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  • The importance of studying history: lessons learnt from a trial of tacrolimus in myasthenia gravis

    • Michael Benatar,
    • Donald Sanders
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2011;82:9 945 doi:10.1136/jnnp.2011.243931

  • One step forward, several more to go: classification of psychogenic non-epileptic seizures based on automatic clustering

    • Markus Reuber,
    • Rod Duncan
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2011;82:9 946 Published Online First: 25 May 2011 doi:10.1136/jnnp.2011.246751

  • Planes and ailing brains

    • Joseph I Sirven
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2011;82:9 947 Published Online First: 25 May 2011 doi:10.1136/jnnp.2011.246843

Neurosurgery

  • A review of lumbar spinal instrumentation: evidence and controversy

    • Maya A Babu,
    • Jean-Valery C Coumans,
    • Bob S Carter,
    • William R Taylor,
    • Ekkehard M Kasper,
    • Ben Z Roitberg,
    • William E Krauss,
    • Clark C Chen
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2011;82:9 948-951 Published Online First: 20 May 2011 doi:10.1136/jnnp.2010.231860
    Editor's Choice

  • Soluble gp130 regulatess interleukin-6 in cerebrospinal fluid after subarachnoid haemorrhage

    • Takahiro Nakura,
    • Koji Osuka,
    • Takashi Inukai,
    • Teruhide Takagi,
    • Masakazu Takayasu
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2011;82:9 952-954 Published Online First: 26 July 2010 doi:10.1136/jnnp.2009.197244

Neuropsychiatry

  • Clinical classification of psychogenic non-epileptic seizures based on video-EEG analysis and automatic clustering

    • Cécile Hubsch,
    • Cédric Baumann,
    • Coraline Hingray,
    • Nicolaie Gospodaru,
    • Jean-Pierre Vignal,
    • Hervé Vespignani,
    • Louis Maillard
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2011;82:9 955-960 Published Online First: 10 May 2011 doi:10.1136/jnnp.2010.235424

  • Neurologists' understanding and management of conversion disorder

    • Richard A Kanaan,
    • David Armstrong,
    • Simon Charles Wessely
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2011;82:9 961-966 Published Online First: 16 February 2011 doi:10.1136/jnnp.2010.233114
    Open Access

  • Do patients whose psychogenic non-epileptic seizures resolve, ‘replace’ them with other medically unexplained symptoms? Medically unexplained symptoms arising after a diagnosis of psychogenic non-epileptic seizures

    • Paul S McKenzie,
    • Maria Oto,
    • Christopher D Graham,
    • Roderick Duncan
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2011;82:9 967-969 Published Online First: 18 March 2011 doi:10.1136/jnnp.2010.231886

Neuromuscular

  • Randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled study of tacrolimus in myasthenia gravis

    • Hiroaki Yoshikawa,
    • Takahiro Kiuchi,
    • Takahiko Saida,
    • Masaharu Takamori
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2011;82:9 970-977 Published Online First: 22 July 2011 doi:10.1136/jnnp-2011-300148

  • Axonal excitability in viral polyneuropathy and nucleoside neuropathy in HIV patients

    • Karl Ng,
    • Kishore Kumar,
    • Bruce Brew,
    • David Burke
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2011;82:9 978-980 Published Online First: 16 July 2010 doi:10.1136/jnnp.2009.203091

General neurology

  • Neurology at the airport

    • Araceli Alonso-Cánovas,
    • Alicia de Felipe-Mimbrera,
    • Jaime González-Valcárcel,
    • Nuria García-Barragán,
    • Iñigo Corral,
    • Jaime Masjuan
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2011;82:9 981-985 Published Online First: 7 May 2011 doi:10.1136/jnnp.2011.243709
    Patient's Choice

Cerebrovascular disease

  • Usefulness of measurement of fibrinogen, D-dimer, D-dimer/fibrinogen ratio, C reactive protein and erythrocyte sedimentation rate to assess the pathophysiology and mechanism of ischaemic stroke

    • F J Alvarez-Perez,
    • M Castelo-Branco,
    • J Alvarez-Sabin
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2011;82:9 986-992 Published Online First: 4 February 2011 doi:10.1136/jnnp.2010.230870

  • Influence of prior transient ischaemic attack on stroke prognosis

    • Corine Aboa-Eboulé,
    • Yannick Béjot,
    • Guy-Victor Osseby,
    • Olivier Rouaud,
    • Christine Binquet,
    • Christine Marie,
    • Yves Cottin,
    • Maurice Giroud,
    • Claire Bonithon-Kopp
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2011;82:9 993-1000 Published Online First: 28 February 2011 doi:10.1136/jnnp.2010.209171

  • Post-stroke case fatality within an incident population in rural Tanzania

    • Richard W Walker,
    • Ahmed Jusabani,
    • Eric Aris,
    • William K Gray,
    • David Whiting,
    • Gregory Kabadi,
    • Ferdinand Mugusi,
    • Mark Swai,
    • George Alberti,
    • Nigel Unwin
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2011;82:9 1001-1005 Published Online First: 8 March 2011 doi:10.1136/jnnp.2010.231944

  • Clinical scores for the identification of stroke and transient ischaemic attack in the emergency department: a cross-sectional study

    • William N Whiteley,
    • Joanna M Wardlaw,
    • Martin S Dennis,
    • Peter A G Sandercock
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2011;82:9 1006-1010 Published Online First: 14 March 2011 doi:10.1136/jnnp.2010.235010

  • Cerebrovascular reactivity within perfusion territories in patients with an internal carotid artery occlusion

    • Reinoud P H Bokkers,
    • Matthias J P van Osch,
    • Catharina J M Klijn,
    • L Jaap Kappelle,
    • Jeroen Hendrikse
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2011;82:9 1011-1016 Published Online First: 8 March 2011 doi:10.1136/jnnp.2010.233338

Multiple sclerosis

  • Early pericalcarine atrophy in acute optic neuritis is associated with conversion to multiple sclerosis

    • T M Jenkins,
    • O Ciccarelli,
    • M Atzori,
    • C A M Wheeler-Kingshott,
    • D H Miller,
    • A J Thompson,
    • A T Toosy
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2011;82:9 1017-1021 Published Online First: 5 February 2011 doi:10.1136/jnnp.2010.239715

  • Atopic myelitis in a European woman residing in Japan

    • Jeremy D Isaacs,
    • Benedetta Bodini,
    • Olga Ciccarelli,
    • Glenis K Scadding,
    • Alan J Thompson
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2011;82:9 1022-1024 Published Online First: 14 August 2010 doi:10.1136/jnnp.2009.186775

Movement disorders

  • A new MRI rating scale for progressive supranuclear palsy and multiple system atrophy: validity and reliability

    • Yan Rolland,
    • Marc Vérin,
    • Christine A Payan,
    • Simon Duchesne,
    • Eduard Kraft,
    • Till K Hauser,
    • Josef Jarosz,
    • Neil Deasy,
    • Luc Defevbre,
    • Christine Delmaire,
    • Didier Dormont,
    • Albert C Ludolph,
    • Gilbert Bensimon,
    • P Nigel Leigh,
    • on behalf of the NNIPPS Study Group
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2011;82:9 1025-1032 Published Online First: 8 March 2011 doi:10.1136/jnnp.2010.214890
    Open Access

  • Dementia in Parkinson's disease: a 20-year neuropsychological study (Sydney Multicentre Study)

    • W G J Reid,
    • M A Hely,
    • J G L Morris,
    • C Loy,
    • G M Halliday
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2011;82:9 1033-1037 Published Online First: 18 February 2011 doi:10.1136/jnnp.2010.232678

  • Increased number of heterotopic Purkinje cells in essential tremor

    • Sheng-Han Kuo,
    • Cordelia Erickson-Davis,
    • Arthur Gillman,
    • Phyllis L Faust,
    • Jean-Paul G Vonsattel,
    • Elan D Louis
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2011;82:9 1038-1040 Published Online First: 27 August 2010 doi:10.1136/jnnp.2010.213330

Epilepsy

  • Epilepsy and the subsequent risk of cerebral tumour: record linkage retrospective cohort study

    • Tasneem Khan,
    • Waqas Akhtar,
    • Clare J Wotton,
    • Yvonne Hart,
    • Martin R Turner,
    • Michael J Goldacre
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2011;82:9 1041-1045 Published Online First: 28 March 2011 doi:10.1136/jnnp.2010.228130
    Press Release

Autonomics

  • Progression of cardiovascular autonomic dysfunction in Holmes–Adie syndrome

    • P Guaraldi,
    • C J Mathias
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2011;82:9 1046-1049 Published Online First: 18 June 2010 doi:10.1136/jnnp.2009.195917

  • Renal salt wasting as part of dysautonomia in Guillain–Barré syndrome

    • T Lenhard,
    • C Grimm,
    • P A Ringleb
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2011;82:9 1051-1053 Published Online First: 22 August 2010 doi:10.1136/jnnp.2009.192369

Cognitive disorders

  • Familial Alzheimer's disease and inherited prion disease in the UK are poorly ascertained

    • J C Stevens,
    • J Beck,
    • A Lukic,
    • N Ryan,
    • S Abbs,
    • J Collinge,
    • N C Fox,
    • S Mead
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2011;82:9 1054-1057 Published Online First: 27 August 2010 doi:10.1136/jnnp.2009.199653

PostScript

  • Letter: Chiari I malformation manifesting as bilateral trigeminal neuralgia: case report and review of the literature

    • Khoi D Than,
    • Milad Sharifpour,
    • Anthony C Wang,
    • B Gregory Thompson,
    • Aditya S Pandey
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2011;82:9 1058-1059 Published Online First: 8 November 2010 doi:10.1136/jnnp.2009.196121

  • Letter: Low prevalence of PANK2 mutations in Brazilian patients with early onset generalised dystonia and basal ganglia abnormalities on MRI

    • S T Camargos,
    • J Gurgel-Giannetti,
    • A Lees,
    • J Hardy,
    • A Singleton,
    • F Cardoso
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2011;82:9 1059-1060 Published Online First: 15 June 2010 doi:10.1136/jnnp.2009.200808

  • Letter: Increased [11C]PIB-PET levels in inclusion body myositis are indicative of amyloid β deposition

    • Walter Maetzler,
    • Matthias Reimold,
    • Jens Schittenhelm,
    • Matthias Vorgerd,
    • Antje Bornemann,
    • Ina Kötter,
    • Christina Pfannenberg,
    • Gerald Reischl,
    • Ludger Schöls
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2011;82:9 1060-1062 Published Online First: 22 August 2010 doi:10.1136/jnnp.2009.197640

Neurological picture

  • A case of cerebral and retinal vascular anomaly in a patient with Klippel–Trenaunay–Weber syndrome

    • Qi Li,
    • Peter Mitchell,
    • Richard Dowling,
    • Robert Buttery,
    • Bernard Yan
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2011;82:9 1049-1050 Published Online First: 11 July 2011 doi:10.1136/jnnp-2011-300132

Electronic pages

  • ABN joint annual meeting with the neurology section of the Cuban Society of Neurology and Neurosurgery, 4–6 April 2011: P.01 Characterising the clinical phenotype of familial Alzheimer's disease (FAD)

    • N Ryan,
    • M N Rossor,
    • N C Fox
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2011;82:9 e4 doi:10.1136/jnnp-2011-300645.1

  • P.02 The Alien Limb Syndrome of corticobasal degeneration is both common and independent of apraxia

    • D J Lewis-Smith,
    • B C P Ghosh,
    • J B Rowe
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2011;82:9 e4 doi:10.1136/jnnp-2011-300645.2

  • P.03 Evaluating behaviour of self and others in Frontotemporal lobar degeneration

    • C J Mahoney,
    • A H Buckley,
    • N C Fox,
    • J D Warren
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2011;82:9 e4 doi:10.1136/jnnp-2011-300645.3

  • P.04 Syncope or Seizure? A case of ictal asystole

    • A Sekhar,
    • M Sadler
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2011;82:9 e4 doi:10.1136/jnnp-2011-300645.4

  • P.05 Post Infective Opsoclonus Myoclonus Ataxia Syndrome (OMAS) in adults is a treatable condition!

    • A Watret,
    • A Al-Memar
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2011;82:9 e4 doi:10.1136/jnnp-2011-300645.5

  • P.06 A paraneoplastic peripheral demyelinating motor neuropathy: a case report

    • S Dharia,
    • K M Gormley
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2011;82:9 e4 doi:10.1136/jnnp-2011-300645.6

  • P.07 The role of amantadine in motor complications after deep brain stimulation for Parkinson's disease

    • R A Bosnell,
    • R Mitchell,
    • D Siddique,
    • J Kausar,
    • A P Mocroft,
    • H S Pall
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2011;82:9 e4 doi:10.1136/jnnp-2011-300645.7

  • P.08 Low dose L-dopa induced dystonic dyskinesia in Parkinson's disease patients with deep brain stimulation

    • B Wright,
    • J Kausar,
    • A Tanaris,
    • R Mitchell,
    • H Pall
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2011;82:9 e4 doi:10.1136/jnnp-2011-300645.8

  • P.09 Presumed nutritional optic neuropathy in Cuba, Tanzania, the Gambia and Somalia

    • G Plant,
    • A A Dalmar
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2011;82:9 e4 doi:10.1136/jnnp-2011-300645.9

  • P.10 The clinical reliability of spontaneous retinal venous pulsation

    • S Wong,
    • R P White
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2011;82:9 e4 doi:10.1136/jnnp-2011-300645.10

  • P.11 The phenotype in E410K Beta-tubulin isotype 3 mutations

    • M Sabah,
    • E Young,
    • A Fryer,
    • S Ellard,
    • N J Gutowski
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2011;82:9 e4 doi:10.1136/jnnp-2011-300645.11

  • P.12 The time course of trans-synaptic retrograde degeneration following occipital lobe damage

    • G Plant,
    • P Jindahra
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2011;82:9 e4 doi:10.1136/jnnp-2011-300645.12

  • PO.01 IDDM associated with cerebellar ataxia; drug resistant complex partial seizures and intrathecal synthesis of anti GAD-Ab

    • J Vaz,
    • H Gibson
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2011;82:9 e4 doi:10.1136/jnnp-2011-300645.13

  • PO.02 Cognitive and neuropsychiatric status in a large cohort of patients with secondary progressive multiple sclerosis

    • J Chataway,
    • M Awad,
    • K Meadmore,
    • A Alsanousi,
    • C Frost,
    • K Chandler,
    • K Merrick,
    • D Wilkie,
    • R Nicholas,
    • D Chan
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2011;82:9 e4 doi:10.1136/jnnp-2011-300645.14

  • PO.03 A novel OPA1 mutation is associated with a multiple sclerosis-like illness in two sisters

    • W Jones,
    • A K Saggar,
    • F Howe,
    • P Rich,
    • A Al-Memar
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2011;82:9 e4 doi:10.1136/jnnp-2011-300645.15

  • PO.04 Ethnic variation in GLRA1 genotype in hyperekplexia

    • R Thomas,
    • S K Chung,
    • C L Hammond,
    • A Robinson,
    • M I Rees
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2011;82:9 e4 doi:10.1136/jnnp-2011-300645.16

  • PO.05 Lessons from Pellagra

    • A Williams
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2011;82:9 e4 doi:10.1136/jnnp-2011-300645.17

  • PO.06 Acute varicella zoster virus encephalitis in adults: relationship between viral load, time, clinical features and outcome

    • M Benedict Daniel,
    • M Griffiths,
    • S E Galbraith,
    • A Stewart,
    • C Buckley,
    • M Hopkins,
    • I J Hart,
    • A Miller,
    • T Solomon
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2011;82:9 e4 doi:10.1136/jnnp-2011-300645.18

  • PO.07 One hour wearing blue filters in the morning improves sleep quality

    • J F Stein,
    • J A Taylor
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2011;82:9 e4 doi:10.1136/jnnp-2011-300645.19

  • PO.08 Colorectal cancer risk in Parkinson's disease: insights from a surgically treated cohort

    • G Pall,
    • J Kausar,
    • P Mocroft,
    • R Mitchell,
    • H Pall
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2011;82:9 e4 doi:10.1136/jnnp-2011-300645.20

  • PO.09 Syncope and Raynaud's disease

    • H Angus-Leppan,
    • S Rajakulendran,
    • R J Guiloff
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2011;82:9 e4 doi:10.1136/jnnp-2011-300645.21

  • PO.10 The successful transformation of acute stroke services in London. A model for other major metropolitan cities?

    • C Davie,
    • T Rudd
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2011;82:9 e4 doi:10.1136/jnnp-2011-300645.22

  • PO.11 How is stroke thrombolysis affecting neurology training?

    • R Bosnell,
    • J E Alty,
    • D J Blackburn,
    • C E Burness,
    • R Chowdhury,
    • B C P Gosh,
    • B R Stanton
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2011;82:9 e4 doi:10.1136/jnnp-2011-300645.23

  • PO.12 Perfusion CT based thrombolysis in acute ischaemic stroke

    • Smriti Agarwal,
    • P S Jones,
    • D J Scoffings,
    • J Alawaneh,
    • P J Barry,
    • E W O'Brien,
    • E Carrera,
    • P E Cotter,
    • J C Baron,
    • E A Warburton
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2011;82:9 e4 doi:10.1136/jnnp-2011-300645.24

  • PO.13 Infective endocarditis presenting with lymphocytic meningitis

    • A Abbs
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2011;82:9 e4 doi:10.1136/jnnp-2011-300645.25

  • PO.14 Isolated hypoglossal nerve palsy caused by synovial cyst

    • R Hewett,
    • G E Stewart
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2011;82:9 e4 doi:10.1136/jnnp-2011-300645.26

  • PO.15 Breathlessness in necrotising myopathy

    • D Cavallaro,
    • A Al-Memar
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2011;82:9 e4 doi:10.1136/jnnp-2011-300645.27

  • PO.16 Is quinine useful in muscle cramps? A Cochrane meta-analysis

    • S El-Tawil,
    • H Valli,
    • T Al Musa,
    • M P T Lunn,
    • M Weber
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2011;82:9 e4 doi:10.1136/jnnp-2011-300645.28

  • PO.17 MMN evolving into CIDP precipitated by IVF

    • J Vaz,
    • H Gibson
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2011;82:9 e4 doi:10.1136/jnnp-2011-300645.29

  • PO.18 Guillain-Barre syndrome (GBS) presenting with posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome

    • Daniel Blackburn,
    • G Chavada,
    • D Dunleavy,
    • N Hoggard,
    • B Sharrack,
    • S Ponnusamy,
    • S Price
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2011;82:9 e4 doi:10.1136/jnnp-2011-300645.30

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