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Behavioural evidence for vestibular stimulation as a treatment for central post-stroke pain
Background: Central post-stroke pain (CPSP) is often resistant to treatment. We have previously proposed that caloric vestibular stimulation might alleviate it. Methods: We conducted a single blind ...
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Bilateral paramedian midbrain infarct: an uncommon variant of the “top of the basilar” syndrome
3 Department of Clinical Therapeutics, University of Athens, Athens, Greece Correspondence to: Dr K Spengos Department of Neurology, University of Athens, Vas. Sofias 82, 11528 Athens, Greece; ...
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Saccade impairments in patients with fronto-temporal dementia
Background: Early diagnosis of fronto-temporal dementia (FTD) is often difficult because of the non-specific presentation. Saccadic eye movements, which are mainly controlled by the frontal areas, may ...
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O05 Useful methods in casemanagement of ambulatory HD patients
Background Huntington Expert Centre Atlant offers multidisciplinary care for patients with Huntington's Disease, in which case management plays an important role. The aim of case management is to ...
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Ultrastructural mechanisms of macrophage-induced demyelination in Guillain-Barré syndrome
Correspondence to Dr Haruki Koike, Neurology, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya 466-8550, Japan; koike-haruki{at}med.nagoya-u.ac.jp Objective To describe the pathological features ...
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Median nerve injury: an underrecognised complication of brachial artery cardiac catheterisation?
a Regional Neuroscience Unit, Atkinson Morley’s Hospital, St George’s Health Care Trust, Copse Hill, Wimbledon, London SW20 0NE,UK, b Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Queen Mary’s ...
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Cerebellar voice tremor: an acoustic analysis.
Patients with cerebellar disease may exhibit tremulous phonation as part of their dysarthria. The results of an acoustic analysis of cerebellar voice tremor in a patient with hereditary ataxia and ...
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Exercise as medicine in Parkinson’s disease
Parkinson’s disease (PD) is an incurable and progressive neurological disorder leading to deleterious motor and non-motor consequences. Presently, no pharmacological agents can prevent PD evolution or ...
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Misdiagnosis of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis in a patient with dysphagia due to Chiari I malformation
A 78 year old woman was admitted to our hospital`s swallowing department because she had had progressive dysphagia for a year. Based on bilateral tongue atrophy with fibrillations and a normal CT, ...
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Both total and phosphorylated tau are increased in Alzheimer's disease
Dr M Sjögren, Institute of Clinical Neuroscience, Sahlgrenska Universitetssjukhuset Mölndal, SE 431 80 Mölndal, Swedenmagnus.sjogren{at}medfak.gu.se BACKROUND Pathological tau protein concentrations ...
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Painful generalised clonic and tonic-clonic seizures with retained consciousness
Dr William L Bell, Department of Neurology, Bowman Gray School of Medicine of Wake Forest University, Medical Center Boulevard, Winston-Salem, NC 27157. Telephone (910)-716-5281; fax: (910)-716-9489; ...
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Recognising hemihypomimia as a mimic of ‘facial weakness’
Correspondence to Dr Oliver Phillips, Neurology, Brown University Warren Alpert Medical School, Providence, RI 02912, USA; Oliver.W.Phillips{at}gmail.com If you wish to reuse any or all of this ...