August 2003, Volume 74, Issue 8

Transition from paediatric to adult medical services for young people with chronic neurological problems

• C Tuffrey,
• A Pearce

Neuroscience for neurologists

• P F Chinnery,
• C Kennard

Mental deterioration late after head injury—does it happen?

• N Brooks

Spinal cord atrophy and disability in multiple sclerosis over four years

• M A Horsfield,
• M Filippi

Cruveilhier and acoustic neuroma

• J M S Pearce

A note on hiccups

• J M S Pearce

The West Riding Lunatic Asylum

• J M S Pearce

Neurovirological methods and their applications

• P G E Kennedy

A novel quality of life instrument for deep brain stimulation in movement disorders

• A Kuehler,
• G Henrich,
• U Schroeder,
• B Conrad,
• P Herschbach,
• A Ceballos-Baumann

Identification of target areas for deep brain stimulation in human basal ganglia substructures based on median nerve sensory evoked potential criteria

• F Klostermann,
• J Vesper,
• G Curio

Deep brain stimulation of the subthalamic nucleus in Parkinson’s disease: evaluation of active electrode contacts

• W Hamel,
• U Fietzek,
• A Morsnowski,
• B Schrader,
• J Herzog,
• D Weinert,
• G Pfister,
• D Müller,
• J Volkmann,
• G Deuschl,
• H M Mehdorn

Long term neuropsychological outcome after head injury: relation to APOE genotype

• K Millar,
• J A R Nicoll,
• S Thornhill,
• G D Murray,
• G M Teasdale

Cerebral vasomotor reactivity testing in head injury: the link between pressure and flow

• E W Lang,
• J Lagopoulos,
• J Griffith,
• K Yip,
• A Yam,
• Y Mudaliar,
• H M Mehdorn,
• N W C Dorsch

Social deprivation and adult head injury: a national study

• L Dunn,
• J Henry,
• D Beard

Counterfactual cognitive deficit in persons with Parkinson’s disease

• P McNamara,
• R Durso,
• A Brown,
• A Lynch

Entacapone is beneficial in both fluctuating and non-fluctuating patients with Parkinson’s disease: a randomised, placebo controlled, double blind, six month study

• D J Brooks,
• H Sagar,
• The Uk-Irish Entacapone Study Group

Post-transplantation HTLV-1 myelopathy in three recipients from a single donor

• J J Zarranz Imirizaldu,
• J C Gomez Esteban,
• I Rouco Axpe,
• T Perez Concha,
• F Velasco Juanes,
• I Allue Susaeta,
• J M Corral Carranceja

Neuropsychological assessment in HTLV-1 infection: a comparative study among TSP/HAM, asymptomatic carriers, and healthy controls

• M T T Silva,
• P Mattos,
• A Alfano,
• A Q-C Araújo

Spinal cord atrophy and disability in multiple sclerosis over four years: application of a reproducible automated technique in monitoring disease progression in a cohort of the interferon β-1a (Rebif) treatment trial

• X Lin,
• C R Tench,
• B Turner,
• L D Blumhardt,
• C S Constantinescu

The management of refractory generalised convulsive and complex partial status epilepticus in three European countries: a survey among epileptologists and critical care neurologists

• M Holtkamp,
• F Masuhr,
• L Harms,
• K M Einhäupl,
• H Meierkord,
• K Buchheim

Antithrombotic drugs in secondary stroke prevention among a community dwelling older population

• F Landi,
• M Cesari,
• G Onder,
• V Zamboni,
• F Lattanzio,
• A Russo,
• C Barillaro,
• R Bernabei

Evidence of underdiagnosis of myasthenia gravis in older people

• A Vincent,
• L Clover,
• C Buckley,
• J Grimley Evans,
• P M Rothwell

Motor system abnormalities in hereditary spastic paraparesis type 4 (SPG4) depend on the type of mutation in the spastin gene

• D Bönsch,
• A Schwindt,
• P Navratil,
• D Palm,
• C Neumann,
• S Klimpe,
• J Schickel,
• J Hazan,
• C Weiller,
• T Deufel,
• J Liepert

Hemisensory syndrome is associated with a low diagnostic yield and a nearly uniform benign prognosis

• C Toth

Predictors of successful self control during brain-computer communication

• N Neumann,
• N Birbaumer

MS society websites: www.mssociety.org.uk and www.nationalmssociety.org

• A Wilkins

August von Wassermann (1866–1925)

• L F Haas

Clinical MRI dissociation in myelopathy: a clue to sarcoidosis?

• S Ravaglia,
• E Marchioni,
• A Moglia,
• L Montalbetti

Features involved in the diagnostic delay of cluster headache

• J A van Vliet,
• P J E Eekers,
• J Haan,
• M D Ferrari

Acute headache as a presenting symptom of tacrolimus encephalopathy

• I M Kiemeneij,
• F-E de Leeuw,
• L M P Ramos,
• J van Gijn

Genetic loading in familial migraine with aura

• S E Noble-Topham,
• M Z Cader,
• D A Dyment,
• G P A Rice,
• J D Brown,
• G C Ebers

Pseudosubarachnoid haemorrhage in subdural haematoma

• A A Rabinstein,
• S J Pittock,
• G M Miller,
• J J Schindler,
• E F M Wijdicks

Pituitary deficiency following aneurysmal subarachnoid haemorrhage

• I Kreitschmann-Andermahr,
• C Hoff,
• S Niggemeier,
• S Pruemper,
• M Bruegmann,
• D Kunz,
• S Matern,
• J M Gilsbach

Increased visual cortical excitability in ecstasy users: a transcranial magnetic stimulation study

• M Oliveri,
• G Calvo

Corticosteroids do not prevent optic nerve atrophy following optic neuritis

• S J Hickman,
• R Kapoor,
• S J Jones,
• D R Altmann,
• G T Plant,
• D H Miller

Progressive multifocal leucoencephalopathy with unusual inflammatory response during antiretroviral treatment

• C Hoffmann,
• H-A Horst,
• H Albrecht,
• W Schlote

Spatial vision in visually asymptomatic subjects at high risk for multiple sclerosis

• L Frisén

Prospective Belgian study of neurodegenerative and vascular dementia: APOE genotype effects

• S Engelborghs,
• B Dermaut,
• J Goeman,
• J Saerens,
• P Mariën,
• BA Pickut,
• M Van den Broeck,
• S Serneels,
• M Cruts,
• C Van Broeckhoven,
• P P De Deyn

Deterioration of pre-existing hemiparesis brought about by subsequent ipsilateral lacunar infarction

• T Ago,
• T Kitazono,
• H Ooboshi,
• J Takada,
• T Yoshiura,
• F Mihara,
• S Ibayashi,
• M Iida

The effect of fatigue on abnormal vibration induced illusion of movement in idiopathic focal dystonia

• N Frima,
• S M Rome,
• R A Grünewald

Crohn’s associated NOD2 gene variants are not involved in determining susceptibility to multiple sclerosis

• S Sawcer,
• M Maranian,
• A Hensiek,
• R Roxburgh,
• J Gray,
• A Compston

Favourable outcome of a brain trauma patient despite bilateral loss of cortical somatosensory evoked potential during thiopental sedation

• P A Robe,
• A Dubuisson,
• S Bartsch,
• P Damas,
• S Laureys

Epidemiology of the mitochondrial DNA 8344A>G mutation for the myoclonus epilepsy and ragged red fibres (MERRF) syndrome

• A M Remes,
• M Kärppä,
• H Rusanen,
• K Majamaa,
• I E Hassinen,
• J S Moilanen,
• S Uimonen,
• M Sorri,
• P I Salmela,
• S-L Karvonen,
• S-L Karvonen

Shifts in angiotensin I converting enzyme insertion allele frequency across Europe: implications for Alzheimer’s disease risk

• F Panza,
• V Solfrizzi,
• A D’Introno,
• A M Colacicco,
• C Capurso,
• A Capurso,
• P G Kehoe

Polymorphisms of toxifying and detoxifying hepatic enzymes in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

• R Bachus,
• K Neubert,
• I Roots,
• J Prudlo,
• J Brockmöller,
• A C Ludolph

Neutralising antibodies to interferon β during the treatment of multiple sclerosis

• C H Polman,
• L Kappos,
• J Petkau,
• A Thompson

Neutralising antibodies to interferon β

• C Ortenzi

A 1908 systematic review of the laterality of hysterical hemiplegia

• J Stone,
• C Warlow,
• A Carson,
• M Sharpe

Resolution of psychiatric symptoms secondary to herpes simplex encephalitis

• T A-Z K Gaber,
• M Eshiett

Radiofrequency neurotomy

• O Kwan,
• J Friel

CORRECTIONS

ABN Abstracts: Joint congress Association of British Neurologists and the Neurological Association of South Africa, University of Cape Town, 29 January – 1 February 2003