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  1. A substantial proportion of multiple sclerosis (MS) patients discontinue interferon-beta (IFNβ) treatment due to various adverse effects, most of which emerge at the early phase after initiation of the treatme...

    Authors: Jun-ichi Satoh, Yusuke Nanri, Hiroko Tabunoki and Takashi Yamamura
    Citation: BMC Neurology 2006 6:18
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  2. Widespread cortical atrophy in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) has been described in neuropathological studies. The presence of cortical atrophy in conventional and scientific neuroimaging has been a matte...

    Authors: Julian Grosskreutz, Jörn Kaufmann, Julia Frädrich, Reinhard Dengler, Hans-Jochen Heinze and Thomas Peschel
    Citation: BMC Neurology 2006 6:17
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  4. Available screening tests for dementia are of limited usefulness because they are influenced by the patient's culture and educational level. The Eurotest, an instrument based on the knowledge and handling of m...

    Authors: Cristobal Carnero-Pardo, Manuel Gurpegui, Emilio Sanchez-Cantalejo, Ana Frank, Santiago Mola, M Sagrario Barquero and M Teresa Montoro-Rios
    Citation: BMC Neurology 2006 6:15
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  5. The present study was aimed at investigating the writing parameters of writer's cramp patients and control subjects during handwriting of a test sentence in the absence of visual control.

    Authors: Vihren Chakarov, Sibylla Hummel, Florian Losch, Jürgen Schulte-Mönting and Rumyana Kristeva
    Citation: BMC Neurology 2006 6:14
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  7. While multiple sclerosis (MS) and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) are primarily inflammatory and degenerative disorders respectively, there is increasing evidence for shared cellular mechanisms that may af...

    Authors: Yiangos Yiangou, Paul Facer, Pascal Durrenberger, Iain P Chessell, Alan Naylor, Chas Bountra, Richard R Banati and Praveen Anand
    Citation: BMC Neurology 2006 6:12
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  8. Chorea in Huntington's Disease (HD) is usually treated with antidopaminergic neuroleptics like haloperidol, olanzapine and tiaprid or dopamine depleting drugs like tetrabenazine. Some patients with hyperkinesi...

    Authors: Carsten Saft, Thorsten Lauter, Peter H Kraus, Horst Przuntek and Juergen E Andrich
    Citation: BMC Neurology 2006 6:11
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  9. In a sample of patients in clinical occupational medicine we have demonstrated that an upper limb neurological examination can reliably identify patterns of findings suggesting upper limb focal neuropathies. T...

    Authors: Jørgen R Jepsen, Lise H Laursen, Carl-Göran Hagert, Svend Kreiner and Anders I Larsen
    Citation: BMC Neurology 2006 6:10
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  10. Although the neural mechanism of chronic fatigue syndrome has been investigated by a number of researchers, it remains poorly understood.

    Authors: Masaaki Tanaka, Norihiro Sadato, Tomohisa Okada, Kei Mizuno, Tetsuya Sasabe, Hiroki C Tanabe, Daisuke N Saito, Hirotaka Onoe, Hirohiko Kuratsune and Yasuyoshi Watanabe
    Citation: BMC Neurology 2006 6:9
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  11. We have previously assessed the reproducibility of manual testing of the strength in 14 individual upper limb muscles in patients with or without upper limb complaints. This investigation aimed at additionally...

    Authors: Jorgen R Jepsen, Lise H Laursen, Carl-Goran Hagert, Svend Kreiner and Anders I Larsen
    Citation: BMC Neurology 2006 6:8
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  12. Mild traumatic brain injury (MTBI) can sometimes lead to persistent postconcussion symptoms. One well accepted hypothesis claims that chronic PCS has a neural origin, and is related to neurobehavioral deficits...

    Authors: Annette Sterr, Katherine A Herron, Chantal Hayward and Daniela Montaldi
    Citation: BMC Neurology 2006 6:7
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  13. The motor neuron degenerative disease spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is the leading genetic cause of infant mortality and is caused by mutations in the survival of motor neurons (SMN) gene that reduce the expre...

    Authors: Stephen J Kolb, Amelie K Gubitz, Robert F Olszewski Jr, Elizabeth Ottinger, Charlotte J Sumner, Kenneth H Fischbeck and Gideon Dreyfuss
    Citation: BMC Neurology 2006 6:6
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  15. It is common knowledge that the frontal lobes mediate complex human behavior and that damage to these regions can cause executive dysfunction, apathy, disinhibition and personality changes. However, it is less...

    Authors: Alexander A Grunsfeld and Ivan S Login
    Citation: BMC Neurology 2006 6:4
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  18. Recent studies show that inflammatory processes may contribute to neuropathic pain. Cyclooxygenase-2 (Cox-2) is an inducible enzyme responsible for production of prostanoids, which may sensitise sensory neuron...

    Authors: Pascal F Durrenberger, Paul Facer, Maria A Casula, Yiangos Yiangou, Roy A Gray, Iain P Chessell, Nicola C Day, Sue D Collins, Sharon Bingham, Alex W Wilson, David Elliot, Rolfe Birch and Praveen Anand
    Citation: BMC Neurology 2006 6:1
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  19. Diabetes mellitus type II afflicts at least 2 million people in Iran. Neuropathy is one of the most common complications of diabetes and lowers the patient's quality of life. Since neuropathy often leads to ul...

    Authors: Fargol Booya, Fatemeh Bandarian, Bagher Larijani, Mohammad Pajouhi, Mahdi Nooraei and Jamshid Lotfi
    Citation: BMC Neurology 2005 5:24
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  20. Obesity causes or exacerbates a host of medical conditions, including cardiovascular, pulmonary, and endocrine diseases. Recently obesity in elderly women was associated with greater risk of dementia, white ma...

    Authors: Michael A Ward, Cynthia M Carlsson, Mehul A Trivedi, Mark A Sager and Sterling C Johnson
    Citation: BMC Neurology 2005 5:23
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  21. Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS), Persian Gulf War Illness (PGI), and fibromyalgia are overlapping symptom complexes without objective markers or known pathophysiology. Neurological dysfunction is common. We ass...

    Authors: James N Baraniuk, Begona Casado, Hilda Maibach, Daniel J Clauw, Lewis K Pannell and Sonja Hess S
    Citation: BMC Neurology 2005 5:22
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  22. In Asia, stroke incidence varies dramatically from country to country. Little is known about stroke incidence in Asians/Pacific Islanders in the US, where regional heterogeneity in Asian/Pacific Islander sub-p...

    Authors: Mai N Nguyen-Huynh and S Claiborne Johnston
    Citation: BMC Neurology 2005 5:21
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  23. The genetic epidemiology of ischemic stroke remains relatively unstudied, and information about the genetic epidemiology of ischemic stroke in populations with significant minority representation is currently ...

    Authors: Lynda D Lisabeth, Melinda A Smith, Devin L Brown, Ken Uchino and Lewis B Morgenstern
    Citation: BMC Neurology 2005 5:20
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  24. The etiology of multiple sclerosis (MS) is at present not fully elucidated, although it is considered to result from the interaction of environmental and genetic susceptibility factors. In this work we aimed a...

    Authors: Alfonso Martínez, Ana Mas, Virginia de las Heras, Rafael Arroyo, Miguel Fernández-Arquero, Emilio G de la Concha and Elena Urcelay
    Citation: BMC Neurology 2005 5:19
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  26. After perinatal brain injury, clinico-anatomic correlations of functional deficits and brain plasticity remain difficult to evaluate clinically in the young infant. Thus, new non-invasive methods capable of ea...

    Authors: Mohamed L Seghier, François Lazeyras, Slava Zimine, Sonja Saudan-Frei, Avinoam B Safran and Petra S Huppi
    Citation: BMC Neurology 2005 5:17
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  27. Primary angiitis of the central nervous system is an idiopathic disorder characterized by vasculitis within the dural confines. The clinical presentation shows a wide variation and the course and the duration ...

    Authors: Carsten Lukas, Kathy Keyvani and Christian Börnke
    Citation: BMC Neurology 2005 5:16
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  28. Parkinsonian symptoms have been associated with increased morbidity and mortality. Several studies have reported on the prevalence of signs and symptoms. Symptoms questionnaires can identify potential PD cases...

    Authors: Lianna S Ishihara, Kay-Tee Khaw, Robert Luben, Sheila Bingham, Ailsa Welch, Nicholas Day and Carol Brayne
    Citation: BMC Neurology 2005 5:15
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  29. There is only limited data on improvements of critical medical care is resulting in a better outcome of comatose survivors of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) with generalized myoclonus. There is also a pau...

    Authors: Frank Thömke, Jürgen J Marx, Oliver Sauer, Thomas Hundsberger, Stefan Hägele, Jascha Wiechelt and Sacha L Weilemann
    Citation: BMC Neurology 2005 5:14
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  30. Among the main clinical applications of the H-reflex are the evaluation of the S1 nerve root conductivity such as radiculopathy and measurement of the excitability of the spinal motoneurons in neurological con...

    Authors: Mohammadreza Alavian Ghavanini, Alireza Ashraf, Shahram Sadeghi and Mohammadreza Emad
    Citation: BMC Neurology 2005 5:13
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  31. Post dural punction headache (PDPH) occurs in 10% to 40% of the patients who had a lumbar puncture. Its symptoms can be severe and incapacitating. The epidural blood patch is widely accepted as the treatment o...

    Authors: R Oedit, F van Kooten, SLM Bakker and DWJ Dippel
    Citation: BMC Neurology 2005 5:12
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  32. Fibroblast growth factor 20 (FGF20) is a neurotrophic factor preferentially expressed in the substantia nigra of rat brain and could be involved in dopaminergic neurons survival. Recently, a strong genetic ass...

    Authors: Jordi Clarimon, Georgia Xiromerisiou, Johanna Eerola, Vanesa Gourbali, Olli Hellström, Euthimios Dardiotis, Terhi Peuralinna, Alexandros Papadimitriou, George M Hadjigeorgiou, Pentti J Tienari and Andrew B Singleton
    Citation: BMC Neurology 2005 5:11
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  33. Recent trials suggest that angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors (ACEI) are effective in prevention of ischemic stroke, as measured by reduced stroke incidence. We aimed to compare stroke severity between s...

    Authors: Magdy Selim, Sean Savitz, Italo Linfante, Louis Caplan and Gottfried Schlaug
    Citation: BMC Neurology 2005 5:10
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  34. To compare the characteristics and prognostic features of ischemic stroke in patients with diabetes and without diabetes, and to determine the independent predictors of in-hospital mortality in people with dia...

    Authors: Adrià Arboix, Antoni Rivas, Luis García-Eroles, Lourdes de Marcos, Joan Massons and Montserrat Oliveres
    Citation: BMC Neurology 2005 5:9
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  35. Many types of research on dementia and cognitive impairment require large sample sizes. Detailed in-person assessment using batteries of neuropyschologic testing is expensive. This study evaluates whether a br...

    Authors: Valerie C Crooks, Linda Clark, Diana B Petitti, Helena Chui and Vicki Chiu
    Citation: BMC Neurology 2005 5:8
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  36. Multiple types of mononucleate cells reside among the multinucleate myofibers in skeletal muscles and these mononucleate cells function in muscle maintenance and repair. How neuromuscular disease might affect ...

    Authors: Mahasweta Girgenrath, Christine A Kostek and Jeffrey Boone Miller
    Citation: BMC Neurology 2005 5:7
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  37. Cluster headache (CH) is a neurovascular, primary headache disorder. There are, however, several case reports about patients whose CH started shortly after a structural brain disease or trauma. Motivated by a ...

    Authors: Peter Sörös, Oanh Vo, Heinrich Gerding, Ingo W Husstedt and Stefan Evers
    Citation: BMC Neurology 2005 5:6
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  39. parkin mutations are a common cause of parkinsonism. Possessing two parkin mutations leads to early-onset parkinsonism, while having one mutation may predispose to late-onset disease. This dosage pattern suggest...

    Authors: Parvoneh Poorkaj, Lina Moses, Jennifer S Montimurro, John G Nutt, Gerard D Schellenberg and Haydeh Payami
    Citation: BMC Neurology 2005 5:4
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  40. Vestibular rehabilitation (VR) is a well-accepted exercise program intended to remedy balance impairment caused by damage to the peripheral vestibular system. Alternative therapies, such as Tai Chi (TC), have ...

    Authors: Chris A McGibbon, David E Krebs, Stephen W Parker, Donna M Scarborough, Peter M Wayne and Steven L Wolf
    Citation: BMC Neurology 2005 5:3
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  41. Autonomic nervous system (ANS) dysfunction is present in up to one third of patients with tetanus. The prognostic value of ANS dysfunction is known in severe tetanus but its value is not well established in mi...

    Authors: Mohammad Wasay, Bhojo A Khealani, Naasha Talati, Rohmah Shamsi, Nadir A Syed and Naseem Salahuddin
    Citation: BMC Neurology 2005 5:2
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  43. The brain-derived protein S100B has been shown to be a useful marker of brain injury of different etiologies. Cognitive dysfunction after cardiac surgery using cardiopulmonary bypass has been reported to occur...

    Authors: Henrik Jönsson, Per Johnsson, Martin Bäckström, Christer Alling, Cecilia Dautovic-Bergh and Sten Blomquist
    Citation: BMC Neurology 2004 4:24
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  46. The genes encoding proteins in the thrombomodulin-protein C pathway are promising candidate genes for stroke susceptibility because of their importance in thrombosis regulation and inflammatory response. Sever...

    Authors: John W Cole, Stacy C Roberts, Margaret Gallagher, Wayne H Giles, Braxton D Mitchell, Karen K Steinberg, Marcella A Wozniak, Richard F Macko, Laurie J Reinhart and Steven J Kittner
    Citation: BMC Neurology 2004 4:21
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  47. Cerebral palsy (CP) is an heterogeneous group of neurological disorders of movement and/or posture, with an estimated incidence of 1 in 1000 live births. Non-progressive forms of symmetrical, spastic CP have b...

    Authors: Clare N Lynex, Ian M Carr, Jack P Leek, Rajgopal Achuthan, Simon Mitchell, Eamonn R Maher, C Geoffrey Woods, David T Bonthon and Alex F Markham
    Citation: BMC Neurology 2004 4:20
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  49. There are controversial results on the efficacy of the abandoned, intrathecal predominant methylprednisolone application in multiple sclerosis (MS) in contrast to the proven effectiveness in intractable posthe...

    Authors: Kerstin Hellwig, Franz Josef Stein, Horst Przuntek and Thomas Müller
    Citation: BMC Neurology 2004 4:18
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  50. Chronic headaches from head trauma and whiplash injury are well-known and common, but chronic headaches from other sorts of physical traumas are not recognized.

    Authors: David C Haas
    Citation: BMC Neurology 2004 4:17
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