Correspondence to: Professor Kerry R Mills Department of Clinical Neurophysiology, King’s College Hospital, Denmark Hill, London SE5 9RS, UK; kerry.mills1kingsch.nhs.uk Electromyography (EMG), the ...

Correspondence to: Dr Amin Kassam University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Center for Cranial Nerve Disorders, Suite B-400, 200 Lothrop Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA; kassamabupmc.edu Objective: ...

Correspondence to: Dr S Wiebe, London Health Sciences Centre, University Campus, 339 Windermere Rd, London, Ontario, Canada N6A 5A5; swiebe{at}uwo.ca Background: Health related quality of life (HRQOL) ...

1 Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA 2 Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA 3 ...

Space phobia in 13 patients is described with features distinct from agoraphobia. Its hallmark is fear of absent visuospatial support (open spaces) and of falling, unlike the fear of public places ...

Polyneuropathy is a rare but possible manifestation of severe hyperthyroidism. The patient reported here developed a polyneuropathy affecting mostly leg muscles (Basedow's paraplegia) during the ...

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, ...

Two patients are described who developed action, reflex myoclonus during acute renal failure. In both cases the myoclonus was abolished after the intravenous administration of clonazepam. We suggest ...

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; ...

Inclusions of pathogenic deposits containing TAR DNA-binding protein 43 (TDP-43) are evident in the brain and spinal cord of patients that present across a spectrum of neurodegenerative diseases. For ...

Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) and Fisher syndrome (FS) are acute autoimmune neuropathies, often preceded by an infection. Antiglycolipid antibody titres are frequently elevated in sera from the ...

Helen Durham Neuro-inflammatory Centre, Department of Neurology, University Hospital of Wales, Heath Park, Cardiff, UK Background: Detailed studies of mortality in multiple sclerosis (MS) are limited.