Giorgio Battaglia

TL;DR: Investigating the spinal cord and cerebral motor cortex of ∆7 SMA mice during development found progressive post-natal loss of spinal motor neurons, and a higher vulnerability of motor neurons innervating proximal and axial muscles, suggesting that SMA pathogenesis is likely more complex than previously anticipated.

TL;DR: Data show that status epilepticus sets in motion a pathological process capable of significantly changing the cellular and molecular features of pre-existing experimental cortical malformations, and suggest that seizure recurrence in human focal cortical dysplasia might be an additional factor in establishing a pathological circuitry that favours chronic neuronal hyperexcitability.

TL;DR: The experience with a recently designed, monopolar, rotating, scissor‐shaped device (SB Knife) for Zenker's diverticulum (ZD) is reported.

TL;DR: Even in octogenarian patients--with limited comorbidities and fit for surgery--esophagectomy may be regarded as a valid treatment option, although this remains possible only in a small minority of 80-90-year old patients.

TL;DR: The electroclinical features of hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy when ulegyria is one of its main neuropathological features are characterized, and epilepsy was a prominent component and drug refractoriness was an almost constant correlate of this form of symptomatic epilepsy.