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Short reports

• Familial leptomeningeal amyloidosis with a transthyretin variant Asp18Gly representing repeated subarachnoid haemorrhages with superficial siderosis (16 September, 2004)

  K Jin, S Sato, T Takahashi, H Nakazaki, Y Date, M Nakazato, T Tominaga, Y Itoyama, S Ikeda
• Hippocampal and prefrontal atrophy in patients with early non-demented Parkinson’s disease is related to cognitive impairment (16 September, 2004)

  A Brück, T Kurki, V Kaasinen, T Vahlberg, J O Rinne
• Frequency of orthostatic hypotension in a community based cohort of patients with Parkinson’s disease (16 September, 2004)

  L M Allcock, K Ullyart, R A Kenny, D J Burn
• Intravenous immunoglobulins containing antibodies against β-amyloid for the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease (16 September, 2004)

  R C Dodel, Y Du, C Depboylu, H Hampel, L Frölich, A Haag, U Hemmeter, S Paulsen, S J Teipel, S Brettschneider, A Spottke, C Nölker, H J Möller, X Wei, M Farlow, N Sommer, W H Oertel
• A polymorphic variation in the interleukin 1A gene increases brain microglial cell activity in Alzheimer’s disease (16 September, 2004)

  A Hayes, E K Green, A Pritchard, J M Harris, Y Zhang, J C Lambert, M C Chartier-Harlin, S M Pickering-Brown, C L Lendon, D M A Mann
• Late recurrences of Sydenham’s chorea are not associated with anti-basal ganglia antibodies (16 September, 2004)

  N A Harrison, A Church, A Nisbet, P Rudge, G Giovannoni
• Myotonia and flaccid dysarthria in patients with adult onset myotonic dystrophy (16 September, 2004)

  B J M de Swart, B G M van Engelen, J P B M van de Kerkhof, B A M Maassen
• Axonal sensorimotor neuropathy in patients with β-thalassaemia (16 September, 2004)

  E Stamboulis, N Vlachou, M Drossou-Servou, P Tsaftaridis, G Koutsis, N Katsaros, E Economou-Petersen, A Loutradi-Anagnostou
• Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo predominantly affects the right labyrinth (16 September, 2004)

  M von Brevern, T Seelig, H Neuhauser, T Lempert
• Massive reduction of tumour load and normalisation of hyperprolactinaemia after high dose cabergoline in metastasised prolactinoma causing thoracic syringomyelia (16 September, 2004)

  S H M van Uum, N van Alfen, P Wesseling, E van Lindert, G F F M Pieters, P Nooijen, A R M M Hermus
• Charcot-Marie-Tooth families in Japan with MPZ Thr124Met mutation (16 September, 2004)

  S Kurihara, Y Adachi, C Imai, H Araki, N Hattori, C Numakura, Y Lin, K Hayasaka, G Sobue, K Nakashima
• A novel mutation of GDAP1 associated with Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease in three Italian families: evidence for a founder effect

  (16 September, 2004)

  E Di Maria, R Gulli, P Balestra, D Cassandrini, S Pigullo, L Doria-Lamba, M Bado, A Schenone, F Ajmar, P Mandich, E Bellone
• Autosomal recessive oculopharyngodistal myopathy: a distinct phenotypical, histological, and genetic entity (16 September, 2004)

  B M van der Sluijs, H J ter Laak, H Scheffer, S M van der Maarel, B G M van Engelen