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  1. Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP) as a pure sensory variant is rarely encountered. Therefore the best treatment option is hard to define.

    Authors: Elisabeth Chroni, Dimitra Veltsista, Evangelia Gavanozi, Tavitha Vlachou, Panagiotis Polychronopoulos and Panagiotis Papathanasopoulos
    Citation: BMC Neurology 2015 15:27
  2. Horizontal gaze palsy with progressive scoliosis (HGPPS) is an autosomal recessive disorder caused by mutations in the ROBO3 gene, resulting in a critical absence of crossing fibers in the brainstem.

    Authors: Shuhei Yamada, Yoshiko Okita, Tomoko Shofuda, Ema Yoshioka, Masahiro Nonaka, Kosuke Mori, Shin Nakajima and Yonehiro Kanemura
    Citation: BMC Neurology 2015 15:25
  3. The prognostic impact of preadmission use of calcium channel blockers (CCBs) and beta blockers (BBs) on stroke mortality remains unclear. We aimed to examine whether preadmission use of CCBs or BBs was associa...

    Authors: Jens Sundbøll, Morten Schmidt, Erzsébet Horváth-Puhó, Christian F Christiansen, Lars Pedersen, Hans Erik Bøtker and Henrik T Sørensen
    Citation: BMC Neurology 2015 15:24
  4. Subarachnoid hemorrhage caused by a ruptured intracranial aneurysm (RIA) is a devastating condition with significant morbidity and mortality. Despite the fact that RIAs can be prevented by microsurgical clippi...

    Authors: Jing Xu, Feiqiang Ma, Wei Yan, Sen Qiao, Shengquan Xu, Yi Li, Jianhong Luo, Jianmin Zhang and Jinghua Jin
    Citation: BMC Neurology 2015 15:23
  5. Pol III-related leukodystrophies, including 4H leukodystrophy, are recently recognized disorders that comprise hypomyelination and various neurologic and non-neurologic clinical manifestations. We report the u...

    Authors: Ana Potic, Vera Popovic, Jelena Ostojic, Sandra Pekic, Dusko Kozic, Kether Guerrero, Raphael Schiffmann and Geneviève Bernard
    Citation: BMC Neurology 2015 15:22
  6. People with multiple sclerosis (PwMS) endure walking limitations. To address this restriction, various physical rehabilitation programs have been implemented with no consensus regarding their efficacy. Our obj...

    Authors: Alon Kalron, Dalia Nitzani, David Magalashvili, Mark Dolev, Shay Menascu, Yael Stern, Uri Rosenblum, Diana Pasitselsky, Lior Frid, Gabi Zeilig, Caroline Barmatz, Uri Givon and Anat Achiron
    Citation: BMC Neurology 2015 15:21
  7. The NINDS-Canadian Stroke Network (NINDS-CSN) recommended a neuropsychological battery of three protocols to diagnose vascular cognitive impairment (VCI), however, due to culture and language differences, the ...

    Authors: Xiangliang Chen, Adrian Wong, Ruidong Ye, Lulu Xiao, Zhaojun Wang, Ying Lin, Fang Yang, Hua Li, Ting Feng, Lihui Duan, Yunfei Han, Qiliang Dai, Juan Du, Gelin Xu, Vincent Mok, Yunyun Xiong…
    Citation: BMC Neurology 2015 15:20
  8. Mitochondrial dysfunction is a hallmark of neurodegenerative diseases including Alzheimer’s disease (AD), with morphological and functional abnormalities limiting the electron transport chain and ATP productio...

    Authors: Aaron N Long, Katrina Owens, Anna E Schlappal, Tibor Kristian, Paul S Fishman and Rosemary A Schuh
    Citation: BMC Neurology 2015 15:19
  9. The clinical features of myositis related with Human T-cell leukemia virus type 1 (HTLV-1) remains unclear despite epidemiological studies suggesting inflammatory myopathy associated with the virus.

    Authors: Eiji Matsuura, Akiko Yoshimura, Satoshi Nozuma, Itsuro Higuchi, Ryuji Kubota and Hiroshi Takashima
    Citation: BMC Neurology 2015 15:18
  10. Achieving optimal symptom control with minimal side effects is a major goal in clinical practice. Dual-agent dopamine receptor agonist (DA) therapy in Parkinson’s disease (PD) may represent a promising approac...

    Authors: Jong-Min Kim, Sun Ju Chung, Jae Woo Kim, Beom Seok Jeon, Pritibha Singh, Stephan Thierfelder, Junji Ikeda and Lars Bauer
    Citation: BMC Neurology 2015 15:17
  11. Uric acid has antioxidant effects on neurons. Abnormally high levels of uric acid are, however, associated with gout. Previous studies have suggested that high levels of uric acid (and the presence of gout) ma...

    Authors: Julia Pakpoor, Olena O Seminog, Sreeram V Ramagopalan and Michael J Goldacre
    Citation: BMC Neurology 2015 15:16
  12. Unusual presentations of multiple sclerosis (MS) at onset may post a diagnostic dilemma to the treating neurologists. Spinal myoclonus is rare in MS and may lead to perform extensive investigations to rule out...

    Authors: Raed Abdullah Alroughani, Samar Farouk Ahmed, Riyadh Ahmed Khan and Jasem Yousef Al-Hashel
    Citation: BMC Neurology 2015 15:15
  13. Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is the most common form of dementia and patients often have visual disorders. Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) is characterized by a memory deficit when compared with those of a similar...

    Authors: Dachuan Liu, Lina Zhang, Zhen Li, Xuxiang Zhang, Yue Wu, Huiqing Yang, Baoquan Min, Xinqing Zhang, Daqing Ma and Yan Lu
    Citation: BMC Neurology 2015 15:14
  14. Mutations of the lamin A/C gene have been associated with several diseases such as Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy, dilated cardiomyopathy and Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease, referred to as laminopathies. Only one...

    Authors: Naotoshi Iwahara, Shin Hisahara, Takashi Hayashi, Jun Kawamata and Shun Shimohama
    Citation: BMC Neurology 2015 15:13
  15. Youth with spina bifida (SB) are less fit and active than other groups with childhood disability. While recent studies have shown benefits of exercise training, the increased fitness levels do not sustain or l...

    Authors: Manon AT Bloemen, Olaf Verschuren, Claudia van Mechelen, Hanneke E Borst, Arina J de Leeuw, Marsha van der Hoef and Janke F de Groot
    Citation: BMC Neurology 2015 15:11
  16. Effective treatment of locomotor dysfunction in Parkinson disease (PD) is essential, as gait difficulty is an early and major contributor to disability. Exercise is recommended as an adjunct to traditional tre...

    Authors: Gammon M Earhart, Ryan P Duncan, John L Huang, Joel S Perlmutter and Kristen A Pickett
    Citation: BMC Neurology 2015 15:9
  17. Although healthcare administrative data are commonly used for traumatic brain injury (TBI) research, there is currently no consensus or consistency on the International Classification of Diseases Version 10 (I...

    Authors: Vincy Chan, Pravheen Thurairajah and Angela Colantonio
    Citation: BMC Neurology 2015 15:7
  18. Central fever (CF) is defined as elevated temperature with no identifiable cause. We aimed to identify risk factors for developing CF among patients with spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) and to evalu...

    Authors: Asaf Honig, Samer Michael, Ruth Eliahou and Ronen R Leker
    Citation: BMC Neurology 2015 15:6
  19. A frequent disorder after stroke is neglect, resulting in a failure to report or respond to contralesional stimuli. Rehabilitation of neglect is important, given the negative influence on motor recovery, indep...

    Authors: Antonia F Ten Brink, Johanna MA Visser-Meily and Tanja CW Nijboer
    Citation: BMC Neurology 2015 15:5
  20. Castleman’s disease is a rare lymphoproliferative disorder which occurs in localized and multicentric forms and can mimic lymphoma. Despite its well-known association with certain autoimmune diseases, includin...

    Authors: Vikram R Rao, Leland E Lim, Dean Fong, Nina I Garga and Karen L Parko
    Citation: BMC Neurology 2015 15:4
  21. Improvements in stroke management have led to increases in the numbers of stroke survivors over the last decade and there has been a corresponding increase of hospital readmissions after an initial stroke hosp...

    Authors: James Lewsey, Osaretin Ebueku, Pardeep S Jhund, Michelle Gillies, Jim WT Chalmers, Adam Redpath, Andrew Briggs, Matthew Walters, Peter Langhorne, Simon Capewell, John JV McMurray and Kate MacIntyre
    Citation: BMC Neurology 2015 15:3
  22. The Parelsnoer Institute is a collaboration between 8 Dutch University Medical Centers in which clinical data and biomaterials from patients suffering from chronic diseases (so called “Pearls”) are collected acco...

    Authors: Pauline Aalten, Inez HGB Ramakers, Geert Jan Biessels, Peter Paul de Deyn, Huiberdina L Koek, Marcel GM OldeRikkert, Ania M Oleksik, Edo Richard, Lieke L Smits, John C van Swieten, Laura K Teune, Aad van der Lugt, Frederik Barkhof, Charlotte E Teunissen, Nico Rozendaal, Frans RJ Verhey…
    Citation: BMC Neurology 2014 14:254
  23. The authors evaluated the impact of morphological and hemodynamic factors on the rupture of matched-pairs of ruptured-unruptured intracranial aneurysms on one patient’s ipsilateral anterior circulation with 3D...

    Authors: Ying Zhang, Xinjian Yang, Yang Wang, Jian Liu, Chuanhui Li, Linkai Jing, Shengzhang Wang and Haiyun Li
    Citation: BMC Neurology 2014 14:253
  24. Subcutaneous peginterferon beta-1a provided clinical benefits at Year 1 (placebo-controlled period) of the 2-Year Phase 3 ADVANCE study in relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis (RRMS). Here we report the effe...

    Authors: Douglas L Arnold, Peter A Calabresi, Bernd C Kieseier, Sarah I Sheikh, Aaron Deykin, Ying Zhu, Shifang Liu, Xiaojun You, Bjoern Sperling and Serena Hung
    Citation: BMC Neurology 2014 14:240
  25. In patients with epilepsy, poor adherence to anti-epileptic drugs has been shown to be the most important cause of poorly controlled epilepsy. Furthermore, it has been noted that the quality of life among pati...

    Authors: Loes AM Leenen, Ben FM Wijnen, Reina JA de Kinderen, Marian HJM Majoie, Caroline M van Heugten and Silvia MAA Evers
    Citation: BMC Neurology 2014 14:255
  26. Recent research has argued that removal of relevant sensory information during the planning and control of simple, self-paced walking can result in increased demand on central processing resources in Parkinson...

    Authors: Frederico Pieruccini-Faria, Kaylena A Ehgoetz Martens, Carolina RA Silveira, Jeffery A Jones and Quincy J Almeida
    Citation: BMC Neurology 2014 14:250
  27. There are few, recent, well assessed, multiple sclerosis (MS) incidence surveys on European populations. This study sought to measure MS incidence in a Northern Lisbon population and assess it using capture-re...

    Authors: Joao de Sá, Enrique Alcalde-Cabero, Javier Almazán-Isla, Fernando García-López and Jesús de Pedro-Cuesta
    Citation: BMC Neurology 2014 14:249
  28. Exercise has consistently yielded short-term, positive effects on health outcomes in people with multiple sclerosis (MS). However, these effects have not been maintained in the long-term. Behaviour change inte...

    Authors: Susan Coote, Stephen Gallagher, Rachel Msetfi, Aidan Larkin, John Newell, Robert W Motl and Sara Hayes
    Citation: BMC Neurology 2014 14:241
  29. Stroke causes lasting disability and the burden of stroke is expected to increase substantially during the next decades. Optimal rehabilitation is therefore mandatory. Early supported discharge (ESD) has previ...

    Authors: Håkon Hofstad, Bente Elisabeth Bassøe Gjelsvik, Halvor Næss, Geir Egil Eide and Jan Sture Skouen
    Citation: BMC Neurology 2014 14:239
  30. While previous meta-analysis have investigated the efficacy of cilostazol in the secondary prevention of ischemic stroke, they were criticized for their methodology, which confused the acute and chronic phases...

    Authors: LiGen Shi, JiaLi Pu, Liang Xu, Jay Malaguit, Jianmin Zhang and Sheng Chen
    Citation: BMC Neurology 2014 14:251
  31. Spinal cord lesions is one of the predominant characteristics in patients with neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorders (NMOSD). Interestingly, mounting evidence indicates that spinal cord atrophy (SCA) is one ...

    Authors: Yanqiang Wang, Aimin Wu, Xiaoyu Chen, Lei Zhang, Yinyao Lin, Shaoyang Sun, Wei Cai, Bingjun Zhang, Zhuang Kang, Wei Qiu, Xueqiang Hu and Zhengqi Lu
    Citation: BMC Neurology 2014 14:246
  32. The American Stroke Association/American Heart Association recommended the criteria for diagnosis of vascular cognitive impairment and memory impairment (MI) is a feature in the classification of vascular mild...

    Authors: Soo-Jin Cho, Kyung-Ho Yu, Mi Sun Oh, San Jung, Ju-Hun Lee, Im-Seok Koh, Hee-Joon Bae, Yeonwook Kang and Byung-Chul Lee
    Citation: BMC Neurology 2014 14:244
  33. Patients presenting with bilateral trigeminal hypoesthesia may go on to have trigeminal isolated sensory neuropathy, a benign, purely trigeminal neuropathy, or facial-onset sensory motor neuronopathy (FOSMN), ...

    Authors: Giorgio Cruccu, Elena M Pennisi, Giovanni Antonini, Antonella Biasiotta, Giulia di Stefano, Silvia La Cesa, Caterina Leone, Salvatore Raffa, Claudia Sommer and Andrea Truini
    Citation: BMC Neurology 2014 14:248
  34. Extraventricular neurocytomas (EVNs) are rare parenchymal brain tumors, distinct from central neurocytomas that are typically located within the supratentorial ventricular system. Seizures and headache represe...

    Authors: Raffaella Messina, Maria Giuseppina Cefalo, Domitilla Elena Secco, Simona Cappelletti, Erika Rebessi, Andrea Carai, Giovanna Stefania Colafati, Francesca Diomedi Camassei, Antonella Cacchione, Carlo Efisio Marras and Angela Mastronuzzi
    Citation: BMC Neurology 2014 14:242
  35. Structural anomaly of the cervical spine or craniocervical junction has been reported as one of the rare causes of ischemic stroke. We report a case of a young patient with recurrent posterior circulation infa...

    Authors: Seung-Hoon Song, Hong Gee Roh, Hahn Young Kim, Jin Woo Choi, Won-Jin Moon, Woo Jin Choe and Ileok Jung
    Citation: BMC Neurology 2014 14:252
  36. Neuromyelitis optica (NMO) is a severely disabling inflammatory disorder of the central nervous system and is often misdiagnosed as multiple sclerosis (MS). There is increasing evidence that treatment options ...

    Authors: Jens Harmel, Marius Ringelstein, Jens Ingwersen, Christian Mathys, Norbert Goebels, Hans-Peter Hartung, Sven Jarius and Orhan Aktas
    Citation: BMC Neurology 2014 14:247
  37. Cholinesterase inhibitors can delay the progression of Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Several clinical trials of the drug in moderate to severe AD have consistently reported clinically positive effects. A combining ef...

    Authors: Kenichi Meguro, Yoshitaka Ouchi, Kyoko Akanuma, Mitsue Meguro and Mari Kasai
    Citation: BMC Neurology 2014 14:243
  38. Although anxiety and depression have been classified as distinct traits of affective disorders, previous studies have reported their co-occurrence in subjects with migraine. However, few reports are available ...

    Authors: Kyungmi Oh, Soo-Jin Cho, Yun Kyung Chung, Jae-Moon Kim and Min Kyung Chu
    Citation: BMC Neurology 2014 14:238

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  39. Recovering useful hand function after stroke is a major scientific challenge for patients with limited motor recovery. We hypothesized that sequential training beginning with proximal bilateral followed by uni...

    Authors: Sandy McCombe Waller, Jill Whitall, Toye Jenkins, Laurence S Magder, Daniel F Hanley, Andrew Goldberg and Andreas R Luft
    Citation: BMC Neurology 2014 14:236
  40. The Mini-BESTest is a clinical balance test that has shown a high sensitivity in detecting balance impairments in elderly with Parkinson's disease (PD). However, its reproducibility between different raters an...

    Authors: Niklas Löfgren, Emma Lenholm, David Conradsson, Agneta Ståhle and Erika Franzén
    Citation: BMC Neurology 2014 14:235
  41. Fatigue is common in stroke survivors. Lesion location may influence the risk of poststroke fatigue (PSF) but it is uncertain whether location has an impact on the prognosis of PSF. This study examined the ass...

    Authors: Wai Kwong Tang, Yang Kun Chen, Hua Jun Liang, Winnie Chiu Wing Chu, Vincent Chung Tony Mok, Gabor S Ungvari and Ka Sing Wong
    Citation: BMC Neurology 2014 14:234
  42. We have argued against the traditional approach of counselling avoidance of all triggers of headaches and migraine. Problems with this approach include the impossibility of avoiding all triggers and the high c...

    Authors: Paul R Martin, Sharon Mackenzie, Siavash Bandarian-Balooch, Arissa Brunelli, Simon Broadley, John Reece and Peter J Goadsby
    Citation: BMC Neurology 2014 14:233

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