Background The link between low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) levels and dementia risk is poorly understood, with conflicting evidence on the role of LDL-C and the impact of statin therapy ...

Background: Some ganglioside complexes (GSCs) are target antigens for serum antibodies in patients with Guillain–Barré syndrome (GBS). Anti-GSC antibodies may be associated with particular clinical ...

Background: Therapeutic outcome of Wilson’s disease (WD) significantly depends upon its early recognition. However, because of its rarity in community and protean manifestations, the diagnosis and ...

Background The aim of this study was to determine treatment response and whether it is associated with antibody titre change in patients with autoimmune nodopathy (AN) previously diagnosed as chronic ...

Wallerian degeneration (WD) after ischaemic stroke is a well known phenomenon following a stereotypical time course. Whereas conventional magnetic resonance imaging fails to detect signal intensity ...

Influential models based on an increasing body of neuroimaging evidence propose that insular cortex integrates cognitive, affective, sensory and autonomic information to create a consciously perceived ...

Neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder (NMOSD) is a devastating inflammatory disease of the central nervous system (CNS), thus, an early and accurate diagnosis is important.1 The aquaporin-4 (AQP4) ...

Getting closer to patients: the INCAT Overall Disability Sum Score relates better to patients’ own clinical judgement in immune-mediated polyneuropathies ...

Background: Two professional painters experienced significant changes in their art as the main consequence of minor stroke located in the left occipital lobe or thalamus. Methods: The features of this ...

OBJECTIVES Psychopathology has been reported to be prevalent both before and after surgical treatment for medically intractable temporal lobe epilepsy. Individual patients were evaluated prospectively ...

Myalgia or muscle weakness is frequently observed during HIV infection (1), and 15% of HIV patients may have an increased serum creatine kinase (CK) level.1 Case reports or case series have suggested ...

Objective: To assess the risk of recurrence of cerebral venous and sinus thrombosis (CVST) during subsequent pregnancy and puerperium in women with previous cerebral venous occlusive disease. Methods: ...