BMJ1d
Magnetisation transfer ratio and mean diffusivity of normal appearing white and grey matter from patients with multiple sclerosis
OBJECTIVE To assess the feasibility of a new technique based on diffusion anisotropy to segment white and grey matter of the brain. To use this technique to measure the mean diffusivity (DÌ„) and ...
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
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 ...
BMJ3d
Effectiveness of early cycles of fast-acting treatment in generalised myasthenia gravis
Background Early fast-acting treatment (EFT) is the aggressive use of fast-acting therapies such as plasmapheresis, intravenous immunoglobulin and/or intravenous high-dose methylprednisolone (IVMP) ...
BMJ4d
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 ...
BMJ4d
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, ...
BMJ5d
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 ...
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 ...
BMJ5d
Deficient saccadic inhibition in Asperger’s disorder and the social-emotional processing disorder
1 Department of Psychiatry and the Athinoula A Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA 2 Department of Psychiatry, ...
BMJ6d
Symptomatic unruptured capillary telangiectasia of the brain stem: report of three cases and review of the literature
Three young patients with transient or intermittent focal neurological signs suggesting brain stem involvement are described, in whom high field MRI showed focal areas of hyperintensity in T2 weighted ...
BMJ6d
Magnesium and headache after aneurysmal subarachnoid haemorrhage
1 Rudolf Magnus Institute of Neuroscience, Department of Neurology, Utrecht, The Netherlands 2 Department of Intensive Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands Correspondence ...
BMJ10d
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 ...