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September 2010, Volume 81, Issue 9

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  1. Editorial commentaries
  2. Neuromuscular
  3. Headache
  4. Neurosurgery
  5. Movement disorders
  6. Stroke
  7. Cognitive disorders
  8. MS
  9. Neurodegenerative
  10. PostScript
  11. Neurological pictures
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Editorial commentaries

  • The measurement of disease

    • I S J Merkies,
    • R A C Hughes
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2010;81:9 943 Published Online First: 19 June 2010 doi:10.1136/jnnp.2010.206409

  • The effectiveness of bladder rehabilitation in multiple sclerosis

    • Clare J Fowler
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2010;81:9 944 Published Online First: 18 June 2010 doi:10.1136/jnnp.2010.209866

  • Progression is likely to occur earlier in young men with motor onset symptoms

    • Jeremy Chataway
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2010;81:9 944-945 Published Online First: 2 July 2010 doi:10.1136/jnnp.2010.213942

Neuromuscular

  • New aspects on patients affected by dysferlin deficient muscular dystrophy

    • Lars Klinge,
    • Ahmed Aboumousa,
    • Michelle Eagle,
    • Judith Hudson,
    • Anna Sarkozy,
    • Gianluca Vita,
    • Richard Charlton,
    • Mark Roberts,
    • Volker Straub,
    • Rita Barresi,
    • Hanns Lochmüller,
    • Kate Bushby
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2010;81:9 946-953 Published Online First: 14 June 2009 doi:10.1136/jnnp.2009.178038
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  • The effectiveness of long-term dietary therapy in the treatment of adult Refsum disease

    • Eleanor J Baldwin,
    • F Brian Gibberd,
    • Claire Harley,
    • Margaret C Sidey,
    • Michael D Feher,
    • Anthony S Wierzbicki
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2010;81:9 954-957 Published Online First: 14 June 2010 doi:10.1136/jnnp.2008.161059

  • Heat shock protein 27 R127W mutation: evidence of a continuum between axonal Charcot–Marie–Tooth and distal hereditary motor neuropathy

    • Paolo Solla,
    • Alessandro Vannelli,
    • Alessandra Bolino,
    • Giovanni Marrosu,
    • Silvia Coviello,
    • Maria Rita Murru,
    • Stefania Tranquilli,
    • Daniela Corongiu,
    • Sara Benedetti,
    • Maria Giovanna Marrosu
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2010;81:9 958-962 Published Online First: 26 July 2010 doi:10.1136/jnnp.2009.181636

  • Poor sleep quality and fatigue but no excessive daytime sleepiness in myotonic dystrophy type 2

    • Alide A Tieleman,
    • Hans Knoop,
    • Anne-Els van de Logt,
    • Gijs Bleijenberg,
    • Baziel G M van Engelen,
    • Sebastiaan Overeem
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2010;81:9 963-967 doi:10.1136/jnnp.2009.192591

  • New cases of adult-onset Sandhoff disease with a cerebellar or lower motor neuron phenotype

    • C C S Delnooz,
    • D J Lefeber,
    • S M C Langemeijer,
    • S Hoffjan,
    • G Dekomien,
    • M J Zwarts,
    • B G M Van Engelen,
    • R A Wevers,
    • H J Schelhaas,
    • B P C van de Warrenburg
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2010;81:9 968-972 doi:10.1136/jnnp.2009.177089

  • Molecular characterisation of congenital myasthenic syndromes in Southern Brazil

    • V Mihaylova,
    • R H Scola,
    • B Gervini,
    • P J Lorenzoni,
    • C K Kay,
    • L C Werneck,
    • R Stucka,
    • V Guergueltcheva,
    • M von der Hagen,
    • A Huebner,
    • A Abicht,
    • J S Müller,
    • H Lochmüller
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2010;81:9 973-977 Published Online First: 20 June 2010 doi:10.1136/jnnp.2009.177816

Headache

  • Photophobia in migraine: an interictal PET study of cortical hyperexcitability and its modulation by pain

    • Nicolas Boulloche,
    • Marie Denuelle,
    • Pierre Payoux,
    • Nelly Fabre,
    • Yves Trotter,
    • Gilles Géraud
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2010;81:9 978-984 Published Online First: 30 June 2010 doi:10.1136/jnnp.2009.190223

Neurosurgery

  • ‘Hemispherical asymmetry in the Meyer's Loop’: a prospective study of visual-field deficits in 105 cases undergoing anterior temporal lobe resection for epilepsy

    • N u Owase Jeelani,
    • Panitha Jindahra,
    • Mandeep S Tamber,
    • Tak Lap Poon,
    • Paul Kabasele,
    • Merle James-Galton,
    • John Stevens,
    • John Duncan,
    • Andrew W McEvoy,
    • William Harkness,
    • Gordon T Plant
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2010;81:9 985-991 Published Online First: 27 June 2010 doi:10.1136/jnnp.2009.182378

  • Microvascular decompression of the trigeminal nerve in the treatment of SUNCT and SUNA

    • Max Williams,
    • Renata Bazina,
    • Leong Tan,
    • Hal Rice,
    • Simon A Broadley
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2010;81:9 992-996 Published Online First: 12 May 2010 doi:10.1136/jnnp.2009.182824

Movement disorders

  • Cognitive and motor functional activity in non-demented community-dwelling essential tremor cases

    • Elan D Louis,
    • Julián Benito-León,
    • Saturio Vega-Quiroga,
    • Félix Bermejo-Pareja,
    • The Neurological Disorders in Central Spain (NEDICES) Study Group
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2010;81:9 997-1001 Published Online First: 14 June 2010 doi:10.1136/jnnp.2009.202838

  • Involuntary eyelid closure after STN-DBS: evidence for different pathophysiological entities

    • Daniel Weiss,
    • Tobias Wächter,
    • Sorin Breit,
    • Simon N Jacob,
    • Jörn K Pomper,
    • Friedrich Asmus,
    • Josep Valls-Solé,
    • Christian Plewnia,
    • Thomas Gasser,
    • Alireza Gharabaghi,
    • Rejko Krüger
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2010;81:9 1002-1007 Published Online First: 20 June 2010 doi:10.1136/jnnp.2009.196691

  • Clinical prediction of Parkinson's disease: planning for the age of neuroprotection

    • R B Postuma,
    • J F Gagnon,
    • J Montplaisir
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2010;81:9 1008-1013 Published Online First: 20 June 2010 doi:10.1136/jnnp.2009.174748
    Editor's Choice

Stroke

  • Epidural cortical stimulation as adjunctive treatment for non-fluent aphasia: preliminary findings

    • Leora R Cherney,
    • Robert K Erickson,
    • Steven L Small
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2010;81:9 1014-1021 Published Online First: 28 July 2010 doi:10.1136/jnnp.2009.184036

Cognitive disorders

  • Cognitive decline precedes late-life longitudinal changes in vascular risk factors

    • Peter van Vliet,
    • Rudi G J Westendorp,
    • Diana van Heemst,
    • Anton J M de Craen,
    • Anna M Oleksik
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2010;81:9 1028-1032 Published Online First: 11 June 2010 doi:10.1136/jnnp.2009.182519

MS

  • A randomised controlled trial: outcomes of bladder rehabilitation in persons with multiple sclerosis

    • F Khan,
    • J F Pallant,
    • J I Pallant,
    • C Brand,
    • T J Kilpatrick
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2010;81:9 1033-1038 Published Online First: 11 June 2010 doi:10.1136/jnnp.2010.206623

  • The natural history of secondary progressive multiple sclerosis

    • Marcus Koch,
    • Elaine Kingwell,
    • Peter Rieckmann,
    • Helen Tremlett,
    • UBC MS Clinic Neurologists
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2010;81:9 1039-1043 Published Online First: 16 July 2010 doi:10.1136/jnnp.2010.208173
    Patient's Choice

  • Effect sizes can be misleading: is it time to change the way we measure change?

    • Jeremy C Hobart,
    • Stefan J Cano,
    • Alan J Thompson
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2010;81:9 1044-1048 Published Online First: 13 July 2010 doi:10.1136/jnnp.2009.201392

  • Rasch analysis of the Modified Fatigue Impact Scale (MFIS) in multiple sclerosis

    • R J Mills,
    • C A Young,
    • J F Pallant,
    • A Tennant
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2010;81:9 1049-1051 Published Online First: 14 June 2010 doi:10.1136/jnnp.2008.151340

Neurodegenerative

  • The first case of protease-sensitive prionopathy (PSPr) in The Netherlands: a patient with an unusual GSS-like clinical phenotype

    • C Jansen,
    • M W Head,
    • W A van Gool,
    • F Baas,
    • H Yull,
    • J W Ironside,
    • A J M Rozemuller
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2010;81:9 1052-1055 Published Online First: 14 June 2010 doi:10.1136/jnnp.2009.175646

PostScript

  • Book review: Memory rehabilitation

    • John Greene
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2010;81:9 1056 doi:10.1136/jnnp.2009.194969

  • Letter: A case of malignant monophasic multiple sclerosis (Marburg's disease type) successfully treated with decompressive hemicraniectomy

    • Jose J González Sánchez,
    • Joaquim Enseñat Nora,
    • Matteo de Notaris,
    • Jordi Rumià Arboix,
    • Carlos García-Amorena García,
    • Enrique Ferrer Rodríguez
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2010;81:9 1056-1057 Published Online First: 20 March 2008 doi:10.1136/jnnp.2007.142133

  • Letter: Behavioural symptoms in progressive supranuclear palsy and frontotemporal dementia

    • Thomas H Bak,
    • Linda M Crawford,
    • German Berrios,
    • John R Hodges
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2010;81:9 1057-1059 doi:10.1136/jnnp.2008.157974

Neurological pictures

  • Asymtomatic rete mirabile in carotid and vertebral circulation systems

    • Ji Man Hong,
    • Jae Hyuk Lee,
    • Seok Woo Yong
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2010;81:9 1022-1023 Published Online First: 28 June 2010 doi:10.1136/jnnp.2009.178368

  • Pseudoperipheral tongue weakness

    • Raffaele Iorio,
    • Marco Luigetti,
    • Aldobrando Broccolini,
    • Fabio Pilato,
    • Paolo Profice,
    • Giacomo Della Marca,
    • Roberta Morosetti,
    • Francesco Snider,
    • Vincenzo Di Lazzaro
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2010;81:9 1024-1025 Published Online First: 22 June 2010 doi:10.1136/jnnp.2009.186726

  • Reversible eclamptic leucoencephalopathy syndrome with severe brainstem involvement without neurological signs

    • G Neumann,
    • B Schlüter,
    • D Hornung,
    • S Gottschalk,
    • A Moser
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2010;81:9 1026-1027 Published Online First: 27 June 2010 doi:10.1136/jnnp.2009.196899

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