Background Psychogenic non-epileptic seizures (PNES) are classified with other functional neurological symptoms as ‘Conversion Disorder’, but there are reasons to wonder whether this symptomatology ...

Background: Paraneoplastic neurological syndromes (PNS) are defined by the presence of cancer and exclusion of other known causes of the neurological symptoms, but this criterion does not separate ...

1 Brain and Mind Centre, Sydney Medical School, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Lower motor neuron (LMN) syndromes typically present with muscle wasting and weakness and ...

Correspondence to Dr David L Perez, Massachusetts General Hospital, Departments of Neurology and Psychiatry 149 13th Street, Charlestown, MA 02129, USA; dlperez{at}partners.org Objective Affective ...

Department of Immunobiology, King’s College London, Guy’s Hospital, London, UK Dr Jane Pritchard, c/o Department of Clinical Neuroscience, King’s College London, Guy’s Hospital, London SE1 1UL, UK; ...

1 Farr Institute of Health Informatics, University College London, London, UK 2 Stroke and Vascular Research Centre, Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester Academic ...

Background To evaluate the efficacy of rituximab in chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy (CIDP) patients not responding to conventional immune therapies. Methods An open-label, ...

Dr M Prosiegel, Neuropsychological Department, Neurologisches Krankenhaus München, Munich, Germany. OBJECTIVE To determine: (1) patterns of cognitive and psychiatric dysfunction; (2) those ...

Objective The Tysabri Observational Programme (TOP), which began >10 years ago, is an open-label, multinational, prospective observational study evaluating the long-term safety and effectiveness of ...

2 Department of Neurology, University Medical Centre Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands Correspondence to Dr M Koch, Department of Neurology, University Medical Centre ...

Objectives: To study the factors which influence cognitive impairment among elderly subjects living in a local community, based on both MRI and clinical findings, to further elucidate the causes of ...

Background: Little is known about the quality of life in patients with cervical dystonia, although pain and depression are relatively common. Objective: To test the hypothesis that an individual's ...