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The neuroanatomy of asomatognosia and somatoparaphrenia

Objectives Asomatognosia is broadly defined as unawareness of ownership of one's arm, while somatoparaphrenia is a subtype in which patients also display delusional misidentification and confabulation ...
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The UK MRC Mitochondrial Disease Patient Cohort Study: clinical phenotypes associated with the m.3243A>G mutation—implications for diagnosis and management

1 Wellcome Trust Centre for Mitochondrial Research Group, Institute for Ageing and Health, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK 2 MRC Centre for Neuromuscular Diseases, UCL Institute of ...
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Bradykinesia akinesia inco-ordination test (BRAIN TEST): an objective computerised assessment of upper limb motor function

Dr Gavin Giovannoni, University Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Royal Free and University College Medical School, Royal Free Campus, Rowland Hill Street, London NW3 2PF. Telephone 0044 171 794 ...
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Improvement of parkinsonian features correlate with high plasma levodopa values after broad bean (Vicia faba) consumption.

Five healthy volunteers and six patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) ate 250 g cooked broad beans after 12 hours without treatment. During the next four hours a substantial clinical improvement was ...
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Obstructive sleep apnoea: an underestimated cause of peripheral neuropathy

Correspondence to: Professor J de Seze Department of Neurology, CHU of Strasbourg, Hôpital Civil, 69091 Strasbourg Cedex, France; jerome.de.seze{at}chru-strasbourg.fr ...
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Unilateral lenticular infarcts: radiological and clinical syndromes, aetiology, and prognosis

Service de Neurologie, Centre Hospitalo-Universitaire, 3 Rue du Faubourg, Raines, 21000 Dijon, France Professor M Giroud, Service de Neurologie, Centre Hospitalo-Universitaire, 3 Rue du Faubourg, ...
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MRI characteristics during attack and remission distinguish patients with MOG antibody-associated disease from multiple sclerosis

Background Myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein antibody-associated disease (MOGAD) and multiple sclerosis (MS) have both ...
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Intrathecal Epstein–Barr virus reactivation in patients with autoimmune glial fibrillary acidic protein astrocytopathy

Background The pathogenic mechanisms underlying autoimmune glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) astrocytopathy (GFAP-A), a central nervous system disorder associated with GFAP autoimmunity, remain ...
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Prognostic relevance of quantitative and longitudinal MOG antibody testing in patients with MOGAD: a multicentre retrospective study

Background IgG antibodies against myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein (MOG-IgG) define a subset of associated disorders (myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein associated disorders (MOGAD)) that can have ...
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Specialist inpatient treatment for severe motor conversion disorder: a retrospective comparative study

1 National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Biomedical Research Centre, South London & Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust and Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, London, UK 2 Section of ...
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Ataxic Guillain–Barré syndrome and acute sensory ataxic neuropathy form a continuous spectrum

2 Department of Anatomy (Macro), Dokkyo Medical University, Tochigi, Japan 3 Departments of Microbiology and Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore Correspondence to Prof Nobuhiro Yuki, ...