Ranking of head injuries by severity is an essential part of clinical management, of prognosis, of treatment trials, and of legal assessment for compensation. Various methods of assessing severity are ...

Background Global hippocampal atrophy is a hallmark of Alzheimer’s dementia and has been similarly reported in Parkinson’s disease dementia (PDD). However, there is limited literature on the ...

1 Department of Psychiatry and the Athinoula A Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA 2 Department of Psychiatry, ...

Dr G Midroni, Neurophysiology laboratory, St. Michael’s Hospital, 30 Bond Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5B 1W8. Telephone 00416 864 5193; fax 00416 864 6095. A 22 year old woman with recently ...

The brain is in a constant state of dynamic change, for example switching between cognitive and behavioural tasks, and between wakefulness and sleep. The brains of people with epilepsy have additional ...

Background Early fast-acting treatment (EFT) is the aggressive use of fast-acting therapies such as plasmapheresis, intravenous immunoglobulin and/or intravenous high-dose methylprednisolone (IVMP) ...

4 Department of Medical Genetics, St Mary’s Hospital, Hathersage Road, Manchester, UK Correspondence to: Dr A J Murray Institute of Medical Genetics, University Hospital of Wales, Heath Park, Cardiff ...

Division of Neurology, Department of Medicine, University of Alberta, Alberta, Canada Dr D W Gross, Division of Neurology, Department of Medicine, 2E3.19 Walter C Mackenzie Health Sciences Centre, ...

1 Oxford University, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, UK 2 Oxford University, Unit of Health-Care Epidemiology, Department of Public Health, Oxford, UK ...

1 Department of Neurology, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, USA 2 Department of Health Evaluation Sciences, University of Virginia School of Medicine Correspondence to: Dr G ...

Correspondence to Dr Laura McWhirter, Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9YL, UK; laura.mcwhirter{at}ed.ac.uk Performance validity tests (PVTs) are widely used ...