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An 18-year follow-up of seizure outcome after surgery for temporal lobe epilepsy and hippocampal sclerosis

1 Severe Epilepsies Outpatient Clinic, Neurology Service, Hospital São Lucas, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS), Porto Alegre, Brazil 2 Porto Alegre Epilepsy Surgery ...
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Randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled study of tacrolimus in myasthenia gravis

Objectives To evaluate the ability of tacrolimus to reduce the corticosteroid dose in patients with myasthenia gravis (MG) and the drug's safety in a double-blind, placebo-controlled, parallel group ...
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Effects of 40 Hz transcranial alternating current stimulation (tACS) on cognitive functions of patients with Alzheimer’s disease: a randomised, double-blind, sham-controlled ...

1 Ningbo Kangning Hospital, Ningbo, Zhejiang, People's Republic of China 2 Guangdong Key Laboratory of Non-human Primate Research, Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Institute of CNS Regeneration, Jinan ...
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Changes in appetite, food preference, and eating habits in frontotemporal dementia and Alzheimer’s disease

4 MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit and University of Cambridge Neurology Unit, Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge, UK Correspondence to: Professor J R Hodges, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit ...
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VIRAL ENCEPHALITIS: CAUSES, DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS, AND MANAGEMENT

Correspondence to: Professor P G E Kennedy Department of Neurology, University of Glasgow, Institute of Neurological Sciences, Southern General Hospital, Glasgow G51 4TF, UK; p.g.kennedyclinmed.gla.ac ...
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Cognitive deficits following anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis

4 Institute for Neuroimmunology and Clinical MS Research, Center for Molecular Neurobiology Hamburg (ZMNH), University Medical Center Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany Correspondence to Dr Carsten Finke, ...
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Treatment of paraneoplastic neurological syndromes with antineuronal antibodies (Anti-Hu, Anti-Yo) with a combination of immunoglobulins, cyclophosphamide, and methylprednisolone

Dr Jean-Yves Delattre, Service de Neurologie, Hôpital de la Salpêtrière, 47 Boulevard de l'Hôpital, 75651 Paris Cedex 13, France OBJECTIVES To evaluate the effect of a combination of immunoglobulins ...
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Association of choroid plexus volume with motor symptoms and dopaminergic degeneration in Parkinson’s disease

Background The choroid plexus (CP) is involved in the clearance of harmful metabolites from the brain, as a part of the glymphatic system. This study aimed to investigate the association between CP ...
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Electrical stimulation for seizure induction during SEEG exploration: a useful predictor of postoperative seizure recurrence?

Objective Direct electrical stimulations of cerebral cortex are a traditional part of stereoelectroencephalography (SEEG) practice, but their value as a predictive factor for seizure outcome has never ...
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SURGICAL DISORDERS OF THE CERVICAL SPINE: PRESENTATION AND MANAGEMENT OF COMMON DISORDERS

Correspondence to: Mr George Malcolm, Department of Neurosurgery, Frenchay Hospital, Frenchay Park Road, Bristol BS16 1LE, UK; george.malcolm{at}north-bristol.swest.nhs.uk “This man needs to see a ...
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Long-term functional decline of spontaneous intracerebral haemorrhage survivors

Correspondence to Professor Didier Leys, Neurology, Stroke Unit, University of Lille, Lille 59000, Hauts-de-France, France; didier.leys{at}univ-lille.fr Objective To identify in patients who survived ...