OBJECTIVES To determine whether interference between postural control and mental task performance in patients with balance system impairment and healthy subjects is due to general capacity limitations ...

1 Department of Systems Neuroscience, University Medical Centre Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany 2 Department of Anaesthesiology, University Medical Centre Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany ...

A case of spontaneous intracranial hypotension syndrome is described. Computed tomography showed slit ventricles with tight basal cisterns. Prompt improvement of symptoms was achieved by intramuscular ...

aDepartment of Ophthalmology, University of Alabama School of Medicine, 601 700 South 18th Street, Birmingham, Alabama, USA, bNeuro-ophthalmology Unit, University of California School of Medicine, San ...

Iranian Center for Neurology Research, Imam Hospital, Medical Sciences/University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran Sirous Jafarian, MD, Department of Neurology, Shariati Hospital, Medical Sciences/University ...

Objective To test the hypothesis that postural instability with falling (PIF) and freezing of gait (FOG) are distinct subtypes of the postural instability/gait disturbance (PIGD) form of Parkinson's ...

Departments of Neurology and Virology, City of Hope National Medical Center and Beckman Research Institute, Duarte, CA, USA Correspondence to: Dr Harry Openshaw City of Hope National Medical Center, ...

OBJECTIVE To assess the feasibility of a new technique based on diffusion anisotropy to segment white and grey matter of the brain. To use this technique to measure the mean diffusivity (D̄) and ...

Background and purpose We previously reported a single-centre study demonstrating that smoking confers a six-fold increased risk for having an unruptured intracranial aneurysm (UIA) in women aged ...

Background Early fast-acting treatment (EFT) is the aggressive use of fast-acting therapies such as plasmapheresis, intravenous immunoglobulin and/or intravenous high-dose methylprednisolone (IVMP) ...

Background Global hippocampal atrophy is a hallmark of Alzheimer’s dementia and has been similarly reported in Parkinson’s disease dementia (PDD). However, there is limited literature on the ...

Background Multiple sclerosis, an autoimmune condition, is characterised by high incidence of CSF positive oligoclonal bands (OCBs). Positive OCBs are now used for diagnosis of clinically definite MS.