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Prevalence of epilepsy in rural China: a decreasing trend over 12 years
Correspondence to Dr Ding Ding, Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Institute of Neurology, Huashan Hospital, Fudan Univeristy, Shanghai 200040, China; dingding{at}huashan.org.cn We have ...
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Brain penetration effects of microelectrodes and DBS leads in STN or GPi
Department of Neurology, University of Florida College of Medicine/Shands Hospital, Movement Disorders Center, McKnight Brain Institute, Gainesville, Florida, USA Objective: To determine how ...
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Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation is as effective as fluoxetine in the treatment of depression in patients with Parkinson’s disease
Objective: To study the efficacy of 15 Hz repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) in treating depression in patients with Parkinson’s disease. Methods: 42 patients were enrolled into two ...
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The SF-36 in multiple sclerosis: why basic assumptions must be tested
OBJECTIVES To evaluate, in people with multiple sclerosis, two psychometric assumptions that must be satisfied for valid use of the medical outcomes study 36-item short form health survey (SF-36): the ...
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Multiple Sclerosis Impact Scale (MSIS-29): reliability and validity in hospital based samples
Background and aim: The psychometric properties of rating scales are sample dependent and need evaluations in different samples. The Multiple Sclerosis Impact Scale (MSIS-29), a new patient based ...
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Nitric oxide in acute ischaemic stroke: a target for neuroprotection
Department of Geriatric Medicine, University of Birmingham, Clinical Investigation Unit, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TH, UK Department of Clinical Pharmacology, University of ...
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Micrographia in Parkinson’s disease: the effect of providing external cues
Dr RE Passingham, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3UD, UK. OBJECTIVE To investigate whether micrographia in patients with Parkinson’s disease ...
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Autonomic nervous system function in Huntington's disease
1 Department of Neurology, St Joseph Hospital, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany 2 Department of Biological Psychiatry and Neuroscience, EvK Gelsenkirchen, Ruhr-University Bochum 3 Department of Human ...
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Phineas Gage and the science of brain localisation
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Geographical epidemiology of residence of patients with motor neuron disease in Lancashire and south Cumbria
Professor J D Mitchell, Department of Neurology, Royal Preston Hospital, Sharoe Green Lane, Fulwood, Preston, PR2 9HT, UK. Telephone 0044 1772 710423, fax 0044 1772 718746. OBJECTIVES To seek ...
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Detection of subarachnoid haemorrhage with magnetic resonance imaging
OBJECTIVES To measure the sensitivity and specificity of five MRI sequences to subarachnoid haemorrhage. METHODS Forty one patients presenting with histories suspicious of subarachnoid haemorrhage ...