Seven patients with subdural empyema were initially treated by antibiotics without surgery. Six have recovered without sequelae. One required delayed surgery and has recovered with epilepsy. The ...

Background Post-stroke depression is a disabling condition occurring in about one-third of patients with stroke. Pharmacological treatments have limited efficacy and important side effects. Recently, ...

Parkinson’s disease seems to occur more commonly in men than women based primarily on studies of death rates and prevalence. In recent years, several population based incidence studies of Parkinson’s ...

OBJECTIVE To determine the efficacy, tolerability, and impact on quality of life and cognitive functioning of anticonvulsant prophylaxis with phenytoin or sodium valproate in patients after craniotomy ...

Objective There are few longitudinal studies of poststroke emotionalism (PSE) and our understanding of the psychological associations of PSE is limited, constraining assessment of existing ...

Idiopathic intracranial hypertension (IIH) is a rare but important disease associated with significant morbidity. There is an expected rise in prevalence in line with the escalating global burden of ...

Background: The high pressures documented in the intracranial venous sinuses in idiopathic intracranial hypertension (IIH) could be the result of focal stenotic lesions in the lateral sinuses ...

Short-lasting unilateral neuralgiform headache attacks with conjunctival injection and tearing (SUNCT) and short-lasting unilateral neuralgiform headache with autonomic symptoms (SUNA) are disabling ...

Methods Case-control study of 2151 people with MS and 486,125 controls using data from a longitudinal cohort (UK Biobank). MS was defined using ICD-coding or self-report. Associations with MS risk ...

There is no single diabetic neuropathy. A wide variety of syndromes involving the peripheral nerves may be encountered in patients with diabetes mellitus, implying a correspondingly diverse range of ...

Objective To investigate longitudinal brain atrophy in patients with neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder (NMOSD). Methods We investigated the longitudinal brain atrophy rate in patients with ...

Background Anti-aquaporin-4 antibody-positive neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder (AQP4Ab+NMOSD) is an inflammatory disorder of the central nervous system with relapse-dependent progression. Few ...