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  1. There are many drugs recommended for pain relief in patients with migraine headache.

    Authors: Hassan Soleimanpour, Rouzbeh Rajaei Ghafouri, Aliakbar Taheraghdam, Dawood Aghamohammadi, Sohrab Negargar, Samad EJ Golzari and Mohsen Abbasnezhad
    Citation: BMC Neurology 2012 12:114
  2. Patients with Parkinson's disease have an elevated risk of pneumonia and randomized trials suggest that this risk may be increased with the dopamine agonist pramipexole. It is uncertain whether pramipexole or ...

    Authors: Pierre Ernst, Christel Renoux, Sophie Dell'Aniello and Samy Suissa
    Citation: BMC Neurology 2012 12:113
  3. Kikuchi Fujimoto disease (KFD), or histiocytic necrotising lymphadenitis, is a benign and self-limiting condition characterised by primarily affecting the cervical lymph nodes. Recurrent aseptic meningitis in ...

    Authors: Tomoko Komagamine, Takahide Nagashima, Masaru Kojima, Norito Kokubun, Toshiki Nakamura, Kenich Hashimoto, Kazuhito Kimoto and Koichi Hirata
    Citation: BMC Neurology 2012 12:112
  4. There is increasing scientific knowledge about the interaction between physiological (musculoskeletal, neuromuscular, cognitive and sensory) systems and their influence on balance and walking impairments in Pa...

    Authors: David Conradsson, Niklas Löfgren, Agneta Ståhle, Maria Hagströmer and Erika Franzén
    Citation: BMC Neurology 2012 12:111
  5. Essential tremor (ET) is one of the commonest movement disorders though the prevalence varies globally. There is paucity of data on ET prevalence in sub-Saharan Africa. The study aimed to determine the prevale...

    Authors: Njideka U Okubadejo, Idowu A Bankole, Oluwadamilola O Ojo, Frank I Ojini and Mustapha A Danesi
    Citation: BMC Neurology 2012 12:110
  6. Swirl sign has previously been described in epidural hematomas as areas of low attenuation, radiolucency or irregular density. The aims of this study were to describe swirl sign in ICH, study its prevalence, s...

    Authors: Eufrozina Selariu, Elisabet Zia, Marco Brizzi and Kasim Abul-Kasim
    Citation: BMC Neurology 2012 12:109
  7. Adrenomyeloneuropathy (AMN) is one of several phenotypes of the adrenoleukodystrophy spectrum caused by mutations in the ABCD1 gene on the X chromosome. An inflammatory component is part of the disease complex ra...

    Authors: Aia Elise Jønch, Else Rubæk Danielsen, Carsten Thomsen, Per Meden, Kirsten Svenstrup and Jørgen Erik Nielsen
    Citation: BMC Neurology 2012 12:108
  8. In previous studies we found that MHC2TA +1614 genotype frequency was very different when MS patients with and without human herpesvirus 6 (HHV-6) in serum samples were compared; a different clinical behavior ...

    Authors: Maria Inmaculada Dominguez-Mozo, Marta Garcia-Montojo, Virginia De Las Heras, Angel Garcia-Martinez, Ana Maria Arias-Leal, Ignacio Casanova, Rafael Arroyo and Roberto Alvarez-Lafuente
    Citation: BMC Neurology 2012 12:107
  9. Life satisfaction (LS) of cerebrovascular disease survivors and their family caregivers may relate to socioeconomic factors, impaired functions, health-related quality of life (QoL), but their respective influ...

    Authors: Michèle Baumann, Sophie Couffignal, Etienne Le Bihan and Nearkasen Chau
    Citation: BMC Neurology 2012 12:105
  10. The mammalian neurological disorder hereditary hyperekplexia can be attributed to various mutations of strychnine sensitive glycine receptors. The clinical symptoms of “startle disease” predominantly occur in ...

    Authors: Jeanne de la Roche, Martin Leuwer, Klaus Krampfl, Gertrud Haeseler, Reinhard Dengler, Vanessa Buchholz and Jörg Ahrens
    Citation: BMC Neurology 2012 12:104
  11. Low levels of plasma 25-hydroxyvitaminD (25(OH)D) are associated with a higher incidence of multiple sclerosis (MS) due to the immune suppressive properties of vitamin D.

    Authors: Laia Grau-López, Maria Luisa Granada, Dàlia Raïch-Regué, Mar Naranjo-Gómez, Francesc E Borràs-Serres, Eva Martínez-Cáceres and Cristina Ramo-Tello
    Citation: BMC Neurology 2012 12:103
  12. Patients in neurologic in-patient rehabilitation are at risk of cardio- and cerebrovascular events. Microalbuminuria (MAU) is frequent and an important risk predictor but has not been validated in in-patient r...

    Authors: Dirk Sander, Christian Weimar, Peter Bramlage, Tobias Brandt, Ludger Rosin and Mario Siebler
    Citation: BMC Neurology 2012 12:102
  13. Neurogenic claudication (NC) is a common symptom in patients with lumbar spinal stenosis (LSS). The Neurogenic Claudication Outcome Score (NCOS) is a very short instrument for measuring functional status in th...

    Authors: Parisa Azimi, Hassan Reza Mohammadi and Ali Montazeri
    Citation: BMC Neurology 2012 12:101
  14. We noticed that a hypothesis based on the effect of geomagnetic disturbances (GMD) has the ability to explain special features of multiple sclerosis (MS). Areas around geomagnetic 60 degree latitude (GM60L) ex...

    Authors: Seyed Aidin Sajedi and Fahimeh Abdollahi
    Citation: BMC Neurology 2012 12:100
  15. Chronic low back pain (CLBP) has been shown to be associated with various pathophysiological changes at several level of the sensorimotor system, pointing to a general hypersensitivity in CLBP patients. The ai...

    Authors: Christian Puta, Birgit Schulz, Saskia Schoeler, Walter Magerl, Brunhild Gabriel, Holger H W Gabriel, Wolfgang H R Miltner and Thomas Weiss
    Citation: BMC Neurology 2012 12:98
  16. This article reports a rare case of active neurosyphilis in a man with mild to moderate dementia and marked hippocampal atrophy, mimicking early onset Alzheimer’s disease. Few cases have so far described bilat...

    Authors: Shima Mehrabian, Margarita Raycheva, Martina Traykova, Tonya Stankova, Latchezar Penev, Olga Grigorova and Latchezar Traykov
    Citation: BMC Neurology 2012 12:96
  17. The balance between T helper cells Th2- and Th1-related cytokines plays a key role in multiple sclerosis (MS). A shift from a Th1 towards a Th2 cytokine profile could have a beneficial effect on the clinical c...

    Authors: Celia Oreja-Guevara, Jaime Ramos-Cejudo, Luiz Stark Aroeira, Beatriz Chamorro and Exuperio Diez-Tejedor
    Citation: BMC Neurology 2012 12:95
  18. Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic progressive neurological disease and the majority of patients will experience some degree of impaired mobility. We evaluated the prevalence, severity and burden of walking ...

    Authors: James Pike, Edward Jones, Krithika Rajagopalan, James Piercy and Peter Anderson
    Citation: BMC Neurology 2012 12:94
  19. Recently, heterozygous mutations in PRRT2 (Chr 16p11.2) have been identified in Han Chinese, Japanese and Caucasians with paroxysmal kinesigenic dyskinesia. In previous work, a paroxysmal kinesigenic dyskinesia l...

    Authors: Peter Hedera, Jianfeng Xiao, Andreas Puschmann, Dragana Momčilović, Steve W Wu and Mark S LeDoux
    Citation: BMC Neurology 2012 12:93
  20. Compensation of brain injury in multiple sclerosis (MS) may in part work through mechanisms involving neuronal plasticity on local and interregional scales. Mechanisms limiting excessive neuronal activity may ...

    Authors: Daniel Zeller, Su-Yin Dang, David Weise, Peter Rieckmann, Klaus V Toyka and Joseph Classen
    Citation: BMC Neurology 2012 12:92
  21. The aim of this study was to perform a longitudinal assessment using Quantitative Muscle Testing (QMT) in a cohort of ambulant boys affected by Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) and to correlate the results of...

    Authors: Alberto Lerario, Serena Bonfiglio, MariaPia Sormani, Andrea Tettamanti, Sarah Marktel, Sara Napolitano, Stefano Previtali, Marina Scarlato, MariaGrazia Natali-Sora, Eugenio Mercuri, Nereo Bresolin, Tiziana Mongini, Giancarlo Comi, Roberto Gatti, Fabio Ciceri, Giulio Cossu…
    Citation: BMC Neurology 2012 12:91
  22. Central post-stroke pain (CPSP) is a neuropathic pain syndrome associated with somatosensory abnormalities due to central nervous system lesion following a cerebrovascular insult. Post-stroke pain (PSP) refers...

    Authors: Rogério Adas Ayres de Oliveira, Daniel Ciampi de Andrade, André Guelman Gomes Machado and Manoel Jacobsen Teixeira
    Citation: BMC Neurology 2012 12:89
  23. Stroke is the second most common cause of mortality and the leading cause of neurological disability, cognitive impairment and dementia worldwide. Nimodipine is a dihydropyridinic calcium antagonist with a rol...

    Authors: Penglian Wang, Yongjun Wang, Tao Feng, Xingquan Zhao, Yong Zhou, Yilong Wang, Weixiong Shi and Yi Ju
    Citation: BMC Neurology 2012 12:88
  24. Human cytomegalovirus (CMV) is an ubiquitous pathogen capable of modulating the host immune system. Immune dysfunction is common during CMV infection and includes autoimmune phenomena. Here we focus on a case ...

    Authors: Xinling Xu, Peter Bergman, Thomas Willows, Charlotte Tammik, Marie Sund, Tomas Hökfelt, Cecilia Söderberg-Naucler and Stefania Varani
    Citation: BMC Neurology 2012 12:87
  25. This article describes the rationale and design of a population-based survey of dementia in Valladolid (northwestern Spain). The main aim of the study was to assess the epidemiology of dementia and its subtype...

    Authors: Miguel Angel Tola-Arribas, María José Garea, María Isabel Yugueros, Fernando Ortega-Valín, Ana Cerón, Beatriz Fernández-Malvido, Marta González-Touya, Antonio San José, Ana Botrán, Vanessa Iglesias and Bárbara Díaz-Gómez
    Citation: BMC Neurology 2012 12:86
  26. Clinical and experimental studies have demonstrated that seizures can cause molecular and cellular responses resulting in neuronal damage. At present, there are no valid tests for assessing organic damage to t...

    Authors: Stefania Mondello, Johanna Palmio, Jackson Streeter, Ronald L Hayes, Jukka Peltola and Andreas Jeromin
    Citation: BMC Neurology 2012 12:85
  27. Prophylaxis to prevent relapses in the central nervous system after childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) used to consist of both intrathecal chemotherapy (CT) and cranial irradiation (CRT). CRT was mos...

    Authors: Marita Daams, Ilse Schuitema, Bob W van Dijk, Eline van Dulmen-den Broeder, Anjo JP Veerman, Cor van den Bos and Leo MJ de Sonneville
    Citation: BMC Neurology 2012 12:84
  28. To test the hypothesis that white matter lesions (WML) are primarily associated with regional frontal cortical volumes, and to determine the mediating effects of these regional frontal cortices on the associat...

    Authors: Jun-Young Lee, Philip Insel, R Scott Mackin, Norbert Schuff, Helena Chui, Charles DeCarli, Kee Hyung Park, Susanne G Mueller and Michael W Weiner
    Citation: BMC Neurology 2012 12:83
  29. Neuroprotective strategies after cardiopulmonary resuscitation are currently the focus of experimental and clinical research. Levosimendan has been proposed as a promising drug candidate because of its cardiop...

    Authors: Anna B Roehl, Norbert Zoremba, Markus Kipp, Johannes Schiefer, Andreas Goetzenich, Christian Bleilevens, Nikolaus Kuehn-Velten, Rene Tolba, Rolf Rossaint and Marc Hein
    Citation: BMC Neurology 2012 12:81
  30. The prognostic value of evoked potentials (EPs) in multiple sclerosis (MS) has not been fully established. The correlations between the Expanded Disability Status Scale (EDSS) at First Neurological Evaluation ...

    Authors: Nicolò Margaritella, Laura Mendozzi, Massimo Garegnani, Raffaello Nemni, Elena Colicino, Elisabetta Gilardi and Luigi Pugnetti
    Citation: BMC Neurology 2012 12:80
  31. Vertebral artery dissection (VAD) is often associated with trauma or occurs spontaneously, inevitably causing some neurological deficits. Even though acute infection can be related to the development of sponta...

    Authors: Xudong Pan, Aijun Ma, Kun Wang, Shumin Nie and Mei Wu
    Citation: BMC Neurology 2012 12:79
  32. CADASIL is an autosomal dominant genetic leukoencephalopathy linked to mutations in the Notch3 gene. In rare cases, widespread brain lesions on T2 MRI mimicking multiple sclerosis are observed. From a national re...

    Authors: Nicolas Collongues, Nathalie Derache, Frédéric Blanc, Pierre Labauge, Jérôme de Seze and Gilles Defer
    Citation: BMC Neurology 2012 12:78
  33. Acquired Brain Injury (ABI) from traumatic and non traumatic causes is a leading cause of disability worldwide yet there is limited research summarizing the health system economic burden associated with ABI. T...

    Authors: Amy Chen, Ksenia Bushmeneva, Brandon Zagorski, Angela Colantonio, Daria Parsons and Walter P Wodchis
    Citation: BMC Neurology 2012 12:76
  34. Although the development of early-onset dementia is a radical and invalidating experience for both patient and family there are hardly any non-pharmacological studies that focus on this group of patients. One ...

    Authors: Astrid M Hooghiemstra, Laura HP Eggermont, Philip Scheltens, Wiesje M van der Flier, Jet Bakker, Mathieu HG de Greef, Peter A Koppe and Erik JA Scherder
    Citation: BMC Neurology 2012 12:75
  35. Motor neurone disease (MND) is a devastating illness which leads to muscle weakness and death, usually within 2-3 years of symptom onset. Respiratory insufficiency is a common cause of morbidity, particularly ...

    Authors: Christopher J McDermott, Chin Maguire, Cindy L Cooper, Roger Ackroyd, Wendy O Baird, Simon Baudouin, Andrew Bentley, Stephen Bianchi, Stephen Bourke, Mike J Bradburn, Simon Dixon, John Ealing, Simon Galloway, Dayalan Karat, Nick Maynard, Karen Morrison…
    Citation: BMC Neurology 2012 12:74
  36. The autosomal dominant spinocerebellar ataxias (SCAs) confine a group of rare and heterogeneous disorders, which present with progressive ataxia and numerous other features e.g. peripheral neuropathy, macular ...

    Authors: Troels Tolstrup Nielsen, Skirmante Mardosiene, Annemette Løkkegaard, Jette Stokholm, Susanne Ehrenfels, Sara Bech, Lars Friberg, Jens Kellberg Nielsen and Jørgen E Nielsen
    Citation: BMC Neurology 2012 12:73
  37. New research criteria for the diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) have recently been developed to enable an early diagnosis of AD pathophysiology by relying on emerging biomarkers. To enable efficient alloca...

    Authors: Ron LH Handels, Pauline Aalten, Claire AG Wolfs, Marcel OldeRikkert, Philip Scheltens, Pieter Jelle Visser, Manuela A Joore, Johan L Severens and Frans RJ Verhey
    Citation: BMC Neurology 2012 12:72
  38. Chronic headache (headache ≥ 15 days/month for at least 3 months) affects 2–5% of the general population. Medication overuse contributes to the problem. Medication-overuse headache (MOH) can be identified by u...

    Authors: Espen Saxhaug Kristoffersen, Jørund Straand, Jūratė Saltytė Benth, Michael Bjørn Russell and Christofer Lundqvist
    Citation: BMC Neurology 2012 12:70
  39. Post-traumatic amnesia (PTA) is a key symptom of traumatic brain injury (TBI). Accurate assessment of PTA is imperative in guiding clinical decision making. Our aim was to develop and externally validate a sho...

    Authors: Bram Jacobs, Janneke van Ekert, Lotje PL Vernooy, Peter Dieperink, Teuntje MJC Andriessen, Marc PH Hendriks, Arie B van Vugt, Marjolein AA Emons, George F Borm and Pieter E Vos
    Citation: BMC Neurology 2012 12:69
  40. Previous studies have suggested that pre-stroke treatment with low-dose aspirin (A) could reduce the severity of acute ischaemic stroke, but less is known on the effect of pre-stroke treatment with a combinati...

    Authors: Lola Arnarsdottir, Clara Hjalmarsson, Lena Bokemark and Björn Andersson
    Citation: BMC Neurology 2012 12:67
  41. The correlation between intracranial pressure (ICP) and intraocular pressure (IOP) is still controversial in literature and hence whether IOP can be used as a non-invasive surrogate of ICP remains unknown. The...

    Authors: Zhen Li, Yingxin Yang, Yan Lu, Dachuan Liu, Erhe Xu, Jianping Jia, Diya Yang, Xiaojun Zhang, Huiqing Yang, Daqing Ma and Ningli Wang
    Citation: BMC Neurology 2012 12:66
  42. Lymphocyte-depleted Hodgkin’s lymphoma is the rarest form of classical Hodgkin’s lymphoma, accounting for < 1% of all cases. Patients often have advanced-stage disease at the time of presentation with an aggre...

    Authors: Ekkehard M Kasper, Fred C Lam, Markus M Luedi, Pascal O Zinn and German A Pihan
    Citation: BMC Neurology 2012 12:64

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