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Relationship between motor cortical and peripheral axonal hyperexcitability in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

Correspondence to Dr Kazumoto Shibuya, Neurology, Chiba University, Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba 260-8670, Japan; kazumoto{at}net.email.ne.jp Background Previous studies have shown that patients ...
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Incidence of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis in Europe

Background Geographical differences in the incidence of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) have been reported in the literature but comparisons across previous studies are limited by different ...
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Head drop and camptocormia

2 Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, USA 3 Department of Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, USA 4 Department of ...
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SMART-CPT for veterans with comorbid post-traumatic stress disorder and history of traumatic brain injury: a randomised controlled trial

Objective To better concurrently address emotional and neuropsychological symptoms common in veterans with comorbid post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and history of traumatic brain injury (TBI), ...
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Spinocerebellar ataxia type 36 exists in diverse populations and can be caused by a short hexanucleotide GGCCTG repeat expansion

24 German Center for Vertigo and Balance Disorders, Munich, Germany Correspondence to Dr Alexis Brice, Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle épinière, Groupe Hospitalier Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris 75013, ...
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Cerebrovascular pressure reactivity is related to global cerebral oxygen metabolism after head injury

Correspondence to: Dr Luzius A Steiner, Academic Neurosurgery, Box 167, Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge CB2 2QQ, UK; las30{at}cam.ac.uk Objectives: To investigate the relation between ...
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Peripheral inflammatory markers in Alzheimer’s disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis of 175 studies

Objectives Increasing evidence suggests that inflammation is involved in Alzheimer’s disease (AD) pathology. This study quantitatively summarised the data on peripheral inflammatory markers in ...
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The UK MRC Mitochondrial Disease Patient Cohort Study: clinical phenotypes associated with the m.3243A>G mutation—implications for diagnosis and management

1 Wellcome Trust Centre for Mitochondrial Research Group, Institute for Ageing and Health, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK 2 MRC Centre for Neuromuscular Diseases, UCL Institute of ...
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Neurophysiological correlates of dissociative symptoms

2 Department of Radiology, Maastricht University Medical Centre, Maastricht, The Netherlands 3 Department of Neurology, Maastricht University Medical Centre, Maastricht, The Netherlands Objective ...
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Diagnosing myasthenia gravis using orthoptic measurements: assessing extraocular muscle fatiguability

Correspondence to Kevin R Keene, Department of Radiology, CJ Gorter MRI Center, Leiden Universitair Medisch Centrum, 2333 ZA Leiden, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands; K.R.Keene{at}lumc.nl Introduction ...
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Feelings of loneliness, but not social isolation, predict dementia onset: results from the Amsterdam Study of the Elderly (AMSTEL)

1 Department of Psychiatry, ARKIN Mental Health Care, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 2 Department of Psychiatry, VU University Medical Centre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 3 EMGO institute LASA, VU ...
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Are men at greater risk for Parkinson’s disease than women?

1 Department of Neurology, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, USA 2 Department of Health Evaluation Sciences, University of Virginia School of Medicine Correspondence to: Dr G ...