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Diagnosis is increasingly technological photographed “digital footprint” of headaches

When technology not only lends a hand, but can represent a breakthrough in the treatment of diseases. The change concerns the migraine with aura. What is it? The symptoms manifest themselves with a little discomfort to the view that this is sometimes blurred and is accompanied by bright sparkles bearing difficulties and disturbance to the person. In Italy there are over nine million people suffer from migraine with aura and the number is certainly not irrelevant, it does indeed fully understand the scope of a disease with which reckons a wide community of patients. From Naples comes a good news: experts from the Neurological Clinic of the Hospital of the Second University of Naples (Aou-Sun), recognized as a center of excellence in the treatment of headaches have developed a study (already published in the scientific journal ” cephalalgia “) that could be the turning point hoped to fight the disease. Notwithstanding the work and the level of professional researchers Neapolitan, it must be stressed that it is once again the technology – more and more innovative and advanced – to represent a crucial tool to address and resolve symptomatic phenomena but also real diseases. The “contribution” technology is that the researchers with the help of sophisticated tools, they were able to photograph the brain of a patient suffering from migraine with aura. How was it possible? Through an MRI that allowed to “fix” the frames of the brain from which it emerged that the two most common forms of migraine, one with and one without aura, are characterized by a particular operation of the visual brain areas.

Antonio Russo, coordinator of the Headache Center of the Sun, explained ADNKRONOS the peculiarities of the study according to which the MRI was performed on a brain suffering from migraine , but in the absence of crisis. The “photo” has highlighted that the visual areas activated during the attack causing the phenomenon of the aura and remain active even when there is the manifestation of pain. Not only the researchers could also define “digital footprint” the effect that migraine with aura determines the brains of patients making “traceable”, unlike what happens to people who suffer from migraine without aura.

It is not the first time, as we said, the technology “helps” the search. It is worth mentioning the development of so-called robot surgeon-employed particularly in the field of urology, but also innovation that could be fielded even for transplant skull . And even here, the search is Italian. And ‘the neochirurgo Molinette hospital in Turin, Sergio Canavero, to have announced the date of the first head transplant on a man who, according to forecasts, should take place in December 2017. The surgeon claims to have developed a technique revolutionary action which should be executed in China, Harbin Medical University (although there is still the green light by local authorities). The news follows the test run of a monkey from one American neurosurgeon.

Finally, we remember, the importance of technology as also related colonoscopy, clinical examination annoying, as most people know. Well, now everything could change, thanks to no less than a video-capsule which is ingested and alone shall record what happens inside the body of the patient. To demonstrate its validity, it conducted a multicenter comparative European, which took part in the University Hospital Agostino Gemelli in Rome. The findings, by researchers defined “very encouraging”, have already been published in the scientific journal New England Journal of Medicine and involved a sample of 300 selected patients across Europe.