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: ...

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 ...

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 ...

Section of Old Age Psychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry, De Crespigny Park, London SE5 8AF, UK Correspondence to: Professor S Lovestone, Section of Old Age Psychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry, De ...

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 ...

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; ...

4 Service of Neurology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands 5 Service of Neurology, University Hospital Maastricht, Maastricht, The Netherlands 6 Service of Neurology, ...

Spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy (SBMA) is a hereditary neuromuscular disorder caused by CAG trinucleotide expansion in the gene encoding the androgen receptor (AR). In the central nervous system, ...

Background Bulbar involvement is a hallmark of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), but surprisingly very few studies have addressed the frequency, pattern and clinical relevance of laryngeal ...