Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry (JNNP)

MRI characteristics during attack and remission distinguish patients with MOG antibody-associated disease from multiple sclerosis

Background Myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein antibody-associated disease (MOGAD) and multiple sclerosis (MS) have both ...
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Specialist inpatient treatment for severe motor conversion disorder: a retrospective comparative study

1 National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Biomedical Research Centre, South London & Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust and Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, London, UK 2 Section of ...
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Ataxic Guillain–Barré syndrome and acute sensory ataxic neuropathy form a continuous spectrum

2 Department of Anatomy (Macro), Dokkyo Medical University, Tochigi, Japan 3 Departments of Microbiology and Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore Correspondence to Prof Nobuhiro Yuki, ...
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The nosological position of apathy in clinical practice

Apathy is increasingly recognised as a common behavioural syndrome in psychiatric disorders, but it is conceptually ill defined. The aim of this study was to examine the concept of apathy as it is ...
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Headaches related to sexual activity.

Twenty-one patients experienced headache related to sexual activity. Two varieties of headache could be distinguished from the clinical histories. The first, developing as sexual excitement mount, had ...
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Brain temperature, body core temperature, and intracranial pressure in acute cerebral damage

OBJECTIVES To assess the frequency of hyperthermia in a population of acute neurosurgical patients; to assess the relation between brain temperature (ICT) and core temperature (Tc); to investigate the ...
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Hashimoto’s encephalopathy: steroid resistance and response to intravenous immunoglobulins

Department of Neurology, Leicester Royal Infirmary, University Hospitals of Leicester, Leicester LE1 5WW, UK Correspondence to: Dr Y A Rajabally Department of Neurology, University Hospitals of ...
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Stereotactic EEG-guided laser interstitial thermal therapy for mesial temporal lobe epilepsy

Correspondence to Dr James X Tao, Department of Neurology, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA; jtao{at}neurology.bsd.uchicago.edu Objective To determine the outcomes of combined ...
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“Hot cross bun” sign in a patient with parkinsonism secondary to presumed vasculitis

Division of Neuroscience and Psychological Medicine, Imperial College School of Medicine at Charing Cross Hospital, Fulham Palace Road, London, W6 8RF, UK If you wish to reuse any or all of this ...
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VIRAL ENCEPHALITIS: CAUSES, DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS, AND MANAGEMENT

Correspondence to: Professor P G E Kennedy Department of Neurology, University of Glasgow, Institute of Neurological Sciences, Southern General Hospital, Glasgow G51 4TF, UK; p.g.kennedyclinmed.gla.ac ...
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Use of 14–3–3 and other brain-specific proteins in CSF in the diagnosis of variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease

OBJECTIVES The detection of the protein 14–3–3 in the CSF has been shown to be a reliable and sensitive marker for sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD). Other brain-specific proteins such as ...
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Predictive value of Glasgow coma scale after brain trauma: change in trend over the past ten years

Background: Age and the Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) score on admission are considered important predictors of outcome after traumatic brain injury. We investigated the predictive value of the GCS in a ...