Background: The presence of Lewy bodies (LB) in the neocortex and limbic system in patients with Parkinson’s disease (PD) is commonly thought to be linked with cognitive impairment. The authors ...

OBJECTIVES Routine data collection is now considered mandatory. Therefore, staff rated clinical scales that consist of multiple items should have the minimum number of items necessary for rigorous ...

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, ...

Correspondence to Ondrej Bradac, Department of Neurosurgery and Neurooncology, Military University Hospital, Charles University First Faculty of Medicine, Prague 121 08, Czech Republic; ...

Objective: To review the nature of the presentation of neurosyphilis, the value of diagnostic tests, and the classification of the disease. Methods: A retrospective review was carried out of the ...

Department of Neuropathology, National Hospitals for Nervous Diseases, London, UK. The Lewy body is a distinctive neuronal inclusion that is always found in the substantia nigra and other specific ...

Objective To compare survival, life expectancies (LE), and the anticipated age at the time of death (AAD), in a community-based cohort of Parkinson's disease (PD) patients with and without significant ...

The deep tendon reflexes (and the abdominal reflexes) are important physical signs which have a special place in neurological diagnosis, particularly in early disease when they alone may be abnormal.

4 Department of Neurology, Strasbourg University and Clinical Investigation Center, Strasbourg Hospital, France Correspondence to Dr Jerome de Seze, Department of Neurology and Clinical Investigation ...

OBJECTIVE Intractable epilepsy is related to various transient and chronic brain electric and neurochemical disturbances. There is increasing evidence that chronic epilepsy induces secondary neuronal ...

Objective: Paraneoplastic neuropathy is a clinical and immunological heterogeneous disorder and attempts have been made to classify subgroups of this disease. Only 30–50% of the clinical defined cases ...

Correspondence to: Professor AJ Lees, Reta Lila Weston Institute of Neurological Studies, Royal Free and University College London Medical School, Windeyer Institute of Medical Science, 46 Cleveland ...