OBJECTIVE To test the feasibility and validity of the EQ-5D (a widely used generic (disease non-specific) quality of life (QoL) instrument which allows comparisons between different patient groups and ...

Mechanical heart valves are associated with a risk of thromboembolism and anticoagulation is generally recommended. However, this is inevitably associated with a risk of intracranial bleeding. The ...

Objective: To develop and test a questionnaire for measuring quality of life in patients with craniocervical dystonia. Methods: A 29-item pool was developed based on semi-structured interviews of ...

Correspondence to Dr Jonathan M Schott, Dementia Research Centre, National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Institute of Neurology, Queen Square, Box 16, London WC1N 3BG, UK; ...

Correspondence to Dr Alastair J Noyce, Department of Molecular Neuroscience and Reta Lila Weston Institute, UCL Institute of Neurology, 1 Wakefield Street, London WC1N 1PJ, UK; a.noyce{at}ucl.ac.uk ...

Correspondence to Dr Shadi Yaghi, Department of Neurology, Brown University Warren Alpert Medical School, Providence, RI 02903, USA; shadiyaghi{at}yahoo.com Lacunar stroke is a marker of cerebral ...

Centre de Référence Maladies Neuromusculaires de l’Enfant et de l’Adulte Nantes-Angers, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire d’Angers, Angers, France Background: Diagnostic criteria for chronic ...

Correspondence to Dr Scott D. Newsome, Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA; snewsom2{at}jhmi.edu Objective To identify early clinical and ...

2 Department of Clinical Research, Niigata National Hospital, Niigata, Japan 3 Department of Clinical Laboratory Unit, Niigata National Hospital, Niigata, Japan 4 Department of Pharmacology, ...

Background Deep brain stimulation (DBS) has been investigated for patients with drug-resistant epilepsy who are not candidates for resective surgery. Because different types of epilepsy involve ...

1 Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Edinburgh, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, UK 2 Department of Psychiatry, University of Edinburgh, Royal Edinburgh Hospital Correspondence to ...

1 Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, USA 2 Department of Neurology, UCSF School of Medicine, San Francisco, California, USA ...