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Comparison between plasma and cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers for the early diagnosis and association with survival in prion disease

Correspondence to Professor Piero Parchi, Dipartimento di Medicina Specialistica Diagnostica e Sperimentale, Università di Bologna, Bologna 40138, Italy; piero.parchi{at}unibo.it Objective To compare ...
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Patients with Alzheimer's disease and dementia with Lewy bodies mistaken for Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease

OBJECTIVES To describe the clinical presentation of patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) or dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) who were suspected of having Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) and to ...
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Postinfectious brainstem encephalitis associated with SARS-CoV-2

Correspondence to Dr Anthony Khoo, Department of Neurology, University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square, London WC1N 3BG, UK ...
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Patients with vascular dementia due to microvascular pathology have significant hippocampal neuronal loss

Background: Alzheimer's disease (AD) is characterised by functional impairment, cerebral atrophy, and degeneration of specific neuronal populations, especially pyramidal neurones of the cerebral ...
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Progressive biparietal atrophy: an atypical presentation of Alzheimer's disease.

OBJECTIVES: To define the clinical, neuropsychological, and radiological features of bilateral parietal lobe atrophy. METHODS: Four patients underwent a comprehensive longitudinal neuropsychological ...
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The impact of delays in computed tomography of the brain on the accuracy of diagnosis and subsequent management in patients with minor stroke

Correspondence to: Professor J Wardlaw, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Western General Hospital, Crewe Road, Edinburgh EH4 2XU, UK; jmw{at}skull.dcn.ed.ac.uk Objectives: To determine the ...
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Imaging of vertebral artery stenosis: a systematic review

Professor Hugh Markus, Centre for Neuroscience, St George’s University of London, Cranmer Terrace, London SW17 0RE, UK; hmarkus{at}sgul.ac.uk Background and purpose: Posterior circulation stroke ...
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Root compression on MRI compared with clinical findings in patients with recent onset cervical radiculopathy

1 Department of Neurology, Medical Centre Haaglanden, The Hague, The Netherlands 2 Department of Neurology, Maasstad Hospital, Rotterdam, The Netherlands 3 Department of Radiology, Medical Centre ...
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The EQ-5D—a generic quality of life measure—is a useful instrument to measure quality of life in patients with Parkinson's disease

OBJECTIVE To test the feasibility and validity of the EQ-5D (a widely used generic (disease non-specific) quality of life (QoL) instrument which allows comparisons between different patient groups and ...
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Anti-CASPR2 clinical phenotypes correlate with HLA and immunological features

Objective Antibodies against contactin-associated protein-like 2 (CASPR2-Abs) have been described in acquired neuromyotonia, limbic encephalitis (LE) and Morvan syndrome (MoS). However, it is unknown ...
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Non-invasive ventilation in motor neuron disease: an update of current UK practice

1 Department of Palliative Medicine, St Oswald's Hospice, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK 2 Department of Neurology, Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK Background In motor neurone disease (MND) ...
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Clinical and functional outcome and factors predicting prognosis in osmotic demyelination syndrome (central pontine and/or extrapontine myelinolysis) in 25 patients

Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology, Trivandrum, Kerala, India Correspondence to Dr Ashalatha Radhakrishnan, Department of Neurology, Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for ...