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Reducing mortality in epilepsy

  • Reducing mortality: an important aim of epilepsy management

    • J W Sander,
    • G S Bell
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2004;75:3 349-351 doi:10.1136/jnnp.2003.029223

Acute stroke

  • Predicting functional outcome in acute stroke—prognostic models and clinical judgement

    • U G R Schulz
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2004;75:3 351-352 doi:10.1136/jnnp.2003.032383

Early changes in parkinsonian brain

  • Early pathological changes in the parkinsonian brain

    • K Abe
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2004;75:3 352 doi:10.1136/jnnp.2003.031880

Neuroscience for neurologists

  • Cerebral perfusion and stroke

    • H S Markus
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2004;75:3 353-361 doi:10.1136/jnnp.2003.025825

Review

  • Delirium

    • A Burns,
    • A Gallagley,
    • J Byrne
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2004;75:3 362-367 doi:10.1136/jnnp.2003.023366

Lesson of the month

  • Idiopathic recurrent stupor: a warning

    • R Granot,
    • S F Berkovic,
    • S Patterson,
    • M Hopwood,
    • R Mackenzie
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2004;75:3 368-369 doi:10.1136/jnnp.2003.021691

Echo

  • Eating fats may not affect risk of stroke in men after all

    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2004;75:3 369

Papers

  • Brain metabolic decreases related to the dose of the ApoE e4 allele in Alzheimer’s disease

    • L Mosconi,
    • B Nacmias,
    • S Sorbi,
    • M T R De Cristofaro,
    • M Fayazz,
    • A Tedde,
    • L Bracco,
    • K Herholz,
    • A Pupi
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2004;75:3 370-376 doi:10.1136/jnnp.2003.014993

  • Association study of Notch 4 polymorphisms with Alzheimer’s disease

    • J-C Lambert,
    • D Mann,
    • J Harris,
    • L Araria-Goumidi,
    • M-C Chartier-Harlin,
    • D Cottel,
    • T Iwatsubo,
    • P Amouyel,
    • C Lendon
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2004;75:3 377-381 doi:10.1136/jnnp.2003.017368

  • Fluctuating cognition in dementia with Lewy bodies and Alzheimer’s disease is qualitatively distinct

    • J Bradshaw,
    • M Saling,
    • M Hopwood,
    • V Anderson,
    • A Brodtmann
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2004;75:3 382-387 doi:10.1136/jnnp.2002.002576

  • A short scale for the assessment of motor impairments and disabilities in Parkinson’s disease: the SPES/SCOPA

    • J Marinus,
    • M Visser,
    • A M Stiggelbout,
    • J Martin Rabey,
    • P Martínez-Martín,
    • U Bonuccelli,
    • P H Kraus,
    • J J van Hilten
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2004;75:3 388-395 doi:10.1136/jnnp.2003.017509

  • Use and interpretation of on/off diaries in Parkinson’s disease

    • J Reimer,
    • M Grabowski,
    • O Lindvall,
    • P Hagell
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2004;75:3 396-400 doi:10.1136/jnnp.2003.022780

  • Predicting functional outcome in acute stroke: comparison of a simple six variable model with other predictive systems and informal clinical prediction

    • C Counsell,
    • M Dennis,
    • M McDowall
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2004;75:3 401-405 doi:10.1136/jnnp.2003.018085

  • Provision of 24 hour acute neurology care by neurologists: manpower requirements in the UK

    • C Carroll,
    • J Zajicek
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2004;75:3 406-409 doi:10.1136/jnnp.2003.018010

  • Prospective validation of a proposal for diagnosis and management of patients attending the emergency department for mild head injury

    • A Fabbri,
    • F Servadei,
    • G Marchesini,
    • A M Morselli-Labate,
    • M Dente,
    • T Iervese,
    • M Spada,
    • A Vandelli
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2004;75:3 410-416 doi:10.1136/jnnp.2003.016113

  • Neurophysiological testing correlates with clinical examination according to fibre type involvement and severity in sensory neuropathy

    • J-P Lefaucheur,
    • A Créange
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2004;75:3 417-422 doi:10.1136/jnnp.2003.019208

  • Comparative analysis of the spatial distribution and severity of cerebral microbleeds and old lacunes

    • S-H Lee,
    • H-J Bae,
    • S-B Ko,
    • H Kim,
    • B-W Yoon,
    • J-K Roh
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2004;75:3 423-427 doi:10.1136/jnnp.2003.015990

  • Unilateral posterior parietal lobe lesions disrupt kinaesthetic representation of forearm orientation

    • W G Darling,
    • R Bartelt,
    • M Rizzo
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2004;75:3 428-435 doi:10.1136/jnnp.2003.026138

  • Acute ophthalmoparesis in the anti-GQ1b antibody syndrome: electrophysiological evidence of neuromuscular transmission defect in the orbicularis oculi

    • Y L Lo,
    • L L Chan,
    • A Pan,
    • P Ratnagopal
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2004;75:3 436-440 doi:10.1136/jnnp.2003.023630

  • Diffusion tensor MRI correlates with executive dysfunction in patients with ischaemic leukoaraiosis

    • M O’Sullivan,
    • R G Morris,
    • B Huckstep,
    • D K Jones,
    • S C R Williams,
    • H S Markus
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2004;75:3 441-447 doi:10.1136/jnnp.2003.014910

  • Autosomal dominant cerebellar ataxia: SCA2 is the most frequent mutation in eastern India

    • K K Sinha,
    • P F Worth,
    • D K Jha,
    • S Sinha,
    • V J Stinton,
    • M B Davis,
    • N W Wood,
    • M G Sweeney,
    • K P Bhatia
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2004;75:3 448-452 doi:10.1136/jnnp.2002.004895

  • Removal of large acoustic neurinomas (vestibular schwannomas) by the retrosigmoid approach with no mortality and minimal morbidity

    • I Yamakami,
    • Y Uchino,
    • E Kobayashi,
    • A Yamaura,
    • N Oka
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2004;75:3 453-458 doi:10.1136/jnnp.2003.010827

  • Spinocerebellar ataxia type 8 in Scotland: genetic and clinical features in seven unrelated cases and a review of published reports

    • A Zeman,
    • J Stone,
    • M Porteous,
    • E Burns,
    • L Barron,
    • J Warner
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2004;75:3 459-465 doi:10.1136/jnnp.2003.018895

  • Cerebral motor control in patients with gliomas around the central sulcus studied with spatially filtered magnetoencephalography

    • M Taniguchi,
    • A Kato,
    • H Ninomiya,
    • M Hirata,
    • D Cheyne,
    • S E Robinson,
    • M Maruno,
    • Y Saitoh,
    • H Kishima,
    • T Yoshimine
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2004;75:3 466-471 doi:10.1136/jnnp.2002.001834

  • Saccade dysfunction associated with chronic petrol sniffing and lead encephalopathy

    • S Cairney,
    • P Maruff,
    • C B Burns,
    • J Currie,
    • B J Currie
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2004;75:3 472-476 doi:10.1136/jnnp.2003.019406

Historical note

  • Silas Weir Mitchell and the “rest cure”

    • J M S Pearce
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2004;75:3 381 doi:10.1136/jnnp.2002.002386

Neurological picture

  • Cerebral metastasis of renal carcinoma mimicking venous haemorrhagic infarction

    • G C Petzold,
    • J M Valdueza,
    • C Zimmer
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2004;75:3 477 doi:10.1136/jnnp.2003.024166

Short reports

  • Association of polymorphisms in the Tau and Saitohin genes with Parkinson’s disease

    • C Levecque,
    • A Elbaz,
    • J Clavel,
    • J S Vidal,
    • P Amouyel,
    • A Alpérovitch,
    • C Tzourio,
    • M C Chartier-Harlin
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2004;75:3 478-480 doi:10.1136/jnnp.2003.015750

  • Early pathological changes in the parkinsonian brain demonstrated by diffusion tensor MRI

    • K Yoshikawa,
    • Y Nakata,
    • K Yamada,
    • M Nakagawa
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2004;75:3 481-484 doi:10.1136/jnnp.2003.021873

  • MRI characteristics of sporadic CJD with valine homozygosity at codon 129 of the prion protein gene and PrPSc type 2 in Japan

    • R Fukushima,
    • Y Shiga,
    • M Nakamura,
    • J Fujimori,
    • T Kitamoto,
    • Y Yoshida
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2004;75:3 485-487 doi:10.1136/jnnp.2002.008011

  • Ictal magnetoencephalographic study in a patient with ring 20 syndrome

    • N Tanaka,
    • K Kamada,
    • F Takeuchi
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2004;75:3 488-490 doi:10.1136/jnnp.2003.020438

  • A systematic review of Terson’s syndrome: frequency and prognosis after subarachnoid haemorrhage

    • M O McCarron,
    • M J Alberts,
    • P McCarron
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2004;75:3 491-493 doi:10.1136/jnnp.2003.016816

  • Coexistent blepharospasm and hemifacial spasm: overlapping pathophysiologic mechanism?

    • E-K Tan,
    • L-L Chan,
    • K-K Koh
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2004;75:3 494-496 doi:10.1136/jnnp.2003.019331

  • The exercise test as a monitor of disease status in hypokalaemic periodic paralysis

    • C H Tengan,
    • A C Antunes,
    • A A Gabbai,
    • G M Manzano
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2004;75:3 497-499 doi:10.1136/jnnp.2003.013870

  • Female preclinical presenilin-1 mutation carriers unaware of their genetic status have higher levels of depression than their non-mutation carrying kin

    • J M Ringman,
    • C Diaz-Olavarrieta,
    • Y Rodriguez,
    • M Chavez,
    • F Paz,
    • J Murrell,
    • M Angel Macias,
    • M Hill,
    • C Kawas
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2004;75:3 500-502 doi:10.1136/jnnp.2002.005025

  • Spinocerebellar ataxia type 2 with glial cell cytoplasmic inclusions

    • S Probst-Cousin,
    • T Acker,
    • J T Epplen,
    • M Bergmann,
    • K H Plate,
    • B Neundörfer,
    • D Heuss
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2004;75:3 503-505 doi:10.1136/jnnp.2003.011825

Letters

  • Use of prostacyclin (iloprost) in digital vasculitis secondary to meningococcaemia

    • K Siddiqui,
    • A R R Razak,
    • B Kneafsey,
    • N Delanty
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2004;75:3 506 doi:10.1136/jnnp.2003.024745

  • Etizolam and benzodiazepine induced blepharospasm

    • M Wakakura,
    • T Tsubouchi,
    • J Inouye
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2004;75:3 506-507 doi:10.1136/jnnp.2003.019869

  • Pure motor stroke with major involvement of the index finger

    • M Kobayashi,
    • M Sonoo,
    • T Shimizu
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2004;75:3 507-508 doi:10.1136/jnnp.2003.015685

  • The effect of interferon beta-1a on spasticity in primary progressive multiple sclerosis

    • S M Leary,
    • A J Thompson
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2004;75:3 508-509 doi:10.1136/jnnp.2003.018598

  • A breathtaking headache

    • J I Hoff,
    • B R Bloem,
    • M D Ferrari,
    • G J Lammers
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2004;75:3 509 doi:10.1136/jnnp.2003.015701

Correspondence

  • Ischaemic stroke in chagasic patients

    • A L Teixeira, Jr,
    • M M Teixeira
    1. Commentator:
      • F J Carod-Artal,
      • A P Vargas,
      • M Melo,
      • and T A Horan
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2004;75:3 510

  • Efficacy of methyprednisolone pulse therapy on neuroleptic malignant syndrome in Parkinson’s disease

    • C E Clarke
    1. Commentator:
      • Y Sato,
      • T Asoh,
      • N Metoki,
      • and K Satoh
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2004;75:3 510-511

  • Mesencephalic ischemia and Parkinson’s disease

    • H Rafael
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2004;75:3 511

  • Traumatic brain injury as a risk factor for Alzheimer’s disease

    • K A Jellinger
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2004;75:3 511-512

  • The specificity of prescription patterns in secondary stroke prevention

    • G Bellelli,
    • M Trabucchi
    1. Commentator:
      • F Landi,
      • G Onder,
      • and R Bernabei
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2004;75:3 512

  • Relationship between stridor and sleep apnoea syndrome: is it as simple as that?

    • I Ghorayeb,
    • B Bioulac,
    • F Tison
    1. Commentator:
      • M Hirayama,
      • G Sobue,
      • H Fukatsu,
      • and Y Koike
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2004;75:3 512-513

Book reviews

  • Biological psychiatry, Vol 1 and 2

    • T R E Barnes
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2004;75:3 513-514

  • The bereitschaftspotential movement-related cortical potentials

    • M Lakie
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2004;75:3 514

  • Classic cases in neuropsychology, Vol 2

    • M Husain
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2004;75:3 514

  • Assessment of aphasia

    • D Howard
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2004;75:3 514

  • Intraoperative imaging in neurosurgery MRI, CT and ultrasound

    • J van Dellen
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2004;75:3 515

  • New frontiers of MR-based techniques in multiple sclerosis

    • P Matthews
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2004;75:3 515

  • History of neurology in The Netherlands

    • I McDonald
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2004;75:3 515

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