title: Neuropsychological effects of brain arteriovenous malformations.
abstract: Brain arteriovenous malformations (AVM's) are developmental, chronic lesions that provide unique information about the human brain and can be a useful model for neuroscientists to study cerebral reorganization and hemodynamics. We review the neuroanatomy, epidemiology, natural history, imaging and treatment of brain AVMs, and provide a model with which to better understand neuropsychological functioning and brain reorganization. We suggest that future studies must exclude ruptured AVMs if they wish to further explain focal neurological/cognitive deficits associated with this neurovascular anomaly.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurology, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY 10032, USA. elantz@neuro.columbia.edu
authors.forename: Emily R
authors.initials: ER
authors.lastname: Lantz
authors.forename: Philip M
authors.initials: PM
authors.lastname: Meyers
mesh_terms: D001165:Arteriovenous Malformations / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000473:pathology* / Q000503:physiopathology*; D001921:Brain / Q000473:pathology*; D018450:Disease Progression; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011379:Prognosis