Background Oral anticoagulation (OAC) effectively reduces stroke risk in patients with atrial fibrillation (AF), but its use ...

Background Smoking is a significant risk factor for neurological disorders, yet its global impact on these conditions remains underexplored. Methods Using Global Burden of Diseases 2021 data, we ...

Background Benign multiple sclerosis (MS), characterised by minimal disability despite long disease duration, remains poorly understood in terms of its determinants and prognostic implications. While ...

Background A few case reports have shown controversial results of rituximab efficacy in patients with chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy (CIDP). Objective To analyse the ...

Objective: To identify what patient and carer characteristics influence transition into residential care for people with dementia. Method: Longitudinal study of a cohort of people with dementia and ...

1 Department of Neurology, Erasmus Medical Centre, Rotterdam, The Netherlands 2 Department of Neuropathology, Vrije Universiteit Medical Centre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Correspondence to Dr John C.

Evidence is presented that patients with prosopagnosia have right anterior inferior occipital lesions in the region of the occipital temporal junction. Many if not all cases have an additional lesion ...

Tremor is one of the clinical manifestations of dystonia; however, there are no specific therapeutic trials evaluating the efficacy of treatments for dystonic tremor (DT), tremor associated with ...

4 Institute of Cardiovascular and Cell Sciences, St Georges University of London, London, UK 5 School of Health Professions, Peninsula Allied Health Centre, University of Plymouth, Plymouth, UK ...

Background Cerebellar ataxias are the result of diverse disease processes that can be genetic or acquired. Establishing a diagnosis requires a methodical approach with expert clinical evaluation and ...

1 Department of Neurosurgery, Pundang CHA Hospital, College of Medicine, Pochon CHA University, 351 Yatapdong, Pundangku, Sungnam 463-712, Korea 2 Department of Radiology, Pundang CHA Hospital, ...

Background Following acute stroke, long-term secondary prevention is typically the responsibility of primary care. However, discharge summaries communicating with GPs are normally completed by junior ...