Dr Dorothy Wade is Consultant health psychologist at Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust. She has a PhD in health psychology and healthcare evaluation from University College London, where she is ...

Background Depression has been consistently linked to the onset of dementia, but the temporality and nature of this association—whether causal, prodromal or due to shared pathophysiology—remain ...

Hachem et al attempt to peer through the murky waters of the relationship between depression and dementia.1 Depression was identified as a potentially modifiable risk factor for dementia by the Lancet ...

The Epilepsy Research Group, The Institute of Neurology, 33 Queen Square, London,UK Dr N F Moran, The Epilepsy Research Group, The Institute of Neurology, 33 Queen Square, London WC1N 3BG, UK.

The GABAergic drug baclofen and the cholinergic drug physostigmine were administered to patients with upbeat and downbeat nystagmus. Baclofen (orally, 5 mg three times daily) reduced nystagmus slow ...

This May, the World Health Assembly (WHA) will vote on re-establishing a mandate for the WHO to address the health consequences of nuclear weapons and war.1 Health professionals and their associations ...

Background and aim: The psychometric properties of rating scales are sample dependent and need evaluations in different samples. The Multiple Sclerosis Impact Scale (MSIS-29), a new patient based ...

Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP) is an immune-mediated neuropathy typically characterised by symmetrical involvement, and proximal as well as distal muscle weakness (typical ...

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

Correspondence to Professor Emmanuelle Corruble, Assistance Publique - Hopitaux de Paris, Service Hospitalo Universitaire de Psychiatrie de Bicêtre, Assistance Publique - Hopitaux de Paris, Paris ...

The objective of this paper is to evaluate available evidence for each step in autoimmune encephalitis management and provide expert opinion when evidence is lacking. The paper approaches autoimmune ...

The brain is in a constant state of dynamic change, for example switching between cognitive and behavioural tasks, and between wakefulness and sleep. The brains of people with epilepsy have additional ...