Amygdala and hypothalamus: historical overview with focus on aggression

FV Gouveia, C Hamani, ET Fonoff, H Brentani… - …, 2019 - journals.lww.com
Aggressiveness has a high prevalence in psychiatric patients and is a major health problem.
Two brain areas involved in the neural network of aggressive behavior are the amygdala …

The neurobiology of abnormal manifestations of aggression—a review of hypothalamic mechanisms in cats, rodents, and humans

J Haller - Brain research bulletin, 2013 - Elsevier
Aggression research was for long dominated by the assumption that aggression-related
psychopathologies result from the excessive activation of aggression-promoting brain …

Hypothalamic hamartomas: optimal approach to clinical evaluation and diagnosis

AA Wilfong, DJ Curry - Epilepsia, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Hypothalamic hamartomas (HH s) present a difficult medical problem, manifested by gelastic
seizures, which are often medically intractable. Although existing techniques offer modest …

MRI-guided stereotactic radiofrequency thermocoagulation for 100 hypothalamic hamartomas

S Kameyama, H Shirozu, H Masuda, Y Ito… - Journal of …, 2016 - thejns.org
OBJECT The aim of this study was to elucidate the invasiveness, effectiveness, and
feasibility of MRI-guided stereotactic radiofrequency thermocoagulation (SRT) for …

Minimally invasive magnetic resonance imaging-guided stereotactic radiofrequency thermocoagulation for epileptogenic hypothalamic hamartomas

S Kameyama, H Murakami, H Masuda… - Neurosurgery, 2009 - journals.lww.com
OBJECTIVE: To validate the safety and efficacy of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)-
guided stereotactic radiofrequency thermocoagulation (SRT) for epileptogenic hypothalamic …

The gelastic seizures-hypothalamic hamartoma syndrome: facts, hypotheses, and perspectives

S Striano, L Santulli, M Ianniciello, M Ferretti… - Epilepsy & Behavior, 2012 - Elsevier
Hypothalamic hamartoma (HH) can be associated with a wide spectrum of epileptic
conditions, ranging from a mild form with seizures characterized by urge to laugh and no …

Hypothalamic hamartomas. Part 2. Surgical considerations and outcome

S Mittal, M Mittal, JL Montes, JP Farmer… - Neurosurgical …, 2013 - thejns.org
Hypothalamic hamartomas are uncommon developmental heterotopic masses composed of
an intermixed array of neurons, glia, and myelinated fibers closely associated with the …

Stereoelectroencephalography-guided radiofrequency thermocoagulation for hypothalamic hamartomas: preliminary evidence

PH Wei, Y An, XT Fan, YH Wang, YF Yang, LK Ren… - World Neurosurgery, 2018 - Elsevier
Background The use of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)-guided ablation methods, such
as laser interstitial thermal therapy and MRI-guided radiofrequency thermocoagulation (RF …

Stereotactic radiofrequency thermocoagulation for giant hypothalamic hamartoma

H Shirozu, H Masuda, Y Ito, M Sonoda… - Journal of …, 2016 - thejns.org
OBJECTIVE The authors undertook this study to validate the feasibility and safety of
stereotactic radiofrequency thermocoagulation (SRT) for the surgical treatment of giant …

Of fighting flies, mice, and men: are some of the molecular and neuronal mechanisms of aggression universal in the animal kingdom?

AL Thomas, SM Davis, HA Dierick - PLoS genetics, 2015 - journals.plos.org
Aggressive behavior is widespread in the animal kingdom, but the degree of molecular
conservation between distantly related species is still unclear. Recent reports suggest that at …