Background Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a progressive and usually fatal neurodegenerative disease. Survival from diagnosis varies considerably. Several prognostic factors are known, ...

Background The diagnostic value of new criteria of the European Academy of Neurology/Peripheral Nerve Society (EAN/PNS) for chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP) is unknown. Methods ...

1 Rush Institute for Healthy Aging, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, USA 2 Department of Internal Medicine, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, USA 3 ...

Background In the clinical setting, identification of the genetic cause in patients with early-onset dementia (EOD) is challenging due to multiple types of genetic tests required to arrive at a ...

2 National Center for Neurological Disorders, Shanghai, People's Republic of China 3 Rare Disease Center, Huashan Hospital, Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University, Shanghai, People's Republic of ...

Parkinson’s disease (PD) is associated with an increased risk of melanoma, but the link between levodopa therapy and melanoma is less clear. The Electronic Medicines Compendium (EMC) explicitly ...

Correspondence to Professor Yun Kwok Wing, Department of Psychiatry, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China; ykwing{at}cuhk.edu.hk Objective To investigate the prevalence and ...

Objective: Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a progressive neurological disorder characterised by a large number of motor and non-motor features that can impact on function to a variable degree. This review ...

Background Cerebellar ataxias are the result of diverse disease processes that can be genetic or acquired. Establishing a diagnosis requires a methodical approach with expert clinical evaluation and ...

1 Division of Neurology, Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Prince of Wales Hospital, Shatin, Hong Kong 2 Department of Clinical and Experimental Epilepsy, ...

1 Alzheimer Centre and VU University Medical Centre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 2 Department of Neurology, VU University Medical Centre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 3 Department of Neurology and MRI ...

Dr Paul T Francis, Dementia Research Laboratory, Division of Biomolecular Sciences, Guy’s, King’s and St Thomas’ Schools of Biomedical Sciences, King’s College, St Thomas Street, London SE1 9RT, UK.