Dr G Midroni, Neurophysiology laboratory, St. Michael’s Hospital, 30 Bond Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5B 1W8. Telephone 00416 864 5193; fax 00416 864 6095. A 22 year old woman with recently ...

The brain is in a constant state of dynamic change, for example switching between cognitive and behavioural tasks, and between wakefulness and sleep. The brains of people with epilepsy have additional ...

Loss of nigrostriatal dopaminergic projection neurons is a key pathology in Parkinson’s disease, leading to abnormal function of basal ganglia motor circuits and the accompanying characteristic motor ...

Department of Neurology and Neuroscience, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ)-New Jersey Medical School, Newark, New Jersey, USA Background: Hypointense lesions on T1 weighted ...

University of Iowa, The Roy J and Lucille A Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, Iowa, USA Objective: The objective of the Predict-HD study is to use genetic, neurobiological and refined clinical ...

4 Department of Medical Genetics, St Mary’s Hospital, Hathersage Road, Manchester, UK Correspondence to: Dr A J Murray Institute of Medical Genetics, University Hospital of Wales, Heath Park, Cardiff ...

Correspondence to Dr Laura McWhirter, Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9YL, UK; laura.mcwhirter{at}ed.ac.uk Performance validity tests (PVTs) are widely used ...

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 ...

Correspondence to Professor Yong-Ping Chen, Department of Neurology, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China; Yongping.chen{at}wchscu.cn Background Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is ...

Correspondence to Dr Ali Alim-Marvasti, Department of Clinical and Experimental Epilepsy, Queen Square Institute of Neurology, University College London Faculty of Brain Sciences, London, UK; Alijesus ...

Background Case reports suggest a causal link between statins and myasthenia gravis (MG). Aims To assess the risk of MG onset and worsening with statin therapy. Methods (1) Retrospective case notes ...

Correspondence to Dr Michael A van Es, Department of Neurology, Brain Center Rudolf Magnus, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht 3584 CX, The Netherlands; M.A.vanEs{at}umcutrecht.nl Objectives ...