Table of contents

ALS and FTD Special Edition

• Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and frontotemporal dementia (7 March, 2012)

  Matthew C Kiernan
• Road to the chromosome 9p-linked ALS/FTD locus (7 March, 2012)

  Bryan J Traynor
• Research paper:

  Atypical, slowly progressive behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia associated with C9ORF72 hexanucleotide expansion

  (7 March, 2012)

  Baber K Khan, Jennifer S Yokoyama, Leonel T Takada, Sharon J Sha, Nicola J Rutherford, Jamie C Fong, Anna M Karydas, Teresa Wu, Robin S Ketelle, Matthew C Baker, Mariely-Dejesus Hernandez, Giovanni Coppola, Daniel H Geschwind, Rosa Rademakers, Suzee E Lee, Howard J Rosen, Gil D Rabinovici, William W Seeley, Katherine P Rankin, Adam L Boxer, Bruce L Miller
• Short report: Absence of consensus in diagnostic criteria for familial neurodegenerative diseases (7 March, 2012)

  Susan Byrne, Marwa Elamin, Peter Bede, Orla Hardiman
• The changing landscape of non-invasive ventilation in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (7 March, 2012)

  Stephen C Bourke, Catherine L O'Neill, Tim L Williams, Edwin T Peel, G John Gibson, Christopher J McDermott, Pamela J Shaw
• Survey of non-invasive ventilation use in ALS in Britain (2 September, 2011)

  Michael Swash
• Research paper: Non-invasive ventilation in motor neuron disease: an update of current UK practice (17 August, 2011)

  Catherine L O'Neill, Tim L Williams, Edwin T Peel, Christopher J McDermott, Pamela J Shaw, G John Gibson, Stephen C Bourke
• Research paper: Non-invasive ventilation in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: a 10 year population based study (19 October, 2011)

  Adriano Chiò, Andrea Calvo, Cristina Moglia, Federica Gamna, Alessio Mattei, Letizia Mazzini, Gabriele Mora, and the PARALS
• A MODERN PERSPECTIVE ON SOME OF THE MOST HIGHLY CITED JNNP PAPERS OF ALL TIME: Nerve fibre degeneration in the brain in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (7 March, 2012) Free

  Martin R Turner
• Research paper: Structural MRI reveals cortical thinning in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (29 September, 2011)

  Esther Verstraete, Jan H Veldink, Jeroen Hendrikse, H Jurgen Schelhaas, Martijn P van den Heuvel, Leonard H van den Berg
• Physical fitness and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: dangerous liaisons or common genetic pathways? (7 March, 2012)

  Adriano Chiò, Gabriele Mora
• Research Paper: Physical fitness, but not muscle strength, is a risk factor for death in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis at an early age (18 September, 2010)

  Peter Mattsson, Ingrid Lönnstedt, Ingela Nygren, Håkan Askmark
• Research paper: Cardiovascular fitness as a risk factor for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: indirect evidence from record linkage study (9 November, 2011)

  Martin R Turner, Clare Wotton, Kevin Talbot, Michael J Goldacre
• Review: The split hand syndrome in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (19 November, 2011)

  Andrew Eisen, Satoshi Kuwabara
• Corticobasal syndrome: overcoming the artificial divide between disorders of cognition and movement (14 December, 2011)

  Gil D Rabinovici, Bruce L Miller
• Research paper: Diagnostic criteria for corticobasal syndrome: a comparative study (21 October, 2011) Free

  Robert Mathew, Thomas H Bak, John R Hodges
• Research paper: Social Cognition and Emotional Assessment differentiates frontotemporal dementia from depression (29 January, 2012) Free

  Maxime Bertoux, Marine Delavest, Leonardo Cruz de Souza, Aurélie Funkiewiez, Jean-Pierre Lépine, Philippe Fossati, Bruno Dubois, Marie Sarazin