Objective Antibodies against contactin-associated protein-like 2 (CASPR2-Abs) have been described in acquired neuromyotonia, limbic encephalitis (LE) and Morvan syndrome (MoS). However, it is unknown ...

Background and purpose To investigate early clinical surrogates for long-term independency of patients treated with thrombectomy for large vessel occlusion stroke in daily clinical routine. Methods ...

Background Anti-N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor encephalitis (NMDARE) is a severe autoimmune disorder with high morbidity and mortality. Current treatments have limitations including relapse, ...

Correspondence to Professor Piero Parchi, Dipartimento di Medicina Specialistica Diagnostica e Sperimentale, Università di Bologna, Bologna 40138, Italy; piero.parchi{at}unibo.it Objective To compare ...

Correspondence to Dr Kazumoto Shibuya, Neurology, Chiba University, Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba 260-8670, Japan; kazumoto{at}net.email.ne.jp Background Previous studies have shown that patients ...

Correspondence to Dr Robert Steinbach, Department of Neurology, Jena University Hospital, Jena 07747, Thüringen, Germany; Robert.Steinbach{at}med.uni-jena.de Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a ...

1 Department of Internal Medicine, Kangwon National University, School of Medicine, Chuncheon, Republic of Korea 2 Department of Otolaryngology, Kangwon National University, School of Medicine, ...

Institute for Neuroradiology, JW Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt, Germany Dr Oliver Singer, Department of Neurology, JW Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main, Schleusenweg 2-16, D-60528 ...

Objectives The placement of an external ventricular drain (EVD) is a common neurosurgical operation that carries great benefit in acute hydrocephalus but is not without risk. In our centre, bolt EVDs ...

Background To evaluate the efficacy of rituximab in chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy (CIDP) patients not responding to conventional immune therapies. Methods An open-label, ...

Objective To validate sphingomyelin (SM) dosage in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) of patients affected by chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy (CIDP) and Guillain-Barré syndrome ...

Cerebral lesions may alter the capability of bilingual subjects to separate their languages and use each language in appropriate contexts. Patients who show pathological mixing intermingle different ...