Journal of Neurology

Blood-brain barrier changes during invasion of the central nervous system by HIV-1

P. Annunziata M.D.

Prevalence of non-dementing cognitive disturbances and their association with vascular risk factors in an elderly population

M. Prencipe, M. Santini MD, A. R. Casini MD, F. R. Pezzella MD, N. Scaldaferri MD, F. Culasso PhD

Patients with chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy initially diagnosed as Guillain-Barré syndrome

M. Odaka, Nobuhiro Yuki MD, PhD, K. Hirata

Effects of pallidotomy and bilateral subthalamic stimulation on cognitive function in Parkinson disease

A. Gironell, J. Kulisevsky, L. Rami, N. Fortuny, C. García-Sánchez, B. Pascual-Sedano

Evolution of focal and diffuse magnetisation transfer abnormalities in multiple sclerosis

Cornelia Laule MSc, I. M. Vavasour PhD, K. P. Whittall PhD, J. Oger MD, D. W. Paty MD, D. K. B. Li MD, A. L. MacKay DPhil, D. L. Arnold MD

Facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy

Miriam Butz, M. C. Koch, W. Muller-Felber, R. J. L. F. Lemmers, S. M. van der Maarel, H. Schreiber

Babinski-Nageotte’s syndrome and Hemimedullary (Reinhold’s) syndrome are clinically and morphologically distinct conditions

M. Krasnianski, Stephan Neudecker MD, A. Schluter, S. Zierz

Osteopontin gene and clinical severity of multiple sclerosis

A. E. Hensiek, R. Roxburgh, M. Meranian, S. Seaman, T. Yeo, D. Alastair S. Compston, S. J. Sawcer

The syndrome of acute bilateral basal ganglia lesions in diabetic uremic patients

Han-Cheng Wang MD, Shih-Jung Cheng MD

Association study between Alzheimer’s disease and genes involved in Aβ biosynthesis, aggregation and degradation: suggestive results with BACE1

J. Clarimón, J. Bertranpetit, F. Calafell, M. Boada, L. Tàrraga, D. Comas

Distal motor latency and residual latency as sensitive markers of anti-MAG polyneuropathy

Alexander J. Radziwill, A. J. Steck, S. Renaud, P. Fuhr

Botulinum toxin type B in antibody-induced botulinum toxin type A therapy failure

D. Dressler, Hans Bigalke, R. Benecke

Postischemic cutaneous hyperperfusion in the presence of forearm hypoperfusion suggests sympathetic vasomotor dysfunction in Fabry disease

B. Stemper M.D., M. J. Hilz M.D., Ph.D.

Linguistic deficits in the acute phase of stroke

S. J. C. Doesborgh MA, W. M. E. van de Sandt-Koenderman MA, D. W. J. Dippel MD, PhD, F. van Harskamp MD, P. J. Koudstaal MD, PhD, E. G. Visch-Brink MA, PhD

Heterozygous carriers of Pseudoxanthoma elasticum were not found among patients with cervical artery dissections

M. Morcher, I. Hausser, T. Brandt, C. Grond-Ginsbach

Age-dependent association between interleukin-1A (-889) genetic polymorphism and sporadic Alzheimer’s disease

O. Combarros, J. Llorca, M. Sanchez-Guerra, J. Infante, J. Berciano

Another phenotype of frontotemporal dementia and parkinsonism linked to chromosome-17 (FTDP-17) with a missense mutation of S305N closely resembling Pick’s disease

Katsuji Kobayashi, T. Kidani, H. Ujike, M. Hayashi, T. Ishihara, K. Miyazu, S. Kuroda, Y. Koshino

Meningeal involvement of chronic myelomonocytic leukemia

Koji Aoyama M.D., Ph.D., H. Ishikura, H. Tsumura, T. Watanabe, N. Suyama, S. Kumakura, S. Kobayashi

Reversible stenosis of major cerebral arteries demonstrated by MRA in thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura

K. Kondo M.D., T. Yamawaki M.D., K. Nagatsuka M.D., K. Miyashita M.D., H. Naritomi M.D.

Recurrent exertioninduced spinal cord ischemia due to infrarenal aortic occlusion

Vera C. Zingler M. D., M. Strupp, R. Brüning, L. Lauterjung, T. Waggershausen, H. Brückmann, T. Brandt

Relationship between cerebellar size and variation of reaction time during a visual cognitive task in normal subjects

T. Kamitani, Y. Kuroiwa, M. Li, T. Ikegami, S. Matsubara

Internal carotid artery dissection after French horn playing

A. Pezzini, I. Hausser, T. Brandt, A. Padovani, C. Grond-Ginsbach

Involvement of the vertebral arteries in giant cell arteritis mimicking vertebral dissection

M. Reinhard MD, D. Schmidt MD, M. Schumacher MD, A. Hetzel MD

Clinically and MRI documented funicular myelosis in a patient with metabolical vitamin B12 deficiency but normal vitamin B12 serum level

Stefan Lorenzl, M. Vogeser MD, S. Müller-Schunk MD, H.-W. Pfister MD

William Richard Gowers (1845–1915)

K. L. Tyler M.D.

Book Reviews

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Michael Strupp

Communications of the European Neurological Society