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Prevention of stroke

  • Should I start all my ischaemic stroke and TIA patients on a statin, an ACE inhibitor, a diuretic, and aspirin today?

    • P A G Sandercock
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2003;74:11 1461-1464 doi:10.1136/jnnp.74.11.1461

Psychopathology in epilepsy

  • Psychopathology in people with epilepsy and intellectual disability

    • F M C Besag
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2003;74:11 1464 doi:10.1136/jnnp.74.11.1464

Neuroplasticity and rehabilitation

  • Stroke: neuroplasticity and recent approaches to rehabilitation

    • R M Bracewell
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2003;74:11 1465 doi:10.1136/jnnp.74.11.1465

Review: neuroscience for neurologists

  • Nanotechnology for neuronal ion channels

    • F Lehmann-Horn,
    • K Jurkat-Rott
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2003;74:11 1466-1475 doi:10.1136/jnnp.74.11.1466

Review

  • Human cellular inflammation in the pathology of acute cerebral ischaemia

    • C J S Price,
    • E A Warburton,
    • D K Menon
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2003;74:11 1476-1484 doi:10.1136/jnnp.74.11.1476

Papers

  • Psychopathology in people with epilepsy and intellectual disability; an investigation of potential explanatory variables

    • C A Espie,
    • J Watkins,
    • L Curtice,
    • A Espie,
    • R Duncan,
    • J A Ryan,
    • M J Brodie,
    • K Mantala,
    • M Sterrick
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2003;74:11 1485-1492 doi:10.1136/jnnp.74.11.1485

  • Surgery for drug resistant partial epilepsy in children with focal cortical dysplasia: anatomical–clinical correlations and neurophysiological data in 10 patients

    • S Francione,
    • P Vigliano,
    • L Tassi,
    • F Cardinale,
    • R Mai,
    • G Lo Russo,
    • C Munari
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2003;74:11 1493-1501 doi:10.1136/jnnp.74.11.1493

  • Parkinson’s disease patients undershoot target size in handwriting and similar tasks

    • A W A Van Gemmert,
    • C H Adler,
    • G E Stelmach
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2003;74:11 1502-1508 doi:10.1136/jnnp.74.11.1502

  • Childhood onset generalised dystonia can be modelled by increased gain in the indirect basal ganglia pathway

    • T D Sanger
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2003;74:11 1509-1515 doi:10.1136/jnnp.74.11.1509

  • Familial motor neurone disease with dementia: phenotypic variation and cerebellar pathology

    • T M Polvikoski,
    • A Murray,
    • P S Harper,
    • J W Neal
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2003;74:11 1516-1520 doi:10.1136/jnnp.74.11.1516

  • The topography of metabolic deficits in posterior cortical atrophy (the visual variant of Alzheimer’s disease) with FDG-PET

    • P J Nestor,
    • D Caine,
    • T D Fryer,
    • J Clarke,
    • J R Hodges
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2003;74:11 1521-1529 doi:10.1136/jnnp.74.11.1521

  • Serum lipids and memory in a population based cohort of middle age women

    • V W Henderson,
    • J R Guthrie,
    • L Dennerstein
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2003;74:11 1530-1535 doi:10.1136/jnnp.74.11.1530

  • Gamma knife stereotactic radiosurgery for unilateral acoustic neuromas

    • J G Rowe,
    • M W R Radatz,
    • L Walton,
    • A Hampshire,
    • S Seaman,
    • A A Kemeny
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2003;74:11 1536-1542 doi:10.1136/jnnp.74.11.1536

  • Defining a role for the subthalamic nucleus within operative theoretical models of subcortical participation in language

    • B-M Whelan,
    • B E Murdoch,
    • D G Theodoros,
    • B Hall,
    • P Silburn
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2003;74:11 1543-1550 doi:10.1136/jnnp.74.11.1543

  • The longitudinal relation between brain lesion load and atrophy in multiple sclerosis: a 14 year follow up study

    • D T Chard,
    • P A Brex,
    • O Ciccarelli,
    • C M Griffin,
    • G J M Parker,
    • C Dalton,
    • D R Altmann,
    • A J Thompson,
    • D H Miller
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2003;74:11 1551-1554 doi:10.1136/jnnp.74.11.1551

  • A variant of multifocal motor neuropathy with acute, generalised presentation and persistent conduction blocks

    • J-P Lefaucheur,
    • N A Gregson,
    • I Gray,
    • F von Raison,
    • M Bertocchi,
    • A Créange
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2003;74:11 1555-1561 doi:10.1136/jnnp.74.11.1555

  • Stroke motor recovery: active neuromuscular stimulation and repetitive practice schedules

    • J H Cauraugh,
    • S B Kim
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2003;74:11 1562-1566 doi:10.1136/jnnp.74.11.1562

Neurological picture

  • Knitting artifact

    • E S Papathanasiou,
    • P Myrianthopoulou,
    • S S Papacostas
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2003;74:11 1501 doi:10.1136/jnnp.74.11.1501

  • CO poisoning seems to spare memory

    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2003;74:11 1508 doi:10.1136/jnnp.74.11.1508

  • The apolipoprotein E phenotype is not a visual loss susceptibility gene in Leber hereditary optic neuropathyβ

    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2003;74:11 1535 doi:10.1136/jnnp.74.11.1535

  • Eye traits identify coma types

    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2003;74:11 1561 doi:10.1136/jnnp.74.11.1561

  • Family shares a new nystagmus locus

    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2003;74:11 1580 doi:10.1136/jnnp.74.11.1580

Short reports

  • A randomised placebo controlled study to assess the effects of cholinergic treatment on muscarinic receptors in Alzheimer’s disease

    • P M Kemp,
    • C Holmes,
    • S Hoffmann,
    • S Wilkinson,
    • M Zivanovic,
    • J Thom,
    • L Bolt,
    • J Fleming,
    • D G Wilkinson
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2003;74:11 1567-1570 doi:10.1136/jnnp.74.11.1567

  • Awakenings from persistent vegetative state: report of three cases with parkinsonism and brain stem lesions on MRI

    • W Matsuda,
    • A Matsumura,
    • Y Komatsu,
    • K Yanaka,
    • T Nose
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2003;74:11 1571-1573 doi:10.1136/jnnp.74.11.1571

  • Medical and environmental risk factors for sporadic frontotemporal dementia: a retrospective case–control study

    • S M Rosso,
    • E-J Landweer,
    • M Houterman,
    • L Donker Kaat,
    • C M van Duijn,
    • J C van Swieten
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2003;74:11 1574-1576 doi:10.1136/jnnp.74.11.1574

  • Spinal cord MRI in clinically isolated optic neuritis

    • C M Dalton,
    • P A Brex,
    • K A Miszkiel,
    • K Fernando,
    • D G MacManus,
    • G T Plant,
    • A J Thompson,
    • D H Miller
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2003;74:11 1577-1580 doi:10.1136/jnnp.74.11.1577

  • Lymphocytic hypophysitis successfully treated with azathioprine: first case report

    • A Lecube,
    • G Francisco,
    • D Rodríguez,
    • A Ortega,
    • A Codina,
    • C Hernández,
    • R Simó
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2003;74:11 1581-1583 doi:10.1136/jnnp.74.11.1581

  • Mood changes with deep brain stimulation of STN and GPi: results of a pilot study

    • M S Okun,
    • J Green,
    • R Saben,
    • R Gross,
    • K D Foote,
    • J L Vitek
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2003;74:11 1584-1586 doi:10.1136/jnnp.74.11.1584

  • Prevalence and impact of depression and pain in neurology outpatients

    • L S Williams,
    • W J Jones,
    • J Shen,
    • R L Robinson,
    • M Weinberger,
    • K Kroenke
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2003;74:11 1587-1589 doi:10.1136/jnnp.74.11.1587

  • SUNCT syndrome secondary to prolactinoma

    • M S Matharu,
    • M J Levy,
    • R T Merry,
    • P J Goadsby
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2003;74:11 1590-1592 doi:10.1136/jnnp.74.11.1590

Historical note

  • Cerebral embolism in endocarditis: William Senhouse Kirkes (1823–64)

    • J M S Pearce
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2003;74:11 1570 doi:10.1136/jnnp.74.11.1570

Neuronline

Letters

  • Intramedullary migration of spinal cord lipoma

    • A Kamat,
    • G Findlay
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2003;74:11 1593-1594 doi:10.1136/jnnp.74.11.1593

  • Economy class stroke syndromes: vertebral artery dissection revisited

    • M J Lewis,
    • R J Greenwood,
    • S Brew,
    • H R Jäger
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2003;74:11 1594-1595 doi:10.1136/jnnp.74.11.1594

  • Adult paraneoplastic opsoclonus-myoclonus syndrome associated with antimitochondrial autoantibodies

    • F Blaes,
    • M Jauss,
    • J Kraus,
    • P Oschmann,
    • I Krasenbrink,
    • M Kaps,
    • B Teegen
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2003;74:11 1595-1596 doi:10.1136/jnnp.74.11.1595

  • Adult tethered cord syndrome presenting with refractory diarrhoea

    • A Marushima,
    • A Matsumura,
    • K Fujita,
    • T Enomoto,
    • T Nose
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2003;74:11 1596-1597 doi:10.1136/jnnp.74.11.1596

Correspondence

  • Deep brain stimulation for cervical dystonia

    • J K Krauss
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2003;74:11 1598 doi:10.1136/jnnp.74.11.1598

  • Failure of regular external ventricular drain exchange to reduce CSF infection

    • I E Sandalcioglu,
    • D Stolke
    1. Commentator:
      • W S Poon and
      • G K C Wong
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2003;74:11 1598-1599 doi:10.1136/jnnp.74.11.1598-a

  • Non-convulsive status epilepticus

    • D Audenino,
    • L Cocito,
    • A Primavera
    1. Commentator:
      • A M Husain
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2003;74:11 1599-1600 doi:10.1136/jnnp.74.11.1599

  • Hemicraniectomy for large middle cerebral artery territory infarction: do these patients really benefit from this procedure?

    • I E Sandalcioglu,
    • B Schoch,
    • F Rauhut
    1. Commentator:
      • M B Pranesh and
      • B Prakash
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2003;74:11 1600 doi:10.1136/jnnp.74.11.1600

Book reviews

  • Psychiatric genetics and genomics

    • W J Muir
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2003;74:11 1600-1601 doi:10.1136/jnnp.74.11.1600-a

  • Psychiatric and cognitive disorders in Parkinson’s disease

    • I Hegeman Richard
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2003;74:11 1601 doi:10.1136/jnnp.74.11.1601

  • Surgical treatment of Parkinson’s disease and other movement disorders

    • P Bain
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2003;74:11 1601 doi:10.1136/jnnp.74.11.1601-a

  • Concise guide to neuropsychiatry and behavioural neurology, 2nd edition

    • M Husain
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2003;74:11 1601-1602 doi:10.1136/jnnp.74.11.1601-b

  • Neural stem cells for brain and spinal cord repair

    • G Raisman
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2003;74:11 1602 doi:10.1136/jnnp.74.11.1602

  • Perspectives in affective disorders, Vol 21

    • C Bench
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2003;74:11 1602 doi:10.1136/jnnp.74.11.1602-a

  • Obsessive compulsive disorder: a practical guide

    • C Bench
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2003;74:11 1602 doi:10.1136/jnnp.74.11.1602-b

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