This case is reported to raise awareness of herpes simplex encephalitis as a persisting brain disorder. A 66 year old immunocompetent man developed status epilepticus and died of pneumonia in the ...

Dr Josef Georg Heckmann, Department of Neurology, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Schwabachanlage 6, D-91054 Erlangen, Germany. A 45 year old woman is reported who initially presented with a ...

Antimyelin-associated glycoprotein (MAG) neuropathy is a rare autoimmune demyelinating peripheral neuropathy caused by IgM autoantibodies targeting MAG. The typical presentation is that of a slowly ...

Department of Social Medicine, University of Bristol, Canynge Hall, Bristol, UK Professor N J Scolding, University of Bristol Institute of Clinical Neurosciences, Frenchay Hospital, Bristol BS16 1LE, ...

Correspondence to: Dr Robert Grant Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Western General Hospital, Crewe Road, Edinburgh EH4 2XU, UK; rgrantskull.dcn.ed.ac.uk This article is intended to reflect the ...

Introduction Sex differences in dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) have been reported in clinically defined cohorts; however, clinical diagnostic accuracy in DLB is suboptimal and phenotypic differences ...

Correspondence to: Dr Duffau, Service de Neurochirurgie, Hôf.pital de la Salpêtriére, 47–83 Bd de l’hôf.pital, 75651 Paris, Cedex 13, France; email: hugues.duffau{at}psl.ap-hop-paris.fr Objectives: To ...

Patients with unilateral hemispheric lesions were given visual target cancellation tasks. As expected, marked contralateral and less severe ipsilateral visual inattention were observed in patients ...

Correspondence to Dr Masahiro Mori, Neurology, Chiba University Graduate School of Medicine School of Medicine, Chiba, Chiba, Japan; morim{at}faculty.chiba-u.jp Objective To investigate longitudinal ...

Some patients ultimately diagnosed with primary CNS lymphoma (PCNSL) have transient symptomatic contrast enhancing lesions. These "sentinel lesions" of PCNSL recede spontaneously or with ...

Correspondence to Dr M Braschinsky, Department of Neurology, University of Tartu, Puusepa 2, Tartu 51014, Estonia; mark.braschinsky{at}kliinikum.ee Background Hereditary spastic paraplegia (HSP) ...

Correspondence to Dr Romain Bourcier, Department of Diagnostic and Therapeutic Neuroradiology, University Hospital of Nantes, L’institut du thorax, Inserm 1087, CNRS, UNIV Nantes, University Hospital ...