BMJ18h
Interference between postural control and mental task performance in patients with vestibular disorder and healthy controls
OBJECTIVES To determine whether interference between postural control and mental task performance in patients with balance system impairment and healthy subjects is due to general capacity limitations ...
BMJ17h
“Alice in Wonderland syndrome” associated with topiramate for migraine prevention
1 Department of Systems Neuroscience, University Medical Centre Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany 2 Department of Anaesthesiology, University Medical Centre Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany ...
BMJ6d
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 ...
BMJ1d
Gabapentin for prevention of hypobaric hypoxia-induced headache: Randomized double-blind clinical trial
Iranian Center for Neurology Research, Imam Hospital, Medical Sciences/University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran Sirous Jafarian, MD, Department of Neurology, Shariati Hospital, Medical Sciences/University ...
BMJ3d
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 ...
BMJ5d
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, ...
BMJ6d
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
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 ...
BMJ6d
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, ...
BMJ5d
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) ...
BMJ3d
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 (D̄) and ...
BMJ4d
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 ...