The human electroencephalogram (EEG) was discovered by the German psychiatrist, Hans Berger, in 1929. Its potential applications in epilepsy rapidly became clear, when Gibbs and colleagues in Boston ...

1 Academic Neurology Unit, University of Sheffield, Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Glossop Road, Sheffield S10 2JF, UK 2 Department of Liaison Psychiatry, Brandon Mental Health Unit, Leicester General ...

Dr E H Reynolds, Institute of Epileptology, Weston Education Centre, King's College, Denmark Hill Campus, London SE5 9PJ, UK reynolds{at}buckles.u-net.com Present address for T Bottiglieri Institute ...

Despite the use of plasma exchanges and intravenous immunoglobulins, Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) still carries non-negligible morbidity and mortality. Furthermore, the psychosocial consequences of ...

1 Department of Neurology, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan 2 Department of Health Science, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine 3 Department of Neurology, ...

OBJECTIVES Postural tremor is a regularly encountered side effect of amitriptyline which can be strong enough to cause discontinuation of therapy. The aim was to characterise amitriptyline induced ...

Introduction Non-invasive ventilation (NIV) improves prognosis in patients with motor neuron disease (MND) in the absence of major bulbar involvement. However, some experience a rapid and unexpected ...

Correspondence to Dr Eoin P Flanagan, Department of Neurology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN 55905, USA; flanagan.eoin{at}mayo.edu IgG directed against the α-isoform of glial fibrillary acidic protein ...