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1. Tetramethylpyrazine attenuates spinal cord ischemic injury due to aortic cross-clamping in rabbits

   Lower limb paralysis occurs in 11% of patients after surgical procedure of thoracic or thoracoabdominal aneurysms and is an unpredictable and distressful complication. The aim of this study was to investigate ...

   Authors: Shaoyang Chen, Lize Xiong, Qiang Wang, Hanfei Sang, Zhenhua Zhu, Hailong Dong and Zhihong Lu

   Citation: BMC Neurology 2002 2:1

   Content type: Research article Published on: 17 April 2002

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2. Splinting or surgery for carpal tunnel syndrome? Design of a randomized controlled trial [ISRCTN18853827]

   Carpal tunnel syndrome is a common disorder, which can be treated with surgery or conservative options. However, there is insufficient evidence and no consensus among physicians with regard to the preferred tr...

   Authors: Annette AM Gerritsen, Rob JPM Scholten, Willem JJ Assendelft, Herman Kuiper, Henrica CW de Vet and Lex M Bouter

   Citation: BMC Neurology 2001 1:8

   Content type: Study protocol Published on: 18 December 2001

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3. Weather conditions and Bell's palsy: five-year study and review of the literature

   Climatic or meteorological condition changes have been implicated in the pathogenesis of Bell's palsy (BP). We evaluate the influence of meteorological parameters, such as temperature, humidity, and atmospheri...

   Authors: Vasilis Danielides, George Patrikakos, Christina-Sophia Nousia, Aristides Bartzokas, Haralampos J Milionis, Christos Lolis and Antonios Skevas

   Citation: BMC Neurology 2001 1:7

   Content type: Research article Published on: 5 December 2001

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4. Carbamazepine reduces memory induced activation of mesial temporal lobe structures: a pharmacological fMRI-study

   It is not known whether carbamazepine (CBZ; a drug widely used in neurology and psychiatry) influences the blood oxygenation level dependent (BOLD) contrast changes induced by neuronal activation and measured ...

   Authors: Hennric Jokeit, Michael Okujava and Friedrich G Woermann

   Citation: BMC Neurology 2001 1:6

   Content type: Research article Published on: 6 November 2001

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5. Heart rate changes during partial seizures: A study amongst Singaporean patients

   Studies in Europe and America showed that tachycardia, less often bradycardia, frequently accompanied partial seizures in Caucasian patients. We determine frequency, magnitude and type of ictal heart rate chan...

   Authors: Einar Wilder-Smith and Shih-Hui Lim

   Citation: BMC Neurology 2001 1:5

   Content type: Research article Published on: 24 September 2001

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6. Abduction paresis with rostral pontine and/or mesencephalic lesions: Pseudoabducens palsy and its relation to the so-called posterior internuclear ophthalmoplegia of Lutz

   The existence of a prenuclear abduction paresis is still debated.

   Authors: Frank Thömke and Hanns Christian Hopf

   Citation: BMC Neurology 2001 1:4

   Content type: Research article Published on: 23 August 2001

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7. Traumatic brain injury as a risk factor for Alzheimer disease. Comparison of two retrospective autopsy cohorts with evaluation of ApoE genotype

   The impact of traumatic brain injury (TBI) on the pathogenesis of Alzheimer disease (AD) is still controversial. The aim of our retrospective autopsy study was to assess the impact of TBE and ApoE allele frequ...

   Authors: Kurt A Jellinger, Werner Paulus, Christian Wrocklage and Irene Litvan

   Citation: BMC Neurology 2001 1:3

   Content type: Research article Published on: 30 July 2001

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8. Incidence and Characteristics of Total Stroke in the United States

   Stroke, increasingly referred to as a "brain attack", is one of the leading causes of death and the leading cause of adult disability in the United States. It has recently been estimated that there were three ...

   Authors: G Rhys Williams MS, ScD

   Citation: BMC Neurology 2001 1:2

   Content type: Research article Published on: 4 June 2001

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9. Symptomatic hemorrhage after alteplase therapy not due to silent ischemia

   Stroke thrombolysis-related intracerebral hemorrhage may occur remotely from the anatomical site of ischemia. One postulated mechanism for this is simultaneous multiple embolization with hemorrhage into a "sil...

   Authors: Michael D Hill, Philip A Barber, Andrew M Demchuk, Robert J Sevick, Richard Frayne and Alastair M Buchan

   Citation: BMC Neurology 2001 1:1

   Content type: Case report Published on: 19 January 2001

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