Background Hereditary transthyretin amyloidosis (ATTR) is usually characterised by a progressive peripheral and autonomic neuropathy often with associated cardiac failure and is due to dominantly ...

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 ...

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 ...

Background Several options exist for surgical management of essential tremor (ET), including radiofrequency lesioning, deep brain stimulation and γ knife radiosurgery of the ventralis intermedius ...

Section of Old Age Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, Oxford University, Oxford, UK Professor K P Ebmeier, Oxford University, Department of Psychiatry, The Warneford Hospital, Oxford OX3 7JX, UK; ...

Background: Intelligence was assessed in a group of 74 people with head injury, 16 years after injury (mean 16.77 years; range 10–32 years), and compared with their performance when assessed at an ...

Correspondence to: Dr T Murata, Department of Neuropsychiatry, Fukui Medical University, Matsuoka-cho, Fukui 910–1193, Japan; tmurata{at}fmsrsa.fukui-med.ac.jp A 31 year old man was admitted to ...

The deep tendon reflexes (and the abdominal reflexes) are important physical signs which have a special place in neurological diagnosis, particularly in early disease when they alone may be abnormal.

Background: Paraneoplastic neurological syndromes (PNS) are defined by the presence of cancer and exclusion of other known causes of the neurological symptoms, but this criterion does not separate ...

1 Department of Neurology, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan 2 Department of Health Science, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine 3 Department of Neurology, ...