Department of Neurology, University of Florida College of Medicine/Shands Hospital, Movement Disorders Center, McKnight Brain Institute, Gainesville, Florida, USA Objective: To determine how ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

1 Institute of Brain and Behavior, Department of Psychiatry, University of Maastricht, Maastricht, The Netherlands 2 Department of Radiology, Academisch Ziekenhuis Maastricht, Maastricht, The ...

Introduction Associations between cerebral small vessel disease (SVD) and inflammation have been largely examined using peripheral blood markers of inflammation, with few studies measuring ...

Background Neuroaxonal loss occurs in the early stages of multiple sclerosis (MS), but whether it results from early inflammatory brain damage or an ongoing neurodegenerative process remains unclear.

Antimyelin-associated glycoprotein (MAG) neuropathy is a rare autoimmune demyelinating peripheral neuropathy caused by IgM autoantibodies targeting MAG. The typical presentation is that of a slowly ...

OBJECTIVES To investigate the prevalence of changes in mood, personality, and behaviour in frontotemporal dementia (FTD) and Alzheimer's disease (AD) and hence, which features reliably distinguish ...

Hospital for Joint Diseases and Medical Center, New York City, N.Y., U.S.A. The Doctors' Hospital, New York City, N.Y., U.S.A. Perineurial cysts may be responsible for clinical symptoms and a cure ...

Correspondence to Dr Joseph Jankovic, Department of Neurology, Parkinson's Disease Center and Movement Disorders Clinic, Baylor College of Medicine, 6550 Fannin, Suite 1801, Houston, TX 77030, USA; ...

Non-traumatic intracerebral haemorrhage (ICH) remains a high mortality and morbidity disease with few single intervention clinical trials demonstrating improvements in functional outcome. The failure ...