus without a standardized classification in digital subtraction angiography (DSA). This study was performed to investigate a device-independent visual cerebral vasospasm classification for endovascular treatment.

Methods: The analyses are DSA based rather than multimodal.

Single-Center Experience With the Bare p48MW Low-Profile Flow Diverter and Its Hydrophilically Covered Version for Treatment of Bifurcation Aneurysms in Distal Segments of the Anterior and Posterior Circulation.

Flow diversion has profoundly changed the way aneurysms are treated. However, it conventionally requires dual antiplatelet medication and has yet been considered off-label use in the posterior circulation or within peripheral vessels of the anterior circulation. Here, we report our experience with the p48MW/p48MW hydrophilic coating (HPC) in the anterior and posterior circulation.

Evaluation of the interrater and intermethod agreement of the German multiparametric ultrasound criteria for the grading of internal carotid artery stenosis.

Purpose: The interdisciplinary German guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of internal carotid artery stenosis (ICAS) recommend a multiparametric approach for the sonographic grading of extracranial ICAS. The aim of this study is to evaluate the interrater and intermethod agreement of this elaborated sonographic approach with different angiographic modalities.

Methods: Patients with extracranial ICAS were examined twice with colour-coded duplex sonography (CDS) by two experienced vascular neurologists.

Flow diversion in challenging vascular anatomies: the use of low profile stent retrievers for safe and accurate positioning of the microcatheter.

Background: Hemodynamic therapy with Flow-Diverters has become a fundamental option for treatment of cerebral aneurysms. A major obstacle of Flow-Diverters is the comparatively stiff microcatheter required for implantation. Consequentially, maneuverability is limited and primary catheterization of peripheral targets may be difficult or even futile in challenging vascular anatomies.

Comparison of PI-RADS v1 and v2 for multiparametric MRI detection of prostate cancer with whole-mount histological workup as reference standard.

Purpose: The aim of this study was to compare Prostate Imaging Reporting and Data System (PI-RADS) versions v1 and v2 for the detection of prostate cancer (PCa) in multiparametric MRI (mpMRI) using whole-mount histological workup as reference standard.

Material And Methods: MRI data of 40 patients with positive transrectal ultrasound-guided biopsy were analyzed retrospectively by two blinded readers (5 and 4 years' experience) with PI-RADS v1 and v2 for cancer-suspicious lesions. Prior to radical prostatectomy, patients had undergone IRB-approved mpMRI at 3 T according to PI-RADS recommendations: T2-weighted (T2w), diffusion-weighted (DWI) and dynamic contrast-enhanced (DCE) imaging.