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Progressive auditory neuropathy in patients with Leber’s hereditary optic neuropathy
Department of Neuro-otology, The National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square, London WC1, UK Correspondence to: Dr Borka Ćeranić Department of Neuro-otology, Box 127, The National ...
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Shoulder pain and external rotation in spastic hemiplegia do not improve by injection of botulinum toxin A into the subscapular muscle
Objective: To study the effect of botulinum toxin A in the subscapular muscle on shoulder pain and humerus external rotation. Methods: 22 stroke patients with spastic hemiplegia, substantial shoulder ...
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Intracranial blood flow velocity after head injury: relationship to severity of injury, time, neurological status and outcome.
Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Edinburgh, Western General Hospital, UK. Middle cerebral artery (MCA) blood flow velocity was measured daily by transcranial Doppler ultrasonography ...
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Olfaction in patients with suspected parkinsonism and scans without evidence of dopaminergic deficit (SWEDDs)
Reta Lila Weston Institute of Neurological Studies, UCL Institute of Neurology, London, UK Background: Positron emission tomography and single photon emission computed tomography scanning have 87–94% ...
BMJ2d
Central pontine myelinolysis causes bilateral loss of deep sensitivity and pseudochoreoathetosis
Department of Neurology, Ruhr-University Bochum, St. Josef Hospital, Gudrunstrasse 56, 44791 Bochum, Germany Dr Thomas Müller, Department of Neurology, Ruhr-University Bochum, St Josef Hospital, ...
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Preferential recruitment of ataxin-3 independent of expanded polyglutamine: an immunohistochemical study on Marinesco bodies
In an immunohistochemical study of Marinesco bodies—a neuronal intranuclear inclusion often seen in neurons of the substantia nigra of patients with hepatic encephalopathy—it was shown that one of the ...
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Bilateral volume reduction in posterior hippocampus in psychosis of epilepsy
Objective Psychosis of epilepsy (POE) occurs more frequently in temporal lobe epilepsy, raising the question as to whether abnormalities of the hippocampus are aetiologically important. Despite ...
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E003 Update on the iMarkHD study
Background In the iMarkHD study, we aim to investigate changes in the binding profiles of four distinct molecular PET markers and various MRI markers across different disease stages in people with ...
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Ablative thyroid treatment for thyrotoxicosis due to thyrotropin-producing pituitary tumours
Background: Thyrotropin (TSH)-secreting pituitary adenomas (TSHomas) are rare tumours that can be invasive. It has been suggested that thyroid surgery or radioiodine treatment should not be considered ...
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Motor cortex excitability and comorbidity in Gilles de la Tourette syndrome
Background: Gilles de la Tourette syndrome (GTS) is often complicated by comorbid attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) or obsessive–compulsive disorder ...
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Different types of skew deviation.
Although all manifest skew deviations appear the same for the clinician, skew deviation can result from different combinations of dysconjugate vertical ocular deviations. Evidence is presented for ...
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Sleep disturbance and impulsive-compulsive behaviours in Parkinson's disease
Objectives Impulsive-compulsive behaviours (ICBs) in Parkinson's disease (PD) have been anecdotally linked with impaired sleep. The authors investigate measures of sleep in PD patients with and ...