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  1. The aim of this study was to evaluate the correlation between significant asymptomatic carotid artery stenosis (ACAS) and severity of peripheral arterial occlusive disease (PAOD) in the lower limb, and to inve...

    Authors: Zhongjie Pan, Ruitao Wang, Li Li and Hua Zhang

    Citation: BMC Neurology 2019 19:259

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  2. Multiple sclerosis (MS) is prevalent among working age individuals (20–60 years), leading to high burden on work productivity. Few data are available about the absenteeism and presenteeism in employed individu...

    Authors: Jacqueline A. Nicholas, Batul Electricwala, Lulu K. Lee and Kristen M. Johnson

    Citation: BMC Neurology 2019 19:258

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  4. Spastic paraplegia, optic atrophy and neuropathy (Spoan syndrome) is an autosomal recessive disease with approximately 70 cases recorded in Brazil and Egypt.

    Authors: Cláudia R. C. Galvão, Priscilla M. A. Cavalcante, Ricardo Olinda, Zodja Graciani, Mayana Zatz, Fernando Kok, Silvana Santos and Selma Lancman

    Citation: BMC Neurology 2019 19:256

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  5. Many patients with chronic illness have sexual dysfunction that may be related to the condition itself, drug side effects, emotional sequel, or a combination of those factors. Patients with epilepsy are no exc...

    Authors: Alem K. Ejigu, Kelemwa H. Zewlde, Niguse Y. Muluneh, Zehara R. Seraj, Mahlet W. GebreLibanos and Yodit H. Bezabih

    Citation: BMC Neurology 2019 19:255

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  6. Demyelinating central nervous system diseases include several disorders that multiple sclerosis (MS) is identified as the most common among them. Ocular movement disturbances are a typical presentation in MS p...

    Authors: Amirhossein Akhavan Sigari, Masoud Etemadifar and Mehri Salari

    Citation: BMC Neurology 2019 19:254

    Content type: Case report

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  7. We encountered two unrelated individuals suffering from neurological disorders, including epilepsy and scoliosis.

    Authors: Kouhei Den, Yosuke Kudo, Mitsuhiro Kato, Kosuke Watanabe, Hiroshi Doi, Fumiaki Tanaka, Hirokazu Oguni, Satoko Miyatake, Takeshi Mizuguchi, Atsushi Takata, Noriko Miyake, Satomi Mitsuhashi and Naomichi Matsumoto

    Citation: BMC Neurology 2019 19:253

    Content type: Case report

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  8. Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML) is a demyelinating disorder caused by JC virus (JCV). Although detecting JCV DNA in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) by real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) i...

    Authors: Kazuo Nakamichi, Michi Kawamoto, Junko Ishii and Masayuki Saijo

    Citation: BMC Neurology 2019 19:252

    Content type: Research article

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  9. Elevated blood pressure (BP) at emergency department (ED) presentation and advancing age have been associated with risk of ischemic stroke; however, the relationship between BP, age, and transient ischemic att...

    Authors: Andrew M. Penn, Nicole S. Croteau, Kristine Votova, Colin Sedgwick, Robert F. Balshaw, Shelagh B. Coutts, Melanie Penn, Kaitlin Blackwood, Maximilian B. Bibok, Viera Saly, Janka Hegedus, Amy Y. X. Yu, Charlotte Zerna, Evgenia Klourfeld and Mary L. Lesperance

    Citation: BMC Neurology 2019 19:251

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  10. Progressive neurological diseases, such as multiple sclerosis, Parkinson’s disease, Huntington’s disease, significantly interfere with patients’ lives, and those of their families. The aim of the research was ...

    Authors: Radka Bužgová and Radka Kozáková

    Citation: BMC Neurology 2019 19:250

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  11. Cardiac myxoma is the most common benign cardiac tumor. Brain metastases or multiple cerebral aneurysms are extremely rare, especially for the case of both complications. Brain metastases are usually found at ...

    Authors: Yan Wan, Hai Du, Lei Zhang, Shuang Guo, Li Xu, Yuanyuan Li, Hui He, Lian Zhou, Yunping Chen, Ling Mao, Huijuan Jin and Bo Hu

    Citation: BMC Neurology 2019 19:249

    Content type: Case report

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  12. Migraine is a primary headache disorder, which cause significant disability in adolescence. This double blind, randomized clinical trial assessed the immediate effects of suction of paranasal sinus air during ...

    Authors: S. M. R. Bandara, S. Samita, A. M. Kiridana, D. M. P. U. K. Ralapanawa and H. M. M. T. B. Herath

    Citation: BMC Neurology 2019 19:248

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  13. Palbociclib is a selective well-tolerated antineoplastic drug used in the treatment of advanced HER2-negative, estrogen-receptor positive breast cancer that has shown significant improvement in progression-fre...

    Authors: Vardan Nersesjan, Klaus Hansen, Thomas Krag, Morten Duno and Tina D. Jeppesen

    Citation: BMC Neurology 2019 19:247

    Content type: Case report

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  14. To describe a patient with sleep alleviated episodic ataxia type 2 with a novel CACNA1A pathogenic variant and provide a possible link to sleep responsive migraine.

    Authors: Abhimanyu S. Ahuja, Todd D. Rozen and Paldeep S. Atwal

    Citation: BMC Neurology 2019 19:246

    Content type: Case report

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  15. The purpose of this study was to report our preliminary experience of stent-assisted coiling (SAC) of wide-necked intracranial aneurysms with a single microcatheter in patients with parent arteries that were s...

    Authors: Keun Young Park, Chang Ki Jang, Jae Whan Lee, Dong Joon Kim, Byung Moon Kim and Joonho Chung

    Citation: BMC Neurology 2019 19:245

    Content type: Technical advance

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  16. Activated Vitamin D has anti-inflammatory properties and adequate 25-hydroxyvitamin D [25(OH)D] concentrations may be important for neurocognitive function and protection against neurologic injury. We examined...

    Authors: Oluwaseun E. Fashanu, Di Zhao, Andrea L. C. Schneider, Andreea M. Rawlings, A. Richey Sharrett, Pamela L. Lutsey, Rebecca F. Gottesman, Alden L. Gross, Eliseo Guallar, Alvaro Alonso, Thomas H. Mosley and Erin D. Michos

    Citation: BMC Neurology 2019 19:244

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  17. Nocardiosis is a rare and life-threatening opportunistic infection in immunocompromised patients. Myasthenia gravis (MG) patients are potentially at risk of nocardia infection because of the use of immunosuppr...

    Authors: Shuhui Wang, Bin Jiang, Yao Li, Yanchang Shang, Zhengshan Liu and Yongbo Zhang

    Citation: BMC Neurology 2019 19:243

    Content type: Case report

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  18. Patients with functional motor disorder (FMD) experience persistent and disabling neurological symptoms such as weakness, tremor, dystonia and disordered gait. Physiotherapy is usually considered an important ...

    Authors: Glenn Nielsen, Jon Stone, Marta Buszewicz, Alan Carson, Laura H. Goldstein, Kate Holt, Rachael Hunter, Jonathan Marsden, Louise Marston, Hayley Noble, Markus Reuber and Mark J. Edwards

    Citation: BMC Neurology 2019 19:242

    Content type: Study protocol

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  19. Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a fatal degenerative disease of a rapid course. In 25% of ALS sufferers, speech disorders occur as prodromal symptoms of the disease. Impaired communication affects physi...

    Authors: Wioletta Pawlukowska, Bartłomiej Baumert, Monika Gołąb-Janowska, Agnieszka Meller, Karolina Machowska-Sempruch, Agnieszka Wełnicka, Edyta Paczkowska, Iwona Rotter, Bogusław Machaliński and Przemysław Nowacki

    Citation: BMC Neurology 2019 19:241

    Content type: Research article

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  20. Atrial fibrillation (AF) is a common cause of cerebral infarction, which could lead to endothelial dysfunction, increased reactive oxygen species (ROS) and oxidized low density lipoprotein (Ox-LDL).AF is assoc...

    Authors: Lanying He, Ronghua Xu, Jian Wang, Lili Zhang, Lijuan Zhang, Wang Zhao and Weiwei Dong

    Citation: BMC Neurology 2019 19:240

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  21. Medication Overuse Headache (MOH) is a prevalent and disabling disorder resulting from the overuse of analgesic drugs, triptans or other acute headache medications. In previous proteomic studies, several prote...

    Authors: Lanfranco Pellesi, Elisa Bellei, Simona Guerzoni, Maria Michela Cainazzo, Carlo Baraldi, Emanuela Monari and Luigi Alberto Pini

    Citation: BMC Neurology 2019 19:239

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  22. Previously there have been found higher circulating malondialdehyde levels during the first week of ischemic stroke in patients with worst neurological functional outcome, and at moment of ischemic stroke in n...

    Authors: Leonardo Lorente, María M. Martín, Pedro Abreu-González, Rafael Sabatel, Luis Ramos, Mónica Argueso, Jordi Solé-Violán, Juan J. Cáceres, Alejandro Jiménez and Victor García-Marín

    Citation: BMC Neurology 2019 19:238

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  23. The anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) is a key structure of the pain processing network. Several structural and functional alterations of this brain area have been found in migraine. In addition, altered seroton...

    Authors: Andrea Edit Edes, Shane McKie, Edina Szabo, Gyongyi Kokonyei, Dorottya Pap, Terezia Zsombok, Mate Magyar, Eva Csepany, Gabor Hullam, Adam Gyorgy Szabo, Lajos Rudolf Kozak, Gyorgy Bagdy and Gabriella Juhasz

    Citation: BMC Neurology 2019 19:237

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  24. Brain ischemia activates the parasympathetic cholinergic pathway in animal models of human disease. However, it remains unknown whether activation of the cholinergic pathway impacts immune defenses and disease...

    Authors: Meng Yuan, Bin Han, Yiping Xia, Ye Liu, Chunyang Wang and Chao Zhang

    Citation: BMC Neurology 2019 19:236

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  27. Neurodegeneration with brain iron accumulation (NBIA) is characterized by pathological iron accumulation in the subcortical nuclei and the cortex. As age-related iron accumulation studies in these structures a...

    Authors: Marlous C. M. van der Weijden, Peter Jan van Laar, Roald A. Lambrechts, Dineke S. Verbeek and Marina A. J. Tijssen

    Citation: BMC Neurology 2019 19:233

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  28. Radiation therapy can cause cerebral arteriopahty, resulting in ischemic stroke. We document late-delayed cerebral arteriopathy by high-resolution magnetic resonance imaging (HR-MRI) in a middle aged man who h...

    Authors: Huan Chen, Xiuhua Li, Xiaoyu Zhang, Wenjuan Xu, Fei Mao, Mengxin Bao and Meijia Zhu

    Citation: BMC Neurology 2019 19:232

    Content type: Case report

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  29. Clinical and imaging follow-up coupled with cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) and possibly serum profiling could provide information on disease activity and disability evolution in multiple sclerosis patients.

    Authors: R. Magliozzi, D. Marastoni, S. Rossi, M. Castellaro, V. Mazziotti, M. Pitteri, A. Gajofatto, S. Monaco, M. D. Benedetti and M. Calabrese

    Citation: BMC Neurology 2019 19:231

    Content type: Case report

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  30. Anti-N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor (NMDAR) encephalitis is a severe and most common autoimmune encephalitis in patients under 40 years old. Anti-NMDAR encephalitis has various clinical and neuroimaging finding...

    Authors: Yun Jiang, Jianpeng Ma, Tao Gong, Hongjun Hao and Haibo Chen

    Citation: BMC Neurology 2019 19:230

    Content type: Case report

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  31. Increased high sensitivity C- reactive protein (hs-CRP) levels have been found in many earlier studies on migraine, and recently also in persons with migraine and insomnia. The aim of this study was to see whe...

    Authors: Knut Hagen, Lars Jacob Stovner, Kristian Bernhard Nilsen, Espen Saxhaug Kristoffersen and Bendik Slagsvold Winsvold

    Citation: BMC Neurology 2019 19:229

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  32. Endovascular treatment (EVT) is advocated for acute ischaemic stroke with large-vessel occlusion (LVO), but perioperative periods are challenging. This study investigated the relationship between post-EVT shor...

    Authors: Tianli Zhang, Xiaolong Wang, Chao Wen, Feng Zhou, Shengwei Gao, Xiaodong Zhang, Shiqin Lin, Jing Shi and Weirong Li

    Citation: BMC Neurology 2019 19:228

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  33. Adrenoleukodystrophy is a rare neurogenetic disease, AMN is the most common adult phenotype, such patients in China have not gotten enough attention. This article aims to study the features of AMN in Chinese p...

    Authors: Jie Li, Hongfen Wang, Zizi He, Xiangqing Wang, Jing Tang and Dehui Huang

    Citation: BMC Neurology 2019 19:227

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  34. Due to improvements in both the quality and availability of intracranial imaging as well as the evolution of surgical and endovascular techniques during the last decade, the number of treatments of unruptured ...

    Authors: Christin Campe, Jens Neumann, I. Erol Sandalcioglu, Ali Rashidi and Michael Luchtmann

    Citation: BMC Neurology 2019 19:226

    Content type: Case report

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  35. Following publication of the original article [1], the authors reported an error in Table 2 wherein the item numbering in the first column is wrong.

    Authors: Erika Shirley Moreira da Silva, Gabriela Lopes Santos, Aparecida Maria Catai, Alexandra Borstad, Natália Pereira Duarte Furtado, Isabela Arruda Verzola Aniceto and Thiago Luiz Russo

    Citation: BMC Neurology 2019 19:225

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    The original article was published in BMC Neurology 2019 19:196

  36. Facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD) is a dominantly-inherited progressive muscular dystrophy caused by de-repression of the DUX4 gene, which causes disease by a toxic-gain-of-function. As molecularly ta...

    Authors: Samantha LoRusso, Nicholas E. Johnson, Michael P. McDermott, Katy Eichinger, Russell J. Butterfield, Elena Carraro, Kiley Higgs, Leann Lewis, Karlien Mul, Sabrina Sacconi, Valeria A. Sansone, Perry Shieh, Baziel van Engelen, Kathryn Wagner, Leo Wang, Jeffrey M. Statland…

    Citation: BMC Neurology 2019 19:224

    Content type: Study protocol

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  37. Hip fracture represents a substantial acute inflammatory trauma, which may constitute a significant insult to the degenerating brain. Research suggests that an injury of this kind can affect memory and thinkin...

    Authors: Nick Leavey, Simon P. Hammond, Lee Shepstone, Jane Cross, Henrik Zetterberg, Colm Cunningham, Alasdair MacLullich, Leiv Otto Watne, Anne Marie Minihane, Clive Ballard, Anne-Brita Knapskog, Roanna Hall, Gregory Howard, Matt Hammond and Chris Fox

    Citation: BMC Neurology 2019 19:223

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  38. Treatment of spasticity poses a major challenge in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) patient management. Delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC):cannabidiol (CBD) oromucosal spray (THC:CBD), approved for the trea...

    Authors: Thomas Meyer, Andreas Funke, Christoph Münch, Dagmar Kettemann, André Maier, Bertram Walter, Annett Thomas and Susanne Spittel

    Citation: BMC Neurology 2019 19:222

    Content type: Research article

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  39. Self-rated health (SRH) allows for comparison and identification of the health status of various populations. The aim of this study was to conduct a systematic review of the literature to expand the understand...

    Authors: Érika de Freitas Araújo, Ramon Távora Viana, Luci Fuscaldi Teixeira-Salmela, Lidiane Andrea Oliveira Lima and Christina Danielli Coelho de Morais Faria

    Citation: BMC Neurology 2019 19:221

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  40. Stroke patients are often affected by long-term disabilities with needs concerning social issues. There is relatively little consideration of social recovery of patients and the support required to return to w...

    Authors: Sophie Lehnerer, Benjamin Hotter, Inken Padberg, Petra Knispel, Dike Remstedt, Andrea Liebenau, Ulrike Grittner, Ian Wellwood and Andreas Meisel

    Citation: BMC Neurology 2019 19:220

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  41. Amongst the most challenging diagnostic dilemmas managing patients with vestibular symptoms (i.e. vertigo, nausea, imbalance) is differentiating dangerous central vestibular disorders from benign causes. Migra...

    Authors: Tzu-Pu Chang, Ariel A. Winnick, Yung-Chu Hsu, Pi-Yu Sung and Michael C. Schubert

    Citation: BMC Neurology 2019 19:219

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  43. Microvascular decompression (MVD) is a type of neurosurgery used to treat trigeminal neuralgia (TN) caused by the vertebrobasilar contact/compression. The surgery is not risk-free, however; it may cause recurr...

    Authors: Xuhui Wang, Hong Wang, Sha Chen, Hong Liang, Hao Wang, Minhui Xu and Lunshan Xu

    Citation: BMC Neurology 2019 19:217

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  44. Sciatica is a condition that is characterised by radicular pain in the leg and primarily caused by a herniated lumbar intervertebral disk. In addition to leg pain, patients can experience back pain, leg numbne...

    Authors: Eduard Verheijen, Alexander G. Munts, Oscar van Haagen, Dirk de Vries, Olaf Dekkers, Wilbert van den Hout and Carmen Vleggeert-Lankamp

    Citation: BMC Neurology 2019 19:216

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  45. Anti-N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor (NMDAR) encephalitis is one of the most frequent types of autoimmune encephalitis. However, the instigating mechanisms are as yet not fully ascertained. Cardinal clinical man...

    Authors: Huafang Jia, Xiaoli Xie, Faying Qi, Long Wang, Lijuan Wang and Fengyuan Che

    Citation: BMC Neurology 2019 19:215

    Content type: Case report

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  46. Posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome (PRES) is a rare neurological disorder usually associated with specific medical conditions that cause a disturbance of the CNS homeostasis. It has seldom been repor...

    Authors: Brent G. Oxford, Nicolas K. Khattar, Shawn W. Adams, Alexandra S. Schaber and Brian J. Williams

    Citation: BMC Neurology 2019 19:214

    Content type: Case report

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  47. The global burden of stroke epidemiology is changing rapidly. Over the 1990–2013 periods, there was a significant increase in the absolute number of deaths and incident events of stroke. The burden of stroke v...

    Authors: Ginenus Fekadu, Legese Chelkeba and Ayantu Kebede

    Citation: BMC Neurology 2019 19:213

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  49. THK5351 and flortaucipir tau ligands have high affinity for paired helical filament tau, yet diverse off-target bindings have been reported. Recent data support the hypothesis that THK5351 binds to monoamine o...

    Authors: Hee Jin Kim, Hanna Cho, Seongbeom Park, Hyemin Jang, Young Hoon Ryu, Jae Yong Choi, Seung Hwan Moon, Seung Jun Oh, Minyoung Oh, Duk L. Na, Chul Hyoung Lyoo, Eun-Joo Kim, William W. Seeley, Jae Seung Kim, Kyung Chan Choi and Sang Won Seo

    Citation: BMC Neurology 2019 19:211

    Content type: Case report

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  50. Anti-N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor (anti-NMDAR) encephalitis, which is the most common type of autoimmune encephalitis, is caused by the production of autoantibodies against NMDA receptor. Anti-NMDAR encephali...

    Authors: Jie Lu, Ji-hong Zhang, Ai-liang Miao, Jun-xiong Yin, Dong-lin Zhu, Xing-jian Lin, Dao-wen Chen and Jing-ping Shi

    Citation: BMC Neurology 2019 19:210

    Content type: Case report

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