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The neurobehavioural rating scale-revised: sensitivity and validity in closed head injury assessment
OBJECTIVES To investigate the factor structure and psychometric properties of the neurobehavioural rating scale-revised (NRS-R) and to determine its usefulness in clinical trials. METHODS A ...
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Efficacy of physiotherapy interventions late after stroke: a meta-analysis
2 Unit of Functional Rehabilitation, Azienda Sanitaria di Firenze, and Motion Analysis Laboratory, Piero Palagi Hospital, Florence, Italy 3 Unit of Gerontology and Geriatrics, Department of Critical ...
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Microvascular decompression for trigeminal neuralgia: comments on a series of 250 cases, including 10 patients with multiple sclerosis
Department of Neurosurgery, Istituto Nazionale Neurologico C. Besta, Milan, Italy Dr Giovanni Broggi, Department of Neurosurgery, Istituto Nazionale Neurologico C Besta, Via Celoria 11, 20133 Milan, ...
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Burden of aneurysmal subarachnoid haemorrhage deaths in middle-aged people is relatively high
Correspondence to Ilari Rautalin, Department of Neurosurgery, University of Helsinki and Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki FI-00029, Finland; ilari.rautalin{at}helsinki.fi The number of deaths ...
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Advanced cerebral amyloid angiopathy and small vessel disease are associated with psychosis in Alzheimer’s disease
Correspondence to Dr Audun Osland Vik-Mo, Department of Clinical Science, University of Bergen, Bergen 5007, Norway; auvikmo{at}gmail.com Psychotic symptoms may occur in any dementia, including ...
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F11 Prevalence of cigarette smoking in huntington’s disease
Background There is some evidence that Huntington’s Disease (HD) patients are more likely to consume cigarettes than the general population. Aims To compare the prevalence of cigarette smoking within ...
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Intraoperative monitoring during surgery for acoustic neuroma: benefits of an extratympanic intrameatal electrode
Dr N Mullatti, Department of Clinical Neurophysiology, Mapother House, King’s College Hospital, De Crespigny Park, London SE5 9RS, UK OBJECTIVES To assess the utility of an extratympanic intrameatal ...
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Staged gamma knife radiosurgery for large critically located benign meningiomas: evaluation of a series comprising 20 patients
Objectives: This study investigated the efficacy of staged radiosurgical treatment for intracranial meningiomas exceeding 3 cm in diameter. Results: Tumour control was achieved in 90% of our series ...
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Insights into Parkinson’s disease from computational models of the basal ganglia
Movement disorders arise from the complex interplay of multiple changes to neural circuits. Successful treatments for these disorders could interact with these complex changes in myriad ways, and as a ...
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33 Screening for post-stroke anxiety: is there an optimum measure? A critical review of the evidence
Introduction Post-stroke anxiety (PSA) is hugely under-diagnosed (Rafsten, Danielsson, &Sunnerhagen, 2018). As it can have a significant negative impact on both short- and long-term clinical outcomes, ...
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Paternal exposure to antiepileptic drugs and offspring outcomes: a nationwide population-based cohort study in Sweden
Objectives To investigate the association between paternal use of antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) and adverse neurodevelopmental outcomes and major congenital malformations (MCM) in the offspring. Methods ...