A peer-reviewed neurology, neurosurgery and psychiatry journal publishing the latest research and reviews on the entire genre of neurological sciences.
OBJECTIVES The loss of the neurons in layer 3, one of the groups of cortical neurons most vulnerable in various degenerative brain diseases, results in axonal degeneration leading to atrophy of the ...
Background: Paraneoplastic neurological syndromes (PNS) are defined by the presence of cancer and exclusion of other known causes of the neurological symptoms, but this criterion does not separate ...
1 University Hospital Vrije Universiteit, Department of Physical Therapy and Research Institute for Fundamental and Clinical Human Movement Sciences, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 2 Isala clinics, site ...
Objective No definitive comparative studies of the efficacy of ‘awake’ deep brain stimulation (DBS) for Parkinson’s disease (PD) under local or general anaesthesia exist, and there remains significant ...
1 Department of Neurology, Neurological Institute, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan 2 Department of Neurosurgery, Kitasato University School of Medicine, ...
Background Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a progressive and usually fatal neurodegenerative disease. Survival from diagnosis varies considerably. Several prognostic factors are known, ...
Background Hereditary transthyretin amyloidosis (ATTRv) is a life-threatening disease with frequent autonomic manifestations. Autonomic testing is not widely accessible, which might cause ...
Background Epilepsy affects 22.2% of people with intellectual disability compared with 1% of the general population. This study aims to identify characteristics associated with epilepsy-caused deaths ...
Associate Professor D R Royall, Department of Psychiatry, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, 7703 Floyd Curl Drive, San Antonio, Texas 78284–7792, USA. Telephone 001 210 567 ...
Correspondence to Dr Andrew Eisen, Division of Neurology, University of British Columbia, 2862 Highbury Street, Vancouver, BC, Canada, V6R 3T6; Eisen{at}mail.ubc.ca Pinto et al1 document that ...
1 Dementia Research Group, Institute of Neurology, University College, London, UK 2 Dementia Research Group, Institute of Neurology, University College, London; and Division of Neuroscience and ...