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The Tolosa-Hunt syndrome
aDepartment of Ophthalmology, University of Alabama School of Medicine, 601 700 South 18th Street, Birmingham, Alabama, USA, bNeuro-ophthalmology Unit, University of California School of Medicine, San ...
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MM2-type sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease: new diagnostic criteria for MM2-cortical type
Objective To clinically diagnose MM2-cortical (MM2C) and MM2-thalamic (MM2T)-type sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (sCJD) at early stage with high sensitivity and specificity. Methods We reviewed ...
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Hypothyroidism is associated with prolonged COVID-19-induced anosmia: a case–control study
Correspondence to Dr Georgios Tsivgoulis, Second Department of Neurology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens School of Medicine, Athens 15344, Attica, Greece; tsivgoulisgiorg{at}yahoo.gr ...
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Acute small fibre sensory neuropathy: another variant of Guillain-Barré syndrome?
Six patients who presented with acute sensory neuropathy were studied. All patients underwent detailed clinical assessment along with electrophysiological tests and relevant laboratory investigations.
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Use of 14–3–3 and other brain-specific proteins in CSF in the diagnosis of variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
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 ...
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Timing of surgery for supratentorial aneurysmal subarachnoid haemorrhage: report of a prospective study
University Department of Neurosurgery, Box 167, Block A, Level 4, Addenbrookes Hospital, Cambridge CB2 2QQ, UK Correspondence to: Dr P J Kirkpatrick, University Department of Neurosurgery, Box 167, ...
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Current epidemiology of cerebrospinal fluid shunt surgery in the UK and Ireland (2004–2013)
Objectives To determine current epidemiology and clinical characteristics of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) shunt surgery, including revisions. Methods A retrospective, multicentre, registry-based study ...
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Trauma and depressive symptomatology in middle-aged persons at high risk of dementia: the PREVENT Dementia Study
Objective Depression and trauma are associated with changes in brain regions implicated in Alzheimer’s disease. The present study examined associations between childhood trauma, depression, adult ...
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Vitamin D affects the risk of disease activity in multiple sclerosis
Background Vitamin D (VitD) affects the risk of multiple sclerosis (MS), but the impact on disease activity is controversial. We assessed whether VitD is associated with the No-Evidence of Disease ...
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Urinary dysfunction and orthostatic hypotension in multiple system atrophy: which is the more common and earlier manifestation?
Dr Ryuji Sakakibara, Department of Neurology Chiba University 1–8–1 Inohana, Chuo-ku, Chiba 260–8670 Japan. Telephone 0081 43 226 2129; fax 0081 43 226 2160; emailsakaki{at}med.m.chiba-u.ac.jp ...
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Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in older patients
1 National CJD Research & Surveillance Unit, University of Edinburgh, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, UK 2 Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, UK ...
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Does the primary literature provide support for clinical signs used to distinguish psychogenic nonepileptic seizures from epileptic seizures?
Psychogenic non-epileptic seizures (PNES) represent a diagnostic challenge. When trying to distinguish between PNES and epileptic seizures (ES), clinicians rely on the presence or absence of several ...