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Letters to the editor

• A novel de novo point mutation in the GTP cyclohydrolase I gene in a Japanese patient with hereditary progressive and dopa responsive dystonia (1 December, 1998)

  RYOGEN SASAKI, YUTAKA NAITO, SHIGEKI KUZUHARA
• Central nervous system involvement in four patients with Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease with connexin 32 extracellular mutations (1 December, 1998)

  MARIOS PANAS, CHARALAMBOS KARADIMAS, DIMITRIS AVRAMOPOULOS, DEMETRIS VASSILOPOULOS
• Lack of mutation G209A in the α-synuclein gene in French patients with familial and sporadic Parkinson’s disease (1 December, 1998)

  G LUCOTTE, G MERCIER, J C TURPIN
• Resolution of extensive spinal epidural haematoma with conservative treatment (1 December, 1998)

  RAVI KUMAR, CHRISTOPHER GERBER
• Flail arm syndrome: a distinctive variant of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (1 December, 1998)

  M T M HU, C M ELLIS, A AL-CHALABI, P N LEIGH, C E SHAW
• Multifocal cortical myoclonus and cerebral amyloid β-peptide angiopathy (1 December, 1998)

  A J LARNER, PAUL ELKINGTON, HITEN MEHTA, CORRADO D’ARRIGO, FRANCESCO SCARAVILLI, PETER RUDGE
• Antiganglioside antibodies in various episodes in a patient with recurrent Guillain-Barré syndrome (1 December, 1998)

  YUMI TAGAWA, NOBUHIRO YUKI, KOICHI HIRATA
• Urinary retention associated with a unilateral lesion in the dorsolateral tegmentum of the rostral pons (1 December, 1998)

  ATSUSHI KOMIYAMA, AKIHIKO KUBOTA, HIDEO HIDAI
• Splicing of the glutamate transporter EAAT2: a candidate gene of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (1 December, 1998)

  THOMAS MEYER, CHRISTOPH MÜNCH, STEFAN LIEBAU, ANDREA FROMM, BIRGIT SCHWALENSTÖCKER, HELGE VÖLKEL, ALBERT C LUDOLPH
• Lhermitte’s sign in cavernous angioma of the cervical spinal cord (1 December, 1998)

  D KEVIN MURPHY, JOSÉ A GUTRECHT
• Autosomal dominant paroxysmal kinesigenic choreoathetosis: a clinical and genetic study of two families (1 December, 1998)

  F PICARD, J TASSIN, M VIDAILHET, C MARESCAUX, F PICARD, Y AGID, A BRICE
• Granulomatous angiitis of the CNS causing spontaneous intracerebral haemorrhage: the importance of leptomeningeal biopsy (1 December, 1998)

  MARTIN HUNN, SIMON ROBINSON, LEN WAKEFIELD, STUART MOSSMAN, DAVID ABERNETHY
• Intravesical atropine suppression of detrusor hyperreflexia in multiple sclerosis (1 December, 1998)

  CARL DEANEY, SCOTT GLICKMAN, TIMOTHY GLUCK, JAMES G MALONE-LEE
• Prothrombotic mutations and ischaemic stroke at a young age in two sisters (1 December, 1998)

  J HAAN, G G SCHOONMAN, G M TERWINDT, M D FERRARI, R M BERTINA, L J KAPPELLE, J HAAN