BMJ1d
Disabling stroke arising five months after internal carotid artery dissection
Department of Neurology, Walton Centre for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Rice Lane, Liverpool, UK Dr PRD Humphrey, Department of Neurology, Walton Centre for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Rice Lane, ...
BMJ3d
Both total and phosphorylated tau are increased in Alzheimer's disease
Dr M Sjögren, Institute of Clinical Neuroscience, Sahlgrenska Universitetssjukhuset Mölndal, SE 431 80 Mölndal, Swedenmagnus.sjogren{at}medfak.gu.se BACKROUND Pathological tau protein concentrations ...
BMJ4d
Motor cortex excitability and comorbidity in Gilles de la Tourette syndrome
Background: Gilles de la Tourette syndrome (GTS) is often complicated by comorbid attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) or obsessive–compulsive disorder ...
BMJ4d
Sleep disturbance and impulsive-compulsive behaviours in Parkinson's disease
Objectives Impulsive-compulsive behaviours (ICBs) in Parkinson's disease (PD) have been anecdotally linked with impaired sleep. The authors investigate measures of sleep in PD patients with and ...
BMJ5d
The natural history and functional consequences of dysphagia after hemispheric stroke.
Department of Medicine, University Hospital, Nottingham, UK. Data from 357 conscious stroke patients taking part in an acute intervention trial and assessed within 48 hours of the onset of symptoms, ...
BMJ5d
The SF-36 in multiple sclerosis: why basic assumptions must be tested
OBJECTIVES To evaluate, in people with multiple sclerosis, two psychometric assumptions that must be satisfied for valid use of the medical outcomes study 36-item short form health survey (SF-36): the ...
BMJ5d
Clinical impact of whole-genome sequencing in patients with early-onset dementia
Background In the clinical setting, identification of the genetic cause in patients with early-onset dementia (EOD) is challenging due to multiple types of genetic tests required to arrive at a ...
BMJ5d
Antiglycolipid antibodies in Guillain-Barré and Fisher syndromes: discovery, current status and future perspective
Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) and Fisher syndrome (FS) are acute autoimmune neuropathies, often preceded by an infection. Antiglycolipid antibody titres are frequently elevated in sera from the ...
BMJ6d
Intraoperative microvascular Doppler ultrasonography in cerebral aneurysm surgery
a Department of Neurosurgery, Benjamin Franklin Medical Center, Free University of Berlin, Hindenburgdamm 30, 12200 Berlin, Germany, b Department of Radiology Dr Ruediger Stendel, Department of ...
BMJ7d
Muscle fibre characteristics and lactate responses to exercise in chronic fatigue syndrome
OBJECTIVES To examine the proportions of type 1 and type 2 muscle fibres and the degree of muscle fibre atrophy and hypertrophy in patients with chronic fatigue syndrome in relation to lactate ...
BMJ8d
Hyperreflexia in Guillain-Barré syndrome: relation with acute motor axonal neuropathy and anti-GM1 antibody
a Department of Neurology, Chiba University School of Medicine, Chiba, Japan, b Department of Neurology, Dokkyo University School of Medicine, Tochigi, Japan Dr Satoshi Kuwabara, Department of ...
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The United Kingdom transient ischaemic attack (UK-TIA) aspirin trial: final results.
From 1979-85, 2435 patients with a transient ischaemic attack or minor ischaemic stroke were randomly allocated to receive long term "blind" treatment with aspirin 600 mg twice daily (n = 815), ...