Visual hallucinations are common in older people and are especially associated with ophthalmological and neurological disorders, including dementia and Parkinson’s disease. Uncertainties remain ...

Given the profound impact of language impairment after stroke (aphasia), neuroplasticity research is garnering considerable attention as means for eventually improving aphasia treatments and how they ...

Background Cognitive and behavioural dysfunction may occur in people with motor neuron disease (MND), with some studies suggesting an association with the C9ORF72 repeat expansion. Their onset and ...

Correspondence to Dr Claudia Diana Wurster, Department of Neurology, Ulm University, Ulm 89081, Germany; claudia.wurster{at}uni-ulm.de Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a monogenetic motoneuron disease ...

Correspondence to: Dr M Holtkamp Department of Neurology, Charité-Univeristätsmedizin Berlin, Schumannstr. 20/21, 10117 Berlin, Germany; martin.holtkampcharite.de Objective: To assess risk factors and ...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate the influences of chronic alcohol consumption on brain volume among social drinkers, as it is well known that alcohol misusers have a high risk of brain shrinkage. METHODS ...

OBJECTIVE To test the feasibility and validity of the EQ-5D (a widely used generic (disease non-specific) quality of life (QoL) instrument which allows comparisons between different patient groups 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 ...

Department of Neurology, Royal Victoria Infirmary, Queen Victoria Road, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK Department of Neurology, Royal Victoria Infirmary, Queen Victoria Road, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 4LP, UK.

D G Healy, The National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square, London, UK; danhealy{at}doctors.org.uk If you wish to reuse any or all of this article ...

Academic Department of Neurosurgery, Beaumont Hospital and RCSI Medical School, Dublin, Ireland Dr Amar Agha MD, Academic Department of Endocrinology, Beaumont Hospital and RCSI Medical School, Dublin ...

Centre for PET, Austin Health, Melbourne and Colin L Masters, Department of Pathology, University of Melbourne, Australia Background: Neuropathological studies have reported varying amounts of amyloid ...