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Journal of Neurology

Issue 3/2012

Content (35 Articles)

Review

Fragile X-associated disorders: a clinical overview

Anne Gallagher, Brian Hallahan

Original Communication

The scale for the assessment and rating of ataxia correlates with dysarthria assessment in Friedreich's ataxia

Andreas Eigentler, Johanna Rhomberg, Wolfgang Nachbauer, Irmgard Ritzer, Werner Poewe, Sylvia Boesch

Original Communication

Anti-LRP4 autoantibodies in AChR- and MuSK-antibody-negative myasthenia gravis

Alexandra Pevzner, Benedikt Schoser, Katja Peters, Nicoleta-Carmen Cosma, Andromachi Karakatsani, Berthold Schalke, Arthur Melms, Stephan Kröger

Original Communication

A meta-analytic approach to estimating nocebo effects in neuropathic pain trials

Dimitrios Papadopoulos, Dimos Dimitrios Mitsikostas

Open Access Original Communication

Increased expression of endothelial lipase in symptomatic and unstable carotid plaques

Matias Trbušić, Monika Riederer, Majda Vučić, Ivo Lovričević, Božo Krušlin, Martin Gauster, Sonja Mohrenz, Andrea Berghold, Beate Tiran, Vesna Degoricija, Saša Frank

Original Communication

Late-onset Alexander disease with a V87L mutation in glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) and calcifying lesions in the sub-cortex and cortex

Hidekazu Suzuki, Tomokatsu Yoshida, Mari Kitada, Juri Ichihashi, Hiroshi Sasayama, Yoshiro Nishikawa, Yoshiyuki Mistui, Masanori Nakagawa, Susumu Kusunoki

Original Communication

The impact of motor and non motor symptoms on health state values in newly diagnosed idiopathic Parkinson’s disease

James Shearer, Colin Green, Carl E. Counsell, John P. Zajicek

Original Communication

The pattern of cortical atrophy in Parkinson’s disease with mild cognitive impairment according to the timing of cognitive dysfunction

Ji E. Lee, Kyoo H. Cho, Myonghwan Kim, Young H. Sohn, Phil Hyu Lee

Original Communication

A retrospective clinical study of the treatment of slow-channel congenital myasthenic syndrome

Amina Chaouch, Juliane S. Müller, Velina Guergueltcheva, Marina Dusl, Ulrike Schara, Vidosava Rakocević-Stojanović, Christopher Lindberg, Rosana H. Scola, Lineu C. Werneck, Jaume Colomer, Andres Nascimento, Juan J. Vilchez, Nuria Muelas, Zohar Argov, Angela Abicht, Hanns Lochmüller

Original Communication

The relationship between clinical and pathological variables in Richardson’s syndrome

Emma C. Schofield, John R. Hodges, Thomas H. Bak, John H. Xuereb, Glenda M. Halliday

Original Communication

The EEG in E200K familial CJD: relation to MRI patterns

Shmuel A. Appel, Joab Chapman, Isak Prohovnik, Chen Hoffman, Oren S. Cohen, Ilan Blatt

Original Communication

Variant in the 3′ region of SNCA associated with Parkinson’s disease and serum α-synuclein levels

Yacen Hu, Beisha Tang, Jifeng Guo, Xintian Wu, Qiying Sun, Changhe Shi, Liang Hu, Chunyu Wang, Lei Wang, Liming Tan, Lu Shen, Xinxiang Yan, Hainan Zhang

Original Communication

Longitudinal changes in magnetisation transfer ratio in secondary progressive multiple sclerosis: data from a randomised placebo controlled trial of lamotrigine

T. Hayton, J. Furby, K. J. Smith, D. R. Altmann, R. Brenner, J. Chataway, K. Hunter, D. J. Tozer, D. H. Miller, R. Kapoor

Open Access Original Communication

SNP array-based whole genome homozygosity mapping as the first step to a molecular diagnosis in patients with Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease

Carina Fischer, Slave Trajanoski, Lea Papić, Christian Windpassinger, Günther Bernert, Michael Freilinger, Maria Schabhüttl, Mine Arslan-Kirchner, Poupak Javaher-Haghighi, Barbara Plecko, Jan Senderek, Christian Rauscher, Wolfgang N. Löscher, Thomas R. Pieber, Andreas R. Janecke, Michaela Auer-Grumbach

Original Communication

The effect of thrombolysis on short-term improvement depends on initial stroke severity

George Ntaios, Mohamed Faouzi, Patrik Michel

Original Communication

Distribution of white matter hyperintensity in cerebral hemorrhage and healthy aging

Yi-Cheng Zhu, Hugues Chabriat, Ophélia Godin, Carole Dufouil, Jonathan Rosand, Steven M. Greenberg, Eric E. Smith, Christophe Tzourio, Anand Viswanathan

Open Access Original Communication

Predictive value of neurological examination for early cortical responses to somatosensory evoked potentials in patients with postanoxic coma

Aline Bouwes, Jan M. Binnekade, Bart W. Verbaan, Eveline G. J. Zandbergen, Johannes H. T. M. Koelman, Henry C. Weinstein, Albert Hijdra, Janneke Horn

Original Communication

Auditory function in individuals within Leber’s hereditary optic neuropathy pedigrees

Gary Rance, Lisa S. Kearns, Johanna Tan, Anthony Gravina, Lisa Rosenfeld, Lauren Henley, Peter Carew, Kelley Graydon, Fleur O’Hare, David A. Mackey

Letter to the Editors

Increase in number of sporadic inclusion body myositis (sIBM) in Japan

Naoki Suzuki, Masashi Aoki, Madoka Mori-Yoshimura, Yukiko K. Hayashi, Ikuya Nonaka, Ichizo Nishino

Letter to the Editors

Symptomatic paroxysmal kinesigenic choreoathetosis as primary manifestation of multiple sclerosis

Simone Zittel, Maxim Bester, Christian Gerloff, Alexander Münchau, Frank Leypoldt

Open Access Letter to the Editors

Acute painful lumbosacral paresthesia after intrathecal rituximab

J. E. C. Bromberg, J. K. Doorduijn, J. W. Baars, G. W. van Imhoff, R. Enting, M. J. van den Bent

Open Access Letter to the Editors

Decompressive hemicraniectomy followed by endovascular thrombosuction in a patient with cerebral venous thrombosis

Jonathan M. Coutinho, Ako Dara Hama-Amin, Carmen Vleggeert-Lankamp, Jim A. Reekers, Jan Stam, Marieke J. H. Wermer

Letter to the Editors

Flexion myelopathy: Hirayama’s syndrome

Frank Weber, Uwe M. Mauer

Letter to the Editors

Screening LRRK2 gene mutations in patients with Parkinson’s disease in Ghana

Roberto Cilia, Francesca Sironi, Albert Akpalu, Momodou Cham, Fred Stephen Sarfo, Tiziana Brambilla, Alba Bonetti, Marianna Amboni, Stefano Goldwurm, Gianni Pezzoli

Letter to the Editors

Rituximab responsive multiple radiculopathies and cranial nerve palsies in association with chronic lymphocytic leukaemia

Jasper M. Morrow, Shirley D’Sa, Rupert A. Page, Mahir Al Hilali, Michael P. Lunn, Mary M. Reilly

Letter to the Editors

A case of segmental zoster paresis with enhanced anterior and posterior spinal roots on MRI

Masayuki Yoshioka, Yusuke Kurita, Masaya Hashimoto, Maiko Murakami, Masahiko Suzuki

Letter to the Editors

Probing for consciousness after severe brain injury by functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI)

Per M. Aslaksen, Torgil R. Vangberg, Christoph Schäfer

Letter to the Editors

Adult-onset autosomal dominant leukodystrophy due to LMNB1 gene duplication

Michael M. Dos Santos, Caspar Grond-Ginsbach, Suna Su Aksay, Bowang Chen, Sandrine Tchatchou, Nicole I. Wolf, Marjo S. van der Knaap, Armin J. Grau

Letter to the Editors

Anti-NMDA receptor antibodies in a case of MELAS syndrome

Carsten Finke, Harald Prüss, Michael Scheel, Florian Ostendorf, Lutz Harms, Kathrin Borowski, Klaus-Peter Wandinger, Christoph J. Ploner

Techniques in Clinical Science

Techniques and applications of EMG: measuring motor units from structure to function

Rachel C. Thornton, Andrew W. Michell

Pioneers in Neurology

Leonid Ivanovich Omorokov (1881–1971)

Enver I. Bogdanov, Ravil Z. Mukhamedzyanov, Alexey S. Sozinov, Joel A. Vilensky