Background Smoking is a significant risk factor for neurological disorders, yet its global impact on these conditions remains underexplored. Methods Using Global Burden of Diseases 2021 data, we ...

4 Institute of Cardiovascular and Cell Sciences, St Georges University of London, London, UK 5 School of Health Professions, Peninsula Allied Health Centre, University of Plymouth, Plymouth, UK ...

1 Division of Neurology, Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Prince of Wales Hospital, Shatin, Hong Kong 2 Department of Clinical and Experimental Epilepsy, ...

Background Cerebellar ataxias are the result of diverse disease processes that can be genetic or acquired. Establishing a diagnosis requires a methodical approach with expert clinical evaluation and ...

Background and objective: Non-infectious causes of fever are often considered in critical neurological patients but their true significance has not been formally studied. The aim of this study was to ...

Background Depression is often cited as a major modifiable risk factor for dementia, though the relative contributions of a true causal relationship, reverse causality and confounding factors remain ...

Cerebral damage remains a major hazard of open-heart surgery. A one-year follow-up investigation of 100 consecutive patients who underwent open-heart operation for valve replacement revealed an ...

OBJECTIVES The detection of the protein 14–3–3 in the CSF has been shown to be a reliable and sensitive marker for sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD). Other brain-specific proteins such as ...

Correspondence to Hanneke Frederica Maria Rhodius-Meester, Alzheimer Center, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam 1007 MB, The Netherlands; h.rhodius{at}vumc.nl Patients with dementia have a ...

1 Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands Correspondence to Professor Catharina J M Klijn, Department of ...

1 Department of Neurology, Ruskin Wing, King's College Hospital, Denmark Hill, London, UK. 2 Department of Obstetrics, Queen Charlotte's and Chelsea Hospital, London, UK 3 Department of Neurology, ...

Aim: To test a non-invasive presurgical protocol for temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) based on “anatomo–electro–clinical correlations”. Methods: All consecutive patients with suspected TLE and seizure ...