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Editorial commentaries

  • Long-term β interferon in MS: safe, but what effect on disability?

    • Neil J Scolding
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2010;81:8 825-826 Published Online First: 22 June 2010 doi:10.1136/jnnp.2010.208017

  • Coping with motor neuron disease: how do people adapt to the devastating reality?

    • Michael Swash
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2010;81:8 826 Published Online First: 18 June 2010 doi:10.1136/jnnp.2010.210583

  • Diagnosing delirium

    • Michael Philpot
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2010;81:8 827 Published Online First: 18 June 2010 doi:10.1136/jnnp.2010.205864

Neuromuscular

  • Tripod pinch strength and thumb opposition are the major determinants of manual dexterity in Charcot–Marie–Tooth disease type 1A

    • Annemieke J Videler,
    • Anita Beelen,
    • Ivo N van Schaik,
    • Camiel Verhamme,
    • Leonard H van den Berg,
    • Marianne de Visser,
    • Frans Nollet
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2010;81:8 828-833 Published Online First: 18 June 2010 doi:10.1136/jnnp.2009.187302

  • The enigma of 7q36 linked autosomal dominant limb girdle muscular dystrophy

    • Satu Sandell,
    • Sanna Huovinen,
    • Jaakko Sarparanta,
    • Helena Luque,
    • Olayinka Raheem,
    • Hannu Haapasalo,
    • Peter Hackman,
    • Bjarne Udd
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2010;81:8 834-839 doi:10.1136/jnnp.2009.192351

  • A wide spectrum of clinical, neurophysiological and neuroradiological abnormalities in a family with a novel CACNA1A mutation

    • Romina Romaniello,
    • Claudio Zucca,
    • Alessandra Tonelli,
    • Sara Bonato,
    • Cinzia Baschirotto,
    • Nicoletta Zanotta,
    • Roberta Epifanio,
    • Andrea Righini,
    • Nereo Bresolin,
    • Maria T Bassi,
    • Renato Borgatti
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2010;81:8 840-843 doi:10.1136/jnnp.2008.163402

  • Preserved motor axonal membrane potential in mitochondrial disease

    • K Ng,
    • S Winter,
    • C Sue,
    • D Burke
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2010;81:8 844-846 Published Online First: 11 June 2010 doi:10.1136/jnnp.2009.178921

  • Isolated bulbar paralysis in a patient with medullar tau pathology: a case report

    • J Pretnar-Oblak,
    • M Zaletel,
    • T M Hajnšek,
    • B Meglič,
    • I Hočevar-Boltežar,
    • M Popović
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2010;81:8 847-849 Published Online First: 20 June 2010 doi:10.1136/jnnp.2008.169029

  • Myasthenia and related disorders of the neuromuscular junction

    • Jennifer Spillane,
    • David J Beeson,
    • Dimitri M Kullmann
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2010;81:8 850-857 Published Online First: 14 June 2010 doi:10.1136/jnnp.2008.169367

Cerebrovascular disease

  • Cortex-sparing infarctions in patients with occlusion of the middle cerebral artery

    • Han Jin Cho,
    • Jae Hoon Yang,
    • Yo Han Jung,
    • Young Dae Kim,
    • Hye-Yeon Choi,
    • Hyo Suk Nam,
    • Ji Hoe Heo
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2010;81:8 859-863 Published Online First: 19 June 2010 doi:10.1136/jnnp.2009.195842

  • Could clinical diffusion-mismatch determined using DWI ASPECTS predict neurological improvement after thrombolysis before 3 h after acute stroke?

    • Yuka Terasawa,
    • Kazumi Kimura,
    • Yasuyuki Iguchi,
    • Kazuto Kobayashi,
    • Junya Aoki,
    • Kensaku Shibazaki,
    • Ryuji Kaji
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2010;81:8 864-868 Published Online First: 19 June 2010 doi:10.1136/jnnp.2009.190140

  • Recurrent stroke after cervical artery dissection

    • Christian Weimar,
    • Klaus Kraywinkel,
    • Christoph Hagemeister,
    • Anton Haaß,
    • Zaza Katsarava,
    • Freimuth Brunner,
    • Christian Haverkamp,
    • Elisabeth Schmid,
    • Hans-Christoph Diener,
    • on behalf of the German Stroke Study Collaboration
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2010;81:8 869-873 doi:10.1136/jnnp.2009.192153

Cognitive disorders

  • A comparison of neuropsychiatric and cognitive profiles in delirium, dementia, comorbid delirium-dementia and cognitively intact controls

    • David J Meagher,
    • Maeve Leonard,
    • Sinead Donnelly,
    • Marion Conroy,
    • Jean Saunders,
    • Paula T Trzepacz
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2010;81:8 876-881 Published Online First: 28 June 2010 doi:10.1136/jnnp.2009.200956

  • Molecular imaging in the diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease: visual assessment of [11C]PIB and [18F]FDDNP PET images

    • Nelleke Tolboom,
    • Wiesje M van der Flier,
    • Jolanda Boverhoff,
    • Maqsood Yaqub,
    • Mike P Wattjes,
    • Pieter G Raijmakers,
    • Frederik Barkhof,
    • Philip Scheltens,
    • Karl Herholz,
    • Adriaan A Lammertsma,
    • Bart N M van Berckel
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2010;81:8 882-884 Published Online First: 11 June 2010 doi:10.1136/jnnp.2009.194779

Movement disorders

  • Value of subthalamic nucleus local field potentials recordings in predicting stimulation parameters for deep brain stimulation in Parkinson's disease

    • Fumiaki Yoshida,
    • Irene Martinez-Torres,
    • Alek Pogosyan,
    • Etienne Holl,
    • Erika Petersen,
    • Chiung Chu Chen,
    • Tom Foltynie,
    • Patricia Limousin,
    • Ludvic U Zrinzo,
    • Marwan I Hariz,
    • Peter Brown
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2010;81:8 885-889 Published Online First: 12 May 2010 doi:10.1136/jnnp.2009.190918

  • Association of the human leucocyte antigen region with susceptibility to Parkinson's disease

    • Misuzu Saiki,
    • Amie Baker,
    • Caroline H Williams-Gray,
    • Thomas Foltynie,
    • Reyna S Goodman,
    • Craig J Taylor,
    • D Alastair S Compston,
    • Roger A Barker,
    • Stephen J Sawcer,
    • An Goris
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2010;81:8 890-891 Published Online First: 12 May 2010 doi:10.1136/jnnp.2008.162883

Neurodegenerative

  • Coping with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: an integrative view

    • Tamara Matuz,
    • Niels Birbaumer,
    • Martin Hautzinger,
    • Andrea Kübler
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2010;81:8 893-898 Published Online First: 28 June 2010 doi:10.1136/jnnp.2009.201285
    Patient's Choice

  • Neuroimaging of multimodal sensory stimulation in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

    • Dorothée Lulé,
    • Volker Diekmann,
    • Hans-Peter Müller,
    • Jan Kassubek,
    • Albert C Ludolph,
    • Niels Birbaumer
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2010;81:8 899-906 Published Online First: 11 June 2010 doi:10.1136/jnnp.2009.192260

Neuro-inflammation

  • Analysis of clinical outcomes according to original treatment groups 16 years after the pivotal IFNB-1b trial

    • G C Ebers,
    • A Traboulsee,
    • D Li,
    • D Langdon,
    • A T Reder,
    • D S Goodin,
    • T Bogumil,
    • K Beckmann,
    • C Wolf,
    • A Konieczny,
    • for the Investigators of the 16-year Long-Term Follow-Up Study
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2010;81:8 907-912 Published Online First: 19 June 2010 doi:10.1136/jnnp.2009.204123
    Editor's Choice

Epilepsy

  • Predictors and long-term outcome of seizures after bacterial brain abscess

    • Ming-Jung Chuang,
    • Wen-Neng Chang,
    • Hsueh-Wen Chang,
    • Wei-Che Lin,
    • Nai-Wen Tsai,
    • Mei-Jen Hsieh,
    • Hung-Chen Wang,
    • Cheng-Hsien Lu
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2010;81:8 913-917 doi:10.1136/jnnp.2009.195073

  • Identifying and prioritising epilepsy treatment uncertainties

    • R H Thomas,
    • C L Hammond,
    • O G Bodger,
    • M I Rees,
    • P E M Smith
    • , on behalf of the members of WERN & James Lind Alliance
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2010;81:8 918-921 Published Online First: 18 June 2010 doi:10.1136/jnnp.2009.192716

  • EEG correlated functional MRI and postoperative outcome in focal epilepsy

    • Rachel Thornton,
    • Helmut Laufs,
    • Roman Rodionov,
    • Sajitha Cannadathu,
    • David W Carmichael,
    • Serge Vulliemoz,
    • Afraim Salek-Haddadi,
    • Andrew W McEvoy,
    • Shelagh M Smith,
    • Samden Lhatoo,
    • Robert D C Elwes,
    • Maxime Guye,
    • Matthew C Walker,
    • Louis Lemieux,
    • John S Duncan
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2010;81:8 922-927 Published Online First: 14 June 2010 doi:10.1136/jnnp.2009.196253

Neuro-infection

  • The chemokine CXCL13 in acute neuroborreliosis

    • Makbule Senel,
    • Tobias A Rupprecht,
    • Hayrettin Tumani,
    • Hans W Pfister,
    • Albert C Ludolph,
    • Johannes Brettschneider
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2010;81:8 929-933 Published Online First: 3 December 2009 doi:10.1136/jnnp.2009.195438

Neurosurgery

  • Long-term effects of vestibular compensation on balance control and sensory organisation after unilateral deafferentation due to vestibular schwannoma surgery

    • Cécile Parietti-Winkler,
    • Gérome C Gauchard,
    • Claude Simon,
    • Philippe P Perrin
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2010;81:8 934-936 doi:10.1136/jnnp.2009.171983

Neuro-oncology

  • Delayed onset of a second paraneoplastic neurological syndrome in eight patients

    • François Ducray,
    • Francesc Graus,
    • Maria Claudia Vigliani,
    • Jean-Christophe Antoine,
    • Veronique Rogemond,
    • Albert Saiz,
    • Jérôme Honnorat
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2010;81:8 937-939 Published Online First: 18 June 2010 doi:10.1136/jnnp.2009.190199

PostScript

  • Letter: Ganglion cyst of the ligamentum flavum: a rare cause of cervical spinal cord compression. A case report

    • V F Muzii,
    • P Tanganelli,
    • G Signori,
    • A Zalaffi
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2010;81:8 940-941 Published Online First: 18 June 2010 doi:10.1136/jnnp.2008.169169

  • Letter: Longitudinal lesion of the spinal cord in a patient with Vogt–Koyanagi–Harada disease

    • Yi Tang,
    • Xiangbo Wang,
    • Yan Ding,
    • Cunjiang Li,
    • Jianping Jia
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2010;81:8 941-942 Published Online First: 14 June 2010 doi:10.1136/jnnp.2009.184432

  • Retracted article to be reinstated

    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2010;81:8 942 doi:10.1136/jnnp.2004.48363.ret2

  • Notice of duplicate publication

    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2010;81:8 942 doi:10.1136/jnnp.2008.149088.ret1

Neurological pictures

  • Pendular nystagmus showing involvement of the floccular lobes in an atypical case of Wernicke encephalopathy: MRI findings

    • G Zuccoli,
    • N Siddiqui,
    • R Rizzi,
    • N Marcello
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2010;81:8 858 doi:10.1136/jnnp.2009.187385

  • Retinal red spots and white-matter lesions in a 60-year-old man

    • Floor E Jansen,
    • Mary J van Schooneveld,
    • Catharina J M Frijns
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2010;81:8 874-875 Published Online First: 14 June 2010 doi:10.1136/jnnp.2009.186056

  • A widespread echinococcosis of the spine

    • H Sudo,
    • A Minami
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2010;81:8 892 Published Online First: 15 June 2010 doi:10.1136/jnnp.2009.198341

  • Wolfram syndrome associated with leukoencephalopathy

    • Pierre Labauge,
    • Dimitri Renard,
    • Annabelle Chaussenot,
    • Veronique Paquis-Flucklinger
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2010;81:8 928 doi:10.1136/jnnp.2009.185579

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