Background Air pollution has been proposed as a short-term trigger of multiple sclerosis (MS) relapses, but delayed effects ...

Three dissociations were observed in a case of alexia: a disturbance of reading, without comparable disturbance of oral expression, oral comprehension, writing, or spelling aloud; a disturbance of the ...

3 Department of Pathology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands 4 Department of Human Genetics, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands 5 Department of Clinical ...

1 Department of Pediatrics, University of Florida, College of Medicine, Gainesville, Florida, USA 2 Department of Psychiatry, University of Florida, College of Medicine, Gainesville, Florida, USA ...

Objective To determine the ability of transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) in detecting synaptic impairment in patients with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and predicting cognitive decline since the ...

Background The high incidence of in-stent restenosis (ISR) associated with bare-metal stents (BMS) undermines the viability of endovascular treatment as a treatment option for patients with severe ...

Objective To determine the prevalence and prognostic value of weight loss (WL) prior to diagnosis in patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Methods We enrolled patients diagnosed with ALS ...

Background Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a fatal neurodegenerative disease with the global epidemiological profile remaining incompletely understood. While previous systematic reviews existed ...

Correspondence to Professor Piero Parchi, Dipartimento di Medicina Specialistica Diagnostica e Sperimentale, Università di Bologna, Bologna 40138, Italy; piero.parchi{at}unibo.it Objective To compare ...

Background Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a progressive and usually fatal neurodegenerative disease. Survival from diagnosis varies considerably. Several prognostic factors are known, ...

Correspondence to Dr Satoshi Kuwabara, Department of Neurology, Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba University 1-8-1 Inohana, Chuo-ku, Chiba, 260-8670, Japan; kuwabara-s{at}faculty.chiba-u.jp While ...

Background To investigate whether exposure to pet hamsters may act as a potential trigger for autoimmune cerebellar ataxia (ACA). Methods We conducted a hospital-based case–control study based on our ...