OBJECTIVES Biochemical markers for Alzheimer’s disease would be of great value, especially to help in diagnosis early in the course of the disease. A pronounced increase in CSF tau protein (CSF-tau) ...

Background Pain is an important symptom in Huntington’s disease (HD), however, not systematically studied and understood. The objective of the current study is to assess the prevalence of pain, pain ...

Objective and methods: To characterise the epidemiological features of chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP) in the Japanese population, this study performed a nationwide assessment ...

Frontal lobe brain sagging syndrome is recently described syndrome, though its natural history and pro- gression remains unknown. We present a 68-year-old female with progressive worsening of ...

Methods Randomised placebo-controlled trial of low-dose and high-dose fish oil versus placebo (corn oil, linoleic acid) in 24 participants with drug resistant epilepsy. A three-period crossover design ...

Benign positional vertigo (BPV) is the most frequent cause of vertigo seen in office practice, with a lifetime incidence of at least 8%.1 While most patients give a diagnostic history—brief spinning ...

Objective To determine whether apathy or depression predicts all-cause dementia in small vessel disease (SVD) patients. Methods Analyses used two prospective cohort studies of SVD: St. George’s ...

Objective First, to determine the sensitivity and specificity of six stroke recognition scores in a single cohort to improve interscore comparability. Second, to test four stroke severity scores ...

Biography Dr Lucy Vanes is a lecturer in Neuroscience and Psychology at the Department of Neuroimaging, King’s College London. She completed her PhD in 2017, studying the neural correlates of ...

Objectives To assess the diagnosis of somatic symptom disorder (SSD) in patients with unexplained neurological symptoms occurring after SARS-CoV-2 infection, also referred to as long COVID. Design ...

Background Amyloid-related imaging abnormalities due to oedema (ARIA-E) or haemosiderin deposits (ARIA-H) have been associated with the use of monoclonal antibodies, such as lecanemab, for the ...

Background Evidence of best practice for long term physical activity Huntington’s disease (HD) is lacking, due in part, to inherent challenges in the delivery and evaluation of such life-style ...