Cerebral damage remains a major hazard of open-heart surgery. A one-year follow-up investigation of 100 consecutive patients who underwent open-heart operation for valve replacement revealed an ...

Background Functional neurological disorder (FND) is characterised by neurological symptoms, such as seizures and abnormal movements. Despite its significance to patients, the clinical features of ...

Correspondence to Dr Casey H Halpern, Department of Neurosurgery, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-5327, USA; chalpern{at}stanford.edu Background The safety and efficacy of neuroablation (ABL) ...

Objective: To learn if the left compared with the right hemisphere of right handed subjects exerts bilateral compared with contralateral motor control when performing precise and coordinated finger ...

A growing body of evidence suggests that cardiometabolic risk factors play a significant role in Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Diabetes, obesity and hypertension are highly prevalent and can accelerate ...

Department of Visual Neuroscience, Division of Neuroscience and Psychological Medicine, Imperial College, London, UK Correspondence to: Professor Christopher Kennard Department of Visual Neuroscience, ...

Department of Clinical Chemistry, VUmc Medical Centre Amsterdam, The Netherlands Dr C E Teunissen, Molecular Cell Biology and Immunology, VU University Medical Centre, FdG, PO Box 7057, 1007 MB ...

Background Timing of disease-modifying therapy affects clinical disability in multiple sclerosis, but it is not known whether patient reported outcomes are also affected. This study investigates the ...

Correspondence to Dr Claudia Diana Wurster, Department of Neurology, Ulm University, Ulm 89081, Germany; claudia.wurster{at}uni-ulm.de Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a monogenetic motoneuron disease ...

OBJECTIVES To assess outcome after elective treatment for unruptured intracranial aneurysms. METHODS Of 193 consecutive patients with subarachnoid haemorrhage 626 first degree relatives (parents, ...

Centre for the Study of Demyelinating Diseases, Section of Clinical Neurosciences, Department of Medical and Surgical Specialities and Public Health, Ospedale S Maria della Misericordia, University of ...