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 ...

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

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 ...

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 Genetic testing for Huntington’s disease (HD) was initially usually positive but more recently the negative rate has increased: patients with negative HD tests are described as having HD ...

Background Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is common in military campaigns and is a risk factor for dementia. ArmeD SerVices TrAuma and RehabilitatioN OutComE-TBI (ADVANCE-TBI) aims to ascertain ...

Traumatic brain injuries (TBIs) have been a common consequence of combat since prehistoric times, and injuries to the cranium are commonly found in skeletal remains of prehistoric humans, most of ...

Inclusions of pathogenic deposits containing TAR DNA-binding protein 43 (TDP-43) are evident in the brain and spinal cord of patients that present across a spectrum of neurodegenerative diseases. For ...

Adult-onset leukodystrophies and genetic leukoencephalopathies comprise a diverse group of neurodegenerative disorders of white matter with a wide age of onset and phenotypic spectrum. Patients with ...

1 Dementia Research Group, Institute of Neurology, University College, London, UK 2 Dementia Research Group, Institute of Neurology, University College, London; and Division of Neuroscience and ...

Associate Professor D R Royall, Department of Psychiatry, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, 7703 Floyd Curl Drive, San Antonio, Texas 78284–7792, USA. Telephone 001 210 567 ...