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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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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 ...
BMJ5d
Brain tumours: incidence, survival, and aetiology
Correspondence to: Dr Patricia A McKinney Paediatric Epidemiology Group, Unit of Epidemiology and Health Services Research, University of Leeds, 32 Hyde Terrace, Leeds LS2 9LN, UK; ...
BMJ6d
Type II (adult onset) citrullinaemia: clinical pictures and the therapeutic effect of liver transplantation
OBJECTIVE Adult onset type II citrullinemia is an inherited disorder of amino acid metabolism caused by a deficiency of liver specific argininosuccinate synthetase activity. Most of the patients with ...
BMJ4d
Different types of skew deviation.
Although all manifest skew deviations appear the same for the clinician, skew deviation can result from different combinations of dysconjugate vertical ocular deviations. Evidence is presented for ...
BMJ5d
Long term follow up after perimesencephalic subarachnoid haemorrhage
OBJECTIVES To evaluate the long term sequelae of perimesencephalic subarachnoid haemorrhage (PMSAH). METHODS Twenty one consecutive patients were studied. All patients were examined by CT, angiography ...