Given the profound impact of language impairment after stroke (aphasia), neuroplasticity research is garnering considerable attention as means for eventually improving aphasia treatments and how they ...

Department of Neurology, Royal Victoria Infirmary, Queen Victoria Road, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK Department of Neurology, Royal Victoria Infirmary, Queen Victoria Road, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 4LP, UK.

Background Cognitive and behavioural dysfunction may occur in people with motor neuron disease (MND), with some studies suggesting an association with the C9ORF72 repeat expansion. Their onset and ...

Parkinson’s disease (PD) is an incurable and progressive neurological disorder leading to deleterious motor and non-motor consequences. Presently, no pharmacological agents can prevent PD evolution or ...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate the influences of chronic alcohol consumption on brain volume among social drinkers, as it is well known that alcohol misusers have a high risk of brain shrinkage. METHODS ...

Six patients are described who experienced difficulty in driving a motor car. Four had illusions that the car was turning, which occurred particularly on open, featureless roads or the brows of hills ...

10,National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, St. Thomas Hospital, Moorfields Eye Hospital, London, UK Optic neuritis (ON) is a ...

A syndrome of unilateral upper nuchal or occipital pain, with or without numbness in these areas, accompanied by simultaneous ipsilateral numbness of the tongue is explicable by compression of the ...

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Section of Old Age Psychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry, De Crespigny Park, London SE5 8AF, UK Correspondence to: Professor S Lovestone, Section of Old Age Psychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry, De ...

Centre for PET, Austin Health, Melbourne and Colin L Masters, Department of Pathology, University of Melbourne, Australia Background: Neuropathological studies have reported varying amounts of amyloid ...

OBJECTIVE To test the feasibility and validity of the EQ-5D (a widely used generic (disease non-specific) quality of life (QoL) instrument which allows comparisons between different patient groups and ...