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A rare case of T-cell CNS Lymphoma mimicking tacrolimus neurotoxicity
A 44-year-old, post-transplant female, presented with urosepsis and raised tacrolimus level. She developed focal motor seizures. She suffered long-standing type-1 diabetes, developing end-stage renal ...
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Longlasting antalgic effects of daily sessions of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation in central and peripheral neuropathic pain
Background and objective: A single session of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) over motor cortex had been reported to produce short term relief of some types of chronic pain. The ...
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APOE associations with severe CAA-associated vasculopathic changes: collaborative meta-analysis
4 Department of Neurology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA 5 Department of Neurology, Sanders-Brown Center on Aging, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, USA 6 ...
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Impaired cerebral autoregulation: measurement and application to stroke
Correspondence to Jia Liu, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology; jia.liu{at}siat.ac.cn and Dr Ka Sing Wong, Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, The Chinese ...
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Disease-modifying treatment and disability progression in subclasses of patients with primary progressive MS: results from the Big MS Data Network
Background Effectiveness of disease-modifying treatment (DMT) in people affected by primary progressive multiple sclerosis (PPMS) is limited. Whether specific subgroups may benefit more from DMT in a ...
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Are psychogenic non-epileptic seizures just another symptom of conversion disorder?
Background Psychogenic non-epileptic seizures (PNES) are classified with other functional neurological symptoms as ‘Conversion Disorder’, but there are reasons to wonder whether this symptomatology ...
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Functional symptoms in neurology: questions and answers
1 Academic Neurology Unit, University of Sheffield, Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Glossop Road, Sheffield S10 2JF, UK 2 Department of Liaison Psychiatry, Brandon Mental Health Unit, Leicester General ...
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Medial temporal lobe atrophy predicts Alzheimer's disease in patients with minor cognitive impairment
1 Institute of Brain and Behavior, Department of Psychiatry, University of Maastricht, Maastricht, The Netherlands 2 Department of Radiology, Academisch Ziekenhuis Maastricht, Maastricht, The ...
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Corticolimbic structural alterations linked to health status and trait anxiety in functional neurological disorder
Correspondence to Dr David L Perez, Massachusetts General Hospital, Departments of Neurology and Psychiatry 149 13th Street, Charlestown, MA 02129, USA; dlperez{at}partners.org Objective Affective ...
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The association between delays in screening for and assessing dysphagia after acute stroke, and the risk of stroke-associated pneumonia
1 Farr Institute of Health Informatics, University College London, London, UK 2 Stroke and Vascular Research Centre, Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester Academic ...
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Long-term safety and effectiveness of natalizumab treatment in clinical practice: 10 years of real-world data from the Tysabri Observational Program (TOP)
Objective The Tysabri Observational Programme (TOP), which began >10 years ago, is an open-label, multinational, prospective observational study evaluating the long-term safety and effectiveness of ...
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The natural history of secondary progressive multiple sclerosis
2 Department of Neurology, University Medical Centre Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands Correspondence to Dr M Koch, Department of Neurology, University Medical Centre ...