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

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 ...

A peer-reviewed neurology, neurosurgery and psychiatry journal publishing the latest research and reviews on the entire genre of neurological sciences.

Neuroimage Nord, Klinik und Poliklinik für Neurologie, Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany Correspondence to: G Thomalla Klinik und Poliklinik für Neurologie, Universitätsklinikum ...

Background Depression is often cited as a major modifiable risk factor for dementia, though the relative contributions of a true causal relationship, reverse causality and confounding factors remain ...

OBJECTIVES The detection of the protein 14–3–3 in the CSF has been shown to be a reliable and sensitive marker for sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD). Other brain-specific proteins such as ...

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 ...

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 ...

1 MRC Prion Unit, Department of Neurodegenerative Disease, Institute of Neurology, London, UK 2 Lysholm Department of Neuroradiology, National Hospital of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Institute of ...

a University Department of Neurology, Utrecht, The Netherlands, b Julius Center for Patient Oriented Research, Utrecht, The Netherlands Dr F H H Linn, University Department of Neurology, ...