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  1. The search for noninvasive biomarkers of neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration has focused on various neurological disorders, including epilepsy. We sought to determine whether α-synuclein and cytokines are ...

    Authors: Jieun Choi, Soo Yeon Kim, Hunmin Kim, Byung Chan Lim, Hee Hwang, Jong Hee Chae, Ki Joong Kim, Sohee Oh, Eun Young Kim and Jeon-Soo Shin
    Citation: BMC Neurology 2020 20:85
  2. Dementia and cognitive decline are serious social and economic burdens. An increase in the population of older people, as well as longer lifespans mean that numbers of dementia cases are exponentially rising. ...

    Authors: Katrin Müller, Stephanie Fröhlich, Andresa M. C. Germano, Jyothsna Kondragunta, Maria Fernanda del Carmen Agoitia Hurtado, Julian Rudisch, Daniel Schmidt, Gangolf Hirtz, Peter Stollmann and Claudia Voelcker-Rehage
    Citation: BMC Neurology 2020 20:84
  3. Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) demonstrated efficacy and safety of endovascular treatment (ET) in anterior circulation large vessel occlusions (LVO). We aimed at investigating how stroke patients treated ...

    Authors: Milani Deb-Chatterji, Hans Pinnschmidt, Fabian Flottmann, Hannes Leischner, Anna Alegiani, Caspar Brekenfeld, Jens Fiehler, Christian Gerloff and Götz Thomalla
    Citation: BMC Neurology 2020 20:81
  4. Following publication of the original article [1], the authors ask to correct the surname of co-author Dennis Hedderich from from Heddderich to Hedderich.

    Authors: Marion Ortner, René Drost, Dennis Hedderich, Oliver Goldhardt, Felix Müller-Sarnowski, Janine Diehl-Schmid, Hans Förstl, Igor Yakushev and Timo Grimmer
    Citation: BMC Neurology 2020 20:80

    The original article was published in BMC Neurology 2019 19:264

  5. The most characteristic clinical signs of stroke are motor and/or sensory involvement of one side of the body. Respiratory involvement has also been described, which could be related to diaphragmatic dysfuncti...

    Authors: José Vicente Catalá-Ripoll, José Ángel Monsalve-Naharro and Francisco Hernández-Fernández
    Citation: BMC Neurology 2020 20:79
  6. Subtle cognitive decline (SCD) may represent a very early stage of objective cognitive impairment before mild cognitive impairment (MCI), with less neuronal damage and more functional reservation. Detecting in...

    Authors: Feng-Feng Pan, Lin Huang, Ke-liang Chen, Qian-hua Zhao and Qi-hao Guo
    Citation: BMC Neurology 2020 20:78
  7. Multiple endocrine neoplasia type 1 (MEN1) is a rare autosomal dominant disorder arising from mutations of the MEN1 tumor suppressor gene on chromosome 11q13; MEN1 is characterized by the development of neuroe...

    Authors: Hongjuan Zheng, Shishi Zhou, Wanfen Tang, Qinghua Wang, Xia Zhang, Xiayun Jin, Ying Yuan and Jianfei Fu
    Citation: BMC Neurology 2020 20:76
  8. Neuroprotection and promotion of remyelination represent important therapeutic gaps in multiple sclerosis (MS). Acute optic neuritis (ON) is a frequent MS manifestation. Based on the presence and properties of...

    Authors: Christian Albert, Janine Mikolajczak, Anja Liekfeld, Sophie K. Piper, Michael Scheel, Hanna G. Zimmermann, Claus Nowak, Jan Dörr, Judith Bellmann-Strobl, Claudia Chien, Alexander U. Brandt, Friedemann Paul and Olaf Hoffmann
    Citation: BMC Neurology 2020 20:75
  9. Cerebral autosomal dominant arteriopathy with subcortical infarcts and leukoencephalopathy (CADASIL) is an inherited small vessel disease caused by mutations in NOTCH3 gene with remarkable phenotypic heterogeneit...

    Authors: Ruojie He, Huan Li, Yiming Sun, Menglong Chen, Liang Wang, Yuling Zhu and Cheng Zhang
    Citation: BMC Neurology 2020 20:72
  10. Taste disorder is a common symptom in the general population. Several studies have shown that patients with neurological disorders, such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and Parkinson’s disease, develop taste ...

    Authors: Nobuhiko Ohashi, Jin Nonami, Minori Kodaira, Kunihiro Yoshida and Yoshiki Sekijima
    Citation: BMC Neurology 2020 20:71
  11. In aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) and multiple intracranial aneurysms (MIAs) identification of the bleeding source cannot always be assessed according to the hemorrhage pattern. Therefore, we develop...

    Authors: Alexis Hadjiathanasiou, Patrick Schuss, Simon Brandecker, Thomas Welchowski, Matthias Schmid, Hartmut Vatter and Erdem Güresir
    Citation: BMC Neurology 2020 20:70
  12. Family caregivers of elderly patients with spinal tumours experience considerable pain and burden during the care process. This study aims to investigate the factors associated with caregiver burden in family ...

    Authors: Jing Luo, Yongchun Zhou, Haiping Liu and Jing Hu
    Citation: BMC Neurology 2020 20:69
  13. Recent preclinical studies have shown that regulatory T cells (Treg) play a key role in the immune response after ischemic stroke (IS). However, the role of Treg in human acute IS has been poorly investigated....

    Authors: María Santamaría-Cadavid, Emilio Rodríguez-Castro, Manuel Rodríguez-Yáñez, Susana Arias-Rivas, Iria López-Dequidt, María Pérez-Mato, Manuel Rodríguez-Pérez, Ignacio López-Loureiro, Pablo Hervella, Francisco Campos, José Castillo, Ramón Iglesias-Rey and Tomás Sobrino
    Citation: BMC Neurology 2020 20:68
  14. The Migraine Disability Assessment (MIDAS) questionnaire is widely used to determine the degree of migraine-related disability of subjects. So far, and to the best of our knowledge, no Spanish version of this ...

    Authors: Daniel Rodríguez-Almagro, Alexander Achalandabaso, Alma Rus, Esteban Obrero-Gaitán, Noelia Zagalaz-Anula and Rafael Lomas-Vega
    Citation: BMC Neurology 2020 20:67
  15. Inflammation plays an important role in atherosclerosis but the contribution of neutrophils to this process is unclear. We sought to assess whether neutrophil count is associated with intracranial atherosclero...

    Authors: Xing Zhang, Xiao-He Hou, Ya-Hui Ma, Xue-Ning Shen, Xi-Peng Cao, Jing-Hui Song, Lan Tan and Jin-Tai Yu
    Citation: BMC Neurology 2020 20:65
  16. Genetic and environmental factors seem to have etiologic roles in multiple sclerosis (MS). Kuwait is regarded as medium to high risk country for MS. However, there is a paucity of published data on the risk fa...

    Authors: Hadeel El-Muzaini, Saeed Akhtar and Raed Alroughani
    Citation: BMC Neurology 2020 20:64

    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Neurology 2020 20:306

  17. Fenestration of vertebra-basilar artery is an uncommon congenital vascular anomaly, which is identified by incidental findings on imaging in patients presented without related symptoms or in patients with intr...

    Authors: Feng Wang, Xiaokai Wang, Xiaohua Li, Huifeng Zheng and Zhiyong Zhang
    Citation: BMC Neurology 2020 20:63
  18. Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS) presents as chronic, continuous pain and sensory, autonomic, and motor abnormalities affecting one or more extremities. People with CRPS can also show changes in their per...

    Authors: Monika Halicka, Axel D. Vittersø, Michael J. Proulx and Janet H. Bultitude
    Citation: BMC Neurology 2020 20:62
  19. Human leukocyte antigen-E (HLA-E) has been extensively investigated in various human cancers including glioma. However, the clinical significance of HLA-E expression in glioma patients has not been elucidated....

    Authors: Zhifeng Wu, Jingshan Liang, Zheng Wang, Aimin Li, Xing Fan and Tao Jiang
    Citation: BMC Neurology 2020 20:59
  20. Primary microcephaly is defined as reduced occipital-frontal circumference noticeable before 36 weeks of gestation. Large amount of insults might lead to microcephaly including infections, hypoxia and genetic ...

    Authors: Vincent Picher-Martel, Yvan Labrie, Serge Rivest, Baiba Lace and Nicolas Chrestian
    Citation: BMC Neurology 2020 20:58
  21. Migraine is one of the most common neurological disorders that leads to disabilities. However, the conventional drug therapy for migraine might be unsatisfactory at times. Therefore, this meta-analysis aimed t...

    Authors: Hong Deng, Gai-gai Li, Hao Nie, Yang-yang Feng, Guang-yu Guo, Wen-liang Guo and Zhou-ping Tang
    Citation: BMC Neurology 2020 20:57
  22. Craniopharyngiomas are defined by the WHO as “benign” tumours, but their location and surgical treatment may be associated with major complications, one being chemical meningitis. Although rare, especially in ...

    Authors: Magdalena Chrościńska-Krawczyk, Ewa Zienkiewicz, Arkadiusz Podkowiński and Maria Klatka
    Citation: BMC Neurology 2020 20:56
  23. Perineuriomas are rare benign peripheral nerve sheath tumours of perineurial cell origin and can be classified into intraneural and extraneural perineuriomas. They most commonly present a mononeuropathy of gra...

    Authors: Anne-Kathrin Uerschels, Christos Krogias, Andreas Junker, Ulrich Sure, Karsten H. Wrede and Oliver Gembruch
    Citation: BMC Neurology 2020 20:55
  24. Current guidelines limit thrombolytic treatment of stroke to those patients who present within 4.5 h to minimize the risk of hemorrhagic complications. Risk of hemorrhage increases with increasing blood-brain ...

    Authors: Jarrhett Butler, Parisa Heidari, Sarah Blayney, Emi Hitomi, Marie Luby and Richard Leigh
    Citation: BMC Neurology 2020 20:54
  25. Myotonic dystrophy type 1 (DM1) is the most common disease that can cause muscle weakness and atrophy among adults. Normal pressure hydrocephalus (NPH) is characterized by the triad of gait disturbance, cognit...

    Authors: Junyang Wang, Ming Liu, Wenjie Shang, Zhongqin Chen and Guoping Peng
    Citation: BMC Neurology 2020 20:53
  26. Information of Previous studies on the prevalence of MS, including our study conducted 12 years ago, used to shape global prevalence map of MS. According to those results, Iran placed in medium-prevalence MS r...

    Authors: Seyed Mohammad Baghbanian, Hamed Cheraghmakani, Reza HabibiSaravi, Arash Azar and Fariba Ghasemihamedani
    Citation: BMC Neurology 2020 20:52
  27. Nonconvulsive status epilepticus (NCSE) is a state of ongoing seizure activity without convulsions. The heterogeneous and subtle clinical features of NCSE make diagnosis and treatment challenging. Here, we rep...

    Authors: Yi Yang, Shunyuan Zhang, Jinfeng Duan, Xianwen Zhang and Yufeng Tang
    Citation: BMC Neurology 2020 20:51
  28. Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a devastating neurodegenerative disorder. Reduced balance is one of the cardinal symptoms of PD, predisposing people living with PD to experience difficulties with the execution of ...

    Authors: Sofie LaGrone, Conran Joseph, Hanna Johansson, Birgit Enberg and Erika Franzén
    Citation: BMC Neurology 2020 20:50
  29. In 2015, the first nationwide, multicenter Multiple Sclerosis (MS) registry was initiated in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) mainly with an objective to describe current epidemiology, disease patterns, and c...

    Authors: Mohammed AlJumah, R. Bunyan, H. Al Otaibi, G. Al Towaijri, A. Karim, Y. Al Malik, M. Kalakatawi, S. Alrajeh, M. Al Mejally, H. Algahtani, A. Almubarak, E. Cupler, S. Alawi, S. Qureshi, S. Nahrir, A. Almalki…
    Citation: BMC Neurology 2020 20:49
  30. The medical imaging to differentiate World Health Organization (WHO) grade II (ODG2) from III (ODG3) oligodendrogliomas still remains a challenge. We investigated whether combination of machine leaning with ra...

    Authors: Sha-Sha Zhao, Xiu-Long Feng, Yu-Chuan Hu, Yu Han, Qiang Tian, Ying-Zhi Sun, Jie Zhang, Xiang-Wei Ge, Si-Chao Cheng, Xiu-Li Li, Li Mao, Shu-Ning Shen, Lin-Feng Yan, Guang-Bin Cui and Wen Wang
    Citation: BMC Neurology 2020 20:48
  31. It is unclear whether non-high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (Non-HDL-C) is associated with haemorrhagic transformation (HT) after acute ischaemic stroke (AIS). We aimed to explore the association between No...

    Authors: Yanan Wang, Quhong Song, Yajun Cheng, Chenchen Wei, Chen Ye, Junfeng Liu, Bo Wu and Ming Liu
    Citation: BMC Neurology 2020 20:47
  32. Persistent post-concussive symptoms (PPCS) affect up to 30% of individuals following mild traumatic brain injury. PPCS frequently includes exercise intolerance. Sub-symptom threshold aerobic exercise has been ...

    Authors: Leah J. Mercier, Tak S. Fung, Ashley D. Harris, Sean P. Dukelow and Chantel T. Debert
    Citation: BMC Neurology 2020 20:46
  33. Chulalongkorn Stroke Center is a comprehensive stroke center (CSC) located in Bangkok, Thailand. Our stroke network consists of different levels of spoke hospitals, ranging from community hospitals where throm...

    Authors: Naruchorn Kijpaisalratana, Aurauma Chutinet, Wasan Akarathanawat, Pakkawan Vongvasinkul and Nijasri C. Suwanwela
    Citation: BMC Neurology 2020 20:45
  34. Autoimmune encephalitis is characterized by neuropsychiatric symptoms associated with brain inflammation. The differential is usually broad and Psychiatry often collaborates with Neurology in diagnostic clarif...

    Authors: Julia Shekunov, Caren J. Blacker, Jennifer L. Vande Voort, Jan-Mendelt Tillema, Paul E. Croarkin and Magdalena Romanowicz
    Citation: BMC Neurology 2020 20:44
  35. Pharmacological treatment of patients with tension-type headache (TTH) includes symptomatic (acute) and prophylactic (preventive) medication. No previous study has investigated variables associated to symptoma...

    Authors: César Fernández-de-las-Peñas, Maria Palacios-Ceña, Matteo Castaldo, Kelun Wang, Ángel Guerrero-Peral, Antonella Catena and Lars Arendt-Nielsen
    Citation: BMC Neurology 2020 20:43
  36. While the burden of neurologic illness in developing countries is increasing, less is known about mortality among patients admitted to sub-Saharan African hospitals with neurologic disease. We sought to charac...

    Authors: Monica M. Diaz, Xin Hu, Brenda T. Fenton, Ivan Kimuli, Allison Lee, Hayley Lindsey, Jeffrey K. Bigelow, Samuel Maiser, Hamada H. Altalib and Jason J. Sico
    Citation: BMC Neurology 2020 20:42
  37. Epilepsy and multiple sclerosis (MS) are two neurological diseases known to greatly influence a patient’s life. The primary aim of this study was to describe the prevalence of sexual dysfunction in patients wi...

    Authors: Marian Petersen, Ellids Kristensen, Laura Giraldi and Annamaria Giraldi
    Citation: BMC Neurology 2020 20:41
  38. Both Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) and Continuous intrajejunal Levodopa Infusion (CLI) are effective therapies for the treatment of Parkinson’s disease (PD). To our knowledge, no direct head-to-head comparison ...

    Authors: D. van Poppelen, V. Sisodia, R. J. de Haan, M. G. W. Dijkgraaf, P. R. Schuurman, G. J. Geurtsen, A. E. M. Berk, R. M. A. de Bie and J. M. Dijk
    Citation: BMC Neurology 2020 20:40
  39. A significant proportion of ischemic strokes are caused by emboli from atherosclerotic, unstable carotid artery plaques. The selection of patients for endarterectomy in current clinical practice is primarily b...

    Authors: M. Zamani, K. Skagen, H. Scott, D. Russell and M. Skjelland
    Citation: BMC Neurology 2020 20:39
  40. Due to uniform stiffness of standard platinum coils, dense packing of intracranial aneurysms can be difficult to achieve, since stiffer coils can cause microcatheter prolapse or coil migration. SMART coils hav...

    Authors: Behme Daniel, Sack Henrik, Tsogkas Ioannis, Rohde Veit and Psychogios Marios-Nikos
    Citation: BMC Neurology 2020 20:38

    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Neurology 2020 20:188

  41. We report on a stroke patient with disorder of consciousness (DOC) who underwent repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) and showed recovery of an injured upper ascending reticular activating syste...

    Authors: Sung Ho Jang and Young Hyeon Kwon
    Citation: BMC Neurology 2020 20:37
  42. To investigate the relationships between blood pressure (BP) circadian rhythms and acute cerebral infarction (ACI), silent cerebral infarction (SCI) and the severity of leukoaraiosis in hypertensive patients.

    Authors: Kang Yang, Xiaodong Zhu, Yulan Feng, Fanxia Shen, Jie Chen, Ningzhen Fu, Jialan Sun and Yi Fu
    Citation: BMC Neurology 2020 20:36
  43. The ability to walk is commonly reported as a top rehabilitation priority for individuals after a stroke. However, not all individuals with stroke are able to practice walking, especially those who require mor...

    Authors: Dennis R. Louie, William B. Mortenson, Melanie Durocher, Robert Teasell, Jennifer Yao and Janice J. Eng
    Citation: BMC Neurology 2020 20:35
  44. Progressive spinal deformity has become a well-recognized complication of intracanal tumors resection. However, the factors affecting post-operative spinal stability remain to be further research. Here, we des...

    Authors: Pangbo Wang, Kang Ma, Tunan Chen, Xingsen Xue, Dada Ma, Shi Wang, Xin Chen, Hui Meng, Gaoyu Cui, Boyuan Gao, Jiangkai Lin, Hua Feng and Weihua Chu
    Citation: BMC Neurology 2020 20:34
  45. Aerobic training has the potential to restore function, stimulate brain repair, and reduce inflammation in people with Multiple Sclerosis (MS). However, disability, fatigue, and heat sensitivity are major barr...

    Authors: Augustine J. Devasahayam, Arthur R. Chaves, Wendy O. Lasisi, Marie E. Curtis, Katie P. Wadden, Liam P. Kelly, Ryan Pretty, Alice Chen, Elizabeth M. Wallack, Caitlin J. Newell, John B. Williams, Hannah Kenny, Matthew B. Downer, Jason McCarthy, Craig S. Moore and Michelle Ploughman
    Citation: BMC Neurology 2020 20:33

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