Objective: To compare the efficacy and safety of clozapine in drug induced psychosis in Parkinson’s disease (PD). Methods: A four week, randomised, double blind, parallel comparison of clozapine and ...

A peer-reviewed neurology, neurosurgery and psychiatry journal publishing the latest research and reviews on the entire genre of neurological sciences.

Sue Fletcher-Watson holds a Personal Chair in Developmental Psychology at the University of Edinburgh, and is Director of the Salvesen Mindroom Research Centre. She is interested in how children grow ...

1 Department of Neurology, Maastricht University Hospital, Maastricht, The Netherlands 2 Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Division of Neuroradiology, Maastricht University Hospital Objective: To ...

Background: To determine whether withdrawal of anticonvulsant drugs (AED) can be carried out safely in patients with non-epileptic seizures (NES). Methods: Prospective evaluation of safety and outcome ...

Use of oral contraceptives is a recognised but infrequent cause of chorea. This type of chorea has usually been considered a reactivation of Sydenham’s chorea by an unknown mechanism. A patient ...

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 ...

Stroke is a heterogeneous syndrome caused by multiple disease mechanisms, but all result in a disruption of cerebral blood flow with subsequent tissue damage. This review covers the mechanisms ...

Background Staging of disease severity is useful for prognosis, decision-making and resource planning. However, no commonly used, validated staging system exists for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS ...

20 Department of Neurosciences ‘Rita Levi Montalcini’, University of Turin, Turin, Italy Correspondence to Professor Antonio Toscano, Department of Neurosciences, University of Messina, Regional ...

A method was developed for making EMG recordings from the four individual muscles of the anterior abdominal wall. It was then demonstrated that these muscles have different and distinguishable actions ...

Objective Antibodies against contactin-associated protein-like 2 (CASPR2-Abs) have been described in acquired neuromyotonia, limbic encephalitis (LE) and Morvan syndrome (MoS). However, it is unknown ...