Table of contents

Neurodegenerative disease

• Rate of familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: a systematic review and meta-analysis (3 November, 2010)

  Susan Byrne, Cathal Walsh, Catherine Lynch, Peter Bede, Marwa Elamin, Kevin Kenna, Russell McLaughlin, Orla Hardiman
• Alteration of nutritional status at diagnosis is a prognostic factor for survival of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis patients (19 November, 2010)

  B Marin, J C Desport, P Kajeu, P Jesus, B Nicolaud, M Nicol, P M Preux, P Couratier
• Low index-to-ring finger length ratio in sporadic ALS supports prenatally defined motor neuronal vulnerability (6 May, 2011) Free

  Umesh Vivekananda, Zita-Rose Manjalay, Jeban Ganesalingam, Jacqueline Simms, Christopher E Shaw, P Nigel Leigh, Martin R Turner, Ammar Al-Chalabi
• Beneficial vascular risk profile is associated with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (6 April, 2011)

  N A Sutedja, Y T van der Schouw, K Fischer, E M Sizoo, M H B Huisman, J H Veldink, L H Van den Berg
• Weaning from prolonged invasive ventilation in motor neuron disease: analysis of outcomes and survival (14 April, 2010)

  R Chadwick, Vidya Nadig, Nicholas S Oscroft, John M Shneerson, Ian E Smith
• Diagnosing variant Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease: a retrospective analysis of the first 150 cases in the UK (15 December, 2010)

  C A Heath, S A Cooper, K Murray, A Lowman, C Henry, M A MacLeod, G Stewart, M Zeidler, J M McKenzie, R S G Knight, R G Will