Correspondence to: Dr I Ormerod Department of Neurology, Frenchay Hospital, Bristol, UK; ian.ormerodnorth-bristol.swest.nhs.uk It is not unusual to be asked for a neurological assessment of a patient ...

An industrial manager had severe retrograde and variable but usually mild anterograde amnesia four years after a head injury. MRI showed damage of both temporal poles and the lateral portion of the ...

1 Department of Clinical Neurosciences, School of Molecular and Clinical Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, UK 2 Psychological Medicine Research, School of ...

OBJECTIVES Routine data collection is now considered mandatory. Therefore, staff rated clinical scales that consist of multiple items should have the minimum number of items necessary for rigorous ...

Background: Most studies on spinal cord infarction have been conducted in single centres; they usually consisted of case reports, or of larger series of patients recruited over a large period of time, ...

Four short, simple measures of arm function, suitable for use with patients recovering from acute stroke, are described. These tests are: the Frenchay Arm Test, the Nine Hole Peg Test, finger tapping ...

4 Department of Neurology, Strasbourg University and Clinical Investigation Center, Strasbourg Hospital, France Correspondence to Dr Jerome de Seze, Department of Neurology and Clinical Investigation ...

Correspondence to: Professor AJ Lees, Reta Lila Weston Institute of Neurological Studies, Royal Free and University College London Medical School, Windeyer Institute of Medical Science, 46 Cleveland ...

Adult-onset leukodystrophies and genetic leukoencephalopathies comprise a diverse group of neurodegenerative disorders of white matter with a wide age of onset and phenotypic spectrum. Patients with ...

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 ...

National Creutzfeldt–Jakob Disease Surveillance Unit, School of Molecular and Clinical Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, UK Background: Sporadic Creutzfeldt–Jakob ...

Correspondence to: Dr S Rehncrona, Department of Neurosurgery, University Hospital, S-221 85 Lund, Sweden; stig.rehncrona{at}neurokir.lu.se Objective: To compare the lumbar infusion test and the ...