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Editorial commentaries

  • Auditory nerve compression: a forgotten treatable cause for tinnitus

    • Dirk De Ridder
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2010;81:4 355 doi:10.1136/jnnp.2009.178855

  • Impact of secondary prevention on survival in patients with stroke: from clinical trials to clinical practice

    • Yannick Béjot,
    • Maurice Giroud
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2010;81:4 356 doi:10.1136/jnnp.2009.197772
    Press Release

  • Active upper-limb movement can be improved in hemiplegic patients by botulinum toxin injection

    • Alain Yelnik
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2010;81:4 357 doi:10.1136/jnnp.2009.197780

Neuromuscular

  • The myotonic dystrophies: diagnosis and management

    • Chris Turner,
    • David Hilton-Jones
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2010;81:4 358-367 Published Online First: 22 February 2010 doi:10.1136/jnnp.2008.158261
    Editor's Choice

Spinal cord injury

  • Mortality after traumatic spinal cord injury: 50 years of follow-up

    • Ellen Merete Hagen,
    • Stein Atle Lie,
    • Tiina Rekand,
    • Nils Erik Gilhus,
    • Marit Gronning
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2010;81:4 368-373 Published Online First: 2 September 2009 doi:10.1136/jnnp.2009.178798

Neurosurgery

  • Posterior cerebral artery P1 segment at the stoma during endoscopic third ventriculostomy in adults

    • Andrew J Fabiano,
    • Jody Leonardo,
    • Walter Grand
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2010;81:4 374-378 Published Online First: 2 September 2009 doi:10.1136/jnnp.2009.177360

Neurodegeneration

  • Progression in prediagnostic Huntington disease

    • Jason Rupp,
    • Tanya Blekher,
    • Jacqueline Jackson,
    • Xabier Beristain,
    • Jeanine Marshall,
    • Siu Hui,
    • Joanne Wojcieszek,
    • Tatiana Foroud
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2010;81:4 379-384 Published Online First: 1 September 2009 doi:10.1136/jnnp.2009.176982

  • Incidence of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis in Europe

    • Giancarlo Logroscino,
    • Bryan J Traynor,
    • Orla Hardiman,
    • Adriano Chiò,
    • Douglas Mitchell,
    • Robert J Swingler,
    • Andrea Millul,
    • Emma Benn,
    • Ettore Beghi,
    • for EURALS
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2010;81:4 385-390 Published Online First: 25 August 2009 doi:10.1136/jnnp.2009.183525

Movement disorders

  • A comparative study of LRRK2, PINK1 and genetically undefined familial Parkinson's disease

    • Kenya Nishioka,
    • Mounir Kefi,
    • Barbara Jasinska-Myga,
    • Christian Wider,
    • Carles Vilariño-Güell,
    • Owen A Ross,
    • Michael G Heckman,
    • Lefkos T Middleton,
    • Lianna Ishihara-Paul,
    • Rachel A Gibson,
    • Rim Amouri,
    • Samia Ben Yahmed,
    • Samia Ben Sassi,
    • Mourad Zouari,
    • Ghada El Euch,
    • Matthew J Farrer,
    • Faycal Hentati
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2010;81:4 391-395 Published Online First: 2 September 2009 doi:10.1136/jnnp.2009.185231

  • Olfactory testing combined with dopamine transporter imaging as a method to detect prodromal Parkinson's disease

    • Mirthe M Ponsen,
    • Diederick Stoffers,
    • Erik Ch Wolters,
    • Jan Booij,
    • Henk W Berendse
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2010;81:4 396-399 Published Online First: 3 December 2009 doi:10.1136/jnnp.2009.183715

  • Secondary parkinsonism due to arachnoid cyst of the frontal lobe

    • Dorina Tiple,
    • Floriana De Angelis,
    • Aldo Spallone,
    • Carlo Colosimo
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2010;81:4 400 doi:10.1136/jnnp.2009.177683

Multiple sclerosis

  • Magnetic resonance evidence of cerebellar cortical pathology in multiple sclerosis

    • Massimiliano Calabrese,
    • Irene Mattisi,
    • Francesca Rinaldi,
    • Alice Favaretto,
    • Matteo Atzori,
    • Valentina Bernardi,
    • Luigi Barachino,
    • Chiara Romualdi,
    • Luciano Rinaldi,
    • Paola Perini,
    • Paolo Gallo
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2010;81:4 401-404 Published Online First: 3 December 2009 doi:10.1136/jnnp.2009.177733

  • Cervical cord functional MRI changes in relapse-onset MS patients

    • P Valsasina,
    • F Agosta,
    • M Absinta,
    • S Sala,
    • D Caputo,
    • M Filippi
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2010;81:4 405-408 Published Online First: 3 December 2009 doi:10.1136/jnnp.2009.187526

  • Magnetic resonance spectroscopy evaluation in patients with neuromyelitis optica

    • Jérôme de Seze,
    • Frédéric Blanc,
    • Stéphane Kremer,
    • Nicolas Collongues,
    • Marie Fleury,
    • Christophe Marcel,
    • Izzie-Jacques Namer
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2010;81:4 409-411 doi:10.1136/jnnp.2008.168070

Cerebrovascular disease

  • Transoesophageal echocardiography in patients with acute stroke with sinus rhythm and no cardiac disease history

    • Hyun-Ji Cho,
    • Hye-Yeon Choi,
    • Young Dae Kim,
    • Hyo-Suk Nam,
    • Sang Won Han,
    • Jong Won Ha,
    • Nam-Sik Chung,
    • Ji Hoe Heo
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2010;81:4 412-415 Published Online First: 3 December 2009 doi:10.1136/jnnp.2009.190322

  • Declining 1-year case-fatality of stroke and increasing coverage of vascular risk management: population-based cohort study

    • Martin C Gulliford,
    • Judith Charlton,
    • Anthony Rudd,
    • Charles D Wolfe,
    • André Michael Toschke
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2010;81:4 416-422 Published Online First: 22 February 2010 doi:10.1136/jnnp.2009.193136
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  • Kinematic improvement following Botulinum Toxin-A injection in upper-limb spasticity due to stroke

    • Esteban A Fridman,
    • Marcos Crespo,
    • Santiago Gomez Argüello,
    • Lorena Degue,
    • Mirta Villarreal,
    • Stephan Bohlhalter,
    • Lewis Wheaton,
    • Mark Hallett
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2010;81:4 423-427 Published Online First: 3 December 2009 doi:10.1136/jnnp.2009.188052

Migraine

  • Sociodemographic and comorbidity profiles of chronic migraine and episodic migraine sufferers

    • D C Buse,
    • A Manack,
    • D Serrano,
    • C Turkel,
    • R B Lipton
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2010;81:4 428-432 Published Online First: 17 February 2010 doi:10.1136/jnnp.2009.192492
    Patient's ChoicePress Release

Cognitive neurology

  • Metabolic syndrome and the risk of vascular dementia: the Italian Longitudinal Study on Ageing

    • Vincenzo Solfrizzi,
    • Emanuele Scafato,
    • Cristiano Capurso,
    • Alessia D'Introno,
    • Anna Maria Colacicco,
    • Vincenza Frisardi,
    • Gianluigi Vendemiale,
    • Marzia Baldereschi,
    • Gaetano Crepaldi,
    • Antonio Di Carlo,
    • Lucia Galluzzo,
    • Claudia Gandin,
    • Domenico Inzitari,
    • Stefania Maggi,
    • Antonio Capurso,
    • Francesco Panza,
    • for the Italian Longitudinal Study on Ageing Working Group *
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2010;81:4 433-440 Published Online First: 3 December 2009 doi:10.1136/jnnp.2009.181743

  • Survival in progressive supranuclear palsy and frontotemporal dementia

    • Wang Zheng Chiu,
    • L D Kaat,
    • Harro Seelaar,
    • Sonia M Rosso,
    • Agnita JW Boon,
    • Wouter Kamphorst,
    • John C van Swieten
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2010;81:4 441-445 doi:10.1136/jnnp.2009.195719

Neuro-oncology

  • Pretreatment tumoural perfusion correlates with an imaging-based response to dexamethasone in patients with glioblastoma multiforme

    • Paul A Armitage,
    • Chris Schwindack,
    • Mark E Bastin,
    • Ian R Whittle
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2010;81:4 446-448 Published Online First: 22 February 2010 doi:10.1136/jnnp.2008.161240

  • Ascending paralysis from malignant leptomeningeal melanomatosis

    • Anthony M Burrows,
    • Thomas W Smith,
    • Wiley R Hall,
    • Julie G Pilitsis
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2010;81:4 449-450 doi:10.1136/jnnp.2009.183657

Cranial neuropathies

  • Paroxysmal staccato tinnitus: a carbamazepine responsive hyperactivity dysfunction symptom of the eighth cranial nerve

    • Krister Brantberg
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2010;81:4 451-455 Published Online First: 23 September 2009 doi:10.1136/jnnp.2009.173732

  • Carbamazepine responsive typewriter tinnitus from basilar invagination

    • Eui-Cheol Nam,
    • Ophir Handzel,
    • Robert A Levine
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2010;81:4 456-458 doi:10.1136/jnnp.2009.173104

  • Clinical assessment of human gustatory function using event related potentials

    • Thomas Hummel,
    • Alexandra Genow,
    • Basile Nicolas Landis
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2010;81:4 459-464 Published Online First: 1 September 2009 doi:10.1136/jnnp.2009.183699

  • Superior semicircular canal dehiscence syndrome by the superior petrosal sinus

    • Ja-Won Koo,
    • Sung Kwang Hong,
    • Dong-Kyu Kim,
    • Ji Soo Kim
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2010;81:4 465-467 Published Online First: 22 February 2010 doi:10.1136/jnnp.2008.155564

PostScript

  • Letters: Can we see personal identity loss? A functional imaging study of typical ‘hysterical amnesia’

    • Catherine Thomas-Antérion,
    • Eric Guedj,
    • Marielle Decousus,
    • Bernard Laurent
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2010;81:4 468-469 doi:10.1136/jnnp.2008.163808

  • A case of haemophagocytic syndrome presenting with oculogyric crises

    • Ricardo Taipa,
    • Bruno Moreira,
    • Margarida França,
    • Luis F Maia
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2010;81:4 469-471 doi:10.1136/jnnp.2009.177097

  • Letters: A MELAS/MERRF phenotype associated with the mitochondrial DNA 5521G>A mutation

    • Maria Dolores Herrero-Martín,
    • Teresa Ayuso,
    • Maria Teresa Tuñón,
    • Miguel Angel Martín,
    • Eduardo Ruiz-Pesini,
    • Julio Montoya
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2010;81:4 471-472 doi:10.1136/jnnp.2009.173831

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