Background Oral anticoagulation (OAC) effectively reduces stroke risk in patients with atrial fibrillation (AF), but its use ...

Evidence is presented that patients with prosopagnosia have right anterior inferior occipital lesions in the region of the occipital temporal junction. Many if not all cases have an additional lesion ...

Background Smoking is a significant risk factor for neurological disorders, yet its global impact on these conditions remains underexplored. Methods Using Global Burden of Diseases 2021 data, we ...

Background A few case reports have shown controversial results of rituximab efficacy in patients with chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy (CIDP). Objective To analyse the ...

4 Institute of Cardiovascular and Cell Sciences, St Georges University of London, London, UK 5 School of Health Professions, Peninsula Allied Health Centre, University of Plymouth, Plymouth, UK ...

Correspondence to Hanneke Frederica Maria Rhodius-Meester, Alzheimer Center, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam 1007 MB, The Netherlands; h.rhodius{at}vumc.nl Patients with dementia have a ...

Background Staging of disease severity is useful for prognosis, decision-making and resource planning. However, no commonly used, validated staging system exists for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS ...

Correspondence to Dr William Stewart, Department of Neuropathology, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, Glasgow G51 4TF, UK; william.stewart{at}glasgow.ac.uk Introduction There is growing recognition of an ...

University of California San Francisco Memory and Aging Center, 350 Parnassus Avenue, Suite 706, San Francisco, CA 94143-1207, USA Correspondence to: Dr K P Rankin UCSF Memory and Aging Center, 350 ...

Introduction The association between chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP) and diabetes is uncertain despite important diagnostic and management implications. Methods We ...

BACKGROUND Tic disorders presenting during adulthood have infrequently been described in the medical literature. Most reports depict adult onset secondary tic disorders caused by trauma, encephalitis, ...

Objective No definitive comparative studies of the efficacy of ‘awake’ deep brain stimulation (DBS) for Parkinson’s disease (PD) under local or general anaesthesia exist, and there remains significant ...