OBJECTIVES Neuropsychological investigations have shown a degree of cognitive dysfunction in a proportion of non-demented patients with ALS. Respiratory muscle weakness in ALS can lead to nocturnal ...

1 Wilmer Ophthalmological Institute, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA 2 Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine 3 Department of Neurosurgery, Johns Hopkins ...

1 Department of Clinical Neurology, The Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Sheffield, UK 2 Department of Gastroenterology, The Royal Hallamshire Hospital Correspondence to: Dr M Hadjivassiliou, Department of ...

Introduction: The ventrolateral (VL) nucleus of the thalamus is the commonly chosen target for deep brain stimulation (DBS) to alleviate tremor. However, it has a poor efficacy in alleviating proximal ...

7 Department of Neurology, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Edgbaston, Birmingham, UK 8 Department of Neurology, King's College Hospital and King's College School of Medicine, London, UK Correspondence to Dr ...

High prevalence of autoantibodies against glutamic acid decarboxylase (GAD-Ab) in stiff man syndrome (SMS) not only helps diagnosis, but also suggests immune mediated impairment of GABAergic functions ...

Correspondence to: Professor J Wardlaw, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Western General Hospital, Crewe Road, Edinburgh EH4 2XU, UK; jmw{at}skull.dcn.ed.ac.uk Objectives: To determine the ...

2 Oxford Project to Investigate Memory and Ageing (OPTIMA), Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, UK Correspondence to Dr P Garrard, Stroke and ...

Correspondence to Dr Dearbhla Kelly, Centre for the Prevention of Stroke and Dementia, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford OX3 9DU, UK; ...

Twenty subjects with minor head injury were compared to an uninjured group at 1 and 12 months after injury on a battery of neuropsychological and psychosocial measures. The results indicate that ...

Dr J van der Naalt, Department of Neurology, University Hospital Groningen, PO Box 30.001, 9700 RB Groningen, The Netherlands. Fax 0031 50 3611707; emailj.van.der.naalt{at}neuro.azg.nl OBJECTIVES To ...