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FREE Online access to articles of particular interest to patients.
One article selected per issue (selection is advised by the BMJ Patient Forum) accompanied by a lay summary.
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December 2006
Effect of levodopa on cognitive function in Parkinson’s disease with and without dementia and dementia with Lewy bodies
S A Molloy, E N Rowan, J T O'Brien, I G McKeith, K Wesnes, and D J Burn
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November 2006
Functional status and use of healthcare facilities in long-term survivors of transient ischaemic attack or minor ischaemic stroke
I van Wijk, E Lindeman, L J Kappelle, J van Gijn, P J Koudstaal, J W Gorter, A Algra for the LiLAC Study Group
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October 2006
A randomised pilot study to assess the efficacy of an interactive, multimedia tool of cognitive stimulation in Alzheimer's disease
L Tárraga, M Boada, G Modinos, A Espinosa, S Diego, A Morera, M Guitart, J Balcells, O L López, and J T Becker
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September 2006
Severe head injury and the risk of early death
G R Boto, P A Gómez, J De La Cruz, and R D Lobato
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August 2006
Is shared learning the way to bring UK neurology and psychiatry closer: what teachers, trainers and trainees think
F Schon, A MacKay and C Fernandez
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July 2006
Pain and motor complications in Parkinson's disease
M Tinazzi, C Del Vesco, E Fincati, S Ottaviani, N Smania, G Moretto, A Fiaschi, D Martino, and G Defazio
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June 2006
Risk awareness and knowledge of patients with stroke: results of a questionnaire survey 3 months after stroke
A Croquelois and J Bogousslavsky
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May 2006
The Lille apathy rating scale (LARS), a new instrument for detecting and quantifying apathy: validation in Parkinson's disease
br>P Sockeel, K Dujardin, D Devos, C Denève, A Destée, and L Defebvre
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April 2006
Is it worth pursuing surgery for epilepsy in patients with normal neuroimaging?
G Alarcón, A Valentín, C Watt, R P Selway, M E Lacruz, R D C Elwes, J M Jarosz, M Honavar, F Brunhuber, N Mullatti, I Bodi, M Salinas, C D Binnie, and C E Polkey
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March 2006
Significant variation in mortality and functional outcome after acute ischaemic stroke between western countries: data from the tinzaparin in acute ischaemic stroke trial (TAIST)
L J Gray, N Splevg, P M W Bath, P Sørensen, E Lindenstrøm, G Boysen, P P De Deyn, P Friis, D Leys, R Marttila, J-E Olsson, D O’Neill, B Ringelstein, J-J van der Sande, A G G Turpie for the TAIST Investigators
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February 2006
Sudden unexpected death in epilepsy (SUDEP): don't ask, don't tell?
B Morton, A Richardson and S Duncan
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January 2006
A prospective longitudinal study of apathy in Alzheimer's disease
SE Starkstein, R Jorge, R Mizrahi and RG Robinson
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December 2005
Psychometric evaluation of the multiple sclerosis impact scale (MSIS-29) for proxy use
F A H van der Linden, J J Kragt, M Klein, H M van der Ploeg, C H Polman, and B M J Uitdehaag
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November 2005
Are investigations anxiolytic or anxiogenic?
L Howard, S Wessely, M Leese, L Page, P McCrone, K Husain, J Tong and A Dowson
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October 2005
Suicide among Danes with multiple sclerosis
H Brønnum-Hansen, E Stenager, E Nylev Stenager, and N Koch-Henriksen
J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2005; 76: 1457-1459.
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