BMJ23h
Pain and functional neurological disorder: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Background Functional neurological disorder (FND) is characterised by neurological symptoms, such as seizures and abnormal movements. Despite its significance to patients, the clinical features of ...
BMJ8h
Brain damage and neurological outcome after open-heart surgery.
Cerebral damage remains a major hazard of open-heart surgery. A one-year follow-up investigation of 100 consecutive patients who underwent open-heart operation for valve replacement revealed an ...
BMJ2d
Comparative effectiveness of neuroablation and deep brain stimulation for treatment-resistant obsessive-compulsive disorder: a meta-analytic study
Correspondence to Dr Casey H Halpern, Department of Neurosurgery, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-5327, USA; chalpern{at}stanford.edu Background The safety and efficacy of neuroablation (ABL) ...
BMJ1d
Lateralised motor control: hemispheric damage and the loss of deftness
Objective: To learn if the left compared with the right hemisphere of right handed subjects exerts bilateral compared with contralateral motor control when performing precise and coordinated finger ...
BMJ1d
Cardiometabolic risk factors and neurodegeneration: a review of the mechanisms underlying diabetes, obesity and hypertension in Alzheimer’s disease
A growing body of evidence suggests that cardiometabolic risk factors play a significant role in Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Diabetes, obesity and hypertension are highly prevalent and can accelerate ...
BMJ3d
Diplopia and eye movement disorders
Department of Visual Neuroscience, Division of Neuroscience and Psychological Medicine, Imperial College, London, UK Correspondence to: Professor Christopher Kennard Department of Visual Neuroscience, ...
BMJ1d
Serum homocysteine levels in relation to clinical progression in multiple sclerosis
Department of Clinical Chemistry, VUmc Medical Centre Amsterdam, The Netherlands Dr C E Teunissen, Molecular Cell Biology and Immunology, VU University Medical Centre, FdG, PO Box 7057, 1007 MB ...
BMJ11d
What is brain fog?
Correspondence to Dr Laura McWhirter, Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH16 4SB, UK; laura.mcwhirter{at}ed.ac.uk Background The term ‘brain fog’ is ...
BMJ10d
Predictors of short-term impulsive and compulsive behaviour after subthalamic stimulation in Parkinson disease
10 NIHR Mental Health Biomedical Research Centre and Dementia Biomedical Research Unit, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust and King’s College London, London, UK Background The effects of ...
BMJ8d
Hyperreflexia in Guillain-Barré syndrome: relation with acute motor axonal neuropathy and anti-GM1 antibody
a Department of Neurology, Chiba University School of Medicine, Chiba, Japan, b Department of Neurology, Dokkyo University School of Medicine, Tochigi, Japan Dr Satoshi Kuwabara, Department of ...
BMJ11d
The United Kingdom transient ischaemic attack (UK-TIA) aspirin trial: final results.
From 1979-85, 2435 patients with a transient ischaemic attack or minor ischaemic stroke were randomly allocated to receive long term "blind" treatment with aspirin 600 mg twice daily (n = 815), ...