BMJ2d
Postural instability/gait disturbance in Parkinson's disease has distinct subtypes: an exploratory analysis
Objective To test the hypothesis that postural instability with falling (PIF) and freezing of gait (FOG) are distinct subtypes of the postural instability/gait disturbance (PIGD) form of Parkinson's ...
BMJ3d
Corticosteroids in herpes simplex virus encephalitis
Departments of Neurology and Virology, City of Hope National Medical Center and Beckman Research Institute, Duarte, CA, USA Correspondence to: Dr Harry Openshaw City of Hope National Medical Center, ...
BMJ4d
The Tolosa-Hunt syndrome
aDepartment of Ophthalmology, University of Alabama School of Medicine, 601 700 South 18th Street, Birmingham, Alabama, USA, bNeuro-ophthalmology Unit, University of California School of Medicine, San ...
BMJ13d
Complete Epstein-Barr virus seropositivity in a large cohort of patients with early multiple sclerosis
Objective To determine the prevalence of antibodies to Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) in a large cohort of patients with early multiple sclerosis (MS). Methods Serum samples were collected from 901 patients ...
BMJ12d
Giant aneurysms of the carotid system presenting as visual field defect.
Visual field loss was the presenting symptom in 19 patients with large intracranial aneurysms of the carotid system. Location of the aneurysm was cavernous, carotid-ophthalmic (two), supraclinoid ...
BMJ2d
N18 in median somatosensory evoked potentials: a new indicator of medullary function useful for the diagnosis of brain death
Dr Masahiro Sonoo, Department of Neurology, Teikyo University School of Medicine, Kaga 2–11–1, Itabashi-ku, Tokyo 173, Japan. Telephone 0081 3 3964 1211 ext 1911; fax 0081 3 3964 6397; email sonoom{at ...
BMJ9d
Disability after severe head injury: observations on the use of the Glasgow Outcome Scale.
The nature of the neurological and mental disabilities resulting from severe head injuries are analysed in 150 patients. Mental handicap contributed more significantly to overall social disability ...
BMJ12d
Deep brain stimulation activation volumes and their association with neurophysiological mapping and therapeutic outcomes
Dr C C McIntyre, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, 9500 Euclid Ave ND20, Cleveland, OH 44195, USA; mcintyc{at}ccf.org Objective: Despite the clinical success of deep ...
BMJ12d
Cognitive and behavioural changes in PLS and PMA:challenging the concept of restricted phenotypes
Correspondence to Dr Michael A van Es, Department of Neurology, Brain Center Rudolf Magnus, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht 3584 CX, The Netherlands; M.A.vanEs{at}umcutrecht.nl Objectives ...
BMJ3d
Cigarette smoking and risk of intracranial aneurysms in middle-aged women
Background and purpose We previously reported a single-centre study demonstrating that smoking confers a six-fold increased risk for having an unruptured intracranial aneurysm (UIA) in women aged ...
BMJ13d
Data-driven evolution of neurosurgical gene therapy delivery in Parkinson’s disease
Loss of nigrostriatal dopaminergic projection neurons is a key pathology in Parkinson’s disease, leading to abnormal function of basal ganglia motor circuits and the accompanying characteristic motor ...
BMJ5d
Hippocampal subfield atrophy of CA1 and subicular structures predict progression to dementia in idiopathic Parkinson’s disease
Background Global hippocampal atrophy is a hallmark of Alzheimer’s dementia and has been similarly reported in Parkinson’s disease dementia (PDD). However, there is limited literature on the ...